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Nerdy notes on the end times. For all who hate what’s happening in the world but want to read about it anyway. See more at: vibespocalypse.substack.com

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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 21h
When I heard about Ride or Die being canceled, an insanely successful show, I knew I needed to write about women and underrepresented groups making amazing TV shows. #TV #WomenInTV #TVSky
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Recent Prestige TV Shows Prove that Audiences Want Diverse Stories
When TV represents everyone, the audience shows up.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My novel, Terminally Winning, is $0.99 for a limited time. #Thrillers #rags2riches #BookAddict #PlotTwist #MysterySky #Romancelandia #AmReading www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m serializing a tiny bit of my debut novel on my Substack. I post a song with each chapter. If you want to keep reading, here’s chapter 3 of my debut novel. We get to see Willa and Dean together, being painfully awkward. #amreading #bookworm #booklovers.
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My Debut Novel: Chapter 3
Dean and Willa meet. They’re awkward.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m serializing a tiny bit of my debut novel on my Substack. I post a song with each chapter. If you want to keep reading, here’s chapter 2 of my debut novel. We get to meet Dean, our awkward, troubled man with a certain set of skills. #amreading #bookworm #booklovers #thriller #bookish
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My Debut Novel: Chapter 2
Dean’s intro. He has demons of his own.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For those just discovering Effective Altruism (EA), know that when journalists, etc. talk about EA in the context of Silicon Valley, they're talking about *longtermism*. And as I argued back in 2021, longtermism is a profoundly dangerous ideology: aeon.co/essays/why-l...
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Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you like #RomanticSuspense books with ✔️tough-as-nails heroines, ✔️vulnerable men breaking at the seams, ✔️insufferable journos, ✔️small-town cops in over their heads, ✔️and villains you just love to hate, read my book for free on #KindleUnlimited www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/ #BookSky #Bookish
This image is an ad for my book. It describes the tropes and has a hook: Escape was only the beginning... Willa will never forget that night. The night she escaped and left Cathy with their kidnapper. Prepare for a wild holiday right through California to save one woman from oblivion. On Kindle Unlimited now!
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m serializing a tiny bit of my debut novel on my Substack. I post a song with each chapter. If you want to keep reading, here’s chapter 1 of my debut novel. We’re checking in on Willa fourteen years after her terrifying escape. ✍️📚 #AmReading #RomanticThriller #Suspense #Bookish #KindleUnlimited
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My Debut Novel: Chapter 1
Fourteen years later, Willa’s still haunted by that night.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Modern life is full of hyperobjects, seemingly unsolvable problems. The problems we face are so absurd and all-encompassing that they demand we ask: How intelligent are we if we innovate ourselves into extinction? #AI #SiliconValley #Tech #Inequality
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Norma Tanega was a queer badass. Her music had a resurgence in popularity right before she died. I wish she got the accolades she deserved when she was younger, but I’m glad we have her music to enjoy. xtramagazine.com/culture/musi...
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Norma Tanega was a queer woman of colour who found success and laughter in the folk music world | Xtra Magazine
A new book and compilation finally give the 1960s singer (and former lover of Dusty Springfield) the attention she deserves
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you like #RomanticSuspense books with ✔️tough-as-nails heroines, ✔️vulnerable men breaking at the seams, ✔️insufferable journos, ✔️small-town cops in over their heads, ✔️and villains you just love to hate, read my book for free on #KindleUnlimited www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/ #BookSky #Bookish
This image is an ad for my book. It describes the tropes and has a hook: Escape was only the beginning... Willa will never forget that night. The night she escaped and left Cathy with their kidnapper. Prepare for a wild holiday right through California to save one woman from oblivion. On Kindle Unlimited now!
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m serializing a tiny bit of my debut novel on my Substack. I'm posting a song with each chapter. ✍️📚 #AmReading #RomanticThriller #Suspense #Bookish #KindleUnlimited #BookWorms #NewRelease vibespocalypse.substack.com/p/my-debut-n...
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My Debut Novel’s Prologue: Play Dead
Willa makes her escape.
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vibespocalypse.bsky.social @vibespocalypse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
While we’re distracted by the common refrains, “they’re building a digital God” and “humanity’s future is in the stars,” remember that, to the tech bros, the real gods are always money and power. #AI #Substack #SiliconValley #Tech vibespocalypse.substack.com/p/how-to-sta...
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yay! Super happy for the #WidowsBay team and the fandom. Hopefully, this means we’ll get many more seasons on Katie Dippold’s infamous island. If you want to revisit some of the best moments of S1, I wrote about the show in July. The title says it all.
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It feels like we're all living on Widow's Bay, cursed and undeniably fucked.
Give them all Emmys already. Also, fuck Martha’s Vineyard! Warning, there are spoilers ahead, but you’re probably not looking up Widow’s Bay blogs because you’ve never watched the show, so onward!
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vibespocalypse.bsky.social @vibespocalypse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The most insidious idea is that #Tech will save us all. In #SiliconValley, there’s a false equivalency that tech equals progress. It fuels the self-driving cars clogging our streets and the loneliness creeping into our souls. It supercharges our El Niños and keeps the shareholders very fucking rich.
