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This is how the "You will own nothing and be happy" guys move now that they've been told that the feminists will win if they aren't happy owning nothing:

I do gotta admit I'm intrigued that we have hard numbers on how many people can be brainwashed into believing literally anything

We have had over 3,000 orders through our website. Not quite McDonald’s numbers but our books still taste better than their burgers.

It's still true! Not only do I encourage people to do this, I'm serious about the worker's owned collectives. Unionize the arts

My piece on anthropology's impact on genre fiction is avaailable to read online, only at everyoe's favorite Strange Horizons online magazine!

... and if you like the idea of *reading* book reviews at @flaminghydra.com, now is a good time to subscribe! The more subscribers we have, the more writers we can invite to join the collective.

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage.

If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to hello@flamingydra.com

Someone who likes weird stuff should do this

Creatives have been taught for centuries to produce and not to manage or finance, which are the only avenues capitalism respects. In fact, our work is so devalued that we're expected to learn how to manage and finance while producing.
The future is worker owned, but that will take a long time

Wow, this 10 second unskippable ad for Die™️ branded paperware really makes me think about the inflexible commitment I'm making to potentially dangerous projectiles like glass and ceramic...

Icymi, my article about fantasy's roots in the social sciences is out on @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Ratio that old man

I keep thinking about this one time my stepbrother and I were walking home from the grocery store and both heard my dad SCREAMING my name, like he was FURIOUS, from a few feet away. Instead he was at home and perfectly content with our successful completion of a chore. Still no explanation for it.

I remember that lol. I was like the only person who didn't actually see the explosion, but wverybody was on ig posting stories of a faint glow in the sky asking "wtf was that!?"

I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren't Allowed I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.

NEW: I went undercover, as a human poster, on the social network designed just for AI agents.

The site isn’t a novel breakthrough; it’s simply a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies for the hype machine’s true believers.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/i-infi...

Back in my day it was the old who couldn't control their phone's volume

What do you think will happen to Sadako The Girl From The Ring when all VHS tapes get demagnitized in about 100 years?

Oh shit that reminds me I need to buy more hornty stickers

Announcing the Cafe 53 Horror or Sci-Fi Author Temporary Residency. If you come to Hyde Park, Chicago, I'll take you out to lunch at my favorite Palestinian-owned lunch spot, Cafe 53, which has about 30 different sandwiches including many veggie/vegan options, and we'll talk about horror or sci-fi.

TOWER VOL. 1: END by TOWER An anthology where things come to an end.

Read Briar Ripley Page's "Appetites," a wonderfully gay and grotesque story about Renfeld and Dracula, in Tower Magazine here: readtower.itch.io/end

And if you dig it, pick up Briar's stellar collection Lupus in Fabula from the Cursed Morsels store: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

Terfs keep writing about Vernon Lee like we have to all collectively imagine them as Violet Paget, and then they post that photo of Lee looking like a miserable little boy in a wig and it's so deeply humiliating for everyone involved.

Oh, your plucky heroine disguised as a boy to hide her identity? Yeah, you left him unattended for 15 minutes and I told him about testosterone. Where is he now? Damn I dunno he took off like a pack of wolves was chasing him, you might have to find a new plot now.

My nerves are shaking from the cold because my wife have a heart valve condition, & my five kids are freezing. We are now without shelter because of the rain. A simple dream to save us is $200 for blankets & tent.
The tears of crying froze
Verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...

Partying (threat level red)

I'm in my mind palace. You can't get me while I'm in my mind palace. My mind courtiers are telling me I'm winning and you can't even tell.

And while we're on the subject, sprezzatura, resilience and purity are virtues for human doormats

My father's family didn't even want to be here, they just happened to be in NYC when the stock market collapsed

Economic collapse!

Max Booth | Patreon words to save the world

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artwork from the month of January