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Speaking of… MAEJ. High fantasy novel. Long and complex and strictly for nerds and maniacs. I wish you'd read it. Published by @traumbooks.bsky.social back in 2024. But books aren't mangoes, they don't spoil, so maybe still worth reading. traumbooks.com/maej/

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

HUNGER IS CLOSING IN ON US IN GAZA. We are hungry and need $25 for food and medicine. Please don't leave us to suffer alone. Every donation, no matter how small, could help us survive. If you can't donate, please share this post and help our plea reach others chuffed.org/project/1517...

This is vital. Writing helps us think. So many students are saying they turn to LLMs because they don’t know what to say, and need to hear that not knowing is normal as one starts to write.

“Homes are not habitable, basic securities are held hostage, and working people’s health and safety are put at risk to fuel a vampiric aggregation of landlord power.” dissentmagazine.org/article/tena...

Truly everyone who wants a gorgeous elaborate fantasy should check out this one.

A very happy belated birthday to the spectacular MAEJ and its author--the Dale-est of Dales and crafter of the hemi-colon, @stromberg.bsky.social. This book is one of our press-prides and required reading for anyone who loves a challenging fantasy! 🌟✨🌠 traumbooks.com/maej/

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

It's National Cryptid Day--the perfect day to read a story about a sexy and strange Mothman encounter. Briar Ripley Page has you covered (and maybe so does Mothman 🥵). Read "The Holy Incubus of West Virginia" and many more stories in Lupus in Fabula: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

@never.horse is involved with a new literary magazine with a bird theme AND they have an open call for submissions?!? GO FOLLOW THIS MAG PLEASE, it looks really good <333

TEN PAST NOON by @tuckerlieberman.com is one of our favorites. It has a sibling (that we published!!), MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME, and together, they pull threads from every corner of space and time to talk about being and being trans and being human. traumbooks.com/most-famous-...

DEMON ENGINES is a rollicking read. You should get down on this quick.

I promise you this podcast about the horrific abuse of rich kids in a faux British boarding school is funnier than you think.

"The biggest consistent complaint is not the bullying, or abuse, or molestation—but the fact that none of these guys ever learned how to talk to girls." darkerthanvanta.bsky.social breaks down a book on Canada's very own horrific British boarding school #canada #canadian #history #culture #podcast

“In a constitutional republic, the people choose who governs them; Trump seeks to determine who even belongs to the people.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Tragic to see that the Writers' Union of Canada has decided to scab on actual writers. I am genuinely ashamed to be a member. Please know that none of us voted for this or support it.

There’s no shortage of horrors, but the best one is the horror found in forces that are so large, so abstract, or upsetting that to engage with them directly would drive you insane. With us to discuss cosmic horror are Devinder Thiara and Jesse Scoble, co-creators of a new comic, Dead Money.

✉️ A message from Ahmed: 💔 I’m tired of asking for help while my family struggles to survive in Gaza. We lost our home, and every day without support makes life harder. I’m not asking for luxury, only food and a little hope. 🙏😭 chuffed.org/project/1696...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Research into retention problems in academia aka 'the leaky pipe' that sees women, employees of colour, LGBTQI+* personnel leave when white men stay and thrive. Widely applicable findings, and echoed in current conversations among authors. *each additional category that applies worsens the effect.

“Media co-ops should be empowered to advance a bold vision for democratic, publicly funded media and simultaneously demonstrate what that vision could look like in practice.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

CNN: "Three years on, Gaza's missing are still under the rubble." The destruction in Gaza is unimaginable. I continue to support my dear friend and her family in Gaza as long as they need donations to survive. Please give. No amount is too small. And help others. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1981...

I think this is currently my favourite project I've yet been asked to work on - a map of a character's journey, highlighting the birds she has seen and heard while traveling! Being made for "Women's Wrongs" a part Gothic romance, part utopian travelogue and part comedy of manners by Zilla Novikov.

Getting closer to our release of THE LIVING COPY 📚 By Alex DiFrancesco, author of PSYCHOPOMPS and TRANSMUTATION!! *Pennsylvanian decay *grief avoidance *inherited hauntings *careful prose *hard to classify ( literary New Adult / YA-ish?) Pre-order options here: traumbooks.com/the-living-c...

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

Happy to see that some people have picked up BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES by @never.horse this last weekend--it continues to be an excellent collection, and if you haven't gotten to it yet, highly recommended! ✨🌠 traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

Free shipping on BOOKSHOP dot ORG! All of our titles are available on there, so now's a great time to grab one of our books and support a non-Amazon store. 📚📚⬇️

It was very clear why Google search was better than other searches, and GMail was at first quite good at filtering out spam compared with the alternatives. I got an iPhone for reasons that were obvious at the time. No one has presented me with a rationale for LLMs improving my life in any way.

Please help by giving what you can or pass around...

Less than a month until THE LIVING COPY by Alex DiFrancesco comes out! ❣️Pennsylvania coal country ❣️alternative future-ish United States ❣️beautiful, experimental prose ❣️generational female hauntings ❣️family ghosts in the closet Pre-order options below~~~ traumbooks.com/the-living-c...

Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:

“Tech companies like Meta want us to believe that the AI boom is inevitable, and we all might as well get on board. But I’m a nurse, and my job is to advocate for my patients. Even without these new data centers, Louisiana has seen enough death and destruction.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed, healthy, and educated. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k

Hindus for Human Rights rejects the use of anti-terror laws to silence religious minorities and peaceful dissent. USCIRF highlights the cases of Jagtar Singh Johal, Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam. Johal’s bail is welcome. All three deserve freedom and justice. buff.ly/x3uVa70

“You remain a child until you understand that your father is powerless. If you live to understand this, you are someone’s father yourself.” electricliterature.com/zulum-by-mil...

The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed and healthy. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k

SHORT FILM cooks, dude. You should read it right now. I reviewed it back in the day: medium.com/@dale.stromb... And interviewed the author about it: medium.com/@dale.stromb...

“While a coalition is large and often short-lived, an alignment is small enough and long-lasting enough to allow organizations to share strategies and tactics and test each other’s capacity for mobilization.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

“Eco-fascism, the politics of environmental preservation fused with ethnic exclusion, is the endpoint of a logic that begins, not always consciously, with retreat.”

“The response to these crises from end times fascists is a classic double standard: borderlessness for themselves, walls for everyone else.” dissentmagazine.org/article/end-...

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