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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Marathon bars. These were chocolate covered caramel in the shape of a braid. Beyond delicious but absolutely deadly to your braces.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But at least you know where to turn for the index.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

OK, wow, this is a story. When I was a young teen in the early 80s, my family and I went to what we were told was a screening of several sitcom pilots, and we were supposed to answer survey questions about which ones we liked best…

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Once again, it’s time for the live Thursday Night Reading Hangout! Streaming right now. Bring your current read and join us for the next 90 or so! youtube.com/live/yDGthu6...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | August 20, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I honestly cannot remember, but it was probably something by Genesis because they were my main jam in those days. So maybe Abacab?

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Mall bookstores full of mass market paperbacks.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Thursday Night Reading Hangout is live once again! Grab your current read and favorite drink, and join us for a couple of hours as we wind down with our books. youtube.com/live/nll5wFe...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | August 13, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“ I strongly disagree with J. K. Rowling… Oh wait, the check cleared? Never mind!”

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

John Crowley has passed. A genuine great. Liz Hand first recommended his short story "Snow" to me and I followed that with "Little, Big" and his collection "Novelties & Souvenirs". They blew me away.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Come back to Booktube. For starters, we’re mostly adults.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There is a huge difference between engaging with art via critique, and simply feeling superior to art. Trope-spotting is a particularly noxious form of faux criticism. Tropes are not innately good or bad; they are simply tools. You aren’t a genius for noticing that your carpenter uses a hammer.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’m going to go with Ebert on this one. No truly good movie is ever too long. No bad movie can ever be short enough.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

First one that comes to mind is The Great Escape.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Join me live right now for the Thursday Night Reading Hangout! I will also have a Mini-Mailbag at the beginning of session two. Tonight I’m reading the Wilson Odyssey translation. www.youtube.com/live/qnyPWix...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | July 16, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Oh yay for a minute there horror was starting to get too original, hope we dodged that bullet! 🙄

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

He said he’d like to do horror, so I’d love to see what he’d do with a really great horror script.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is truly disappointing to hear, considering what an important and influential figure de Lint has been in modern literary fantasy. The only response that will drive the message home is simply to refuse to buy the book.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Could everybody please ease up on all of the mean comments about Lindsey Graham dying? I’m having a hard time keeping up with liking them all.

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Kellswitch @kellswitch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Bring a book and come join us, the cicadas are loud tonight!

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In about three minutes, grab your current read and join us at the Thursday night live hangout. If you miss my old Mailbags, there is actually going to be a pretty big one on tonight‘s stream. See you there. youtube.com/live/A-gfElW...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | July 9, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Headline writers could save so many keystrokes if they just expressed things honestly, like “White supremacists invade DC on July 4.”

Headline reading “Dozens wearing symbols of white supremacist group gather in DC on July 4“. Image shows a bunch of white men in dark shirts, grey caps, sunglasses and white facemasks.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of launching my journey as an online SFF book reviewer. If you haven’t come to one of my live reading hangouts, feel free! Bring your current read and chill with us for a couple of hours. Starting now. youtube.com/live/N-mtyuW...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | July 2, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Apparently, there are people leaving comments on TikTok, saying they hate books written in first person, because the character is doing things that they would never do. These people read first person narration and literally think the book is expecting you to role-play as the viewpoint character.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Cicada emerging from its shell under my carport.

Cicada emerging from its shell along the vertical edge of a post. A little more than half its body is exposed.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You’ve surfed your last butthole.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Seriously, 007 First Light is so good that I don’t feel especially interested in any new Bond movies at this point. Just give me more of this.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Hey everyone! Drop all that boring adulting stuff, grab your current book and come on over to tonight’s live reading hangout. Streaming now! www.youtube.com/live/dknEeTS...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | June 18, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Damn, I’m so disappointed. There’s not one physical book mail order service I can trust anymore. Can’t trust @barnesandnoble.com Can’t trust @booksamillion.bsky.social Now I can’t trust @bookshop.org Books used to be packaged in sturdy cardboard or padded mailers. Now? Paper sacks. PAPER. SACKS.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I’m happy for everybody in New York although I have to admit from my perspective I’m like, wow guys, it’s a ball game, relax. 😉

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ahoy my fellow book nerds! Don’t forget every Thursday night at 7:30 I host a reading hangout livestream. In fact, it’s live right now! So grab your current read and join in, why don’t you? www.youtube.com/live/odCoOxe...

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SFF180 Live | Thursday Night Reading Hangout | June 11, 2026

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

On the subject of which Hugo categories to get rid of, I’m on board with this one. The film industry just doesn’t recognize or care about the Hugos, and unlike all other categories for the award, both Dramatic Presentation awards confer no prestige upon the winners.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising is not merely the best Arthurian fantasy for young readers, it’s one of the best Arthurian fantasies period.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am nowhere near this cute in a short sleeve button up shirt. But thanks for saying so.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The biggest problem for selfpubbers, I still think, is basic discoverability. Efforts like the SPFBO do much to counteract that, which is great, but there’s still so much material out there. With tradpub, one at least feels an agent/editorial process separated wheat from chaff. Harder to do with SP.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Neither. I’m at the orc death-metal festival.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We are all just gonna play Magic the Gathering.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Typing that first sentence with a straight face is… a choice.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I discovered Genesis hearing “Eleventh Earl of Mar” on the radio in my dad’s car. Reminder: there was a time FM rock radio would play 7½-minute prog epics. That song did things I didn’t know rock songs could do. Though I was less partial to their 80s pop tracks, a lifelong fandom was born that day.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Yeah, I will do this. 🙂 However, I will almost certainly be less familiar with newer movies than older ones. Give me a year between 1933 and 2026 and I'll give you a favorite movie from that year.

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sour cherry comics @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

the sad reality: your favorite local haunts (that indie bookstore with the queer book club, the game shop that hosts tcg nights, the cafe with local art shows, etc) are always teetering on the edge of closure every single month. just a reminder to show these places love whenever you can.

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

An interesting development in the horror publishing world. I’ve been monitoring this situation for a few months since I first read about the suspicions going around that AI had been used, and I’d removed the book from my anticipated lists. www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/...

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From the horrorlit community on Reddit: Mia Ballard's Shy Girl canceled by Hachette over purported AI use

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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From the horrorlit community on Reddit: Mia Ballard's Shy Girl canceled by Hachette over purported AI use

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

One of the best satirical horror novellas of recent memory. And the price is right.

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