Sam Flynn - MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING out now!
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A godforsaken author (He/Him). Fantasy-horror novella THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING, first half of the DEADLIGHTS DUOLOGY, out now via Timber Ghost Press. Sequel DWELLER IN DARKNESS out Q4 2026: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
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@timberghostpress.bsky.social) is one of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2024. Grimdark is a bucket list publication for me and to be recognized by them is surreal and incredible.
@timberghostpress.bsky.social) is one of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social's Best Reads of 2024. Grimdark is a bucket list publication for me and to be recognized by them is surreal and incredible.
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
CURRENT WIP I affectionately call "Space Columbo" follows a pot-smoking disabled galactic detective employed by a secret interstellar agency to prevent apocalypses on various planets, each invariably caused by murderous, megalomaniacal madmen. The story of humanity tbf
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
CURRENT WIP I affectionately call "Space Columbo" follows a pot-smoking disabled galactic detective employed by a secret interstellar agency to prevent apocalypses on various planets, each invariably caused by murderous, megalomaniacal madmen. The story of humanity tbf
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"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
September 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
-- THEY KNEW (2022)
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My interview with Émile Torres on the appalling philosophies of the tech elite—transhumanism, longermism, and the rest, transcribed by Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
It’s not just a figure of speech to say tech titans are indifferent to humanity. From Peter Thiel to Elon Musk, many are adherents of a worldview that envisions humans being replaced by digital post-h...
jacobin.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My interview with Émile Torres on the appalling philosophies of the tech elite—transhumanism, longermism, and the rest, transcribed by Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
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Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy?
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www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...
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I've said it before and i ll say it again: #PerformativePsychopathy
The ultrawealthy live lives in which literally the only human beings they ever come in contact with are either other rich freaks or people who are being paid to serve them.
Of course that turns them into sociopaths. How could it not?
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
Of course that turns them into sociopaths. How could it not?
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
The Ultrarich Are Spending a Fortune to Live in Extreme Privacy
In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life.
www.wsj.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I've said it before and i ll say it again: #PerformativePsychopathy
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Top new release‽ Hell yeah!
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Top new release‽ Hell yeah!
Every relevant piece of pop culture is communicating the perception of elites as literal fucking demons sucking the life out of people and the elite response is basically to reenact the Circle of Shit from Salo.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Every relevant piece of pop culture is communicating the perception of elites as literal fucking demons sucking the life out of people and the elite response is basically to reenact the Circle of Shit from Salo.
60 ratings! Thank you to everyone who read my novella #TheMysteryofthePaleKing and shared their thoughts. Check out some review samples and see what you fantasy/horror nerds are missing out on. Anticapitalist and anticolonial themes! Secret matriarchal societies! LGBTQ-friendly! Exclamation points!
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
60 ratings! Thank you to everyone who read my novella #TheMysteryofthePaleKing and shared their thoughts. Check out some review samples and see what you fantasy/horror nerds are missing out on. Anticapitalist and anticolonial themes! Secret matriarchal societies! LGBTQ-friendly! Exclamation points!
Showed DOUBLE INDEMNITY some friends unfamiliar with film noir and as usual it played like gangbusters. What stood out to me on rewatch, and one reason I adore the movie, is that it's basically a stellar episode of COLUMBO.
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Showed DOUBLE INDEMNITY some friends unfamiliar with film noir and as usual it played like gangbusters. What stood out to me on rewatch, and one reason I adore the movie, is that it's basically a stellar episode of COLUMBO.
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There are always going to be people who, sincere or otherwise, want all art to conform to their controlling bland "manager policing their workers' bodily autonomy" perspective.
And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
There are always going to be people who, sincere or otherwise, want all art to conform to their controlling bland "manager policing their workers' bodily autonomy" perspective.
And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
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Novel writers! Those of you who plan out whole books, with detailed chapter outlines that you then stick to, etc… how do you do it? What does that look like? How long are the outlines and what do you include?
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Novel writers! Those of you who plan out whole books, with detailed chapter outlines that you then stick to, etc… how do you do it? What does that look like? How long are the outlines and what do you include?
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Treason to patriarchy is loyalty to humanity
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Treason to patriarchy is loyalty to humanity
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Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
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Oh, and there are slug monsters.
Inspired by David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000), my new horror short story Memory Lane is available on Patreon!
Inspired by David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000), my new horror short story Memory Lane is available on Patreon!
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oh, and there are slug monsters.
Inspired by David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000), my new horror short story Memory Lane is available on Patreon!
Inspired by David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000), my new horror short story Memory Lane is available on Patreon!
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Do you have regrets? Do you ever wish you could just forget them forever? Thomas Armstrong sure does. He's hiding out at the Palace Hotel, on the run after a robbery gone wrong, blood on his hands and tormented by guilt. But the hotel is not the refuge he hoped and his nightmare is only beginning.
Memory Lane | Sam Flynn
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November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Do you have regrets? Do you ever wish you could just forget them forever? Thomas Armstrong sure does. He's hiding out at the Palace Hotel, on the run after a robbery gone wrong, blood on his hands and tormented by guilt. But the hotel is not the refuge he hoped and his nightmare is only beginning.
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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
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feels relevant today
we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
feels relevant today
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
www.huffpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.