Jordan D. River
@jordanriverwrites.bsky.social
Pericollapse poet/author. Game/Book reviews. I write short stories, essays and novel mostly in verse across genre, but typically horror adjacent. Check media tab for latest from me. Buy my ebooks at https://jordanriverwrites.itch.io/
Will they defend the 1st amendment right of the audience members to boo? Or is first amendment right only for bigots? "I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Also I will defend only you, not others, until it starts to seem like I agree with what you say."
Why not treat yourself or a loved one to my new "Folklore of Scotland" Let's go on a magical journey in faerie tales and folk horror, introducing almost 200 characters from Scottish folklore folkloreofscotland.com #folklorethursday #Scotland 📚 available in print and ebook
Some subtle, clever, beautiful submissions already in - thank you! The window for Issue 10 is open throughout July. The theme is Delicate: all that is tender, precarious, graceful and deft; patterns, images, intricacies and interactions. Human and non-human. Please check website for guidelines. 🕸🕊
Educators: our newest project is open for submissions! We're putting together a full-length collection on the topic of poetry in education, edited by Dr. Jones Irwin, our poetry critique columnist. Please feel free to share the link! redogrereview.submittable.com/submit 📚💙
The weather today in Barking Waters, Great Plains is weirdly eldritch. Fog thick enough to swim through with a suffocating humidity that makes breathing a struggle. Simply bonkers. Phone cams can't capture mist and fog well. This is thick, 4 feet in front of me.
The Backwards Knight, chock full of warnings to pay heed to. If you want to know more, you're going to have to source yourself a copy and give it a read. I promise its eldritch horrors won't drive you *too* mad. I think. It may just be your next favorite eldritch fantasy novel. #BookSky
The year is 4300 BCE. The place is Europe, where Eastern nomads have invaded Shara, a civilized city where a bold and passionate young woman named Keshna comes of age as a female warrior and a daring avenger. https://amzn.to/3Hvx3qD #HistoricalFiction
Knowing a heat wave was coming on, I made 2qts of raspberry shrub on Sunday and just racked it today. Delicious in seltzer or ginger (ale or beer) 1:7. Excellent hydrator and easy to make. 1:1:.25-1 of vinegar, muddled fruit and sweetner (to taste). 3 days in fridge, then strain and rack for mixing.
Last week's poets brought it. This week: #PoemsAbout #CheapMotels. Temporary rooms. Permanent mistakes. Thin walls. Flickering signs. Theme opens Friday. Use Alt Text.
In a sane world this would be the top story everywhere, on the tips of common people's tongues, talked about at the water cooler. At this point, my Cassandra Complex is screaming. The future they want is not hidden in symbology. www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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It is a sign of the times and very annoying that the one post I make that starts to make "numbers" is a stupid ad for an author community network and not one of my 5 poetry collections or a trenchant observation on daily life. #FML
The three volume loose collection I call the Gospel of Want. $6.00 for all 3 volumes: Breaking Ground, Banquet & Ashes, The Unpriced Sky. Reviewers call it "...almost poetry..." itch.io/s/186488/the...
The Gospel of Want by Jordan D. River
A bundle by Jordan D. River, $6.00 for Breaking Ground, Banquet & Ashes, The Unpriced Sky
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Bezos says that concern for human comfort is holding back the techbros in their quest to build AI and reach the endgame. I think its time the billionaires relearn what the term 'human comfort' means. Tax them heavily. If they flee or hide their money, sanction them heavily and destroy their empires.
“This chimeric monstrosity between the technobroligarchy and AI is reminiscent of the alliance between early industrialists and their factory machines. You are just a cog, they used to say. Now you’re not even that. You are the lubricant between the cogs” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
THEY ROBBED US: The Terrifying New Version of Society We Must Avoid
People are experiencing the steepest and fastest ever slide into poverty, just as one tech billionaire after the next parades through The Diary of The CEO podcast to tell us how AI will “eventually” m...
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The highlight is that I published my first detective novel, Fractured Lives, book 1 in the Vic Tran series. More retailers will show up in the bookstore list as their software catches up. books2read.com/u/bWn8dq
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Fractured Lives by P R Adams
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OMFG. On a phone call with someone trying to show me how to do some admin process for this company (update your own damned stories!) and she is absolutely going to town on a piece of gum about 1 inch from my eardrum and its driving me to distraction.
The GOP is big into AI ads this season, and in OK it's particularly insulting to anyone not under their spell. Complete MAGA, with opposition barely present and most ads directed at other GOP. Sterotyped AI visuals. Schoolyard tactics, no mention of policy. How are they still unchallenged here?
The Indie Author Collective Fantastical Escape stuff your kindle fantasy books event is on! Check out indieauthorcollective.com to find your new free or discounted reads!
Tired of space heroes who always triumph on every mission? Try my new story Space Lord Losers: To Catch an Ape on Substack! tinyurl.com/5ye9jyzc #scifi #sciencefiction #parody #humor #comedy #fiction #story #substack #booksky
Space Lord Losers: To Catch An Ape
Captain Appley Duglin confidently strapped into the Elevation Booth and waited for the buzzer to signal the lift.
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Currently on a rah-rah corporate all-hands and the CEO and CTO are both spouting proAI (hinting at job losses as "lower labor costs") and eagerly talking about the upcoming SpaceX rug pull. The fact it is larger than the entire economy doesn't seem to register. I hate corporate brain.
In this short fantasy story, a village becomes overcrowded and residents are asked to select the best method to thin the population. It’s all the fun of arguing about politics but with monsters instead! A seven-minute read. dnschmidt.com/fantasy-stor...
Choose The Thinning - D.N. Schmidt
In this philosophical fantasy story, a village has a monstrous solution to overcrowding. Residents are asked to select the best method to thin the population.
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Woke up to the same sleeping giant. The only bright seam is that they are creating the material conditions that will finally cause it to realize it has nothing left to lose. So tired of waiting for the dawn.
The thing about this bundle is it gives you more than 20 books, some audio, and helps creators get paid for their hard work. It takes several hundred hours to make a novel. It’s cool when they can pay the rent.
Devyn Kennedy, Unseen@devyntheauthor.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon't forgot that this entire month of #Pride, I am some other amazing, talented creators have a bundle going. We are close to the first goal. Help us SMASH through it and get onto the next one! Brighter than the Stars by Maria Ying and 26 others - itch.io share.google/cD8jDzhleb5A...
