Eric Williams
@geoliminal.bsky.social
anarcho-communist; calling upon the aid of Hell books: Toadstones (Malarkey Books 2022); Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation (Paradise Editions, 2023) website: geoliminal.com/writing/
So so so behind but laying out and printing Hellarkey V this weekend. Thanks to @ossuary.bsky.social @renbolger.bsky.social @geoliminal.bsky.social for editing! $10 but take off $5 if you need with code BLOODDIMMEDTIDE. malarkeybooks.com/store/hellar...
Hellarkey V — Malarkey
This fifth annual issue of Hellarkey contains stories and poems from past Malarkey contributors as well as brand new inductees to the cult. See the list below, if you dare! Eidolon Vampires by Xavi...
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got fired from The Jerk Store on my first day b/c i couldn't figure out the phones and didn't make all the calls i needed to
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · yesterdayIn honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
This is my colleague and she is a wonderful, smart person who also happens to be a preeminent expert on freedom of expression.
PhillyVoice.com@phillyvoice.com · yesterdayA retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct
📣COVER REVEAL: @kuboartt.bsky.social has created this striking work for the short story collection of Charles R. Saunders' queer warrior woman, DOSSOUYE - one of two of her books we'll be begin crowdfunding on Nov 5th, at 8am EST! Go here to lend her your spear! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Zionism is fascism. I agree with Wallace Shawn, the Israelis are doing evil that is just as great as what the Nazis did, and they boast about it in a way Nazis would have been too embarrassed or ashamed to.
and, even more fucked up - the guy they sent to arrest John Brown? Robert E. Lee.
🎃🕸️𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙉ᴴᴹ (but spooky)💀👻@hackermanhm.bsky.social · yesterdayI think all of US history can be communicated with the sentence "They executed John Brown and pardoned Robert E. Lee."
and, even more fucked up - the guy they sent to arrest John Brown? Robert E. Lee.
🎃🕸️𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙍𝙈𝘼𝙉ᴴᴹ (but spooky)💀👻@hackermanhm.bsky.social · yesterdayI think all of US history can be communicated with the sentence "They executed John Brown and pardoned Robert E. Lee."
I hear some of you like to talk about folk horror on Fridays, so why not also consider buying a folk horror novelette today? This one's got highly questionable dietary choices, emergency field surgery, and relentlessly bad vibes, among other things.
Folk horror AND sword & sorcery? That's right, a new novelette from yours truly!
"The Ones Who Hound Him in the Dark," a genre-blending weird fiction novelette in homage to the pulp novels of yesteryear. By E.M. White.
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#OtD 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
This KickStarter is probably going to fail, but if more people knew about it, then it could reach its funding goal. Check out H. P. Lovecraft: When the Stars Are Right by Seán Martin on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lov...
H. P. Lovecraft: When the Stars Are Right
Long-lost documentary about H. P. Lovecraft with unique footage - friends & writers - who never spoke on camera about HPL again.
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The correlation is that just like with mass deportation, militarized police & scores of other Trump era horrors, it was made easier because Trump was able to deploy tools of fascism that the previous administration continued to build when they should have been dismantling.
CNN legal analyst: Biden-era inquiry into Omar hurts her case against Trump
CNN anchor Jake Tapper questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) should have come forward about any potential issues with her immigration status during the Biden administration rather than face …
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Pleasebury Doughboy ✨@plsburydoughboy.bsky.social · 3d agoI know a lot of people won't want to hear this but Ilhan Omar withholding support for Biden and Kamala has a clear correlation to her potential deportation
I’m gonna keep hammering this until I start seeing Number Go Up. These ratings really help with visibility on Amazon (I know, I hate them too, but this is the game) and you don’t have to write much, or even anything really. Thanks in advance!
Spencer Fleury@spencerfleury.bsky.social · 2w agoDo good reviews and high ratings sell books? Probably! If you read and enjoyed THE SHITBIRD, please take a moment to rate and/ or review it at Amazon, Goodreads, or elsewhere. It won’t take long, and it does help with visibility. Thank you so much! 🙏
#OtD 16 Oct 1918 the Immigration Act of 1918 (aka: Alien Anarchists Exclusion Act of 1918) was signed into US law by Pres Wilson. It expanded earlier powers to target anarchists and @IWW members, nearly 1000 of whom were later deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8829...
I am hereby bogposting as far as that's possible, short of posting from nearby or within an actual peat bog. Anyway, please enjoy my extended take on what peat bog and bog body stories tend to have in common beyond really tremendous motifs.
From the bog, an exhumation: Towards a paradigm for bog-centric speculative fiction
Understanding common themes and motifs in fiction about peat bogs, bog bodies, and the secrets exhumed from them.
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"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements
turns out these AI email scams directed at writers are ubiquitous because...they work www.thedial.world/articles/new...
The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial
Why writers are the perfect target.
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worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 3d agoThe federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
FANGORIA guest authors RS Benedict and Karlo Yeager-Rodríguez explore the parallels between Latin American horror and the rise of political fascism.
Feasting on the Open Veins: Fascism in Latin American Horror Cinema
FANGORIA guest authors RS Benedict and Karlo Yeager-Rodríguez explore the parallels between Latin American horror and the rise of political fascism.
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AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.
Folks were obsessed with this story because once again it hit the liberal ideal of politics: this isn’t our fault, our friends and neighbors aren’t actually Nazis with an ideology we have to consciously address, it’s just a building and if we blow it up we won Politics: the Video Game
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d agoDrone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it.
hey can i get a wooden gate that looks like this face :-/ and oh yeah no, dont stain it or anything im sure it will be fine.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d agoElon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
