R. K. Duncan
@rkduncan.bsky.social
Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author.
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R. K. Duncan
@rkduncan.bsky.social
· Feb 4
Taking lengthy breaks from this website for my mental health for the foreseeable. Here are some stories about politics and anger while you wait.
magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/
www.baublesfrombones.com/reminiscence...
littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/25/m...
www.rkduncan-author.com/desert-where...
magazine.trollbreath.com/day-one/
www.baublesfrombones.com/reminiscence...
littlebluemarble.ca/2023/08/25/m...
www.rkduncan-author.com/desert-where...
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there was a post going around awhile ago re. what a women’s sports version of “Heated Rivalry” might look like which enforces oppressive norms of femininity the way the men in Rachel Reid’s books feel trapped by oppressive norms of masculinity, and I have been thinking about this nonstop ever since
January 22, 2026 at 7:26 AM
there was a post going around awhile ago re. what a women’s sports version of “Heated Rivalry” might look like which enforces oppressive norms of femininity the way the men in Rachel Reid’s books feel trapped by oppressive norms of masculinity, and I have been thinking about this nonstop ever since
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Strong recommend for @amalelmohtar.com 's The River Has Roots! Beautiful, winding, (literally) lyrical story. The bonus short story at the end is also really touching and lovely.
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Strong recommend for @amalelmohtar.com 's The River Has Roots! Beautiful, winding, (literally) lyrical story. The bonus short story at the end is also really touching and lovely.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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It's got hoplites and ghosts and the struggle for secure masculinity. (jingles keys)
BCS #449: "The Great King’s Lost Bride" @rkduncan.bsky.social "I would not speak of spirits while there was fighting to be done, and it would be worse to speak of them to explain a fit that looked like cowardice. Our captain already thought me unfit" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Great King’s Lost Bride by R.K. Duncan
I prayed all the gods to steady me when the spirits came close. I would not speak of spirits while there was fighting to be done, and it would be worse to speak of them to explain a fit that looked li...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
It's got hoplites and ghosts and the struggle for secure masculinity. (jingles keys)
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
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I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
Danny Trejo
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Danny Trejo
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti
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"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
February 6, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
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Called my city councilman to bawl him out for the city using AI slop on their instagram. This sucks, I hate this, I am being chewed by the machine but it WILL choke on my fat ass.
February 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Called my city councilman to bawl him out for the city using AI slop on their instagram. This sucks, I hate this, I am being chewed by the machine but it WILL choke on my fat ass.
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Ppl need food and a safe place to live and not be working 2 jobs, or working and going to school which I did in my teens and 20s to make ends meet. The solution was not make a prompt machine so she can write, it was a stable place to live so she can breathe and then maybe she can make things.
February 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Ppl need food and a safe place to live and not be working 2 jobs, or working and going to school which I did in my teens and 20s to make ends meet. The solution was not make a prompt machine so she can write, it was a stable place to live so she can breathe and then maybe she can make things.
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I'd like to see ppl support UBI rather than use AI as an answer to income and time resource inequality.
I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.
I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.
February 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I'd like to see ppl support UBI rather than use AI as an answer to income and time resource inequality.
I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.
I grew up extremely poor and AI would not have been the solution for my economic and housing instability.
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I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort:
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort:
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
Okay, but by this rubric, generative AI is fascist. It is controlled by oligarchic corporations and being used to actively disenfranchise workers by reproducing debased versions of the product of their labor without compensation or consent. It is literally paying capital to rob your comrades.
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Okay, but by this rubric, generative AI is fascist. It is controlled by oligarchic corporations and being used to actively disenfranchise workers by reproducing debased versions of the product of their labor without compensation or consent. It is literally paying capital to rob your comrades.
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For those of us who have been watching a livestreamed genocide in Gaza—and years of apartheid and occupation across all of Palestine—what’s happening in Minneapolis is not unfamiliar
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
For those of us who have been watching a livestreamed genocide in Gaza—and years of apartheid and occupation across all of Palestine—what’s happening in Minneapolis is not unfamiliar
February 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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bizarre to see people doing "everyone ate natural whole foods" nostalgia for the early 2000s, the Golden Age of artificial nonsense. People in 2002 would have eaten nuclear waste if it came in 100-calorie snack packs. Half the things I ate before 2009 are now banned in the EU.
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
bizarre to see people doing "everyone ate natural whole foods" nostalgia for the early 2000s, the Golden Age of artificial nonsense. People in 2002 would have eaten nuclear waste if it came in 100-calorie snack packs. Half the things I ate before 2009 are now banned in the EU.
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i remember doing a zine cover featuring a recent x-ray of the aftermath of a frenchman bunker-busting himself with an unexploded artillery shell. i think spice world was in theaters. this happens every year. it's like the swallows returning to capistrano, except it's krupp returning to a french anus
February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
i remember doing a zine cover featuring a recent x-ray of the aftermath of a frenchman bunker-busting himself with an unexploded artillery shell. i think spice world was in theaters. this happens every year. it's like the swallows returning to capistrano, except it's krupp returning to a french anus
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Making the rounds this week among Christian progressives: new poem by Rob Hardy, poet laureate, Northfield, MN. Yes, the protests and all the work being done to throw sand in the gears and provide aid to those at home and being released from Whipple are a kind of liturgy — “work of the people.” ⚓️
February 4, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Making the rounds this week among Christian progressives: new poem by Rob Hardy, poet laureate, Northfield, MN. Yes, the protests and all the work being done to throw sand in the gears and provide aid to those at home and being released from Whipple are a kind of liturgy — “work of the people.” ⚓️
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The commonsense reform to concentration camps is not having them.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The commonsense reform to concentration camps is not having them.
I, like many of my friends, remember Ender's Game as containing the first gay kiss we encountered in fiction.
It remains one of the books I most identify with. OSC remains one of the worse people whose work I have read and loved.
It remains one of the books I most identify with. OSC remains one of the worse people whose work I have read and loved.
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I, like many of my friends, remember Ender's Game as containing the first gay kiss we encountered in fiction.
It remains one of the books I most identify with. OSC remains one of the worse people whose work I have read and loved.
It remains one of the books I most identify with. OSC remains one of the worse people whose work I have read and loved.
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A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
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Me, tired, tapping the sign
USian trans people aren't telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom to cause you distress and despair.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
USian trans people are telling you they won't vote for Gavin Newsom so you don't vote for his transphobic ass in the primaries.
They are giving you actionable information.
February 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Me, tired, tapping the sign