Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

My current favorite first world absurdity is receiving a text message asking me to reply "yes" to confirm a medical appointment. I text "yes" 2.7 seconds later, and then promptly receive a text that states: "You've reached us outside our normal business hours"

Ten years ago on this day my first novel was published. Since then, 4 others have been made real. And the Viking book coming out next year will be number 6. (yeah yeah, 6 7; whatever) Pssst...any of you got a million friends you can convince to buy my books?

Fun fact: HR training videos that stop playing when you change tabs are the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed

I've been waiting a long time for one of these with my name on it. LFG! Thank you @books4kimberly.bsky.social Cant wait to get to work with @diversionbooks.bsky.social and @evanphail.bsky.social

Watching Sandman season 2. My 10 yo daughter comes into the room and sees Robespierre and says: "That's looks like George Washington but with a significant glow down."

Well shit, that surprised the crap outta me. Maybe it'll shock the hell outta you too, dear readers. ##amwriting

Typo of the moment: Instead of blow up something, how about "blup something" Today's Playlist highlight: Alice in Chains youtu.be/-xQQzi0IdLY?...

Two chapters written today. Over 53k total word count in the 4 months I've been working on this book. Fastest pace I've ever had. Some Primus crashed my playlist as I was finishing up Chapter 24. youtu.be/LBQ2305fLeA?...

And then you open a doc from a year ago for a 10k word set of sample chapters of a book you never thought you'd write. And it's good. Like, GOOD! Maybe I'm only 40-50% imposter after all.

Just passed 40k word count on WIP. Big time revelation fallout going on. Chapter 20 is next. This morning's Playlist includes some Dio

Wanna know why I keep making Angry-Mike face whenever someone brings up incorporating AI into education? Cuz it steals shit from artists and it fucks the environment. And this too.

We tilled. We dug. We planted. We wanted a rain garden. We got ducks.

My new favorite papal fun fact... From Wiki regarding the previous Pope named Leo in the 19th century: Pope Leo XIII "was a drinker of the cocaine-infused wine tonic Vin Mariani, a precursor drink to Coca-Cola."

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI? my latest @teenvogue.com

Every teacher right now trying to decide if they should give the grade to the student or to the chatbot

If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.

Out of the dark forest mist, it rises — THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is now on bookstore shelves! I hope you’ll check it out, spread the word, leave a review somewhere, let it whisper to you, do its dark bidding, give yourself over to it entirely, your bones become balusters, you know, normal stuff

My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

Ask not what your country will do to you. Ask what you would have done for Anne Frank

Well, it's that time of the semester where some students stop attending class, except now I have to wonder if it's because they've been disappeared by this erratic Orwellian nightmare of an administration for the heinous crimes of simply existing or speaking their truths.

500 words a day is a decent novel length in under 6 months. 250 words a day is a decent novel length in a year. That's a page or less. Write what you can. #LianaEdits #AmWriting #SkyWriters

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

Man, Musk either got his ass whooped way too much as a kid, or not nearly enough. I'm betting it's the latter.

Another great writing workshop today at The Parlour Tabletop and Tome in Quakertown. Had some returning participants. Had a former student show up. Major fun. Stay tuned for details on the next two: Character building on April 13. And First Page workshop on May 18.

Today's typo: My Fuction Writing course

Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

We're full into 1984 doublethink now. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

One of the early reviews of my dystopian Rafael Ward novels argued that 30 years wasn't enough time for the US to devolve into a nationalistic, autocratic, tyranny with sham elections, vanishing public works, and Orwellian governmental agencies. Sometimes I hate being right.

The first in my series of fiction workshops at @theparlourtabletop in Quakertown is coming up on Feb 23. Worldbuilding is first up. For writers at all levels and experience. All genres welcome. It's gonna be hella fun facebook.com/events/s/wri...

You cannot stop a bully with words. You cannot stop a coup with lawsuits. You cannot protect anyone with silence.

Remembering fondly a note from a friend in England back in 2017: Trump "is an 'unpresidentedly' moronic hoofwanking thundercunt, he really puts the dick in dictator, and as our beloved Shakespeare would have said: verily I say unto thee, he's a right twat." Ah, those English & their beautiful words

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

OpenAI right now

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by THE EYE ROLLS OF MY 10 YO DAUGHTER

When we refuse to call out a nazi salute on TV, it's only a matter of time until we're making excuses to allow swastikas in our schools.

A fact without additional comment: Today my college introduced 29 new administrator and staff hires. And 2 teaching faculty hires.

Last 9 followers I've gotten on here: Female Generic name Few if any posts 1k+ followers Seems totally legit.

Three reminders for 2025: HR is not on your side. HR protects your employer. "Natural flavors" does not mean healthy ingredients. It means chemically extracted flavors. There are no middle or lower class capitalists. We're all exploited workers. Bonus: Have dessert tonight. You've earned it.

9am new year's eve: Let's try to get a dinner reservation. Ok but not too late. So, 5pm? You know what, it's new year's. We can do late. They have a 6:30pm reservation. Oh wow. No, you know what, we can do it. Let's do it! Pop quiz: How many 40+ years olds are involved in this conversation?

Ok world, I see your writer's block & I raise you: Writing a one shot Victorian haunted house mystery RPG to run in my fiction writing class in the spring.

Name a non-LOTR character that could resist the One Ring.

Indeed, this is where we are.

We made it through last winter with snow suits and boots that didn't really fit the kids and we said we would get new stuff for this winter but it was just Halloween 7 minutes ago and suddenly I understand why my mom always had us wearing plastic bags to play in the snow when we were kids.

"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...