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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Other states besides Texas with voter registration deadlines over the next 7 days: Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana , Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, South Carolina.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"it's good to be evil actually" is sophistry, obviously, but what you need to understand is that it is literally just ayn rand talking points rewritten. they keep doing this!

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1:
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/09/2026

if you think ed sheeran is a spineless shitheel (as you should) and have been celebrating the bands who've quat his tour, you can join them in an act of equally principled and much more direct action right here and now, by signing up to support the Sameer Project

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know, this is why I've never really had much of an interest in stories about "robot rights" While I understand that they're often deployed as stand-ins for marginalized groups, the sad reality is that these mfers don't think it's metaphor

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

also releasing work as a writer in 2026

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don't know who this is really, and I'm sure he was a great guy, but damn that's kiiiinda like being named Adolf Hitlers

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Me, a genius: What's that? Friday, you say? The 11th of September? Sounds like the perfect time to promote stuff on social media! in the latest SSR i talk about @vajra.me @kjy1066.bsky.social @rsbenedict.bsky.social @typebarmagazine.bsky.social Yukio Mishima and jazz buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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SHORT STORY REX August 2026

For a few months straight now, I’ve been finding myself going, “wait, shit, is it [current month] already??? i have to do the newsletter, oh fuck oh fuck...

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to see Foreign Objects mentioned! Real good day to read it btw

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SHORT STORY REX August 2026

For a few months straight now, I’ve been finding myself going, “wait, shit, is it [current month] already??? i have to do the newsletter, oh fuck oh fuck...

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 02/09/2026

DAMN. This short story feels like a Slaughterhouse Five for this bleak American moment. Sci-fi, comedy and heart dancing between humanity and the lack of it. Really something special. Deserves a huge readership. @kayv.bsky.social is consistently excellent, as is @seizethepress.bsky.social!!

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Typebar currently loses money! Consider subscribing today. Help us continue to publish literary criticism, cultural analysis, and innovative fiction found nowhere else. www.typebarmagazine.com#/portal/sign...

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Typebar Magazine

An interesting thing to read on the internet.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 09/09/2026

A reminder that a few brilliant friends & I did a completely free Ligotti tribute anthology. Download free to read my story "Jar Of Arms" and other fine scribblings. dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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Get your FREE copy of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower

“The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape…” With these words, Thomas Ligotti begins one of the most influential short stories in the canon of horror and weird ...

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arnaerr 🦭⭑｡ @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am in this! It's delightful!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just looked out the window:

utopia meme image of cool looking future city

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Like the artists in his story, Stanley works a strange alchemy. His cityscapes are so vividly described; their barbershops & 24-hour massage parlors, their people & their trash, some of my favorite writing of his to date" NM Whitley on The Most Beautiful Thing on This Black Earth by Nelson Stanley

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"The Most Beautiful Thing on This Black Earth" by Nelson Stanley - Seize The Press

The Connoisseur’d heard that she was the only genius in town. Weimar republic hairdo blacker than a goth’s heart. Improbable, glowing, crème-de-menthe eyes. Allegedly had a tattoo of Frederick Barbaro...

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Aulet 🍂 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Sameer Project is so, so incredibly vital. Please help.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Journalists: there is a really great article just waiting to be written which you talk to the other journalists who write Bryan Johnson profiles and the editors who commission them about what they are doing and why. How does he keep getting major profiles? What PR agency is pushing him and how?

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To anyone following the recent AI controversies in publishing, I am begging, no demanding, that you read this from @therisingtithes.bsky.social its a devastating appraisal of the various ways LLM tools fit into the greater framework of oppression www.patreon.com/therisingtit...

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An Essay: 'beyond the margin-frame' | Brandon O'Brien

As I've been working on the other essay about LLMs in fiction, I've found myself considering the last few months of AI-related literary scan

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Repost to make it die faster

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think there will be a kind of inward collapse.

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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 19/08/2026

FYI there’s a brilliant three hour radio show of every Johnny Fever DJ break with music and WITH LES NESSMAN NEWS READS. Perfect for a road trip. www.awphooey.com/wkrp

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WKRP: Johnny Fever

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Gutted to hear Frank Beard of ZZ Top passed One of the all-time greats and if you disagree you don't know shit Always sublime but for me Tejas is the one m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Y1...

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ZZ Top - Avalon Hideaway

YouTube video by Kilo2199

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

RIP master of sparks. isolated drums on "La Grange"---when he kicks in, it's a joy to hear it www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCI...

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ZZ Top - La Grange (Drums Only)

YouTube video by Isolated Tracks

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Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We may be past the dog days of summer, but the heat lingers—and it’s blazing to life in SUMMER IN THE CITY, out 12.01! We’re delighted to share the TOC for our third anthology of the In the City series edited by @rbwood.bsky.social & Anna Koon. Pre-order now wherever you buy books! #BookSky

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Excited to have a shoutout in @nmwhitley.bsky.social's recent Short Story Rex! But more importantly, some incredibly astute observations about our industry, putting words to the anxiety I think we're all feeling: buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

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SHORT STORY REX JULY 2026

SHORT STORY REX July 2026 UNSURPRISING MAGAZINE REC: Seize the Press #14 Been feeling pretty demotivated lately (see below) but if you thought a new issue of...

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm back from vacation, and wanted to remind everyone to pre-order The Speculative Detective Agency for my new story, "That Old Black Magic We Call Empire"!

Cover for The Speculative Detective Agency anthology (case files of the supernatural and fantastic), edited by Matthew David Goodwin and Richie Narvaez

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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is why I roll my eyes at every adult who comes onto Al Gore’s internet and declares without embarrassment that they were “forced” to read some book in high school. Oh, you mean you were exposed to art at a young age and helped by public servants to understand it? You mean the system worked?

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀 CW: sexual misconduct. theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Describe your musical taste in three artists, no genres 1. Bell 2. Biv 3. DeVoe

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Jessica Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ @pelicanismo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

cs lewis taking shots at TESCREAL in 1938 (out of the silent planet)

‘Well, said Ransom, 'you hold all the cards, and I must make the best of it. I consider your philosophy of life raving lunacy. I suppose all that stuff about infinity and eternity means that you think you are justified in doing anything-absolutely anything-here and now, on the off chance that some creatures or other descended from man as we know him may crawl about a few centuries longer in some part of the universe.’

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“He has always been the sort of boy who picks at scabs. In class sometimes he digs the compass point into the webbing of his hands. It helps him concentrate: it quells the noise.” www.thedarkmagazine.com/baby-blue/ Very happy to return to The Dark Magazine today with ‘Baby Blue’.

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Baby Blue - The Dark Magazine

The wound on his neck looks like a smile. The resemblance occurs to Darragh the moment he notices it, as he stands in the bathroom scrutinising his appearance in the mirror before school. The white co...

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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 24/07/2026

I spoke to an Ingram rep about this and it is, unfortunately, a real thing that they are forcing us all to do. Shit like this shouldn't be "opt out" and if you just happen to miss the notice the machines eat your art 🤬

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Celebrating the legacy of renowned illustrator Virgil Finlay, born OTD 1914. Here’s a beautifully evocative piece (which I hadn’t come across before) representing J. G. Ballard‘s ‘The Crystal World‘, as advertised in a 1966 edition of ‘Things to Come’, the bulletin of the Science Fiction Book Club.

Illustration by Virgil Finlay inspired by J. G. Ballard’s 1966 novel ‘The Crystal World’ - with a crystalline figure of a man in reaching out in the foreground, with a larger representation of a women’s face (eyes closed) in the background.

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