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Merganser Magazine @mergansermagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The Things the Sea Returned" by Nick Badot (excerpt) Read the full story at: mergansermagazine.com/story/the-th... and follow Nick Badot at @nickbadot.bsky.social! 🌊🪼🐀

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Littke dark microfiction piece in @mergansermagazine.bsky.social that I forgot had come out! The sea and all the things lost in it mergansermagazine.com/story/the-th...

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 06/10/2026

Poisoned Folk Tales gathers 23 chilling stories; some inspired by folklore from around the world, others spawned from the imaginations of some of horror’s finest, and it's out now! This includes my weird/folk short story, "The Things from the Woods"! www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJHT7C39

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GT Korbin @gtkorbin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll be offering a workshop on Found Footage Stories this Saturday (Sign up in advance below!) as well as speaking on two panels on Sunday! Hope to see some of you there! 🐙

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The workshop was amazing! Thanks gor hosting it

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 02/10/2026

After chemo, my 99.9% bald scalp is very dry. Absurdly dry. One of my nurses suggested an oil could help, but didn't have any recs. Do you? 👩🏻‍🦲

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hon. Mentions for the Guard, Fréwaka, anything Martin McDonagh, Black 47, Inaide I'm Dancing

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

5 favourite Irish films: The Halo Effect Waking Ned Intermission The Wind that Shakes the Barley Barrytown Trilogy (the Van if I have to pick just one)

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, at night you turn into one of those floaty flesh things from "Balloon Season". I'm onto you Thomas

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Coming to Octocon in Cork? Sign-ups are now open for workshops, a TTRPG, and Meet the Author sessions (your chance for an informal chat with our guests). Sign up online by 10pm the night before, or check at the info desk on the day. Full programme including sign-up links at prog.octocon.com

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Listen, we have just a few days left!! Help us fund more time loops!! (I really ALSO wanna reboot The Deer Is Messed Up next year… which is unrelated but also 👀 if this funds in time I will have more faith we can do deer next!)

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ooh this sounds like my kind of thing, would love to be an ARC reader, but sadly unlikely to be able to read/review before Oct 1st :(

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Maura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 😱🥵😎 @maurayzmore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

DANGLING (out Oct 1) is a collection of dark short fiction, featuring 28 stories about people on the precipice. Absurdism, literary realism, and horror, with a dash of the speculative. Let me know if you'd like to review an ARC. Also available on NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/publisher/ti... 💙📚

Cover for ARC of Dangling. Grainy grayscale image with bodies floating into the air and a quaint little homestead below them

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

WHO WANTS TO BE 100??? Today is the day (unless it is yesterday or tomorrow, which is debatable in a timeloop)!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

followers of this project: 99

launching in 4hrs 36 mins 55 seconds

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was thinking something like that with a diminutive suffix - maybe léinín, but I'm not sure how grammatically correct that is

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Still a wee bit to American/multisyllabic for me tastes, but tis in contention

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ooooh I like this one. I'd still take an Irish word over it but it's a frontrunner

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have a complicated relationship with that word by virtue of it meaning diverging things in the two languages I speak natively, leading to some awkward moments when I moved to an anglo-speaking country

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I appreciate the vision but it's a bit convoluted, and these are pretty much the closest I can get to wearing proper promiscuous-coded outfits so I need something kinda snappy? I reckon there's probably an Irish word like the way we use geansaí instead of jumper etc.

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I'm never sure what to call my favourite item of clothing. "Wifebeater" has obvious classist/misogynistic connotations; "tank top" makes us sound like a feckin yank. No good options. Any words as gaeilge we can use instead? #speirgorm

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Third draft done. Title changed and sent to beta readers #writesky #booksky #epicfantasy #darkfantasy

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Queen of Grimdark @annasmithspark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Being able to help and support other writers is one of the best things about being a published writer.

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Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Huge thank you to the Queen of Grimdark herself, @annasmithspark.bsky.social, for taking the time to give me some advice on querying The Hollow Sky. Both The Court of Broken Knives and A Sword of Bronze and Ashes are beautiful, savage books, and well worth checking out.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Looks like someone pirated Daily Science Fiction's entire output and posted them here, claiming to have author permission. At least a dozen authors to my knowledge have said they didn't grant permission. If you were published by DFS, you might wanna consider a Cease and Desist.

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Free short science fiction, published weekly · Science Fiction Weekly

Science Fiction Weekly publishes a free short story every weekday and a curated digest every Sunday. Subscribe by email.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Amusement Park Arcana is OUT NOW are you tired of horror happening at NIGHT and in BAD PLACES? what about in the summertime at an amusement park? books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above the book cover is the meme of a skeleton lifting weights, and it says "my body is a MACHINE that turns NOSTALGIA into A SAD HORROR NOVELLA"

next to the book cover reads "out now! don't forget to leave a rating or review!" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I can't speak for any of the others, but the one Irish lad on the CV team immediately got invited to be a commentator for RTE when he got back. Hopefully many of the rest got similar career boosts

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The sequel where he goes to America and meets Louis Armstrong is pretty good too

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's been ages since I read it but I was doing history for the leaving cert and studying that era when I read it so it stuck with me a lot. I have really vivid images of the bits about the protagonist's dad wandering Dublin at night

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Probably something Roddy Doyle. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, maybe, or a Star Called Henry.

