Costa Koutsoutis
@costakout.bsky.social
Weird writer. Professor. The sf/f collection NO CASTLES, fantasy novella THE HOWL OF THE EARTH, & more out on your favorite e-book platforms. Read MAPMAKERS @ Patreon. He/Him.
Drums, drums sounding in the depths.
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Sam Vincent can find almost anything lost in the clouded sea of an overcrowded & hostile Internet, in a future not too far-off. When an old lover asks a favor, a the fabric of online is going to start to unravel. Subscribe to my Patreon to read MAPMAKERS & get new chapters as they go up;
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Positively Gibsonian.
So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank
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'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Positively Gibsonian.
If you are a college student doing the bad-faith bidding of some right-wing influencer org because you’ve been promised clout and fame, you are a rube and a patsy and a snitch. And nobody respects a patsy because they’re meant to take the fall. You will be left to take the fall.
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you are a college student doing the bad-faith bidding of some right-wing influencer org because you’ve been promised clout and fame, you are a rube and a patsy and a snitch. And nobody respects a patsy because they’re meant to take the fall. You will be left to take the fall.
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Who could have foreseen this.
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Who could have foreseen this.
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Every year on World AIDS Day I commemorate my uncle, a man I barely knew who died in 1995. He haunts my memory because I can't say he was a great, good, or OK man -- he barely existed. In those days we tended to x-out AIDS victims. But his life shadows -- shades -- mine. wp.me/pzXeC-kJ3
Chronicle of a life foreclosed
(NB: Every year I add an autobiographical crinkle. Thanks for reading) The boy spent hours bouncing a rubber ball against a wall. The boy had problems. At the time, my mom said, she minded her moth…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Every year on World AIDS Day I commemorate my uncle, a man I barely knew who died in 1995. He haunts my memory because I can't say he was a great, good, or OK man -- he barely existed. In those days we tended to x-out AIDS victims. But his life shadows -- shades -- mine. wp.me/pzXeC-kJ3
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NEWS: Bad Hand Books, @timlebbon.bsky.social and DEAD RED and RAZOR show up on this prestigious list from LitHub.
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
NEWS: Bad Hand Books, @timlebbon.bsky.social and DEAD RED and RAZOR show up on this prestigious list from LitHub.
I don't really read a lot of nonfiction in my spare time (because it is literally my job most of the time), but I always try to make time for @magencubed.bsky.social's essays. Always weird, always introspective, always something interesting;
Nature's Corrupted
Nature's Corrupted is Magen Cubed's newsletter. This is a place to share writing, thoughts, observations, and personal stories at the intersection of art, fiction, and life. Subjects include manga, an...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really read a lot of nonfiction in my spare time (because it is literally my job most of the time), but I always try to make time for @magencubed.bsky.social's essays. Always weird, always introspective, always something interesting;
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@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Monthly Halloween 29
December 1987
December 1987
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Monthly Halloween 29
December 1987
December 1987
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99% of everything sucks right now. But you know what doesn't suck? Books. Delicious nutritious books. You can find mine anywhere you shop or steal. And I'm arranging it so that you can order signed copies. Stay tuned...
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
99% of everything sucks right now. But you know what doesn't suck? Books. Delicious nutritious books. You can find mine anywhere you shop or steal. And I'm arranging it so that you can order signed copies. Stay tuned...
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Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia
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ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦
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Ah, I see we’ve reached the point of the season where it’s everybody else’s fault that Aaron Rodgers sucks shit.
Lol he can't throw the ball more than 7 yards www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
Aaron Rodgers calls out unnamed receivers for skipping film sessions, running wrong routes
The Steelers are slumping.
www.nbcsports.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Ah, I see we’ve reached the point of the season where it’s everybody else’s fault that Aaron Rodgers sucks shit.
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imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
Tapping out at like 3k words between a couple of things, plus getting ahead of a work think so I’m calling today a productive win.
Maybe 2k words today? Like pulling teeth, but at least it’s something.
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tapping out at like 3k words between a couple of things, plus getting ahead of a work think so I’m calling today a productive win.
Maybe 2k words today? Like pulling teeth, but at least it’s something.
November 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Maybe 2k words today? Like pulling teeth, but at least it’s something.
I genuinely don't think this is true. The fact that there's no independent way to confirm what this "poetry" is/says and Wired is just, at face value, accepting this as true just screams "trust me bro" incredibly-loudly.
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I genuinely don't think this is true. The fact that there's no independent way to confirm what this "poetry" is/says and Wired is just, at face value, accepting this as true just screams "trust me bro" incredibly-loudly.
The fact that not enough people use this shit-ass technology that is always wrong and it costs too much to constantly maintain so it can't ever make any profit is, to me, very fucking funny.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The fact that not enough people use this shit-ass technology that is always wrong and it costs too much to constantly maintain so it can't ever make any profit is, to me, very fucking funny.
Oh yeah, I've got a short sale going on at Itchio;
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November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Oh yeah, I've got a short sale going on at Itchio;
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“Is DND too woke?”
Nah man you’re just old. You can run edgelord shit if you want, it’s there. Trying to make it everyone else’s problem is a you thing. Glad to help.
Nah man you’re just old. You can run edgelord shit if you want, it’s there. Trying to make it everyone else’s problem is a you thing. Glad to help.
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Is DND too woke?”
Nah man you’re just old. You can run edgelord shit if you want, it’s there. Trying to make it everyone else’s problem is a you thing. Glad to help.
Nah man you’re just old. You can run edgelord shit if you want, it’s there. Trying to make it everyone else’s problem is a you thing. Glad to help.
Welp, two kittens means I have to take the little Christmas tree down every night and also, probably no other decorations.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Welp, two kittens means I have to take the little Christmas tree down every night and also, probably no other decorations.
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
I do not care about standup comics, it's a blighted form of entertainment and generally I feel like you should treat all comedians like they're the wrong kind of perverts who should be on a list. Throw Louis CK into the fucking sun, Christ wept.
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I do not care about standup comics, it's a blighted form of entertainment and generally I feel like you should treat all comedians like they're the wrong kind of perverts who should be on a list. Throw Louis CK into the fucking sun, Christ wept.
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Surely @clashbooks.bsky.social counts as a small business here on Small Business Saturday. So, get to Kalivasing!
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Kalivas! Or, Another Tempest
In this science-fiction revision of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Kalivas lives in solitude on the Farallon Islands, until the Master and his daughter M colonize his lonely realm. Kalivas, the last free-...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Surely @clashbooks.bsky.social counts as a small business here on Small Business Saturday. So, get to Kalivasing!
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Dipped back into Destiny 2 and I’m tickled pink they brought back Nessus as a map, one of my favorites up there with the EDZ. Love to just farm and do bounties, maybe jump into a raid once in a while and tank literally everything and anything.
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dipped back into Destiny 2 and I’m tickled pink they brought back Nessus as a map, one of my favorites up there with the EDZ. Love to just farm and do bounties, maybe jump into a raid once in a while and tank literally everything and anything.
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The best goth/horror/occult designs you will find anywhere online—shirts, bags, hoodies, you name it
Four new designs are up on my Threadless shop in honor of this sad excuse for a holiday. They're not discounted because they're already as cheap as I can afford to make them, but they DO make wonderful gifts for any goths, creeps, and freaks you're shopping for today. ♥ thorazos.threadless.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The best goth/horror/occult designs you will find anywhere online—shirts, bags, hoodies, you name it