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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hello, new followers! I'm a sf/f writer from NM. My latest is an eco fantasy novella from University of Tampa Press. Think the movie Metropolis set in the desert but instead of labor rights it's water rights. Plus automata, alien goats, & stories written in the stars! utampapress.org/product/a-hu...

A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau - University of Tampa Press

“Lauren C. Teffeau’s A Hunger with No Name is a powerful story of survival—personal, ecological, and cultural—in the presence of overwhelming technological power. The textures and politics of Teffeau’...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 3d

See you tomorrow, Las Cruces!

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 4d

This Saturday! Happy to be an author at the 1st annual Southern New Mexico Book Festival thanks to Las Cruces Writers. If you are near southern NM, I'd love to see you there!

www.snmbookfestival.org

Flyer for Southern New Mexico Book Festival. Saturday October 11, 2025. Dona Ana Community College East Mesa Campus - DASR 10AM to 6PM. Free Admission. Book Sale, Workshops, Kids' Area, Readings, Vendors and More. Map of East Mesa Campus. 2800 Sonoma Ranch BLVD. More info:

https://www.facebook.com/snmbookfestival

https://www.facebook.com/events/9817968341625581

https://lascruceswritersgroup.org/index.php/southern-new-mexico-book-festival/

Promo graphic for Lauren C. Teffeau featuring her books A Hunger with No Name, Implanted, and the Solarpunk Creatures and Solar Flare anthologies. Come See Me! Southern New Mexico Book Festival. Flyer for Southern New Mexico Book Festival. Saturday October 11, 2025. Dona Ana Community College East Mesa Campus - DASR 10AM to 6PM. Free Admission. Book Sale, Workshops, Kids' Area, Readings, Vendors and More. 2800 Sonoma Ranch BLVD. More info:

https://www.facebook.com/snmbookfestival

https://www.facebook.com/events/9817968341625581

https://lascruceswritersgroup.org/index.php/southern-new-mexico-book-festival/

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 3d

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 3d

we had the exact same convo in our group last night! commiserations!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Nothing to worry about here, no sir.

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 3d

I think pedestals are fair thing to be worried about given where things are right now and any nuance is flattened so things can be framed as either all good or all bad. Always interesting to see by whom as well...

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate seeing the details here too because I remember her tone deafness on some of these issues even though I was very much affected by the clip from her last interview that's been going around...

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 4d

This Saturday! Happy to be an author at the 1st annual Southern New Mexico Book Festival thanks to Las Cruces Writers. If you are near southern NM, I'd love to see you there!

www.snmbookfestival.org

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently arts degrees are so worthless they need to be stopped, yet the product of those degrees is so valuable paying for it would bring down an entire industry.

Make it make sense.

Headline screenshot. The leader of the Conservative Party saying we need to "Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English."

Headline screenshot. The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, also former Meta employee, claiming that asking artists for permission to use their work (i.e. paying for it) would "kill" the A.I. industry.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 24d

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI - on.ft.com/4o3RheA

Bank of England flags risk of ‘sudden correction’ in tech stocks inflated by AI

Financial Policy Committee warns equity prices are at levels comparable with dotcom bubble

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 4d

Urgent new statement from the Pentagon Press Association, on Pete Hegseth’s new, forthcoming media restrictions:

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 5d

Hopeful Climate Fiction list on @bookshop.org : bookshop.org/lists/hopefu...

(Anti-Prime Days Oct 7th & 8th: FREE SHIPPING)

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 7d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 6d

thanks! I never get tired of the sky out here...

Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 6d

Full moon this morning over Albuquerque

Full moon on the westward horizon and a view overlooking Albuquerque. The morning sky is filled with dawn colors, rose pink, orange yellowing into pale blue and purple while the city wakes up

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 8d

They largely want the studios & sports and don’t care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 8d

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

“All of this feels ridiculous because that’s exactly what it is. But the larger goal is to inure you to the strangeness of it all so that when these products — be they movies, shows, or TikToks — finally come to market, your reaction is ‘Sure, why not?’”

Tilly Norwood is a gen AI psyop

The point is to normalize generative AI in your mind.

www.theverge.com

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