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Shannon Phillips

@joshannonphillips.com
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Writer and mom living in Oakland. Short speculative fiction and serialized novels at joshannonphillips.substack.com. I like old things, wild places, tall tales, and the people who tell them.🐉

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When they do get seized, there’s frequently no help coming, no matter how worthy their claim. People are released here in Minnesota after being illegally detained five, six, seven months. They walk out in a daze, with nothing. They’re the innocent victims of a racial terror campaign.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Illegally detaining and brutalizing a racial minority until they agree to flee the country” isn’t immigration enforcement, it’s ethnic cleansing. There’s no legal standard here - these people meet the standard! What differentiates them is not their legal status but their race and color.
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 23h
I'll be Lt. T'ch for the sound I make every time my commanding officer makes an illogical decision
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 10/10/2026
The only time I've ever seen another person's genitalia in a public restroom was when I was helping my young son pee. I was certainly more comfortable bringing a little boy into the ladies' room than I would've been accompanying him into the gents, and it all worked peachy because WE WERE IN A STALL
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 10/10/2026
The only time I've ever seen another person's genitalia in a public restroom was when I was helping my young son pee. I was certainly more comfortable bringing a little boy into the ladies' room than I would've been accompanying him into the gents, and it all worked peachy because WE WERE IN A STALL
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 10/10/2026
The pleasures of a really good mustard are underrated
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 09/10/2026
The bathroom freakout is insane. The technology that solves all problems is called "stalls." If I'm in a stall then I don't care about the junk situation on the person in the next stall over. They could have Cthulhu tentacles down there and it simply does not affect me in any way.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bat vase by Richard Freiwald
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Godspeed, ma'am. "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 06/10/2026
Why can't they be normal about women?
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 05/10/2026
Caldo verde and cock-a-leekie are at the top of my soup rotations
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 03/10/2026
Yes, squirrels seem like they ought to scurry, as mice and rats do, but instead they scamper, as those fluffy twitchy tails cannot help but imbue the proceedings with an insouciant element
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 03/10/2026
I think my intuitive taxonomy would be that rats/mice scurry, fast spiders and insects skitter, slower moving arthropods like lobsters scutter across the ocean floor, and scuttling can only be performed by something like a group of raccoons.
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Ingo Römling @ingoroemling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hera Syndulla from "Star Wars Rebels" © Lucasfilm Ltd. Standing character pose with perspective grid 🙂 #drawing #character #posedrawing #noai
A sketch of a female character in orange clothing (Hera Syndulla from STAR WARS REBELS), together with a simplified technical drawing and a perspective frame.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The rabbi telling Anthropic that he thinks what they’re doing is fine, because Claude is just a machine to him, but if they’re right (and it is conscious), then they’re world historic monsters, is really interesting.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Once again it is October, king of all months
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A long horizontal sign based on the ones at CTA stations that tell what stop you’re at. It’s gray with red, purple, and brown bands at either ends. Four pigeons are perched on the sign in various pigeon poses as a sunrise is seen in the background. The sign itself reads, ‘Maybe It will happen today’
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Washroom" Painting study
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 29/09/2026
I've got this one
A Softer World three-panel comic. Background is a nerdy girl photographed in blurred orange shades. Text reads: "I have super powers and a costume Every night I panic just outside my door But every night I try again"
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social likes to say, I’m alarmed. At the UN this week, Trump dismissed concerns over AI safety as a “hoax.” And that’s the position of his administration. Needless to say, it isn’t a hoax - and we’ve got two-plus more years of this (at least) while AI threats grow.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes it’s better to stretch or break the rules but it requires knowledge of the rules and what they achieve to know when to do so. The rulebook is not the Bible, but it is not a paperweight either. Following it will yield better results than making shit up willy-nilly.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't know that anything has had more of an effect on my thinking about Bad Thoughts than knowing about Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
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An Error in the Code
What can a rare disorder tell us about human behavior?
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
[standing out in my corduroy field] Beautiful, she’s almost ready for harvest
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 28/09/2026
Sometimes on bad days I tell myself 'me and Thor may be FAT and we may be DEPRESSED but we can still BRING THE THUNDER' and it helps me face the things I need to do
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 28/09/2026
It's really important to me that he stayed fat for the final battle, and apparently that was Chris Hemsworth's condition for the movie. Like, I'll do this but only so long as there's not a final-act training montage and glow-up. He kicks ass and is a hero and he does it fat.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 28/09/2026
Wow, best episode yet (of a fantastic run)
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 23/09/2026
@samdphillips.bsky.social get a cup of coffee and you will be Mr. Autumn Man
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 23/09/2026
I bought Sam a cardigan and then my awesome sister-in-law gave ME a cardigan and now it's autumn which means CARDIGAN TIME. I am so stoked to be the cute old couple in cardigans.
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 23/09/2026
What I want to know is why it's the only human rights atrocity people get worked up about. "Stop the genocide" well, zero chance they're talking about Ethiopia, Sudan, Azerbaijan or the Uyghurs. So maybe there's something else going on here 🤔
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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welcome, Autumnal Equinox. The King of Autumn greets thee.🍂
My painting of a pumpkin rider on a black horse surrounded by autumn leaves and mushrooms.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you ever struggle with names when worldbuilding just remember there's a whole massive mountain range called The Rockies
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 22/09/2026
I used to want California secession but after the Battle of Minneapolis I feel strongly that we can never abandon Minnesota. It never should have happened, but your personal heroism and that of your city was amazing.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We don’t want thunder; we want rum
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A digital illustration based on a scene from the German Expressionist silent film Metropolis (1927). What we see is a robot woman seated in a chair, colored in gradated maroon shades. She's a shiny brass color in a sculptural art deco style staring implacably or incomprehendingly outward. Two sockets on either side of her head and many such other sockets on the chair have wires leading away out of frame. The background, colored in shades of blue is divided into radial sections with lightning bolt edges. (All these colors are purely notional as the source material is all black and white.)Around the chair and the robot are four sets of equally-spaced concentric triple rings or some sort of energy or electricity. Riding the top edges of these rings is jaggedy, electric lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 20/09/2026
I've learned more geography from Crusader Kings than I ever did in school. I now basically understand where Korea is! It was a mystery to me throughout my entire educational career.
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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 20/09/2026
I think most people wouldn't take offense at a gift?
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A digital illustration of an attempt to make a fake illuminated manuscript. There’s a fancy illuminated drop capital M. Lots of medieval-type ornamentation, a little illustration in the corner of a rabbit with a battle ax having some sort of confrontation with a little bipedal lizard thing that has an arm instead of a neck and head which is holding a dagger. There’s an orange dragonish beast wrapped around the top of everything and lettering done in some kind of fanciful script reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
Honestly ozy's blog is way better than SSC
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
Gothitelle is there too
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
He's one hundred percent smoking weed with Scrafty behind the gym
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Debjit Dutta @debjitduttaart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sci-fi Lab More shots from my recent Blender project Better quality turntable on my YouTube page :- youtu.be/pyQkrd4baRI?...
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
There's fictional AI in the book, but no real-world AI whatsoever involved in the making of it.
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
Space pirates! With all the real pirate problems (undersupplied, undercrewed, leadership turmoil, violence) and the real pirate strengths (tolerance for society's castoffs, democracy, deeply bonded crew, swagger). Black Sails meets The Expanse. $2.99! www.amazon.com/Journey-Shan...
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3 or 4 rats @ratsack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
hampter
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Shannon Phillips @joshannonphillips.com · 19/09/2026
once again humbly asking for it on a coffee mug 🙏
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
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