As we see deferential articles from legacy media regarding the deaths of complete bigots, it's always worth referring back to this example:

I get the concern about Nolan's Odyssey, but posting opinions about a film before it's released, without seeing it, is a terrible look. There are 10 min+ think pieces on YT about how Nolan got it wrong, by people who haven't seen it.

Same for me with writing.

Beautiful native water lillies at Parc Cwm Darran a couple of days ago. We went early to avoid the heat – and it was still hot!

True story: I put a slasher screenplay on the simply scripts forum for fun a few years back, then I got a mail from an LA production company (real) looking to confirm authorship before deciding to option. Then literally two weeks later the pandemic hit and the company shuttered.

The best China meme since I first moved to Shanghai is: 普通青年, 文艺青年, 2b青年 If you know, you know.

Unfortunately, this is basically what saw other options get picked over my SFF book (pinned post) despite 3 full manuscript requests and going to the editorial team with one of those. Specifically the episodic structure.

Art by • Luca Frasca

The Bsky echo chamber discourse is hilarious, I just spent some time playing with Threads, remembering what the central algo w/bots is like and it's an actual echo chamber.

Fucking hell. Was completely stuck on a chapter for my WIP for 3 weeks, the biggest brain jam I've had in years and years, and then finally I was on a long walk, no music no screens, and my brain pulled it out. Don't forget to stare into space, writers.

But what an amazing run. First time Egypt made it into the knockouts of the World Cup. For a minute there, we were beating the world champs. As Alex Ferguson said, "Football! Bloody hell."

Fuck, if OnlyPosts stops altogether I'm gonna have to turn off reposts or start unfollowing people. Bsky has almost no sense of not spamming people's feeds to oblivion.

A story thread about Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) my Fantasy novel Aertelis (pinned post), and a conspiracy minded colleague I used to work with ...

Whereas I do think the Viking love over Norway's World Cup run is fun, it really shows how *time passed* effects how we can talk about such things, giving that the 'Vikings' were for most people violent, slave-holding invaders.

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"The street finds its own uses for things" Gibson/Cyberpunk Just a reminder that open source, modular, custom is cool. Apple product shenanigans are foul.

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This is without a doubt the biggest wedding held at Madison Square Garden since Adolf Hitler’s wedding in 1938

If Cape Verde knocks out Argentina I'll take back everything I said about the extended format.

History in documents can be surreal. Jefferson ordered custom-fitted spiked punishment collars for his child slaves, while musing on liberty in Paris. He also ate cheese ice cream.

Since it's world cup time, posting the real goat.

Most reviews and recaps at digital sites that used to be good have gone beyond clickbait or lists and into a kind of ego driven fandom language format, or the one where they take a quote from someone else's interview and extrapolate that sentence into a flimsy article.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about, here. @asherelbein.bsky.social serves it up. heat-death.ghost.io/the-internet...

Was thinking about how you could make a History of the Runestaff adaptation now. Was also thinking how insane it would have to be. The main creative team would have to prep by going into the desert to do psychedelics for a month.

Apple TV have a good record with Scifi so far. But you can't tease Neuromancer with the iconic opening line and then have a shiny, neon aesthetic world. Give me the grey, litter-filled ocean washing up against the domes.

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

Okay, Obsession is brilliant, but also I wanted Bear to die horrifically within 5-10 minutes, before any of the plot started, because I know that type of guy very well, and keeping that in mind, I feel like the film missed a trick, because (will be vague, no spoilers) ...

The anti-festival of anti-art.

Writers are falling over themselves to be marketable, or *readable* ... but, the dramatic and literary canon is full of god-tier haters you couldn't dream of reaching. Let go a little, it's fine.

"AI is the microplastics of the internet"

Awesome rapid fire video bringing up so many names from my youth reading. Some I still read today, Moorcock, Le Guin et al. Some I haven't thought about for ages, Silverberg, Vance, Harry Harrison. Some I've been revisiting, like Fritz Lieber.

I have been looking for this article forever. "…the problem with bronies has nothing to [do with] grown men liking a children’s cartoon and everything to do with their usurping of a safe space for young girls and distorting it into a hypersexual and toxic environment for these younger fans."

ATLA is a very well done show, that is also a children's show originally made for Nickelodeon's 7+ age range. It's fine to watch and like it as an adult, but seeing how people are talking about it online re: the live action is borderline disturbing.

The one last feature I need here is to be able to turn off seeing reposts for specific users. There's always people I like following who blow out my feed with high volume posting so that I barely see anything else.

I think we just passed oops.

Cover illustration for THE VANISHING TOWER by Michael Moorcock (DAW) 3/3 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ur...

The Cape Fear show is brilliant. Within the context of endless prestige remakes, of course.

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Art by • Olajide Ajayi

there's an easy way to tell if your hack is genuinely taking from the system/sticking it upwards to capitalism: ask yourself, am I being violently arrested and made an example out of right now

[1/2} It's nearly 20 years now, since me and Rick McGrath met in Shanghai to see the JG Ballard sites. Today I walked up to the former Columbia Country Club Pool, rather than the classic empty pool, it's the other type of Ballardian image now ...

Technology is great, but I'll still take a 40 minute bus ride downtown to the Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore so I can hold a book, smell the pages and use my receipt as a bookmark.

Last rant post for the day: now more than ever, it's important behind the scenes for intelligent people to keep applying expertise, rigor, nuance and complexity to their work. Integrity will last.

Don't get captured by commodification. Cyberpunk aesthetic: vibrant, neon, exciting Actual cyberpunk: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Fine, here's how you bring back Doctor Who. Hard reset, let Abigail Thorn play the Doctor and bring back the science/education angle - like, meet the OG show halfway.

Talking a big a game online about craft, how to write, or lit standards is like wearing a headband on the court, or turning your collars up in football: you have to perform at star level in your own work or face ridicule.

RE: "The worst character" We have to find some language that differentiates between 'a character who is villainous in the story' and 'a character that is poorly written in a bad show.' A well written character who is 'bad' in-story is a good character. Tywin Lannister is the best character.

It has been damaging since Web 2.0, over 20 years of ad-speak poisoning human art.

Saw a 'what radicalized you' meme thread, but real talk: The Battle of the Beanfield and the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior both happened the year I was turning 13 and I have despised bootlicking ever since, with no exceptions.

Also listening to: Sub Society 'The Isolator' which I first heard on a 1990 H-Street skate video. It's a key independent track from original Emo, not to be confused with the early 00s movement.