Shamus McGillicuddy
@shamusmcgillicuddy.bsky.social
Speculative fiction author, tech industry analyst, crisis counselor for 988 affiliate, gardener, cat herder, diehard Celtics fan.
https://www.shamusmcgillicuddy.com/
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Pocket Full of Posies: Paper Tombs
Innocence turned to ash...
Lullabies that rot into screams...
Shadows that will not let the living go...
Pocket Full of Posies is an extended requiem in three volumes, where the voices of the dead wi...
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My short story "The Thin Place" is now available in the horror anthology, Pocket Full of Posies: Paper Tombs, from Wicked Shadow Press.
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Available as ebook: www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...
And paperback: www.lulu.com/shop/parth-s...
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pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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It’s been one year of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and I am so thankful for everyone who listens and enjoys. If you like the show the single best thing you could do for us is to share it with friends. Thanks so much for listening.
Hyperfixed | HYPERFIXED
Alex Goldman's new podcast, Hyperfixed, gets to the bottom of life's most intractable and annoying problems and has fun along the way..
Hyperfixedpod.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It’s been one year of @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social and I am so thankful for everyone who listens and enjoys. If you like the show the single best thing you could do for us is to share it with friends. Thanks so much for listening.
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Jesse Welles, you gained a fan today.
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Jesse Welles, you gained a fan today.
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Whatever excuse the Red Sox have for allowing a Palantir advertisement to hang above Fenway Park, it’s not good enough
Whatever excuse the Red Sox have for allowing a Palantir advertisement to hang above Fenway Park, it’s not good enough
The banner was there, and it always will have been there.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Whatever excuse the Red Sox have for allowing a Palantir advertisement to hang above Fenway Park, it’s not good enough
Summers has always been trash. So glad he’s finally getting his due.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Summers has always been trash. So glad he’s finally getting his due.
One of my favorite reads from childhood.
Today's Classic Cover is The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon, illustrated by Keith Parkinson
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One of my favorite reads from childhood.
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10 years ago, cowards dismissed the Access Hollywood tape and Trump’s admission of habitual sexual assault as just “locker room” talk.
Now with the Epstein affair, some argue that sex with a teen isn’t a crime.
When you hear that, ask if it’s just “junior high school girls’ locker room talk.”
Now with the Epstein affair, some argue that sex with a teen isn’t a crime.
When you hear that, ask if it’s just “junior high school girls’ locker room talk.”
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
10 years ago, cowards dismissed the Access Hollywood tape and Trump’s admission of habitual sexual assault as just “locker room” talk.
Now with the Epstein affair, some argue that sex with a teen isn’t a crime.
When you hear that, ask if it’s just “junior high school girls’ locker room talk.”
Now with the Epstein affair, some argue that sex with a teen isn’t a crime.
When you hear that, ask if it’s just “junior high school girls’ locker room talk.”
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
I have always absolutely despised Lawrence Summers. And now I learn that he is 100 times more despicable than I believed him to be. Truly an elite-level piece of shit. Burn in hell, Larry.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I have always absolutely despised Lawrence Summers. And now I learn that he is 100 times more despicable than I believed him to be. Truly an elite-level piece of shit. Burn in hell, Larry.
Imagine him giving this speech to one of his own granddaughters, instead of Chris Cuomo.
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Imagine him giving this speech to one of his own granddaughters, instead of Chris Cuomo.
Actually, the GOP spent the entire election cycle obsessing over identity, demonizing anyone who had an unacceptable identity. The Dems spent the whole cycle saying “Trump sucks. I don’t stand for anything. But we aren’t Trump.”
Lesson: stand for something. Anything.
Lesson: stand for something. Anything.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Actually, the GOP spent the entire election cycle obsessing over identity, demonizing anyone who had an unacceptable identity. The Dems spent the whole cycle saying “Trump sucks. I don’t stand for anything. But we aren’t Trump.”
Lesson: stand for something. Anything.
Lesson: stand for something. Anything.
Narrator’s voice: It wasn’t career ending.
They won't fire her... but should...
Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: ‘This is Career Ending’.
www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kelly-...
Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: ‘This is Career Ending’.
www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kelly-...
Megyn Kelly Eviscerated Over Epstein Remark: ‘This is Career Ending’
The right-wing host said she did not view the sex trafficker as an “actual pedophile” until recently, among other head-scratching remarks.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Narrator’s voice: It wasn’t career ending.
Make it $40.
69% of Americans support raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, according to YouGov.
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Make it $40.
When will this fucking monkey stop flinging shit at the wall?
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
When will this fucking monkey stop flinging shit at the wall?
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Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.
Yup. This is why I’ve been making monthly donations to GBFB for years. It has the scale to make its money go further, and it ships food out to 400 local food pantries, including the one in my town.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Yup. This is why I’ve been making monthly donations to GBFB for years. It has the scale to make its money go further, and it ships food out to 400 local food pantries, including the one in my town.
www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
www.reddit.com/r/massachuse...
This. Stop sharing screen shots of fascist grok drivel. What’s the point? Everyone knows it is trash. Especially screenshots of a Krassenstein interacting with it. That’s about as low as you can go.
Extremists depend on your outrage to spread their memes far and wide. Whether it's Musk or Musk's chatbot, the same lesson applies.
Stop posting grok conversation screenshots unless you have the depth and you plan to take time to place it in a context beyond "omg look what the nazi chatbot said"
Stop posting grok conversation screenshots unless you have the depth and you plan to take time to place it in a context beyond "omg look what the nazi chatbot said"
Let's talk about how to report on right-wingers without amplifying their hateful rhetoric. Far-right extremists count on YOU to spread their messages for them. Here's a thread of resources.
1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators
1) The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This. Stop sharing screen shots of fascist grok drivel. What’s the point? Everyone knows it is trash. Especially screenshots of a Krassenstein interacting with it. That’s about as low as you can go.
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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
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A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.
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Moving on from Kavanaugh Stops to Kavanaugh Shootings.
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Moving on from Kavanaugh Stops to Kavanaugh Shootings.
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
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October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM