Told Dad I'm reading the latest @maxgladstone.bsky.social Craft series book and explained them to him and now he's getting extra presents because he's getting the first three books.

Here: youtu.be/ftlNX7xTVK0?...

Just finished re-reading @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's Two Serpents Rising, which was perfect for the season. Now I have a bunch of poetry books I bought myself but haven't had time to read yet.

There are two types of people in this world: People who immediately sang this to themselves to check and Liars

Let this also serve as your annual reminder that “War Pigs“ can be sung to the tune of Deck the Halls, and vice versa. (“Generals gathered in their masses / fà la la la la, la la la la, just like witches at black masses / fa la la etc”)

Great thread, and I love this eminently actionable suggestion.

It is possible to use the Economy to cross vast distances of space in an instant, but one must have a navigator who is subjected to the distortive perils of the warp

Good thread

This thread sounds like something from The Craft series by @maxgladstone.bsky.social

my personal 'favorite' is, "this isn't actually a new feature but Investor #3 really wants to see AI in the product and this feature used some hacked-together vintage 2012 ML implementation and he's never gonna know"

On the subject of Christmas songs: a newsletter containing 3 tunes I come back to this time of year, and some "yes I am once again on my bullshit / re-reading Hogfather" thoughts about the season buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

This, along with Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" was new to me this year on a Tidal "1970s Christmas Music" playlist, and I'd like to thank whoever put that together

Art I am thinking about: "The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux" by A.E. Housman. "...The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."

So we’re still in the process of getting estimates but it’s beginning to look like getting the house foundation fixed is going to run upwards of $100k So uh We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol

So much this! For years, I was too intimidated to try bullet journaling because I thought bujos had to be impressively artistic. They really don't! Thank goodness.

@hiddenschools.bsky.social Do you think the Church of Kos has its own brand of cigarettes? I can't stop thinking about Abelard buying smokes: what brand? filtered? For some reason, I imagine he smokes Red Apples. The brand Tarantino created for his movie universe. cc: @maxgladstone.bsky.social

I am currently both loving and hating @maxgladstone.bsky.social right now, and it’s going to take me a while to deal with it.

Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?

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

i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video so ok universe you win this time

they all desperately want to be a part of a Grand Ideological Struggle a la fascism/communism/liberal democracy in the 20th century but it's just "the government has to make girls stop quote-dunking on me for posting that i can't eat pussy"

Once again, all the books I loved most this year www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12... containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

love how i heard him say it in his kind gentle bandit voice lol it sounds doubly manipulative coming out of someone with that naturally gentle tone of voice like bandit has as opposed to someone who naturally looks and sounds ominous in both english dubs + japanese dub as gendo ikari

My Newsletter (on Buttondown) for Friday! After leaving Substack, I wanted to take a chance to talk a bit about the why of it all: buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.

Sportin' Jenny claims another victim

Gotta needlepoint this

I have committed a Gift Guide and also I have left Substack for Buttondown. Happy holidays! buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...

This is a very important scientific outreach project: Hallmark Christmas movies… but in the abyss. High-pressure romance included. Underwater and scientifically questionable. You’re welcome. Expect bioluminescent meet-cutes and emotionally unavailable octopuses. #Trenchmas

imagine not understanding why a toddler laughs when he drops his pizza on the floor and it makes a funny splat sound

Hey, look, For the Queen is on sale right now! If you don't have a copy for some reason, at sixteen canadian dollars you can't afford *not* to canada.critrole.com/collections/...

This is what makes it personal. It's not just my work that has been stolen, but that of all of my friends who do creative work. Every artist, writer, designer, musician has had their work stolen and their ability to work targeted in this way. That's on TOP of the hundreds of other reasons.

Productivity hack: do not fill your day with boredom busters. Ditch the mobile games, the doomscrolling, the TV binge, and whatever else you noodle on when you're bored. Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.

It's the last month of 2025, & this year, I published two short stories, one novella, and one novel. ❤️ My short story "Mail-Order Magic" is one of the most personal pieces I've ever written, and it's free to read at @morningtransport.bsky.social : www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/mail-order...

Hey @aidanmoher.com I found you (and me) a new writing tool: riddlefoxgames.itch.io/manawriter

Recently finished Dead Hand Rule by @maxgladstone.bsky.social, and I gotta say, the Craft Sequence/Wars series is a treasure :D Without spoilers, the final villains are such a genius apotheosis of the themes of the entire series, and as quite a narrative feat, feel absolutely unstoppable.

These look so great!

I can't get over studios having a successful, original *ensemble mystery* franchise on their hands and not caring about making more money off of it. It's not even a question of getting distracted by AI bullshit, it's a six-year-old series!

An analysis that dovetails nicely with what I've seen from other sources incl. Elizabeth Warren's work on the 2 Income Trap.

Wait, teachers *prohibit* 6-7? *closes eyes* *rubs temples* *breathes deeply through nose*

Source: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.

My I Am Not Enron T shirt is raising a lot of questions about whether I am Enron

America gave the world the Internet and now they’re turning it into a useless sewer and I for one welcome the silence of decay the slow fungal overgrowth of analogue reconsuming the information space get me some paper and a damn pigeon

me (the third guy to try this shit on john wick): haha skill issue

@amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social

"Darkness on the Edge of Town," Bruce Springsteen. youtu.be/0LpdEyGhNxM?...

I'm not against the idea that some sort of silicon intelligence *might* arise at some point--we're not even nearly there as far as I can tell--but humans are SO programmed to regard things that do not have human agency as if they do have human agency, that this seems like a necessary move

Did all of you know about Radio Paradise but me? Ad-free DJ-orchestrated high audio quality internet radio? Is there a catch I haven't discovered yet?