Thank you, Bex, for reminding me of this strange, kind, lonely man. Another story about Cuba, from way back in 2017: bettermyths.com/how-i-met-cu...

Patriot, on Amazon Prime. Criminally ignored because it's called "Patriot" and it was on Amazon Prime before they had anything good.

People love to say that violence "accomplishes nothing", or that it "has no place in society," but if that's actually true, why do we do so much of it? New blog post: bettermyths.com/violence-is-...

My wife told me Charlie Kirk died and my first reaction was "that can't be, I literally just read a bad tweet by that guy."

Taking the opportunity to say that Two Truths and a Lie is still published, it's still gross as hell, and I still love talking about it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741701...

100% agree. The blind panic I felt as my book's opening weeks came to a close. I felt like I hadn't done enough, and now I'd never have a chance. Even though it's gonna be out for like a million more years.

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

Despite my never accumulating enough swag to actually post on tumblr, that website is easily responsible for the majority of Zeus's sales. God bless that writhing pit of sex perverts

Several years ago at GDC I had friend ask, in good faith "what about using generative AI to fill in the gaps in a team's budget?" My answer was, and remains, that any problem "solved" by genAI is better solved by reducing scope.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

This is fascinating not only because of the content, but because of the way people are being encouraged to alter their own human writing in response. Never has adherence to the Elements of Style had such stakes.

It’s time for a fair contract. Our union is fighting to protect what makes @kickstarter.com special, and we need your support. Sign onto our petition to show your solidarity: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ks...

I was trying to "stay engaged" on this "platform" but after like a week and a half I ran out of shit to say. How do yall keep finding stuff to say on here?

My life's work is a folded cocktail napkin containing one knock-knock joke. I call it Finite Jest.

Just finished Simplicty by @mattielubchansky.com. Really beautiful illustration of how the personal becomes the political, whether you want it to or not. Plus it's horny af. If that sounds like you then go buy it www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739012...

Had a therapist once who gave me an assignment to "lie on the gound and feel like shit" for minutes at a time. Still probably the best technique i have learned in therapy

I feel like the part of Two Truths and a Lie that has aged the best is the way treats AI: these entities that *appear* sentient to people, but only because people treat everything like people maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-f...

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

I think being immortal would rule actually. I would not be driven mad by the slow inexorable march of time. Rip to the rest of you but I'm different

Here's a post I wrote about posting bettermyths.com/nobody-ever-...

My friend Soren has a really cool patreon where you can learn about medieval death records and look at bloodborne smut. You should give him money www.patreon.com/c/age_of_sin/

we needed a token for a magic deck so my kid made one out of an old card we weren't using

"come join me down here on the wet floor. you won't believe how chill it is, down here on this moist surface"

sometimes i feel like i'm too negative online, but i do truly believe that people worldwide can work together to create lasting happiness for the ultra-rich

Hey I made a post on my website. It's about my favorite thing: explosions bettermyths.com/god-bless-ex...

Just repeating it because some are repeating Microsoft's lies unquestioningly about them having to cut people to save money, etc. Their gaming division was 26 *billion* USD in the black. They had just posted record revenue. They were swimming in money. But Microsoft wants to invest *80bn* in AI.

just realized that the "peel" in "keep your eyes peeled" is you eyelids. surely I am not alone in this

Belatedly getting into Cobalt Core. This game rules. Imagine all the good parts of slay the spire AND FTL plus a killer story and characters. My fellow card perverts -- get in there store.steampowered.com/app/2179850/...

can someone who is good at posting please teach me how to post

Proud to have TTAL featured in Aesop Queer Library's fifth year! This year's theme is Language as Liberation. As a writer of sci fi, I believe radical change is often imagined through language first. If you're in NY, LA, or Toronto, go grab free books! www.aesop.com/us/r/pride-us/

RT if you love boobs or if you think ICE should be abolished

Trying to get better at self-promotion, so I'm letting you know about this event TWO WHOLE DAYS in advance. I'm gonna be at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social in LA on 6/6 talking about Two Truths and a Lie. Come hang out! vromansbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

I did an interview with @litsplaygames.bsky.social about mysteries, games, and mystery games. Check it out! youtu.be/XIJb1Oj44sM

With another round of shortsighted corporate layoffs that mysteriously never include the C-suite, please check out and consider joining United Videogame Workers (CWA). Sign the We're Done Playing petition, too! Join the party and let's beat the bosses! uvw-cwa.org @videogameworkers.bsky.social

If you're awake in Los Angeles at 10:30 AM, I'm on a panel at the LA Times festival of books called "I'm the problem, it's me: heroes and antiheroes in fiction" in Taper 201, and I'll be chatting with the very talented @alexsegura.bsky.social and @jeanhanff.bsky.social Come hang out!

This has been on my mind for a long time. Happy to finally get it out there. Thanks to @evergreenreview.bsky.social for making it happen!

I have a hard time getting myself to sub to journals, mostly from a fear of rejection, but submitting to TBQ feels different. Because, like, even getting rejected would be pretty funny

if you take steroids to get swole but it makes you unwell are those ill-gotten gains

In like 5 minutes I'm doing a remote book event with Bridgeport Public Library in connecticut. Come listen to me answer questions and stuff! us02web.zoom.us/j/86224817347

I did a pretty cool interveiw with @paulsemel.bsky.social about Two Truths and a Lie. Check it out: paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...

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I cannot overstate how much I enjoyed reading TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE, so it was a real delight to have @bettermyths.bsky.social stop by to play Monster Prom with us www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPNW...

If you like a hilarious and contemporary take on the cyberpunk noir mystery, I highly recommend TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE by Cory O'Brien (@bettermyths.bsky.social). If you like watching me get humiliated in a dating sim, I highly recommend this video: youtu.be/BPNWdCIJda8?...

cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide...

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

Pretty much everyone I've talked to in games agrees the industry is messed up. Isn't it time we did something about it? I'm part of United Videogame Workers, a new industry-wide game workers union, and you can be too. uvw-cwa.org/membership