Ian Martínez Cassmeyer
@iansmc.bsky.social
Hello Funny People | SFF Writer | SFWA Associate Member | He/Him | 🇭🇳 🇺🇸
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I see we get to look forward to more derelict, empty store fronts in our neighborhoods soon.
Private equity: capitalist locust swarm. They come. They destroy. They leave desolation in their wake.
Private equity: capitalist locust swarm. They come. They destroy. They leave desolation in their wake.
Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays.
Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I see we get to look forward to more derelict, empty store fronts in our neighborhoods soon.
Private equity: capitalist locust swarm. They come. They destroy. They leave desolation in their wake.
Private equity: capitalist locust swarm. They come. They destroy. They leave desolation in their wake.
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All of the Dems voting yes are Charlie Brown and the GOP is Lucy holding the football.
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
All of the Dems voting yes are Charlie Brown and the GOP is Lucy holding the football.
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Up next on TCM, Boris Karloff, The Mummy (1932).
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Up next on TCM, Boris Karloff, The Mummy (1932).
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
It's Wednesday. Here's Emo.
It's Wednesday. Here's Emo.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
It's Wednesday. Here's Emo.
It's Wednesday. Here's Emo.
Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃
This Week's Tuesday Title: Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Tristan Hart and his family are set to make history by becoming the first human colonists on Mars. But while such an undertaking always carries with it risks...
This Week's Tuesday Title: Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Tristan Hart and his family are set to make history by becoming the first human colonists on Mars. But while such an undertaking always carries with it risks...
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃
This Week's Tuesday Title: Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Tristan Hart and his family are set to make history by becoming the first human colonists on Mars. But while such an undertaking always carries with it risks...
This Week's Tuesday Title: Mars One by Jonathan Maberry
Tristan Hart and his family are set to make history by becoming the first human colonists on Mars. But while such an undertaking always carries with it risks...
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Our last variant for this issue comes from @vor-bokor.bsky.social
Was really excited to see his take on our characters and couldn't be happier with how this cover turned out.
Get your copy when you back today!
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Was really excited to see his take on our characters and couldn't be happier with how this cover turned out.
Get your copy when you back today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ree...
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Our last variant for this issue comes from @vor-bokor.bsky.social
Was really excited to see his take on our characters and couldn't be happier with how this cover turned out.
Get your copy when you back today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ree...
Was really excited to see his take on our characters and couldn't be happier with how this cover turned out.
Get your copy when you back today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ree...
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
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“I think you’re all broken in some fundamental way, but you’re not all broken in the same place. And it’s the ways you each find to work around those breaks that make you who you are.”
― Gareth L. Powell, Fleet of Knives
Published by
@titanbooks.bsky.social
#qotd #booksky
― Gareth L. Powell, Fleet of Knives
Published by
@titanbooks.bsky.social
#qotd #booksky
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“I think you’re all broken in some fundamental way, but you’re not all broken in the same place. And it’s the ways you each find to work around those breaks that make you who you are.”
― Gareth L. Powell, Fleet of Knives
Published by
@titanbooks.bsky.social
#qotd #booksky
― Gareth L. Powell, Fleet of Knives
Published by
@titanbooks.bsky.social
#qotd #booksky
Happy Halloween Funny People 🕸️🕷️🦇🐦⬛🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟🧛♂️🧛♀️🧛🍭🍬🍫 🎃 👻 ☕🙃
This week on Author Fridays: Edgar Allan Poe
Poet. Short story writer. Reviewer. Novelist. Poe's tales of chilling horrors and his haunted lyrics of loss and yearning have endured for 176 years since his death.
This week on Author Fridays: Edgar Allan Poe
Poet. Short story writer. Reviewer. Novelist. Poe's tales of chilling horrors and his haunted lyrics of loss and yearning have endured for 176 years since his death.
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy Halloween Funny People 🕸️🕷️🦇🐦⬛🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟🧛♂️🧛♀️🧛🍭🍬🍫 🎃 👻 ☕🙃
This week on Author Fridays: Edgar Allan Poe
Poet. Short story writer. Reviewer. Novelist. Poe's tales of chilling horrors and his haunted lyrics of loss and yearning have endured for 176 years since his death.
This week on Author Fridays: Edgar Allan Poe
Poet. Short story writer. Reviewer. Novelist. Poe's tales of chilling horrors and his haunted lyrics of loss and yearning have endured for 176 years since his death.
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Jack Williamson
From his first publication in Amazing Stories in 1928 until his death in 2006, Williamson was a constant voice in science fiction.
This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Jack Williamson
From his first publication in Amazing Stories in 1928 until his death in 2006, Williamson was a constant voice in science fiction.
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Jack Williamson
From his first publication in Amazing Stories in 1928 until his death in 2006, Williamson was a constant voice in science fiction.
This week on Sci-Fi Thursdays: Jack Williamson
From his first publication in Amazing Stories in 1928 until his death in 2006, Williamson was a constant voice in science fiction.
Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃
It's Wednesday. Here's Frankie.
It's Wednesday. Here's Frankie.
October 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Afternoon Funny People ☕🙃
It's Wednesday. Here's Frankie.
It's Wednesday. Here's Frankie.
I told myself I was done with short fiction, that I wasn't going to waste anymore writing time on it because I was tired of things not working.
Then I wrote this:
"Robbie had planned to stay in the day of the teleportation grid outage, until he realized he was out of coffee."
Then I wrote this:
"Robbie had planned to stay in the day of the teleportation grid outage, until he realized he was out of coffee."
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I told myself I was done with short fiction, that I wasn't going to waste anymore writing time on it because I was tired of things not working.
Then I wrote this:
"Robbie had planned to stay in the day of the teleportation grid outage, until he realized he was out of coffee."
Then I wrote this:
"Robbie had planned to stay in the day of the teleportation grid outage, until he realized he was out of coffee."
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Amen!
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Amen!
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
This Week's Tuesday Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Halloween arrives early when Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show appears in Green Town. Can Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade resist its temptations, or will the calliope's song whisk them away?
This Week's Tuesday Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Halloween arrives early when Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show appears in Green Town. Can Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade resist its temptations, or will the calliope's song whisk them away?
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
This Week's Tuesday Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Halloween arrives early when Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show appears in Green Town. Can Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade resist its temptations, or will the calliope's song whisk them away?
This Week's Tuesday Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Halloween arrives early when Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show appears in Green Town. Can Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade resist its temptations, or will the calliope's song whisk them away?
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Morning Funny People ☕🙃
Happy Sunday Funny People ☕🍷🥖🙃
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Happy Sunday Funny People ☕🍷🥖🙃
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This is a very good clip of Guillermo del Toro on the value of art. The value of human-made art is, in part, based on what the artist experienced that made them want to make the art. That is what we pay for. That is what AI does not have.
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is a very good clip of Guillermo del Toro on the value of art. The value of human-made art is, in part, based on what the artist experienced that made them want to make the art. That is what we pay for. That is what AI does not have.
This is the internet age. Nothing is ever truly deleted...
The Florida State Board of Immigration Enforcement removed the number of U.S. citizens arrested as part of law enforcement’s sweeping deportation efforts from its website, after a publication asked the state why citizens were being arrested in the first place.
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
This is the internet age. Nothing is ever truly deleted...
How apt that the #PBS #AmericanMasters YouTube channel released this during spooky season. Who better to appreciate during the scariest time of the year than the author of The Raven himself?
youtu.be/zankYHjNIWk?...
youtu.be/zankYHjNIWk?...
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive | Full Documentary | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
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October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How apt that the #PBS #AmericanMasters YouTube channel released this during spooky season. Who better to appreciate during the scariest time of the year than the author of The Raven himself?
youtu.be/zankYHjNIWk?...
youtu.be/zankYHjNIWk?...
Did you know that Oscar Wilde has a living grandson? His name is Merlin Holland (the family changed their surname in the wake of his public persecution by the English), and he's become a historian and biographer of his grandfather.
youtu.be/ZpqkK40V-sY?...
youtu.be/ZpqkK40V-sY?...
Merlin Holland: Busting the Myths of Oscar Wilde
YouTube video by The Oscar Wilde Society
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Did you know that Oscar Wilde has a living grandson? His name is Merlin Holland (the family changed their surname in the wake of his public persecution by the English), and he's become a historian and biographer of his grandfather.
youtu.be/ZpqkK40V-sY?...
youtu.be/ZpqkK40V-sY?...
Oh, you mean most imported goods?
BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ
October 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Oh, you mean most imported goods?
Watching A Man Called Otto, aka Tom Hanks Auditions For The Grumpy Old Man Remake.
Not gonna lie: I don't think Hanks needed to do much acting here. Away from cameras, I'm almost certain he can be a crotchety old bastard.
Yet, like Ove in Fredrik Backman's novel, it's impossible to dislike him
Not gonna lie: I don't think Hanks needed to do much acting here. Away from cameras, I'm almost certain he can be a crotchety old bastard.
Yet, like Ove in Fredrik Backman's novel, it's impossible to dislike him
a man in a jacket is crying with the hashtag #amancalledotto
Alt: Tom Hanks in A Man Called Otto raising his eyebrows in exasperation and surprise.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Watching A Man Called Otto, aka Tom Hanks Auditions For The Grumpy Old Man Remake.
Not gonna lie: I don't think Hanks needed to do much acting here. Away from cameras, I'm almost certain he can be a crotchety old bastard.
Yet, like Ove in Fredrik Backman's novel, it's impossible to dislike him
Not gonna lie: I don't think Hanks needed to do much acting here. Away from cameras, I'm almost certain he can be a crotchety old bastard.
Yet, like Ove in Fredrik Backman's novel, it's impossible to dislike him
October 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM