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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The lake has been called Ontario since before there was an America, you stupid sack of shit!

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's here!!! Everyone, may I present: Remaker: A solo-TTRPG of Frankensteinian horror and daring escape! 🦿10 body parts 🐀10 obstacles ⏲️10 minutes Can you create a new body for yourself and escape the scientist in time?

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Remaker by Catherine Tavares

A solo-TTRPG of Frankensteinian horror and daring escape!

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Keep your eyes peeled for more of my extremely lukewarm takes. Like all people deserve to have their human rights respected and protected and all people deserve universal health care and access to food and shelter. Wild and radical, I know.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I don't think any creative work can actually be successful under the auspice of public company. Not long term anyway. The thought processes that maximize profit and those that maximize human engagement are too far apart. One seeks originality and novelty, the other seeks optimization and uniformity.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 24/06/2025

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is the pizza of my youth.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I still think Kate Winslet would make for a good James Bond

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Gavagai @gavagai.com · 19/05/2026

In today's Editor Pick: A catastrophic fire leaves Dr. Renata Warren stranded aboard a dying spaceship with only one escape pod remaining. As systems fail around her, survival begins to demand choices no one should have to make. It's Expendable Me by P.A. Cornell. Read it for free at gavagai.com

Cover card for Expendable Me by P.A. Cornell on Gavagai.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Started watching Starfleet Academy. So this show is good actually. How come everyone said it was bad? Good acting, decent writing, super expensive looking, extremely Star Trek. Old nerds are the worst.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That's some good readin' right there

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I opened some Tom Clancy knockoff book that was on the shelf at the dollar store and was met with some of the most hilariously bad misogynistic nonsense I have ever read. No matter what I garbage I might write, I now know that I might be able to make it at the dollar store.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you are going to tag -punk onto whatever media you are making, please go look up what punk is and what it means. Setting a story in space doesn't make it space-punk. Punk is a counterculture and creative movement. Punk is about people, not aesthetics.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

If you are considering stories for nomination, especially for the Aurora Awards, give Birds, Vibrant and Wild a shot. It's a pretty quick read too!

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A year ago today I wrote this.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Vaccines are one of the coolest things that humanity ever created. Right up there with agriculture. Providing immune systems with a training dummy has dramatically extended and improved life for the past couple hundred years. Amazing. Imagine just saying 'Nah, Imma give tuberculosis a title shot"

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I’ll end this with something I’ve said before. Art has value. It’s an essential service. What we do, is one of the most important jobs on this fucking planet. Do not undervalue it or yourself. Ever. Fight for it. Trust me, you will never regret that. 5/5

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 18/06/2025

Every trans person out there, every single one, exhibits more bravery and integrity every single day simply living the life they're meant to live than every conservative politician pushing disgusting anti-trans laws into effect, and every craven liberal who's too chicken shit to stand up in defence.

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Goh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Since it's around the corner, I made a Tekken Father's Day card. I tried using two separate mechanics at once. This allows Kazuya to move his hands and Heihachi to descend when the card is opened.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I read other ppls stories and sit there and think....writers are fucking brilliant they make up these tales and they make you laugh or cry or get mad or disappointed or nod your head. It's incredible. For real.

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Goh_billy @gohbilly.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I made an inspirational greeting card with a spinning Ken Masters. So to all those frustrated out there: "Don't give up because I am... Shoryuken do it!"

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I wore one of my Giant Bomb shirts today

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A great review of Birds by @cypayseur.bsky.social in Locus! Not gonna lie, I'm a little shook right now.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Take flight with "Birds, Vibrant and Wild," a new story by Owen McManus. kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/...

I look fantastic in the sunset. Two meters tall, my body wrapped in carbon lace and diamond film. Wings that shimmer like transparent satin ten meters wide. Sheer as a dragonfly’s, tough as seashells. Feathers can’t compare. I’m gauzy bright on midnight purple, and pretty from tip to tail. When I’m in the sky, nothing looks better than me. Nobody watches birds anymore. A shame, really.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If someone in authority tells you to delete history, destroy books, erase scientific data, deny evidence, ban access to information, don't. Just don't. Back that shit up in fifty thousand places. Protect it. Keep it safe. No one on the right side of history ever burnt a book.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Test video of this game I'm working on. A lot of test and placeholder graphics, but the look is starting to come together. The crt effect compresses pretty poorly. #Godot #Indiedev #gamedev #gameart #pixelart

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Still working on this game in the Godot engine. Lots of custom shaders and some 3D smoke and mirrors. #Godot #Indiedev #pixelart

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I was wondering what sort of bastard you would have to be to sign up to be an ICE agent? And did they know when they made the job that only bastards would want to sign up? Seems like maybe they knew.

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Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I linked to the original post, but I never really posted myself that I have a story in this issue of Kaleidotrope. I think you should drop everything and go read it! kaleidotrope.net/winter-2025/... #scifi #cyberpunk

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“Birds, Vibrant and Wild” by Owen McManus

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The Winter 2025 Kaleidotrope features fantastic new fiction by @helendecruz.net, Ire Coburn, @lindseyduncan.bsky.social, @kashinggiwa.bsky.social, @amygriswold.bsky.social, Laney Gaughan, Megan Branning, Owen McManus, @devanbarlow.bsky.social, Toby MacNutt, S. Cameron David, and Tara Calaby!

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