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K.C. Mead-Brewer

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writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 5d

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever!

if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 13h

“No Mirrors Here” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from The Dark, “The Name Ziya” by @wenyilee.bsky.social from @reactorsff.bsky.social, and more short fic recs from @paulaguran here -

The Dark, Reactor, and Weird Horror: Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran

The Dark 6/25, 7/25 Reactor 5/21/25 -7/26/25 Weird Horror Fall ’25 All of the original stories in issues 121 and 122 of The Dark are worthy of note. “The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem is the fir…

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 13h

my 14yo niece is super into Bob Seger rn and it makes my whole heart just ache with delight

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 13h

I am so in love with this man

jamie @steadyhandscastle.bsky.social · 14h

anyway here’s an image of adley more people should be seeing

adley rutschman in the green tides jersey during his rehab stint. to say he’s simply caked up is an understatement as large as his v perky behind. just cakes on lifted cakes

K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 13h

it's all the worst kind of nonsense

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I'm just so disgusted by this utterly avoidable mess

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 21h

Weapons of War have no place in American cities. That should include automatic weapons and handguns as well as Black Hawk helicopters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 23h

We created a vaccine to an almost completely unstudied pathogen in less than two years, MID GLOBAL SHUTDOWN. There are people measuring the weight of stars so distant from us that they don't even EXIST anymore! I assure you we can count dollars and cents!

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Evan Mead-Brewer @uncle-voluminous.bsky.social · 23h

How did we get to think we're so powerless? That we can't really KNOW anything? Millions of Americans spend their entire careers making sure we know the answers to questions like "How much Medicaid spending goes to undocumented immigrants?"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

George Mackley’s wood engraving The Deserted Farm, 1952

a road crossing a narrow stone bridge, a broken tree, still with leaves, and a larger house by the road side

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Shulamit Lahat @shulamitlahat.bsky.social · 2d

"For 2 millennia mathematicians have wondered if prime numbers are truly random, or if some unknown pattern underlies their ordering. Recently number theorists have proposed several surprising conjectures on prime patterns"

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Fractal Chaos Discovered in Prime Numbers

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

www.scientificamerican.com

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1d

ChatGPT is so efficient at further isolating us. It promises to eliminate any and all need for genuine human interaction. Outsourcing human connection.

We are social creatures. Alone, we are vulnerable, practically helpless. Easy pickings for those powerful forces that would exploit us.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

💙🫂 sending all the love to you and her

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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 1d

If billionaires used 1% of what they invest in AI to support artists, this would be a much better world.
I'm so tired of those in power choosing to do harm over and over and over again.

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Grim Flandango @grimflandango.bsky.social · 1d

Billionaire who had one good idea back in 1998: Any day now we will have perfected the warp drive, promising unlimited trade with the Vulcan Federation.

Tech journalists: The FUTURE IS NOW PEOPLE!!!

Genius investors: Here’s seventy trillion dollars!

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 2d

One of the questions is why we allow private corporations to fill the sky with junk?

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 2d

yall my dad wrote this!! a middle grade book about human evolution ⚡️⚡️⚡️ pre-order a copy for your kiddos!

@evoexplorer.bsky.social

Reading the Bones by Marc Aronson | Book Moon Books

High-stakes adventure meets cutting-edge anthropology in this true account of the groundbreaking discovery of Homo naledi, which shocked the world of evolutionary science and redefined what it means t...

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Coming Out Day to all nonbinary people whose comings out were met with a resounding chorus of

Megan Mullally Karen Walker GIF

Alt: Megan Mullally Karen Walker GIF she turns and says wait…what

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 1d

Diane 💔

three women in white suits are dancing in a room

Alt: three women in white suits are dancing in a room -- from FIRST WIVES CLUB, Diane is in the middle

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 2d

when you open the email and it's an acceptance

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Molly @mollyjordan.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in Portland and want to rock a frog costume and can’t afford it I’ll fucking buy you one.

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CNN @cnn.com · 2d

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Allison Mulder @amulderwrites.bsky.social · 2d

Contracts signed, so TWO short story sales to announce tonight!

Very happy that my new horror short, "Skin-Stealer Hates the Winter," will appear in a future issue of @chmmagazine.bsky.social !

It's a weird one, gross but perhaps cozy-leaning?

My "people-eater with food sensitivities" story. :D

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 2d

I like him a lot 🥰