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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 2h

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I have an AMA on r/horrorlit tomorrow. If you're a redditor, come see me. Mostly it is to promote 120 MURDERS. Would also be pleased to find a reason to talk about Kalivas! or anything else you'd like to ask me.

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 1d

End the weekend in style with an upload of this Laserdisc detailing the making of Ghost in the Shell for PS1:

Making of Game: Ghost in the Shell - All of Digital Animation 4K LaserDisc rip
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Making of Game: Ghost in the Shell - All of Digital Animation 4K LaserDisc rip

YouTube video by Jeremy Parish | Video Works

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 10h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 8h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 7h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 9h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Eugene vs. Evil Deadline II 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · 9h

I did this too, because a) I'm revising multiple books right now, and that seems like a bad time to update an OS, and b) Maybe I'll be getting a new computer in a year anyway?

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 9h

The director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has just been laid off.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 18h

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 20h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 20h

Zoe took our little nugget of a story to unexpected places and blew it up into something amazing! It's not too late to go read this! There's still time!

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 21h

It's been a few months now so I feel okay sharing my favorite pages from RITA'S REWIND. @tiredsai.bsky.social absolutely crushed these, as did @adamguzowski.bsky.social and @eduke.bsky.social. Minh was the heart of our story and nailing this scene was SO important, I'm so happy we got to do this.

A splash page of Rita's Rewind showing Trini meeting Minh in the 90s

A page showing Minh being told she has to get her mother out of there

A page of Minh and Trini bonding and saying farewell

Minh with sick power daggers she borrowed from her mom

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Eugene vs. Evil Deadline II 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · 21h

If you see this, post a robot

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 21h

I was obsessed with the new-ish translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley because it actually captured the spirit and feel and fucking fun of the original poem better than a lot of stricter texts. It’s not trying to be the ultimate translation, just good as hell.

Beowulf: A New Translation

Beowulf: A New Translation [Headley, Maria Dahvana] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Beowulf: A New Translation

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that I have "Arkham" embedded in my name.

(not that there's anything wrong with that...)

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Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 5d

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

www.gamespot.com

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Retro Game Books 🔜 PRGE @retrogamebooks.com · 6d

🚨 Free book giveaway contest 📙

Win a free copy of Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 2. To enter, tell us which of Link's items you'd like to have in real life.

Contest ends Sunday October 12th.

Reskeets appreciated.

retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

#retrogaming 💌

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Caroline M. Yoachim @carolinemyoachim.bsky.social · 2d

Crying right now. This is my first ever award, and I am so honored. <3

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

2025 Winner Outstanding Short Story: WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ by Caroline M. Yoachim

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 4d

On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan, who has been predicting authoritarianism from Trump for nearly a decade, marvels at how even he was insufficiently pessimistic in imagining the myriad ways in which this administration could be cruel and lawless. 👇

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough?

When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happen...

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 2d

A spooky fun night was had this October 8th, with guests Leanna Renee Hieber & Shveta Thakrar. Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for Ellen. Here are Mercurio and Matt’s photos from the event.

@leannareneehieber.bsky.social @shvetathakrar.com @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

Leanna Renee Hieber & Shveta Thakrar at the KGB Bar, holding up their books, illuminated by candlelight.

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Eugene vs. Evil Deadline II 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · 2d

I've been exploring The Carnevale for years already, and I'm excited to finally get to play Little Nightmares III soon.

PS5 version of Little Nightmares III: The Deluxe Edition

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 2d

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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