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Dale Stromberg

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Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters.

Debut novel Mæj coming in 2024 (tRaum Books).

Melancholic Parables pub'd 2022.
dalestromberg.jimdofree.com/fiction/melancholic-parables/

Unobtrusive immigrant. Proud papa. 生来の追放者根性. He/him.

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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i'm going with 3. 3rd wheel, 3 legged race, three's a crowd... it's often associated with the absurd or pathetic plus the numeral 3 looks like a butt

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Sage 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar Sage 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social
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Kyle Marquis's avatar Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social
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This rot feels like a precursor to AI because it's point-of-view-less. The originals are full of things the original creators liked *from among similar things* (or were bullied into including, with D&D and Tolkien); subsequent iterations are a flat, untextured expanse of the Thing Itself.

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Jason Hickel's avatar Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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What is this art form called? Timeline flash? Accidental timeline flash nonfiction?

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Briar Ripley Page's avatar Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social
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HEY!!! I've got a new story for subscribers out on Patreon, AND ALSO this is the last time I'll be posting a self-contained story there for a while. I'm going to spend the next 6-7 months serializing a novella, starting in August.

www.patreon.com/posts/july-s...

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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what about that person INDEEEED

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Jen Donohue's avatar Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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Make a band more vegetable Yam Halen

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Rachel A. Rosen's avatar Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social
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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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jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar jamie quinn 🏳️‍⚧️ @threnody.bsky.social
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so, if you’re cis, today’s a great day to help someone get their documents changed while it’s legal or, hey, maybe just call a helpline operator because THIS SHIT IS STRESSFUL.

translifeline.org

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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“A document signed by the head of Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, in late June—and viewed by The Wall Street Journal—warned that the conditions in which Palestinians were being held could violate international humanitarian law.”

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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the heat of the barbecue zaps the 5g tracking chip so he'd be good

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Litmag submission calls will be like, "Send us stories which engrave metempsychosis into liminal fabric, stories which punch interrogatory needles into marginalised irrealities, stories which make your teeth itch and float…" …and also be like, "Stories using Oxford commas will be rejected unread."

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INTERZONE's avatar INTERZONE @interzone.press
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If you’re able, help @strangehorizons.bsky.social get to its base and rally to some of these amazing stretch goals:

✨ At $15,000, a special issue on Afro-Surrealist sf!

✨ At $16,500, a special issue on sff × Ageing

✨ At $18,000, SH will raise artist pay to $300 **more 👏 money 👏 for 👏 artists!!!**

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Lisa Grimm's avatar Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.bsky.social
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As some have asked me how we emigrated to Ireland from the US, here's a hopefully-brief thread of how it worked for us. I know most of you sensible people know you can't just hop on a plane as a non-EU citizen, but just in case...you start here:

www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving-co...

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AK Faulkner 🏳️‍⚧️🖊️📚's avatar AK Faulkner 🏳️‍⚧️🖊️📚 @poopraven.bsky.social
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Fun fact I have a discord server. If you're into queer SFF, whether or not you've already read any of mine, why not hop in and meet other very normal readers who also love queer SFF!

discoverinheritance.com/discord

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Typebar Magazine's avatar Typebar Magazine @typebarmagazine.bsky.social
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Typebar Magazine Issue 2 is now free to the public. Nine incredible essays ranging from the useless malice of 2000s nostalgia to French sociology's relationship with Neopets. All free! FREE!

www.typebarmagazine.com

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regular meghan 🫧 나영지 🍉's avatar regular meghan 🫧 나영지 🍉 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
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paraphrasing from a talk i just saw from jessica hische: people who love the idea of using AI to automate the execution step out of the artistic process don't realize how few artists actually want to spend 100% of their time doing ideation.

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dinosaurs are the third rail dude. the creationists are going to lose an entire generation doing that.

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C.B. Blanchard is writing about gay werewolves's avatar C.B. Blanchard is writing about gay werewolves @gaycannibalism.bsky.social
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been thinking a lot about the demand for 'likeability' and 'relatability' in fictional characters, and who it excludes, and who it decides are the default kind of human and how, if the argument is that reading increases empathy, surely we should be prioritising the strange and alien to us?

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Creative Wronging's avatar Creative Wronging @creativewronging.bsky.social
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You do not, under any circumstances, ever have to tailor your writing to avoid the critiques found in a Cinema Sins video, or off of TV Tropes, or any other dipshit social media professional pedants.

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Dale Stromberg's avatar Dale Stromberg @stromberg.bsky.social
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managers onsite report a 10% productivity boost due to 0% toilet usage

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Elaine Gallagher's avatar Elaine Gallagher @theelaineg.bsky.social
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Hi @charliejane.bsky.social, could I ask you please for a signal boost for a debut trans author? My first novella, out today, with a trans lead character, queer relationship, and strong Doctor Who roots. Out today from Amazon, Kobo, all good bookshops, and just in time for Worldcon

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Yes! I see it as most commonly the narrator addressing a narratee, or as you say the narrator addressing the narrator... with, coming in a distant third, in rare cases the narrator addressing the implied reader, and (almost never) addressing the implied author themself...

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K.C. Mead-Brewer's avatar K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.bsky.social
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friends! let’s help a truly awesome dude get top surgery 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

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Craig Schaefer's avatar Craig Schaefer @craigschaefer.bsky.social
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If you make any kind of art and call yourself a "content creator" I will go angry mom on your ass so fast. "Content" is corporate pabulum. You make art. Call yourself an artist, hold your head up high, and don't help bean-counters and empty suits to degrade you. They'll do that on their own.

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"sure i MIGHT steal from you, stop being paranoid"

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DIO's avatar DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social
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My latest painting, Ice Harvesters of Gliese 24j. If i could paint stuff like this for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

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Orca Patrol: like Paw Patrol but they specialise in sinking rich people's yachts in the nick of time.

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