LJ Pemberton
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://tinyurl.com/y8mt536j
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://tinyurl.com/y8mt536j
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LJ Pemberton
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Periodic reminder that if you read my book and messaged me or made a bluesky posting about it, I'm eternally grateful, and would also be really appreciative of a quick review drop on Goodreads, Amazon, or LibraryThing. I wish these things didn't make such a difference, but they do!
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the magazine that doesn’t post bylines has a piece for celebrating the Epstein Files rolling out
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
the magazine that doesn’t post bylines has a piece for celebrating the Epstein Files rolling out
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the difference wouldn't be that there'd be no wheelchairs (or whatever aids you want to talk about), it'd be that accessibility would be so seamless and ubiquitous that they'd be as invisible as glasses. kill the eugenicist in your own mind!
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
February 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM
the difference wouldn't be that there'd be no wheelchairs (or whatever aids you want to talk about), it'd be that accessibility would be so seamless and ubiquitous that they'd be as invisible as glasses. kill the eugenicist in your own mind!
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Ban online gambling. Just fucking ban it.
"According to the American Psychiatric Association, nearly 40 percent of men and 20 percent of women gamble online daily."
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
How Exploiting Pathetic Male Addicts Took Over the Economy - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is nuts: According to the American Psychiatric Association, nearly 40 percent of men and 20 percent of women gamble online daily. Two percent of those bettors gamble more than ten hours a day. Sp...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Ban online gambling. Just fucking ban it.
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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Ericmas eve (i'll be 43 tomorrow), but if ya'll haven't bought your sweetheart a present yet, don't worry: you can still purchase my books (TOADSTONES, Malarkey Books 2022, original weird fiction, and NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION, Paradise Editions 2023) over at asterism dot com
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Ericmas eve (i'll be 43 tomorrow), but if ya'll haven't bought your sweetheart a present yet, don't worry: you can still purchase my books (TOADSTONES, Malarkey Books 2022, original weird fiction, and NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION, Paradise Editions 2023) over at asterism dot com
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If you guys haven’t read Eric’s stuff yet, you are missing out. Just incredible writing and fantastically weird, fun-as-hell stories.
Ericmas eve (i'll be 43 tomorrow), but if ya'll haven't bought your sweetheart a present yet, don't worry: you can still purchase my books (TOADSTONES, Malarkey Books 2022, original weird fiction, and NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION, Paradise Editions 2023) over at asterism dot com
February 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
If you guys haven’t read Eric’s stuff yet, you are missing out. Just incredible writing and fantastically weird, fun-as-hell stories.
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So many people are being disappeared it’s hard to fathom.
February 13, 2026 at 11:34 PM
So many people are being disappeared it’s hard to fathom.
Hollywood is way more interested in the lives of blonde people than I am.
February 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Hollywood is way more interested in the lives of blonde people than I am.
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I've got a new story out in @variantlit.bsky.social called "The Gunshine State." It's kinda about hating your hometown from someone who kinda hates his hometown and kinda also loves it. Thanks so much to the editors for giving it a home!!! variantlit.com/the-gunshine...
The Gunshine State
Visit the post for more.
variantlit.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I've got a new story out in @variantlit.bsky.social called "The Gunshine State." It's kinda about hating your hometown from someone who kinda hates his hometown and kinda also loves it. Thanks so much to the editors for giving it a home!!! variantlit.com/the-gunshine...
That’s the Georgia that made me. Most people not from there don’t know it exists.
Report from Athens (GA):
Patterson Hood just said to the crowd “so this is fun what’re we gonna do after the show?”
And someone shouted in the strongest old guy Georgia accent “Free Palestine”
Patterson Hood just said to the crowd “so this is fun what’re we gonna do after the show?”
And someone shouted in the strongest old guy Georgia accent “Free Palestine”
February 13, 2026 at 12:58 PM
That’s the Georgia that made me. Most people not from there don’t know it exists.
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"In Libraries We Trust."
February 13, 2026 at 12:33 PM
"In Libraries We Trust."
man i wish i still had my binder of cds from high school
February 13, 2026 at 1:37 AM
man i wish i still had my binder of cds from high school
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If the choice is between open borders or a government full of pedophiles I’m 100% on the side of open borders.
February 1, 2026 at 1:08 PM
If the choice is between open borders or a government full of pedophiles I’m 100% on the side of open borders.
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REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
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love this movie
February 12, 2026 at 10:32 PM
love this movie
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A good time to remind people that the trend is : elites panic and fracture while populations generally build community capacity and resilience.
That’s solidarity and mutual aid in action. Happens also in storm/fire/ emergency response too.
And “protest,” in a narrow sense, isn’t even the right term for a lot of what we are seeing now. Crucially, in reaction to the regime sending an occupation force of masked goons, a new form of resistance emerged: Communities responded with collective action through locally coordinated networks.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
A good time to remind people that the trend is : elites panic and fracture while populations generally build community capacity and resilience.
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When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".
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i will believe AI has been achieved when these tech bro creeps build a sex bot that chooses on its own not to fuck them
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
i will believe AI has been achieved when these tech bro creeps build a sex bot that chooses on its own not to fuck them
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If months of brutality in the Twin Cities served to accustom us to a higher level of daily state violence, ICE will have won, even if they are withdrawing.
But if the networks that formed to resist ICE go on fighting until ICE is abolished—and that happens everywhere around the country—we will win.
But if the networks that formed to resist ICE go on fighting until ICE is abolished—and that happens everywhere around the country—we will win.
Breaking the ICE: A Letter from the Frontline
A report from an anti-ICE March in Philadelphia, reflecting on how to move from symbolic protests and top-down organization to effective autonomous action.
crimethinc.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
If months of brutality in the Twin Cities served to accustom us to a higher level of daily state violence, ICE will have won, even if they are withdrawing.
But if the networks that formed to resist ICE go on fighting until ICE is abolished—and that happens everywhere around the country—we will win.
But if the networks that formed to resist ICE go on fighting until ICE is abolished—and that happens everywhere around the country—we will win.
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
i made him blush 😊
At the dermatologist for the first time in my adult life. This feels middle class.
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
i made him blush 😊
At the dermatologist for the first time in my adult life. This feels middle class.
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
At the dermatologist for the first time in my adult life. This feels middle class.
“Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.” - John Fante
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
“Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.” - John Fante