Journalism created and fact-checked without AI used to be standard but now it feels like a premium service “Oh, these are objective, verifiable facts reported by a human, not hallucinations? Whoa. This article is top-shelf.”

Got novel edits sent off last night to the editor and now I’m writing a story for my newsletter subscribers and inhaling coffee. WORDS N’ COFFEE How you doin’?

I love when a reviewer really gets what I'm trying to do. Thank you @princejvstin.com ! If "unapologetically anti-Imperial, anti-Colonial, anti-authoritarian" sci-fi with a big dose of genre bending sounds like your jam, you can preorder it now! hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-...

On the blog, @princejvstin.com has a review of THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by Jo Miles, forthcoming from @hornedlarkpress.com www.nerds-feather.com/2026/05/book... #booksky #blueskybooks

Just starting Spider Noir and look at how gloriously meme-able it is already Please caption at will

I dunno who this Rosenbaum guy is but he can eat shit along with every other techbro fanboy. I don’t use the plagiarism machine known as AI—in fact I spend time and money to use software that doesn’t include it, and I know plenty of authors feel the same

“Verily, this curséd island hath my shit freaked right out. ‘Tis not merely the patriarchy—which sucketh muchly—but the unholy chambers of pain secreted underneath my goodly kitchen.” —Guest Star of Widow’s Bay, Episode 6, probably

Hey! Talking a little about why you should preorder THE CALAMITIES (tl;dr, preordering books is good, but also, you get some cool stuff if you preorder from my local, @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social). Tell everyone! EVERYONNNNNE. /garyoldman

Ain’t no party like a moth party

I saw Obsession and eeeeee 1) Full theatre on a Monday night? Yeah. That’s some high quality word-of-mouth 2) Those were some performances! 3) When the credits rolled, dudes were visibly shaken. Two bros discuss, spoiler free: “Dude. When she ____ & then ___? That freaked me out.” “Dude.”

Bemoaned the increasing rarity of diner mugs the other day and followed a suggestion to check out Discovery Coffee in B.C. MY MUG IS HERE AND I LOVE IT. If anyone else knows where I can get diner mugs in Canada, please holler!

It’s lunchtime! Ready? Let’s do this cheap and fast. Get the pickles you like. Dill or garlic or bread and butter or sweet, you do you. I am slicing up whole dills. 1/

I looked up this warbler to see if it migrates and Birds of the World said nope, "sedentary". The Spectacled Redstart calls the Andes Mountains home from Colombia south Bolivia. Like our North American warbler friends, this bird feeds on insects. 🪶 Guango Lodge, Ecuador

I really like my bubble full of creators and readers and nature photographers. I’m glad you’re here and the fascists aren’t.

This bot that replaces God with “your dick” in Joel Osteen’s posts is too funny sometimes. “Our dicks know what’s coming”? In its early days there would be subject/verb disagreement and issues with pronouns (he versus it) and plurals, but it’s really solved all of those now.

Watching this show where the actor absolutely cannot smoke a cigarette I don’t believe he has ever smoked and this is the first time he’s ever come close to carcinogens The director should have had copious notes after each take (or toke) “Listen, you don’t care about the toxins. You like them.”

It’s not far away now! Get excited for The FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social! (It’s a standalone banger, not part of a series, and you will love it.) Snag it wherever you like to buy books, or buy direct from us for bonus goodies and to support a small press!

Omg Crown Lands just dropped a new album and the vocals are like a young coked-up Geddy Lee, we-are-the-priests-of-the-temples-of-Syrinx style. “Foot Soldier of the Syndicate” is what I’m talking about. Can already tell this is going into heavy rotation for me.

I had banana pancakes 🥞 and am feeling self-congratulatory for having such a good idea Hope you have a small thing to be happy about today

My toxic trait is that I think the episode of Johnny Bravo where there's a clown on the wing of the plane & then he gets the clown off the wing of the plane & then the plane starts crashing because there's nothing to balance out the clown on the other wing of the plane is a metaphor for everything.

