Kathy Burke’s depiction of Connie Sachs in the TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY film adaption from 2011 is absolutely-perfect. It’s how I see her now, in my head, when I re-read le Carre.

If you keep sharing a fucking Stephen Miller twitter screenshot I’m gonna fucking block you.

Like, I cannot stress this enough: I am not academically underemployed because a non-white candidate or a female candidate or an LGBTQ candidate took 'my spot' (tbh, the jobs I wanted most, I was edged out by other white men!) but because 'my spot' didn't exist. It was not there to be taken.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but waits dreaming in his house at R'Lyeh...

merry chrimbo. move more copies of this so I can finish my sequel, which is a Christmas noir

Anyone saying this is just crazy. Like, what? If anything it feels like there is a boom in interest in history (and military-adjacent history!) over the last couple of decades, especially in the popular nonfiction sphere.

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

Time for another Christmas classic.

Boldest of blood // Wildest of heart

This year in the Dawning (seasonal “Christmas” event) in Destiny you can kill bad guys withsnow balls but also there’s a PvP melee where you can only use snowballs against each other and it’s actually really fun?

If it’s in the can and ready to air, you HAVE to have known this would happen immediately

I have never wanted to bully someone as badly as I wanna bully this person right now

"Me & Mike Watt, we played for years Punk rock changed our lives We learned punk rock in Hollywood Drove up from Pedro We were fuckin' corndogs We'd go drink & pogo Mr. Narrator, This is Bob Dylan to me"

Once more because why not, but here's everything I wrote/published in 2025 (thread) -

Good night, noble friend. I’m sorry for how they did you dirty with this shit-ass OMNI replacement.

My short story, “The Cattleman,” was named by Electric Literature as one of their five most popular stories in 2025. If you’re interested in a contemporary Western Horror story, you can read for free in the link below: electricliterature.com/the-cattlema...

Robert Frost's manuscript for "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" for this, the darkest evening of the year.

The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home

As the sun starts to set at 4pm EST, remember;

Hell, back in the day the devs would draw cool art and put it in the game manual that came in the box. (Art by Chris Metzen, from the STARCRAFT manual) Cor, remember when Blizzard was cool and not a megacorp.

This is what "performative reading" looks like.

Black Christmas (1974) Japanese Poster 🇯🇵

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

Happy Solstice for the homies, and curses of the Long Night for my enemies.

This dark beauty comes out in exactly 3 months! Have you ordered your signed copy yet?

Spending Saturday night writing a litany, as one does

Just some casual reading, another symptom of my burgeoning dad-core.

If you'd like to hear an audio version of A Sandman Slim Christmas Carol—with Violet Blue in a major guest starring role—you can listen here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMV...

Current 20

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

Bullying works, and together, we can kill AI like an unwanted mosquito.

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

Greg Land tracing porn to draw comics is more honest and resourceful than using generative AI

Also: artists, if you have EVER taught at a local school/college and intend to again, even guest speaking in a class (which I used to do at SVA), you can call up Adobe customer service and get switched to their education plan and it’s even cheaper

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

I continue to feel that “being cuckolded by a computer that’s not good” is still the best way to think about LLM usage.

We are being choked to death by made-up KPIs (a.k.a. make-work) created by terminally bored assholes chasing the most synthetic and destructive highs available

Really puts into perspective the 15 years of nitpicky notes I've taken on my copy and what that was really about, and what it definitely wasn't about. Because this coked-up Lorem Ipsum bullshit is apparently good enough for the same people.

"Copy editor for an app at a fraction of the salary" is the wonderful push-button future they imagine for writers everywhere

Manifest #98439 from █████ ███████ ██ (TOP SECRET) 1. Lost Letters 2. Unstable Capitalism 3. Weed Convention

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

PKD x National Lampoon

I wrote a whole series of blog posts about it;

Did you know the public domain exists? That there are thousands or maybe millions of brilliant, forgotten public domain art pieces that you could use for your cover, and though that wouldn't entail paying an artist at least your cover wouldn't be infuriating trash? Just curious.

Like oh did you shop around? Email a few people to find something affordable? Because I've lived below the poverty line for my entire life and I have a whole art collection because a lot of these pieces were like $50. Give me a break.

Authors saying they can't afford hiring an artist for a book cover and it's like, didn't seem to stop you from affording the table fee!

Why wouldn't you ban AI books from a book event? People who did the work are trying to make some money, GTFO of here.

Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

lol lmao Eat shit.