Brendan C. Byrne
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Check out Another World Isn't Possible - <p>The stories of Brendan C. Byrne are spinning vortices of uncertainty where the past ceases to exist, the present is a slow burn, and the future is a vision ...
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ICYMI my book of SF stories, ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE, was published two weeks ago. 18 years of my life in there, fuckin yikes bookshop.org/p/books/anot...
am kinda over the damn moon about this review of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE in The Whitney Review (but you'll have to buy it to see it)
November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
am kinda over the damn moon about this review of ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE in The Whitney Review (but you'll have to buy it to see it)
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"This is the way they are. They commit the crime, deny it, and when the victim confronts them they sidestep the question by talking of peace." Mahmoud Darwish (1973)
November 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"This is the way they are. They commit the crime, deny it, and when the victim confronts them they sidestep the question by talking of peace." Mahmoud Darwish (1973)
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
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For the first time since 1961, Russia does not have the capability to launch humans into orbit.
November 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For the first time since 1961, Russia does not have the capability to launch humans into orbit.
just realized i do the "are you winning son?" thing to my two-year-old but it's "are you having fun?"
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
just realized i do the "are you winning son?" thing to my two-year-old but it's "are you having fun?"
hard agree
every once in a while you are left in awe by a little story that is just so immaculately made and such an apt demonstration of the vast things one can achieve with a simple set of tools and some pointed concerns and i think PENDA'S FEN is one of those things for me
This week's SBG bonus episode is on PENDA'S FEN, a striking BBC teleplay from 1974 wherein an incredibly uptight young man through a series of increasingly anomalous encounters learns to interrogate British identity, personal history, sexuality, religion, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
hard agree
stray detail in Seth Harp's THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL: Delta Force was on the ground aiding alphabet agencies when the Branch Davidans' compound was lit on fire in 1993
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
stray detail in Seth Harp's THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL: Delta Force was on the ground aiding alphabet agencies when the Branch Davidans' compound was lit on fire in 1993
the best kind of story remains I barely knew this man, in fact I almost despised him, but the events that occurred to him have revealed to me things I cannot understand but which have changed me forever
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
the best kind of story remains I barely knew this man, in fact I almost despised him, but the events that occurred to him have revealed to me things I cannot understand but which have changed me forever
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I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I had similar advice from Tom Disch in the early 1970s, about writing into a niche, changed my life & seems broadly applicable
I told my two-year-old we could get mommy new flowers when the old ones are dead and now he's standing there pointing at the flowers yelling, "Dead! Dead!"
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I told my two-year-old we could get mommy new flowers when the old ones are dead and now he's standing there pointing at the flowers yelling, "Dead! Dead!"
Alternate side parking Manhattan Rules is fucking wild
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Alternate side parking Manhattan Rules is fucking wild
the joke about JD Vance not doing anything but complaining on podcasts is just the "warm mug of spit" going fwd
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the joke about JD Vance not doing anything but complaining on podcasts is just the "warm mug of spit" going fwd
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Gen Z barista looked at me blankly when I said: "You're playing the Red Scare theme song." The older you get, the more cultural studies becomes a matter of alien ethnography.
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Gen Z barista looked at me blankly when I said: "You're playing the Red Scare theme song." The older you get, the more cultural studies becomes a matter of alien ethnography.
HEY THERE FUCKFACE/ HEY THERE FUCKFACE
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
HEY THERE FUCKFACE/ HEY THERE FUCKFACE
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Hi! I'm Ari Aster, and I'd like to tell you a bit about my upcoming film, which explores the age-old question: what if a mother figure yelled at you?
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hi! I'm Ari Aster, and I'd like to tell you a bit about my upcoming film, which explores the age-old question: what if a mother figure yelled at you?
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Do you or does someone you love live in the mid-Hudson Valley and want books for the holidays? I'm doing a limited run of curated book bags for folks — 3 titles, either hc or pb, in a Rough Draft tote with a little swag on the side. roughdraftny.square.site/shop/holiday...
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Do you or does someone you love live in the mid-Hudson Valley and want books for the holidays? I'm doing a limited run of curated book bags for folks — 3 titles, either hc or pb, in a Rough Draft tote with a little swag on the side. roughdraftny.square.site/shop/holiday...
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The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions.
He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)
Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)
Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
www.lemonde.fr
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The judge who authorised the ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant is now shut out from modern life as a result of US sanctions.
He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)
Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
He has been blacklisted by financial systems and technologies (Visa, Apple, Google, etc)
Paywall bypass: archive.ph/d8NmT
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Donald Trump raving about his new friend Zorro Montana
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Donald Trump raving about his new friend Zorro Montana
my good friend Steve has a sick new album out, art-damaged jazz/rap drumming cruthedynamic.bandcamp.com/album/cru-vs...
Cru vs Cru, by Cru the Dynamic, Cru Drums
11 track album
cruthedynamic.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
my good friend Steve has a sick new album out, art-damaged jazz/rap drumming cruthedynamic.bandcamp.com/album/cru-vs...
damn good book imo
SHELVED BY GENRE travels to the very cusp of imaginative possibility today in our Alan Moore unit, covering part one of PROMETHEA, a Y2K fable about art, history, and magic that also introduces one of the greatest characters in comics history: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/21/p...
November 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
damn good book imo
since KNIVES OUT is back, reupping my piece on GLASS ONION & "detective vibes" filmmakermagazine.com/119967-glass...
Vibes Out: Is Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Really a Mystery?
Is Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, in fact, a mystery? It certainly presents as one at its beginning, when a group of unlikely friends, whom we will come to know as “the shitheads,”…
filmmakermagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
since KNIVES OUT is back, reupping my piece on GLASS ONION & "detective vibes" filmmakermagazine.com/119967-glass...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
seeing the must smile order come down from Target b/c the customer service issue with the shopping experience is not staff, but the feeling that you're in a fulfillment center
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
seeing the must smile order come down from Target b/c the customer service issue with the shopping experience is not staff, but the feeling that you're in a fulfillment center
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Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Elsewhere everyone’s laughing about Grok’s sycophantic answers about Musk’s intelligence and physical prowess, but the project is to make the truth too expensive (in terms of time and resources) for ordinary people to find. Most users will accept the ‘truth’ provided by the model owners.