Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
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Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him www.amnesiana.com
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kayorchison.bsky.social
Facial ID has arrived in the UK and is coming to Australia in November, so I'm putting my Signal contact here for anyone who's lost DMs.

Here I block on vibes. On Signal if you're not someone I already know you're gonna have to work pretty hard not to get blocked.

Try me here first

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zealousagain.bsky.social
She tortures them, just because she can. Sim Elon has no mouth, and he must scream.
matthewseiji.com
It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4
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calmerfuture.bsky.social
not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app
okwonga.bsky.social
What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.
kayorchison.bsky.social
Oh I'd forgotten about this one! Absolute all time banger
kayorchison.bsky.social
Now is when you get to find out who you really are
paleofuture.bsky.social
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
I’m betting a ton of them also see with their own fucking eyes how ludicrous it is to suggest “reforming” an institution completely full of people who would do things like what they’re doing
meredithshiner.com
It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.
lauraolin.bsky.social
A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.
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scarletferret.com
Interzone 303 features short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more.

Stories by:

Nathan Brown × Sasha Brown
Corey Jae White × Maddison Stoff
Humphrey Price
Eygló Karlsdóttir × Ashley Stokes
Rachael Cupp
Giselle Leeb
Kat Sedia
Ben Tufnell
Leslie What
Crystal Koo
Interzone 303 - Scarlet Ferret
Featuring short stories, essays, reviews, columns, and much more, every month.
scarletferret.com
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mr-adham.bsky.social
A final appeal...

Rafah crossing will open soon. We only dream of safety and of leaving this endless suffering behind.

Your help could be our last chance to live, not just survive. Please, don't let this be the end..

Donate now as much as you can and Share please. ❤️🫂👇🏼
tinyurl.com/HelpAdhamsFa...
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kayorchison.bsky.social
They have a beautiful song and hunt in pairs, calling to each other as they go
sandyhorne.bsky.social
This is a bit gruesome but it shows how butcherbirds got their name. They hang their victims in trees just like a butcher hangs meat. That's the foot of a reptile in its beak.
A grey butcherbird (and an unfortunate lizard) at Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Victoria.
kayorchison.bsky.social
I think you're all trying to analeyes it too much

He's just sitting there watching some shit
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cultauthor.bsky.social
Poverty has always been a blame game. Temperance societies used to blame drink for poverty instead of chronic sickness, low pay et al because it suited their pisspuffin agenda and suited their funders who were often the people responsible for the chronic sickness and low pay.
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chronicleflask.katday.com
They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
henrymance.ft.com
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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kjcharleswriter.com
These are the utterly heaven-sent people who publish the historical A-Zs of London, so if you write London-set historicals, you want to follow!
londontopsoc.bsky.social
We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
kayorchison.bsky.social
Interestingly, having just started reading Radical Antiquity by Christopher B. Zeichmann, I have learned that the rebel slave society that lasted 3 years during the 3rd Servile War (Spartacus etc) specifically banned money, seeing it as a path to inequality and hierarchy.

It can be accumulated.
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Eleanor Alloway, wondering how she has managed to lose four hours just by crossing Bickerley Common. Goodnight from Susie Pepperdine, dreams thumping to the heartbeat rhythm of the thing that dwells below Padwick Farm’s dew pond. Goodnight from Hookland.
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diannalgunn.bsky.social
Spouse managed to syringe feed him some wet food, but he's still not interested in feeding himself and he's very low energy after 12 hours, when he's usually bounced back in 2-3 hours

So we're sleeping in shifts & will be taking him back to emerg if he's still not interested in food in the morning
diannalgunn.bsky.social
Emerg trip occurred, cat has pooped and consumed water but the poor little dude still hasn't eaten 😭 checking on him every 15-20 minutes and praying he'll eat soon so we don't have to take him back in

In the meantime, we're already out $360 so it'd be cool if you tossed a coin to your writer
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ringworm.bsky.social
how surprising... another forest relics major collecting unemployment. maybe you should have learned something useful instead of salvaging ancient machines from the moss
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topmarx.bsky.social
The return of public health will 100% look like that. Those Soviet posters saying "hey, dummy, don't operate heavy machinery drunk" look silly as hell but the post-covid US has shown us what society looks like when they aren't there anymore
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someforeignfield.bsky.social
Police in the US are comparable to the Iraqi Hashd ash Shaabi/PMU. Ostensibly part of a state security service run by elected civilian leadership, but in practice serve as an independent paramilitary completely unaccountable to civilian democratic control.
kayorchison.bsky.social
I've moved on. I have a new life now. Don't call here again.
burgotastic.bsky.social
Who among us hasn't had our dreams of a human-ape hybrid frustrated by the untimely death of our sperm-producing orang-utan, and subsequent exile to Soviet Kazakhstan?
"In 1929, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers, but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan. The next year, he fell under political criticism from the Soviet government and was sentenced to exile in the Kazakh SSR; he worked there at the Kazakh Veterinary-Zootechnical Institute and died of a stroke two years later."
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theorygirl-ftw.bsky.social
💯 Porn addiction is a tool of religious extremists and right-wing authoritarians who are seeking to control both sex and sexuality. Racism and ethnonationalism are inherently part of the concept and often the solution is to find God and save sex for procreating more white babies to save the nation.
faeriegasm.bsky.social
This will be the hill I die on, “porn addiction” is not real, that phrase specifically is used as a dog whistle and is backed only by pseudoscience which has been created by right wing fascist organisations with the intention to demonise minorities. It is not real, actual science proves it isn’t.
kayorchison.bsky.social
I have often asked myself what precisely it is that comes out of a grave-cold 400 year old dick, and then promptly wished death on myself for asking