Inge Snip
@lingelien.bsky.social
Feminism. Dystopia. Noir.
A Literary Dispatch.
The Medusa Code on substack.
A Literary Dispatch.
The Medusa Code on substack.
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The new Black Mirror didn’t wreck me like the old ones. So, I thought, could I write something that does? Part I is live now, let me know what you think....
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The Glitched Reel | Part I | Cactus Milk and Other Malfunctions
Welcome to The Glitched Reel, a speculative fiction series loosely inspired by Black Mirror, digital surveillance, and the emotional toll of living online when you are the content.
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April 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The new Black Mirror didn’t wreck me like the old ones. So, I thought, could I write something that does? Part I is live now, let me know what you think....
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
The new Black Mirror didn’t wreck me like the old ones. So, I thought, could I write something that does? Part I is live now, let me know what you think....
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
The Glitched Reel | Part I | Cactus Milk and Other Malfunctions
Welcome to The Glitched Reel, a speculative fiction series loosely inspired by Black Mirror, digital surveillance, and the emotional toll of living online when you are the content.
open.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The new Black Mirror didn’t wreck me like the old ones. So, I thought, could I write something that does? Part I is live now, let me know what you think....
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
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'Captured' is the kind of journalism we need right now: sharp, human, unafraid to sit with complexity. Huge respect to Isobel Cockerell & the @codastory.bsky.social team led by
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
Review: Coda Story’s ‘Captured’ and the Tech Takeover We Can't Ignore
A gripping journey through Silicon Valley’s ambitions (missing only one piece of the puzzle)
themedusacode.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
'Captured' is the kind of journalism we need right now: sharp, human, unafraid to sit with complexity. Huge respect to Isobel Cockerell & the @codastory.bsky.social team led by
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
'Captured' is the kind of journalism we need right now: sharp, human, unafraid to sit with complexity. Huge respect to Isobel Cockerell & the @codastory.bsky.social team led by
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
Review: Coda Story’s ‘Captured’ and the Tech Takeover We Can't Ignore
A gripping journey through Silicon Valley’s ambitions (missing only one piece of the puzzle)
themedusacode.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
'Captured' is the kind of journalism we need right now: sharp, human, unafraid to sit with complexity. Huge respect to Isobel Cockerell & the @codastory.bsky.social team led by
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
@antelava.bsky.social, for telling this story the way it needed to be told.
My review + 1 small critique: bit.ly/4lrm30w
Wrote something a little different today: A short story about penguins, trade wars, drifting boxes, and the strange forces reshaping their world (and ours). Sad, funny, and a little surreal. Like everything lately...
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themedusacode.substack.com/p/unclaimed-...
Unclaimed Cargo
Shipped, soaked, and slightly offended
themedusacode.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Wrote something a little different today: A short story about penguins, trade wars, drifting boxes, and the strange forces reshaping their world (and ours). Sad, funny, and a little surreal. Like everything lately...
themedusacode.substack.com/p/unclaimed-...
themedusacode.substack.com/p/unclaimed-...
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Zuckerberg heeft zijn ai ook met mijn werk (en dat van Karin Sitalsing) gevoerd. En dat mag niet. @atlascontact.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Zuckerberg heeft zijn ai ook met mijn werk (en dat van Karin Sitalsing) gevoerd. En dat mag niet. @atlascontact.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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I wrote something deeply personal: about death, grief, politics, feminist theory, and my dogs. It’s about why death keeps showing up in my fiction, and what I might be trying to resist or reimagine through it.
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
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Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
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How Death Became My Muse (Without Me Noticing)
Maybe the deaths I keep writing about aren’t just about loss. Maybe they’re about that shift, about what changes in the absence.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I wrote something deeply personal: about death, grief, politics, feminist theory, and my dogs. It’s about why death keeps showing up in my fiction, and what I might be trying to resist or reimagine through it.
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
I wrote something deeply personal: about death, grief, politics, feminist theory, and my dogs. It’s about why death keeps showing up in my fiction, and what I might be trying to resist or reimagine through it.
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
How Death Became My Muse (Without Me Noticing)
Maybe the deaths I keep writing about aren’t just about loss. Maybe they’re about that shift, about what changes in the absence.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I wrote something deeply personal: about death, grief, politics, feminist theory, and my dogs. It’s about why death keeps showing up in my fiction, and what I might be trying to resist or reimagine through it.
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.
open.substack.com/pub/themedus...
I’ve reported on this science before: erased in the West, kept alive in Georgia. Now, it’s part of my weekly fiction series on real-world ripples into the future.
Part I is out now: themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-midwif...
Part I is out now: themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-midwif...
The Midwife's Code | Part I
A Story of Erasure, Resistance, and the Cure They Tried to Bury
themedusacode.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I’ve reported on this science before: erased in the West, kept alive in Georgia. Now, it’s part of my weekly fiction series on real-world ripples into the future.
Part I is out now: themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-midwif...
