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Textile artist, MST3K enthusiast, force of nature
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I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
www.backlisted.fm
December 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I wonder if they’re ever going to do an episode with @johnmitchinson.bsky.social detailing how he helped spend the $15k his publishing company stole from me? I’d definitely tune in to that!
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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
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Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
Some personal news‼️📢
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
@tigerteamcreative.bsky.social, our new book publishing agency for authors and publishers has launched!
Our mission is to align every part of the publishing process - strategically and creatively - to help authors and publishers thrive.🐅🐅🐅
www.thebookseller.com/news/rina-gi...
Rina Gill and former Unbound colleagues launch Tiger Team Creative
Three former Unbound employees have launched a new publishing agency, Tiger Team Creative, signing up Sunday Times bestselling-author Melanie Blake as its first client.
www.thebookseller.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh yeah this sounds super trustworthy!
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Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Here is why Skyrim is weird.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
You have a thousand locations that are mostly similar. Here's an orc village, here's a Nord village, here's a elf camp, etc.
Oh! And here's costume party that takes place in a demented clown's brain and all the goats can talk and you can win a wand that's a dildo.
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I've decided to sell signed 11" X 15" prints of some paintings. Message me if interested.
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I've decided to sell signed 11" X 15" prints of some paintings. Message me if interested.
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Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
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i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
December 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.
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People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
People expect miracles from medicine, but refuse the miracle that would let them avoid needing emergency care in the first place
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What are you all so afraid of? That we might treat people like individuals whose needs ought to be respected? That’s why y’all don’t have work from home anymore.
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
What are you all so afraid of? That we might treat people like individuals whose needs ought to be respected? That’s why y’all don’t have work from home anymore.
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
I am VERY suspicious of people who argue against supports that help disabled people because what if some FAKER gets them?
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So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So here’s the thing: I, a certified Disabled™️ Person, do not actually care if anyone fakes for an extra 20 minutes on the test. I care deeply about how the fear of that very thing puts up flaming hoops disabled people have to jump through.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
Maybe listen to disabled folk on this one.
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I can produce words when I'm overwhelmed; you're just not going to understand what I'm talking about.
Please don't ask autistics to "use their words"—as many autistic people think in images, not words, and so cannot possibly do what you are asking. Or they have processing issues. Or agnosia. Or apraxia. Or situational mutism. Or alexithymia. Or are overwhelmed. #autism #neurodiversity 12/
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I can produce words when I'm overwhelmed; you're just not going to understand what I'm talking about.
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
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@peterclines.bsky.social has done something amazing with GOD'S JUNK DRAWER. A non-stop adventure that gets weirder and weirder with every chapter. It starts with a simple enough premise for a SFF book, but the more you get into it, the more your expectation gets subverted. 5 stars. #booksky #books
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
@peterclines.bsky.social has done something amazing with GOD'S JUNK DRAWER. A non-stop adventure that gets weirder and weirder with every chapter. It starts with a simple enough premise for a SFF book, but the more you get into it, the more your expectation gets subverted. 5 stars. #booksky #books
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"The 'male spotlight problem' with autism diagnosis is baked in all the way along the pipeline. Because teachers don’t think of girls being autistic, GPs tend not to refer girls for assessments, which themselves have thresholds that boys are more likely to pass."
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-autis...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-autis...
How autism bias failed generations of women
Girls are referred for autism diagnosis about 10 times less often than boys.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"The 'male spotlight problem' with autism diagnosis is baked in all the way along the pipeline. Because teachers don’t think of girls being autistic, GPs tend not to refer girls for assessments, which themselves have thresholds that boys are more likely to pass."
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-autis...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-autis...
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I named my fists Knit and Purl because you're gonna need stitches.
I named my fists Strummer and Jones because you're be going to be calling out for London
I named my fists Chekhov and Gun because you know they're coming but you don't know when
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I named my fists Knit and Purl because you're gonna need stitches.
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Please try to avoid getting mad at an autistic kid or adult or telling them they’re being rude if they ask for clarification of imprecise requests or instructions like, “I just need a few minutes,” or “clean up your room,” especially if you haven't given exact criteria or specific guidelines. 10/
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Please try to avoid getting mad at an autistic kid or adult or telling them they’re being rude if they ask for clarification of imprecise requests or instructions like, “I just need a few minutes,” or “clean up your room,” especially if you haven't given exact criteria or specific guidelines. 10/
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So I know there are a million more pressing issues with this but the thing that struck me, reading this stupid essay, is how atrocious her Biblical scholarship is.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
So I know there are a million more pressing issues with this but the thing that struck me, reading this stupid essay, is how atrocious her Biblical scholarship is.
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#MusicSky #ArtSky
Hey, kids! Wanna see a quick #DuranDuran Sharpie doodle I made more years ago than I care to count? (Likely HS)
Hey, kids! Wanna see a quick #DuranDuran Sharpie doodle I made more years ago than I care to count? (Likely HS)
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#MusicSky #ArtSky
Hey, kids! Wanna see a quick #DuranDuran Sharpie doodle I made more years ago than I care to count? (Likely HS)
Hey, kids! Wanna see a quick #DuranDuran Sharpie doodle I made more years ago than I care to count? (Likely HS)
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In the game Fallout 76, the last known traveling carnival, Nuka-World On Tour, has a robot making announcements. When deathclaws attack, it announces, "In accordance with carnival safety rules, please do not get hurt."
Never thought I'd see a real world corp less ethical than Nuka-Cola.
Never thought I'd see a real world corp less ethical than Nuka-Cola.
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In the game Fallout 76, the last known traveling carnival, Nuka-World On Tour, has a robot making announcements. When deathclaws attack, it announces, "In accordance with carnival safety rules, please do not get hurt."
Never thought I'd see a real world corp less ethical than Nuka-Cola.
Never thought I'd see a real world corp less ethical than Nuka-Cola.
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A reminder on Small Business Saturday that books bought from indie publishers make better gifts than books bought from soulless corporations.
www.atbpublishing.com
www.atbpublishing.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A reminder on Small Business Saturday that books bought from indie publishers make better gifts than books bought from soulless corporations.
www.atbpublishing.com
www.atbpublishing.com
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I recently finished (and enjoyed!) Staircase in the Woods and Black River Orchard is an all-time horror fav
Fans of Old Gods of Appalachia might esp like Book of Accidents--the Barlo arc has v similar vibes and themes imo
Go read Chuck
Fans of Old Gods of Appalachia might esp like Book of Accidents--the Barlo arc has v similar vibes and themes imo
Go read Chuck
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doylestownbookshop.com/WendigHoliday
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I recently finished (and enjoyed!) Staircase in the Woods and Black River Orchard is an all-time horror fav
Fans of Old Gods of Appalachia might esp like Book of Accidents--the Barlo arc has v similar vibes and themes imo
Go read Chuck
Fans of Old Gods of Appalachia might esp like Book of Accidents--the Barlo arc has v similar vibes and themes imo
Go read Chuck