Sam Langsdale
@samlangsdale.bsky.social
Feral scholar, feminist killjoy, otter lover. She/her. https://www.samlangsdale.com
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CITY OF BRASS x STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES
“Do what you’re told and your destiny will unfold.” In a caliphate where everyone sees their divine purpose as clairvoyance, Hadi’s fate commands patricide. When he defies it, his foresight fades and his life as a rebel heretic begins.
#DVpit #F #MENA #MV
“Do what you’re told and your destiny will unfold.” In a caliphate where everyone sees their divine purpose as clairvoyance, Hadi’s fate commands patricide. When he defies it, his foresight fades and his life as a rebel heretic begins.
#DVpit #F #MENA #MV
October 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
August 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.
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Excited to return to #FestivalOfMonsters at @ucscmonsters.bsky.social in October with @samlangsdale.bsky.social and @passableghost.bsky.social. Our panel, Monstrous Transformations: Bodies, Gender, and the Disruption of the Social Self, is all about body horror, ecological collapse, and St. Vincent.
August 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Excited to return to #FestivalOfMonsters at @ucscmonsters.bsky.social in October with @samlangsdale.bsky.social and @passableghost.bsky.social. Our panel, Monstrous Transformations: Bodies, Gender, and the Disruption of the Social Self, is all about body horror, ecological collapse, and St. Vincent.
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Our newest episode with @longtalljodie.com joining us to talk about Tucker and Dale vs Evil is out now! Come! Hear our lukewarm horror takes! shows.acast.com/progressivel...
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (aka The Aptly Named Chad) with Jodie Troutman | Progressively Horrified
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August 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Our newest episode with @longtalljodie.com joining us to talk about Tucker and Dale vs Evil is out now! Come! Hear our lukewarm horror takes! shows.acast.com/progressivel...
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Being a creative in 2025 is like, okay, time to work: first, let’s have a good cry about all the cruelty we are powerless to stop in the world but not too long, don’t want to drown in despair and alright time to draw my silly little pictures now
July 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Being a creative in 2025 is like, okay, time to work: first, let’s have a good cry about all the cruelty we are powerless to stop in the world but not too long, don’t want to drown in despair and alright time to draw my silly little pictures now
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The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known.
She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!
She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!
“There Isn’t A Word of Truth In Any of That”- A Conversation With The Elusive & Prolific Clair Noto on Hollywood, Marvel, and Her Erasure from Red Sonja
Who is Clair Noto? Clair Noto is a footnote in the history of Marvel Comics. Superciliously deigned as a co-writer (which she denies), lazily written off (if written about at all) by supposed fans …
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July 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known.
She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!
She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!
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Need some good news? World Central Kitchen is back up in Gaza.
July 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Need some good news? World Central Kitchen is back up in Gaza.
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It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
July 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!
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I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/
June 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/
I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/
June 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I’m so excited to see the Ironheart miniseries hit Disney+ 🩷💛🖤 1/
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Happy Father's Day to the Mandalorian, specifically 🪐
June 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Happy Father's Day to the Mandalorian, specifically 🪐
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Week 12 of Monsters and Monstrous Comics: we read the first arcs of Marjorie Liu & @sanatakeda.bsky.social's Monstress, issues #1-12, focusing on questions of embodiment and how the comic invokes its fantasy and monster tropes, many of which we've encountered previously. #comicsteaching
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Week 12 of Monsters and Monstrous Comics: we read the first arcs of Marjorie Liu & @sanatakeda.bsky.social's Monstress, issues #1-12, focusing on questions of embodiment and how the comic invokes its fantasy and monster tropes, many of which we've encountered previously. #comicsteaching
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
April 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem...
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/
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Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.
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Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.
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Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running our letter! I am also incredibly proud of my amazing colleagues and comrades, who make times like these bearable. Keep loving, keep fighting.
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
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April 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for running our letter! I am also incredibly proud of my amazing colleagues and comrades, who make times like these bearable. Keep loving, keep fighting.
lithub.com/silence-is-c...
lithub.com/silence-is-c...
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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
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Californians can contact @padilla.senate.gov's DC office at (202) 224-2200 and @schiff.senate.gov at (202) 224-3841 to ask that they call for Schumer to resign as Minority Leader and deny Unanimous Consent for GOP legislation and nominations. No more business as usual.
Called @edmarkey.bsky.social & @warren.senate.gov asking them to remove Schumer AND deny unanimous consent in the Senate. It only takes 1 Senator to take this one brave tactic, & friends in Mass, I think we can get our Senators to do it.
March 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Californians can contact @padilla.senate.gov's DC office at (202) 224-2200 and @schiff.senate.gov at (202) 224-3841 to ask that they call for Schumer to resign as Minority Leader and deny Unanimous Consent for GOP legislation and nominations. No more business as usual.
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.
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I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.