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Josh Sutphin
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(SUT-fin) Author of horror and hopepunk at https://joshsutphin.com. Co-founder @shirakipress.com. Veteran video game developer.
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Josh Sutphin @joshsutphin.com · 4d
I've spent the last month and a half working my absolute butt off building a brand new website for @shirakipress.com. It rolled out yesterday. It's pretty! And you can preorder our books directly from us now! shirakipress.com

#booksky #hopepunk #smallpress
Shiraki Press
Independent publisher of short-form adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
shirakipress.com
joshsutphin.com
I got excited about this the very instant I saw it for the first time 👀
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5d
You've got less than a week:
GET TO THE WATER.

KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social paints a terrifying portrait of an alien invasion where "Get off my land!" is the best advice you'll ever hear.

Preorder it now:
store.tenebrouspress.com

(Hails @leootherland.bsky.social for the lovely review🖤☠️)
promo for KAYAK (cover art by Kerisson Wemerson) "Gave me anxiety attacks in the best possible way. Only the most well-crafted books manage to send my flight instincts racing; KAYAK made my heart thump and my chest tighten. Every. Single. Time Keith had to set foot on shore to gather supplies, I had an anxiety attack on his behalf. I won’t be forgetting [this] book anytime soon." - LeoOtherland.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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I’ve spent a huge amount of time since the start of 2026 working on book design for @shirakipress.com, and while I’m immensely proud of these results, it’s also one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! 😨

joshsutphin.com/blog/doing-i...

#bookdesign #publishing #smallpress
Doing It Scared
I never would've gotten into book design if I hadn't done it scared.
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February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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davidniallwilson.com
Not sure hjow many need to hear this but... supporting things you believe in and living the way you want to live is not an agenda, it's just life.
February 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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shirakipress.com
Calling all #booksellers! Solarpunk eco-thriller ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT by Lauren C. Teffeau will be available through Ingram on March 3 from Shiraki Press. shirakipress.com/age
February 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
We have your backs. You're not alone.
Dear trans kids, The world is better with you in it and you are worth fighting for.
February 16, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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cemurphy.bsky.social
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.
February 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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mikexnichols.bsky.social
i often think about this review
Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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velnna.bsky.social
Hopecore
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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booktweeting.bsky.social
“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3d
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
we live in a country where the secretary of HHS declaring that he snorts cocaine off toilet seats isn't even a news item
February 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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eliasisquith.blog
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
joshsutphin.com
I built the new website for @shirakipress.com on Shopify, which I've been very impressed with. It was a heavy lift to set up, but it's solid, powerful software. The theme editor is a straight-up VS Code project embedded right in the browser FFS! It's wild!

shirakipress.com

#smallpress #shopify
Shiraki Press
Independent publisher of short-form adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
shirakipress.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
The road to this hell was paved by people telling us we were over-reacting.
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
joshsutphin.com
I've spent the last month and a half working my absolute butt off building a brand new website for @shirakipress.com. It rolled out yesterday. It's pretty! And you can preorder our books directly from us now! shirakipress.com

#booksky #hopepunk #smallpress
Shiraki Press
Independent publisher of short-form adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
shirakipress.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 AM
joshsutphin.com
I finally got my February update put together. I'm only half a month late! 😭

Lots of publishing news in this one.
joshsutphin.com/blog/februar...
February 2026: So Much Publishing Work
Lots and lots (and lots) of Shiraki Press news. Also, the US is collapsing. I'm sure it's fine.
joshsutphin.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
hey, this might sound a little freaky, maybe even a little radical, but I think the focus should be making sure writers/artists are properly compensated, supported, and have a secure way of living/creating instead of trying to replace us with robots, and/or having us train them.
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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shirakipress.com
We are really excited to be celebrating 1 year of Shiraki Press existing this weekend. Our first RadCon.org in Pasco, WA is this weekend. If you're attending and want to know more about how to start and run an indie book publisher, 1 PM on Saturday (we'll have 2 ARCs to giveaway!)
February 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4d
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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rawfishandbeer.bsky.social
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
The Hugo nomination period is officially open, which seems like a good time to remind folks about my links post gathering eligibility and recommendations from others. I'll continue to update through the nomination period so keep sending links my way!

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What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
acwise.net
February 12, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
joshsutphin.com
See what this is is state-sponsored sadism and that is why it must be abolished. Not reformed, ABOLISHED.
pfannyyy.bsky.social Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 6d
After a 16-year-old complained his zip-ties were too tight at a an ICE/FBI raid in southwest Idaho, an officer laughed and tightened them, the ACLU alleges in a new lawsuit.

He still has scars, months later.
In southwest Idaho FBI raid, officials zip-tiped teens and used aggressive force, lawsuit alleges • Idaho Capital Sun
A lawsuit by ACLU of Idaho alleges law enforcement used aggressive tactics and unjustly detained hundreds of people, including children.
idahocapitalsun.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM