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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing returns this fall in a gorgeous refreshed edition. You can pre-order it here: zandoprojects.com/books/ursula... @ursulakleguin.com @zandoprojects.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I've been trying to figure out how to write a fan letter to @adapalmer.bsky.social for weeks. I'm half way through the fourth book in the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer, and it's been the most ambitious, thrillingly-narrated, politically brilliant Sci-Fi series I've read in... maybe ever? TY Ada!

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just very thrilled to make it to @acwise.bsky.social excellent list of Favorite Short Fiction of 2025 acwise.net/favorite-sho... In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...

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Favorite Short Fiction of 2025 – acwise.net

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 12/04/2025

Newest issue of Bourbon Penn is an instant classic. If you like reading, like dark stories, and don't know Bourbon Penn, you're losing out. @bourbonpenn.bsky.social Check out the opening story, an amazing story from Benjamin Parzybok www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl... #booksky #indiepublishing

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Benjamin Parzybok > Idle, Inc > Bourbon Penn

We were having an emergency. One of the time-servers crashed, and the support line was lighting up. And since my boss was on maternity leave, every one of those calls was mine to answer.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Libbey White @bifurcations.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Can't go on like this

People and dogs peacefully walking under tall trees on top of Mt Tabor

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 53 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero, in his costume, in his Venezuelan home town’s three king’s day celebration

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Congratulations to past BTC guests Percival Everett for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and Danez Smith for being a finalist in Poetry! ICYMI, here are the conversations with each of them: Percival: tinhouse.com/podcast/perc... Danez: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

History always has a lesson.

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 19/04/2025

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 05/04/2025

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Portland’s waterfront before they started marching south down Naito Parkway onto the Morrison Bridge. #HandsOff protest live updates: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Laura made a sign for the protests in Portland

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Two of my books and two short stories got eaten by the AI borg.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

My month in Istanbul/Turkey was incredible. Thank you Türkiye, I’m sad to go! I hope you can navigate the politics and tendencies toward fascism. I know I was taking lessons from it. This was last night at the Metropolitan Municipality Authority. #imamoglu

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have a new story in the fantastic journal Bourbon Penn. “at first it was cool i guess, 15 mins extra free time a day, like magic. nap time! But after like 900 crashes i can honestly say this is by far the worst app I have ever used in my entire life bar none” www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...

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Benjamin Parzybok > Idle, Inc > Bourbon Penn

We were having an emergency. One of the time-servers crashed, and the support line was lighting up. And since my boss was on maternity leave, every one of those calls was mine to answer.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thrilled to be in this issue of Bourbon Penn.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".

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Microcosm Publishing @microcosm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

..your writing. We're talking about your writing. Current events got you feeling inspired, for better or worse? Yeah. Us too. We're always looking for #submissions of most any kind (especially zines!), but especially #writing about... (1/3)

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/12/2024

HEY BLUESKY PEOPLE: Are you currently fundraising for a charity or for your own needs? Here is a thread for you to tell other people about it. Please explain your thing and put in a link (Legit 503c(3) charities and/or established fundraising sites preferred). 'tis is season!

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Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

oh AI can write books now? fine but can it constantly self-promote on multiple social platforms while still feeling bad about itself?????

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Ancient Athens made a mess — but the Antigone stands up. Renaissance Rome made a mess — but the ceiling of the Sistine got painted. Art… is the one orderly product which our muddling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels…” EM Forster www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 18/11/2024

Is everybody believing in the servers? If you don't believe in the servers they don't work

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Started a starter pack!

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Yes but maybe with the fill-in scab writers during the writers strike.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Now this is good news for a change

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thanks Jed! Psyched to read your new book, it looks amazing.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I spent a fantastic weekend there, but must have missed the main horn section

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I can't think of a more appropriate time to re-read this masterpiece. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge Day 1

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

It’s been 10 years since the water shortage got so bad that parts of Portland, OR, seceded. Go back and see how it all happened in @sparkwatson.bsky.social’s SHERWOOD NATION smallbeerpress.com/books/2014/0...

The red and white cover of Ben Parzybok’s Sherwood Nation with Andi Watson’s stencil-style illustration of water hero” Maid Marian”

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

New post for my journal of interactive fiction: Plotopolis: How it started, how it's going. Included is a wishlist of stories we'd love to see explored. open.substack.com/pub/plotopol...

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Somehow....flash fiction

Water flowing full blast out of a kitchen faucet onto the belly of a distressed cat who has just fallen in while another cat looks on, mostly out of frame.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

A log of my github contributions over time. As my father used to say about my constant projects, busy busy... And before git/github, there was subversion.

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Ben Parzybok @sparkwatson.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

I have both a game as well as a new interactive fiction platform (for publishing IF) debuting in this contest. Check it out here. ifcomp.org/ballot#entry...

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Well, I know what I’m doing this weekend…

Book titled “ESP and Your Pet: Discover your pet’s hidden psychic powers”

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2023

Gustave Doré, The Gnarled Monster, 1870

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