Marc Blake (he/him) ((aka “M. David Blake”; see also: obscure))

Marc Blake (he/him) ((aka “M. David Blake”; see also: obscure))

@absinthefish.bsky.social

Science fiction writer, et cetera.

91 Followers 103 Following 547 Posts Joined Oct 2023
22 hours ago

We draw ever closer to a day that will be immortalized in the pages of countless time-travel stories… assuming the world survives long enough for anyone to write them.

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6 days ago

Does it change anyone’s understanding of the novel as a whole?

S. A. Chakraborty included some excised material from the Daevabad Trilogy in her collection, The River of Silver… and for whatever it’s worth, I suspect you’ll also have another collection out at some point.

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1 week ago

FWIW: Don’t go with the obvious one, because it will stretch you least as a writer and invite the easiest criticism. (Which is a thing you’ve potentially already realized, if there were originally more than three compelling ideas, but you winnowed them down.)

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1 week ago

I now condemn, without hesitation, all current military actions of these United States. I abhor what this once-great democracy has become. And I damn, to the deepest of hells, every last one of those who yet serve in thrall to Epsteinian blackmail and corruption. #noquestionaboutwhichsideimustchoose

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1 week ago

What can you do with a drunken sailor?

(Please only respond if your suggested treatment of drunken sailors respects scansion.)

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1 week ago

And here I thought it was just me, imagining those!

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1 week ago

If a treasonous pedophile becomes a war criminal, he doesn’t stop being a treasonous pedophile.

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1 week ago
Fetterman: “Operation Epic Fury.
President Trump has been willing to do what's right and necessary to produce real peace in the region.
God bless the United States, our great military, and Israel.”

Me: “You spelled ‘Epstein, fuck yeah!’ wrong. Dipshit.”
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1 week ago

Generative AI is unethical, regardless of court settlements or judicial valuation. I’ll celebrate when AI is itself ruled invalid from legal protections, and not a moment before.

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1 week ago

… yet officially exempting us from compensation despite a court-awarded settlement of sorts, since we were specifically excluded from such remuneration due to the lack of a publisher-registered copyright for the works in question.

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1 week ago

Kudos to Anthropic for not wanting to kill American citizens. Also, fuck Anthropic for openingly stealing from me (and, FWIW, also from my stepfather, despite our lack of cordial interactions)…

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1 week ago

I do not wish anyone ill, but I’ll slow clap when that treasonous pedophile is permanently under the ground.

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1 week ago

So… there was a comprehensive, effective nuclear treaty with Iran in place until the Necrotic Toddler backed out of it. And he backed out of it not because he was able to get anything better, but *checks notes* because Obama’s administration negotiated the original treaty.

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2 weeks ago

The TARDIS interior, but the newly-regenerated Doctor is a packrat/hoarder, and with every episode this becomes more obvious as stuff piles up around the gangplanks, controls, entrance, et cetera…

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2 weeks ago

Foreign nations: “HI WE HAVE VIDEOS OF YOUR SUPREME LEADER <redacted> CHILDREN. DO AS WE SAY, OR WE BRING DOWN ADMINISTRATION.”

Real Americans: *make brief eye contact*

Also real Americans: …

Also also real Americans: “Hello? Tick-Tock?”

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2 weeks ago

With multiple countries (at least two of which have mutually contradictory motivation) now threatening to release explicitly incriminating video if Citrine Caligula displeases them, I’m gonna need to buy more popcorn.

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3 weeks ago

There are probably areas in which this is true… but as a library employee who goes as far out of my way as legally possible to get ANYONE a library card, technically (at least around here) you DO need *some* form of photo ID in order to receive a card. Unfortunately… because I wish it was more open.

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3 weeks ago
YouTube
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

So much to love in this brief interview!

(I’m honestly puzzled that the chair of the FCC, who pressured CBS to keep this Colbert segment off the air, seems to have never heard of the Streisand Effect.)

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3 weeks ago

May God have mercy upon the soul of the one who so egregiously failed to live up to such an established legacy, for I am not godly enough to extend any such mercies of my own accord.

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3 weeks ago

… only a minuscule quantity of them ever had to file for bankruptcy as an act of desperation to avoid financial culpability; and of them all, only one (one!) can be found in the Epstein Files/Atrocities.

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3 weeks ago

Happy “Presidents’ Day.” In this historic moment, it’s good to remember that the majority of them weren’t convinced felons, rapists, or pedophiles; that the vast majority of them could have objectively been considered intelligent…

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3 weeks ago

Co-signed. I am highly critical of ICE enforcement, and when history sits in judgment, there should be no doubt about which side I was on.

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3 weeks ago

The story worth noting isn’t that a sitting member of the United States House of Representatives felt a sudden need to publicly declare his absolute lack of suicidal intent. The real story is that Americans, upon considering who might have threatened him, collectively nodded and said, “That tracks.”

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3 weeks ago

Huh. Today was Friday the 13th… and I literally did not think about the fact that it was Friday the 13th until I saw a Friday the 13th meme, because the world is really scary and RELEASE THE UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES NOW, YOU F*CKING COWARDS!

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3 weeks ago

So… the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize nominees now include *checks notes* the city of Minneapolis, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Who’s gonna nominate Bad Bunny?

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1 month ago

Psst! Bondage Barbie is in dire need of aloe vera. Pass it on.

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1 month ago

It is deeply disturbing that, in all photographs showing the two of them together, Jeffrey Epstein still appears to be a more subjectively likable individual than Donald Trump.

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1 month ago

Tonight’s movie is ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, with Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston.

Pretty sure Adam is what I’d become, if I were a vampire.

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1 month ago

If the ripples so disturb the water that an entire political system sinks, then consign that structure to drown and damn its practitioners to Hell.

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1 month ago

It is not enough to merely shame those complicit in the Epstein Atrocities. We must imprison, bankrupt, and forever bar them from influence, for their wealth and position are being used not only to avoid incarceration, but to shield others of their ilk.

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