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Jeremy M. F. Lassen@jlassen.bsky.social |
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Husband. Father. Bookseller.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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lets be honest, the toughest SOB holding a US passport is Jimmy Carter and it isn't close to close, one of the few people in history who went into a nuclear reactor came back out and nothing at all happened and now dude has lasted over a year in hospice, literal brain cancer cannot beat this guy
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Neil Gaiman
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I read Bradbury's HOMECOMING on the new Selected Shorts podcast!
podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/c...
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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I just finished The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera & I found it to be extremely compelling. It challenged me in all the right ways. It felt like Salman Rushdie's Midnights Children meets Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light except... weirder. www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/c...
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Edith Charles 🏳️⚧️
@edithcharles.bsky.social
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GPT-5 will suffer four consecutive years of severe emotional breakdown trying to say something new about Foucault
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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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WaPo being understandably careful in its language but it’s flatly illegal under current law. (There is zero enforcement of campaign finance law so 🤷🏼♂️)
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Premee Mohamed
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BTW folks, definitely try to win a copy or otherwise get this early -- I'm reading it now and it is a BLOCKBUSTER (and okay I haven't seen the Witcher but you'll see the Caribbean mythology! And you cannot miss the chases and the near-misses and the fights and the! Everything!)
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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Big shoutout to everyone who has worked their ass off to create books & elevate words of others. Right now I’m thinking of folks behind Sidecar preservation society. It was moment in time & if you weren’t there it won’t resonate. But it’s someone else’s moment now-Support them
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Bo Thompson
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Notepad++ has entered the chat and would like to remind folks its free, it's incredibly powerful without needing to be more complicated than notepad, it doesn't have AI, and if any of that ever changes it's open source and you can just not use that version.
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Hal Duncan
@halduncan.bsky.social
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In a moment of summer cash fluidity, I may or may not have ordered 10 tulip Monsella, 10 tulip Flaming Flag, 10 tulip Gavota, 20 muscari Comosum, 10 narcissus Toto, and 50 Crocus korolkowii. My finger slipped. I am not to be held responsible. I don't have a problem. I can stop anytime.
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Andrew Liptak
@andrewliptak.bsky.social
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On the eve of the publication of his latest book (Horror Movie), @paultremblay.bsky.social discovered that someone was selling a fake version of it on Amazon.
It’s a window into a greater issue with scams on the platform: transfer-orbit.ghost.io/paul-trembla...
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The Midnight Society
@midnightpals.bsky.social
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da Silva: like, what if they put a worm in your head that ate all your gay thoughts? Barker: that would have to be one HUNGRY worm Barker: ha ha Barker: like, SO hungry
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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"In a Violent Nature was so fucking good it hurt... If you get a chance to catch it in the theater, do so — the sound design and other immersive qualities of the film are calling out for a theatrical experience..." medium.com/@jlassen/the...
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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I mean, unless you already have a kink for violent horror films, this may not be for you. It’s very fucking gruesome. Not “fun Pomo slasher” like scream. More “self aware” slasher like X.
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Fabian Nicieza
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"There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind." -- C.S. Lewis FREE AGENTS #1 Kurt & me typing Stephen Mooney drawing Triona Farrell coloring Comicraft's Tyler Smith lettering 40 PAGE PREMIERE ISSUE FOR $3.99 ON SALE 7/3/24 FOC 6/10/24
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ben peek
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Talking about some perfect books that I enjoy and I thought of these two for no real reason. Perfect is really a day by day thing, and tmr would get you something else.
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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I managed to catch IN A VIOLENT NATURE on the big screen. It was fascinating. So many interesting aesthetic choices (4:3 framing for the vhs/slasher vibe, for example) and absolutely stunning cinematography, sound design, and editing. The ending was a heart pounder!
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Wearing a HR Monitor while taking a poo
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Cops who drive in from Long Island and park illegally on the sidewalk
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Undertow Publications
@undertow.bsky.social
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Huge congratulations to @tobithedreamer.bsky.social for his Shirley Jackson Award nomination! And congratulations to all the nominees. Well done jurors!
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2024/06/07/t...
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
@knilirabaj.bsky.social
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This photo is called Earthrise. It’s one of the most famous pictures of Earth. It was taken by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968 as part of the Apollo 8. William Anders died today. He was 90 years old.
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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This could possibly be the coolest thing I’ve seen in the 21st century. “Twister” sized #Diplomacy game. #Kublacon
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Premee Mohamed
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Anyway, today is probably a good day to be like "Buy my new book! I guess!" Every seven years the Wife and her thrall the Rider appear in Weckford to sacrifice one person in a wild hunt. And this year it's NOT going to be Luke's brother.
pspublishing.co.uk/the-rider-th...