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How to stay sane in the Cybernetic Meadow: Part 1
The start of a series of musings on AI and human worth.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whether or not #AI is going to kill 10%, 25%, or all of us, why the fuck would we want to court that kind of risk? To explore that and more, I've started a little series on AI and human worth on my #Substack. Like that hasn't been done before. 😉✍️🤖 vibespocalypse.substack.com/p/how-to-sta...
The cover image for my new Substack: How to stay sane in the Cybernetic Meadow: Part 1. I included a Pixies song at the end, and that's the album cover displaying. It's a moody rendering of a fish.A quote from my Substack post: "Behaving like abusive boyfriends, tech billionaires promise us the world while putting us through hell. They promise us our wildest sci-fi utopias but offer us a reality similar to a bad Black Mirror episode, replete with social media-induced body dysmorphia, AI psychosis, dezinformatsiya-empowered despots, unaffordable everything, and extreme job loss."A quote from my Substack post: "Perhaps the most insidious aspect of this ideology is the idea that technology will save us all. In Silicon Valley, there’s a false equivalency that technology equals progress. It fuels the self-driving cars clogging our streets and the loneliness creeping into our souls. It supercharges our El Niños and keeps the institutional shareholders very fucking rich."A quote from my Substack post: "That’s why the same man who proudly cut USAID funding, which has killed over 700,000 people so far, became the world’s first trillionaire. Per The Lancet, the USAID cuts could result in the deaths of more than 14 million people by 2030. People’s lives mean nothing to the Nerd Reich aside from the money they can make from them. Our suffering is their fortune."
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Willa will never forget that night. The night she escaped a psychopath’s basement . . . . . . and left Cathy with their kidnapper. Read for free on Kindle Unlimited. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/ #KindleUnlimited #BookSky #RomanceSky
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I pledge allegiance to the fact that the United States of America can't protect me anymore, one nation exploding with diarrhea, after each berry and grain of rice, with medical debt and certain death for all. #FoodRecall #PublicHealth #ConsumerAlert
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FDA Issues Update on White Rice Recalled in 13 States Due to Potential Contamination with Foreign Materials
The FDA has updated a recall for Lundberg Family Farms White Jasmine Rice sold in 13 states. The product was recalled due to possible foreign material contamination.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Willa will never forget that night. The night she escaped a psychopath’s basement . . . . . . and left Cathy with their kidnapper. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/ #BookSky #RomanticSuspense #BookWorm #IndieAuthor
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“...we estimate that some 9,000 deaths each year in the country are impacted by heat — a factor of five higher than the official average over that same period. Some years, heat-related deaths can top 10,000.” The status quo is killing us all. The status quo = omnicide. #ClimateChange
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NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Unfettered capitalism is killing everything we know and love. #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice
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Temperature check: alarm as prediction markets lean into weather and climate bets
Climate experts warn that US Kalshi and Polymarket users are ‘gamifying disasters’ as they bet on events like heatwaves and daily temperatures
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wrote about my debut novel on #Substack. #BookSky #RomanticSuspense
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More about my debut novel
About my writing and my characters
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"It will not change the basic fact that we either have decision-making power over our own bodies — women and men — or there is no democracy." - #GloriaSteinem
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Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92
At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm excited to announce that my debut novel is out now. It's taken me a long time to get the courage to publish this, so I'm excited to see it on Amazon. The eBook is on Kindle Unlimited. #BookSky #RomanticSuspense #BookWorm #IndieAuthor www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm excited to announce that my debut novel is out now. It's taken me a long time to get the courage to publish this, so I'm excited to see it on Amazon. The eBook is on Kindle Unlimited. #Books #RomanticSuspense www.amazon.com/dp/B0HH14RW5F/
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Terminally Winning: A Novel: months to live, a fortune to spend, a missing person, and a score to settle
Terminally Winning: A Novel: months to live, a fortune to spend, a missing person, and a score to settle - Kindle edition by Bligh, Nova. Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tim Curry had the voice of a rock star and the talent of a maestro. Rest in peace, Tim!
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Remembering actor Tim Curry, who always committed to the bit
Tim Curry, who died on Tuesday at 80, is remembered as an actor who threw himself into things, whether as Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or Pennywise the Clown in "It."
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#ClimateChange isn’t some dystopian idea locked in a William Gibson novel. We’re living the future, right now. And it’s fucking bleak.
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Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 356
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There is not a centimeter of this planet humanity hasn’t fucked over in some way or another. We’re already fucked, but we can be less fucked than if we keep the status quo going for another twenty years. The status quo is killing us. The status quo = omnicide. #ClimateChange
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5 Insider Tips for your Final Destination European Vacation
I wrote this because the idea of us burning down our only cosmic home pisses me off.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Holy fucking shit, indeed. We're killing our only home.
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Nova Bligh @novabligh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
That #WidowsBay moment you think you’re just going to veg out and watch a horror comedy, but then you discover a larger allegory. #AppleTV
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It feels like we're all living on Widow's Bay, cursed and undeniably fucked.
Give them all Emmys already. Also, fuck Martha’s Vineyard! Warning, there are spoilers ahead, but you’re probably not looking up Widow’s Bay blogs because you’ve never watched the show, so onward!
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