Unfortunately, my New Year's Resolution is 240p

I wish you all a very happy 2026! 🥳🎇 Let's hope it will be less stressful than 2025 (I feel like we say that every year now 😅) I'll announce my publication schedule for the year next week. Hint: I should be able to release a new Lovecraft adaptation at the end of the year... 😎 #lovecraft

New Year’s resolution

Elated to share @mathildazeller.bsky.social’s cover art for her Indigenous horror debut, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK, which expands her short story “Kushtuka” from that one anthology. It’s out October 13, 2026 and you should consider preordering it today :) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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This quick read from Levenson covers a history from Newton to Einstein in crisp yet lively dialog highlighting how even scientists—failing to challenge deeply trusted axioms—are human. Highly recommend The Hunt for Vulcan for the science nerd in you life. 🖖 🪐 📚 #booksky #astronomy #stem

And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm R'lyehian Are the best I've ever had

Terrible Python Code should be a trademark of Matt Parker of @standupmaths.bsky.social. #math #code

Thanks to the power of Terrible Python Code™, I've ruined the joy and frustration my Xmas present brings to my family. #code #python

Thank you @standupforscience.bsky.social for keeping the pressure on to oust RFK, Jr., a current & future danger to all in our country. I just called my rep. asking her to co-sponsor the Articles of Impeachment. . Please make your calls too!! www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkj...

Anyway, do I have a cover for one of my novels that's coming out next year? No, not yet. Do I have five minutes to goof off in Canva while I wait for a phone call? Yes, yes I do.

🌊1st in a new epic fantasy series 🛶 Inspired by the culture and folklore of the Tlingit tribe of Alaska 🐦‍⬛ Ft. REALLY rude Raven We're so excited to see Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA on @npr.org 's Books We Love for 2025! Grab it now: geni.us/doorsea Book 2 follows fall 2026.

"A Wolf at the Gate" by Mark van Steenwyk and Joel Hedstrom is a *perfect* winter holiday read, #booksky. #xmas #christmas @pmpress.bsky.social pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Marsy Christmas! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-plan...

Merry Christmas from the crew at CHM. We wish you all a safe and low-stress holiday!

No, I'm not doing it this year. I'm not going to spend a day with folks that don't make me happy just because we share some DNA strands. I'm too old to have to do that. I'm going to sit down, wear my humbug hat, drink beer, and watch horror flicks. When Boxing Day comes around, I'll do the same.

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

Cutting the sandworms from JANE EYRE is why Charlotte Bronte never achieved the lasting popularity of her sandworm-heavy contemporaries like Charles Dickens.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? // Dr Lulla and Mr Okay wouldn't be reliable.

There's a fantastic review over @reactorsff.bsky.social for Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA - the first book in new indigenous epic fantasy trilogy THE RAVEN AND THE EAGLE! "I missed this book when I finished it, feeling like someone had been telling me a story, but suddenly disappeared."

I would 💯 throw some of my legally earned dollarbucks toward a 3rd Innsmouth Legacy novel @reactorsff.bsky.social @tordotcom.bsky.social #booksky #horror #fantasy

Simon Stålenhag does not disappoint in his latest fully illustrated novela Sunset at Zero Point, a queer #scifi about trauma, regret, and obsession. #booksky

filkyeahfilk.com/2014/12/26/m... O Yog-Sothoth, O Yog-Sothoth...

The way to fight AI is simple, just don’t eat the slop. It’s never interesting enough to be worth your time, so just shrug and move on. If there’s no market for AI nonsense, the money people will eventually have to find some other way to screw artists.

Used @signal.org transfer tool to migrate my in-laws' conversations to new phones, and it is damn slick. It just works. 10/10. No notes.

"Is a River Alive?" is a gorgeous, thought-provoking exploration of the Rights of Nature movement framed around trips to three threatened rivers, as well as a rich potential source for speculative ideas and discussion

"I missed this book when I finished it." Maura Krause reviews Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea, a Tlingit response to Tolkien within the classic quest narrative of The Hobbit:

Put differently, if you see value in the process of iteration and creation, but *don't* see the value of taste and sensibility in that, then it becomes easy - logical even - to break any creative act into an engineering one. Which is, more or less, what generative AI does.

You only THINK you understand Möbius Strips NEW NUMBERPHILE youtu.be/izIKV98Awnw

You can get the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/more...

Shortly before I finished edits on MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, an economist warned me against proposing a wealth tax with a cap on maximum net worth. He told me it was too unpopular and people would say I was out of touch with reality. I seriously considered listening to him. I'm really glad I didn't.

Actual article. collider.com/best-superhe...

I think Google AI slopped this Collider story...

"We're all engineers here. What do you mean you don't have a favorite equation? Mine is y(x) = e^(-1/x²)."

We're so excited to have THREE books on Reactor's Reviewers Choice: The Best Books of 2025. Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, @csecooney.bsky.social 's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD and @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's THE TOMB OF DRAGONS are in excellent company and all available to buy now!

We 👏🏾are 👏🏾not 👏🏾running 👏🏾out 👏🏾of 👏🏾good 👏🏾ideas! (Although Bryan Walsh clearly is)

End-of-the-World movies/shows should star people like me who are shit at DIY. All the resources in the world, but no skill whatsoever.

Flames From the side of my face

Amazon announces Ask This Book AI bot. Authors and publishers were not asked to be included and cannot opt-out.

"Sheer retro bliss, no spandex." — James Lovegrove 🎉 "Before Superman" is a @financialtimes.com best science fiction book of 2025: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255307... 💙📚

I am so glad that this is the economy now.

This morning, Disney announced a deal with OpenAI. Read more about the WGAW’s advocacy against the theft and exploitation of writers’ works by AI models: www.wga.org/contracts/kn...

Speaking of: Get my favorite @drfaustusau.bsky.social Lovecraft for Beginning Readers from @hplhs.bsky.social Probably could still get it in time for this winter solstice.

Amazingly, instead of getting paid a billion for the license to their characters, Disney is instead *investing* a billion. Thus inflating the AI bubble to Epcot-sized proportions — and further shackling our economy to this stupid boat anchor most people hate.

@sgj.bsky.social "The Only Good Indians" is ++good.

Oh no... Another place for me to get books on math and science. 😬