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K.C. Mead-Brewer

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writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 6d

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever!

if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 7h

I don't normally critique other folks' ALT, but it is CRIMINAL not to mention her boobs

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 8h

as a less essential Link, i second this

Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 8h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 8h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 12h

THANK YOU

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Bun of Babylon 🐇 @bunofbabylon.bsky.social · 13h

And why don't we have hotdog buns shaped like beds?

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 14h

how come we don't have bed options shaped like hot dog buns?

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨

I'm a freelance illustrator from Brazil working on hand-drawn fantasy maps for novels and RPGs.

I have a Patreon with maps + stock art for indie RPGs.

💼 cara.app/salvaterra
🗺️ www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat...
+🔗 fernandosalvaterra.carrd.co

#cartography #ttrpg #art #fantasyart

a fantasy map depicting a hell. from the top to the bottom: there's a submarine city of strange towers and glass domes connected to a giant computer in the midst of reefs. a river and a lake goes south from this city in the midst of some ruins, ending on a big dam from where a timid river flows through a desert canyon. beyond the desert, there's another stretch of sea separating it from another city at the end of the map. there are planets hovering above this landscape: the remains of mars and a primeval earth covered in lava, fumes, guns and forts.

a map depicting a valley surrounded by two rivers, one red, the other of crystal waters, both flowing from a big lake fed by a large river coming from the mountains. the mountains look almost magical as there are four main peaks: a volcano, a snowy range, a forest-covered mountain and a colourful rocky mineral mountain. there is a city near the lake, called Alma, a meadow of giant butterflies, roads following the rivers, woods everywhere, ruins to the southeast.

map of a village on a hill with autumn colours, surrounded by crop fields and an old wooden wall. the houses have thatched roofs. on the top of the hill, there's a colourful market with tents around a central bonfire with a big statue of a jackalope.

illustration depicting six different worlds in cut-out stretches of land: one is a post-apocalyptic scenario, the second is an epic fantasy land, the third is a sci-fi landscape, the fourth is a city-noir landscape, the fifth is a fairy tale world and the final one is an submarine landscape with monsters and cities. All these are being drawn to the center of the artwork where a "world under construction" is cut to show its magic demon melting core full of hellfire, circled by a magic dust ring, orbited by dragons, whitchy houses, flying wooden ships and spacecraft, surrounded by scafolding and attached to strange machinery and gigantic pipes and hoses at its bottom.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 14h

no can do bb

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 14h

how come we don't have bed options shaped like hot dog buns?

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 14h

LGBTQIA+ is rebranding as LGBTQIA MAX

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 18h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 18h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

“No Mirrors Here” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from The Dark, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social from @reactorsff.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

The Dark, Reactor, and Weird Horror: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran

The Dark 6/25, 7/25 Reactor 5/21/25 -7/26/25 Weird Horror Fall ’25 All of the original stories in issues 121 and 122 of The Dark are worthy of note. “The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem is the fir…

locusmag.com

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

my 14yo niece is super into Bob Seger rn and it makes my whole heart just ache with delight

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

I am so in love with this man

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

it's all the worst kind of nonsense

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

I'm just so disgusted by this utterly avoidable mess

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

Weapons of War have no place in American cities. That should include automatic weapons and handguns as well as Black Hawk helicopters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

We created a vaccine to an almost completely unstudied pathogen in less than two years, MID GLOBAL SHUTDOWN. There are people measuring the weight of stars so distant from us that they don't even EXIST anymore! I assure you we can count dollars and cents!

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 1d

How did we get to think we're so powerless? That we can't really KNOW anything? Millions of Americans spend their entire careers making sure we know the answers to questions like "How much Medicaid spending goes to undocumented immigrants?"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

George Mackley’s wood engraving The Deserted Farm, 1952

a road crossing a narrow stone bridge, a broken tree, still with leaves, and a larger house by the road side

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Shulamit Lahat @shulamitlahat.bsky.social · 3d

"For 2 millennia mathematicians have wondered if prime numbers are truly random, or if some unknown pattern underlies their ordering. Recently number theorists have proposed several surprising conjectures on prime patterns"

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Fractal Chaos Discovered in Prime Numbers

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

www.scientificamerican.com

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT is so efficient at further isolating us. It promises to eliminate any and all need for genuine human interaction. Outsourcing human connection.

We are social creatures. Alone, we are vulnerable, practically helpless. Easy pickings for those powerful forces that would exploit us.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

💙🫂 sending all the love to you and her