When you're a child, Frog and Toad are silly. When you're an adult, you realize the author has experienced this shit first hand and it gets very real.

I genuinely don't know what city, province/state, country, or even continent I'll be in on November 1st, and that's absolutely amazing. 🤣 (If my plans work out, I'll finally get to see the southern hemisphere's stars!! 🤩)

A long walk home across the sleeping city. Lights fade, cars disappear, roads merge. True solitude, a rare and precious gift.

Just finished reading "Human Resources" by Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow.bsky.social), a short story set in the world of his "Service Model." :) Creepy and evocative and far too believable! reactormag.com/human-resour...

You know you've failed as a bar when your patrons sneak out to the McDonald's a block away because it's way faster and 80% cheaper than any of the food on your menu. 😱 (Quebec City, tourism sector)

Sci-fi rant incoming. 🤓 When people sincerely argue against alien visitation on the grounds of, "Earth isn't special! What would they need here that they can't find elsewhere?" - that hints at severe lack of imagination. (To say nothing of their grasp of the history of science. 🙃) Thread:

A dispatch from the writing mines! I'm rather proud of this line. :) "The slime colony gurgled angrily." #writing

Subtly downgrade a band Rolling Pebbles

Either two transformers are engaged in an act of passionate love right underneath my balcony, or today's street construction is a bit more disruptive than usual. 🤔 It's a 50/50 chance, really.

I love indie film festivals: the one I'm looking at right now has a special award category for "Strangest item used as a weapon." 🤣

Ahh. Hmm. Less than 6% acceptance rate this year. 😮 My films are good, but not *that* good. Ah well, there will always be next year. 😌

When you're a filmmaker, you get a lot of days that are filled with capital-A Anticipation. 😀 For example, today, a lot of folks - myself included - are waiting for an official announcement from a very very cool film festival in North Carolina... Toes and fingers crossed!

"Be warned though - do not accidentally press E. You will "Exit" mid air with inconvenient consequences." 🤣🤣🤣 (Reddit instructions for operating a video game gyrocopter)

Very free market. Such brave. So self-confidence. 🤡

"Clay animation is the best kind of movie to make when you're younger because you can shoot for hours and hours and your clay actors never complain, they don't ask for food, and they don't need stunt doubles." Robert Rodriguez, "Rebel Without a Crew" #filmmaking :)

One peculiar thing about challenging yourself to write 11 short stories (a wild deadline has just appeared 🤣) in 4 weeks: your subconscious is always working with the concepts you fed it, and it gives you an almost-complete story structure (or a cool line) when you least expect it. 🙃

I absolutely love this hauntingly beautiful short story by Angela Liu ( @angelaliu.bsky.social ) - "Brainstem Disco, 2191" clarkesworldmagazine.com/liu_05_25/

Petition to restart chronology on account of there being too many centuries.

I'm curious about a plausible path toward a future where men would be the ones who must change their last names upon getting married, and where that becomes normalized. 🤔

When I was a little boy in Siberia, I dreamed of synergizing vertical headwind dependencies.

That was the thing that *really* turned me off the Foundation novels... Asimov casually mentioned that population increased 10x in 50 years. 🤔 He didn't mention any artificial wombs. He was a chemist, so he knew math... At what age did women in your books turn into baby factories, Isaac? 😱

What a beautiful, beautiful blurb. :)

Stray thought: I once sold an essay, and a few of my stories will come out in Canadian magazines and anthologies... Does that mean I get to use "an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction" in my author bio? 🙃 #WritingCommunity

Ended a long relationship 19 days ago... Downside: can't quite focus on writing the optimistic 2nd POV in my new novel. Upside: wrote 8 new short stories, most of them for upcoming anthologies. Planning 2 more this week... The mind is a weird animal. #writing

Planning my big travel itinerary for October: Montreal ➡️ NYC ➡️ Reading, PA ➡️ Denver ➡️ Ridgway, CO ➡️ South America, maybe? 🤣 Been a while since my last grand adventure...

I was clearing my hard drive when I noticed an old audio file titled "never" - so I obviously clicked on it... ...and rickrolled myself. 🤣 Well done, past me, well done.

Just found out that the Workaway-type visa to volunteer in Australia (Working Holiday Visa) has the age ceiling of 30. 😭 I guess I won't get to paddleboard with the platypuses. :(

Who wants some wacky Siberian news? ❄️🙃🌲 A new study claims that the Uralic family of languages (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) originated in northeastern Siberia 4,500 years ago. Those were some hypermobile nomads! phys.org/news/2025-07...

Victor Frankenstein watching a bodybuilding contest: what the fuck is this bullshit

Is it "accidentally" or "by accident"? Anyway, I sawed my assistant in half

One of the weirdest (and unacknowledged) problems in our society is that our ruling class had grown up with private tutors or in such pricey schools that they'd never experienced any bullying, ever. And now they've no idea what to do. 🤡 It's like the behavioural version of having no immune system.

History is so random... Just think: if Steve Jobs had picked a different fruit, we'd all be talking on banana phones today!

I had wayyy too much fun writing a neo-noir story featuring cats for a themed anthology's submission call. 😼 And the title? "Power and Purrsuasion." 😹 #writing

Do you want Butlerian Jihad? Because that's how you get Butlerian Jihad. 🤖🔫🥲 www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

Sites should have the login field on their home page. I shouldn't have to click "login" and then type in my login on the next page, then click "next," then type in my password, then click "next," then verify I'm human (after a 10-second wait), and then click "next" yet again. Microaggression, yo. 🫤

Timeline cleanse! :)

Denmark is poised to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and bodies The copyright amendment would give every citizen legal ownership over their physical likeness, allowing them to demand the removal of unauthorized AI-generated content www.myprivacy.blog/denmark-make...

Scientific American... Welcome to the Resistance. 😎🤝👩‍🔬

Smash two book titles together: Alice's Adventures in the Confederacy of Dunces

I love this story and am super happy to see it out.

Sitting in Old Quebec, listening to a passably good busker... It's fascinating, in a bad way: at least 30 others, but only I left a tip. They're clearly not-hating his music, but they don't want to volunteer even a dollar each, not unless somebody passes a bucket. Bad parallels to other art...

That moment when the light is just right. 😌 A snapshot of my man-cave (or artist studio, if you're feeling charitable) during the early stages of packing up.

An anthology that’s accepted my superhero story has met and exceeded its Kickstarter goal, woot! :) And since they posted the snippet there, I guess it’s only fair to share it here with all y’all. This is probably the best story opening I’ve written thus far. 😎 #writing #scifi

I love it when online magazines have fun with their submission guidelines. :)

This is an absolute masterpiece of ultra-low-budget sci-fi filmmaking. 💖🤣 www.instagram.com/reel/DOMVQId...

The year is 2030. I hunt my food with bow and arrow, just like my ancestors. My shot flies true. The metal demon plummets from the sky. I come closer. My prize is chicken tikka masala. An inscription says "Bob Smith," but that means nothing to me. I praise the gods. www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-ea...

Smash two movies together to make a new one: Mr. and Mrs. Congeniality

Genius:

I really hope there's a woman slam poet out there who goes by "Diss Miss" - because if there isn't, what a missed opportunity! 😮