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Artist of all trades, master of none. Author of the urban fantasy Clandestine series. My newest, CUT TO THE QUICK, is out now! He/Him www.russellisler.com

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can't stop chuckling at this...
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not now brain (jots down notes) not the concept for *another* novel! (Even more notes) I have book 4 in my already running series (more, more notes) to write! Chat, what's the opposite of writer's block? (Scribbles more notes)
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Lenna 💛🩸 @lenna.gay · 22/09/2026
LRS: I will advise any queer artists on how to get a personal site up and running for $0. (The site may not be $0 but my help will.) Will it be the greatest site ever and on a backend that's super bespoke and custom? No, it won't. But it'll be enough to be your place on the web that no one can take.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shout out to the theater full of nerds who bellowed "Till all are one" in response to Rodimus Prime. 🤜🤛
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎶 Hot blooded, check it and see, My little arms are decidedly wee.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Death to ai
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
SOON
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Tonight I'll be seeing "Transformers: The Movie" in a theater for the first time since 1986. (I've watched it at home many, many times since.) I could not be more hype for this comfort food of a movie. 'Till All Are One!
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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again I find myself honored and grateful to find that MAGICAL GIRL BLUES has made it to the Shelley Short List. Thank you so very much!
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The 2026 Shelley Short List for Paranormal Fiction | Chanticleer
The Shelley Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to these Paranormal authors who made it here, and good luck on the semi-finals! #Shelley #Paranormal #ShortList #CIBAs
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At some point you figure out that "being apolitical" in the public arts always means getting on your knees for the rich, the bigots, the fascists and authoritarians. It never means anything else, and those people are somehow never obligated to set their own politics aside on behalf of anyone else.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More Ed Shitran amirite?
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again I find myself honored and grateful to find that MAGICAL GIRL BLUES has made it to the Shelley Short List. Thank you so very much!
chantireviews.com
The 2026 Shelley Short List for Paranormal Fiction | Chanticleer
The Shelley Awards Short List is here! Congratulations to these Paranormal authors who made it here, and good luck on the semi-finals! #Shelley #Paranormal #ShortList #CIBAs
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This new toothpaste *lingers.*
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oop, the caffeine's wearing off.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That was then. This is now.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ok, I'll cop to it. I actually like the hardware of the Iphone duo. From the detail they went into during the announcement, the engineers seemed very proud of their work. But I don't want ai fingering through all my shit so unless there's an off switch, no thanks.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New Apple shit launching straight into AI. Vomit.
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Tokusatsu GIFs @tokugifs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) Trailer
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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 05/09/2026
I'm pleased to announce that Triple World Score, the new Daniel Faust adventure, is available now! (Cover art by James T. Egan, editing by Kira Rubenthaler.) www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHFGX5N6
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Triple World Score (Daniel Faust Book 12)
Amazon.com: Triple World Score (Daniel Faust Book 12) eBook : Schaefer, Craig: Kindle Store
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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Funny how every book club in the world has an "@gmail.com" email. 🤔
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Yes. I hyphenate my swears.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
OH MY FUCKING GOD can I keep just one of the tools I use to make my life more convenient? I swear to christ this is getting ridiculous. Every fucking company. Fucking shit-assed techbro fuck-knuckles.
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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
stop posting it stop reposting it just STAPH ITTTT!!
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have had "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley stuck in my head going on 14 hours. Now you can join me.
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🎵 Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn (1969)
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Those book club author scam emails become particularly insulting when they arrive whole one is tabling at a con. 😑
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm here! Today through Monday the 31st you can find me in section D06A, Table 4 at @laworldcon.bsky.social Come on by! I've got swag!
A photograph I took of my LA WorldCon table. Featuring copies of all 3 of my books, a promotional banner and an assortment of the pins and patches I designed in my pre-author days.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is how you should charge into the weekend and, really, the rest of 2026. via @absolutely-not.bsky.social
I'm not a dumpster fire. I'm a garbage Phoenix.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm here! Today through Monday the 31st you can find me in section D06A, Table 4 at @laworldcon.bsky.social Come on by! I've got swag!
A photograph I took of my LA WorldCon table. Featuring copies of all 3 of my books, a promotional banner and an assortment of the pins and patches I designed in my pre-author days.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
RIP to Peter Cullen, my absolute favorite voice actor. Transforming and rolling out one final time.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh come on, not Tim Curry too! The hell is wrong with the Grim Reaper, I swear.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Absolutely staggered. What a loss.
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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every day, my dude. Every single day. #art #cats #screaming
Doodle of a ginger cat with its mouth open really wide as if to bellow something. Caption reads “have you considered screaming about it?”
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New albums this week from In This Moment and Kamelot AND A new album from The Hu last month that I had missed. My ears are eating good this week. 🎶😋🎶
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
For those that have been to more WorldCon's than I have: Which is the best day to deploy my singular cosplay? Sat? Sun? I'm chained to a table so no wandering for the most part.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So this is exciting. My second novel, MAGICAL GIRL BLUES, has made the long list for @chantireviews.com 's Shelly Book Awards for Paranormal Fiction! Absolutely amazed and grateful, thank you! www.chantireviews.com/2026/08/07/2...
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The 2026 Shelley Long List for Paranormal Fiction | Chanticleer
We're here with the Shelley Awards Long List for Paranormal Fiction! Well done to these authors for making the first cut, and good luck as the competition heats up!
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 13/08/2026
in any case, as a writer I am not at all interested in knowing if "AI" can produce slop that satisfies some readers. I am interested in destroying the idea that mass theft of the written word to produce something without thought or character counts as "writing".
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Oh yeah, Reacher season 4. Absolutely a guilty pleasure show and I refuse to feel bad about it.
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Deal With It Ryan Gosling
Alt: Ryan Gosling as Ken from the movie Barbie, putting a pair of sunglasses on over the smaller pair of sunglasses he's already wearing. The caption reads "deal with it."
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So this is exciting. My second novel, MAGICAL GIRL BLUES, has made the long list for @chantireviews.com 's Shelly Book Awards for Paranormal Fiction! Absolutely amazed and grateful, thank you! www.chantireviews.com/2026/08/07/2...
chantireviews.com
The 2026 Shelley Long List for Paranormal Fiction | Chanticleer
We're here with the Shelley Awards Long List for Paranormal Fiction! Well done to these authors for making the first cut, and good luck as the competition heats up!
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I just found out there's a new Kamelot album coming at the end of the month. OH HELL YES LFG
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen
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RussMakesStuff @russmakesstuff.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
eBay I am BEGGING you. Please do not label items from the 1990's as "vintage." 😤
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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vashíto @vashperado.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
good morning
1954 photo of Godzilla holding an umbrella standing next to Emiko holding her arm
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 05/08/2026
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
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