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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 6h

Home media server? Built.
Media-center machine? Awaiting mobo.
Me? Tired of re-casing machines.

Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 9h

Being a #nerd is selling two cards (1x mtg, 1x ygo) to your local card store to fund the new motherboard your family media server / gaming machine needs. As much as I wanted to hold onto a #LotR Sol Ring, I don't need it. And I never really liked Dragon Master Magia anyway :p

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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you need to support the work you like, that speaks to you specifically and not just hop on the bandwagon, or the work you want won’t be made anymore

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 10h

Emma Thompson is, as always, a fucking legend.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 12h

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 10h

Library land. And in libraries, the guys really are good guys. Readers. Empathetic. Public servants. Libraries are just a great field attracting great folks. First thing I appreciated though was the lack of men (coming from a male-dominated IT field).

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

I don't work with any men anymore. There is not a single man employed by my employer. We had one (our former podcast producer... good guy) and he left like two weeks ago.
Imagine working only with women and nonbinary people. It's pretty dope.

Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 4d

Welp, as a trope lover who used this community-created resource for years… I’ll scrape the whole thing and dump it into an Obsidian Wiki. Fuck you @tvtropes.org.web.brid.gy. Don’t try to monetize other people’s work egregiously. There’s other ways to pay for the site. This? Enshittification.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 4d

TROPE: Popular website built entirely on unpaid community labour dies after blocking content from community unwilling to submit to exploitative data collection monetization methods.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 4d

TV Tropes is blocking access to the site not only if you have ad blockers on but location tracking off unless you want to subscribe to their $5 a month/$25 a year subscription plan. Even people who have turned their ad blockers off are reporting the site isn’t working. This all seems like a bad idea

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Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social · 5d

This new has been a long time in coming, but it’s finally official: Wayne Brady and I are writing a book together! But first (if you want a peek at what the working relationship of me and Wayne is like), a story …

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 5d

CONGRATS!! Sure to be a stellar project. And holy moly—great editor/imprint!! 🥳📖

Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 5d

I’m scared to express my suspicions because I haven’t been wrong since calling the lockdowns the Fall before they happened… but… I will say I’m certain things are about to get much, MUCH weirder and more complicated here before they get any better. #NaziPresident

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING CBS News reports Trump plans to upgrade the East Wing bunker, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which serves as a secure shelter and communications hub for the president and key personnel during emergencies. WHAT EMERGENCIES MIGHT THOSE BE?
www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve seen huge mental health benefits since totally cutting off Meta products (this time all at once, in past only doing insta or fb would have me coming back). And I’m finding places like this are more fun, and even less important. Grass. Grass and getting back to painting, Linux, Lego, and life. 🤘

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Book Birthday to THE BEST AMERICAN Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by me and the amazing @johnjosephadams.com.

These stories are profound, hilarious, thoughtful, unsettling... stories that stay with you. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and congrats to all the contributors ! 👻👀👣🤖👽🧙🏾‍♀️🐈‍⬛🫂

The cover of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025
edited Nnedi Okorafor

Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction xix
CAROLINE M. YOACHIM. We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read from Lightspeed
RACHEL SWIRSKY. Also, the Cat 18 from Reactor
OLIVIE BLAKE. The Audit
59 from Januares
KI JOHNSON. Country Birds 78 from The Sunday Morning Transport
TATIANA OBEY. Fuck Them Kids 85 from FIYAH
S. L. HUANG. The River Judge 102 from Reactor
CARLIE ST. GEORGE. The Weight of Your Own Ashes 132 from Clarkesworld
XAVIER GARCIA. An Ode to the Minor Arcana in a Triplet Flow 148
from Death in the Mouth, Volume 2

KATHRYN H. ROSS. The Forgetting Room 162 from FIYAH
DOMINIQUE DICKEY. Look at the Moon 177 from Lightspeed
ISABEL J- KIM. Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole 202 from Clarkesworld
JENNIFER HUDAK. The Witch Trap 211 from Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
SUSAN PALWICK. Yarns 220 from Asimou's
*PEMI AGUDA. The Wonders of the World 245 from Ghostroots
TJ KLUNE. Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! 265 from In the Lives of Puppets
TANANARIVE DUE. A Stranger Knocks 296 from Uncanny
THOMAS HA. The Sort 317 from Clarkesworld
RUSSELL NICHOLS. What Happened to The Crooners 336
from Nightmare
ADAM-TROY CASTRO. The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics 349 from Lightspeed
JOE HILL. Ushers 356 from Amazon Original Stories
Contributors' Notes 378
Other Notable Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 8d

For a man routinely alleged now to have fecal incontinence, this was, among all else, a remarkable self-own.

Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 8d

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 10d

Tonight’s family game night: DUNGEON! ⚔️🐲🧌#dungeonsanddragons We play with real minis ofc.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 13d

Save us your shitty storytelling and just pass already, you convoluted air-waster.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 13d

It’s ghosts!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15d

I stand by it

Emma Miller 😁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social · 15d

@chuckwendig.bsky.social - I hard core agree 👍🫡👌

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 15d

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 18d

The thought that went into making the tech real!!! Err merr gerrdd

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 18d

Donatello is very clearly using a Commodore 1702 monitor (with a C64) in the art for this card, so I clearly have no choice but to build the deck.

A Magic card called “Donatello, the Brains” depicting the Ninja Turtle sitting in a cramped spaces using multiple computers at once.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18d

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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SF Signal @sfsignal.bsky.social · 19d

Last night, I finished THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE, a new collection out this week from @TachyonPub.

What a great collection! Every single story was superb: engaging, skillfully told and a little bit weird. Lansdale is simply a masterful storyteller.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19d

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 20d

Oh the joy of a living room desktop. A window to work. A window for the kids. But no Windows in sight, ofc. #linux

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

Pritzker is offering the following at the moment:

1. Trust the courts. [not a viable strategy]
2. "Film the cops"
3. Vote in 2026
4. Protest [peacefully]

And he knows this is not sufficient. Everyone does.

He will not address the local cops angle because he might be deposed...

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