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Shaenon K. Garrity

@shaenon.bsky.social

Cartoonist and skiffy writer. 2022 Inkpot winner. Narbonic, Skin Horse, Willowweep Manor, Steam. Repped by Brent Taylor. https://www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 15h ago

Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

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Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 17h ago

“I’m afraid we don’t have any money,” said Carcosa.

“We spent it on these boss turtlenecks,” said Id. “And the sunglasses.”

“The sunglasses were free. I got them from the lost-and-found box at the park.”

“Don’t flip your wigs,” said Ashy. “Everyone who signs up for the poetry reading gets one mug of steaming java, compliments of the house.”

“What do I say about poets?” said the old man. “You’re ticks. You’re leeches. You gonna drain me dry.”

“That’s Signor Bigello,” whispered Ashy. “He’s the owner. He puts up a square front, but he loves being at the center of Art and Happening.”

“I loathe it,” said the old man.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 2d ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 4th is "box" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d ago

if americans couldn't eat a burger under a democratic president, you would not hear the end of of it for prob 100 years

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · yesterday

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 2d ago

“Ambrose,” said Carcosa, “meet Black Bart, the gentleman bandit.”

Ambrose’s eyebrows, mustache, and jaw did things Carcosa didn’t think were possible on a human face. “You brought a road agent out of the past and into my bar?”

“I guess,” said Id.

“Why?”

“Cause you told us to.”

“Because I…?” His face went through further thrilling acrobatics. “That wasn’t serious. I was being arch.”

“What’s that mean?”

“This is why you two couldn’t write a poem to save your lives, you know.” Ambrose raised his voice. “Out of the axe bar, miscreant!”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3d ago

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for August 3rd is "thrill" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 2d ago

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 2d ago

MY HERO

Dr Evelyn Koch@evelynkoch.bsky.social · 2w ago

My timeline might be pleased to know that there's now a statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Dorchester's high street.

A statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner. The statue sits on a bench holding a book and papers in her hand. There are more books near her feet. Part of the statue is a cat canoodling with the writer's legs and feet.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good books I read last month.

Thoreau's Microscope by Michael Blumlein

Cartoon Art Museum @cartoonart.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some news: our lease on Beach Street is coming to an end so we're closing up shop this Sun., Aug. 2, and looking towards our next chapter. Thanks for your support; we'll stay in touch. cartoonart.org/press-releases/2026/7/31/cartoon-art-museum-update-closing-a-chapter

The front window of the Cartoon Art Museum

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Because the thing is, I’ve accomplished most of my goals in the butt department. It was kind of a top priority.”

“The plan is supposed to be our priority, Id.”

“I said a priority, not the priority. We can have more than one priority. Haven’t I been working hard on the plan?”

Carcosa relented with a smile. “You have, Id. And…you’re a good dancer.”

“If you really think so, you should dance with me. It’s fun as heck.”

“Well…” It was time to change the subject again. “Why are you in pain and saying ‘ow’?”

“Oh, yeah. Ow. Thing is, when I was living on Bad Bear Rock for a week and becoming one with nature and embracing the spirit of the bear?”

“Yes?”

“I sat in nasty bushes a bunch of times. My butt’s full of thorns.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 4d ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 2nd is "thorn" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3d ago

In the face of glaring social collapse, it is probably important to remind folks that *institutional courage* is an antidote. *Public goods and services* are an antidote. *Shared success* is an antidote.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ha ha, look at Chris's excellent chickens.

Tom the Dog@tomthedog.bsky.social · 3d ago

RECENT READING THE NEFARIOUS NIGHTS OF WILLOWWEEP MANOR, w. @shaenon.bsky.social a. Christopher Baldwin. A very fun follow-up to the very fun DIRE DAYS. Our heroes' Gothic Novel pocket universe is invaded by refugees from a Murder Mystery universe. Everyone's a suspect... EVEN THE CHICKEN

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Oh dip, you’re right. But in that case it’s not a homeless camp. It’s a home camp, inasmuch ipso facto it is our home.”

“I must admit,” says Ambrose, “the smaller and more vicious of you two viragos has a knack for definitions. We may do well to collaborate sometime.”

“Not on a poem,” says Id. “I’m so much better than you at poems.”

“Look, I didn’t mean to offend you unhoused persons,” says the girl at the next table. “I didn’t know.”

“Well, now you do,” says Id. “Oblong Park is a world heritage treasure place because it’s a park and a home camp and the site of the most beautiful of all benches and one time I rode a bear and another time we saw the burgers change shape, oh, and it’s where you get hats for feeding Soup and sometimes a naked guy yells at night but for like fifty years the bubble lady blows.”

The girl and her friends get up and look for another table.

Ambrose shrugs. “Ignore them. Coherence is the hobgoblin of little minds.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 5d ago

The #WIPSnips word for August 1st is "coherent" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lots of hard-to-find stories in this old paperback collection, but I just about exploded into spores when I saw Nigel Kneale's name inside. I can never find his fiction here in the US.

THE CIRCUS OF DR. LAO AND OTHER IMPROBABLE STORIES, edited by Ray Bradbury

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 4d ago

From A STAR BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN. "We were just starting to like you" is what my family says every single time someone leaves, which is why you've gotta Irish Goodbye out of there.

Manga page with teens at karaoke and someone saying, "Iwa! Are you leaving? We were just starting to like you!"

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Good,” said Carcosa, “because we have a lot to discuss.”

“There are so many plot twists yinz missed out on.”

“They’re not plot twists, Id. They’re real things that happened.”

“You had amnesia, Carcosa.”

