Surprise! Vol. 2 available now! Neon green slug with a yellow bat in its mouth with blood dripping from it.
Vol. 2 available now! We built in a little more buffer than we needed so we're a little ahead of schedule after being a little behind schedule. Link in bio. ko-fi.com/sluggerficti...
I frequently laud the wisdom of "Don't engage, just block" when it comes to trolls on social media, but here on Bluesky I also want to remind people that you can detach quotes and use "mute for all" for comments when you find either in bad faith, aside the point or otherwise problematic. Try it!
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Check out SLUGGER’s masthead! @leootherland.bsky.social is our Interior Layout & Formatter. Leo is incredibly kind, a wonderful collaborator, and a fantastic writer. We’re thrilled to have Leo on the team since the start. Check out Leo’s Patreon page which launches TODAY! bit.ly/GoblinPatreon
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping.
The cruelty is endless.
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Story posted! Check out Happy Hour at Harry’s Hole in the Wall By Joshua Dobson from SLUGGER Vol. 1! Art by Mike David.
Free to read! Or pick up a copy of Vol. 1 or pre-order the upcoming release of Vol. 2. Link in bio.
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In case you missed it, Volume 1 available for purchase! Image includes front and back cover of SLUGGER Vol. 1. The front cover is a person with shaggy red-brown hair with a finger in their mouth pulling their lip open to expose teeth. The back cover is a list of contributors.
99 pages of glorious horror on 8.5 x 11 inches. PDF is $5. Print is $12 + shipping. Link in bio to Ko-Fi shop.
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HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!
You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
at first, I thought writing my villains to be irredeemable cartoonishly evil idiots whose primary motivations are just "more more MORE for me" would be a little tough to believe or buy into, but now it just seems a little too realistic
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Our Ko-Fi Shop is open for Vol. 1 pre-orders! 8.5 x 11 in. Nearly 100 pages featuring 10 original short stories and 3 non-fiction essays related to music. Each story includes an original B&W interior illustration. PDF, physical copy, physical copy + swag options available. ko-fi.com/sluggerficti...
Full cover reveal by Kae Ranck! Kae is a freelance artist and writer currently slugging their way through life with their two cats. They graduated from Oregon State University in 2025 with a degree in Art and, as all art majors do, is now seeking out a JD at the University of Kansas. When not hunched over a desk like a shrimp to work, Kae can be found communing with plants and listening to niche 80s music like The Cramps.
Cover by Kae Ranck! Kae is a freelance artist and writer currently slugging their way through life with their two cats. They graduated from Oregon State University in 2025 with a degree in Art and, as all art majors do, is now seeking out a JD at the University of Kansas. Full bio on our Insta.
So exhausting..
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science fiction novel "The Dispossessed". Here, her son Theo Downes-Le Guin considers the artistic process behind it – and why it still resonates today
Courageous young women should be celebrated for their heroism.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!
Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.
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"To compete for audiences, influencers keep trying to outdo each other with escalating demands of female submission that aren't just immoral, but unworkable in anything resembling a real human relationship.
"Being a jerk doesn't win women over."
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REMINDER: Jeff Bezos knows nothing about journalism and paid way more for his yacht than the Washington Post.
To him, they are both toys
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The Drive. Found slide. Projection on snow.
Why does Trump hate women in power, especially non-white bodied ones?
There’s nothing I love more than receiving a warm personal invitation to review an article for a journal.
To be a little real for a second, the USAID news is almost (just almost!) too much for me because I was born in one of those refugee camps. I was a difficult birth, and I know my mother got her natal care in that camp. This stuff absolutely devastates me.
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moody fungi
#fungifriends #fungi #macro #macrophotography #nature #mushroom
An American flag built on the backs of Black people...
Black music protesting white political terror in registers they never hear; reminiscent of ancestral spirituals embedded with instructions for runaways
All this in New Orleans... What a moment
The most qualified Supreme Court justice nominee in history gets dismissed as a “DEI hire”—because she’s Black.
Mediocre White men don’t get this disrespect!
