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Eirik Gumeny

@egumeny.bsky.social

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Cardigan-wearing depression enthusiast. Writer. Editor, @AtomicCarnival.bsky.social. Cystic fibrosis-haver, lung transplant-getter. He/him.

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Thanks, Nate!

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Thanks, Thomas!

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Bronchoscopy and med change coming tomorrow.

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So, uh, the pneumonia's not going so well.

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

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Daniel Dockery's avatar Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social
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I wrote about the 70th anniversary of Them!, a pretty effective creature feature that grappled with America's nuclear legacy in a way that was both contemplative and clumsy:

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Woke up spiraling, convinced my pneumonia was getting worse again and I was going to have to be admitted and maybe even need another transplant and everything was terrible -- and then I took my anxiety meds and everything's fine. Don't forget to factor in your mental health, folks.

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Thomas Ha's avatar Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social
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Hi, I had two fantasy-ish stories from last year if you're reading for those. And, hey, if you're not, here are a couple misc. things I did last year you may have missed. Thanks if you take a peek, no worries if you don't. As always feel free to hit me up if you enjoy. 1/3

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Kashana's avatar Kashana @kashana.bsky.social
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Look, I was skeptical back when it just plagiarized words, sucked up water and energy and eliminated people’s jobs, but they really sold me on it by making it more expensive.

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Elizabeth Neswald's avatar Elizabeth Neswald @octobeth.bsky.social
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Bumped into this today, and it gave me joy.

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Atomic Carnival Books's avatar Atomic Carnival Books @atomiccarnival.bsky.social
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Finally feeling slightly better than hot-boiled shit, so a very belated update: Happy Pride, congrats to all the Stoker and Nebula winners, billionaires shouldn't exist, fuck the police, and have a great weekend!

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Cynthia Gómez's avatar Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
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Reminder that I am running a promotion to get The Nightmare Box into libraries! 📚 See below ...

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Bump stocks have no purpose outside of mass shootings, but the Republicans on the Supreme Court believe there's a fundamental right to commit mass shootings, and now we all have to live with that while they party on billionaire's yachts and ranches.

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Angela Liu's avatar Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social
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I think about this letter from Kurt Vonnegut to a group of NYC high school students often. “Practice any art…no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”

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James's avatar James @tarnation.bsky.social
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Kinda crazy that artificial intelligence needs the entire output of a nuclear reactor but actual intelligence can run on Twix bars and cocaine, for example.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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hague trials needed for the people behind this. Pure evil. Also publish names. We want their names.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious's avatar Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social
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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Reactor (formerly Tor.com)'s avatar Reactor (formerly Tor.com) @reactorsff.bsky.social
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From the mead halls, snake pits, and dragon dens of the north, we present some of the most epic fighters ever immortalized in song, saga, and myth!

reactormag.com/five-legenda...

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Raea 🦋💕🏳️‍⚧️🏴's avatar Raea 🦋💕🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raeaa.bsky.social
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the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

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Julia S.'s avatar Julia S. @booktweeting.bsky.social
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even with COVID absent from the equation, which it isn’t, this would keep transplant recipients and people immunosuppressed from chemotherapy and other causes—and their caregivers—from being able to use the transit system safely it is thunderously illogical and cruel

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OK, so it's pneumonia. On meds. Migraines and dehydration have been conquered, but I still taking a bed day.

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Currently in the ER, probably being admitted. All respiratory tests came back negative, and I am ironically feeling a bit better, but fever, especially, even a low one, isn't something you get to ignore as an immunocompromised person.

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Thanks! I'll take anything at this point, just to start a treatment

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Kinda fucked up to hope that it's "only" RSV or something.

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Everything hurts and I've got no appetite.

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Update: currently having some of the worst migraines of my life, plus a fever. Clinic is running some tests, but I'm concerned it might be spine/CSF leak related.

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 's avatar Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social
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TIL there are 813 billionaires in the US and that’s 813 too many

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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As I said in my acceptance speech: please encourage your networks and your readers to donate to the Gaza Municipality's fundraiser here: gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

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Francesco Francavilla's avatar Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social
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Maestro Joe Dante's GREMLINS was also released OTD in 1984, so happy 40th anniversary to these lil guys as well :)

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NPR's avatar NPR @npr.org
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A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.

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Well, not the flu! And I want coffee again. So I guess it's just some other kind of random bug? Or just an quick immunocompromised freak-out.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I really cannot overemphasize how serious those of us who say this might be the last meaningful election are this will not be anything like his first term and they are deadly serious about eliminating any possible opposition to their theocracy inside or outside the government

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Very real chance I have the flu. Getting tested this afternoon. Obviously feeling like shit, but the worst part is that I don't seem to want coffee.

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Greg Sargent's avatar Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social
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Media frame is: Will Trump seek “retaliation," or won’t he? But that lets him set the terms of the debate. He is expressly vowing prosecutions *solely because* he's been held accountable to the law, meaning he'll prosecute with no evidence of wrongdoing. 3/

newrepublic.com/article/1824...

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Jennifer Jeanne McArdle's avatar Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social
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I have a surreal piece in Cosmorama out today! A woman is on trial for writing a blog post about her dream in a dystopian society obsessed with the past: cosmorama.site/fiction/drea...

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