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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

look. few things are more joyous than going places you've never been and trying their food for the first time

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As ever, we begin with the #2026IgnyteAwards winner in Outstanding Novel - Adult for novel-length (40k words+) works intended for an adult audience Congratulations to THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER (Saga Press/Titan Books) by Stephen Graham Jones!

2026 Ignyte Award Winner: Outstanding Novel - Adult - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter x Stephen Graham Jones

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today i learned there is a pizza place in the town in calabria from whence my italian family members originated and:

it's an independent pizza place pizza, the crust is clearly hand-tossed and cooked in a brick oven probably. the pizza itself appears to be pepperoni and mozzarella, so, normal, except with french fries on top.

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It may be haunted, but I grew up with those kinds of ghosts and we're friends.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been living away from the PNW for more than 10 years now, and almost nothing makes me more homesick than the damp, mossy trees in one of the forests.

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One last preview for FF#28 and it's time to play Match the Quotes from @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social's reviews of @escapepod.org stories in this issue's From the Archives column. Which is which? Stories by @keffy.bsky.social Alex Dally MacFarlane @natania.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social!

Quote 1: “This story is as rip-roaring a good time of a genre mashup as a fundamentally tragic tale can be.”

Quote 2: “This is a deliciously and deliriously strange story, in which advertising and eroticism intertwine in ways I would never have dreamed.”

Quote 3: “The writing is lovely, clear and forthright and wholly sympathetic to the existence of someone who, by the accounting of everyone else in the story, should not have ever come to exist.”

Quote 4: “It feels phenomenally strange to list these various death-mat ing rites as potential works of art, and there is something so lingering about that way of framing these pictures.”

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, idk how dare a weird salty vampire man not have a sane and normal and healthy relationship with sex.

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Tbh that's the part I didn't know. But yeah, this is what AO3 is for, people. Just write your own fanfic.

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If you hate a book normalize just hating it and moving on with your life instead of starting a whole crusade.

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I want to know what they're mad abt but JUST got my book AND am only barely in act 3 of the game, so

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see people are having a normal one.

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Lineart of Kaelen, my feral little D&D archfey patron warlock. "No spoons left, only knives."

Black and white inked linework of a young man in magical-looking clothes (the design is from holyclothing.com). He is walking toward the viewer with a sword in his right hand, pointing down and back behind him. His left hand is up as if shaping a spell. He looks angry.

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, the worst most crooked-ass stick figure is a balm to my slop-slapped eyes

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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That said, "the poor, the cold, the lonely, and the homosexual" is pretty accurate for parts of America during winter in my experience.

North Korea's Propaganda Video of America is HILARIOUS

Ok this is interesting to me as a case of double-layer propaganda. There's the North Korean state media video, and then the English language "translation" making the North Korean video sound extra deranged. m.youtube.com/watch?v=3i__...

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YouTube video by Charles North Korea

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remember that it's always when the nerves are freed to send signals and you can feel your living limb again that it starts to hurt like a motherfucker

Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... "A 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine is recommended for all adults ages 18 years and older." Thank FUCK. Go get your shots, people!

cdc.gov

Overview of COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination

Learn about types of COVID-19 vaccines and find recommendations, dosage, and overview of schedule.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

it's people like this who are the reason I can't find a job because apparently not judging you for a little emotional support whisky from your hip flask during an interview is too much humanity for some

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

so many people on the internet are so damaged and they deal with it by ascribing the worst possible interpretation to everything they see online and raging at it as though it's what caused the damage in their own lives

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

just reminding everyone that we are now 1 month from Wildwood coming out and getting to see the most absolutely gorgeous stop motion www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne... the trailers still make me cry, just seeing such ecstatic human love put into art

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Wildwood – Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two great tastes that go well together: Moomin and tower-tunnel. By Paul Antoine Takahashi on instagram.

Moomin with lantern looks down into tower-tunnel with the words from the wall in Annihilation represented next to the steps.

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I only have cactuses here. I guess there are abandoned mineshafts but i'm not a *cryptid*

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22/09/2026

the clock is ticking and our 40% off sale will go away FOREVER on Thursday. We have sold 130 subscriptions so far. Can we get to 200 by Wednesday? Support feminist media for another year for the low price of $39! www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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The Flytrap

Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

attn all other potentially fey creatures masquerading as human: if you are called out for being a fey creature in a discord chat and immediately explain why you are not that looks sus and they're on to you

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me: yes, but in this unlikely situation, my warlock could rival the fighter on damage. *does math* oh.... maybe more than him. For a max of 228. In a turn, assuming there are 8 enemies surrounding him and they SUCK at wisdom.

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

dm said i cannot take the new spell that allows me to ritually cast a dueling circle and start a fight club business in ank'harel and i just feel like this is really unfair and anti-poor warlock

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

finally, warlock has rolled well on a charisma skill, i would like to thank the academy of warlocks

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People devote considerable engineering ingenuity to making unhoused folks' lives worse. Behold two different kinds of Los Angeles unsleepable bus benches.

Los Angeles bus "bench"--3 chairs with the center one taller than the other two to make them hard to sleep on

Los Angeles metal bus bench with steel loop in center to make it very difficult to sleep om. City Hall in background.

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If they weren't kind of incoherent bc I had no idea what I was doing with the character for most of the past 3 months and also 100% tied to the official module that the D&D campaign is, the 18,000 words of post-session letters I've written as Kaelen would be officially in novella length territory...

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Keffy @keffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I just posted this and then got so angry about all the people making protest slop songs of mountains singing or whatever shit and my parents being like yeah it's AI but i like it and idk, give me someone with a guitar and a harmonica in these fucking days, shit