In 1987 before we need a word for doomscrolling, the media was already a nonstop barrage of frustration and anxiety and it wasn't going to get better. Tom Petty tried to tell us.

As Crom as my witness, I thought "The Great American State Fair" was a name detractors had made up. I thought it making fun.

The Art of the Deal to Make A Deal to Negotiate A Deal Contingent Upon A Deal to Agree to A Deal

Looks like if you're a writer on a Mac running macOS 11 (Big Sur) or older, starting July 13, 2026 you will no longer be able to edit, save, or create new Word files. Not even if you paid for a standalone version of Office. WHEEEEEEEE

Asked Mom where she kept the cyanoacrylate and she accused me of using high-faulting words, but I told her—if you know a better way to describe such a super glue I'd like to hear it.

Do you use Best Pravdest for your Boormensid Pravides? If you aren't filing all your Fimall under Choir.Higge maybe you should!

I thought the robot uprising would involve actual robots but it's really just a bunch of techbros in a funding circle jerk. Not nearly as fun as I imagined.

June 5, 10 AM Central: Join me at the Nebula Awards Conference for a virtual panel—"How To Get Your Next Big Break as a Speculative Fiction Author" with me, @wtalabi.com, @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social, @reasie.bsky.social, and Stewart Baker.

All the fancy AI and whatnot and my login at fancy website kept failing because they don't know how to strip trailing spaces off of login names.

OTD four years ago I ate five Taco Bell Mexican pizza's in one sitting.

good news: found cheaper body spray. bonus: does not smell like ant spray

what is a marc cuban

#ICYMI I code games now apparently

I’m teaching myself Python and building a weird terminal simulator game set in the world of my upcoming post-apocalyptic novelette "Ladd's Robot Repair." You pilot a glitchy walker through the ruins of the Tumbledown. Very much a prototype, but I’m having a blast. #gamedev #indiedev

OTD 11 Years Ago:

for some reason i chose NOW to get jiggy with it. always late to the party.

putting on my skin mask and going down the to cave to worship the bomb

You call that a Monday?

My May Author Newsletter is now available to read on my website. In this issue: publication news, a preview of works in progress, Nebula awards, story notes, and vintage short SF capsule reviews. davidanaxagoras.com/newsletter/2...

doing an author interview and I feel like real writer today

Next up in the Great Stephen King Chronological (Re)Read:

Gul Madred: Tell me. How many prequels and sequels do you see? Picard: THERE! ARE! THREE! STAR WARS! MOVIES!

For sale: power converters. Never picked up. Inquire at Tosche Station.

When you are so used to only talking to family on the phone you tell the dentist "love you" as you hang up.

jesus christ just tell us if it’s maybelline

Men are nurturers.

Had breakfast for dinner including something I can only describe as "deep-dish pancakes".

The Mandolorian and Grogu and Grogu.

Remember when supermarkets had staff working the checkout stands instead of armed guards watching you do unpaid labor as a checker for your own stuff

NO

Notice: If you disagree with me about something and want to have a good-faith conversation about it that's fine. If you want to be cute and reply with a snarky meme, you just get blocked. You didn't really want to engage in any meaningful way. You just wanted to score points. Good for you. Bye!

And after the merger they'll all refuse to ever work for Paramount/WB ever again. Right?

I dare you not to boogie!

that's cute <reads author's name> **spit take**

Pretty sure a unilateral unending cease-fire is called "surrender"

Battlestar Galactica: Heated Rivalry

Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳

Share someone dressed in white.

Amazon giveth and Amazon taketh away...and Amazon restoreth without explanation. You can now watch every episode of Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street, the show I created and wrote for Amazon Studios. But for how long who knows. The streaming gods are fickle. www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

Which chapter of Art of the Deal is this?

#nowplaying Happy Birthday to the Fearless Tim Curry. #vinylcommunity #vinylsky #nowspinning #vinyl

I'm so GenX I Wang Chunged tonight.

Thing I Am Allergic To #978: The use of "architect" as a verb.

The most important thing I learned in elementary school in the 70s was that if you marry a woman who wears a ribbon around her neck and insists that you never remove it, THEN DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EVER REMOVE IT.

Let it be known that today is Microsoft Freedom Day in the Dave house.

How about instead of me having to increase the font size on every website I visit by 125% or more, people design their websites with legible font sizes. How about that?

You know what I don't need a machine for that. I do all my flapulating by hand.

Nebula voting ends soon. My novel The Tower is a finalist for the Andre Norton Nebula Award. This is a story about a boy who is not a demigod or secretly a wizard or the Chosen One. He's just a kid who cares about his friends—and that's his superpower. davidanaxagoras.com/works/tower

Some days the writing job feels like 10% writing, 90% non-writing stuff. My hit-it-big fantasy is not a mansion or yacht, it's having office staff.

What's the opposite of a peace prize?