Brendan C. Byrne
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another world isn't possible
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ICYMI my book of SF stories, ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE, was published two weeks ago. 18 years of my life in there, fuckin yikes
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Another World Isn't Possible
Check out Another World Isn't Possible - <p>The stories of Brendan C. Byrne are spinning vortices of uncertainty where the past ceases to exist, the present is a slow burn, and the future is a vision ...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/another-world-isn-t-possible/220613ae93322886
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@mjohnharrison.bsky.social
have you seen EVIL DOES NOT EXIST yet?
about 9 hours ago
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if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by
@ellieirons.bsky.social
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@phiffer.org
about 12 hours ago
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Xander Lenc
about 12 hours ago
Wikipedia is the greatest website on earth because no matter how safe and mundane an article sounds (e.g. "coconut water"), there is always a 10% chance you are about to learn about something truly horrific.
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about 12 hours ago
the next great American novel will be written on a bullet casing
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Drew Broussard
about 12 hours ago
Vogue suggests you visit my bookstore π₯° (come to Kingston but don't be weird about it, okay? don't ruin it for everyone?)
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you really have to assume that someone who shoots at an ICE vehicle is against the organization but then our state police forces behave in such a way as to make one doubt it
about 13 hours ago
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seconded
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about 13 hours ago
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if you told me 15 years ago that one day i wouldn't be able to rewatch JUSTIFIED for the 7th time because i unsubscribed from Disney's streaming service to defend Jimmy Kimmel's right to free speech i
about 16 hours ago
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hard to tell if this is a capitulation to the white supremacists currently in power or a previously flush studio run by legacy execs now instructed to program mainstream cutting something .01% of its audience would watch
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1 day ago
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has anyone else observed that our president operates like a studio exec in that he just repeats whatever the last person he took a meeting with said to him?
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RIP to a great bookstore with a great SF section
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3 days ago
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Paz Pardo
3 days ago
reminder: the IMF has pumped 14 billion dollars into Argentina's economy SINCE APRIL, so this is like a bail out's bail out
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Katie Notopoulos
3 days ago
to the art director at Wired who made this unholy image.... you will not see heaven
www.wired.com/politics-iss...
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i'm assuming this is what it is btw
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3 days ago
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they had a secular saint handed to them on a golden platter and the next week they fucked it up by making a free speech martyr
3 days ago
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DESIGNATED SURVIVOR except he's a Nazi
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Amy
6 days ago
every day republicans are like, βthis is about decency, civility, and the memory of a young life extinguished too soonβ and donald trump gets off the chopper and screams, βitβs illegal to say I have βpenis insufficiencyββ
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*sends children to 17 years of Catholic school* i don't think teachers should expose their students to politics
8 days ago
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Anne Trubek
9 days ago
Cover of the day
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Clarence Okoh
11 days ago
Do you know what the NYTimes said after Malcolm was assassinated... "The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."
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i'm trying to imagine the List for when Trump kicks it
10 days ago
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Hari Kunzru
10 days ago
Nothing says free speech absolutist like a list
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michael lutz
10 days ago
my monstrously evil serial killer daughter used her genius IQ to develop a totally lethal brain imaging process she's using on all the other National Merit Scholars
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#BruceSterling
11 days ago
*If you had to imagine a woman who was Vladimir Putin's oldest daughter and she was way into genetic engineering and life extension, what would she look like
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michael lutz
11 days ago
Hey there, Delilah Can you hear me through the floorboards Below which my dismembered corpse Provides the only records Of your crime? A long way back from hell I've had to climb Now I speak in rhyme
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this is genuinely funny
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12 days ago
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12 days ago
I've seen hyenas on the Serengeti with more dignified comportment
bsky.app/profile/jtp....
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Nick Harkaway
12 days ago
βYou canβt run [xyz] on storytellingβ should be burned into the door of every meeting room on Earth.
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SF Encyclopedia
13 days ago
John Clute
sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clute_...
joint editor of the SFE, was born on this day; he's wrote a few entries too: 7,856 solo & 1423 in collaboration (over 3.1m words). He also co-edited Interzone 1982-1984. Some related artwork (Judith Clute, St John Child, Richard Kadrey & Robert Mason):
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who will be first to condemn the MAGA on MAGA violence?
12 days ago
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worth googling "George Lincoln Rockwell death" at some point
14 days ago
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saw a license plate that said "Dasein"
12 days ago
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AI president you say? If only someone had written a story about that...
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Another World Isn't Possible
Check out Another World Isn't Possible - <p>The stories of Brendan C. Byrne are spinning vortices of uncertainty where the past ceases to exist, the present is a slow burn, and the future is a vision ...
https://bookshop.org/p/books/another-world-isn-t-possible-brendan-c-byrne/1de17f4094324f73?ean=9780645654363&next=t&
14 days ago
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Matt Pearce
14 days ago
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentatorβs purposes.
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Matt Pearce
14 days ago
Deprofessionalizing federal law enforcement may have had some unforeseen consequences.
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worth googling "George Lincoln Rockwell death" at some point
14 days ago
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Jason Leopold
14 days ago
EXCLUSIVE:
@bloomberg.com
has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes π
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UK Ambassador Told Epstein βI Think the World of You,β Emails Reveal
Peter Mandelson, the prominent Labour politician who was named British ambassador to the US this year, expressed steadfast support and offered to discuss Epsteinβs now-infamous 2008 case with his cont...
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-peter-mandelson/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NzUzMzg4MywiZXhwIjoxNzU4MTM4NjgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMkUxSktHUTdMMTUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyQjE3NzFFOTlEODc0QzRDOTY1Njg1RTZBQkJGM0QwRCJ9.3-NHWT_PRuoMzWj2h3QGQzmLwWPclMeZj86fH3H6pf0
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genuinely hard to tell where we are on the political violence spiral, but fairly certain we're past the point where we can stop it
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Beard situation is now Young Kadyrov
15 days ago
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In Charles McCarry's OLD BOYS, the aging ex-spook summons all his courage and guile to evade surveillance by, in a stroke of genius, boarding a Metro bus for the first time in his life
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be proactive if you want the vaxx. my son's doctor is ordering vials based on parents calling in and putting their kids on a list. wouldn't have even known about list if i didn't call to inquire about vaxx
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16 days ago
Somehow this government is every single Michael Ironside character at once
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guess we're finally at the point where the administration is going to attempt to roll back 2nd Amendment
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21 days ago
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realized for the 1st time: AI just does what social media does (feed you content that reflects you) without human mediation
21 days ago
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Sad to report KILLING MR. GRIFFIN contradicts my recent theory that Lois Duncan was a shit hot writer
21 days ago
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Old Mainer saw my shirt: "'What Would Herzog Do?' Probably nothing good."
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RIP Graham Greene, just rewatched THUNDERHEART and he stole that shit
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