'Accuses.'

You've Mega'd your last deth.

@leavingmaga.org is a great organization leading the way by helping disillusioned MAGA members rediscover #Truth. Love over hate. Not just our allies, but our political opponents. Even when it’s hard. Especially then. #WethePeople are #StrongerTogether. #UnitedWeStand #Defenders LeavingMAGA.org

The date today is kinda cool: 26062026 (Don't come at me America, only you guys do that weird shit with dates.)

This a long read, but a powerful one, and powerfully important.

Wonderful! I hope you enjoy it.

The photo of Trump sitting on a black towel on a white couch is faked, friends. Don't keep sharing it. Don't use the tools of the enemy.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

It’s my birthday! Gift to myself was to come home and see my mom and the ocean. You didn’t get me anything? It’s cool! This is 56% off again (only $12 for the gorgeous hardcover). Pushing me closer to a new contract and reading about my home? Perfect gift. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

The Omen was released on this day fifty years ago. Still a stone cold classic. (Fun fact: the scene when Damien freaks out as they're going to church was filmed at Guildford cathedral near where I grew up.)

hey friends!! Tell me about your favorite GENRE-BENDING books! I'm looking for sci-fi mysteries, fantasy horrors, science-fantasy, literary specfic, and all that stuff that doesn't fit neatly into one category.

Small town horror. ✔️ Weird vibes. ✔️ Fungal nightmares. ✔️ Crime. ✔️ Australian strangeness. ✔️ Broken people. ✔️ Emotional trauma. ✔️ Dark humour. ✔️ Cosmic shenanigans. ✔️ Get yourself some Tales From The Gulp. I promise you'll enjoy them. #WelcomeToTheGulp

In case people disagree or don't understand, it's because trees shade asphalt, buildings and pavements which stop those things heating up and significantly raising overall temperatures.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Really enjoyed the workshop on writing fight scenes I just ran through Queensland Writers Centre (via Zoom). Always feels like I'm just jabbering away but people seemed pleased! Always a privilege to get to do this stuff.

Starlink launches should be referred to exclusively as satelittering. Thank you for your attention to this (literal) matter

Hi! I'm looking to speak to anyone who is finding ways to resist/work around mandatory AI usage policies at work. Mostly games industry-related, but happy to speak to anyone adjacent as well! Published quotes can of course be anon if desired. DM me here or email at [email protected], thanks!

If people I wouldn't like don't like my books, I consider that a job well done. And if people I do like don't like my books, fair enough. I write them for the weirdos like me, so I can dig it.

Arrived in the post today. I've got a long and treasured history with this band and it's been too long between albums.

No context required.

Southern Tasmania this morning...

It is vital you buy your small child (or the small child you know) that cheap, shitty watercolor set and that cheap, shitty colored pencil set and that cheap, shitty sketchbook Don't even wait for a reason, just bring it home one night That stuff is transformative in ways you've totally forgotten

You'll know WHY it's on Substack (extremely reluctantly & solely to try to clear up a gigantic mess) if you read it. Almost a year after I left people are still filing fraud disputes against me & costing me huge sums in Stripe fees, solely due to Substack's lies about the ease of leaving their site.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

I just finished watching The Boroughs. Really enjoyed it if I force myself to ignore the central fundamental flaw... 😬 Only going to be one season though, Netflix cancelled it. (If you enjoyed it, read Todd Keisling's novel, The Sundowner's Dance. Similar vibes as The Boroughs but better.)

Hoods above a certain height should be banned. It's just dick swinging. These are no better, no stronger, don't carry more loads. They're just big for sake of it and fucking dangerous because of it. Banning them from regular parking spaces and garages would be a good start.

WIP has passed 35k words now. Things are heating up. Might have a break and play some guitar before school pick up.

if you're angry about this, write. use your human brain and tell them. doesn't need to be war and peace, a sentence will do. be civil. be kind to the staffer who reads these. but do it. i let them know that i'm never paying to see their films again unless they backtrack. [email protected]

As soon as anyone's bank account hits $100 million dollars they should be moved to an undisclosed location for 30 days with no access to anyone they know and have to work a blue collar job and survive on those wages. Just 30 days.

Payment for a short story hit my PayPal this morning. It's hard as hell to make any kind of living at this gig and we always need more readers, but it will NEVER get old for me seeing actual money for the mad shit I make up.

Legend.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

posting this image for no reason in particular

Got a couple of thousand words done on the current work in progress then ran into a bit of a brick wall. Needed to think around it. My usual method for this is heading out on a motorbike ride. Thankfully the sun had come out after a frosty morning, so I went out for an hour. Problem solved. Onwards!

Southern hemisphere be like.

We often sing nonsense to the tune of The Final Countdown (like "You're a pair of numpties! do do do do doooo!" to the dogs.) My kid recently asked, "That song. The final countdown to what?" I didn't know. Do you? Turns out the song is about a fucking trip to Venus!

Hey fellow trans friends, I can't wait to get fucked up with some weird ass trans horror ❤️give me the stories you finished and were like "nah, I love this..but it's fucking weird and unsellable." And you leave it in a doc for 3 years. Please surprise me & make me feel gross & cry. I want it bad

Correct. This is bullshit. I know a lot of authors and we all fucking hate AI and won't ever use it.

Would you go to a neo-nazi rally? Would you drink in a neo-nazi bar? No? Then get off Twitter. It's that simple. And if you start talking about how it's not that simple actually I refer you to the start of this post.

Any Samsung Android users out there - do you use Google Messages for text messaging or have you found a decent alternative? Google Messages suuuuucks.

Gail is you're dead right. It's a cesspool and staying there is actively endorsing the worst people. Tell people where you're going so they can find you elsewhere and leave. You'll lose nothing and gain plenty.

Oh, it's Father's Day? There are some fathers in these books. The perfect gift!

People getting arrested for souveniring the failed reflecting pool lining is such an on the nose metaphor. America has passed so far beyond parody that's come full circle and is passing parody again.

Had to look up the word automythopoiesis thanks to Damon Young's latest newsletter. (Self-mythmaking, for those interested.)

Happy Solstice, witches, warlocks and wargs. Be yourself without apology.

I just saw a review for SALLOW BEND that read: "it seriously reads like it was written by an AI that learned about horror writing on a subreddit. if you enjoy things that are more awkward than walking in on your parents having sex, you'll love it." lol SALLOW BEND is my bestselling book. 😄

According to etymology legend @susiedentwords.bsky.social "bollocks" used to be a term of endearment between men. In the 16th century, men might invite each other for a drink with a polite, "Come, my sweet bollocks." My dear bollocks reading this, I say we bring it back.

I just saw a review for SALLOW BEND that read: "it seriously reads like it was written by an AI that learned about horror writing on a subreddit. if you enjoy things that are more awkward than walking in on your parents having sex, you'll love it." lol SALLOW BEND is my bestselling book. 😄

"87% of quotations on the internet are false." - Albert Einstein, 1841.