On a livestream tonight, I claimed I saw an ad from an old pulp magazine advertising Listerine for washing hair. I haven’t found it yet, since I spend too much time reading old pulps on archive.org than, you know, reading comps. Here are other discoveries. 🧵 @geekyjules.julessherred.com

Went to the bad place to see Derek Smart’s profile. I got this message. Are you really a fan of SciFi games if Dr. Derek Smart hasn’t blocked you?

Rest in peace the legendary John Blanche (1948 - 2026)

Leaked footage of my space opera novel.

Today, the Pope released a long, well thought out essay about AI and its effect on humanity. At my Episcopal Church yesterday, we painted kites. I guess each denomination has its own way to accomplish its goals.

Fun fact: a conclave burns black smoke to announce that no Pope has been chosen, white smoke to announce that a Pope has been chosen, and red smoke to announce to the faithful that it is time for the Butlerian Jihad.

I pirated The Boys, and I think there’s something wrong with my copy.

This is the best proof of concept for my “Tom Brady as Flash Gordon” pitch. Just bleach the man’s hair and hand him a sword. It’s perfect.

Ted Turner died. Mourners are advised to hang out with the Burger King Kids Club and use magic rings to summon a dude to beat up polluters.

David Allan Coe died. Mourners are directed to drink Jack Daniel’s until they forget their names.

“Why You Should Read Gene Wolfe (and Where to Start)” countercraft.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

For the record, I’m not opposed to AI writing and art because it’s *bad*. There’s a lot of bad writing and art I’m perfectly happy to say just isn’t for me. I’m opposed to AI writing and art because what it does to get to bad is *also* bad.

“It’s just politics! We are friends!”

JFC, all SFF literature & media is political. It always has been and always will be. So ridiculous that this point has to be made again & again. Success or failure might be connected to how the politics were expressed, but it’s never audiences hate political art. Because it’s always political!

My story “The Wreck” will be in Flame Tree Press’s Wars in the Stars Short Stories anthology in August. The story takes place in the same setting as Stars Beyond Comprehension but fifty to seventy five years after the sixth book in the series.

So there’s another big bland beige Dune film coming. A reminder that David Lynch made Dune in 1984 and it’s a (flawed) masterpiece. With Space Pugs.

Al Williamson’s Flash Gordon Newsprint vs nice matt paper

I may have modified this quote a touch.

Wife: Let’s keep the politics to a minimum, it’s Christmas. Me: sure. Also me five minutes into dinner:

No One: Me at 6am: How do I tie a Windsor tie knot?

There is nothing anyone can tell me to make me believe the American Games thing is real and not a Poe’s Law parody of Trump AI video. No. Not allowed. Bad reality. Go in the corner and think about what you’ve done.

No “right to receive information”? Then what is the point? What is any of this? What are we doing here? “You can write Common Sense, Mr. Payne, but no one is allowed to read it.” What???????

If you’re not watching football and are tired of MST3K and need something to watch on Thanksgiving, check out this bizarre anthology show Chillers hosted by Anthony Perkins. It’s… full of choices…

There’s always room for Giallo - get your fill tonight at #TheLastDriveIn! @therealjoebob123.bsky.social @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social @themutantfam.bsky.social @shudder.com #MutantFam

I may start something here, and I don’t have much of a platform. I also don’t have bridges to burn. This seems… bad. Theft is one of many problems with AI. Others include: not paying an artist, destroying the environment, AI art being total ass (see the new Feast for Crows illustrated edition), etc

Artist Wally Wood sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wood_w... died on this day, so here's some examples of his early 1950's work: a couple of his covers for Weird Science and two pieces for 'The Spirit Sunday Supplement':

The downside to Joe Bob Briggs switching to once a month is I forgot what time his show starts. So now I’m stuck between jumping in an hour late into a killer clown movie or just watching the stream on Sunday. Now I actually have to sleep at a decent hour tonight.

Today's Classic Cover of the day is the 1985 edition of Gene Wolfe's A Devil in a Forest, illustrated by Bruce Pennington

On a backwater planet controlled by a mining company, Zara, a young corporate space ranger, investigates the murder of a manager, which leads to a conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at the colony, especially his own, at risk in Stars Beyond Comprehension (96k). #SFpit #SO #A #Q

If anything, the debate raised Curtis' Q rating & approval among a whole new generation taken in by his Archie-Bunker-meets-Rorschach goofy charm. CUOMO should drop out-- has HE ever been featured on the cover of early 80s KARATE ILLUSTRATED magazine?!

Every presidential candidate should be required to write a novel without assistance (especially AI), minimum 50k words ready in time for election season. Why? When someone writes their first novel, their soul is laid bare and they write the craziest stuff.

Amazing things are happening on Kickstarter’s fiction section, y’all. Uh… “why choose”? Do I want to know?

Had to age verify because my state forced BlueSky to do it.

Ralph McQuarrie

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

"Sometimes it seems that I spend most of my time trying to explain things to people who do not want to understand. This may be more of that." (Gene Wolfe)

In case you mised it we covered Zorann: Star Warrior this week in the DoggzZone! #podcast #podcastclip #lol #comics #conanthebarbarian #funny #fypシ

Don’t miss on Planetside! From shady contracts to AI cons, Writer Beware exposes the publishing scams every author needs to see. Read the two-part interview with @victoriastrauss.com now: www.sfwa.org/2025/08/12/s... Part of SFWA Presents: Get to Know…

1. First #ttrpg you ever played - West End Star Wars RPG Intro Adventure Game 2. First you ever ran - Mouse Guard 3. Played the most - D&D 5e 4. Run the most - Call of Cthulhu 7e 5. Favorite - FFG Star Wars 6. Most recently played - Sock Puppets (Kurt Refling) 7. Most recently run - FFG Star Wars

you KNOW i had to do it to 'em

On a backwater planet controlled by a mining company, Zara, a young corporate space ranger, investigates the murder of a manager, and this leads to a conspiracy that puts everyone’s life at the colony, especially his own, at risk in Stars Beyond Comprehension (96k). #MiseryPit #Q #SFFM #A

In 1959, companies started to market and sell skateboards commercially to the public. Pope Leo XIV was born in 1955 in Chicago. Ladies and gentlemen, we may have the first skateboarding Pope. The media needs to find photos of a young Robert Prevost grinding on rails while mall cops chase him.

Lookout weekend, here I come/because weekends were made for chores and cutting 900 words out of this story that is supposed to be a short story and not a novelette *synthesizer fill*

This is exactly how fake Wolfe lore that will never die is born.

This is how I feel whenever I get rejections on my internet horror inspired stories.

Art by Steve R Dodd ‘Deep Space: The Broken Moons’ (2018, acrylics on canvas board)

Happy Gene Wolfe’s Birthday to all who celebrate. Don’t forget to leave out a can of Pringles and a dictionary of archaic vocabulary before you go to bed tonight. #GeneWolfe

Star Wars poster art by the Brothers Hildebrandt #maythe4thbewithyou