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Not that it really matters but lol at the final 3 MLB teams being Milwaukee, Cleveland and Tampa Bay going into an off-season where the corporate media will deluge fans with "the owners have to do a lockout so small markets can compete!" propaganda.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 6h

i remember nilsson for the australian thing and because he was an El Paso Diablo at the peak of my very young fandom when we were the Brewers double A team

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 6h

the numbers say that the way to win overtime is to lose the coin toss

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 7h

nix almost unlocked the Bad Ending there

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Bill DiFilippo @billdifilippo.bsky.social · 7h

no idea how a team with the financial constraints of the dodgers are supposed to be able to compete with the big spending big market razzle dazzle milwaukee brewers

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 7h

cerebral game manager bo nix bravely runs out of bounds for a loss instead of dirting it

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 7h

and happy birthday, mine's tomorrow, happy to share the week with you

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Luke Braun @lukebraunnfl.bsky.social · 7h

“Anyways, this will be their 6th punt of the night”

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 7h

bo nix has not managed this game, lol.

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charles (west coaster) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 8h

sam darnold has mononucleosis again 😔

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 8h

this is no dream! this is really happening!

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 8h

they got samuel darnold doing the peepee dance in the pocket

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 8h

i don't doubt you but just reading that gave me gum disease

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 9h

herbstreit leaves aikman out of the list of great contemporaries of elway. these media people are so catty

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 9h

i knew it

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 9h

if you shoot the Biberty he'll emit a noxious gas that will kill the others.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 9h

Sam I Am meets The Revenant. Elevator pitch from hell.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 9h

What the friday the 13th series actually needs is an interquel that shows Jason surviving for years undetected in the wilderness surrounding camp crystal lake despite being a developmentally disabled child

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2Pac Chauffeur @horny4gandalf.bsky.social · 9h

Young Sheldon poster but it says young Jason and he has a Jason mask on

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9h

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 9h

i actually don't like the orange crush broncos as much as everone else. the silver seahawks though, que bonita

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 10h

This is what a life in football can do for you. It can act as a perpetual machine delivering synthetic revenge. Every game is a rematch, every action follows Newton’s law, and every reaction fulfills Chekhov’s gun. ko-fi.com/post/Week-On...

ko-fi.com

Week One: September 4, 1988

Kit Wren published a post on Ko-fi

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 14/10/2026

Simba Kundizeza's statement on his Caine Prize-winning story "The Blue Fighter" is also worth reading—keep in mind, the evidence-free article slandering him was published in The Atlantic to a mass readership and his defense is a tweet to his eight hundred followers

Simba Kundizeza
@S_S_Kundizeza
Statement on The Atlantic article concerning “The Blue Fighter”

I would like to say at the outset that this statement is not in any way a proffer of an explanation or a defense against the allegations levelled against me in the article published by The Atlantic, because I don’t believe the article warrants either. I am however writing because of the level of public interest generated in its aftermath, and out of respect for the people who have supported and championed my writing, as well as my fellow shortlisted writers for the Caine Prize. I want to set the record straight.

For the avoidance of doubt, I wrote "The Blue Fighter." I did not use generative AI to write it. It is entirely my own work.

This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences in Zimbabwe‚ including my father leaving his accounting profession and the hardships my family faced as a result․ Other aspects of the story‚ including characters and the setting‚ are drawn from events in my own life․

There is also a clear chronology to the story's development. I sent the completed first draft of the story to vangile for feedback on May 15‚ 2025․ I then submitted the story to The Shallow Tales Review on May 27‚ 2025․ Fiction editor Nzube Nlebedim accepted the story on June 10‚ 2025‚ and it went through the standard editorial process. vangile then provided her feedback to me on June 25‚ 2025․ On the same day Nzube also provided editorial feedback to me․ In an email dated June 27‚ 2025‚ I sent the final draft and requested that the editor preserve the formatting of an epigraph in the story as originally submitted by vangile as a courtesy to her․ The story was published on June 30‚ 2025․

The Atlantic article seems to question the story's authorship by comparing its style to my other writing. As writers we develop recurring interests, but we don’t produce work from a single fixed template. My debut novel, “Freelance”, and the story titled "The Whistleblower" published in Transition Magazine in 2021 which is referenced by Ms. Vara, are thrillers dealing with political intrigue. "The Blue Fighter," however, is a deeply personal story about economic collapse and familial relationships. The voice shifts because the subject matter demands it. To suggest that a writer cannot write in different styles or genres, or improve his writing substantially after five or more years fundamentally misunderstands the craft of writing.

