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Richard Gerlach
@rudy53088.bsky.social
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He/Him, writer, reviewer, horror and ska enthusiast. Also, host of the podcast Staring Into the Abyss.
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simongandrew.bsky.social
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
rudy53088.bsky.social
Just give Noah Wyle all the Emmy’s
March 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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ericdsnider.bsky.social
Dudes with no badges or ID grabbing you off the street when you haven't committed a crime is what the Second Amendment is for.
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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supernovaska.bsky.social
Sister Nancy opening her set with Redemption Song at Supernova in 2023 with @estmusic.bsky.social backing her.

Video: youtu.be/q6IvXArm2yY
supernovaska.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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erininthemorning.com
I can't watch this and say nothing. The arrest of people lawfully here because of things they have said is nothing short of creating a new class of political prisoners.

Then sweeping them away to Louisiana to evade the rule of law is atrocious.

We cannot stay silent.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
A different angle showing the kidnapping of Runeysa Ozturk by U.S. secret police in Massachusetts.

(via Daniel Boguslaw on Twitter) x.com/DRBoguslaw/s...
March 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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karlbode.com
the great irony here is that most U.S. "publicly funded" news orgs barely get any public funding. As a result they're feckless shadows of the full potential of publicly funded journalism, while still being portrayed as some sort of demonic socialist caricatures by authoritarian zealots
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Mar 26
Watching the NPR/PBS Doge hearing. 45 minutes in, the hearing largely has been Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing NPR CEO Katherine Maher over her past political statements and time leading Wikipedia, and PBS over its documentaries about trans people and programming featuring a drag queen.
March 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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reveleth.com
Welp, here it is. World Athletics is going back to mandatory sex testing for all women. This is something that was done for years, but abandoned in the 1990's because it was invasive, discriminatory, and also useless. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...
World Athletics to introduce mandatory sex testing for female competitions
Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, says the governing body feels the mandatory tests for athletes are "a really important way of providing confidence".
news.sky.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
rudy53088.bsky.social
Anyone here watching the show Common Side Effects?
March 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found

EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland

EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good
March 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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catbus.phd
Ursula K LeGuin
cartoon illustration of the author delivering her famous quote We live in capitalism. It's power seems inescapable. So did the Divine Right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
March 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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catbus.phd
trying to get added to the national security group chat
George W Bush looking like a dumb shit messing with a computer
March 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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pippinacious.bsky.social
It's 🎉RELEASE DAY🎉

My southern gothic novelette following Lucky Boyle as she tries to escape a nightmarish landscape trying to make itself look like her home is out now!!! #booksky

Grab a copy of REAP, SOW from Amazon: www.amazon.com/Reap-Sow-S-H...

Read reviews: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
A graphic with the header "Southern gothic horror novelette". Below to the left is the cover of Reap, Sow, featuring an angry, elderly woman half enshrouded in shadow beside text from author blurbs praising Reap, Sow as addictive, atmospheric, gripping, terrifying, and a masterwork of dread and tension. Across the bottom is the text, "Available on Amazon".
March 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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heksenhaus.bsky.social
we only have a future if we abandon capitalism.
March 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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supernovaska.bsky.social
Speaking of @0mnig0ne.bsky.social - did you see Adam performing Fugazi's Waiting Room with @mustardplug.bsky.social in 2023?

Video: youtu.be/n06Vl0ck9DQ
March 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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supernovaska.bsky.social
If you love horns and skacore then hopefully you caught Los Mal Hablados last year! They opened the day right with tons of energy.

Video: youtu.be/WgupzwVNXgQ
March 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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nuzo.bsky.social
OMG! It's here at last! Cover reveal for my book THE FAKE GHOST designed by awesome @shanepierce.bsky.social Chuffed! A racist, sexist, homophonic USA president gets his comeuppance when he's reborn as an African baby in this dark & comedic magical realism farce🤣 Can't wait to share this! Out Aug 12
March 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk excluded by Vance
March 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
rudy53088.bsky.social
My personal hell is listening to Breakcore on repeat because it helps a student focus. I am going to go insane.
March 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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beaujohnson44.bsky.social
💯% A.I. free.
www.bishopriderbooks.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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jonnyk.bsky.social
do you think kendrick lamar knows what skacore is
February 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
rudy53088.bsky.social
I got a nice little package of #horrorbooks from @valancourtbooks.bsky.social. Currently reading The Scarf and it’s fantastic.
February 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Fuck this hurts…
gbbranstetter.bsky.social Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Feb 7
In a new lawsuit filed against Trump by state AGs, a family with a trans kid shares she died by suicide last month citing fears Trump would deny her access to gender-affirming care. "Her parents have expressed fear...that what happened to their daughter does not happen to other children."
The serious concerns over how the Order will detrimentally impact transgender youth cannot be overstated. One Washingtonian, as her parents describe her, was a bright and gentle soul who loved playing musical instruments, trying new things, and playing Magic the Gathering. She was excited to learn Japanese and the impact of gender-affirming care was immediately clear to her family. Her parents described that “her joy was clear with every new milestone in her transition. She was so happy to get to the next step, to get closer to presenting in a way that was true to herself.” But the day before the presidential election, she shared, “[t]omorrow I get to find out if I’m illegal.” After the election, she asked her parents if they could move to Canada because she was fearful of new restrictions on transgender youth and worried about losing access to gender-affirming care. In January 2025, she took her life. After the Order issued, her parents expressed that the outlook for transgender futures looks scary and shared fears of what ending gender-affirming care would have meant for their daughter’s access to therapy, puberty-delaying medication, hormones, and hope of surgery. Her parents have expressed fear for the many lives who depend on gender-affirming care and that what happened to their daughter does not happen to any other children.
February 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
rudy53088.bsky.social
I’m going to be using Blue Sky as my main social media platform. I miss talking ska and horror with people!
February 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM