Look, if you don’t do shit like this, why even be an ancient historic college?

When you're a writer it's important to read because sometimes you will read something that vexes you and provides inspiration for a new story.

This week the New Yorker & NY Mag competed to out-disaster-pr0n each other w the genre of "students using chatbots to college." Yet over the last 3 months alone students from Oregon to MA reached out to me to help them fight AI at their unis & high schools. Journalists should write that article.

I only started keeping track a decade ago so I don't know exactly how many books I've read. The true number is a lot.

If, like me, you are trying to de-Amazonize your life, @libro.fm has been an awesome substitute for Audible.

"Time Travellers", cover artwork for a project that got cancelled. The idea was to show protagonists that could easily travel through various eras and places, and look like they could potentially assimilate to any of them. Medium: Photoshop CS6 and Wacom Intuos 4, as always.

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know, I should absolutely have seen that one coming. That’s on me.

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

I have long said that our food system is broken, but food is one of those things where you CANNOT allow it to crash and burn in hopes of getting something better. It needs delicate surgery, not a sledgehammer.

It's #WIPWednesday again. I finished assembling some knights from @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social I don't think the weather is going to cooperate and let me prime these any time soon, unfortunately.

Trump's nominee for the Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, has dominated headlines for weeks. For some, his surname is a reminder of a disappearing accent in South Midland America. n.pr/3QQybNQ

I was going to draw Catwoman for a warm-up today but then I thought... well Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle was adorable. Let's do that instead.

Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct

Ryan Cohen gave an interview on CNBC where he looks high as balls, puts negative effort into trying to explain his plan for GameStop buying eBay, and just keeps repeating “half cash, half stock” when asked how he plans to make up a $16b shortfall in the math. youtu.be/NxD-KGsvPI0?...

That’s a sex club Todd, you’re going to the buffet at a sex club. That is not economical and also do you REALLY think the other people wash their hands?

Slightly diminish a book: Extra Small Gods

If I were writing YA I'm not sure I would want to be published by an imprint that advertised ahead of time that my book was purposefully neutered to appeal to busybodies who would still be likely to find fault at anything that did not exactly conform to their own particular brand of repression

A very happy First of May to all who celebrate. (Caution, NSFW lyrics if you're listening to this in public - and why would you do that anyway, are you some kind of weirdo? Use headphones!)

Hillary is one of the reasons why republican presidents have stacked the supreme court with justices who are actively ripping way all the progress we've made

A friendly reminder, since it's been everywhere on our feed the past week: Audiobooks ARE reading!

HAPPY THURSDAY the Sword & Kettle Press 10 year anniversary anthology kickstarter is at $2750 out of $3000 back it, share it, show your friends www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

*submits this to Hachette as my author photo*

MOM: I see you have a new book coming out. ME: Yep! MOM: Something about a vampire? ME: IT’S OKAY TO SKIP THIS ONE MOM!

I had the opposite thing with my own mom: Mom: I liked your last book but you swear so much in it. ME: WHO DO YOU THINK I GOT THAT FROM MOM

Although this reminds me of the very first time my mom came to a con and saw me on a panel, and @scalzi.com nobly volunteered to be my stunt profanity. “Whenever you want to say “fuck!” just poke me and I’ll say it instead.” MOM: Hon, I have been married three times and two of them were sailors.

It is, today, the 55th anniversary of that gift to satire James Arkell, whose solicitors wrote to Private Eye on this day in 1971, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. You may know the story, but I put it to you that you cannot hear it enough. We begin with that initial letter... 🧵

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

4014 on Horseshoe Curve this year. We are at Level 8 Foam Alert.

If the barista at a coffeeshop can refuse to give you coffee because their religion says caffeine is an abortifacient and you could maybe be pregnant, then you can absolutely tell your boss genAI is against your religion and they can't force you to use it. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

GNU Terry Pratchett, whose words will echo long after we, and our children, and our children’s children have moved on thank you, as always, for making me a better person (quote from Reaper Man)

No, these aren't "redcoats". This is the US Army's Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. In the days of black powder weapons commanders needed to be able to identify their musicians quickly so musicians wore red coats with blue facings, the opposite of the regular troops' blue coats with red facings.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

We remember legendary author Sir Terry Pratchett - creator of the Discworld - born on this day in 1948. GNU Terry Pratchett

unions rule www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#Booksky As I look at yet another IBPA article pushing AI like they own stock in it, I’ve decided to move Queen of Swords Press marketing in a bold new direction: “Artisanal queer books by creators who give a crap.” I think it has legs. queenofswordspress.com

"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?""' "The mood will pass, sir." - Wodehouse

Not only did you show up and show out for independent bookstores this weekend, you *also* helped us surpass $47 million raised for local bookstores since we launched in 2020. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores this weekend and always 💜

every time a publisher's employees unionize, the future of literature gets a little brighter

"Gothic Nights" Interior illustration for "Fangs for Nothing", acrylics on watercolor paper.

hello everyone who is checking out my profile for what I assume are innocuous reasons unrelated to current events have you read discworld? it’s very good

The funniest thing about people who say that chromosomes are determinative of sex and gender is that 99.9% of them have no idea what their own chromosomes actually are and if they had them tested, a good number of them would suddenly have a problem. 🤷🫠

The best Ghostbuster and I will fight you about it

How your email finds me.

I didn't realize but even when we first met we were supporting each other. Instant platonic soulmates. -Lady Wheelsworth

Well, it hasn’t rained for nearly a month here and we had a nasty freeze, but who wants a bloom scroll? Our native tansyaster shook off the frost without concern. There are a number of species of tansyasters, and this is definitely one of them.

Evergreen quote for everyone everywhere these days