In 2000 I first started attending SF/F events. I'm an egg, new to it all, and at my first event the wife of a writer pulls me aside "I heard you have a girlfriend here, you'll want to make sure she stays out of reach of X and Y, they're pinchers. They're harmless, but you'll need to warn her."

We're still stuck at 1 percent of Hailey's goal. Can we get it to 10 percent today? 🏳️‍⚧️💖

If "all people probably need is a little help, and its wrong for people to hoard that help" was actually internalized in the US, entire power bases would collapse. One of the retirement porjects is a book on how a rabidly Christian nation obsessed with sin turned Greed into a virtue.

There are so many other non-problematic artists to support I don't feel swayed by the 'separate the art from the artist' like, come on, you're asking me to do *extra* work? Also, I don't want to perpetuate more of the things happening that disturbed me, so why would I keep funding it to happen?

Oh neat, Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List has my story in Asimov's recommended "In the Halls of the Makeshift King." Was not expecting! Honored!

Thanks to @brittlepaper.bsky.social for this Sauúti Terrors feature: 🔥💫🙏 We cover building a shared African sci-fi/fantasy world from scratch, the five planets, two suns, sound magic, and our Story Bible that lets writers step in and create. ✨ brittlepaper.com/2026/01/weve...

I reply "Stop" to all of these. And I don't use ActBlue anymore because they sold my number to other candidates. I now give through Oath.vote, which doesn't sell my information.

I wrote an update essay about The Bad Brain Bomb. I went through some terrifying burnout these last few months and I'm just now getting my ability to *imagine things* back. www.patreon.com/posts/bad-br...

So circular: aibubble.online/network-visu...

The new leader of the free world is Canada. Mark Carney's speech at Davos: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

I found a really cheap mini-PC at a refurb site, installed Bazzite, the Linux gaming OS that's a more updated Steam OS, on it, and paired some old xbox controllers, hooked to the TV, then got some emulators going so I could play old 1980s Sega and Nintendo games. Just delightful. bazzite.gg

My novel about systematic evil & the need for regular people to team up & fight it is now available in the UK. Sadly, some themes never go out of style. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. With a gorgeous cover and a wonderful introduction from the great @sgj.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/476343...

This good-natured, 34-year-old, Muslim, immigrant man—who the Times bemoaned was too young and radical to “get anything done”—has accomplished more good governance in a *week* on the job than most liberal politicians accomplish in their whole careers. With a smile & a joyful heart. A blessing.

Never used to understand why those punk rockers had to scream so much when singing against the machine. Got it, now.

I've started week 5 of practicing the Pine v4 keyboard layout for 30min/day. I only have 4 letters left to learn. Got frustrated that I got stuck on W for the better part of a week. No idea why. I still type in Colemak-DH during the rest of the day. layouts.wiki/layouts/2021...

Now that I finished a draft of a novel, I'm catching up on all the admin for my career I let drop the last two years while I focused on recovering our health and trying to get a book done. Books out of print that I need to find a publisher or deploy again to have a backlist. Books unsold.

Let's sue them again! Milk this fucking cow for stealing our stuff. Let's go!

I have a story in this as well: "The Vanishing at Neltjeberg." Not my first TOC with the great @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, but certainly going to be one for the ages. This will be a tough one. We lost a radiant VI voice before this could come out. I'm so looking forward to reading her story.

I've battled Long Covid, struggled, and really pushed myself harder than I have in a long time creatively, but have managed to finish a new novel, the first since I got Covid in 2022. It took 4 years, instead of the usual 1, because it's tougher to juggle a day job and writing at the same time.

Sinners just won the Golden Globe. As it should. Because that was transcendent!

Hello there 45k words. The Maroon is officially a novel. The end is so close. Another 2k words or so? In the old days I'd be pulling a late late night tonight to just stay in the seat until it's done. Alas, I'm going to see what I can do before it gets too late and then get back on the bike tmrw

Virgin Islands Noir will be coming out in August from Akashic Books and has an all-new short story from me in it called "Off the Rock." Edited by Richard Georges and Tiphanie Yanique. www.amazon.com/Virgin-Islan...

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

I'm like a one-man evangelist for low dose Naltrexone due to how it's helped me combat Long Covid. When I forget to re up the prescription (I pay out of pocket) and miss a week, by the end of the week it's a horror-show. I can feel the veil dropping, the energy fading. Like a robot powering down.

