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Virtua Pop is selling well enough that we've been able to buy the domain. On the subject, go buy a copy of Virtua Pop. Link's in our profile

Hello from Vichy Internet We have a story out and we’ve timed it around some uptick in the internet-dystopia clock. You can read it now, rather than just living through it.

The internet is haunted and all the ghosts are boring, but we have a short story, live. Check all the details here:
fixeroptional.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/h...

Our first release will be Virtua Pop by @abivasquez.bsky.social, releasing on the 29th of July. It's a story about cyborgs, corporate media exploitation and drone murder. Of course you want to read this.

welcome to the future: where everything is the worst it's ever been, and everything is the best it's ever going to be

the trouble with a 'DIY ethic' is that I don't wanna do it. you fucking do it

the problem with 'the grind' is that work should be rewarding: it should feel good to do and confer material benefits. Too often it just fucking sucks

black text on white, all in italics, which reads: "I found the tabs, flicked the case open, gazed at the set resting on the foam. Two pieces - headset and shearer, linked by a short length of fibre optic. I picked it up, felt the weight. Lighter than I’d thought. I knew it would have been used. I’d need to adjust it all, get the pressure just right. The Somniscience logo, in relief, ran across the occipital section. - I Need Better Dreams (Jed & Abi, unreleased)"

yeah, you're gonna want to sign up for our mailing list

what is fixer optional, allcaps, 3 question marks What is Fixer Optional? Who is on the team? Why do this at all? Read on, or don’t

what is Fixer Optional? seriously, what is it? read this:

fixeroptional.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/w...

pulling together an online project is a level of hell. Teenage Mr Brett never had to choose between Mailchimp and Mailerlite

If I were in the business of running a scam account or phishing campaign, I would simply spell correctly, and thereby be utterly undetectable.

The Terminator was about anxiety around automation in manufacturing and industry. Terminator 2 dealt with digitisation of crime and authority. To be successful, a third Terminator film would need to mash up with Nightmare on Elm Street, and automate our dreams

no-one does anything alone. I'm not typing it alone, you're not reading it alone. We live in a system made up of other people.. a society, if you will

starting a new project, there's a wave of excitement that must be grasped and ridden, in order to achieve anything at all.

the future? wha gies a fuck about the future? mon eh present

honestly, fuck 'em

it was gonna be Fixer Press but gmail told me my surname was Optional

we're like Epitaph except it's an even dead-er medium and there's one less Ronnie Radke