Josh Sutphin
(SUT-fin) Author of horror and hopepunk at https://joshsutphin.com. Co-founder @shirakipress.com. Veteran video game developer.
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinQ: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?* A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinPlease for the love of god how do we remove this man from office.
- Reposted by Josh SutphinWhat we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes. This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.
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- Reposted by Josh Sutphinthe epstein files make it abundantly clear that individuals having this degree of wealth is directly the cause of every horrible thing in the world, and any coherent vision of a better future cannot involve billionaires existing. They have to go, be it taxed out of existence or otherwise removed.
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinWashington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
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- This isn’t how you run a press.
- apologies for lack of alt text but i am yoo tired to type all this again @ogre.red thinks terms if service are bullshit and licensing for poetry is unimportant because "who would steal a poem" my advice would be to avoid doing business with this person
- (heavy sigh) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
- Reposted by Josh SutphinThis is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
- I absolutely adore that every ereader and ebook app interprets different subsets of CSS and renders the same CSS rules in different and arbitrary ways. Perfect system. No notes. /s #publishing
- Reposted by Josh SutphinRUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.
- Really well done piece from Aftermath here, on links between Epstein and the games industry. This paragraph in particular stood out to me as such a clear summation of the ideology that undergirds all of this. aftermath.site/jeffrey-epst... #EpsteinFiles #VideoGames
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- Reposted by Josh Sutphinhey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
- The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control aftermath.site/jeffrey-epstei...
- Reposted by Josh Sutphin"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Jeffrey" i holler as i overturn a brazier at the billionaire party and turn this Eyes Wide Shut into Eyes Wide Shit
- Reposted by Josh SutphinWe need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them
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- Reposted by Josh Sutphinwhoever called it a hurdy-gurdy should get to name more things
- Reposted by Josh SutphinHuge thanks to Charlie and Jennifer for reviewing my novel in Dirty Magick! Link below 👇
- This could describe so many industries 😭
- What the actual fuck? I mean, I know we all have a bunch of criticisms of Substack already, but this is absolutely head-spinning. How does this *not* totally evaporate their entire brand? open.substack.com/pub/on/p/int... #substack #SubstackTV
- Reposted by Josh Sutphinworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Absolutely brain-dead corporate behavior. If they didn’t immediately arrange for her safe return travel, then there should be charges filed.
- Been waiting for this for a while now. Very exciting to see it go live! And if you already have a D2D account, this is literally just another checkbox to tick and you’re good to go.
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- Reposted by Josh Sutphincan anyone rec me speculative fiction (short or long) that deals with unionizing in appalachia ?
- I parodied this type of militia cosplay dork last year in my short story WE ARE ALL TERRORISTS NOW, and it’s messing me up how quickly ICE has converged on that image but, like, on purpose joshsutphin.com/fiction/we-a...
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- The sigh i just heaved over this could’ve shaken the house
- Reposted by Josh SutphinAvailable STARTING TOMORROW. Sometimes you can just help people.
- *more new shit! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
- Cool. Great. Awesome.
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinEvery day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
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- ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises Staff claim promised bonuses and insurance have failed to materialise, with some reporting they cannot afford medical care for sick children www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-employee...
- Reposted by Josh Sutphin"Trump may have been involved in an unparalleled and inexplicable pact with the US government to remain above the law, one that was likely buffered by criminal actors and hostile foreign states." On Trump's missing taxes, from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- Reposted by Josh SutphinFor decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
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- Reposted by Josh Sutphin'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- I’ve never actually listened to Bad Bunny, but I’m quickly becoming a fan!
- Reposted by Josh SutphinThe ACLU wants to hear from any families with kids or anyone who was significantly impacted by the use of chemical munitions at yesterday’s protest. Please email my office so we can help connect you with their legal team.
- Reposted by Josh Sutphin"Hope does not mean saying this is not bad, and it does not mean saying that we can defeat it. It just means saying we will keep showing up. That we will not give up. ...we do not know how it will unfold, and neither do those we oppose." From @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's Meditations in an Emergency
- Reposted by Josh SutphinI want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down
- Reposted by Josh SutphinThis made me cry. Things are shitty lately but we need to remind ourselves that there are still many good people in the world.
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- It’s just so unfair 😭
- This uh… this fees like an op
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- “To be loved without loving is a sad accomplishment, a miser’s hoarding of someone else’s wealth.” Wonderful essay about humanity from Rebecca Solnit. 🙏 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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- I’m sure glad there’s a whole generation that has seen and experienced this and it’s not just me having my own private psychotic breakdown 🙃
- *taps the sign*
- Reposted by Josh SutphinDo one of the things that makes you feel better, because if you aren't doing any of that, you will run down. Today I did some writing. I'm a writer, & if I don't write, I run down. It's very easy for me to forget this, despite decades of knowing it. And so I am here to remind you to do your things.
- I’m not sure how I got quite this far into my life without seeing THE BIRDCAGE, but we rectified that tonight 😅
- Did you know the USDA commissioned a bunch of detailed illustrations of various species of fruit, and that they’re super pretty? 🤯 search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/co...
- Gonna be sending out my monthly email newsletter soon. Maybe you want to hop on the list?
- Why oh why is this obvious criminal still in power and not behind bars
- President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Josh SutphinOverall: 28% laid off in the last 2 years US: 33% Design/narrative: 20% in the last 12mo (most impacted discipline) 48% said they haven't found a new job, and the survey admits these numbers are likely an undercount. Fun fact: the survey would boot you out if you'd been out of work >2 years.
- Reposted by Josh Sutphini was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinIn English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.
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- Reposted by Josh SutphinNisi Shawl is a visionary brilliant author, editor, critic and teacher, who is working on a book of otherworldly philosophy that sounds incredible. Not surprisingly, this project has grown and flowered, and Nisi needs a bit more support. Please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...
- Reposted by Josh Sutphinevery time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
- Reposted by Josh Sutphinreminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
