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William Gibson

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Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)


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Chuck Wendig's avatar Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social
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it's true though, if Trump loses the election, I have received secret communiques that suggest our new state name will be WOKESYLVANIA and our state bird will be TAYLOR SWIFT

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Pulpfiction Books's avatar Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social
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Spring cleaning starting a month early in 2024, just like the boulevard flowers. I've put out 15 boxes of top-end used stock since 10am, with a 60 box collection (cultural studies; literature) hot on those heels.

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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It's almost Valentine's Day so it's my yearly reminder that lilies are DEADLY to cats. Every single part of the lily. Even the tiniest sniff of pollen will send a cat into kidney failure within an hour. Lilies are a death sentence. If you have cats DO NOT have lilies in your home!

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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:) “ooooh shiny” is about 40% of my day - if I’m lucky

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Jeff VanderMeer's avatar Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
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Neo is disappointed in some of you. Most of you. Almost all of you.

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Liam Wong's avatar Liam Wong @liamwong.com
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Tokyo snow

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Paul McAuley's avatar Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
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Free stuff! My novella ‘Blade and Bone’ and other stories from Asimov’s SF Magazine selected for Locus’s Recommended Reading List can be read here:

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William Gibson's avatar William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social
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Still not used to the handbills for 24-hour bicycle-delivered psilocybin, yesterday I saw one for a coca-leaf tea bar on East Hastings.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦's avatar Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social
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There's a flood watch in Allen on a tiny map, and my husband thought it said Alien and got pretty excited about the alien alert.

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Some good news: There's a "backlash" against right wing culture-warring in this district in the Philly suburbs, he told me. Right wingers are losing school board races.

That's a really good sign, because this is classic swing territory. 4/

Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/1786...

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Eric Rauchway's avatar Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social
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I’m telling you, your Joe-Joe’s and overpackaged fruit aren’t worth it “A transcript acquired by Bloomberg through the Freedom of Information Act shows Murphy informing Judge Charles Muhl that he’d like to add ‘one final thing’…’The National Labor Relations Act…is unconstitutional’”

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William Gibson's avatar William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social
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It’s still not Jack and now it says it’s blocked me.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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The former IRS contractor who leaked the tax records of Trump, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has been sentenced to five years in prison

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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I would humbly argue that the Missouri AG arguing that an innocent person should be kept on death row because to reopen his case would destabilize the system is proof that the system most motherfucking definitely needs to be destabilized.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy's avatar Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social
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we are on the verge of having a second political phenomenon called "Swiftboating" that has a meaning entirely separate from its first occurrence

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Paul Krugman's avatar Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Although we're all making fun of DeSantis's humiliation, we shouldn't forget that his anti-vax crusade — in service of his doomed run — probably killed thousands of people

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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I, for one, am shocked and surprised that Desantis will not be the GOP nominee, and on an unrelated note here is a sneak peek at a panel from tomorrow morning's cartoon

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Canadian was pushing conspiracy theories that his government was starting wildfires to fool people into believing climate change was real.
Turns out he was the one actually starting the fires. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/c...

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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈's avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social
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I'm submitting this as part of my lawsuit against the teacher responsible for me learning how to read.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦's avatar Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social
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Louisiana weather dispatch: The mailbox is frozen shut, and I either saw a flurry or hallucinated it. Big plans to bake a king cake for storm prep.

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Splitcoil's avatar Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social
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A king of Iowa ain’t no king of mine

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William Gibson's avatar William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social
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L: Our cat R: Logo resembling our cat’s self-image

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Sarah McLaughlin's avatar Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social
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An Israeli history teacher was arrested on treason charges, his home was ransacked by police, and he was held in solitary confinement for Facebook posts critical of Israel's military action and civilian deaths in Gaza.

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cait 's avatar cait @cait.bsky.social
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can you believe a little creature is allowed to look like this?

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦's avatar Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social
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Robert Downey, Jr. wins for Oppenheimer, and reads his bad reviews including: "Like a bed-locked fart." #CriticsChoiceAwards

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i kind of think the reason people keep writing about the source of trump’s appeal, as if it isn’t white obvious at this point, is that you go to these rallies and you talk to these people and it is all quite boring actually. but you can’t just say that.

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Ed Yong's avatar Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social
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Two photos of the same Anna’s hummingbird, taken a fraction of a second apart. Iridescence is wild. 🪶

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Splitcoil's avatar Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social
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Never gonna stop loving how this sign can be read as either a heron and a leaping frog… or a robed cultist flinging a man into a chasm.

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Jessica Olin Still Masks's avatar Jessica Olin Still Masks @olinj.bsky.social
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Alternatively: when the 'nip hits

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Brant in Real Life 's avatar Brant in Real Life @brantcroucher.bsky.social
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Inspector: So… Contractor: Yeah. Inspector: I mean… *gestures* Contractor: Yeah… Inspector: Contractor: I mean, yeah, I can definitely see where you’re coming from on this.

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Andrea Rinard's avatar Andrea Rinard @arinard.bsky.social
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It’s such a fantastic privilege to be back for this year’s Key West Literary Seminar—Florida: the State We’re In—with
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social whose keynote address was phenomenal!

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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If you didn't leave the bar when the Nazis started showing up, you might want to when they start the speed dating.

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Paul McAuley's avatar Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
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Just watched Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories — great ensemble acting, dry-as-the-driest-martini wit. Also a fine New York movie.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦's avatar Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social
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Heavy weather moving through the south, and it's only January. Our home insurance has quadrupled, with another hike soon, and it's not repaired since the last hurricane. Extreme climate change is making property uninsurable, and home ownership unsustainable.

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Mir's avatar Mir @miriam.lol
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This photo is such a slay. 1976, Supreme Court's building staff sat for a portrait while the photographer prepped for the official shot of the justices.

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Ian McQue's avatar Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social
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Patrol Boat|Mileships|wip

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