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He reacted exactly as I expected he would. ♥️

To spy on you so they can sell data to advertisers and any nearby fascist policing agencies if they're lucky. I'm 100% sure that if there's a web enabled pressure cooker, they're busily figuring out who makes beans and rice.

Call me a luddite but I kind of prefer the old version of the Devil who used to put a murrain on crops and command his demon dogs to terrorise church congregations to the new one who insists on having an app for everything and gets rich by designing clever ways of capitalising on people's fatigue.

Life is short, if you aren’t getting shot or blown up you are having a better time than most people, don’t forget that.

It is nice to know my D&D group put more thought into the repercussions of regime change than the current administration

This is gonna be another case of a bunch of deluded people saying “They’re both the same!”, then realizing they were fkn really wrong but doubling down, innit?

“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library.” — Carl Sagan

If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check. Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

you have to be loudly pro-pornography and you have to never shut up about it. you have to become the "they want to take away your freedom of expression vis-à-vis cocks and boobs" person to everyone you know. i'm sorry to say it but it's just how it is right now

Hey, so you might have seen me repost the odd promo from Yearn, which is a new app for fantasy romance that’s attempting to challenge KU (and be better for both authors and readers).

I have these convos with editing clients a lot. Some people don’t mind being market driven, it actually helps their writing. But some of us, it hurts our writing immensely. You can’t produce great things while seeking universal appeal. You have to let your darkness and unfathomable weirdness show.

Been having a rough winter like so many others—it’s like there’s this global Northern Hem pathetic fallacy happening. But dropping in to say, Hey, readers, I appreciate you terribly, and thanks for your buys and messages. 👋 wattup?

Deleted my Microsoft account and an ancient, no longer used Outlook email and feel very

If most of your beta readers have the same note, it might be worth seriously considering. If 5 different people say 5 different things, though, there may not be much substance to 5 various subjectivities, so heed your own muse's gut and feel fine with ignoring.

I mean, Millions of people eat Goldfish crackers. I think the general zeitgeist would be fairly unchanged if they stopped existing.

Back up/pirate any queer Netflix content that hasn't ever been released physically (Nimona, Umbrella Academy, Sense8, etc...) before it poofs out of existence.

This is a hill I will die on as an editor.

So very pleased OP goes on with followup posts or I woulda hadda gotten crisp all up in here. ❤️

2025 was my least productive year ever due to a new, seemingly endless health issue that started in Jan, but managed to selfpub MYRIAD 1 and 2, and had a short tale tradpubbed under the other pen name. Very sad about the situation. 2026 can't come soon enough.

Seeing people use generative AI is extremely embarrassing. They're like tiny children being given controllers that aren't plugged into the gaming system and they're smashing buttons shouting, "I'm winning!" Only they're adults, fully capable of playing but they want the unplugged controller.

Explain your username: Welp, as a writer in many forms, I just like to roll with irony slash a sense of humility.

I'm a comics creator. Every time I lead a workshop with kids, I see their absolute joy in drawing with their OWN HANDS. If you deny kids that joy by forcing them to type prompts into a computer, you're failing as an educator. Shame on you for this.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

My critique is the mostly bland, uninspired or even offensive casting, tbf. Pass.

Some absolutely top notch orange cattery here

Under his fucking eye, amirite, Sammy?

Will side-eye any queer person lipsyncing or burlesquing to "I will Survive" going forward, because hard not to know all this now. Gay anthem shot to hell.

It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

The remaining Victorian ghosts admitted defeat today. “The world in 2025 is so much spookier than anything we could come up with, so we’re taking retirement. Here, have our shoes as a parting gift.” Victorian ghosts—creepy to the last.

None. I keep MYRIAD in a separate world because it's quasi-autobiographical and I'm private that way. (Obligatory PSA so as not to mislead smut-buyers: The series isn't really smut, but 🔥🔥🔥 exists here and there, esp in book 2)

I've said it before, but those "naked xrays" installed in airports in the west was a test-run of citizens' complacency and toletance for invasive authoritarian surveillance. Our lack of pushback revealed everything they needed to know.

So many of these fools saying AI art is the future and AI will soon be indistinguishable from humans in every way, their arguments boil down to “the human experience means nothing” and honestly i don’t think people who believe that are capable of understanding art in the first place

Whenever I see a post by an author deriding lush, inventive prose, I immediately know I will bounce off their bland-ass work. MYRIAD isn't densely written or flowery (that flair is under another pen-name), but Simon has a vocab and gets aroused by words like I do.

As a perennial “Read Caleb Williams and Political Justice!” broken record, this trending—regardless of target—pleases me. (I love Godwin’s work so much that he figures in MYRIAD. Of course.)

I see a lot of "please be respectful of other people's decisions" around AI in indie author spaces and I don't understand it. If you plagiarise that makes you a plagiarist. If you steal someone else's work and lie that it's your own, that makes you a liar and thief. I'm supposed to respect that?

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

Aaaaand they changed it. Good work team!

I feel sick, @sfwa.org. What are we even doing?

I'm tired of queer blockbusters. I'm happy for those authors, but we don't need more bank-breaking releases. We need all kinds of little stories, books that challenge the meaning of "book," short fiction that ensnares us, poetry that makes our heads float away--stories that are allowed to grow.

Like a lot of fields (e.g. academia), it’s not just about talent and hard work. Lord fkn knows! If you aren’t On Trend or Playing the Right Politics, there’s little chance. Again: MERITOCRACY DOES NOT AND NEVER HAS EXISTED. And yeah, it seems even worse nowadays, in late-stage capitalism, innit?

If I broke into a bakery, kicked out the owner, fired the staff, and started using their recipes and equipment to sell bread, would that be ethical? If I bought my own ingredients after theirs ran out, would that be ethical? Because that's what all the 'ethical GenAI' people sound like.

People should talk more about shit they love, it's a great way to make friends

Escapism reading is nice, don’t get me wrong…but I prefer reading stories where the bad shit still exists, but the characters get to do something about it.

Creative people are complex, enigmatic creatures of many multitudes and onion-like layers. But also, someone can say "So cool" on something we created, and the hazy horrors simply dissipate. We grow dragon wings. And shoot magic beams out of our bodies.

And my family doctor keeps wanting to turn on AI assist to record our convos during visits, or get me to video conference appointments. So far I’ve eluded all that through sheer dumb stubbornness, but not sure how much longer patients will have any power.

Lest anyone doubt the roman a clef credentials of MYRIAD, I was definitely working in a bookstore c. 1990 because I vividly recall that Life in Hell comic strip dude getting a new show called The Simpsons, and being threatened with violence for carrying The Satanic Verses. myriadofsimonhansen.com

In studies on misinformation, this is one of its hallmark forms: an expert in one area asserting expertise in another area they aren't schooled in (eg psych prof Jor Ped and his sudden wisdom about marine biology and lobsters).