Think I'll celebrate the Rapture tonight by taking Tylenol and getting pregnant.

Enhance a book! The Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe, and the Bedside Table.

If I just followed you, it's because we're connected on Mastodon (where I'm not active). Hope to see you around here!

Something warm and punny for your Monday.

A small Danish brewery came up with this 😂

Whenever Trump throws around the idea of a third term, I imagine what would happen if the Democrats threw Obama into the election against him.

The next UFO is about to land! With stories by Alan Dean Foster, @janeespenson.bsky.social, Simon R. Green, @nmamatas.bsky.social, @tinaconnolly.bsky.social and many other fabulous authors. Reserve yours today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

I just backed Unidentified Funny Objects 10 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

UNIDENTIFIED FUNNY OBJECTS 10 - an anthology of humorous SF/F just launched on kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

"[The comission set up by the UN Human Rights Council] found that Israel has “committed four genocidal acts” in the enclave since October 7, 2023..." edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/m...

If you see this, quote post with the energy you bring to bluesky.

My most recent article for SFWA's Planetside! Copyright is a complicated subject about which there are many myths and misconceptions...in this article, I try to untangle some of them.

Well, the key word here is 'potential', but 'biosignature' certainly has a nice ring to it. I'm looking forward to the peer reviews. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Cat's now patched up, dressed up, and fed up with his cone.

Slightly diminish a book 1983

Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

Slightly diminish a book Landlord of the Flies

Woke up at 5.30. The cat has to go to the vet, and the coffee machine needed maintenance. I call this scene "Monday, first world edition." How's your week taking off?

Yup, I remember those, but I don't exactly feel nostalgic about them.

Someone downstream said to Post A Castle, and who am I to deny you the beauty of Burg Elz?

pass the word. Publishers pay you.

I'm reading Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'. Slowly, one chapter at a time, since this is a book that makes me think. A very welcome reading experience. Recommended for those who need a break from traditional plot-heavy genre books and instead wish to focus on characters and frame of mind.

Unbeknownst to many writers is the fact that if they use the word Unbeknownst thrice in a sentence, their writing will remain Unbeknownst to most readers. The same is true of the word the.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Good on Lisa Cook, and good for the Federal Reserve. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” she said in a statement obtained by The Hill’s sister network NewsNation. “I will not resign.” thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I stole this so I could give to everybody.

Let me be blunt, newbies: Nobody who works with a "big name" like me would be hitting up self-published authors in a completely different genre. That smell? It's bullshit. And if you aren't already, follow SFWA's Writer Beware blog and learn to smell it from a mile away. writerbeware.blog

## Books will soon be obsolete in school https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/books-will-soon-be-obsolete-in-school/ I recently had a chance to ask a question to one of the **top** AI people. At a Q&A session, I raised my hand and asked simply "What is your […] [Original post on shkspr.mobi]

New newsletter coming out in the next day or so where I'll announce my next novella and reveal its cover. Sign up now if you're not already! patricksamphire.com/newsletter

As a non-native English speaker, I'm fine with having to study an entire vocabulary and its usage. That's part of the charm of learning another language. But it bugs me that I now have to learn which words to avoid if I don't want to sound like a machine.

I've only just discovered this, but there's a Danish Maritime Dictionary online (yay!) Does anyone know of an English version? www.udkik.dk/da/dictlist....

A pretty flower

Who's a good contributor copy? Yeeessh, YOU'RE a good contributor copy 🥳 Thanks to @pulpliterature.bsky.social for sending it all the way across the Atlantic.

Sum up your writing career in one error message.

Not only was this rogan josh filling and tasty, it also seared all the hair from my tongue. No mouth-shaving tonight, whee!

In the lush jungle where Cliff stalks his prey they put up a sign to say DON'T GO THAT WAY

Blurry picture of a frog that sounds a lot like a duck. Makes intermittent noises at night. Currently sitting on a ledge in my hotel room that's least two meters out of reach.

Watching Duster on HBO for shits and giggles. Good show, if not extraordinary, but one thing: Have a look at the intro if you can. That miniature car stop motion is so spot on for the show. Still doesn't beat the intro to Dexter, though.

A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species share.google/gtEdpRPLtlrj...

Hi. If you know me, you know I don't often wade into industry discussion. But this response from MRM is fucked. Not only doubling down on a rights grab but lecturing writers about what scraps they should accept. The arrogance is off the charts. Talk about slamming your dick in a car door.

I was handed an opportunity to get all my ducks in a row. Turned out it was easier to pretend they were chickens.

I'm having the kind of day where I watched a Jason Statham movie even though I'm not hungover.

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

It is remarkable how even the ad campaign understands "Naked Gun but 2025."

RIP your freedom

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

omggggg the fascism is so brittle it cannot abide being laughed at.

“Everyone knows that a rich man needs to get married.”