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Typebar Magazine (Issue 8 Out Now!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 24d
Typebar Magazine Issue 8 is now LIVE on our BRAND. NEW. WEBSITE.

It's our largest issue yet in celebration of the relaunch. Twelve essays instead of the usual 10 and, as always, a short story. Let's dive in...

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wolfbridge.bsky.social
And we published this one from @ernie.tedium.co a few months ago!

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Don’t Call It A Substack. Newsletters Have Been Here For Years
Why is everyone suddenly calling their newsletter a "Substack"?
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February 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
We literally published an interview with @lexroman.com in Typebar magazine yesterday about how writers and journalists need to learn to promote themselves and leave these horrid platforms behind

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February 19, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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lexroman.com
Could it be fun for journalists to learn marketing? I spoke with Matt Wolfbridge of Typebar Magazine about where I see opportunities for writer and why one journalist halfassing a Substack doesn't mean the paid sub model isn't working

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Can Marketing Save Journalism? A Conversation with Lex Roman
Do journalists and writers have to understand the principles of marketing to survive?
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February 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Will marketing be the foundation of the journalism industry's future?

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Can Marketing Save Journalism? A Conversation with Lex Roman
Do journalists and writers have to understand the principles of marketing to survive?
www.typebarmagazine.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
I chatted with @lexroman.com about journalism, marketing, and how the industry can start getting traction again after being hollowed out. Lex is very energetic, very contra to the helplessness that pervades the discourse on this topic.

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Can Marketing Save Journalism? A Conversation with Lex Roman
Do journalists and writers have to understand the principles of marketing to survive?
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February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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kjy1066.bsky.social
I'd love for people to consider "Blanquitos" in the short story category, but I mostly want everyone to read my story about old neighborhoods, childhood friends, and how nostalgia can be a boomerang

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
February 11, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
The article itself:
The Weakness of the Flesh and the Horror of Losing It
In cyberpunk, what does it mean to have a body?
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February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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lizbusby.bsky.social
"Writers who are covered in the New York Times and Paris Review instead of Locus Magazine have been sneaking into the sci-fi clubhouse, making off with the furniture and tchotchkes, and putting them to their own use for generations."
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Science Fiction is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
The old mode of science fiction is disappearing. What's replacing it?
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February 10, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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kjy1066.bsky.social
If you liked Bad Bunny's halftime show, freighted with PR symbolism and imagery?

Nominations for the BSFA Awards close next Thursday (2/19/2026). Please consider my longlisted short story, "Blanquitos" for the final ballot!

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Blanquitos
Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.
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February 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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kjy1066.bsky.social
¡Muchísimas gracias por ésta lista, Pedro!

And hello new followers! May I interest you in my recent short story full of very complicated diaspora feelings towards
Puerto Rican nostalgia?

www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
February 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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thegrand547.bsky.social
Great read

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White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present
To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social
Interesting reading this today after reading this article in typebar yesterday: www.typebarmagazine.com/science-fict...
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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muleskinnerpress.net
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NEW WORK.

After years of annoying concern trolling media flacks talking about the NBA getting worse, I decided to answer arch dickhead Mark Jackson's infamous question in relation to "the vibe shift".

ball don't lie, black lives matter, and fuck ICE.
What Happened to the Game that I Love? Basketball After the Vibe Shift
“Nothing happened, you just never loved basketball.”
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January 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
So I'm catching up on reading some @typebarmagazine.bsky.social articles, and the opening of this piece on the human body in cyberpunk goes way harder than I anticipated.
Opening paragraphs of an article, beginning with a block quote: "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal." The creed of the Warhammer 40k tech-priest Magos Mecanicus Faustinius isn’t too far off from the beliefs espoused by some wealthy, influential tech oligarchs. Elon...
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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rsbenedict.bsky.social
I have to wonder if contemporary sci-fi is so unpopular because the current mode is a kind of centrist liberalism that hardly anyone (except I guess Chuck Schumer) wants. It is an ideology that has failed to meet the needs of the current moment and most of us are leaving it behind.
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
Easily one of my favorite essays we’ve ever put out. A great dive into a fascinating bit of gaming history (and my own personal history as well since my parents got me the sega channel for my birthday as a kid hah)
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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tomtificate.bsky.social
RTing to read later
February 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
How can something like a typewriter be erotic?

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Secretary and the Erotic Nature of the Typewriter
"Two lonely people  have come together through a love and desire that’s unique thanks, in part, to the typewriter."
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February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Sega Channel and the early history of digitally downloading video games

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Game Pass in 1994: The Too-Soon Brilliance of the Sega Channel
A brief history of digital games distribution, and why Sega's revolutionary attempt caused no revolution
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February 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
A 1973 novel about the U.S. invading Canada is has proved to be prescient when it asked whether the United States can ever be trusted

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Ultimatum: A Journey Into an America-Fearing Canadian Mind
A book from 53 years ago posited a now too-relevant question: what if the US went rogue?
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February 7, 2026 at 10:32 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Super Mario 64 is a classic...a classic that forever changed the franchise for the worse

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Not So Classic: How Super Mario 64 Changed the Mario Franchise for the Worse
Super Mario Bros. lost something when it gained a dimension.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:32 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
A climate fiction book that wrestlers with a difficult truth: saving the world from the ruling class will take more than solar panels and good vibes

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Technology, Power, and Violence: How the Tangled Lands Tackles Climate Fiction
Saving the world is more complex than solar panels and good vibes.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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brocktoon.bsky.social
This is good as hell
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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wolfbridge.bsky.social
I do hope that more established editorial operations will see essays like this and realize "holy shit there's a huge area of culture [YouTube] that we're ignoring and we should fix this immediately."

A man can dream!
February 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
typebarmagazine.bsky.social
Whatever happened to YouTube shows like "Dragon Ball Z Abridged"?

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Anime Abridged Series on YouTube: A Retrospective and Love Letter
The rise and fall of one of YouTube's most iconic genres
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February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM