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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD)

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Sturgeon & Nebula Award winning SpecFic author. MIFRE Media Award Winner. Locus, Ignyte, Eugie Foster Finalist. Codex/SFWA. She/Her. Banner: Andy Dudak THE NIGHTWARD Out Now! Agent: @cammc9.bsky.social Go Fund Me for Cancer: https://tinyurl.com/mvuyw5t7

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 11d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1m

Precisely.

R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1h

Hence my earlier tweet 🙄

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

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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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2h

like if you want to volunteer your free time into getting someone elected because you fully believe in them then I get that I’ve done that multiple times but also remember for politicians their career is a political product that you are supporting

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2h

“Cult of personality” cuts both ways, you be enthralled into a cult of personality or enraged into a cult of personality but either way it’s best to keep that tendency in check

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🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2h

political parties have a vested interest in wanting to convince you they are your friend and the responsibility of the citizen is to understand the difference between a coalition and a political alliance and not get sucked into to cults of personality

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly this!

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🄽🅄🄺🄺🄰🄼🄰🅁🅄⁣ @puppetsimon.bsky.social · 5h

When people claim that we're "living in a simulation," I tell them that I agree — we've been forced to live in an ECONOMIC SIMULATION that revolves around the accumulation and exchange of stocks, bonds, shares & securities.

R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Unpopular opinion: Billionaires are pyramid schemes foisted on the public by disconnected from reality, growth obsessed stock markets, VCs & 1%ers.

Nobody's business is worth more than the land value of the planet. But they can scam real fortunes out of govs etc if they claim that. That's the goal.

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AJ @ajknights.bsky.social · 6h

I cannot parse this level of destruction. Nor can I understand what the human toll is.

samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7h

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 8h

That's such beautiful work! You're so talented!

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9h

All we can say is "this shouldn't be happening!!!" - but we can't really say WHY, because almost no-one is brave enough to say "the status quo for undocumented immigrants was exploitative. our immigration system is unjust and non-functional, and these people should have legal protection"

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Marve with an 'E' @justmarvewrites.bsky.social · 4d

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN!

Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

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MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 1d

🚨I beg you to share it

We lost everything even our source of income 😭

We rely on your daily donations to provide food, water, milk for our daughter and everything we need to survive 💔🙏

Without your help, we truly can’t afford anything!!!

Please help
gofund.me/726f59d0f

@mommunism.bsky.social 😭🙏

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Most doctors don't even mention it to patients & simply tell you to get a compression sleeve after, if it happens.

But you can do massages (MLD) with lymphatic massage specialists to help. Using skin lotion regularly, changing your diet & getting exercise can also help forestall/treat it. 2/2

R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1d

If you have cancer surgery, you'll probably have lymph nodes removed to be tested.

Please talk to your doctor about what you can do to treat and prevent lymphedema. It's a distressingly common side effect of cancer surgery & treatment that can cause permanent swelling in arms and legs mostly. 1/2

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1d

(WHISPERS may in your library. It's a collection of Caribbean fabulism.)

Modern Day recs:

1. ROSEWATER by Tade Thompson
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rosewater-...

2. JOHN CROW'S DEVIL by Marlon James
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/john-crows...

I need to rest so see you Mon with another double post! 2/2

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Day 10 & 11! A double posting of Black SpecFic month recs because I was too tired yesterday to do it.

Classics:

1. DARK MATTER edited by Sheree R. Thomas
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dark-matte...

2. WHISPERS FROM THE COTTON TREE ROOT edited by Nalo Hopkinson
www.goodreads.com/book/show/84... 1/2

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Dave LaFontaine @davelf.bsky.social · 1d

For me, the turning point was back in ‘95 with the OJ Simpson trial. Saturation coverage for no other reason than 95MM people watched the freeway chase & network owners drooled over those kind of ratings

News exists to spike ratings & make money. Not inform or enlighten

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Arguably the writing was on the wall as soon as they switched to cable and became for all practical purposes an entertainment product

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is now pulling from a pool of applicants who see televised images of sobbing children in handcuffs, or masked men in tactical gear roughing up Latino laborers, and don't recoil in horror.
The administration is also doing its best to send all the worst possible signals to existing agents, from every level of the hierarchy. The president ominously declares we are engaged in a "war within" - with domestic urban populations cast as the enemy combatants.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

It’s this multiple times a day

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore.
I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 7d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

*coughs* just bc a book is nominated for a Lodestar Award, doesn't make it YA

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