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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 3h

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 1d

Machine by Elizabeth Bear is an interesting riff on Sector General.

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Dead Souls by Gogol is still really funny.

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 4d

Such a great amazing book!

dennycore.bsky.social @dennycore.bsky.social · 4d

#weirdfiction

Just finished my reread of @michaelcisco.bsky.social's 10/10 The Narrator and something like this review has been rattling around my head manically for weeks now. Second read cemented it as a true all-timer.

dennisconraddotcom.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

The Narrator by Michael Cisco – Review

War is a rhythm. It is a constant sense of motion without movement, a rhythm that grinds and never ends. It is the rhythm of marching boots and rattling drums, the rhythm of an army’s advances and …

dennisconraddotcom.wordpress.com

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 15d

<Bricktop voice> Do you know what nemesis is?</Bricktop voice>

Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 15d

*Looney Toons gangster sounds*

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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 16d

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 16d

Combat nuns from the Temple of Innana.
Don't skim the vig when it's the Wild Cow's silver.

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 18d

hey, look! it's me!

Lou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 18d

Got my performance review.

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 18d

Southern California hum

Heavily processed black and white photo of a power pylon. Grainy texture. High contrast.

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 18d

Sinclair is absolutely essential.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 18d

On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen

A London Dreaming: #IainSinclair’s Lud Heat At 50

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Iain Sinclair, photo by Travis Elborough

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 19d

This is some good news.

Lewis Standing @lewis-standing.bsky.social · 21d

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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.

The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.

Excellent

China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands

In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.

www.reuters.com

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · 20d

Ain't it the truth.

Panel from DOROHEDORO by Q Hayashida. Kaiman, a lizard man wearing a gas mask, walks into greasy spoon The Hungry Bug muttering "A bunch of gyozas and roast pork will surely help me."

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 20d

I was wondering why I was feeling such bliss writing smutty Warhammer 40K fanfic.
Thank you, Roland!

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · 22d

Definitely sounds like a good book for the urbanism/psychogeography shelf. Shelve it next to Savage Messiah.

Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social · 23d

I have reviewed @sepoy.bsky.social latest book, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore (2024) for Bloomsbury Pakistan.

Book Review – Disrupted City | Bloomsbury Pakistan

bloomsburypakistan.org

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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social · 25d

« The Witchqueen of Mongo », 1971

By Michael Wm. Kaluta (American illustrator, born 1947)
Plate 4 of "Flash Gordon" portfolio series, Doug Murray publ., 1971

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #MikeKaluta #FlashGordon #ScienceFantasy #WitchqueenOfMongo

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29d

In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.

reactormag.com/exploring-ge...

Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh - Reactor

The Chanur series poses key questions about gender roles, expression, and identity.

reactormag.com

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · Sep 14

Soap & Slop Launderette #Harrowden #Art #Gloamrats #CatsOfHarrowden

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · Sep 10

Not even one face tattoo...yet
There's still time.

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · Sep 7

Art I like.

Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · Sep 7

Pubs Of England - The Fool’s Lantern

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · Sep 6

www.howardhallis.com/lenticulars/...

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · Sep 6

it very much does

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · Sep 5

yo this book fuckin rocks

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · Sep 3

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 1

Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.

The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles

The actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history.

www.newyorker.com

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Jason Brezinski @jasonbrez.bsky.social · Sep 1

Some things you can't unsee.
Some things you can't unlearn.

John R. @tribe.bsky.social · Sep 1

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