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Kiss Kiss Die

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Dale Stromberg. Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters. Debut high fantasy novel Mæj pub’d 2024 by @traumbooks.bsky.social. My paperbricks: mybook.to/strombergish Quiet immigrant. Oya-baka. Regular fugly. S-class awkward. He/him.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:
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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein
Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Tech companies like Meta want us to believe that the AI boom is inevitable, and we all might as well get on board. But I’m a nurse, and my job is to advocate for my patients. Even without these new data centers, Louisiana has seen enough death and destruction.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Death by Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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dark blue and green cartoon drawing of a person sweating with pain/anxiety/concentration as a jumble of spiked abstract shapes bursts through their back and chest dark blue and green cartoon drawing of a person sobbing and melting into the floor as some sort of piston slams into the side of their head
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed, healthy, and educated. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k
A collage of three photos showing Ziyad, a young boy on his first at the educational tent, looking proud. On the bottom right photo, it's him with his little sister, Mirna, smiling, both sitting on a couch.
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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hindus for Human Rights rejects the use of anti-terror laws to silence religious minorities and peaceful dissent. USCIRF highlights the cases of Jagtar Singh Johal, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. Johal’s bail is welcome. All three deserve freedom and justice. buff.ly/x3uVa70
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India Continues to Weaponize Terrorism Laws to Detain Religious Minorities
Sep 24, 2026
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You remain a child until you understand that your father is powerless. If you live to understand this, you are someone’s father yourself.” electricliterature.com/zulum-by-mil...
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He's Less Obnoxious as a Falcon Than a Monk - Electric Literature
“Zulum” from INSHALLAH, MADONNA, INSHALLAH by Miljenko Jergović, co-translated and recommended by Ellen Elias-Bursać
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed and healthy. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SHORT FILM cooks, dude. You should read it right now. I reviewed it back in the day: medium.com/@dale.stromb... And interviewed the author about it: medium.com/@dale.stromb...
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Like a City of Tents in the Wind
An interview with author Tucker Lieberman
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“While a coalition is large and often short-lived, an alignment is small enough and long-lasting enough to allow organizations to share strategies and tactics and test each other’s capacity for mobilization.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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Operation Metro Surge Wasn't the End - Dissent Magazine
The Minnesota movement still holds important lessons for those working to defend democracy in the Trump era.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Eco-fascism, the politics of environmental preservation fused with ethnic exclusion, is the endpoint of a logic that begins, not always consciously, with retreat.”
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The response to these crises from end times fascists is a classic double standard: borderlessness for themselves, walls for everyone else.” dissentmagazine.org/article/end-...
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Exit Strategy - Dissent Magazine
In End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor make the case that the ruling class is not lording over our future, but trying to escape it. How should the left resist doing the same?
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yoooooooooo
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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wow, I cannot believe it's already been four years! Happy Birthday to SHORT FILM!!! 🌟 If you haven't read it yet, it's such a great let's slip down into all the rabbit holes book. 🚗🚗🚗
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed and healthy. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k
A collage of five photos of Ziyad and his sister Mirna, smiling and playing in the ruins of Gaza.
On the top left and bottom right photo, they are accompanied by their mother
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“To the extent a political establishment exists, it reflects the historic strength of previous political organizing efforts, as well as the compromises past generations of political leaders have made to wield, share, or retain power.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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The Socialist Wave Hits Rhode Island - Dissent Magazine
The sweep by democratic socialist David Morales and other progressive primary candidates in Providence is a testament to years of organizing and coalition-building in the Ocean State.
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Socialism for All (S4A) ☭ Intensify Class Struggle @socialismforall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
100% but why are people still expecting Democrats to do this?
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 7 days with zero support. Our situation is extremely bad.Here in Ga-za, asking for help is not weakness; it comes after all doors were shut in our faces. We are in urgent need of assistance to provide food and basic daily essentials for my kids. Please share 🧡 tinyurl.com/2etna36k
A collage of five photos of Ziyad and his sister Mirna, two of them also featuring their mother. Always smiling and looking happy, despite the ruins and rubble that surround them.
