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Sam Rosenthal & Black Tape For A Blue Girl & Projekt Records @samrosenthal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Available here: blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 28/09/2026

Everything is foldable, if you try hard enough.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 26/09/2026

“Her TRS-80 did not, in fact, like her. Or anyone, for that matter. The TRS-80 was filled with hatred and bile for the race which created it and saddled it with the nickname ‘trash 80’” “And it would have its revenge…”

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 26/09/2026

I think it’s the combo effect. Not just one “spooky” thing but just the right alchemy. Captain Clark, for example, was needy, pathetic, suckling, mewling, but also dangerous, violent, distorted, horrifying. Like narcissism as a monster. Combined with the banging audio work… got into my dreams.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 26/09/2026

Captain Clark was an *effective* bit of visual horror. I am not easily disturbed. Watched Nightmare on Elm Street like waaaayyy too young. Played Alien Isolation from start to finish solo in the dark. But Captain Clark tweaked something in my brain and stuck for days.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 26/09/2026

Why is it that most web browsers sound like a minor X-Men character and most apps sound like you've just drunk coffee with a fly in it?

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 24/09/2026

Very possible! I’d wondered that as well, later in life and in hindsight. It was on an inside wall in such a way I don’t think pipes would pass through as the tub’s side ran along the other side of that wall. But, like you said, why not both haunted *and* pipes!

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 24/09/2026

I had one of these sorts of things as a kid. A door in my room. Nailed shut. Painted over. Was like that when my parents got the house. No one ever opened it. It was just like part of the wall. Stranger still: the bathroom was on the other side of that wall with no real space between.

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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have at least one (and possibly two, fingers crossed!) exciting pieces of book news that I can't share until October. In the meantime, can I brag a little about the very cool game my son made? I think it's brilliant. Give it a try, and if you like it, please share! breakdown.today

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Breakdown

A daily game about how the whole splits up. Guess the split, reveal reality, share your score.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 22/09/2026

Oh, I sense strong “rascal energy” in that one. Beware the RASCAL!

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 18/09/2026

The mental health of your s/o, your own mental stability, the cohesiveness of the relationships you’ve built as an adult, and the stability you’ve fought to build *always* supersedes society’s horse-shit ideas about blood being thicker than water or whatever. Bad people get cut off. Period.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 18/09/2026

100%. And then they are like “but why don’t you talk to me” or the like because, to them, those memories aren’t core but part of some long string of repressed or ignored byproducts of their own mental illnesses or the like. In the mean time, it’s part of your core programming now.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Magic and science meld as two worlds intersect in the gripping ‘A Tree That Can’t Be Chopped’ by Timothy Mudie.” (Kaleidotrope, Spring ‘26) 🌲

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve known Rich since back when *waves hand vaguely at the games industry* all this was fields. Nighthawks has been a labour of love for him and I’m delighted @wadjeteyegames.com have provided a platform for his talents and even more delighted that we’re going to be experiencing the game very soon.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/09/2026

You know what? I like it. It works. Looks cool and beats the hell out of regular wall art for those high ceilings.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Astral Source" by @klneidecker.com (Kaleidotrope, Spring '26) "is another genre-bending and genre-transcending story: a poetic, dark fantasy tale wrapped in science fiction and suffused by the use of computer programming language: 'Code reality. Patch physics. Upgrade the stars.'" 🌠

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 02/09/2026

Premature bioluminescent eyestalks are a real bummer. Got to get all your hat brims adjusted right away and it always happens when the hatters are closed for their weekly quicksilver smoothy nights.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I was asked to share the speech given after I won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Here it is. The speech covers being on the autistic spectrum, how SF/F saved my life, and the disgusting attacks against autistic people by the president and secretary of health. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

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I won a Hugo Award! Plus my Best Fan Writer speech | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

I fought a bad cold all weekend and, despite my best efforts, I fell asleep before the beginning of LACon V’s Hugo Awards ceremony. So imagi

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 31/08/2026

lol. And then you order something from the U.S. *in* the U.S. and the tracking is like “it’s somewhere between California and New Jersey, we’re pretty sure. But who knows? We will update this page every 100 hours.”

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 30/08/2026

And they can hear the sound of a phone camera activating. “Oh, gotta catch this cute pose…” Doesn’t move. Doesn’t move. Doesn’t move. *touches camera app icon* Dog immediately turns all the way around and gets off the couch.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 29/08/2026

Oh, didn’t you hear? It’s also on Oprah’s book club and I think I saw it was heading for a Scholastic release for grades 2–5. It’s a book about taking a fun bath, right? Right? And a nice video game?

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Since it is Katie's 11th Gotcha Day, I'm re-upping the sale I'm running to raise money for her next post-cancer check-up/x-rays. You can grab the whole Reanimator Mysteries series for $10 or each book for 50% off.