The motive for my supposedly using AI to generate the story is equally difficult to understand. I was under no obligation to write “The Blue Fighter”. I was not commissioned to produce it, nor was I paid a fee for its publication. The decision to submit the piece for consideration for the Caine Prize was made by the editor of The Shallow Tales Review months after its publication. I therefore didn’t write the story with any guarantee that it would be submitted, let alone win anything. The idea that I would have somehow written the story with the express intention of entering and winning the Caine Prize, despite the inherently competitive and uncertain nature of the prize, conjures up a motive that simply did not exist.

"The Blue Fighter" is my work, and I stand by it completely. I'm grateful to vangile for her inspiration, to The Shallow Tales Review for giving the story a home, and to the Caine Prize judges for recognizing the work on its merits. I’m also heartened by the numerous messages of solidarity from fellow writers and readers, and to Adrienne Ingrum and Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency for their support throughout.
I look forward to continuing to work with the Caine Prize team, and to celebrating this recognition with the people who helped bring this story into the world.

Most importantly, I will continue to write.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now we have people cheering for the Caine Prize to be eliminated all together. Because it's not just about attacking African writers individually-- it's about attacking pipelines for Black success. The Caine Prize is specifically not universal. It is for Africans, by Africans.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 11h

Second goes to the friend who drew me. This happens a lot and it rules every time.

A drawing of kit, his beard, and his hat, in blue ink. Slight smile and making intense eye contact. Underneath in red ink it says "the amazing." You dont need to know the whole note, but since those words are in the picture best practices means i should put them in the alt text.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 11h

Folks left out a little book for people to write nice things in at last night's Writer's Night for my birthday. My favorite entries are the ones from people who said "this is my first time here, it seems really cool, happy birthday even though we are strangers"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11h

The deployment of the giant skeleton for Wemby was a great touch

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 11h

my first reaction to the playoff expansion is "sounds bad." my second reaction is "make the sun bowl a quarterfinal you disgusting cowards."

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 11h

is there enough 1990 bizarreness top to bottom to do a mockup magazine like all did for 2007 one year? (not a request/demand)

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BK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wolde smyte my lord out on thre piches. Slider withoute. He feleth as he were drenchid. Curveball in the erthe, of cours he chaseth it. Ladybird y-souk, sle thy-self. And bang 97 withinne corner. Thou art out. Thou were alweyes out. Thou hast be out sith the day that thou were born.

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Christopher Hooks @hooks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Some of the dumbest people in Texas politics melted what was left of their brains this week in pursuit of proof James Talarico had been trapped in an Ohio mental hospital: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

texasmonthly.com

The Dumbest Week in Texas Politics, Explained

James Talarico took some sick days. The right-wing X-iverse lost its collective mind. Here's what happened.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15h

The College Football Playoff

2015 tweet from @crushingbort:

"Yesterday you were 3 Chainz and now it's 5 Chainz," Janet cried. "Where does it stop?" 8 Chainz frowned. "13 Chainz doesn't have time for

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

i haven't seen digger but i love it. i think it's great

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The Naked Gun (1988) @thenakedgun1988.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Hello, everybody! I'm Curt Gowdy along with Jim Palmer, Tim McCarver, Dick Vitale, Mel Allen, Dick Enberg and Dr. Joyce Brothers, inviting you to join us for this all-important ball game.

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Its the open mic closest to my birthday. A regular gave me a persimmon. I will cherish it and eat it when it is ripe.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"Tim," the first major-label album by the Replacements, was released by Sire Records on this day, Oct. 14, 1985. Recording sessions were at Nicollet Studios in Minneapolis over the summer. Producer was Tommy Erdelyi (aka original Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone). He gave an extended interview ... (1/∞)

Front cover of the Tim album with the title and the band name and paintings by Robert Longo of a strange grey hallway with alcoves and arches and pink portraits of each band member along the top.

Back cover with small type and a small photo of the band performing under stage lights.

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🕸️🕷️SpiderPost🕷️🕸️(mortem), if clinically indicated @ridertoast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

UNC NOOOO. ITS A PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP SHES NOT GONNA LET YOU HIT FOR RIFFING

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ETX Gov @etxgov.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026

Look I appreciate the position UNT's in here bc they're a school where football success really could help their marketing & brand awareness. But if schools have had one sellout game in their history, I really question spending nearly 60 mil a year on athletics.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Josh Allen plays like he has a bomb in his skull that will go off if he doesn’t do five outlandish things in three hours

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 13/10/2026

“josh is playing badly” - a statement dreamed up only by the clinically insane

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Kit 🌙🌙Were-Wren🐺🐺 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

it's the only one, so it's still a scoragami for now

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Controversially, I think girls and boys can both read

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