Guuuuys, I’m really doing it—I’m performatively reading! This rocks! #amreading #booksky #books

Well, a clanker’s book finally slipped past tradpub’s goalies. I hope the “author’s” real name is Mia Ballard, ‘cuz that name is mud now. Gift link. #AI #writingcommunity #writesky #writersky #writing #writers

In which an accomplished burglar in the midst of a bad breakup finds that her personal life affects her professional one. My third story of the year. #shortstories #storysky #stories #fiction #amwriting #writingcommunity nokevohle.substack.com/p/theft-of-a...

Oof. This is horrible—and it’s gotta be really disillusioning for a lot of people. #CesarChavez

Michael B. Jordan should be given two Oscars. #Oscars

The KPOP DEMON HUNTERS girls have performed "Golden" at enough ceremonies and special events that they've basically gone on tour. #Oscars

Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:

How am I only now learning about this? #Olympics #WinterOlympics2026 #figureskating #gamesky #games #videogames #gaming #MortalKombat

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

Bill Amend of FOX TROT fame has an edge to him we never really saw in the Sunday funnies. #comics #comicsky #Iran #EpsteinFiles

this is a really good description of human people

Good time t’say I’ve followed the House to Astonish podcast w/ @alkennedy.bsky.social & @ifdestroyed.bsky.social since its 2015 start, even when not buying comics. Love the analysis and dynamic, and they’re like old friends now. Try it! #comics #comicsky #comicbooks www.housetoastonish.com?p=11828

stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem

Well, THE POWER FANTASY no. 16 is out, so that’s 16 issues it’s been my fave series going. Thanks to @kierongillen.bsky.social & @casparw.bsky.social for a great arc. If you’ve been waiting to read the whole story in one go, the third TPB comes out shortly. Happy reading. #comicsky #comics

I think this post has "writers who don't read books" right on the merits, but it's also fascinating to think about from the view of the reverse job: me writing movie novelizations! A ton of those kinds of projects are awful as prose, but I've tried to do better, particularly w Sonic. 1/X

My SHERLOCK HOLMES: A YEAR OF MYSTERY - 1889 copies came! The whole series has a fun premise: a book per year and a story per month for every annum of the duo's work together, filling in the time Doyle left empty. Glad I got to contribute. #SherlockHolmes #books #booksky #amwriting #crimefiction

The SF startup folks are weirder and sadder than you thought. Like Donald Boat says toward the end of this piece, “I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs.” But they make for a great article. #AI #tech #LLM harpers.org/archive/2026...

I love Jim Henson, of course, but I honestly feel his son Brian may have outdone him with TREASURE ISLAND and CHRISTMAS CAROL. They are wonderful movies. #Muppets #Filmsky #films #movies

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

This new story is a product of the best writing prompt I ever read: "Write about monsters in the style of John Steinbeck." I chose to mash up a famous Steinbeck book with a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale. #HPLovecraft #writingcommunity #fiction #Cthulhu #weird nokevohle.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

Ayn Rand’s THE FOUNTAINHEAD ain’t that bad, actually. “My way or not at all” is just a way more sympathetic philosophy for an artist with a second job than from a CEO in charge of a huge company. Anyway here’s a hilarious cover for it from the 70s, h/t @caulimovirus.bsky.social #Booksky #books

Post a comic cover you love.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

“AI;DR” is totally entering the lexicon. #writing #writesky #writersky #books #booksky #AI

Got a short story getting published soon... under my real name, rather than the pen name I've since adopted. Whoops. Ah, well. #writing #amwriting #WriteSky #WriterSky

Thats Mayor Jackson standing over Muhammad Ali, with Julian Bond as referee.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Regarding using AI to write stories, it's funny I've never seen anyone mention Asimov's short story "Fault-Intolerant" (1990), in which he actually fears... this very situation! Here's a PDF. Page 129. #writing #WriteSky #writersky #booksky #books s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/...

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

GODZILLA wrap party, Japan, 1954.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Thought I’d had my whole “angry atheist” phase in my 20s but the Trump Era got me like #exvangical #atheism

Well: That’s out in the open, then. #Trump

Scary idea here: oligarchs are buying and running legacy media into the ground to limit info to new systems they control (Nazi Grok, for ex.). Cf. Big Auto dismantling public transport. The piece’s big point on renewing DIY/punk culture to resist is good, too. #AI #WriteSky #WriterSky #writing

This seems like a solid idea. Also I love B&W film. #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies #film #BookSky

“Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now: that is, we have a government, and laws, and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.” - Ulysses S. Grant

Become a famous writer and you too can do freelance work for xAI paying $40 per hour. #WriteSky #writersky #writing #writers #AI

Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again: (Geez, just five?) Grease Monty Python & the Holy Grail Rocky Star Wars The Godfather

Ratings knock me out, man. Finish Marcus Aurelius’s MEDITATIONS and Goodreads will actually say, “Please judge the personal journal of this Roman emperor on a scale from 1-5.” And by god people will do it. #BookSky #books

“It is the job of thinking people to not be on the side of the executioners.” ~ Albert Camus

Alex Pretti’s murder kinda took me out. I’ve barely functioned since. None of the people hurt by these Republican thugs has deserved what was done to them. Goodnight, Renee. Goodnight, Alex. You did so well. We’ll get them for you. #Minneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #PrettiGood #ICERaids

As someone who made the choice to leave conservatism, though, safety isn't guaranteed. On the contrary, it is objectively harder. I have thought about how to pitch a more just worldview to family members, but I cannot honestly tell them they will be happier.

Holy shit. He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him. His hands were on the pavement when he was shot. He never had his hand on a weapon. Cold blooded murder.

This is so fucking haunting.

Further thought: The big climax to MELANIA could be like Netflix's BLONDE, wherein Marilyn Monroe has dehumanizing, awful sex with JFK, except of course it would be ten times more awful because, y'know, it's Trump. #FilmSky #film #movies

There's probably a good movie in Melania's life story, actually. She is, after all, the world champ of gold diggers. It'd be one of those films in which a person gets everything they wanted at the cost of all else. Anyway, obv. we're not getting that. #FilmSky #movies #film #screenwriting #WriteSky

I don’t think people understand what an ask it is to beta-read a novel. Are you aware that I cannot count your manuscript toward my Goodreads Challenge? #WriteSky #writersky #writingcommunity