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write drum teach, etc Words in The Dark, Seize the Press, Cosmic Horro Monthly, Short Fiction, Cafe Irreal, Propagule, JAKE., and more Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/shortstoryrex Music and more: https://linktr.ee/nmwhitley

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 11d

Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/

Enselfening - The Dark Magazine

For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 23h

surely I'm not the first person to notice that alphabetically there's only a one-letter difference between 'superheroes' and 'superherpes'

still, makes you think

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 1d

some inspirations:
1) Barbara Comyns
2) Haruki Murakami
3) Raymond Chandler
4) Leonora Carrington
5) Marie Redonnet

To read what has been mildly inspired, here are my stories:
ivyivyivyivy.com/stories/

Stories

Old Woman and the Girls in Rejection Letters Shadow Land in scaffold lit Pearl Ring in Heavy Feather Review Our Mutual Friend in HAD Three Plagues for Ninth Letter, Featured Writer Green in ergot. …

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émile zoloft 🪖🦅🇵🇸 @feelinfine.bsky.social · 1d

High! In the Custerdome

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

AI slop and being fuckin stupid, name a more iconic duo

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we need to abolish this shit

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 2d

EU people, tell your country's officials to vote against the EU "chat control" proposal, which would allow full AI access to your text messages and photos, regardless of whether your platform is encrypted.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited Slick Rick pic

A photo of rap legend Slick Ric, wearing a purple hat and jacket, his trademark eyepatch and much gold jewelry including very ostentatious rings on every finger

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

not saying it was planned out this way or anything but i do think tiktok kinda perfectly thawed a lot of brains out nice n slow and made em soft n ready to get cooked the whole way through by sora

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 3d

people were losing touch with reality already by watching videos where a person is just standing there confidently lying about stuff. add realistic (at a glance) footage of that stuff and a bunch of these people are going to go completely fuckin coco bonanos

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 3d

NORTH CAROLINAAAAAAAA come on and raise up take your shirt off twist it round your hand spin it like a helicopter

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 3d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 3d

We've strategically placed mediocre hacks at the top of every political and business organization, let's see what happens next

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Melissa Reynolds @melkatrey.bsky.social · 4d

I just keep coming back to this, the most obvious lacunae in every conversation about “incorporating AI” into our classrooms: no one—literally NO ONE—can explain how it improves the work of learning & knowledge-making. There is, in fact, overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

This whole thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 4d

Posting the logo of this old punk band I like for no reason

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 4d

Great family story about Robert A. Heinlein getting a (deserved) slap in the Soviet Union!

mburnamfink.bsky.social @mburnamfink.bsky.social · Apr 18

There's a family story that when my great-grandmother Grace was a tourist in the Soviet Union in 1960, she was in a small airport and oddly enough, there was another American couple there.

The plan was delayed, and the man was getting quite irate with the situation.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 4d

If your invited keynote speaker works for a company started because OpenAI wasn't basing its work enough on science fiction and said speaker uncritically cites TESCREAList, fictional work masquerading as science, you might not have organized a serious academic gathering.

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI i talked about stories by Carolyn Zhao @strangehorizons.bsky.social @suplexicon.bsky.social y.social @bruisermag.com @johnchrostek.com @hexliterary.bsky.social and Samanta Schweblin, plus songs by Stereolab, but not Goodnight Moon which I had nothing to say about buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

SHORT STORY REX Sept 2025

1. “The Heartbreak Hotel on Plutonic Planet”, Carolyn Zhao Got sucked in by this one’s sort-of free-associating whimsy, its deceptively naif je-ne-sais-quoi....

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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 11d

Enselfening - The Dark Magazine

www.thedarkmagazine.com

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Mr.Eddie8976 @mreddie8976.bsky.social · 5d

Every Democrat, in every interview, asked anything about the WH should start their answer with, "Well, obviously the president has some sort of dementia, so you see..."