Jared Pechaček
@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!
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I didn't have anything out in 2025, but I'm still within the window of eligibility for the Astounding Award, so, for your consideration,
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it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)
today’s a good day to get the book people are calling “kaleidoscopic,” “lovingly queer,” “brutal & bloodthirsty,” “fascinating,” “dangerous,” “whimsical,” “deeply strange and cannibalistic”, and one of the best fantasy novels of 2024
The West Passage a book by Jared Pechaček
THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." --Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Legends & Lattes "A weird and wonde...
bookshop.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:59 PM
it is my birthday and I will accept either chests of jewels or everyone buying my book (or both, if you can swing it)
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Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
Cyclone Ditwah Flood Relief Sri Lanka
How to donate to Sri Lankan flood relief initiatives in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.
vajra.me
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Sri Lanka is hit hard by Cyclone Ditwah with severe flooding across the island. Over a hundred and fifty are dead, and tens of thousands are displaced. Some ways you can help:
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
vajra.me/2025/11/29/c...
birthday present from @kristalauren.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
birthday present from @kristalauren.bsky.social
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Please help Yaqoub's family survive Israel's continuing genocide by sharing & donating. Palestinians like them have been left starving & homeless as cold winter rains flood the camps and Gaza.
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Please help Yaqoub's family survive Israel's continuing genocide by sharing & donating. Palestinians like them have been left starving & homeless as cold winter rains flood the camps and Gaza.
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Let's fund both translations, get these writers and translators paid, and close up the project!
Still needed: $2395 (USD)
Last donation: Yesterday, $5
Shout out to Alex Brown for the repost.
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Still needed: $2395 (USD)
Last donation: Yesterday, $5
Shout out to Alex Brown for the repost.
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Rally Weekend - let's close this up! / please see - please share / After eight months - let's complete funding for the translation of Zvinobvinza to: The Crocodile Doesn'...
ko-fi.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Let's fund both translations, get these writers and translators paid, and close up the project!
Still needed: $2395 (USD)
Last donation: Yesterday, $5
Shout out to Alex Brown for the repost.
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Still needed: $2395 (USD)
Last donation: Yesterday, $5
Shout out to Alex Brown for the repost.
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
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I would like to lie down in the Zone and be absorbed into the ground
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I would like to lie down in the Zone and be absorbed into the ground
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caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
I sense that this covetous beast is only being affectionate to get close to my sandwich of thanksgiving leftovers
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I sense that this covetous beast is only being affectionate to get close to my sandwich of thanksgiving leftovers
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November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
use code UGHFINE
or you could just buy them! up to you 📚
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks
clock’s ticking
two years ago, Henry Kissinger gave me the greatest birthday gift of all time
this year, I have just one humble wish,,,
this year, I have just one humble wish,,,
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
clock’s ticking
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In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series
Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In honor of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's legacy as a disability activist and writer, today we are republishing Bitch Magazine's Access Series, which was originally curated by Alice Wong. Worker-owner and former Bitch editor-in-chief Evette Dionne updated the intro to the series here:
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John! John, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Milton! You know that justification of the ways of God to Man you're looking for? Well, listen to this! *begins reciting the entirety of the Bible*
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
John! John, it's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Milton! You know that justification of the ways of God to Man you're looking for? Well, listen to this! *begins reciting the entirety of the Bible*
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
Bowie *
Roger Waters
July Talk *
Metric *
Alice Phoebe Lou *
* multiple times
November 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
Janelle Monàe
Seattle Symphony doing The Rite of Spring
Tinariwen
Abel Selaocoe
Gamelan Pacifica
aren’t you all tired of having opinions about cranberry sauce
do you not yearn for freedom
do you not yearn for freedom
November 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
aren’t you all tired of having opinions about cranberry sauce
do you not yearn for freedom
do you not yearn for freedom
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Thanksgiving dinner is usually a long, exhausting affair with endless food and boring, unfocused conversation. Skip it this year in favor of a single bowl of Soylent for the table and a lightning round where each family member pitches an idea for disrupting an established industry with AI
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanksgiving dinner is usually a long, exhausting affair with endless food and boring, unfocused conversation. Skip it this year in favor of a single bowl of Soylent for the table and a lightning round where each family member pitches an idea for disrupting an established industry with AI
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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Hey! If you wanna do some good this thread and the whole page over on @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social has posts full of people that need help!!
Just bc you may be celebrating a holiday doesn’t mean people don’t need help to get food or basic necessities. 🖤
Just bc you may be celebrating a holiday doesn’t mean people don’t need help to get food or basic necessities. 🖤
Mutual Aid Void Thread for week of 11/24/25!
Post your mutual aid needs below! Please post once and bump!
Focus on RSing people out of thread.
Use alt text or put “alt4me” in replies if using an img!
Use 💕💸 or 💸💕 in post to show up in the Mutual Aid Void feed!
💕💸
💕💸🍉 (Gaza feed only!)
🖤🧡
💕💸🏳️⚧️
Post your mutual aid needs below! Please post once and bump!
Focus on RSing people out of thread.
Use alt text or put “alt4me” in replies if using an img!
Use 💕💸 or 💸💕 in post to show up in the Mutual Aid Void feed!
💕💸
💕💸🍉 (Gaza feed only!)
🖤🧡
💕💸🏳️⚧️
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hey! If you wanna do some good this thread and the whole page over on @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social has posts full of people that need help!!
Just bc you may be celebrating a holiday doesn’t mean people don’t need help to get food or basic necessities. 🖤
Just bc you may be celebrating a holiday doesn’t mean people don’t need help to get food or basic necessities. 🖤
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)