Kaushik Karforma

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Hi @turkishmeatchugger.bsky.social, something for you to look at perhaps.

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Pa. House approves bill opening unemployment benefits to striking workers - Pittsburgh Union Progress The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would make unemployment compensation benefits available to workers who go on strike in the commonwealth. The sponsors of the leg...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make unemployment benefits available to workers who are on strike.

www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/09/p...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

MACAVITY AWARD WINNERS 2025 The Macavity Award Winners 2025 (for works published in 2024) The Macavity Award is named after Macavity: The Mystery Cat , in...

Macavity Award Winners #mystery #crimefiction mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/10/maca... @swierczy.bsky.social and more!

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson, Harper's, August 1941. Give it a read, play the game, see if you recognize anyone you know today. Sadly, it's going to matter. Brilliant, uncanny, timeless. Oh, and btw, RESIST like your life depends on it, bc it might. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Would love to read about other characters.

wizard frog is insane

Look I don't care what the real reason for these guys backing up was. Right now what millions are seeing is a bunch of armed soldiers retreating from a guy doing pelvic thrusts at them in a frog costume.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Happy birthday to Laura Gemser.

#LauraGemser

SPACE CRUSADERS #1 featuring Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter of Mars. Interior art & cover by Peter Grau.

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Speaking of writing advice, I feel like everything I've been thinking and talking about over the past few days can be boiled down to this.

Go ahead and write the weird shit. Because (waves hands around at everything) at this point, why the fuck not?

SAVAGE SAGAS #1, featuring Gardner Fox's Crom the Barbarian & Cave Girl. Interior art by Rick Burchett, variant cover by Sergio Cariello.

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Thank you so much.

Happy Birthday to the most beautiful woman in cinematic history, Laura Gemser!

To honor Laura, I edited this tribute video, set to her song "Crazy Eyes (And We'll Love Again)".

#LauraGemser

Hear The Epic of Gilgamesh Read in the Original Akkadian and Enjoy the Sounds of Mesopotamia This clip gives you a taste of what Gilgamesh, one of the earliest known works of literature, sounds like in its mother tongue, Akkadian.

While doing research on ancient languages for a novel I'm working on I discovered Dr. Martin Worthington at Cambridge University. After years of study, he's come up with an approximation of Akkadian. You can listen to The Epic of Gilgamesh here:
www.openculture.com/2010/10/the_...

A photo of a cat in a little superhero costume with the caption, "If you're feeling depressed or overwhelmed today, I just want you to know that David Dastmalchian adopted a stray cat that approached him during the Suicide Squad shoot in Panama. Then the costume designer made her a little Polka dot Man suit."

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I'd take a PoI book over a so-called good book any day.

a cartoon of a green monster holding an easel ALT: a cartoon of a green monster holding an easel

Remember to fight back against AI art:

-Write stories, even if no-one else reads them

-Make up songs and sing them to your pets.

-Paint, draw, doodle.

-Teach your dad a Tik-Tok dance.

Who cares if it's good or bad, just fucking do it.

The most common error I see as a book editor is incorrectly punctuated dialogue.

NO: “Nice to meet you.” She said.
YES: “Nice to meet you,” she said.

NO: “Likewise.” The editor said.
YES: “Likewise,” the editor said.

NO: She smiled, “Hi."
YES: She smiled. “Hi.”

Repost to save a life 😂
#writesky

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

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I think their algorithm dictated this. 😀

@atomicpulp.bsky.social Hi, you probably don't remember me, but many years ago you emailed me a PDF of one of your BLONDE JUSTICE comics. It was an action of kindness I've never forgotten. Just wanted to thank you.

Submissions Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

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You're welcome. GRAVEDIGGER and BLONDE JUSTICE are two of my favorite comics.

I had to read it twice to process it. What the actual fuck?

Suggest that you watch Peacemaker S01E07. It will be partially cathartic.

Today I sat next to racists planning openly planning to murder people in a cafe How have we come to a place where racists can openly talk about murdering people in public with no consequence?

I had the worst lunch. Honestly.

Maybe @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social could cover the rise in the far right, in racist attacks and, you know, the effect on millions of British people instead of platforming them every night

I'd settle for @theguardian.com doing even basic coverage of racism in the UK

I think I'm going to post my way through the viewing of this. Follow along if you like!

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