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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Just got the Audio Book from Libro.fm
Will be starting next week. Can't wait!
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Django Wexler
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An update for those outside the US who bought the ebook! It may have had more Jack Ryan than expected. The publisher pushed the wrong file, they're working on it and it should be fixed soon. You'll get an email prompting you to re-download!
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Martha Wells
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When I got to the set on Friday, a chair was waiting for me. Everyone was so lovely and did so many things to make me feel welcome and included. I got to take the chair back home because I won’t be able to get up there again before they finish filming.
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PeterGelderloos
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77% of climate scientists expect a catastrophic level of climate change and the mainstream is locked into responses that make the problem worse.
We need to get people talking about the catastrophe in a realistic way now, to build support for the realistic responses.
crimethinc.com/2024/05/08/a...
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Filigree Needlequeen of the Desert
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I pledged $100. It's worth it. Tanith Lee changed my writing life in 1983. I've woven some of her concepts deeply but subtly in my own work, since then.
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Jay Ulfelder
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Do normies know that there've been at least 4 attempted vehicle rammings against pro-Palestine demonstrators in the past week, one of them successful? A knife brandished at student campers at Chapman U last night? Scores of students hit by cops with pepper spray and batons in past 24 hrs?
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David Ho
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Wait until these people find out how climate change will increase immigration.
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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Beautiful. Thank you for sharing
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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Looking at original art online cuz that's what I do. Here's a Will Eisner wraparound cover to an issue of Spirit Magazine. So gorgeous!
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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The Sweet Smell of Success is a visual feast of black and white cinematography on location in 1950s NYC, with performances by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster at the top of their game & snappy dialog that never quits. Great jazz score.
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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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Happy hump day. The show must go on…
youtu.be/O6gEkfwozhE?...
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
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Pretty sure this is related to the brain worms they are finding in us politicians.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
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"The basic structure of an American psyop is cobbled together out of advertising techniques, pop psychology, and pulp fiction tropes." Super fascinating read....
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Undertow Publications
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Friends, the deadline for World Fantasy Award nomination ballots is May 31. The nomination ballot can be found here:
wfc2024.org/world-fantas...
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John Scalzi
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Over at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, I have an essay about the aesthetics of spectacle, relating to the Dune films of 1984 and the 2020s: How spectacle in each film was treated and why, and what makes the look and feel between the eras so very different.
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scal...
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The Onion
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Yell In a War
@jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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and this literally ties into costumers' fight for equal pay in this year's IATSE negotiations The Costume Designers Guild is 87% female, with more than 20% of members identifying as LGBTQ, and 45% lower on the IATSE pay scale than male-dominated creative department heads (per the Guild).
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Tobias S. Buckell
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I think this is the first time I’ve had something in an Horror Writer’s Association reading list!
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Iron Spike
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Yup. In plain language, folks: A leveraged buyout is when you borrow money to buy a company, buy the company, then put that debt on the newly-purchased company's books. If/When your newly-bought company fails, it takes your debt with it, and you get to walk away. This is what did in Toys 'R' Us.
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Nghi Vo
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BOOK DAY!
The Brides of High Hill is out today! If you're in the mood for haunted manors, unlucky weddings, and one cleric who is always trying their best, come check it it out!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Premee Mohamed
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Ha ha good thing I wasn't a teen in the n wait hang on a second
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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.
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Two good friends, Matthew Cheney and Christopher Barzak, chat about having new novellas coming out at about same time:
matthewcheney.net/matthew-chen...
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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
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I've learned so much from Annalee about how we got to this place, and what we can do to get out of it. Their new book is an essential guide to psywar in the USA, and I was so glad to talk to them about it on our podcast.
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Mary Robinette Kowal
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Thievery and ingenuity! Writing a heist requires balancing an ensemble cast, elements of thrillers, and the need to deliver satisfying twists while also keeping the story moving forward. Learn how this Sunday, May 5 at my Structuring a Heist class: maryrobinettekowal.com/events/35470/ #writingaheist
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Seth Cotlar
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Just one of many possible examples. A Jewish professor who writes and teaches about Jewish history. Brutalized by police on her campus for supposedly supporting antisemitism.
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Jeremy M. F. Lassen
@jlassen.bsky.social
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No Context Splash Page: Artist? Comic? issue?
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Taniel
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Wyoming removes anyone who didn't vote in the most recent election from voter rolls (in this case, the 2022 election).
So the state just purged 28% of its voter registrations: wyofile.com/wyoming-void...
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