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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 7h ago

hey man they made a toy of you

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The most Inughable novelty yet produced.
Made of rubber, and you have only to blow it up and stand the pig on his feet, when he begins to squeal an he slowly collapses and finally lies down and dies in the most natural manner. You can blow him up as often as desired, and each time he will go through the sme performance to the grent amusement and delight of your friends. Price, 15 cents;
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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 8h ago

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Sunday Comix

A panel from “Pixie Meat” by Tom De Haven, Gary Panter, and Charles Burns. Published in Snake Eyes #1, 1991, Fantagraphics Books.

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 20h ago

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 5

MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · yesterday

Richard Oelze, Expectation, 1935-36 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134624

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2d ago

"A Parkersburg Vocabulary" -- David Berman biblioklept.org/2026/08/07/a...

“A Parkersburg Vocabulary” — David Berman

“A Parkersburg Vocabulary” by David Berman Sad Fingers (sad-fin-gurs) n. Nostalgia for an old area code. Ex: “He has sad fingers.” Hoxter (hock-stur) n. A fellow who lacks the energy to…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2d ago

Friday covers.

The Labyrinth of Solitude Life and Thought in Mexico By Octavio Paz

Relief of the CDT
Keith Laumer
Doubleday Science Fiction

• lantar dal DaIL
OSTI
DONED
CLANS OF THE
ALPHANE MOON

PHILIPK.DICK

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2d ago

"A Parkersburg Vocabulary" -- David Berman biblioklept.org/2026/08/07/a...

“A Parkersburg Vocabulary” — David Berman

“A Parkersburg Vocabulary” by David Berman Sad Fingers (sad-fin-gurs) n. Nostalgia for an old area code. Ex: “He has sad fingers.” Hoxter (hock-stur) n. A fellow who lacks the energy to…

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Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · 2d ago

RIP, my mischievously sweet and generous brother

$Press D @EquusPress I.M. RICK HARSCH We are heartbroken to learn of the death of Rick Harsch, & bid farewell to a magnificent writer, a fearless publisher, & one of the warmest, brightest, most generous people we have had the privilege to know. Through Corona\Samizdat, Rick conducted his tireless literary operations from Izola, Slovenia. From that unlikely hub he unleashed on the unsuspecting world some unruly, uncompromising, & criminally overlooked writing with an enthusiasm entirely his own. His solidarity with fellow independent presses was equally uncompromising. In his wonderfully digressive YouTube videos, he devoted time & attention to several Equus books, discussing them with the wit & infectious passion that made him such a rare reader & advocate for a common cause. In October 2024, he joined us in Prague for the Prague Microfestival, bringing with him that unmistakable mixture of erudition, mischief, outrage & immense human warmth. We were enormously fortunate to visit Rick in Izola last February, to see the place from which Corona\Samizdat carried out its improbable & essential work, & to enjoy his company, conversation, & boundless hospitality. Rick was one of the great independents: a writer and publisher who understood literature not as a career structure or marketplace, but as a form of selfless friendship & stubborn collective life. His loss leaves the small-press community immeasurably poorer, and all of us who knew him bereft. Our love and deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, writers, readers, & the entire Corona\Samizdat community. The mission continues, as it must. But without Rick, it will be a lonelier one. Ave atque vale.$

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 3d ago

i regard water as dry

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d ago

Riff on rereading Gene Wolfe's postmodern American Gothic ghost novel Peace biblioklept.org/2026/08/06/r...

Riff on rereading Gene Wolfe’s postmodern American Gothic ghost novel Peace

I read Gene Wolfe’s 1975 novel Peace a few weeks ago and then obsessively reread it. The adverb obsessively in the previous clause refers to a rereading that engendered more rereading, taking…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d ago

Riff on rereading Gene Wolfe's postmodern American Gothic ghost novel Peace biblioklept.org/2026/08/06/r...

Riff on rereading Gene Wolfe’s postmodern American Gothic ghost novel Peace

I read Gene Wolfe’s 1975 novel Peace a few weeks ago and then obsessively reread it. The adverb obsessively in the previous clause refers to a rereading that engendered more rereading, taking…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d ago

No center | Joanna Russ biblioklept.org/2026/08/06/n...

