Dale Stromberg

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

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If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

This is my new favourite website. It's delightfully fun.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

A gouache painting of a canine mouth, focus on teeth. Dominant colors are red, black, pus, and bone. Cover for C.L. Methvin's horror collection, EUSECT. This is an eclectic collection of flash and then longer short stories, covering a wide range of horror themes. In some cases, extreme horror/splatterpunk. Cover art by Dusty Ray. Interior collage art by Florian S. Fauna.

"This is a good pick if you're looking for something to make you flinch... I think it's my favorite horror anthology thus far." We live for reviews like this!! Thank you. ❣️ If you've got a horror itch, check out our collection, EUSECT, by @hypetaph.bsky.social

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finally, the trans mahjong noir you've all been waiting for

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My friend Sama'a has lost so much, most of us can hardly imagine it, but she still fights to protect her children. Please give what you can.

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5 march, 22:40 EST
25 days left
£3,039 / £8,304

this is within reach! your otherwise disengaged relatives would give to this—most people do care about helping traumatized children!

take posters to your local library! spam your favorite streamer’s chat! £5k in 25 days! LFG!

In the 1997 dystopian scifi film Gattaca, rapid DNA testing is used to determine social class and job eligibility. In 2026 UK, women wanting to participate in athletics must pay a £185 gender tax to take part in a genetic lottery where some will be ineligble due to previously unknown chromosones.

Such heartbreaking pain, all for the sake of a pointless meaningless war of naked aggression. Truly satanic.

just about fuckin sums it up

establishment democrats are creatures of the death industry

I don't know who needs to hear this, but god fuckin damn it

It'd be my pleasure to share it. I'll DM you.

Israel has closed off all routes into Gaza, continuing their program of extermination even as war with Iran looms. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a and her family.

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Psychologists have a term for a person whose behavior shows an inability to model how other people will respond to their actions

Sama’a and Julia standing in the rubble of their home after Israel’s bombardment. Julia is in the front, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a, her mother, is about six feet back, wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is holding up her hands in a peace sign.

Little Julia sitting atop a large pile of debris that was once the contents of their home, before it was bombed. She is two years old in this photo (now 3). She is wearing a dark pink puffy coat, denim pants, with a grey wool hat, her dark curly hair peeking out. She has olive skin, and is looking to the left.

Sama’a and three year old Julia standing in front of their home, totally collapsed from the bombs. Julia is in the front, facing left, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a is wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is looking into the camera with a meek smile and has her right hand in a peace sign, and holding hands with Julia, who is looking down but toward her mother. She wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers

Sama’a stands with her two daughters in front of the market on a dirt road. Sam is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, black pants, and is holding baby Talia in her arms who is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a headband at her hip is three year-old Julia, who is wearing a blue and green plaid dress with a white collar and white shoes with big gold flowers on them. Her dark hair is pulled back into two pigtails.

We no longer have a home… only these ruins.

I hold my baby in my arms and try to stay strong, but the truth is we are living through very hard days without safety or basic needs.

Any support makes a real difference for my small family. 🤍

- Sama’a
@mommunism.bsky.social

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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

they double-tapped a fucking girls elementary school

Highly recommend this for anyone who enjoys a book where the reading experience completely & utterly CONSUMES you🤯This is a linguistic feast.
traumbooks.com/maej/

Boosting this!! Any small queer/trans presses with submissions open or readers who have suggestions?

The cover of Melancholic Parables, showing a shattered teacup mirrored by a line-drawn bull against a white background. The text of the title and author name fades into defocus. Cover image copyright © 2022 by Rachel A. Rosen.

The cover image for Dale Stromberg’s novel Gyre. The title and author name are written in swoopy cursive script. In the centre is a painting of a violin which has been smashed; the two damaged sides of the violin body resemble the outlines of faces, one shaped like an adult; the other, a child. Cover design copyright © 2024 by Rachel A. Rosen

I indie-pubbed a short literary novel GYRE and a flash prose collection MELANCHOLIC PARABLES.
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I can get you epubs or pdfs of any of these if you like.

The cover of MAEJ, a high fantasy novel. The cover art looks like it has been carved or sculpted. In the upper left, a whirlybug flies over a tentslum. In the upper right, a gryphon sits regally. The bottom half shows a frieze of five women. In the centre, two lines of text: Dale Stromberg, MAEJ. Copyright © 2024 by Rachel A. Rosen, designer extraordinaire and author of the Sleep of Reason series.

If you're still looking for books to review, I published my high fantasy novel MAEJ with @traumbooks.bsky.social .

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Little Julia sitting atop a large pile of debris that was once the contents of their home, before it was bombed. She is two years old in this photo (now 3). She is wearing a dark pink puffy coat, denim pants, with a grey wool hat, her dark curly hair peeking out. She has olive skin, and is looking to the left.

Sama’a and Julia standing in the rubble of their home after Israel’s bombardment. Julia is in the front, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a, her mother, is about six feet back, wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is holding up her hands in a peace sign.

Sama’a and three year old Julia standing in front of their home, totally collapsed from the bombs. Julia is in the front, facing left, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a is wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is looking into the camera with a meek smile and has her right hand in a peace sign, and holding hands with Julia, who is looking down but toward her mother. She wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers

Sama’a standing in a bombed out building surrounded by rubble and dirt, holding her 5 month old daughter, Talia. She is wearing a Black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, and black pants. Baby Talia is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a white headband with a bow.

My children don’t understand why their home has turned into rubble, or why they sleep among broken glass and dust.

This photo isn’t just a passing moment…it is our daily reality.

We desperately need your support to secure safe shelter.

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

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I appear to have skipped phase 1 entirely. I'm advanced.

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

This was a horror novella I enjoyed a lot, and became our connection for EUSECT! ❣️❣️A party goes horribly off the rails...!

My friend Sama'a has endured over two years forced from place to place by bombing and ground fighting, going hungry so that her children could eat. Please give what you can.

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a smoky sweaty queasy short story you should read