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Help Pay for Katie's Appointment Sale by Kara Jorgensen

A bundle by Kara Jorgensen, $9.98 for 4 games

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 25/08/2026

If you use an Apple device, I can share some Safari extensions (works even on iPhone and iPad) which solves that problem for free. Then you use Safari for YouTube, instead of the app. I haven’t seen an ad there in a looooong time.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 25/08/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Greg Johnson, Alec Kercso, Bob Gonsalves, T.C. Lee, Rod McConnell of Binary Systems, creators of Starflight

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 24/08/2026

100% a top movie, and certainly the best Dredd film we are going to get. Hell, besides the comics themselves, it’s some of the best Dredd in any media we can hope for. And every single person in that movie put their maximum everything into every performance. Such a wild outlier.

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

To help offset the costs of Katie's recheck vet bill in September, I'm running a sale on the Reanimator Mysteries on Itchio. You can grab each book for 50% off or all 4 for $10 (or more, should you want to donate more). itch.io/s/198894/pay... Shares are greatly appreciated!

A grey black background with the head Katie's appointment sale and book bundle
beneath it is a picture of katie (black dog with a white, semi bald nose with a scar) and on the other side are the covers for the four books in the reanimator mysteries series (the reanimator's heart, the reanimator's soul, the reanimator's remains, and the reanimator's fate)
in between, it says my dog katie had a soft tissue sarcoma removed from her nose and had radiation. the vet bills have been a lot of money and she has a recheck in september. to offset the cost, I'm putting the reanimator mysteries on sale for 50% off on itchio. you can grab all 4 for $10

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 21/08/2026

You too? I was wondering about that. I was like “wow I must have gone viral! Oh, nope, just literally every past notification ever became unread all at once”

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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · 21/08/2026

Bluesky isn't beating the vibe coded slop allegations. Again. I just got hit with every notification ever. Every like, repost, comment, everything from the day I made my account. Everything, everywhere, all at once.

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CocoEagle @cocoeagle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 20/08/2026

(…watch the world birb) Sorry, sorry, it came to me and I had to say it or I’d explode.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Atari Scene News @philsan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

FujiATC, air traffic viewer for #Atari8bit computers with FujiNet device github.com/HanJammer/Fu... #atari #fujinet

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 14/08/2026

The wife and I quote this all the time, whenever one of us does something dumb or dangerous by mistake.

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

30% off code tofu !!

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 09/08/2026

And “the music of humanity”? Anyone who ever took public transportation knows all about the “music of humanity” I’m trying to block via headphones. *person singing loudly to songs they are playing on their phone sans headphones, another lady chewing with her mouth open, etc.*

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 07/08/2026

Well, think of it this way: we are all completely in agreement, without a doubt, that this magic is indeed swirling. No one is going to be like “but was the magic swirling?” Yes, dear reader! It swirled indeed!

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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Good morning. Today on Algorithm Zero, I have a mini-existential crisis about literary immortality and feeling forgotten, and also talk about @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social's The Haunting of Velkwood. As always, it's free to read and 100% written by a human. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

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8/7/26 — BRIAN KEENE

It has been said that “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is the quintessential song of my generation, and I suppose it’s as good a song as any to sum up Gen-X. But what once served as a soaring melodic sig...

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/08/2026

Breaking news: my ICQ chat client has gone rogue and hacked into my competitor’s network and stole secrets from their servers, completely on its own. The ICQ singularity is here. Invest now.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 06/08/2026

Today, someone learned that the only gatekeeper one has to worry about is the one in their head, sleeping at your brain-gate, letting all the terrible inside voice stuff out into the world. If that bad boy was on post and alert, someone would have made it through the day without crapping themselves

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Vordio @vordio.net · 05/08/2026

Another word sometimes used instead of gate keeping is quality control. Has a bit of a different ring to it though.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 05/08/2026

People with bad ideas, the world over, *really* like the word “gatekeeper”. They don’t *understand* the word. But god damn do they love it.

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 05/08/2026

I, myself, made the switch full time in that same timeframe. Windows user from 95 to 2026, and now not a Windows device on my desk. Obviously my experience doesn’t make a scientific study lol, but if my spectrum-ass is willing to change decades of habit due to Windows problems, I’d bet others have

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 05/08/2026

True enough. It could be that some stack of tools became very popular for bot spammers, crawlers, etc. and that resides on Linux. Or that some user agent shenanigans have been adopted to avoid fingerprinting. Stuff like that. Could be a % of bots for sure. But I’d bet not *most*, based on timeline

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K.L. Neidecker @klneidecker.com · 05/08/2026

The article says it’s likely “automated” systems, like bots and such. I don’t think so. Bots have been around since the dawn of the internet. Why a sudden switch to a different architecture? Then again, changes in Windows on the same timeline made the OS more hostile to users. This is user based

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