“No I didn’t. I fell out of the GBSF Field. That’s completely different.”

“Anyway, that’s old news,” said Ambrose.

“Ambrose has y’all dead to rights,” said Bart. “You already told us about the amnesia plotline.”

“It’s not a plotline! It happened to me! And I don’t get amnesia. I get time anomalies.”

“Time anomalies,” muttered Ambrose, “that suspiciously resemble the most cliche plot points in an Argosy pulp serial.”

“I don’t know what that is,” said Id, “but my sucker-punching fist thinks it sounds like you’re insulting us again, and my other sucker-punching fist thinks there’s no way you’re already in the mood for another sucker-punching.”

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 6d ago

The #WIPSnips word for July 31st is "twist" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Konner Knudsen 🌈@penzerker.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sounds like my old friends in the Dark Horse Union could use all of your support right now. Please lend them your ears, and throw some love their way. If you are a comics creator, retailer, fan, or some other variety of decent human, you should be loudly supporting these folks.

Dark Horse Workers United@darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 6d ago

UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bodies whipped past them. Shouts rang out calling for guns, for bullets. The bear turned, a vast shadow against the dusty sunshine, then dropped to all fours and hurtled forward. It seemed impossible for something so large to move so quickly. Carcosa identified it as a grizzly, a species extinct in that part of the country in her own time. This was unhelpful information.

Id stepped forward. “I’m gonna ride her.”

“Id! You are not!”

“Relax.” Id looked over her shoulder. Her face radiated purity of purpose. “You know how you’re gonna go back to last week and put that ad in the newspaper?”

The bear was almost on them. “Id, we don’t have time—”

“While you’re doing that, I’mo hang out on Bad Bear Rock for a week with a picnic basket full of jam sammiches and tame this bear.”

She turned away from Id. She held out a hand.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 7d ago

The #WIPSnips word for July 30th is "relax" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d ago

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

Still on my hats

Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · last wk.

This is TONIGHT! Join us!

Story Hour@storyhour.bsky.social · last wk.

This Story Hour is one for the books! Much-lauded authors Tobi Ogundiran and Isabel J. Kim return—and Isabel is even reading her Hugo-nominated “Wire Mother”! Don’t miss this one. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @tobiogundiran.com @isabel.kim www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of author Tobi Ogundiran, a Black man with hair worn curly, short, and partly shaved on the sides. He wears a tan barn jacket over a black shirt and black trousers. He leans against a brick building on a sunny day; the quality of the light and the tall, leafless trees behind him suggest that the photo was taken in autumn or winter. He has one hand in his pocket; with the other he cups his chin as if stroking his short, neat beard. With his face in three-quarters view, he looks directly into the camera, smiling like a man who knows all the secrets.

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 7d ago

New decor.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

“My dream,” said Moxon, “is that the next United States census will be calculated by machine, vastly speeding up a tedious process.”

“I’m trying to be polite,” said Id, “but that’s a super boring dream.”

“Not if you know how much the government is willing to pay for it.” Moxon patted an assemblage of redwood and steel on a countertop. It was the smallest of the inventions, about the size of a large microwave with a small microwave bolted on top of it. “This is Moxon’s Reckoner. It will revolutionize calculations.”

“Does it add and subtract numbers?”

“Yes, but slightly faster than these other machines. And, most crucially, faster than a human being.”

“Would you look at that,” said Black Bart. “I didn’t half believe you ladies were from the future, but here it is, right in this here barn.”

“It’s not a barn,” Moxon snapped. “It used to be a barn. Now it’s a state-of-the-art showroom offering a tantalizing glimpse of the twentieth century.”

“And the twenty-first,” said Id, “on account of we’re here.”

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

One of the all-time greats. (You may recognize it as the A plot in Twelve Monkeys. The B plot in Twelve Monkeys is "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree Jr. I will be taking no further time-travel questions at this juncture.)

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 7d ago

A haunting and beautiful time travel classic you can watch in full here:

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

It also seems like a problem that the Senate is writing a strongly worded letter in advance of the president pardoning his favorite child pimp but they plan to let him do it anyway because everyone knows how much he loves child pimping?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7d ago

FLAG: The Senate has just adopted by unanimous consent a non-binding resolution opposing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell for any crimes related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

Why does the Ebisu in Pittsburgh have more Detective Conan merch than anyplace in the Bay Area ANSWER FOR YOURSELF WEST COAST

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · last wk.

It seems like a problem that major corporations are run by dimwitted children?

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last wk.

The case involved deliveries of live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a book about surviving the loss of a spouse, and a bloody pig mask to the home of a couple who run a news website.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · last wk.

i get really tired of the savvy cynicism about how congressional dems will do nothing when you watch how the younger members of both chambers are very actively practicing at being aggressive questioners and a few of the older members are talking about nuremberg trials

Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · last wk.

“Nevertheless.” Carcosa ate some more fries. Fries made good fuel for schemes. “Perhaps we need professional assistance.”

“Like, a professional writing person?”

“A writer, yes. A published writer ought to know what kind of thing resonates with audiences.”

“Are there writers around here, Carcosa?”

“Too many, Id. But if our first trip through time has taught us anything, it’s that very few are any good.”

“I liked that lady with the bubbles.”

“It was a mistake to think I could write a historic-grade poem myself. For that, we need a historic-grade writer.”

“I think I see where this is going, Carcosa.”

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The #WIPSnips word for July 28th is "assist" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · last wk.

It's one of those big indoor malls

Me at the Monroeville Mall, where the greatest zombie movie was filmed