Alex de Campi
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, SCRAPPER, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA, DRACULA MOTHERF**KER!. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
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MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
Donate to Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, organized by Dave Kellogg
Mike W. Barr has been a writer of comics, science fiction novels and mystery novels… Dave Kellogg needs your support for Rally for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care
www.gofundme.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hero Initiative is helping writer Mike W. Barr through a series of health problems. If you'd like to contribute directly to Mike as well, go HERE: www.gofundme.com/f/rally-for-...
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
Petrol Head was absolute magic—as are so many of Rob’s books. Preorder what you want him to bring to Thought Bubble!
Getting things together for Thought Bubble and, yikes, I have boxes of things here. If you're looking for anything Petrol Head, Cla$$war, my recent issues of Gotham By Gaslight, Judge Dredd, drop me a DM.
a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it
ALT: a warehouse filled with lots of boxes and a person walking through it
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Petrol Head was absolute magic—as are so many of Rob’s books. Preorder what you want him to bring to Thought Bubble!
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Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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In the 1890s, Gifford Pinchot — often hailed as America's first serious forest conservationist — went on a quest to make forests that could be tightly controlled. In doing so, Marin Scotten writes, he helped birth both the American suburb and a new age of wildfires.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
The Suburbs Sprawl on a Grave of Wildfire
How the crusade against nature made — and perhaps doomed — American development.
heat-death.ghost.io
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In the 1890s, Gifford Pinchot — often hailed as America's first serious forest conservationist — went on a quest to make forests that could be tightly controlled. In doing so, Marin Scotten writes, he helped birth both the American suburb and a new age of wildfires.
New, on Heat Death!
New, on Heat Death!
lmaooo
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
lmaooo
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Jean Shaheen is a spineless clown, but also New Hampshire is full of wealthy retired tax exiles from Massachusetts who like to cosplay as Democrats
There are obviously a ton of normal working-class and low income people in NH too, she just doesn’t listen to them bc guess who her donors mainly are
There are obviously a ton of normal working-class and low income people in NH too, she just doesn’t listen to them bc guess who her donors mainly are
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Jean Shaheen is a spineless clown, but also New Hampshire is full of wealthy retired tax exiles from Massachusetts who like to cosplay as Democrats
There are obviously a ton of normal working-class and low income people in NH too, she just doesn’t listen to them bc guess who her donors mainly are
There are obviously a ton of normal working-class and low income people in NH too, she just doesn’t listen to them bc guess who her donors mainly are
i do not like this one bit
Air traffic control issues in Boston are getting wild. Per @flightradar24.com lots are getting diverted, including at least two that had to abort landings at the last minute.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
i do not like this one bit
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IRELAND: These folks make GORGEOUS slate place mats edged in copper leaf—and one of the really fun things about slate is you can write on it with chalk, which delights small children (what design will be under their plate today?) and works great to indicate who sits where at a dinner party
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
IRELAND: These folks make GORGEOUS slate place mats edged in copper leaf—and one of the really fun things about slate is you can write on it with chalk, which delights small children (what design will be under their plate today?) and works great to indicate who sits where at a dinner party
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Swiss chard, mushroom, ricotta galette for dinner later. I cheated & used a purchased Pillsbury crust. Didn't love the way it ripped--will make my own crust next time. Here's a recipe that's not paywalled findingmyinnerchef.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/s...
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Swiss chard, mushroom, ricotta galette for dinner later. I cheated & used a purchased Pillsbury crust. Didn't love the way it ripped--will make my own crust next time. Here's a recipe that's not paywalled findingmyinnerchef.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/s...
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Broken hearts keep beating. Illustration for a short story written by @seananmcguire.bsky.social. Full collection $20 on my Patreon, along with comics that are free to read. www.patreon.com/c/carlaspeed...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Broken hearts keep beating. Illustration for a short story written by @seananmcguire.bsky.social. Full collection $20 on my Patreon, along with comics that are free to read. www.patreon.com/c/carlaspeed...
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
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Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings
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The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The only thing I have to say on this Remembrance Sunday is to quote, verbatim, what Harry Patch had to say about the First World War:
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No kings, only this queen
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
No kings, only this queen
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Happy November to this guy, 11 months indoors with us now after a sojourn on the mean streets of Brooklyn. He definitely started out as a housecat but something bad must have happened to his people
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Happy November to this guy, 11 months indoors with us now after a sojourn on the mean streets of Brooklyn. He definitely started out as a housecat but something bad must have happened to his people
IRELAND: These folks make GORGEOUS slate place mats edged in copper leaf—and one of the really fun things about slate is you can write on it with chalk, which delights small children (what design will be under their plate today?) and works great to indicate who sits where at a dinner party
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
IRELAND: These folks make GORGEOUS slate place mats edged in copper leaf—and one of the really fun things about slate is you can write on it with chalk, which delights small children (what design will be under their plate today?) and works great to indicate who sits where at a dinner party
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This may be a long shot but: Is anyone on here an expert the laws relating to Illinois non-profit corporations? I'm particularly interested in what information on such groups the public is entitled to.
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
apps.ilsos.gov
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This may be a long shot but: Is anyone on here an expert the laws relating to Illinois non-profit corporations? I'm particularly interested in what information on such groups the public is entitled to.
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
I searched here and the results are pretty threadbare (no officers list, no documents, etc.):
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A very merry Big Boat Stuck-mas to all those who celebrate
#Canadian ship bound for Quebec City stuck in the Detroit River
More information about why the boat was stuck was not immediately available Friday evening
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More information about why the boat was stuck was not immediately available Friday evening
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canadian ship bound for Quebec City stuck in the Detroit River | CBC News
A Canadian ship is stuck in the Detroit River right between downtown Detroit and downtown Windsor.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A very merry Big Boat Stuck-mas to all those who celebrate