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Rachel A. Rosen

@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social

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Purveyor of bleak climate fantasy and, apparently, cookbooks. Newsletter at https://nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter/. https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet. Order my newest book, Blight, here: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · Jun 15

Blight is OUT! You should be able to buy it and order it for your local bookstores and libraries in both paperback and ebook.
Amazon: mybook.to/blight
Other online retailers: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Direct from the publisher: bppress.ca/shop/ 🧵

Two versions of Blight by Rachel A. Rosen, one on ebook, one on paperback. Both feature bone tentacles and a tiny sub that's a light in the darkness.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 1d

WITCHES!

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween! We're talking about witches! WITCHES!

Season 2, Episode 6: WITCHES! - Wizards and Spaceships

Happy Halloween! We’re talking about WITCHES! A staple of fantasy, horror, and Broadway musicals, witches can be anything from a murderous presence in the woods to the friendly neighbourhood Wiccan wh...

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 2d

Was too busy being OUT (i.e. not at my computer) on National Coming Out day and neglected to post my gay pride anthem:
stopwalk.bandcamp.com/track/homose...

(available everywhere streaming, including fb/insta/tok, but bandcamp is the best)

Homosexual Art Attack, by Stopwalk

track by Stopwalk

stopwalk.bandcamp.com

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Hard same.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

This has been my problem with the entire series—it comes true before I can get the next book out and look prescient af.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

This is really well done.

I also wonder how long it will be before Bari is an ex-gay like Milo.

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Leese on Life @katherineleese.is.tired.fyi · 3d

A Doctor Who pure-historical where the TARDIS breaks down in 1750 BC Mesopotamia; luckily, it’s actually a really simple part to fix as long as they can find someone to sell them some good quality Sumerian copper.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 3d

Did he summarize the comics and then produce a response using ChatGPT?

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 4d

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 8d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 4d

I WROTE TWO ENTIRE BOOKS ON HOW THIS KIND OF THING IS A BAD IDEA ffs

I don't just sell books to feed my cats, you know. They are cautionary tales.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 5d

❣️🦇 DARKNESSES Revamp?!? ❣️🦇
This is something I've been wanting to do forever!
DARKNESSES by Lachelle Sevill got a long-deserved remaster, and the newest version is only $1 for the rest of the month!

Itch: traumbooks.itch.io/darknesses
Payhip: payhip.com/b/Ahyze

A young Black woman runs from a city in a torn sheet-like dress, covering her scarred-up body. Bats fly after her and angel wings sprout from her back. As she runs, she reaches towards the sky. Cover for Lachelle Seville's DARKNESSES, a modern retelling of DRACULA, following a cult-survivor, Oasis, who falls in love with a mysterious young woman who is Dracula's latest incarnation... Book released by tRaum Books.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 7d

It would be easy to reposition this headline as 'Billionaire author vows to keep interfering with Scottish democracy', which doesn't look too pretty.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 7d

I made this thing.

a close up of a white woman in a black shirt with a red octopus necklace.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 9d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 9d

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Three spooky canning jars in a trenchcoat 𓅃 @lids.bsky.social · 10d

Great analysis.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11d

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

www.the-reframe.com

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

2) Understand that you are greasing the wheels of a rhetorical machine that has led to the ICE Gestapo/child sex trafficking ring busting down people's doors and carting off zip-tied naked children in the middle of the night.
3) Shut the actual fuck up and don't speak until you've fixed your heart.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

1) Take a moment to reflect on where you're getting your information and why you suddenly have such strong opinions about this when before you were happy to benefit from the cultural and economic contributions of immigrants and you are almost certainly the descendant of immigrants yourself.

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

If you're saying "Canada has too many immigrants" or "immigration is out of control" or "I'm in favour of legal immigration but we have to be *reasonable*," please do the following: 🧵

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

Not all heroes wear capes, although if you look closely, this one does.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 11d

wizard frog is insane

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Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

My excitement about this panel is only matched by my disappointment in myself for not supplying an icon like Antonia's, Victoria's, and Laura's.

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

Hellllloooo!

Rachel A. Rosen @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social · 10d

It's *very* big on the inside.