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Dale Stromberg
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Castigator of texts and poor devil of letters.

Debut high fantasy novel Mæj pub’d 2024 by @traumbooks.bsky.social. My paperbricks: https://mybook.to/strombergish

Quiet immigrant. Oya-baka. Regular fugly. S-class awkward. He/him.
Pinned
MÆJ is 1 year old.

Happy birthday to my preposterous wyrdforsaken novel.

“Unsparingly detailed, rich in history, culture, exotic customs and languages, and every other seasoning possible for the highest of high-fantasy writing.”
—Adrian Howell, author of the Psionic Pentalogy

traumbooks.com/maej/
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“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Millions of active, engaged people, who literally less than a week earlier won massive and unexpected victories across the entire country, have now thoroughly learned the lesson that they don't fucking need dem leaders.

That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Thank you!!!💥💥💥Still waiting for the audio book to clear on a few places, and then we'll make an official announcement, but it is already available on ITCH and PAYHIP! 👀

🥃 payhip.com/b/NEO1M
🎷 traumbooks.itch.io/it-helps-wit...
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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#TodayInQueerHistory
November 10 (2014)
To commemorate Bangladesh's legal recognition of their gender a year earlier, which enabled the Hijra community to identify themselves as a separate gender in passports and other state papers, the Hijra community hold the first Hijra Pride.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY

Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Congratulations to @bryanonion.bsky.social and @traumbooks.bsky.social on the release of an audiobook version of IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES 👏㊗️🎉

traumbooks.itch.io/it-helps-wit...
It Helps with the Blues (audio book) by tRaum Books
by Bryan Cebulski || Jules leaves. Gabriel rages. Estelle changes. Joshua hides....
traumbooks.itch.io
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“…if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage.”

A bracingly damning piece:

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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2025 so far:

💀3 issues o'Weird shorts
💀Dystopian Feminist Sci-Fi
💀Freaky Novelettes of Loss & Rebirth
💀Indigenous Supernatural Chiller
💀Cronenbergian Phantasmagoria Mindfuck
💀Best New Weird Horror of the Year
💀Eco-Body-Coral Horror
💀Tarot-themed Terror

Get some Tenebrous🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
When the corporate media has fully committed to not saying that what's happening is happening:
CNN taking headline cues from The New York Times

He's not "appearing" to close his eyes HE'S CLOSING HIS EYES!
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I want to join this too, provided the time zone difference isn't too brutal.
I registered for the Anti-Fascist Write-athon! Let’s make it the writer’s version of #NoKings. Imagine thousands of writers coming together (via Zoom) on Jan 3rd to work on their own WIPs and support the @antifalit.bsky.social Journal. Register here: bit.ly/AFWa
Anti-Fascist Write-athon — Not a Pipe Publishing
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Rigged
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Been a while since i shared my trans & non binary starter pack
Help out by reposting to give some creators and businesses a boost 💙
Trans people are doing it tough so this helps lots
go.bsky.app/4DUhFUd
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
In last night's dream I had an important MÆJ announcement and needed to post it to Bluesky.

Woke up. Realised I had no such announcement.
MÆJ is 1 year old.

Happy birthday to my preposterous wyrdforsaken novel.

“Unsparingly detailed, rich in history, culture, exotic customs and languages, and every other seasoning possible for the highest of high-fantasy writing.”
—Adrian Howell, author of the Psionic Pentalogy

traumbooks.com/maej/
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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"What if we made the 21st century version of those 1960s computer systems that took up a whole room, but by the billions, while betting the whole economy on it?" - AI proponents, 2025
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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They call it a ceasefire.
But when I close my eyes, I still hear the drones.
✅ Read more on my page.
gofund.me/66ae089c
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Fuck. This. Shit.

No.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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If any of these Senators 👇👇👇are yours, CALL NOW and tell them not to cave.

On the heels of Tuesday’s election results, literally thinking about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is why Mamdani won.
It BOGGLES THE MIND that there are Democratic senators considering caving to the GOP, who will then have ALL the leverage AND increase our insurance premiums for funsies

HOLD. THE. LINE. SENATORS:
Kelly—AZ
Slotkin—MI
Peters—MI
Ossoff—GA
Coons-DE
Cortez Mason—DE
Rosen—NV
Shaheen—NH
Hassan—NH
King-ME
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
a greatest hits collection for the ages
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

🧵
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I never knew about these settings.

I just went in and found a bunch of things set to "Hide" which I changed to "Warn".

I appreciate a heads up, but I want to decide what I see.
Hey, if you've been seeing less from me - and, specifically, fewer of the snippets I post with Sabbat in them - you might want to go into Settings -> Advanced -> scroll down to 'Rude' and select either 'Warn' or 'Off'

(I don't *know* that it counts swearing as 'rude', but it's possible)
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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In this triumphant Trans Awareness Month, I invite you to be aware of my trans books about cool trans women
As seen in The @midnightpals.bsky.social! Shadows Over Ravenkirk 1 is available wherever books are sold!

Victoria Williams travels to the gothest town in Maine in search of a mysterious inheritance

Also there's an adorable spider and her name is Samantha

books2read.com/SOR1
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Zohran Mamdani’s victory gave us hope that justice is still possible. I am a father trying to protect my children from cold and hunger, but blankets, medicine, and food are beyond my reach. I ask with a heavy heart, any support, even small, brings real warmth and life to them. 💔🙏
gofund.me/edd687b8
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM