Matt Brooks

I'll live vicariously thru those going to a NIN concert

Being around that many people would have me on edge nowadays

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

Heard he got a new agent a while back, so hopefully we'll see more from him.

Independent Publishers "though she be little she is fierce"

Working on a small press directory, mainly UK and Ireland but going to remove the geographical listing and do various finer listings and an overall alphabetical listing.

Over 1000 publishers on there at the moment

#SmallPress #Publisher #Publishing #IndiePublishing

www.indiepublishers.co.uk

Coming in August 2025...

I am not familiar with either of these. Which one is Ian and which one is Jethro? Thanks

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JITTERS MOVIE: Detective Collymore, a single divorced father, stumbles upon a mysterious case involving the death of Tiffany, Digging deeper, he discovers Jitters, psychological twists. Be part of the making!

Trailer here!
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
12/20

Depending on the size, you can thaw it out in the microwave pretty quickly. Can even cook it in there, but then you’ll need to roll it around to brown it in a skillet before you serve it to make it feel done.

four word horror story:

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Dude on one side of me at airport talking at length on the phone about a Hedge Fund Festival and a woman on my other side is chatting to a friend about her toe infection.

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More organizing of my "secondary" collection. Thor fighting a bad boy. One of my FAVORITE Kirby covers. A rogue's line-up that I have in my head is composed of comic book artists (I think that guy on the right is Kirby) and then Kathy wanting to buy a swimsuit that Eric Stanton would approve of.

Screenshot of a beautiful alien planet from No Man’s Sky. A pair of space explorers are fishing in a placid lake

In the No Man’s Sky fishing update there should be like a 0.2% chance of catching a sentient species

You scan an alien carp you pulled out of the water and discover he’s a medical school professor that published several widely used textbooks

No, I Still Don’t Have Anything To Do With The Publisher Lawsuit Against The Internet Archive Given recent news, and given that any time such news tends to surface, it feels like it’s time for my semi-annual reminder that I have nothing to do with the lawsuit against the Internet Arch…

Given posts coming my way, some suggesting I unalive myself in some fashion, I remind folks that I supported the Internet Archive in their lawsuit, donating time and money, and I did not support the publishers. The IA has confirmed this. I'm sorry they lost.

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it's honestly breathtaking watching how rapidly twitter is degenerating and becoming a truth social adjacent platform for fascism and disinformation, if you're not required to be there for some formal reason i cannot even fathom why you'd continue to give it any engagement metrics at all

J Jonah Jameson (2024)

Hackers may have stolen the Social Security numbers of every American. How to protect yourself In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.

1989: Hey everyone, we now have credit scores! They aren't opt-in, you can't opt-out, they are controlled by private companies with no oversight, and they completely arbitrarily control your life! Isn't that fun??

2024: Every hacker on the planet has your SSN lol oopsie doopsie uhh fuckin' poopsie!

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Portland Public Schools announces free breakfast, lunch for all students Portland Public Schools will offer free breakfast and lunch to all students through the 2024-2025 school year, funded by the Oregon Student Success Act, and will no longer accept cash or check paym…

Portland Public Schools following the lead of Tim Walz's Minnesota and making breakfast and lunch free for all students in the upcoming school year. www.koin.com/news/educati...

A picture of a coffee table book titled "Shitheads: Stupid Evil in the USA," with black and white photos of Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the cover.

The interview you loved, now in special limited edition keepsake book form. The perfect gift for that idiot Nazi in your life.

Dick Warlock is the best

PSA

Has anyone written it? Seems the makings of a great writing contest. I will pitch in for the grand prize couch.

Why We Never Charge Reading Fees < The Fabulist Words & Art We launched a Patreon page to help us pay our contributors and cover our operating expenses. Thanks for signing up! While you ponder this, let’s talk about another potential revenue stream, which seem...

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Last weekend I sat on a panel where four other writers encouraged folks to submit to venues that charge reading fees and to pay for entry fees to contests because if you win, it’s worth it. I said “Never pay. Fuck fees.” Nice and friendly? No, but fuck fees. Never pay to play.

Ex-Trump Associate Felix Sater Loses Money-Laundering Trial (Bloomberg) -- Felix Sater, the Moscow-born deal maker who was once part of Donald Trump’s inner circle, lost a civil trial in which he was accused of helping a wealthy Kazakh man launder millions of ...

Ex-Trump Associate Felix Sater Loses Money-Laundering Trial

Sater was accused of helping Ilyas Khrapunov launder a portion of $6 bil, allegedly looted from BTA bank by his father-in-law Mukhtar Ablyazov, through US real estate including Trump Soho condos.

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