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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 3d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Trent Brown @trentbwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Look at it 🙂

Preorder it 🙂

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 9h

Once again trying for a small print run with Bookmobile and every preorder gets us closer to this goal.

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 14h

Getting into book cover design and cooking up a few right now. Here’s a new one for the awesome @trentbwrites.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Go check the book out!!

Malarkey forever 🤘💀🤘

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 1d

I think I have said this here before but one of the many things about this campaign that gives me hope is the focus on history. Also, behold the absolute demolishing of any notion that trans rights and the rights of the working class are somehow opposed or even distinct.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Thanks boss 🫡🍻🤘

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Thanks homie ❤️🍻🫂

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

It’s a Fall Friday, my dudes. Grateful to be walking through the October Country.

Friendly reminder I’ve got two books that are still good. Haven’t rotted out yet, still very much in season

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Oh, I haven't thought about this one in a long while, but it's so special

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ceej @ceej.online · 3d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Congrats, bud 🍻🍻🍻

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 3d

This store is pure magic, and so are the incredible talents who run it! What a wonderful place to be!! 😍 We even had a ghost in attendance; a lovely (but empty) rocking chair began to rock of its own accord! Definitely visit this *spirited* store!

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

John Carpenter’s Mystic Pizza

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 3d

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 3d

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

Leanna is wonderful and you should buy her & Andrea’s book yesterday because it’s fascinating and fun in equal measure. Genre study, folklore & history retelling, personal essay, ghost stories and tour guides all in one

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

Reposting for the afternoon people, the middle-day-walkers: I got a newsletter now and a little story to go with it, check it out

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

LATHE OF HEAVEN is in my DNA, I don't know if FEAST could have come out of me without it. Le Guin forever

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3d

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

the children (me) yearn for the mines (developing new habits that enable a rich, full life)

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

buttondown.com