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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 26

    At the beginning of 2020, I went looking for the great lost female hacker of the 1980s. I should have known that she didn’t want to be found:

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  2. May 19

    Honestly good for her

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  3. May 18

    Me when the Zoom call ends

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  4. Apr 28

    Highlights so far: someone who will sell you one square foot of land in Scotland and proclaim you a Lord or Lady for only $49.95, someone who sells dogs but for some reason can help you if you’ve been banned from Tinder, a New Age musician promoting his new Happy Birthday song

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  5. Apr 28

    I thought I’d spend my COVID convalescence reading books but instead I’m just clicking on every Instagram ad and getting lost in the tragic nonsense of their deal

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  6. Retweeted
    Apr 24

    American Buddhist immolates himself to protest climate crisis inaction, following in the footsteps of Vietnamese monks during the Vietnam War and Tibetans in Chinese-occupied Tibet. Namandabu, namandabu, namandabu.

    A Colorado man who set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday has died from his injuries, police say.
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  7. Apr 24

    OK update, this is also how it’s done in France! So for your pleasure you can imagine poubelles by the thousand overfilled with little pieces of paper that say LE PEN

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  8. Apr 24

    Cool thing about French voting (for expats living in the US, anyway) is that they give you two pieces of paper with the candidates’ names on each and an envelope. You put the one you want in the envelope and you put the other one in THE TRASH. Feels good

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  9. Apr 21

    Freaky fresh and fruity

    First review of The Computer Accent fresh from Copenhagen and they gave it a Triple F Rating. “Fun and frequently fascinating”
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  10. Apr 19

    This is what the squiggle store sells us. Don’t fall prey

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  11. Apr 19

    I too remember my last visit to Discovery Zone. I knew even then I was on the cusp of being too old for it, and I sensed in the decrepitude of its ghostly mall location the collective end of all our ‘90s childhoods. We yearn for pizza and ball pits, for television slime…

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  12. Apr 19

    Somehow…Corporate Memphis is to blame

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  13. Apr 19

    Every boutique in Los Angeles that used to sell bundles of twigs and earthy tobacco candles is now selling toddler clothes for adults and wavy pastel housewares. Do we have a name for this yet? Can we call them squiggle stores?

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    Apr 18

    I wrote about the lasting influence of New Wave science fiction for and a new anthology that celebrates how authors shook up the genre w/ “pansexuality, communal lifestyles, hallucinogens and radical politics”

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  15. Apr 15

    This story—and so many other special & surreal speculations—is included in our forthcoming Terraform anthology, out this August with ! Pre-order it here:

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  16. Apr 15

    Thanks to Terraform’s new friendship with , we now get to publish genre-bending stories from their remarkable community of writers. Do NOT sleep on this post-apocalyptic ballad from Fernando A. Flores, starring Selena as the last woman on Earth:

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    Apr 14

    Episode 3 just dropped! And if you’re here for the science, you’ll love this one. It’s about , the first general purpose, programmable electronic computer (, , and will explain what that means). Art by

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    Apr 9

    Episode 2 is out now! You'll hear the voices of from and others not on Twitter :) Our season art is by

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    Apr 8

    You have until April 30th to nominate a book for the 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! The prize will be given to a writer whose work reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work. Details here:

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    Apr 6

    L'occasion de reparler de BROAD BAND, le super livre de sur l'histoire oubliée des femmes qui ont construit internet et le web. J'avais eu la chance de discuter avec elle en 2019 (pour Le Figaro, et oui !)

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    Apr 5

    Got home from a weekend trip and found this waiting for me. Galleys for our Terraform collection Watch/Worlds/Burn from + . I was exhausted but I spent all night reading it anyway. Honestly it’s so fucking good

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