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Buy KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST from my local bookstore now:

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Don't tell me what to skeet.
Don't tell me what not to skeet.
Read my skeets before replying to them.
Reply to the skeet as written, not to the imaginary other person who wrote some other skeet in your mind that made you mad at someone who is not me.
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ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.

NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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What if we're (virtually) all being manipulated by dark forces trying to use us to touch off the final destruction, only there's so many of us and so many would-be destroyers that we keep botching each others' attempts?
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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"The Net," by Nick Mamatas (www.picpublishing.ca/one.html)

This story's quite a bit darker than my usual reading material, but it's good to get outside of my comfort zone.

#labyrinthratreads2025
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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You can try how Hungarian format dialogue.
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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"capitalism is when anything involves money. colonialism is anything I don't like."
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Skills issue. Either you can cook, or you can’t.
He's not wrong, really. Seasonal food items are seasonal because they aren't good enough to be regular food. Roasting a turkey is a week long process and it's never as good as chicken. If it was socially acceptable to order pizza for Thanksgiving the whole holiday menu would go extinct.
JD Vance doesn’t know how to not be weird in any given situation.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I've had similar experiences both in MFA and community-based classes. What used to not require teaching--punctuating dialogue and other manuscript formatting--shifted to requiring it in 2022 and now I have to go over it every week, and to no avail.
We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Congratulations to the Secretary of Defense for ordering a hundred murders right before the president established the precedent that pardons are invalid.
November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Connections
Puzzle #901
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November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Anti-genocide activists with Disarm Genocide rallied outside ILA headquarters in NJ as part of an international day of action to demand longshoremen leadership stop shipping weapons to Israel.

“This is just the beginning,” founder Chris Smalls says. “We will escalate. And we will be back.”
November 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Every story is enjoyable, but the title story is the exact sort of absurdist, deadpan comedy that I love so much.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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This is a great story collection.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A bit of that billionsvsbillionaires swag at @loscon.bsky.social

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November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A CIA asset operating in Central Asia turning against the US, you say?
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Flying out to Providence to whisper in the dirt over Lovecraft's grave "The name of the actor playing you in my play is 'Kazuo Salazar'."
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Buy a bunch in different sizes for your family Christmas card photo:
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Bright and shiny independent bookshop in Easthampton, MA
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November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Now that I'm thinking of TikTok, it's time to share one of the funniest things I've ever seen again. I never get tired of this. www.tiktok.com/@tschalk10/v...
The ORIGINAL Skull Boy Sketch! check more on my Twitter @ TomStheVoice #skeleton #frontpage
TikTok video by Tom Schalk
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November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Free this store of its single copy of Kalivas! then buy other stuff and get bonus presents!

I recommend their READ BOOKS PUNCH NAZIS shirt!

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November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
And I messed up the URL in the original skeet so here it is:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM