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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

Oh, that delicious tension found between trying to do right by the growers at the farmers market and the globalized infrastructure that is keeping billions fed.

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SGP MINIS open for one more week!!

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Adding some quick notes to one of the flash pieces, who could be disinterested in this?

Title: GRAFT
Time: 5:08
Theme/Genre: sexual, eco/body-horror, apples

Flyer for a Flash Fiction reading on Friday 10/3 @ 7pm DOUGLAS WRIGHT writes his way into surprising fictional worlds readers never knew they craved. Genre fiction is his jam: sci-fi, horror, and weird lit. ANNALIESE JAKIMIDES makes poems, art, and stories (true and un) from her memory bank of fill-in-the-blank. Cited in national competitions, she’s published 1,000+ short works. J.D. MANKOWSKI writes a coming-of-age fantasy series, the most recent title The Stone King. He sees life through a delightfully fractured lens, always dreaming how to translate it to the page. CHRISTOPHER PACKARD is a biologist, science teacher, and riveting storyteller enmeshed in the legends of cryptids. The author of Mythical Creatures of Maine, he’s the assistant director of the International Cryptozoology Museum. The Stage Door Lounge @ The Penobscot Theatre 131 Main Street, Bangor

Bangor area, Bangor, Maine that is, tonight at 7 we're reading some flash fiction and hopefully having fun; I've got a couple horror pieces for the season.

Merriam-Webster's top lookups, words most searched on their site. At the top is "fascism".

Probably not a good sign in a democracy when everyone is wondering if we've tripped the line into another mode of governance.

40k larpers.

Flyer for a Flash Fiction reading on Friday 10/3 @ 7pm DOUGLAS WRIGHT writes his way into surprising fictional worlds readers never knew they craved. Genre fiction is his jam: sci-fi, horror, and weird lit. ANNALIESE JAKIMIDES makes poems, art, and stories (true and un) from her memory bank of fill-in-the-blank. Cited in national competitions, she’s published 1,000+ short works. J.D. MANKOWSKI writes a coming-of-age fantasy series, the most recent title The Stone King. He sees life through a delightfully fractured lens, always dreaming how to translate it to the page. CHRISTOPHER PACKARD is a biologist, science teacher, and riveting storyteller enmeshed in the legends of cryptids. The author of Mythical Creatures of Maine, he’s the assistant director of the International Cryptozoology Museum. The Stage Door Lounge @ The Penobscot Theatre 131 Main Street, Bangor

I see they put the least qualified at the top...
Flash fiction reading next Friday in Bangor, Maine.
I might be saying some naughty words in public plus its free and I think there's beer.

Text of poem "chatgpt fucks my wife" by Abigail Sims

I love this so much

I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Been months of trying to avoid Amazon, paying more in person at a local hardware shop I'm cool with but, the drop shippers on ebay are a real pain in the ass. Rent seeking slugs.

Pig toilet - Wikipedia

The modern economy.

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wabi-sabi dude

Microsoft Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud Word documents will be automatically saved to OneDrive

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default*

Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org

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#European alternatives to the #US #Maga #Technocracy

Per usual, terrifying and enlightening. Love your work you weirdo.

Text editor word count that reads "666"

Some times are harder than others, stripping a story down to that 500 word mark. 🤘 #writingcommunity

I remember this being an utterly bizarre Crichton-esque apocalypse story. Might need to revisit it, Greg Bear was a favorite of mine back in highschool.

ALL IS FULL OF GORE horror fiction, horror poetry, horror films, horror movies, horror zines, queer horror, queer, lgbtq, indie horror

Brilliant as always, thank you for hosting, Eryn!
#horrorwriterschat

Still pushing my writing collective's latest Zine: allisfullofgore.myshopify.com

Hate the post office, but v. excited to be sending zines out as far as Finland and Georgia, USA!

Morning. This week, I put up some thoughts about prose, and appealing to the masses, and the merits of both doing that and of marching to the beat of your own drum.
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Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature The author of “Dreaming of Dead People” discusses sexuality, double standards in art, and the vicissitudes of literary publishing

#Booksky

Rosalind Belben Reflects on the Foreplay of Wordplay - Electric Literature

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"But imagine the returns on investment..." I shudder to imagine.

Yes.

(From a friend's 2022 memes folder)

Vibes I'm a code-monkey for my day job. I shit code and sling it at the screen till enough of it sticks that someone is willing to pay me for it. I'm not great at it, merely adequate, a 1x dev on average, maybe a 2x at my best. With that said, I'm not the kind of dev that builds or even fully understands the systems required to run LLMs; high-level, sure, could I plug one of their libraries into my app, sure, could I build one from scratch, hard no.

Vibes

I'm a code-monkey for my day job. I shit code and sling it at the screen till enough of it sticks that someone is willing to pay me for it. I'm not great at it, merely adequate, a 1x dev on average, maybe a 2x at my best. With that said, I'm not the kind of dev that builds or even fully…

The Last Airing Of WSBN (Part 12) | Shadow Box Archives Get more from Shadow Box Archives on Patreon

five dollar member or higher, but it will become public in about a week. If you want a story that is pure horror, check out my WSBN series linked below. If you want to support me, check out our Patreon and my Reddit. Info about both is on my profile. Happy reading.

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YouTube video by Isaac Arthur Galaxy Scale Megastructures & Kardashev 3 Civilizations

Galaxy Scale Megastructures & Kardashev 3 Civilizations
youtu.be/MJQxbnf7vgk
Imagine engineering projects so vast they mold galaxies into new shapes. We’ll explore the staggering feats of Kardashev-3 and beyond civilizations, crafting CARD galaxies, Birch Planets, and even rearranging superclusters.

image of a toilet with missing paper as the first/random image in a web search

The people have spoken, your toilet is broken!

YouTube video by David Hartman Kent Monkman Profile

Talent and provocation, a powerful mixture.

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#fiction #shortstories #artists #writingcommunity #horrorcommunity