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Rachel A. Rosen

@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social

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Purveyor of bleak climate fantasy and, apparently, cookbooks. Newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter/. rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Oooh, I do have access to Hoopla! And I love art crimes more than most crimes.

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And the podcast is awesome, so you should listen to the existing episodes while you're not writing.

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Fascism with a neoliberal smile is always more unnerving than fascism with a weird little guy who's afraid of everything.

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Thanks for the reminder to buy it! (Slams the buy button.)

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I agree. I have space wizard robes and I am insufferable when I put them on.

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I'm going to spam this article everywhere, not just because I agree with the points he's making, but because his book recommendations are also excellent:

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Dr Kat Day (she/her)'s avatar Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com
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NOTE: DO THIS BY TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY even if you've already filled in other form from your notifications. Also note, they've instigated a requirement that your text input must be at least 100 characters. Of course, they tell you this *after* you've entered your OTP, forcing you to do that again...

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Josh D. Stranding 🏴‍☠️'s avatar Josh D. Stranding 🏴‍☠️ @matrixman124.hellthread.vet
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Saw but you have to escape the latest bsky discourse without getting canceled

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Lauren's avatar Lauren @laurenkayes.bsky.social
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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also they have many different types of kimchi, tofu, and noodles, which form the base of my diet.

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Hey epic-fantasy-lovers who want acts of linguistic wizardry, in-depth worldbuilding, and badass women including trans women: tRaum is looking for ARC readers for Maej, a literary #fantasy that I absolutely loved. Get a free copy in exchange for leaving an honest review. Also I did the cover:

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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Because your timeline is so heavily, enormously skewed by like 10 people, it is very, very easy to get an extremely skewed idea of things. "Damn Spiders Georg and his friend are fighting again, this is a big problem in the community"

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Today on Wizards & Spaceships, we're talking about first contact. How do we communicate with extraterrestrials, what do first contact stories say about us, and why won't the aliens text us back? #podcast #sff #aliens #scifi

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Rebranding the magic 8 ball as the AI Ball and making a billion dollars

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Jen Bendery's avatar Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social
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NEW: Leonard Peltier, the Native American rights activist the U.S. govt put in prison ~50 years ago, is getting what may be his last chance at freedom.

FBI director Chris Wray says the bureau remains opposed to his parole.

His statement is full of holes. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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Please engage with the work done by Writers Against the War on Gaza, by Book Workers for a Free Palestine, and by the Gaza Poets Society. If you haven’t already, please seek out these groups and others like them. They are where the bloodied heart of literature is in this hour, and they need you.

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I've been virtually attending the Nebulas all weekend and while I *knew* based on the buzz, it was so nice to wake up and have the news confirmed. Congrats!!!

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Aahah oh noooo. I mean I <3 him but show some judgment!

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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Grab an advance review copy! (It's an open secret that maybe 1 out of 10 people actually "review" their advance review copy, so you could also just view this as scoring a free book...)

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That time the American army bravely defeated Cthulhu.

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This sounds fun though, ngl. I've already gotten covid (I made it 4 years though), so...I'm in.

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People who set off fireworks in residential neighbourhood at 3 am. 1000 years jail for those people.

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And I highly recommend you as a publisher who cares about cover design!

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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me looking at bluesky not having posted much today: fuck, dude. where are you. you're out of it. are you even a poster any more. me five minutes later, posting Ws with my right hand while scarfing dumplings with my left: fuck yes. fear my posts. I will post until you drop. repent

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Yo that's an excellent colour combination and it matches your shirt.

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"Ugh, do novels need politics?!" is the heads to the tails of "Ugh, do there need to be sex scenes in movies?!" Do fictions need human motivations and human endeavors? Ugh ugh...

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Critical Russ Theory's avatar Critical Russ Theory @russellgaleti.bsky.social
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Ae have the opportunity to set up the funniest gofundme ever

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If I was going to write a Politics Book, it would be about this specific form of brainrot, the idea that you must have such complete dedication to abstract principles that you're a hypocrite for thinking that some politicians should go to prison and others shouldn't.

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We gotta take a second to gas up Stormy Daniels, a sex worker who put her career and life on the line by going public about this to try and save us all from Trump's presidency while being shamed and harassed. It's been a long time coming, Stormy, and I hope you're having a GREAT FUCKING DAY.

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This book slaps. Not just because I did the cover. It's the queer political epic fantasy for grownups you always wanted and didn't know you needed.

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If they really believed the embryo was a whole-ass person with equal rights, they wouldn't talk about exceptions at all. But they don't. It's about controlling people with uteruses.

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Denial > justification > regular habit. We've skipped even the "apologies for the error" stage.

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Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers

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Has it been nine years? She was such a huge influence on Tiny Goth Me.

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