Due to inflation and the ceasing of manufacturing of the penny, thoughts now cost a nickel a piece (For some people that price would be considered still too high)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

How can you have mutton chops like his and NOT be a sex pest?

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Read this. Reread it. Reread it until it sinks in.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.

Happy birthday, Edgar A. Poe!

The lead up to fascism creates great art — punk and hip hop, coded horror movies, prophetic novels and thrilling plays. Fascism itself, once in power, only produces patriotic kitsch.

Oh, yeah, as a white guy I've faced sooo much discrimination 🙄

People out there annoyed at politicians saying “fuck” should spend a little more time fighting fascism and a lot less time policing the usage of a word you can hear in a PG-13 movie.

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

Please support Michael de Adder, who does great work:

If you are stopped by ICE, or see someone stopped by ICE, record everything. They've shown they'll murder individuals in cold blood and lie about it. Make a record of it. #Minneapolis

There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve. If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel. Just. Keep. Writing.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

A good chunk of that time was just them telling the other, "No, YOU hang up."

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed

IOWA CITY - The what now? Win a THOUSAND DOLLAR shopping spree? All you have to do to enter: Buy something in a Downtown or Northside Iowa City store on Saturday, December 6. (Buy things from more stores, get more chances to win.) Guess who has over 3,000 gift items at pre-tariff prices? WE DO!

Love me some Bob Bloch

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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

Alls I know is that I now have green light to arm myself with club sammiches, heh, heh, heh. Maddy out!

SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.

If everyone just went to the library more, the world would be okay

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

If only the president COULD read

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Remember kids, it's only "free speech" when bigots do it

What do you mean, ‘if’?

No story is "out of your league." There is only YOUR version of that story. With enough time, dedication, and polishing, anyone can write A GOOD STORY, and with the right idea and the right amount of time and effort, it could even be A GREAT STORY. An idea being out of your league is in your head.

Saw the new #toxicavenger tonight. Really fun movie. Highly recommend

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

RFK Jr looks like the painting in Dorian Gray’s attic.

Goodness, wouldn’t that be terrible

Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again” 👇 #BookSky

Happy 135th birthday, HPL

Reached 100,000 words on second draft

Sexy Darwin

Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...

@gabino.bsky.social has posted one of the truest things ever written on his Substack today, and, if you haven't subscribed to his newsletter yet, you damn well should. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/10-things-...

10 writers by whom i've read more than 5 books 1. Premee Mohamed 2. Martha Wells 3. Octavia Butler 4. Ian McDonald 5. Iain M Banks/Ian Banks 6. Rebecca Cunden 7. Julie Czerneda 8. CJ Cherryh 9. Sheri S Tepper 10. Elizabeth Bonesteel Bonus: Robert A. Heinlein (cos it feels dishonest not to mention)