Wilhelm 'Ducky' Drake

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Happy pub day to our brilliant Ubergroup author @angieellis.bsky.social !

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"Yes, you're one of the white men allowed to fetishize me," - things that probably weren't on McCloskey's bingo card

The Brits are funny.

Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award

Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!

This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨

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Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Monologue Nears 10 Million On YouTube—His Most-Watched Video In 6 Years Colbert’s social media posts have long dragged behind those of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, his late-night competitors.

Colbert’s social media posts have long dragged behind those of Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, his late-night competitors.

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

‘We are not safe in America today:’ These American citizens say they were detained by ICE | CNN Elzon Lemus is always on the road for work, traveling to one job site from another. But since his brief encounter with federal immigration officers, he’s been on high alert.

ICE has detained multiple U.S. citizens under new rules.

Brian Gavidia was questioned by ICE. They returned his phone, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗗.

“I stated I was American. He still attacked me. We are not safe, guys, not safe in America today.”

Citizens are not safe.
www.cnn.com/2025/06/27/u...

‘It was a nightmare’: Venezuelans deported from US describe conditions in Salvadoran prison | CNN For months, they say, they were beaten by prison guards, shot with pellets, deprived of adequate medical care and denied any due process inside El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement.

“It was a nightmare.”

“(The guards) tortured us physically and psychologically.”

“We were like chickens or rats locked up … and they shot us with rubber bullets.”

Words from Venezuelan migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Unimaginable cruelty. www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/a...

Failed Writer's Journey: Classics are Popular The Mona Lisa is a shit painting.

No matter how much of a literary snob you think you are, your favorite classic was popular with someone or it wouldn't be a classic.
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Hawaiian Tales | Short Story Collections Two story collections offer powerful slice-of-life tales set in Hawai‘i.

I got a lovely review for Bitter over Sweet (@sfwp.bsky.social) from @libraryjournal.bsky.social! Thank you so much!

www.libraryjournal.com/story/Hawaii...

Super proud to say that Ubergroup writer @lumchanmfa.bsky.social SOLD OUT all copies of her book this weekend! Rock on, Melissa!

Ubergroup writer @kcraybould.bsky.social shares mostly nonfiction musings (for now, he's got big things in the works we're excited to share with you soon) But they're very interesting. Check it out!

Is everyone following this awesome podcast by Ubergroup writer @laurenferebee.bsky.social ? You should be!

Has everyone read these awesome stories by Ubergroup writer @aniking.bsky.social ? They're brilliant.

No Context Needed Elon Musk is Nazi

Elon Musk is a balding Nazi.

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Hi Folks,
I’m thrilled to be able to officially launch Dark Swarm Publishing today.
This is a project I’ve been working on behind the scenes since September last year, with the goal of providing a press which has bases in America, England and Austria.

A Thread:

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(explaining having bluesky followers to Offline folks) imagine a lot of people on their phones, getting mad, at the same time

The US Navy has a DEI Problem The Firing of the US Navy's first Female CNO

I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.

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Trump 'sucking Elon Musk's toes' AI clip playing on screens at Washington's Department of Housing in apparent hacking.
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Screens at the HUD were hacked, with the bizarre message "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING" & an AI-generated video of Trump toe-sucking Elon Musk in the background.

CNN: The Office of Personnel Management formally notified agencies this afternoon that the “What did you do last week” email sent over the weekend is voluntary and failure to respond will not equate to a resignation, according to an email obtained by CNN.
www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The coup d'etat on democracy is real. It's happening now.

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Under MAGA, Good is a DEI Hire The Firing of the US Navy's first Female CNO

I have one thing to say, Pete Hegseth and anyone else who says Admiral Lisa Franchetti was a DEI hire. Who says she didn’t deserve the position, that she was a terrible leader: You’re a shitstain on the American Flag. Fuck. You.

open.substack.com/pub/duckymon...