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1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

You can also pre order Rise from These Dark Waters by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social (illustrations by me) and really everything here belongs on your tbr pile. twenty percent off!!

Don't miss this great chance to save on pre-orders for my dark fantasy, RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS, illustrated by the incredible @tomsbrown.bsky.social. - The Dark Crystal x World War Z vibes 🧝🧟 - Royal politics & intrigue 👑 - Grief 💔 - Found family 👩‍👧 - Friends to (unrequited) lovers 💗

Men are not trash. Perpetuating that narrative helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it's just inherent to their nature. It's not. Men are human beings. The social system of patriarchal masculinity is what's trash, and it hurts them too. We can change that.

I am stunned. Speechless. In awe.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

My republican friends don't understand why we protest. Or why we are concerned with the current issues. And they naively think what affects others will not affect them. Eventually there will be nobody there to stand before you, or with you. Very relevant today. #Pinks

My manager just reminded me I have to sign up for the Gen AI training that's being offered, as our employer pushes forward with trying to find ways that AI can offer "efficiencies". We then had a discussion about public disclosure issues. I cited part of our legislation that allows disclosure...

I am a dwarf & I’m digging a hole. Diggy Diggy Hole & put him in it. Is He Dead Yet?!?

Eating the AI art in protest is ironically more Art than whatever the fuck the ai guy was doing

FYI @almakatsu.bsky.social, there's a COBI model of the HMHS Britannic (cobi.com/products/cobi-h-m-h-s-britannic-set-1681) I finished The Deep not too long ago, and I guess it was still stuck in the back of my mind when I noticed the building kit. They have one for the RMS Titanic in the same scale.

Worth every second

If lush eldritch horror born (literally) from a fevered dream sounds like your cup of team, check out my newest short story, "Heavy Dreams" in the "A Chronicle of Horrors" anthology, proceeds of which go to support Scares that Care. www.amazon.ca/Chronicle-Ho...

I get handed my wife's & daughter's DNFs so they can get a second opinion. I struggle through most of them, but one I could not, b/c the main characters were irredeemable idiots and by 1/3 of the way through I still had no idea what was going on. Turns out that's where, and why, my daughter DNF'd.

This is a corrupt, politically motivated attack on the Federal Reserve. The strict independence of the Fed has been paramount to the stability of the global economy for over a century, which will collapse if Trump moves to seize control of it.

Check out my latest short story in the "A Chronicle of Horrors" charity anthology. Read horror, do good!

gofund.me/e9227585d Rene Good reached her goal, please donate to this young man also murdered by ice

My 2026 debut, RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS, is available for pre-order now from Bad Hand Books. Dark fantasy with THE DARK CRYSTAL meets WORLD WAR Z vibes - order now to get a copy with a signed bookplate and help Bad Hand with their dodgy plumbing too! badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

Here's something cool to take our minds off the world burning around us. RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS (GoT meets The Dark Crystal meets World War Z) by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social is illustrated by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. Here's a sneak peek at a few. Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

It's time for my annual reminder that Emmy the Great's (@emmaleemoss.bsky.social) "Zombie Christmas" is perhaps the greatest Christmas song ever written: youtu.be/eGukj0g5gqY?...

Heh.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: - grizzly bear - indri lemur - fire salamander - Black Sea dolphins - many, many types of chameleon

Don’t travel to US.

The more I work on this project the more I realize that there are massive discrepancies in the computer rendered images of the final project and what the instruction manual directs you to do. Anyway, working out how to add hard points for R-73 missiles below the air intakes...

Here's something fun for your Friday: @tomsbrown.bsky.social's first interior illustration for RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social. This dark-fantasy reads like a mashup of WORLD WAR Z, GOT, & THE DARK CRYSTAL. Fully illustrated. Coming 2026: badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

Look at me being all fancy at the OWG AGM / Whisky Tasting / Charity Fundraising Event...

There may have been some NAFO and NAFO-adjacent gifts for my birthday...the pillow cover is actually from Christmas last year, we just finally got around to finding a pillow that was small enough to fit inside it.

...to all who celebrate.

I am in awe of the beautiful art going into this book, and I can't wait to share Min and her story with the world!!!!

WORLD WAR Z meets GAME OF THRONES meets THE DARK CRYSTAL in @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social's epic dark-fantasy novel RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS. Coming in 2026. SAVE by using code BADFRIDAY25. Cover by @juliedillon.bsky.social. Illustrated by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

You can save on pre-orders of @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social's 'Rise from these Dark Waters'...

World War Z meets Game of Thrones and The Dark Crystal in @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social's RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS! This novel is the first in a series that tells the harrowing epic saga of Min, fifth daughter of the royal family of Yhathlin. Pre-orders are live. Coming in 2026.

NEWS: @tomsbrown.bsky.social is going to provide interior illustrations for @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social's epic horror/fantasy mashup, RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS. Something tells me Tom is going to do just fine in terms of illustrating a book that features zombie-elves.

This is what happens when you appoint someone who doesn't know how to the joby after you fired the person who did know how to do the job when they told you there were no grounds to pursue prosecution.

So, @jessmarindavis.bsky.social and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social, what do you think? publishorperish.games

Family includes everyone! ❤️

Reposting because, trust me--you want to read the whole thing. Not just the headline. The. Whole. Thing.

This reminds me of some of the opening scenes in Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1979)...

Wooo-hooo!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

COVER REVEAL! World War Z meets The Dark Crystal. Coming in 2026. Art by @juliedillon.bsky.social. Layout by @toddkeisling.com. Written by @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social. Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

Not dead, was just on vacation for three weeks, wandering the pilgrim trail in Spain and enjoying a lot of good coffee and food. Am back now. Photos to come at some point...

And it really bothers me when you give them draft language to flesh out to add said paragraph, and they ignore it and write something that completely misses the mark...

Meeting w/ my manager ahead of my planned time off. Get reminded to file my time sheets in advance. Explain I've never been able to complete time sheets in advance. Get told that others can. Show her the error code I get when I try to complete time sheets early. Apparently I am an anomaly...

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

What does that even *mean*? They keep updating these things, adding new features, but I'm pretty sure I use Word basically the same way I did 30 years ago. And that's fine. Really, guys. I'm vibing as much as I'm ever going to.

My manager has clearly used AI to write my performance assessment and it is so painful to read. So many meaningless sentences that fail to provide any substantive information about what I do. And there are a fair number of sentences that are complete gibberish, too.