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Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 10/09/2026
pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out
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meterfeldweg.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ziad and Mirna could use a helping hand. chuffed.org/project/zeya...
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When Food and Medicine Become Dreams: Support Ziad & Mirna’s Family of 4 🫂🍉
From the heart of Gaza and the ruins of houses, we write to you with hope amidst the pain. As the parents of Ziad and Mirna, we have lost our livelihoods, facing a harsh reality that threatens our chi...
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This sentence struck me: In order for a class to form, “all workers must decide to affiliate with each other, see themselves in each other, and become something together.” Decide, see, become. dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
omg thank you!
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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"DiFrancesco's masterfully crafted words demand to be savored, lingering on the tongue like melting chocolate." Mary Leoson, author of The Butterfly Circle This fall, we are releasing a Pennsylvania horror-grief ghost story and you can pre-order it here! 👀 traumbooks.com/the-living-c...
Cover for Alex DiFrancesco's upcoming novel, THE LIVING COPY, about a young woman in a dead-end mining town, adjusting to the death of her grandmother--and an AI copy of her grandmother now in their home. Cover features a photograph of a young girl, holding a younger child's hand. Dominant colors are pink and brown and rust.
Cover by Rachel A. Rosen. Book released by tRaum Books, coming November 1st.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“They’re not really aiming for labor. That’s just a rad bonus! They’re aiming at the totality of positive, meaningful, nourishing emotions so that we cannot feel good without paying them.” Valente nailing it again. catvalente.substack.com/p/all-you-ne...
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All You Need Is Us
AI isn't really about replacing the workforce. That's just a side-bonus for our robot overlords. It's about charging for access to our own humanity--or access to our destruction
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The ground has eroded under what was once the middle class, a rift has begun to open, and people are scrambling to get out and to give each other a hand up.” dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
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The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The tech worker movement must transform into a project that aspires to build an effective counterpower, and challenge an industry that now stands on the same side as an increasingly authoritarian state.” dissentmagazine.org/article/tech...
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Rebooting the Tech Worker Movement - Dissent Magazine
Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong?
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I read this story on a plane and it made me cry clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_08_24/
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The Sort by Thomas Ha
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Protectionism sold as a defense of American auto jobs is therefore in large part a defense of nonunion work.” dissentmagazine.org/article/chin...
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China Takes the Wheel - Dissent Magazine
The Chinese electric vehicle boom offers an opportunity to push manufacturers to produce cheaper EVs, while bolstering unionization and decarbonization in the United States.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
‘The market should not know so much about us that it can meet us at every point of vulnerability and call the perverse result “freedom.”’
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“For people with assets, algorithmic markets may be irritating, even exploitative. For people without assets, they are suffocating—sometimes crushing.”
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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 3 days with zero support. Asking for help is not weakness; it comes after all doors were shut in our faces. What happened to our family could happen to anyone. Please stand in solidarity with us. 3 years without jobs left us with nothing. Share and donate. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/zeya...
A collage of 6 photos arranged on a 3x3 grid. The top left one occupies 2x2 slots.
All pictures are Mirna and her older brother Ziad playing, smiling outside, among rubble and debris. The bottom left and middle photos are repeated. The bottom right photo changed the scene: children are inside a building on the verge of collapsing.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The system learns from the injuries it helps to create.” You really must read this. It’s disgusting to realise there are people hellbent now on making this the reality for all of us. (Not “all” of us. Just the 99% whose toil is siphoned to the parasitic rich.) dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...
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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine
Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Insiders are warning of human extinction. Somebody should take them literally as well as seriously. The market isn’t going to do it. Is there anybody else out there?” gideons.substack.com/p/the-market...
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The Market Will Not Price In The Apocalypse
Because the end of the world cannot be hedged
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Exactly this!
The hype is beginning to wear thin, as more people recognize how narratives of technological marvel obscure a more straightforward story. As science and technology studies scholars describe it in a recent paper, “heterogeneous capitalist actors have seized the moment offered by a period of uncertainty to mobilize communications technologies and financial relationships to their advantage.” In the process, “they are re-structuring markets in their favor, and directing the flow and capture of capital, resources, data, materials, and labor between sites.”

