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Kay Vaindal

@kayv.bsky.social
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Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below: kayvaindal.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think one major way you can miss seeing this as a man is all the work women around you are doing to navigate misogyny is invisible to you. There's a minefield that you only see when it blows up, and you wonder, how did that get there. "How did Bob turn into that."
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fellas, has this ever happened to you?!?
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My special Tuesday lunch
My lunch which is a wet disk of tuna in the shape of a can with mayo and olive oil blasted on it
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Recently read and really enjoyed this one. It's got the rhythm.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
This weekend thousands of American patriots stood up to Trump's attacks on the Kennedy Center with a simple message: HANDS OFF.   This & every monument in America belong to the people, not to any President. We must continue to speak out; silence only emboldens Trump's lawbreaking.
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Thousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’
The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ruthie Cat 2028: the hero we need
Ruthie the tortoiseshell cat with her little face quarter-turned toward the sun. Shes perched on something green
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Finally read this through and jokes aside the stats are much worse than the headline makes them sound. They’re not talking about the existential fatigue most of us feel. They mean the debilitating, life-ruining condition that accompanies ME, flu and oh yeah, Long Covid which they do not mention.
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
charles wright
ARCHAEOLOGY

The older we get, the deeper we dig into our childhoods, Hoping to find the radiant cell
That washed us, and caused our lives to glow in the dark like clock hands 
Endlessly turning toward the future,
Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, the day after that, all golden, all in good time.

Hiwassee Dam, North Carolina

Still 1942,
Still campfire smoke in both our eyes, my brother and I
Gaze far out at the lake in sunflame
Expecting our father at any moment, like Charon, to appear
Back out of the light from the other side,
low-gunwaled and loaded down with our slippery dreams.

Other incidents flicker like foxfire in the black 
Isolate distance of memory,
cross-eyed,
horizon-haired.

Which one, is it one, is it any one that cleans us, clears us,
That relimbs our lives to a shining?

One month without rain, two months third month of the new year, Afternoon breeze-rustle dry in the dry needles of hemlock and pine. 
I can't get down deep enough.
 Sunlight flaps its enormous wings and lifts off from the back yard, 
The wind rattles its raw throat, but I still can't go deep enough.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m sorry to admit that this is all my fault. When I was little I was reading a lot of American girl doll books and so I prayed to God that I might live in interesting times cuz I guess the smell of those twin towers just wasn’t enough for me
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A reminder that my collection Glass Stories is available from Grimscribe Press! Here's one of the stories in this collection, featured in @ergot.bsky.social : www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...
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ergot.
ergot. innovative horror
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 09/09/2026
My ecological sci-fi horror about fake worms rehabilitating the soil and rich people trying to avoid a poisoned Earth is now up on Phano.
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Wake Me When It’s Better
They’re fixing all of these big problems, aren’t they? Someone must be.
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i have now seen multiple posts from younger people who referred to 9/11 as a "false flag operation" and i am genuinely surprised that 1) alex jones's bs lingo has seeped into people's brains and 2) they think bush using a terrorist attack to invade a different country is what a "false flag" op is
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New story with STP now free to read! It’s another weird one 👽
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m not a culture critic but this obsession with rebooting things is a sign of deep malaise. Let’s just cultivate new things. Nobody is going to be improving on Point Break.
deadline.com
‘Point Break’ Series Greenlit By AMC & France’s Canal+ From Alcon
This comes after Deadline revealed in December that it was developing a series based on the iconic Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves surf heist thriller.
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ranking hotel bathroom tap water tastes of the towns and cities I've stayed in the past 6 weeks (my very first thread):
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s the enormous failure of the medical system to be trustworthy that has *created* space for the MAHA movement to flourish. If the US medical industrial complex was ethical, moral, and inclusive MAHA wouldn’t exist. This article I wrote back in 2019 is unfortunately more relevant then ever.
damemagazine.com
Why Are So Many Women Rejecting Medical Science? - Dame Magazine
This feature is part of our ongoing series looking at the inequities in healthcare. Snake oil is having a renaissance. And while it’s true that for hundreds of years dubious salesmen have been riding ...
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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey everybody! This Wednesday at 7 PM PT, I'll be returning to read for @storyhour.bsky.social! This one will be a new story about weird school vibes (menacing) written for @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social so get ready to tune into that frequency
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Only one week left to enter our ECO24 giveaway on @thestorygraph.com! 🌱📣 We're giving away 110 copies in celebration of ECO25, the second in our annual speculative ecofiction series, releasing this November! Check it out below: 🌟 app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/88...
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
inexplicably, i posted this without any links, so i'm remedying that now paperback: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore... ebook:
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Gore Poetics ebook | Cursed Morsels Press
A fraternity massacre births rewritten history, a supernatural entity, and a survivor obsessed with both. Two bog bodies ponder their star-crossed love. A chronically ill house consumes its unwilling,...
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Nelson @nappell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is excellent Weird fiction with a flair of Vonnegut. A resurrection execution. A boyfriend who claims he is a representative of the Intergalactic Council on Sentient Life. An abandoned girl. Do humans have empathy? "...but this is the new world, where unusual is usual..." sounds about right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Coffinesque @coffinesque.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another banger, friends
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Yelena Crane 🌻🇺🇦 @yelenacrane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are we not entertained?
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douglaspoland.bsky.social @douglaspoland.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just like the Germans did with the Berlin Wall. Hand out sledgehammers and let the people express how they feel about Trump’s monuments to himself.
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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it. arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...
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ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports
"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 03/09/2026
"Braden wanders into a shop, and we follow him. Justice doesn’t die! says a t-shirt printed with a grainy image of the Hijacker’s charred, near-mummified corpse." A good sad story by @kayv.bsky.social in @seizethepress.bsky.social.
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"An American Execution" by Kay Vaindal - Seize The Press
He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Kay Vaindal is back in STP with An American Execution. A woman travels to witness the resurrection-execution of one of the 9/11 hijackers with the daughter of her abducted neighbour and her boyfriend who claims to be an emissary from another universe. Dark and wacky in pure Vaindal-esque fashion.
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"An American Execution" by Kay Vaindal - Seize The Press
He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...
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confettie! @spacebeer.net · 02/09/2026
news
US map with a Skeleton burning in hell overlayed on it. NYC is marked with a puppy and a rainbow
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 02/09/2026
DAMN. This short story feels like a Slaughterhouse Five for this bleak American moment. Sci-fi, comedy and heart dancing between humanity and the lack of it. Really something special. Deserves a huge readership. @kayv.bsky.social is consistently excellent, as is @seizethepress.bsky.social!!
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This story by @kayv.bsky.social is breathtakingly good and such a wonderful example of how creative and exciting weird fiction can be. Best I've read in a long time.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 02/09/2026
Goddamn this is so good.
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
this story fucking rules and you should read it
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New story with STP now free to read! It’s another weird one 👽
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sniiiiiifffff
Ruthie the cat sniffs
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 01/09/2026
this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"For the next two minutes, Cloud detailed three issues impacting women that she believes deserve more attention than Freedom: domestic violence, sexual assault and food insecurity." www.nytimes.com/athletic/754...
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Natasha Cloud calls Enes Kanter Freedom ‘irrelevant,’ urges WNBA to ban him league-wide (Gift Article)
“I will talk about real issues that face women, and it’s not our trans human beings,” Cloud said.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
chronicle.com
Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3
A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”
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