Person who is continuously trying to burn my house down: Fire is inevitable so instead of griping you should try to focus on all of the good things that fire can do for you.

Simultaneous Times featuring three Radon authors is now live! 🎧 www.podomatic.com/podcasts/spa... We are proud to partner with @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social and have @slashnburnett.bsky.social, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and @davidleezweifler.bsky.social's stories come to new life

I've lost 25 pounds (!!) due to a recent illness. #AMA. 🧵

Honestly, folks, if you think we're being mean to tourists, you should see what we do to our citizens and legal residents.

My son: (Practicing sparse bebop/hard-bop drumming using tight ride cymbal swing with syncopated comping on snare and toms, on his drum set.) Me (From upstairs): DAMNIT BOY! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU? NO PLANNING NOIR BANK HEISTS IN THE HOUSE AFTER 7 PM!

Drinking my first espresso while not fully recovered from the worst flu I have ever had. My brain is like a 100-year-old entrepreneur laying out ambitious plans for the next year. My body is saying: "Well, that all sounds very exciting but let's see how things go today shall we?"

My dog as I struggle with the flu: Master is sick. I shall protect him from squirrels. My cats: Hoping for the best of course, but if he dies I have dibs on the eyes.

If you have no education debt, your kids are grown, your mortgage is paid on a property with thirty years of low-interest-rate equity built in, and your healthcare is provided free by the government, please understand why I view your optimism about the future with a certain degree of skepticism.

In my sophomore year of high school, I received a lower-than-expected grade on my final exam from a teacher. I was recently shocked to learn that this woman is a narco terrorist. Who can I contact about this? 🤣

Until I get the melanoma removed, I'm going to make it super, super uncomfortable for anyone trying to trick me with the "Does your face hurt? Well, it's killing me!" joke. ("Well, it's killing me also! Are you happy now?!")

Sauron is working at Cheesecake Factory now

Say what you want about our current administration, we're not going to have to pass Draconian measures to bring down tourism in the US this year: European Cities In Imposing Stricter Tourist Tax To Regulate Visitor Numbers share.google/CIWTVupb09IF...

CNBC buries the lede a bit when they get a private equity expert to admit that the "retailization" of private equity is designed to tranfer their unsellable assets to individuals... in the last few paragraphs of the story. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/w...

Muad'Dib search.app/8EBPm

The chilling final chapter to Y'All Go Die Now, Y'Hear and Bless Your Disembodied Heart. If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.

Heartbroken to see this. www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...

Watson given attention for another discovery that was first made by Rosalind Franklin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

To paraphrase Big Daddy Kane, foraging ain't easy.

My dog barks when anyone walks through the front door. Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"

(Intrusive thoughts as I prepare foraged puffball mushrooms for dinner.)

I definitely have to make some noise about the awesome @acwise.bsky.social calling Ronan's my recent story in Analog "effective... quiet science fiction." Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...

Generally speaking, digital transformation is the relentless pursuit of converting fairly priced things that we like and need into poor counterfeits that can be produced at scale for low- or no cost. I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.

Philly road trip. (We're halfway there. 🤣)

Got paid today

USCSS Maginot, eh? Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.

PSA: Don't fondle wheat if you ever plan on seeing your family again.

Well partner, I'm afraid that this here town ain't big enough for two emergent medical professionals

If you're in a workplace that has a pack of these sitting next to the phone, let's grab a beer sometime.

After 7 months of research and calculation I have finally confirmed my amazing discovery: nobody can predict when winter will arrive in Game of Thrones because that world exists in the same universe as the Three Body Problem. A 🧵 1/25

A lot of people slam generation X for splitting up to cover more ground in horror movies, but it's the generation before us that will call the number when the message that they've been hacked comes up on the screen.

"Meanwhile, in national news..."

I have my EMT exam tomorrow. I just learned that the answer to "What are electrolytes?" is NOT "what plants crave."

Police can claim that the husband is outright making stuff up, or they can choose not to take his statement, but if they say there's no evidence that this is a hate crime, they're lying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I feel seen.

You ever hear about the first modern EMS service in the US, Freedom House Ambulance Service? Neither did I, and I'm studying to be an EMS! This was the program that shaped and professionalized paramedicine in the US and across the globe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...

I don't think it's a coincidence that "what cha makin'?" rhymes with "bacon."

HBO is usually pretty good at deciding when to depart from source material for a much loved franchise that goes off the rails. With all due respect to the great Mr. Martin, they knew to do this in Season 3 and beyond in GOT.

A couple of years ago I was wondering if the excellent Season 1 of Andor was enough of an incentive for me to stay subscribed to what was otherwise a content crudpile at Disney. Anyway, tell me what happens in Season 2.

6) Retail is Dying by @davidleezweifler.bsky.social and Ronan Zweifler: old man reminiscing about past walks through old mall and adopts a dog. Disarming bittersweetness hits the spot

Similar to the dream people in Inception, if I hang out in a Michaels long enough eventually the craft people realize I'm an outsider and try to kill me.

I started writing stories for my kids. Now I'm writing stories with one of them. Before you know it, I'm going to be griping and asking why that young punk is getting all the plum sales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ou...

Thanks to Victoria Silverwolf and Tangent for the nice write-up of the story my son and I wrote for Analog. tangentonline.com/print-bi-mon...

Very exciting to see my son's name next to my own in the current issue of Analog. analogsf.com. I started writing stories FOR my children, and now I'm writing stories WITH my children.

Wow - I didn't realize that this had dropped. Thanks for the heads up, @captainzero.bsky.social, and a big thanks to my co-author Ronan, and Trevor at @analogsf.bsky.social for giving this story a great home.

"After doing all I can do in my role at UHC, I want to take this time to deny love and care to the people who matter most to me--my family," Witty said in a statement. www.startribune.com/unitedhealth...

Brit, American, Canadian--I don't care who you are. If you ever have the opportunity to spell the word "spectre" with an "er" at the end, JUST DON'T DO IT. #stayclassy

My wife went to See's Candies on vacation and brought home one bag of Awesome® Peanut Brittle Bars and one bag of Pecan Buds. I can have one of the two bags, and she'll give the other to her admin. This is basically like Sophie's Choice for old white guys.

For those of you who bet a buck that I would end up in a vehicle with sirens on it and not be sick, injured, or handcuffed, I'm happy to report you just won a million dollars.

Your Friends and Neighbors looks interesting but if I want to see a story about a devastatingly good looking former corporate tool going through a blood soaked midlife crisis I'll pretty much just continue to live my life, you know what I mean?

YOU FOOLS! DID I NOT WARN YOU!?