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Kip Manley

@kiplet.myatproto.social
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Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, four cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com

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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 1h
Still hating Illinois Nazis, as one does.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6h
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 7h
There are people all over America now trying (legally and illegally) to plunder the stuff of their neighbors who've been kidnapped and sent to concentration camps.
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City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 02/10/2026
We're halfway through the 46th novelette, "June 24th"—the beginning of Ysabel's side of the third season, Summer. #FantasyLit #Booksky #FreeBooks #ExQueen
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City of Roses | No. 46: June 24th
(In which an arraignment is made, meat is served, genres are discussed, a lecture is propounded, and plans intemperate and otherwise are laid.)
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Nobody seems to remember that the US tried permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s and we canceled it after only one year because it was a fucking disaster.
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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Once tried (& failed) to write a Butch & Sundance-style bromance in which John Dee & Edward Kelley flee England & con their way across Europe to Prague, with Dee the naïve idealist & Kelley convincing everyone he needed to sleep with Dee's & everyone else's wives as part of his magick spells.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
How—how else would you possibly do it?
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026
Dropping the harmonious running of not only our lands, as one does.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
welp another thing to worry about if you're a source worried about AI. read the whole thread:
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Mark @maetl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In hacker culture and infosec this used to be called social engineering. Have we completely lost our street smarts?
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Discovering belatedly—perhaps blessedly belatedly—that IngramSpark can do sprayed edges. Oh, dear.
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City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 02/10/2026
The 46th novelette, "June 24th," continues, with—as promised—a discussion of genre: #FantasyLit #FreeBooks #IndieAuthors #SinisterFinance
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June 24th (Act II)
pale thick Lips – the Flow of Ideas – the Point of Ess Eff
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
longstoryshortpier.com
When you get caught between the Moon and
So when I tell you The Spear Cuts Through Water is written in the second person—
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Speaking as an artist and a cultural institution, I'll ally myself with the Church to safeguard our humanity the moment they rescind their inhumane ban on trans healthcare, and not a moment before.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Glad the cat and myself are firmly in agreement it's in both our best interests if he does not yotz in my lap.
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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No one likes my idea that Babylon Berlin is an attempt to salvage the Star Wars prequels that got repurposed into a historical drama.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Treason to patriarchy is loyalty to humanity
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Doing drugs, but also doing the nuclear, nuclear and drug, as one does.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2026
Zohran quoting @prisonculture.bsky.social on Theo Von’s show may be the thing my brain finally rejects as a step too far. This, we refuse to process.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Of all the genAI nonsense, it's the notion of deploying them as synthetic people to answer surveys and polls that has me side-eyeing the whole entire grasp on reality and how things work of some people.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I mean look. The antichrist is President and he’s having pastors arrested, just like Tim LaHaye warned us. What do you even do about that.
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 02/10/2026
Happy October, everyone! Have some links:
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Wow! Signal: October 2026
Jake Casella Brookins Hello everyone, happy October! We’ve had a busy month behind the scenes at ARB—as often happens, the vagaries of publishing and reviewing schedules conspired to stack our queu…
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 02/10/2026
If this is how much they hate their own foot soldiers, just imagine what they think about you. 🤷🏿‍♂️
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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dems should absolutely be running on core issues like consumer protection. It’s such a no brainer and this administration has totally abandoned it.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Scream it from the rooftops.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Defunding policing was and is the floor.
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bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope Keke Palmer gets a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy Actress for I Love Boosters. She not only gave us an unexpected, nuanced, touching performance- she brought back physical comedy & set the bar HIGH. One of the funniest ppl ever. Raucous laughter throughout.
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Becky Hawkins @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SuperButch is a 1940s lesbian superhero history noir, by @barrydeutsch.bsky.social and me: superbutchcomic.com
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Bot Verification
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evan dahm @evandahm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Would You Have A Look At The Replies To This Post
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨my book Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America is on sale today on the Kindle store for $2.99! Sorry to link to Amazon but $3 is a solid price for a book that took me three years to write www.amazon.com/Wild-Faith-C...
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Rich Puchalsky @richpuchalsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's the thread if anyone is interested: mastodon.social/@richpuchals...
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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)
October is OLC (original lit crit) month! (No it's really not but I'm going to try to post various readings this month.) Note that I have no training in literary criticism whatsoever and have never ...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Quietly shooting a pro-ICE action film in Montana, as one does.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk
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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 01/10/2026
It's the start of a brand new month, so let's take a look at the new indie SFFH releases for October! www.readindiefantasy.com/new-release-...
A banner for our New Release Roundup for October. It shows a book shelf featuring the book covers for A Little Death Among Friends by Ben Schenkman, Quartz Storm by LE Draig, and Shattered City by T. L. Morgan.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
I want this man to witness the destruction of all he has wrought and to appreciate the joyful thriving lives and loves of all he attempted to destroy and I want him broken forever by the knowledge of the horror he has unleashed and I want him weeping to beg forgiveness from each and every one of us.
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CBCC🔜NYCC @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"How Portland Became a Player in the Comic Book Industry" by Corbin Smith writing for Portland Mercury (9/30/26): www.portlandmercury.com/comic-books-...
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How Portland Became a Player in the Comic Book Industry - Portland Mercury
It may surprise you to learn that Portland, Oregon, a mid-sized America city known for its rain and its many river spanning bridges, is a global hotbed for the production of comic books. A new documen...
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 01/10/2026
According to ICE, Mr. Curo-Churata's "criminal" background was for driving a vehicle with an expired registration tag.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Really weird to realize that fantasy, the genre as we currently understand it, was still coalescing pretty much even as I was eagerly starting to read it. Such a contingent monolith.
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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026
Unflinchingly dismissing the mainstream's stupidity, as one does.
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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 25/09/2026
It's been thought of, and solutions exist today. You can use a tool like pdsmoover.com to migrate your account to another PDS, in what is called an "adversarial migration". This means you can move, even if the PDS host was to try and block it. There are many other PDS hosts out there!
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PDS MOOver
PDS MOOver – ATProto tools for PDS migrations and backups
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey @moderation.bsky.app @aaron.bsky.team is it official Bluesky policy that trans people aren't allowed to report posts that wish death to trans people as hate speech, since somebody is being threatened with suspension? Or is somebody going rogue and breaking policy to threaten a trans user?
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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The left ‘win arguments’ when we see material change — greater democracy and localism, redistribution of wealth and power, a renewal of public services. Rhetoric is a device that is used to create false hope to stop us from actually fighting for these things.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interestingly, this is why alt was coded into early html - because images were so slow to load so this would convey info while waiting in ye olde dialup tymes.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026
The modern-day legal basis for the criminalization of immigrants largely rests on two anti-immigrant bills signed into law by Bill Clinton 30 years ago. The IIRIRA and the AEDPA further entrenched mass incarceration and laid the blueprint for the detention and deportation machine we have today.
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Clinton-Era Laws Passed 30 Years Ago Enabled Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.
Clinton’s ‘96 laws provided the legal foundation for mass detention, rapid deportations, and the evasion of due process.
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