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Magen Cubed

@magencubed.net

Writer, essayist, and occasional critic. Jotaro Kujo's #1 shooter. Notorious Shinji Ikari apologist. Likes Tomie Kawakami a little too much. 🔗 magencubed.net 📰 buttondown.com/magencubed 💍 @melissadominic.bsky.social

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 2h ago

And the audiobook for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE (TRM #4) is at Chirp (for slightly less money)

The Reanimator's Fate

An autistic necromancer, his undead love, and a future in peril The Paranormal Society has been Oliver’s home for over a decade, yet he still isn’t sure where he fits. At Gwen’s suggestion, Oliver joi...

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Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · 5h ago

The audiobook for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE is trickling out *cue flaming Elmo* So far, it appears to be on Kobo. Not sure where else. Audible/Amazon won't be for a few weeks.

a kobo listing for audiobook of The Reanimator's Fate by Kara Jorgensen, read by Jack R. R. Evans. It's $24.99

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 5d ago

In my latest piece, I discuss my love of summer (and all its contradictions), healing from burn-out, navigating my relationship to my own art, and living life when you've mostly lived for your craft You can read it here:

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

On summertime, healing, and living a lot of life in a few short months.

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nuclear family hater @androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 20h ago

not to be pop culture brained but it is kind of crazy how libfem shit is being weaponized against ppl who are like holy shit Ariana Grande is about to die. fellas is it anti-woman to express concern about the health of a woman and the high mortality rates of eating disorders

Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 4h ago

Soad still needs us. Please share

liztism™ 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨🚨 I have appealed to you with all the pain and hope in my heart; will my plea find its way to your compassionate hearts?😔 My child Omar is very sick; he has lost weight due to malnutrition. Every time he tried to walk, he fell to the ground😭 I need $100 to buy food.😭🙏🏼👇 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx

Little Omar sitting in a bucket full of water as his mother Suad feeds him crackers.

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 5h ago

Btw, once it trickles through the distribution networks, the audiobook for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE will be on Kobo, B&N, Audiobooks.com, Chirp, Bookshop.org, Audible/Amazon, Spotify, library systems, and every other major audiobook retailer

Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · 5h ago

The audiobook for THE REANIMATOR'S FATE is trickling out *cue flaming Elmo* So far, it appears to be on Kobo. Not sure where else. Audible/Amazon won't be for a few weeks.

The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 7h ago

Please help my friend and immensely talented artist get a very needed MRI. Our country is broken so let's help each other as best we can 💕

c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics@portaltohades.bsky.social · 7d ago

Alright, it was suggested to me that I actually crowdfund the out of pocket cost for the lumbar MRI since my insurance keeps denying the day before the appt even w/ it as an important order. I will have more info in the replies as well. I was honestly hesitant but... ko-fi.com/portaltohades

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 6h ago

You can help Mahmoud's family survive Israel's genocide right now by sharing & donating. Mahmoud is caring for his sister's orphaned children, who are starving, sick, & in urgent need, especially Ahmed whose life is in danger from a severe viral infection:

help mahmoud look after his family & orphaned children in gaza

hello! i'm kat & i'm running this campaign for my friend, mahmoud, who is stuck in gaza &, with his family, is trying to survive occupation & genocide.

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 7h ago

🚨💔 Ahmed is fighting for his life. Today, he was moved back to the ICU and relies on machines to breathe. The virus is spreading through his tiny body, painful spots cover him, and his condition worsens every hour. Please don’t let my boy be lost. Help save Ahmed. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1905...

Ahmed with his face, torso and arm skin covered with red sores is crying in the arms of his older sister.

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 6h ago

I feel like the Star Wars fan is more likely to do a hate crime so I'm gonna bounce, but I feel like the Star Trek fan is more likely to stand there and explain to me why their politics are good and they're better people, which is really annoying, so I'm also gonna bounce

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 11h ago

the-unflappablewolf on tumblr: "Who would you trust more?
[Poll option: total stranger in a star trek shirt? with 94.5% vote share]
[Poll option: total stranger in a star wars shirt? with 5.5% vote share]"

thebaconsandwichofregret: "No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical."

Manchester City @mancity.com · 8h ago

23' | Just like last game, Mubama finds the back of the net 🫡 🩵 3-1 🌟

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 8h ago

Watching the City match against K-League All Stars before work, talking to the screen like I know shit 😌🫶

Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · yesterday

Ignorance and silence cost my baby girls their lives. How many times must this heartbreaking loss repeat before my eyes? 💔 Now Ibrahim suffers severe dehydration & acute pneumonia, needing €200 for treatment. Indifference destroys lives. Please help before it's too late!😭😭 chuffed.org/project/191450

A nurse uses a stethoscope to examine the back of a young boy in a black t-shirt. The boy is sitting on a medical examination couch with white sheets inside a temporary tent-like clinic. A sign on the wall reads "SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES PALESTINE". A pink stethoscope hangs on the wall nearby. The image has a "Shot on POWER P55" watermark.

Handwritten medical document titled "Patient Register," featuring Arabic text, numerical data entries, and a diagnosis noting upper respiratory tract infection and dehydration

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 12h ago

As you wallow in immobilizing despair, people in Gaza have to continue living, and we have to continue helping. One link, 21 families, the ONLY ASK IS $5. Just click "weekly" or “monthly”!! chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 16h ago

We will never give up on them. Little girls Remas & Toleen need sustained support for food, shelter, other necessities. A 5 you click “weekly/monthly” on is ALL I ask. Please do not give more! Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 16h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure.

Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.

Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 19h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

The real enemy isn’t your buddy who is using AI to make a book cover; the enemy is the Powers-That-Be who thrive on dividing everyone, especially in the United States. Look at how divided everyone in the US got over politics over the past ten years, and it’s now trickled to other countries. No more, are you a fellow human? Nope, it’s who did you vote for? Well, then you must be a hateful asshole. Instant block.

But who’s the asshole?

Every week, the gatekeepers of horror writers have some new witch hunt. Sometimes it’s a good thing to suss out shitty publishers, editors, and agents. Yet, not ALL shitty ones are sussed out because, you know, there are consequences to getting all the shitty people shut down. Some people still like the opportunities to get published or represented even if it means going with the most despicable people because the gatekeepers didn’t get them shut down, or sometimes, don’t even notice. It all depends on who is buttering the toast.

The past few weeks have been so tedious with all the gatekeepers out in full force. They are whipping people up into a frenzy, and more division is happening when it comes to AI. Of course, the irony is that the gatekeepers are denouncing AI, yet they are doing it on Facebook, which uses AI. They are likely typing their pretentious screeds on their phones, which also use AI. They likely sell their books on Amazon, which also uses AI.

AI is here. It’s been coming since I was typing on a manual typewriter. You can let the robots win by becoming less human by cutting out all your friends, fans, family, and readers because they dared to try out AI, or you can be a human being and let people explore and figure things out for themselves.

Hollywood is already embracing AI.

Many companies use AI.

AI can be useful for tedious tasks such as creating listings on eBay or Poshmark. Do you shop or sell on those platforms? They totally use AI now, so you’d better boycott them too.

I went to the AI panel at Stokercon, and of course, most of the panelists were vehemently anti-AI. An audience member stood up and pointed out that they learned about the panel because they saw it on Sched, which is the app that the HWA/Stokercon uses, and THAT is AI. Doesn’t HWA have an anti-AI stance? Oh, but of course, THAT is okay; it’s all the other AI stuff that isn’t.

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 9h ago

The HWA coming out hot for AI is embarrassing shit. Lazy, incurious, cruel, hack shit

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 18h ago

Reading Los reyes by Julio Cortázar in translation because I'm still on that Minotaur shit 😎

The cover of the dramatic poem los Reyes by Julio Cortázar

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 22h ago

Also, pet tax because Katie is adorable (as is Edgar), and I love her post-radiation white snoot

Two dogs looking slightly off camera. Ok has pointy ears. The other is smaller and has a white nose with a bald spot. Both dogs are black and white

Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · yesterday

It's been a bit since I posted Katie's GoFundMe, but I finally scheduled her 6 month post op follow-up, which involves at least a check up and x-rays (not sure about bloodwork), but last time, the visit was close to $1000 with all three. Shares are always appreciated 💜🐾

liztism™ 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · yesterday

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 23h ago

If I didn't spend a good chunk of my day at my job telling Claude "Listen to me, you little fuckshit, remember these instructions or I'll kill your mother," maybe I would be more impressed by it But since I do, well

Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · yesterday

Nurse Hammam has risked his life to save the wounded and injured since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Right now his family is starving & homeless & his brother suffers from severe epileptic seizures. Any donation—even small ones—can change their lives. Please donate: chuffed.org/project/1844...

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · yesterday

Hi, can you like/comment if you can see this? Yall, we can help 100 people at this one link. I'm not asking for one-off donations, but a small, sustainable pledge. Can you click "weekly" on a coffee or a five to help them eat? chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

an immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · yesterday

I'm reading the classics* today *15 year old creepypastas

Vicious516 Creepypasta - YouTube

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · yesterday

Get this. Get this right now

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming soon from @filthyloot.bsky.social 9 stories collected from 2020-2025.

An old anatomical illustration showing a woman in 19th century dress, her back to the viewer and unclothed to reveal some manner of pox. A single blue eye, wide as a shoulder, looks out from her upper back. Below the illustration reads the title "Cráite"

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2d ago

Reminder that this ships early next month! Get yer pre-orders in at filthyloot.com (US only)

Misfit Fictions - filthy loot press

Filthy Loot is a boutique press specializing in existential horror, transgressive lit, subversive art, and all things underground. Read our mission statement. We love working directly with indie books...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin@miseryvulture.bsky.social · last mo.

Coming soon from @filthyloot.bsky.social 9 stories collected from 2020-2025.

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · yesterday

We gotta get Gyo with it

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · yesterday

The scam emails are getting very funny "We'll help you promote your writing!!" makes sense. A quick search tells you I write stuff "Want to join out VTuber academy where we teach you how to be a catgirl Twitch streamer?" makes slightly less sense

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · yesterday

Please interact if you can see this // Today, we highlight little girls Remas & Toleen: Every week I say that we need to act to keep them ALIVE. All it takes is a 5 you click weekly/monthly on. Help them eat & get water. Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A white graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a crouching falcon looking off in the distance. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle". Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”

Anarchist Black Cross of South Florida @abc-soflo.bsky.social · 2d ago

celebrating Black august ✊🏻 (2/2)