Elly Bangs
@ellybangs.bsky.social
Author of the apocalyptic cyberpunk novel UNITY, available in bookstores and libraries near you. Short fiction and more at elbangs.com. Queer and trans. Loneliness elemental. (She/her)
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Elly Bangs
@ellybangs.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Unity - Tachyon Publications
“Unity is an astonishing debut, twisty and startling . . . an absorbing, thrilling ride.” —New York Times In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to gui...
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I wrote this novel about a remorse-stricken master assassin who takes one last job guiding the last surviving fragment of a collective consciousness across the post-apocalyptic American West under the looming specter of a final world war. I hope you like it.
Bay leaves are not for flavor, they're for luck.
December 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Bay leaves are not for flavor, they're for luck.
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That time of year again!
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
That time of year again!
This video has changed my life
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This video has changed my life
My gender was in a discount bin at the Army Surplus store, between the creepy old Soviet gas masks and the shiny cans of Sterno
I got my gender at the dollar store
‘Acquired gender’ like I bought it off the shelf
December 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
My gender was in a discount bin at the Army Surplus store, between the creepy old Soviet gas masks and the shiny cans of Sterno
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Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
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Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
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This year, we've put together a series of book lists featuring works by Clarion West alumni and instructors that may speak to some part of what we need right now. Today we highlight the dystopia of it all.
Find these books and more all on our Bookshop shelf here: bookshop.org/shop/clarion...
Find these books and more all on our Bookshop shelf here: bookshop.org/shop/clarion...
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This year, we've put together a series of book lists featuring works by Clarion West alumni and instructors that may speak to some part of what we need right now. Today we highlight the dystopia of it all.
Find these books and more all on our Bookshop shelf here: bookshop.org/shop/clarion...
Find these books and more all on our Bookshop shelf here: bookshop.org/shop/clarion...
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If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If it was inevitable, they wouldn't work so hard to convince you.
"AI is here to stay" is such a funny mantra for the boosters to keep chanting at us. Forever chemicals are also here to stay. That's actually one of the main reasons why they're bad.
December 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"AI is here to stay" is such a funny mantra for the boosters to keep chanting at us. Forever chemicals are also here to stay. That's actually one of the main reasons why they're bad.
Lead isn’t coming to tap water—it’s already here. PW’s new Heavy Metal Contamination for Drinking Bootcamp gives teams the tools and workflows to keep up.
AI isn’t coming to publishing—it’s already here. PW’s new AI for Publishing Bootcamp gives teams the tools and workflows to keep up.
First session is Feb 11. Early Bird pricing is now open.
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First session is Feb 11. Early Bird pricing is now open.
👉 buff.ly/jTdumKC
December 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Lead isn’t coming to tap water—it’s already here. PW’s new Heavy Metal Contamination for Drinking Bootcamp gives teams the tools and workflows to keep up.
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Finished reading Unity by @ellybangs.bsky.social last night, and I absolutely adored it. If you enjoy hiveminds and mind melding in a fucked up apocalyptic future, I highly recommend it. Easily one of my favorite books I've read this year.
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Finished reading Unity by @ellybangs.bsky.social last night, and I absolutely adored it. If you enjoy hiveminds and mind melding in a fucked up apocalyptic future, I highly recommend it. Easily one of my favorite books I've read this year.
I would go way further. Everything I ever wrote -- every last thing -- is a failure to execute an idea that was never half as good as what I ended up with. Ideas are cheap. Their only value is to set the process in motion. (1/n)
So many times, the entire nature of what I'm working on has changed because of things I've discovered during the "tedious" work that they claim AI will save me from. It's in fact extremely common that I don't know what a thing really is until I start trying to do the hard stuff and then I find out
Also just tapping the sign again — A.I. eliminates the opportunity for creative discovery on your way to the destination you *thought* you wanted. You’re making art, process is everything.
December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I would go way further. Everything I ever wrote -- every last thing -- is a failure to execute an idea that was never half as good as what I ended up with. Ideas are cheap. Their only value is to set the process in motion. (1/n)
Pluribus is the kind of show where I won't actually know whether I enjoyed any of it until the end
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Pluribus is the kind of show where I won't actually know whether I enjoyed any of it until the end
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again and again we say this, but it's worth noticing every time. literally ANY other president, and this would be a top headline story for months. The fact that our media has made the conscious decision to shrug at open corruption is one of the prime reasons we are where we are.
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
again and again we say this, but it's worth noticing every time. literally ANY other president, and this would be a top headline story for months. The fact that our media has made the conscious decision to shrug at open corruption is one of the prime reasons we are where we are.
Good morning! Today is March 2,105th, 2020.
December 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Good morning! Today is March 2,105th, 2020.
Apropos of nothing, you know what I love? The map-tapping scene in The Two Towers. All those zoom-in shots of fingers roaming over the map -- and then tapping it. Tap some places once. Tap others twice. I don't know why but I can't get enough of it.
a person is pointing at a map that says ' door ' on it
ALT: a person is pointing at a map that says ' door ' on it
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December 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Apropos of nothing, you know what I love? The map-tapping scene in The Two Towers. All those zoom-in shots of fingers roaming over the map -- and then tapping it. Tap some places once. Tap others twice. I don't know why but I can't get enough of it.
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One of the reasons the Republicans are pushing so hard to kill ACA *while* making half of all their attacks on it focused on trans people, is that they're convinced the average American hates healthy trans kids more than they love their own sick cis kids.
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
One of the reasons the Republicans are pushing so hard to kill ACA *while* making half of all their attacks on it focused on trans people, is that they're convinced the average American hates healthy trans kids more than they love their own sick cis kids.
The morning after the 2016 election a huge and vibrant rainbow hung over the city -- like a taunt. Like a voice in the sky clearing its throat and muttering "you may recall I've got a proven fix for a world turned wicked and corrupt but you all made me promise not to do it."
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The morning after the 2016 election a huge and vibrant rainbow hung over the city -- like a taunt. Like a voice in the sky clearing its throat and muttering "you may recall I've got a proven fix for a world turned wicked and corrupt but you all made me promise not to do it."
Sorry it's such a fucked-up time to be alive, friends.
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Sorry it's such a fucked-up time to be alive, friends.
The earth has been falling into the sun ever since it first formed. It just keeps missing.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The earth has been falling into the sun ever since it first formed. It just keeps missing.
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Getting ready for 2026 like
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Getting ready for 2026 like
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(My twenties were a dark time.)
(My twenties were a dark time.)
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
(My twenties were a dark time.)
(My twenties were a dark time.)
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It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
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December 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week.
This is almost everything the government is doing.
Maybe there is no true continuity of self. Maybe every time I sleep I die, and somebody else inherits my flesh and memory upon waking. But the more I consider this, the less bleak it seems. Yesterelly baked me cookies, and I gift groceries to my successor. The legacy is passed on.
December 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Maybe there is no true continuity of self. Maybe every time I sleep I die, and somebody else inherits my flesh and memory upon waking. But the more I consider this, the less bleak it seems. Yesterelly baked me cookies, and I gift groceries to my successor. The legacy is passed on.