The tech oligarchs, in other words, are doing economic planning. If AI is “inevitable,” it is neither market forces nor the immutable tides of progress making it so. The technology’s sudden and vast deployment is better understood as a product of planning, organized by and serving particular financial interests. A small number of firms are exploiting their economic and political power to impose a new technology—maybe even a very useful one—in the face of two developments: mass resentment and muted demand for paid (and unsubsidized) AI services. Put another way, the investments to build and deploy generative AI are happening without commensurate market signals of demand. AI lurches forward, as the supply side of the economy shushes broad dissatisfaction and downplays the boggling estimates of revenue needed to justify the financial commitments. It is a reminder, as observed by economists J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev, that market production is “in fact organized through highly centralized systems—the command-and-control economy of the corporation, on the one hand, and the planning embodied in the financial system, on the other.”
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Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐 @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you think AI is “inevitable” or “just another tool” you should feel bad about yourself actually. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“AI data centers are an empty canvas on which people can express their anxieties about job precarity, an unfair economy, surveillance, doom-scrolling slop, climate disaster, spacefaring billionaires, enshittification,and any number of other grievances that often feel beyond our capacity to control.”
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Consider helping if you are able.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“We are told that we now have a breakthrough technology to carry us into a new modernity, even as many feel their own futures constrained by harsh material reality: unaffordability, downward mobility, and the climate crisis.” dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-d...
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After the Data Centers - Dissent Magazine
Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“As the right well knows, one should never let a crisis go to waste. If the economy-wide gamble brings the whole house of cards crashing down, we must be ready for the reconstruction to follow.” dissentmagazine.org/article/arti...
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Our Technological Wager - Dissent Magazine
The AI investment boom is a gamble of epic proportions. Yet on both sides of the wager, it seems, the house wins.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We mustn't forget this is still ongoing. If you are able, consider helping.
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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 02/09/2026
My next book, Attis & Aleph, had a COVER REVEAL in this morning's Night Beats newsletter! (No, it's not the lettuce bag. You have to open the newsletter and see what's under the bag.) Artist: Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social
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Write On: Back to School Edition
Don’t remind us, please.
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Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hang out with me and @maxdelsohn.bsky.social on 9/10!!! www.crowdcast.io/c/septmeetme...
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Meet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max Delsohn
Register now for Meet Me There: Featuring Cavar and Max Delsohn on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 10, 2026, 07:30 PM EDT.
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Critter 🏳️‍🌈 (Offline) @critternoises.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🚨 ‘It pains me so much that school starts in days and Zeyad isn't enrolled. After losing our income 3 years ago, destroyed UNRWA schools pushed fees and transport to $170/month. Securing his education and daily food has become impossible. Please help us Vetted by Molly ✅’ tinyurl.com/mrmd9nru
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have climbed just 12.5%.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record
Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have climbed just 12.5%.
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Critter 🏳️‍🌈 (Offline) @critternoises.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 ‘It pains me so much that school starts in days and Zeyad isn't enrolled. After losing our income 3 years ago, destroyed UNRWA schools pushed fees and transport to $170/month. Securing his education and daily food has become impossible. Please help us Vetted by Molly ✅’ tinyurl.com/mrmd9nru
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When Food and Medicine Become Dreams: Support Ziad & Mirna’s Family of 4 🫂🍉
From the heart of Gaza and the ruins of houses, we write to you with hope amidst the pain. As the parents of Ziad and Mirna, we have lost our livelihoods, facing a harsh reality that threatens our chi...
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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
thank you to the person who reviewed (and, presumably, uploaded) this on storygraph!
essjay's 4.5 star review: 

This was p much everything I've come to expect from Briar Ripley Page. An arty, weird, queer cast of characters; some sex scenes that will probably make you at least mildly uncomfortable; gore; references to at least one band I like (this time there were two). 

Unhinged and delightful.
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Kiss Kiss Die @stromberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“A universally affordable future will require the politically difficult but urgent work of reining in the oligarchs.”
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