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Kip Manley

@kiplet.bsky.social

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Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, three cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · Oct 11

Attently reading, as one does.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason

I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

Aphrodite Void @aphroditevoid.bsky.social · 5h

If going forward we ever fulfill the actual promise of our Constitution, the dissents from this era of #SCOTUS are going to be very important and influential.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, sooner or later every long-running storytelling concern has to give in to the temptation of a what-if alternate world—

City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 5h

The 21st novelette, "Gallowglas," continues:

#FantasyLit #WhatIf #IndieBooks #GrainsOfSand

Gallowglas (Act I)

Easing her Coat – stupid stupid stupid stupid – Prophecy – Salt for a Jaded palate

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h

Love this movie right up until the end, where it breaks the plausibility threshold by suggesting that there's a good cop in the upper echelons of the LAPD who doesn't approve of police brutality and will immediately expose it if it's uncovered

Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 7h

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

www.polygon.com

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 8h

The notion that the use of race by the criminal punishment system is fairly unproblematic but the use of race in the service of addressing inequality is highly suspect has been dominant at the Supreme Court for decades. The current court has taken this to new extremes.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 8h

You take it off the shelf carefully, first pushing in the books on either side. Small for a quarto. Hinges intact, marbled endpapers. Tonson, 1758. Hmm, it's a Baskerville? Feels like wove paper, though. For less than a "Houseboat Days" first? Well, in this used bookstore they don't know any better.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 2d

Alexa what’s the best time to start trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

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problem goose @mammothfactory.bsky.social · 8h

not to be that guy but “young republicans are nazis” would have been a story maybe ten or fifteen years ago, not when secret police are rounding people up and shipping them off to concentration camps

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 9h

Blocking every account that posts that ghastly AI image of the inflatable animal suits marching down a misty boulevard that does not exist in Portland on sight.

Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 21h

Running at a loss to build a sustainable, long-term business, as one does.

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City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 23h

Reruns are up to the 21st novelette, "Gallowglas." There is no Bride. There is no Bride. There is no Bride.

thecityofroses.com/story/?c=Gal...

#FantasyLit #FreeBooks #IndieAuthors #Screaming

No. 21: “Gallowglas.” Looking up and up the sharp corner of a vaulting skyscraper, too sharp by far to be regularly squared, and narrow windows set one atop another all the way up the edge of it, climbing into an unearthly violet sky. There is, perhaps, in what color the leached light can strike from glass and from the framing stone, just a hint of pink.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 23h

Joy is a threat.

“Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it’s getting really ugly.”

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 1d

My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!

Promotional image for an art show featuring a sculpture of a lizard-like creature in six pieces with tangled red rope between them. Text says: new works by Leslie Levings presented by Stranger Factory. November 1st through 30th. Opening reception November 1st 2025, 11am-4pm. strangerfactory.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

every tale of adventure could be improved by 1 to 7 gay sex scenes

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 2d

A sequel to my previous essay. Here's what happened the night a self-proclaimed fascist said he was going to come back and kill us. tl;dr I experienced the best thing in my 15 year career of performing.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

My novella FES IS A MIRROR out at the end of the month is set during the Moroccan monarchy's brutal suppression of the bread riots in Fes in December 1990. I wrote it years ago not thinking of trends, but now I'm eager to see how it contributes to understanding the current Gen Z protests there.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fun enough. Doesn’t quite have the juice for its moves.

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 1d

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

uk.bookshop.org

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 3d

It's more of a Christmas movie for me, but dang.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Reds

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 4d

Ok, I’m sure some more books will pop up and need to be slipped in, but SFF is shelved, other than all the Tolkien stuff I need to sort out. Recognize anything?