Part I is out now: themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-midwif...
"They preached about restoring order, protecting tradition, but what they really feared was losing control."
Subscribe to get every story, every reflection, every transmission sent straight to you. Free for now. The only cost is attention: themedusacode.substack.com/p/1-the-shad...
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#1 The Shadow Tribunal | Amashukeli
Excerpt of The Shadow Tribunal, an upcoming novel by Inge Snip
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March 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"They preached about restoring order, protecting tradition, but what they really feared was losing control."
Subscribe to get every story, every reflection, every transmission sent straight to you. Free for now. The only cost is attention: themedusacode.substack.com/p/1-the-shad...
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A U.S. military OP planned on signal, accidentally inviting a journalist.... My fiction is supposed to be speculative. Or is it just slightly ahead of schedule? Place your bets on who comes up with the dystopia 1st, me or them 😭: themedusacode.substack.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A U.S. military OP planned on signal, accidentally inviting a journalist.... My fiction is supposed to be speculative. Or is it just slightly ahead of schedule? Place your bets on who comes up with the dystopia 1st, me or them 😭: themedusacode.substack.com
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trying something new! After years of investigative journalism, I’m stepping into fiction: feminist dystopia, noir, the kind of stories that sit uncomfortably close to reality. My first story: The Last Seeds of Resistance. Would love your thoughts!
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The Last Seeds of Resistance
A Quiet Geometry of Collapse
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March 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Trying something new! After years of investigative journalism, I’m stepping into fiction: feminist dystopia, noir, the kind of stories that sit uncomfortably close to reality. My first story: The Last Seeds of Resistance. Would love your thoughts!
themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-last-s...
themedusacode.substack.com/p/the-last-s...
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Dear Europe — Don’t ignore warnings about Russia’s effort to increase migration to Western Europe through the West African route. There’s growing disinformation spread through the media in West Africa encouraging people to travel northwards. Help counter the disinformation.
January 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dear Europe — Don’t ignore warnings about Russia’s effort to increase migration to Western Europe through the West African route. There’s growing disinformation spread through the media in West Africa encouraging people to travel northwards. Help counter the disinformation.
We have heard from sources in Iran that the incredible journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi have been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in jail. There is no doubt that this sentencing is symbolic of the repressive atmosphere the Iranian state is creating.
October 23, 2023 at 12:47 AM
We have heard from sources in Iran that the incredible journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi have been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in jail. There is no doubt that this sentencing is symbolic of the repressive atmosphere the Iranian state is creating.
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Audiotapes show that Kremlin-connected tycoon Magomed Musaev claims he's behind an $800-million deal to buy Forbes Media Group (including the U.S. edition of the magazine), but Austin Russell, the American tech founder leading the deal, says there's no Russian involvement.
Russian tycoon claims he is behind Forbes purchase, audiotapes show
A Kremlin-connected tycoon claims he is the buyer of Forbes, according to audio and video tapes. The U.S. tech founder organizing the deal says there is no Russian involvement.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Audiotapes show that Kremlin-connected tycoon Magomed Musaev claims he's behind an $800-million deal to buy Forbes Media Group (including the U.S. edition of the magazine), but Austin Russell, the American tech founder leading the deal, says there's no Russian involvement.
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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid passed from Egypt into Gaza on Saturday for the first time since Israel’s attacks began. But groups on the ground said the aid — food and medical supplies but no fuel — was not enough to relieve the steadily worsening humanitarian crisis.
More live updates here:
More live updates here:
Israel-Gaza war live updates: Aid trucks cross Rafah border, providing first relief to besieged Gaza...
Trucks carrying urgent relief supplies drove through Egypt’s Rafah border into the Gaza Strip, but humanitarian groups say it’s not enough.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 21, 2023 at 4:19 PM
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid passed from Egypt into Gaza on Saturday for the first time since Israel’s attacks began. But groups on the ground said the aid — food and medical supplies but no fuel — was not enough to relieve the steadily worsening humanitarian crisis.
More live updates here:
More live updates here:
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Instructors at RGGU and presumably other Russian universities are getting guidelines from administrators on how to instill “anti-terrorist consciousness” in their students, cultivating patriotism, obedience to limits on political rights, etc.
Странные игры. В РГГУ разослали методички для работы с�...
Руководство РГГУ отправило преподавателям методичку, в которой объясняется, как они должны формировать у ст�...
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October 21, 2023 at 3:02 AM
Instructors at RGGU and presumably other Russian universities are getting guidelines from administrators on how to instill “anti-terrorist consciousness” in their students, cultivating patriotism, obedience to limits on political rights, etc.
Absolutely horrified. Despite the Netherlands’ historically strong position in global press freedom rankings, this is a poignant reminder that no country, regardless of its reputation, is immune to potential overreaches.
www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/...
www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/...
The Netherlands: Prosecutor Illegally Wire-Taps Journalists Anne de Blok and Rosan Smits — Coaliti...
