This is one of the more fun (and at times personal) things I've written in a while. Whether you're a reader or a runner or both, I hope you'll find something useful and interesting here: thenewdorkreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/top-8-ways... #readersky #runnersky

I’m a Chicagoan and one thing I’m trying to remember is that cities like this one always outlast empires. We will outlast ICE, the fascists, the corporatists. All of them. Our neighborhoods are the history of people not borders.

Wrote a little more about the goofy Book Scavenger Hunt I totally won without any help from a biased referee or rigged categories. 😆 buff.ly/N3f8H5b #books #booksky

Join us as @gregzimmerman.bsky.social schools @mbwwelch.bsky.social and I how real bookselling is done!

#SGDQ2025 has been absolutely incredible so far, so happy to see this event get better every year and be such a positive force in the world.

How do so-called fiscal conservatives justify adding $3.3 trillion to the deficit How do so-called Christians justify building concentration camps and taking food away from hungry children? How do so-called pro-lifers justify ripping health care away from 16 million people?

@jesskeller42.bsky.social, @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's Executive Director) talks Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s story “Nocturnal Creatures” on the latest episode of the @chicagowriterspod.bsky.social. Check out the pod in the link below! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/08/s...

Our fearless leader @jesskeller42.bsky.social is this month's guest on @chicagowriterspod.bsky.social talking about the short story 'Nocturnal Creatures' by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. Give it a listen here: chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/s2-ep-07-noc...

At long last, after I had truly given up hope, Polaroid released a truly great I-Type camera! Check out my full video review at youtu.be/rY8itKrDRi4

Have you listened to this week's episode of the pod yet with the great @annaksortino.bsky.social discussing a Ted Chiang classic?

Megan is an incredible storyteller and it was so much fun having her return to the pod!

a good lil' essay from Cory Doctorow that articulates my feelings about AI art - art is an intimate form of communication, not a product to be vomited out on your behalf pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/c...

I make goofy videos about retro video games sometimes over at Super Gear Land. Anyone remember Boogerman? ...Anyone? youtu.be/HcwvuOqYDpg

If Section 230 goes, I am not sure how services like Bluesky will continue to exist on the Internet. It’s an existential crisis for freedom of speech online

Listen to me completely screw up the titles of British nobility in this very fun episode!

I've finally added a new photoset to the long-neglected galleries portion of my site danfinnen.com/2025/02/26/n...

If you have any ebooks purchased from Amazon, download them using this technique asap before they're DRM locked forever. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Can't wait to die from 1795's Horse Hair Blood Pox due to the complete eradication of public health science.

If you're not reading Cory Doctorow's brilliant newsletter... you should. Some of the best writing about the nightmare intersection between tech/democracy/capitalism out there pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/b...

S2 Ep 3: 2025 Preview with the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social featuring @rachellayown.bsky.social and @gregzimmerman.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

It's easy to tear apart a government. It's much harder to build. We're going to be picking up the pieces from these f**king idiots for the rest of our lives.

Garbage Day continues to do an incredible job articulating the insanity we're living through.

A loaf of bread to give you a break from the doomscrolling

Fuji continues to torment us all by releasing bad Instax Wide cameras danfinnen.com/2025/01/26/w...

I have no idea where to post photography on the internet these days, so here is a thread of a few of my favorite 35mm film landscapes from the past year. First up, California.

Just a PSA if you have a Microsoft 365 account, go to your settings in a browser, hit 'cancel subscription' and you'll be able to switch to a cheaper plan called 'classic' that excludes the copilot ai 'features.' Microsoft opted us all in, so it's up to us to opt out.

As many have probably already observed, I was misled to think that when the world as I knew it ended I'd feel fine.

Dear every major software company: please, for the love of all that is holy, stop shoving prompts, ads, and giant buttons for your AI 'features' into every nook and cranny of your software. If it is so great, then why do you need to advertise it so desperately?

Remember, bluesky has custom algos/feeds you can add! I love the 'mutuals' feed because so many of my friends get lost in the larger stream of stuff. Makes this site way more usable.

Two important things: 1) @chicagowriterspod.bsky.social is now here -- give it a follow. 2) The latest episode is LIVE -- @danfinnen.bsky.social and @mbwwelch.bsky.social talk with our own @sncutaia.bsky.social about a story from A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD. chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com

New episode of the pod is out!

At last, season 2 of the Chicago Writers Podcast is here! And I'm super excited about the changes we've made to take this podcast to the next level. Check it out on your podcatcher of choice!

The parade of photography reviews as I try to catch up before the holidays continues with a (gasp) new digital camera for a change danfinnen.com/review/nikon...

Hello everyone, happy to see all the new faces on this app! Sofie also says hi.

I'm catching up on all my camera buying guides before the holidays, and next up on the docket is this big boy, the Fuji Instax Wide 400. Lord knows why Fuji can't seem to make a decent Instax Wide camera even after all these years. The format deserves better! danfinnen.com/review/fuji-...

I wrote a big review of a little #35mm camera, the Nikon N80 danfinnen.com/review/nikon...

November Write Club starts Monday! Join @danfinnen.bsky.social for this online accountability club to keep you motivated all month long...and beyond!

www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas... Going to be pantsing a novel in the near future? I got a one night in-person class just for you!

Is your tbr list big enough yet? Check out the newest ep of the pod! chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/ep-55-best-o...

I could finish editing this how-to guide, or I can keep staring, mesmerized, at a PC port of Ocarina of Time that plays at 4K resolution at 144hz.

Technology used to be exciting, and it still can be if we look in the right places pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/p...

the desperate advertising of AI shit from Adobe, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook has me actively looking for alternative programs. Gross.

Got sucked into rereading Dune (happens every few years it seems) and once again I’m struck by how weird Dune Messiah is. It’s so alienating compared to Dune 1, almost like Herbert is daring you to stop reading. But it’s somehow still compelling.

Need even more books on top of that TBR pile? Check out the newest ep of the Chicago Writers Podcast, where the ChiRB shares some of their 2023 favs! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Nothing like finding a shit in your manuscript when you meant to type 'shirt.'