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Always felt Maria Doyle Kennedy could be a good Quuen Médb

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Definitely. I used it once last year so I have to hold off until the next to use it again 😅

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So, turns out laser eye surgery degrades after a few years if you work with screens all day. I am a binoclard once again. I reckon it suits me though? Anyway, 2 acceptances for 2 horror anthologies in as many weeks. Onwards and upwards

Long haired dude (me) with glasses & the spectre of a well-lit kitchen in the background

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I just wish England and Argentina could both lose

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Living in America can feel like living in the “Kingdom of Steve” sometimes. 😅🏝️🤪 Check out an FFO original from Nick Badot, now free to read on FFO! And have a great 4th of July 🇺🇸 #writingcommunity #flashfiction #surreal #litfic @nickbadot.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/july-...

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

UPON THEIR BACKS THEY HEAVE THE EARTH, my story about giant snails and the end of the world (first published in @impossibleworlds.bsky.social issue 4) exists in audio format now on Tall Tale TV Give it a listen if you like Giant Snails 🐌 youtu.be/SMbNHVmdXk0?...

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Nature isn't just callous, it is cruel 🎙️ "Upon their Backs they Heave the Earth" 🎙️ Fantasy Story

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Olivier Gechter @ogechter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Il y a quelques jours, certains d'entre vous m'ont encouragé à faire une fil sur les compositeurs et grands musiciens depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à Pierre Boulez. Et bien on va commencer ! Ca va prendre un moment, j'ai fais une sélection assez large.

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Mozart Deal With It Meme

Alt: Mozart Deal With It Meme

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cynthia loves u @lesbiats.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

if you want to reduce your impact on the planet just cutting your meat consumption down to once or twice a week rather than daily will accomplish more than basically every other change to your routine you could make combined. it's insane. you could never drive a car again and itd probably do less.

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Alternate title: Babe, the swan nexus isn't real. The swan nexus can't hurt you The swan nexus:

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Swans thronging around a random spot at night, presumbaly due to some food source #swanposting

Two-dozen-ish swans pointed towards a cromulent centre where (one presumes) some food is located. They throng hungrily around it. The moon shines on Bray harbour behind them

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Contract is signed - I will have something broody and disturbing and with far too many leeches in the EXTREMELY WEIRD SPLATTERPUNK anthology. If you're a weirdo and this sounds like a good time consider backing them here

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight

Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A personal piece. I hadn't done a cyberpunk pic in ages and I wanted to take my time with something and put some real work in. I also wanted to set it in Ireland, with alternative brands for those must-have logos littering the cityscape. I loved working on this. I'm open for commissions! #SpeirGorm

A cyberpunk cityscape at night, with towering corporate buildings in the distant background, but a rundown corner between two back streets in the immediate setting, below two overpasses. Two motorbike riders are racing in from the left, past a streetsweeper vehicle, and on the right a bright red, futuristic motorbike leaps over a sports car, flying through the air towards us. The rider is a black woman, with short hair and green and red headset. She is in an orange jacket and green combats, and as a cybernetic left arm. She's whooping with joy. Her pillion passenger is a white woman with a purple streak in her dark hair. She's leaning back and taking a selfie, with a flying Garda vehicle (Ireland's police force) in the air above them. Another Garda patroller is swooping in on the left above the other two bikers. The around the city are most open source tech like LibreOffice, Firefox and Krita, and a couple of Irish brands, Centra and An Post.

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Swans nesting on the banks of the Vartry. Haven't seen the male yet, but he usually patrols around to shoo off the herons etc. #swanposting

Mother swan preening the edges of a nest while sitting on it

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Love this one. Perfect last line

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Nick Badot @nickbadot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Nature is healing! Context: Part of the #Bray Cliff walk reopened (closed due to rockfall), with a new barrier further down the path. Almost immediately some enterprising citizen cut the side gate with bolt cutters and left helpful video-game yellow graffiti pointing to the illicit new path

A barrier on the Bray Cliff walk marked "danger". Someone has cut the wire fence to the side and marked the opening with a yellow arrow

A view from beyond the hole in the fence, which leads to a cliff edge. Gorse in the foreground wirh a steep decline that ends with the railroad tracks and a rocky beachhead

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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It's Pub Day for my debut novel, THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. It's an Arabfuturist story of a revolution set on a generation ship with lots of linguistic shenanigans. Chapeau to tu!

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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Radon Journal is the winner for Best Magazine of the Year in the inaugural Foofs Awards! @foofarawpress.bsky.social Going into production for June 1's issue 13, it gives us renewed zeal that what we're doing matters and the community appreciates both us and our authors

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