I haven't finished up a book since the pandemic thanks to Long Covid. Done some short fiction. Failed at turning in some short fiction commissions because of Long Covid. Thank goodness for low dose naltrexone. I'm so grateful I can at least think again. And I'm 4k away from the end of The Maroon.

If you are a college prof, you might like this poem in response to the question "Did I miss anything in class?" www.loc.gov/programs/poe...

It's hard to keep up with how fast history is moving right now. Or maybe I'm getting older. It feels faster, though, doesn't it?

Learning Pine v4 keyboard layout, and have learned all the highlighted letters (the greener the faster/better I am on them). Only 9 more left before I switch over. Doing 30 minutes a night of typing in Pine v4, then doing all my regular work in Colemak. layouts.wiki/layouts/2021...

Say that ish again cuz obviously folk wasn’t listening. Rod Serling had bars for the ages. #twilightzonemarathon

Discussing with my daughters why the ending of Stranger Things didn't work for them, and they identified all the things I teach in writing class as classic mistakes, I feel, of endings. We often don't study endings as much in classes, articles, or as writers and I think it shows.

Happy New Year. Let's rock 2026 and spit out the taste of 2025. Go time.

For Patreon supporters, I've posted a Patreon supporter only essay for now that's my overview of modern alt keyboard layouts and talking about the one I chose to learn in my spare time this winter break: tobiasbuckell.com/further-adve...

This has been a tough year for me. No way around it. 2025 goes up there with 1995, the year I lost everything to a hurricane, 2009, the year I had a pulmonary embolism, and the first year of the pandemic. Emily's cancer, kid medical stuff, burnout in the first half. The country. AI & students.

I've posted an essay for Patreon supporters on my site about adopting Pine v4, an alternative keyboard layout, and how it's going. I've opened up my post about ergonomic keyboards and the one I use to anyone: tobiasbuckell.com/an-overview-...

Oh hey! here's another interview @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and I did about our new anthology of spec fic about activism! Book links: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

particular shout-outs to stories by @izzyxen.bsky.social @rblemberg.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social @samjmiller.bsky.social @jhameia.bsky.social Laia Asieo Odo

Best thing that came out of my heart defect at 30 was all the transactional people dropped me when they thought I was dying or going to be out of the game due to my health. Like over 1/2 of my peer group just... disappeared in a month from my inbox and starting looking through me at events!

Whoops, that went mini-viral, am just now swinging back and reading, my quiet wasn't ignoring you all and the great comments, I just was enjoying my break

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

This describes a solid 50% of all the writers I talked to at the library last year as writer-in-residence

Also, of all the places I applied to for grad school when I had 4 published stories and several articles about writing in print, all but one turned me down because I wrote SF/F, and I was waitlisted, and then told what I wrote below. It was really wildly different in the 90s than now, in terms of SF

I was explaining to my undergrad students the way genre was *hated* in the 90s. I had the dean of the grad program I was waitlisted for after I graduated interview me for an open spot. I was told I had the spot only if I promised not to write science fiction but 'real' fiction. I crashed out:

Oh, I had one of those! Except instead of being about how Elvis was a groomer, it was every time I posted that ULINE was literally run by theocracy-craving disinfo-peddling fascists and we should all stop using their services. Think I'll post this link again! He hates it. refuseuline.com

I've been working on adopting a new keyboard layout, practicing 30 minutes a night, after 10 days I've unlocked 13 letters on KeyBR.com. Colemak-DH is my current 7 year layout, but in 7 years the alt layout fans have found better layouts and I've been looking into the recommendations...

I can't stop re-watching this. It's like Logan Paul became the human embodiment of the latter half of the phrase FAFO. He's just FO.

For Patreon subscribers: I just posted "An Overview of the State of Ergonomic Keyboards" up at the website: https://tobiasbuckell.com/an-overview-of-the-state-of-ergonomic-keyboards/

I've been head down. End of the semester grading (was teaching 4 classes this semester, that extra class just... that's a lot) and I really reduced my online time so I could write more, and it's been super great for my mental health... probably horrible for my career/visibility but oh well lol

Writing the Other is doing their ends of year fundraiser! writingtheother.com/2025-eoy-fun...

love to see this review for WE WILL RISE AGAIN on amzn. so happy the book is working for people 💜💚🧡 @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social