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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her)

@tcparker.bsky.social

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Weird, (Neuro)Queer, Here 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ rights, yes. No to LLM extrusions 1/2 of Nefarious Bat Press. Writer: HUMMINGBIRD, SALTBLOOD, TRADWIFE PhD in media & politics, so old it's gathering dust. Rage as deep as the abyss Books at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · Dec 9

TRADWIFE IS OUT TODAY!!

It's fictional true crime. It's political. And it's very, very angry

I'd love you to check it out:
tinyurl.com/5x5xjtev

(If AMZ is offputting: you can also order from your local indie bookstore, or direct from us at @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social)

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Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering

Blurb reads:

"In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 13h

It's spooky season! So I reviewed four great recent scary books:

Fiend by @almakatsu.bsky.social
Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
Slashed Beauties by A Rushby
You Weren't Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

4 terrifying new novels to get you through the scariest season

With an emphasis on body horror, these books by Alma Katsu, Bitter Karella, Andrew Joseph White and A. Rushby will leave you with a lingering sense of dread.

www.washingtonpost.com

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for having me!

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 9h

Self-identified cunts behave especially cuntishly when they think nobody's watching: more at 10

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely brilliant Autumn Frights horror writing session with @alexdavis1981.bsky.social this evening. Thanks so much to everyone who came along, took part and listened to me bang on about semiotics, anthropology and creative writing - you were all fantastic ❤️

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10h

Opening a novel with a description of the weather and/or a protagonist looking at themselves in the mirror is more than fine if the weather and/or reflection is sufficiently interesting

Also, genre is a marketing tool, not an intrinsic property of a text

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10h

Wuglet, no question

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13h

Don't make me put this on a t-shirt

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13h

I cannot tell you how important it is that you stop having and sharing opinions about other people's genitals on the internet

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13h

(Also genuinely wondering whether some of these blokes stand there of an evening marvelling for hours at their kids' guinea pigs, excitedly reminding their spouses that "they used to be giant sloths - hard to believe, eh?")

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13h

To be fair, it was quite entertaining. At first 🤣

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13h

It got sufficiently bad that I ended up having to add caveats to the original post

Edited further to add: to preclude any misunderstandings in terms of my position on this... no, I don't like consumer-facing LLM text-image extruders. I think (as do the many, many CompSci and computational linguistics specialists whose work I respect, from Emily Bender and Alex Hanna to Dagmar Monnett) that the currently available crop of consumer-facing "Al" tools are, to put it kindly, a grift: predicated on IP theft and wholly avoidable resource-guzzling, and inherently prone (as is the nature of stochastic parrots) to "generating" inaccuracy and falsehood
Implying or telling me outright that I "just don't understand" the complexities of the products involved is extremely unlikely to change my position, so please take it elsewhere
Edited one last time to add: I promise, I already know dinosaurs are extinct and thus, are not available to be havested for meat and/or children's dinners.
"Are dinosaurs still with us?" is like the first thing they ask you in a PhD viva

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 14h

I hope someday to have developed the maturity and emotional regulation to not rage for half an hour at Shauna about a bad, ill-informed and blinkered take I just read on social media from someone who should know better, but doesn't

Today, alas, is not that day

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 14h

Woohoo!!!

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 15h

1. That thing about cis white British men and Ancient Rome is bullshit. It's dinosaurs; dinosaurs are what they love

2. If there's one thing a certain type of white cis dude loves EVEN MORE than dinosaurs... it's publicly correcting women on the internet

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 15h

Because the post I quoted referenced dinosaurs and chicken... I had, no word of a lie, about a week where 2-3 men A DAY jumped into the comments to remind me dinosaurs are extinct - or to inform me that chickens ARE dinosaurs

I have learned 2 things from this:

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 16h

Happy release day to @gemmafiles.bsky.social and LITTLE HORN, a new collection of 14 stories and novelettes!

Each story features an accompanying full-page illustration by the author.

Out today in hardcover, paperback, and ebook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

The cover of Little Horn (title spelling out in bound sticks and twigs), flanked by the words "Out Today!" on both sides.

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 18h

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 17h

On *Linkedin*, Steve

LINKENDIN

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 18h

Every time I read about leftwing echo chambers, I wonder how I can break my way into one

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 19h

True story: the only time I've gone even moderately viral on social media (on bloody LINKEDIN, of all places), it was reposting a quote from someone about kids using "that's AI" to mean "you're talking shite," and confirming that my eldest does it too

The tech bros have concocted their own reality

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, yeah. I get emails at least once a week from my kids' school about ways to help keep them away from predatory tech

Kids aren't the problem here; greedy, stupid middle-aged adults are. It's not KIDS panicking about keeping stock bubbles from popping

TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 19h

I honestly think, from what I've seen at work (and from my own kids) that a lot of this "kids love AI!" bollocks is people my age desperately projecting their own credulity, laziness and avarice onto younger people

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 20h

(Also, anecdotally: I didn't have much money growing up, & I've hoarded books like a demon for as long as I've been able to find & keep them. Including when I was struggling to pay rent

Unless your own home is completely free of meaningful objects you've collected... I wouldn't be casting stones)

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 20h

Daniel Miller's The Comfort of Things does a much better job of putting this into words than I can, but honestly: suggesting that poor people can't find the same pleasure and delight in owning and accumulating stuff as middle class people is - in the kindest reading - pretty blinkered

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