OMG you guys I can't believe it! I just won the Totino's Pizza Rolls First Annual Peace Prize! I'm so honored! Pizza rolls unite the world.

Turns out Republicans very much believe in participation trophies.

Researching movies where an adult must protect a child on a journey, and... this can't be a coincidence

"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?"

Democrats drew blood last night and

Never has the world "hero" been more aptly applied to a sandwich.

I have deleted my call for concept artists. Thanks to everyone who responded and especially those who helped spread the word with reposts. I'm going to try again soon with a more detailed, thorough brief. Stay tuned.

If you don't want people to speak ill of you when you're dead, don't be an asshole when you're alive. Or a war criminal.

Fascism's rise depends on millions of us choosing convenience, comfort, and the easy path over our own rights and our neighbor's safety. I got a 60 day trial of Tidal for two bucks. tidal.com/pricing

It's like we're all unwilling subjects in a nation-wide Stanford Prison Experiment.

I have a bad feeling I'm gonna do the thing tonight when I start browsing for a (horror) movie to watch and keep browsing and browsing and browsing and eventually fall asleep before I can pick one.

A wooden stake doesn't harm vampires in and of itself. It's a STAKE and is meant to pin corpses to their resting place so they don't get up out of the grave and feed on you. Remember that next time you think you can just twizzle about going stabby stabby with a sharpened table leg.

Nonstop loop in my head for five days. Why?! tidal.com/track/300655...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Don't get strung out by the way that I look. Don't judge a book by its cover. I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm one hell of a lover.

Growing up was my first mistake.

WARNING. Always check your children's candy on Halloween because sometimes there's candy corn in it. Don't let your child become another victim of candy corn.

First day in Texas it's not too hot or muggy to have my window open since the spring.

We used to have proper movies...

Monkey (wheels keep turning) A monkey (something's burning) Monkey (don't like it but I guess I'm learning)

Crows sure have a lot to say.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

I haven't much been in the mood for horror movies lately I wonder if it has to do with living in one.

I only do obscure takes and deep cuts now. Only the cool kids will know what I'm talking about.

Happy Sky Clearance Day!

Pretty sure I'm the only person alive on this planet who remember this song. I was 10 when it came out and I thought the line "I stepped out to by some dog food for the cat" was the funniest thing ever said or that would ever be said. tidal.com/track/360569...

BREAKING: In regards to Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries is more of a well-wisher, meaning that he doesn't wish him any specific harm.

I'd rather not shred the constitution but it would be hilarious if Trump ran for a third term...and got trounced by Obama for HIS third term.

How is everybody's NFT portfolio doing?

1) Always assume you are being filmed by anyone dumb enough to wear these things in public 2) No one can film you through a heaping glob of silly string, just sayin'

Every museum quietly checking their "letting cherry pickers drive right up to facade" security policies.

Writers: Ok so the heist team will include someone to get close to the curator's son and seduce him into revealing the whereabouts of the key that we will then briefly steal and make a copy of and return without anyone noticing via second to second precision and thats how we get in Real thieves:

Sometimes I think I want more friends but then I interact with people for a little while and the feeling goes away.

Do they all deserve Money from a song that they've never heard They don't know the tune, and they don't know the words, but they don't give a damn 1970.

I've had three notices today from Insta that someone is attempting to log in to my account. Reminder to use a strong random password + pw manager, plus two-factor authentication.

[Exit King.]

Was desperate for something fun.

Subscribe to this list 👇 and preemptively block the GOP .gov accounts who have suddenly appeared over here en masse - before they can screenshot and hassle you here and/or elsewhere: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Reminder that age categories for books are marketing tools. There's no barbed wire around the middle grade shelves in a book store, no ID required to check out YA. Read what you want and don't judge a book by the bucket the publisher dumped it in.

My novelette is off my desk and out to beta readers. Now what am I supposed to do, write another story? WHEN DOES IT STOP?

he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts

The only surprise about that Republican group chat full of racism and violent threats is that anyone in the chat still felt it worth their while to pretend to be shamed by the leak.

It irritates me that days and months are capitalized but seasons are not. Like, an unreasonable amount.

FINISHED! Why write a novelette when you can WRITE a novelette? - Start: 10 Sep - End: 14 Oct - Total words: 16,945 - No days without words.

What day is this? August?

My generation still has not recovered.

Massive output today on the novelette because I'm very close to the end: 1,138 words, 16,668 total. Just a few hundred more to go. One last loose end to tie up. I'm not going to know what to do with myself when this is over.

New neuroscience short story forthcoming in @analogsf.bsky.social! Which also means a story of - ultimately successful - negotiations with their new publisher. Includes full final text of my contract for all to use while they finish rewriting their boilerplate. benjaminckinney.com/analog-negot...

Having trouble finding my Halloween spirit.

Wrote 496 words today on the neverending noveletta. 15,523 total to date. The ending is always just another 2,000 words away. I have to run out of stuff to write eventually...I have 13 other stories planned in this series.

Since it's Black Speculative Fiction Month, I thought I'd share a story I love by a Black author each day. Since I'm starting 10 days in, I'll post a bunch to catch up. I'm going to do 15 from the Top 80 of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and 15 from Lightspeed/Nightmare.