No center | Joanna Russ

There used to be an odd, popular, and erroneous idea that the sun revolved around the earth. This has been replaced by an even odder, equally popular, and equally erroneous idea that the earth goes…

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 4d ago

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I don't like The Cure

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The Disappointment" -- Aphra Behn biblioklept.org/2026/08/05/t...

“The Disappointment” — Aphra Behn

“The Disappointment” by Aphra Behn 1 One Day the Amarous Lisander, By an impatient Passion sway’d, Surpris’d fair Cloris, that lov’d Maid, Who cou’d defend her s…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fade in the Water, Cepeda Brunson

The image depicts a chaotic scene from the August 5, 2023, Montgomery Riverfront Brawl, showing individuals fighting on a dock with a riverboat in the background and a smartphone being used to record the incident.

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 5d ago

Catherine Foulkrod's Don't Cure Me (Book acquired, mid-July 2026) biblioklept.org/2026/08/04/c...

Catherine Foulkrod’s Don’t Cure Me (Book acquired, mid-July 2026)

Catherine Foulkrod’s Don’t Cure Me is out early next year from McSweeney’s. Their copy: A new king is being crowned, doctors are on the verge of a massive medical discovery, socie…

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀@dumbmike.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today marks a very special day in science fiction literature. May I present to you, "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury:

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS
By Ray Bradbury

The computer house buzzed awake. “Good morning, everyone,” it said.

Mr. Raynes woke up. He gave a big stretch. His wife was a robot and said “It’s a beautiful day today, my dear.”

“Yes, Mrs. Raynes” said he.

A program ran inside of her cybernetic brain, or “cy-brain”. It calculated the weather and other things.

“It may rain tonight, darling,” the robot mistress of the household said to her master.

He was scrolling through his phone, which was not just a telephonic device, but one with a video screen that could broadcast information from any corner of the earth. There was one application called, ironically, “Blue sky” he was looking at.

“Goodness me,” he intoned, “today is a date of great import. I must be the first to virally post that a story about soft rains coming mentioned this very date!”

He continued to intone. “August 4, 2026. That is the date of today.”

“You will collect hundreds or maybe even … calculating, calculating … thousands of likes, my husband.”

“Oh, look,” he splurted out, walking to the window. A rain began to fall.

“Let us thank God the Father and Christ the Son at His right hand,” said his faithful electronic wife.

“In gratitude, Lord, we look to Thee as our protector. Guide us through dark times and fair. Lead us as a shepherd past the temptations of iniquity and sin, and shelter us your devoted from the wickedness of others until we may join Thee again at the Great Reunion in your kingdom of Heaven. Of Thee, this we pray. Amen,” said Mr. Raynes.

“Amen,” said his robot wife, whose “cy-brain” was connected to the computer house through a “wireless” information relay protocol.

They were both Episcopalian.

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 6d ago

Read an excerpt of Ishmael Reed's forthcoming novel, The Terrible Fives biblioklept.org/2026/08/03/r...

Read an excerpt of Ishmael Reed’s forthcoming novel, The Terrible Fives

Rex Stuart (T.2s) had made a pile as the star of the soap opera Sorrows and Trials. He’d set up his film company to cater to the streaming market. Right now, Afro-Futurism is hot. He asked his agen…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · last wk.

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Sunday Comix

A panel from Crumple by Dave Cooper. Published in Zero Zero #20, Sept.-Oct. 1997, Fantagraphics Books.

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Hey fuck you, weirdo

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · last wk.

Some unpleasant possibilities | Joanna Russ biblioklept.org/2026/07/30/s...

Some unpleasant possibilities | Joanna Russ

One might argue—and justly—that many male writers are also represented by only one book or one group of poems. I would answer first that the damage done the women is greater because women constitut…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is just so profoundly sad and stupid

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my favorite moments in all of literature.

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w ago

We felt very nice and snug, the more so since it was so chilly out of doors

Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICYMI I wrote about the latest release in the long overdue Rosalind Belben revival. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social “I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...

“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben

I think, it doesn’t matter where I am, whether calm or with nerves shot to pieces, in the mountains, in towns, sleeping well or sleeping badly, it doesn’t matter, I am quite lost, wherever I am. I …

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