Sam Richard
Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS
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- 2026 SubClub is open!!!
- Reposted by Sam RichardPeriodic reminder that if you're reading for the Nebulas, Hugos, Locus, Ignytes, BSFA, or any other awards I might've forgotten about, please consider "Blanquitos" in the short story/fiction category Thanks to @wolfbridge.bsky.social for choosing it! www.typebarmagazine.com/blanquitos/
- Reposted by Sam Richardcan’t not hear and see:
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Sam RichardAbolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
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- Reposted by Sam RichardHeartened by the recent resurgence of interest in sword & sorcery. I bought this book, "Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery," from Minneapolis' @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social last year and greatly enjoyed it. Hope they release more. #sword&sorcery #fantasy #booksky
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- Reposted by Sam Richardhello recreational benadryl subreddit
- Reposted by Sam RichardFYI I wrote this short after seeing how you grew DHS and ICE, ramped up deportations that even now you STILL have the highest rates, and increased anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that led to exactly this moment www.seizethepress.com/2022/02/07/v...
- Just another shit day at the fuck factory.
- Video. Fuck ICE forever. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
- Reposted by Sam RichardNew — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:
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- Why the fuck was there never a Sega genesis Conan the Barbarian side scrolling beat'em'up game?
- Reposted by Sam RichardHi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org
- Reposted by Sam RichardThe reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
- This is literally my neighborhood. Fuck ICE. Fuck these fucking nazi scumbags. Do em like Mussolini.
- Theo is an amazing person. Please help if you can!!
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- Anyone else playing Marvel Cosmic Invasion? Found Beta Ray Bill and Wolverine to be a pretty unstoppable combo.
- Literally a week before she died my wife gave me this tattoo. I wanted a Necronomicon Gate to commemorate the time I stole my dad's Simon Necronomicon when I was in like 8th grade and tried to call forth an elder god in a park. Now both are dead and I'm afraid I'll forget all these memories.
- Jesus christ, I miss her so fucking much.
- I don't know how to do any of this anymore.
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- Reposted by Sam RichardWill Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
- George Lucas really did just put some ps2 cutscene cgi into the og Star Wars trilogy and then acted like it was a good play, huh?
- When I die, remove my head from my body, bolt antlers to my skull, and use me in weird rituals.
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- Social Distortion, Dropkick Murphys, MxPx, Screeching Weasle, and 6 other cop-punk bands whose logos were tattooed on January 6th rioters.
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- Reposted by Sam RichardBuying books today and want to support weird sexy messed up speculative horror fiction by a trans masc palm tree punk? Well, you’re in luck: weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/infi...
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- It's a real Silent Hill ass morning here in Minneapolis.
- Milo Goes Back to College and Takes Some Goddamn Gender Studies Courses.
- Reposted by Sam RichardThe entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.
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- Asking the homies in the chat to share photos of the most problematic media they own so you can cancel them later.

- Still have a scant few of these!
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- Honest appraisal is that everything is fucked and I have to go to work in 20 minutes. I just want art and community and growth and joy. Feeling a lot of numbness, despair, decay, and grief. Spent a lot of time with ghosts lately. Need to figure out how to write again. I'm afraid I've forgotten.
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