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Noke Vohle
@nokevohle.bsky.social
Writer of genre fiction from Northwest Georgia in the U.S.A.

Follow or subscribe to my Substack at @nokevohle for one short story a month through 2026 and occasional essays.
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"The Black Spot" is now live on Substack—and in a tip of the hat to my start with fan fiction, it's a swashbuckling superhero story! Happy reading!

#sff #shortstories #amwriting #fiction #BookSky #books #thrillers #superheroes

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Become a famous writer and you too can do freelance work for xAI paying $40 per hour.

#WriteSky #writersky #writing #writers #AI
January 31, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Lord, America hasn’t been this crazy since 2020.

Alexa, play “Imagine” by Gal Gadot.
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Y’know, people elsewhere keep using #BlueSky as shorthand for toxic online behavior from the left, but I’m on multiple sites and all the truly banana liberal takes à la 2010s Twitter I see are on Threads. Maybe it’s that BlueSky skews older?

Anyway we ain’t chill here but we’re (mostly) sane.
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again: (Geez, just five?)

Grease
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Rocky
Star Wars
The Godfather
Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again:

Jaws
Diamonds are Forever
The Long Goodbye
A Boy and His Dog
Apocalypse Now
Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again:

Dog Day Afternoon
Young Frankenstein
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Silver Streak
January 29, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Ratings knock me out, man. Finish Marcus Aurelius’s MEDITATIONS and Goodreads will actually say, “Please judge the personal journal of this Roman emperor on a scale from 1-5.” And by god people will do it.

#BookSky #books
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
“It is the job of thinking people to not be on the side of the executioners.” ~ Albert Camus
January 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Alex Pretti’s murder kinda took me out. I’ve barely functioned since. None of the people hurt by these Republican thugs has deserved what was done to them.

Goodnight, Renee. Goodnight, Alex. You did so well. We’ll get them for you.

#Minneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #PrettiGood #ICERaids
January 27, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
As someone who made the choice to leave conservatism, though, safety isn't guaranteed. On the contrary, it is objectively harder. I have thought about how to pitch a more just worldview to family members, but I cannot honestly tell them they will be happier.
January 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted.

A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social

www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...
ICE executes ICU nurse in broad daylight
"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted.
www.laura-bassett.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
Holy shit.

He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.

His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.

He never had his hand on a weapon.

Cold blooded murder.
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
This is so fucking haunting.
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Further thought: The big climax to MELANIA could be like Netflix's BLONDE, wherein Marilyn Monroe has dehumanizing, awful sex with JFK, except of course it would be ten times more awful because, y'know, it's Trump.

#FilmSky #film #movies
January 23, 2026 at 1:21 AM
There's probably a good movie in Melania's life story, actually. She is, after all, the world champ of gold diggers. It'd be one of those films in which a person gets everything they wanted at the cost of all else. Anyway, obv. we're not getting that. #FilmSky #movies #film #screenwriting #WriteSky
January 22, 2026 at 6:53 PM
I don’t think people understand what an ask it is to beta-read a novel. Are you aware that I cannot count your manuscript toward my Goodreads Challenge?

#WriteSky #writersky #writingcommunity
January 21, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
God, the whole X-MEN: ELSEWHEN project is really just the most has-been thing a bitter old man like John Byrne could possibly do. Can't say I'm happy to see Marvel reward him for it.

#ComicSky #comics #comicbooks

bleedingcool.com/comics/a-loo...
A Look Inside John Byrne's X-Men Elsewhen, Now In Colour
A look inside John Byrne's X-Men Elsewhen comic, now in full colour from MarvelArts at Abrams Books
bleedingcool.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:25 PM
My whole the-editor’s-job-is-to-help-the-author-make-the-best-version-of-the-book-they-want stance got sorely tested this week when I read an MS for an evangelical novel 400+ pages long. Never mind the missionary who wrote it, *I’m* the saint here.

#writingcommunity #WriteSky #writersky #editing
January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Happy #MLKDay! If you haven’t read a biography about #MLK yet, KING by Jonathan Eig really is your best pick. It manages the impressive trick of being 1/3rd the size of Taylor Branch’s authoritative work but feeling more holistic, and it includes the recent discoveries.

#BookSky #books #civilrights
January 19, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I’m kinda on a tear here. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched #FilmSky
January 17, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Reposted by Noke Vohle
We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.
Does Minneapolis have a radio dispatch set up for the people who are following ICE? That's brilliant.
alright here you go
January 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"The Black Spot" is now live on Substack—and in a tip of the hat to my start with fan fiction, it's a swashbuckling superhero story! Happy reading!

#sff #shortstories #amwriting #fiction #BookSky #books #thrillers #superheroes

open.substack.com/pub/nokevohl...
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I think someone should probably tell Kuang that she’s likely to face some brand confusion if she tries to go by “RFK.”

#BookSky #books #RFKuang
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 AM