Got up. Watered the plants. Listened to the birds. Had some coffee. Now I’m gonna get more coffee and write with friends at a cafe, cranking up Megadeth on the way because Dave Mustaine’s idea of apocalypse feels kind of cute now

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social I don’t want to jinx it but do you see the score on the thing right now betwixt the teams and one of them is a team you like

So a few years back when I toured with Chuck & Delilah we had a stop in Chicago. In one of life’s serendipitous surprises, we met Steve. Steve was our server where we ate a late lunch, and he shared with us that shrooms are just a great idea. Episode 5 of Widow’s Bay was written by (or for) Steve

*checks watch* It’s time to preorder THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH (a standalone sci-fi yarn by @jomiles.bsky.social) because Future You in July is super cool and deserves a gift from Current You, who is also turbo rad. Available everywhere, but you get a discount and goodies if you order from us!

Good morning. Be the grebe you want to see in the world. #birds

Piper was absolutely rad. I enjoyed her books and the couple of times we got to hang out at conventions were a delight. Rest well, Piper. And fuck cancer.

Black Forest cake! (We don’t need an ARC but we couldn’t resist a chance to holler about cake, and also we want you know about this so you can shout about cake and maybe get an ARC of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR. Hey: CAKE.)

This is a nifty history of the diner mug—a product of a WWII Navy contract that wound up spreading everywhere.

Asking on main in case someone knows: Are diner mugs (like the one on the right) more difficult to get because they’re expensive to produce, or are they genuinely less popular & the demand is lower? Maybe the cost is what makes them less popular? I vastly prefer them to the standard mug on the left

Seconded

Shopping list: 1) new printer 2) baseball bat for the old printer which has jammed five times in a row and I still don’t have my thing. It had one job. I am going to go full Office Space on that mothercustard

A squiddy for today's #TransArtMay... was always fascinated with old scientific illustrations of squid which often depict them in what seems to be an upside down manner which feels absurd as we all know squid will need to be right side up when they walk out of the ocean to take over the world 🤷🏻‍♂️🦑

Working on postcards to send to my preorderers! It's nice, even meditative. You can get one of these beauties with a handwritten note from ME (plus other fun stuff) if you preorder The Final Chronicle of Yeneh direct from the publisher @hornedlarkpress.com: hornedlarkpress.com/product/the-...

Almost bought this but they misspelled mourning dove and egad, I can’t pretend it’s not there, sorry

Randomly stopped by the Chapters in Gloucester and signed a copy of INK & SIGIL and A CURSE OF KRAKENS, so if you are in the Ottawa area, there you go!

It's a fun and fantastic novella. Do YOU read @marissalingen.bsky.social ? Levi does So do I And you should too!

“Firebirds” by Clutch is the story of a woman who wants to acquire Pontiac Firebirds & energy weapons told from the point of view of a poor schmoe with a wholly inadequate Datsun. I want to see this quest completed. What will she do when she acquires them? I mean, obviously she will kick some ass

Truly a delight to read.

Someone who’s good at math please tell us what the odds are

Canadians: Which Canadian diners/coffee roasters offer spiffy diner mugs? You know, the kind that are thick ceramic and a bit curvy? I have some really old ones from the U.S. that are showing their age. I’d like to update with rad stuff from up here. Point me at the cool mugs!

I don’t suppose I have someone here who can help with an Affinity Publisher snafu? I have a text frame that’s locked and I can’t move it. In the layers menu it isn’t locked, but on the page it is. Need to get this frame on this page (and all pages) unlocked so I can moves them. Unlock All does nada

Dang gorgeous day. Trees finally growing some leaves. Coffee and edits on the deck. Let’s go.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Today’s joy is explaining English wordplay to a translator in Taiwan. They’re really good and they include these long footnotes (actually side notes because Mandarin) in their texts explaining stuff because they’re deeply aware that things get lost in translation. 1/

Someone used AI to “create” five songs based on my Iron Druid characters, and damn it, NO. Stealing my characters and then using AI, which is made of more stolen work and is destroying the planet with its water, electricity usage, and greenhouse gas production, is not how you honor a Druid.

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I'm willing to test this theory

The CBC is trying to get everyone to watch a video of a fish swimming up a manta ray’s ass (it’s under MUST WATCH) and nope, I refuse to be part of your social experiment, there will be no record of me clicking on that, I just want a noodle recipe & an update on that guy selling fake maple syrup

Today is a good day to read a book from a small Antifascist press. How’s about COYOTE RUN by @lilithsaintcrow.com? Or preorder THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH by @jomiles.bsky.social or A DUBIOUS CLAMOR by @marissalingen.bsky.social. Imagining the defeat of authoritarians is good for you.

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