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (PPS) secretly wiretapped a
confidential meeting between prominent journalists and suspects in a
high-profile corruption scandal.
www.womeninjournalism.org
October 20, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Absolutely horrified. Despite the Netherlands’ historically strong position in global press freedom rankings, this is a poignant reminder that no country, regardless of its reputation, is immune to potential overreaches.
www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/...
www.womeninjournalism.org/threats-all/...
Dit is een hele serieuze persvrijheid overtreding. Ben echt geschokt!
‘Om wél af te luisteren moet het OM eerst toestemming hebben van de rechter-commissaris. Er moet dan zijn aangetoond dat het landsbelang in het geding is. Uit het strafdossier blijkt niet dat de rechter-commissaris toestemming heeft verleend’
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'OM luisterde journalisten af in onderzoek naar mondkapjesdeal'
In de wet bronbescherming staat dat het OM journalisten niet mag afluisteren, tenzij toestemming is verleend door de rechter-commissaris. In deze zaak was die toestemming niet verleend.
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October 20, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Dit is een hele serieuze persvrijheid overtreding. Ben echt geschokt!
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Some will called me brave. I call me a hero. I am willing to go to jail for skeeting Assigned Media's Friday columnist's take on the latest activities of the worlds most famous transphobe. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
This Week in Barrel Scraping: I’m Ready to Go to Jail for Criticizing J. K. Rowling — Assigned
Children’s author and named castle-owner J. K. Rowling addressed an
anti-trans meeting and fantasized about life in the big house this week.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 20, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Some will called me brave. I call me a hero. I am willing to go to jail for skeeting Assigned Media's Friday columnist's take on the latest activities of the worlds most famous transphobe. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Sex is great, but have you ever had a judge rule that Alex Jones can’t weasel out of the $1.1 billion in damages by filing for bankruptcy?
Alex Jones must pay $1.1 billion of Sandy Hook damages despite bankruptcy - court | Reuters
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary scho...
www.reuters.com
October 20, 2023 at 3:30 AM
Sex is great, but have you ever had a judge rule that Alex Jones can’t weasel out of the $1.1 billion in damages by filing for bankruptcy?
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Israeli airstrikes have caused extensive damage in the Gaza Strip. Israel says it is targeting Hamas leaders and fighters.
The bombardment, in response to Hamas’s deadly surprise attack on Israel, has killed more than 3,300 Palestinians. wapo.st/46XLZZK
The bombardment, in response to Hamas’s deadly surprise attack on Israel, has killed more than 3,300 Palestinians. wapo.st/46XLZZK
October 19, 2023 at 8:47 PM
Israeli airstrikes have caused extensive damage in the Gaza Strip. Israel says it is targeting Hamas leaders and fighters.
The bombardment, in response to Hamas’s deadly surprise attack on Israel, has killed more than 3,300 Palestinians. wapo.st/46XLZZK
The bombardment, in response to Hamas’s deadly surprise attack on Israel, has killed more than 3,300 Palestinians. wapo.st/46XLZZK
Yes, I'm now also here! Finally 😂 thanks for the invite @slowpokedj.bsky.social 🙏
Was beregezellig met Biancé en @lingelien.bsky.social in Tbilisi.
Nu ook op dit mooie platform.
Volg haar voor alles rondom persvrijheid, Women in Journalism, Georgië en meer.
#womeninjournalism
Nu ook op dit mooie platform.
Volg haar voor alles rondom persvrijheid, Women in Journalism, Georgië en meer.
#womeninjournalism
October 20, 2023 at 5:51 AM
Yes, I'm now also here! Finally 😂 thanks for the invite @slowpokedj.bsky.social 🙏
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X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from owner Elon Musk.
The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
Elon Musk’s X removes New York Times’ verification badge
The gold badge was the only symbol distinguishing the Times’ 55-million-follower account from impostors amid two major global conflicts.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2023 at 8:06 PM
X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the gold “verified” badge from the New York Times’ account amid ongoing complaints about the news organization from owner Elon Musk.
The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
The badge was the only symbol distinguishing the account from impostors amid two major global conflicts in Israel and Ukraine.
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My report on the thousands of protesters who arrived in Congress to demand an end to Israel's bombing of Gaza.
Organizers said it was "the largest demonstration of Jewish people in support of Palestinians in history."
nationaljournal.com/s/723037/whi...
Organizers said it was "the largest demonstration of Jewish people in support of Palestinians in history."
nationaljournal.com/s/723037/whi...
October 19, 2023 at 1:54 PM
My report on the thousands of protesters who arrived in Congress to demand an end to Israel's bombing of Gaza.
Organizers said it was "the largest demonstration of Jewish people in support of Palestinians in history."
nationaljournal.com/s/723037/whi...
Organizers said it was "the largest demonstration of Jewish people in support of Palestinians in history."
nationaljournal.com/s/723037/whi...