I was just telling my wife about the process of buying a Maltese passport, which is wantonly corrupt and shady as fuck, and thus very popular with wealthy criminals. And here we are...

Not sure if BlueSky friends realise, I also write crime fiction. This features my Australian equivalent of Parker, Gary Chance. Some of these books have, on occasion, been well reviewed. www.amazon.com/Gunshine-Sta...

As unhinged and woefully stupid as yesterday's press conference was, remember that it only happened because RFK Jr. swore he'd present information about the cause of autism "by September." 4 Seasons Landscaping-ass administration. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Got the most glorious book mail today! My contributor’s copy of THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR, edited by Otto Penzler and John Grisham. Thank you, @mysteriousbookshop.com. Y’all made my year!

Tomorrow, this comes out!

I’ll say this today, to all those who’ll be leaving us tomorrow: Happy Rapture, holy folks!

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

LOOOOOOOL

Comics are actually very difficult to write if you’re coming from a prose-writing background. It’s a VERY different skillset from prose—in fact, it’s closer to writing a screenplay than a novel. You gotta know enough about film language and camera to make the comic panels & art *mean* something.

Damn. Perry was a fave. THE OLD MAN rightly got a lot of attention the last few years, but I discovered him through the Jane Whitefield series years back and enjoyed his work immensely.

Some more news. The Friday September 26th will be the end of an era. Get ‘em before they’re gone. #BookSky www.bishopriderbooks.com

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

Name a 90s TV Show U Still Dig.

Screening interview late this afternoon, so of course I'll spend the day obsessing about it, reading the job description for the umpteenth time and imagining conversations that won't happen.

I have one more book out this Wednesday—the full trade collection for our CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN series. We did heady weird sci-fi, killer robots, DC deep dives, & existential meditations on life and death. @seanizaakse.bsky.social, @amancay.bsky.social, & @jorgefornes.bsky.social killed it.

🧵 Life never seems to stop. Neither do the distractions. Neon lights, buzzing phones, whispers pulling you off course. The trick is learning to keep your eyes on the case file in front of you. #NoirWisdom #StayFocus

Longing.

Maybe (he said hoping and praying against all available evidence) they mean "backgrounds in *understanding* 'Generative AI' *and its implications* in the newsroom?" …that's not what they mean. i know. 😭

Got my flu and Covid shots! It’s all for the narwhal! Also wearing my PBSKids shirt. You should be getting your vaccines and supporting PBS!

So, if you've been around long enough, you've probably seen me mention T.H.E CAT, a rare, short-lived drama from the '60s starring Robert Loggia as a former acrobat/burglar turned bodyguard/detective. Guess who just found the whole damn series on Internet Archive? archive.org/details/The-...

The world is ruled by every asshole I knew when I was 19. Hell is real and we’ve been in it the whole time.

This should be what we are focusing on today, instead of the current administration’s fuckery. I want silliness, not fascism.

Look: I love badass genre fiction, my family, gardening, and our Constitutional republic. That’s mostly what you’ll get here.

Never underestimate the importance of freezer space.

Great thread, loaded with great points.

What are y’all reading and watching this weekend?

Check this out! This is a super fun project where each contributing writer creates their own detective character within a shared world of supernatural entities. I'll have a story in this and there's an open submission call too!

In for a penny... Another tough Sunday morning read, but a clear reminder of where we're sitting.

This is a well-written piece that probably isn't the best way to start your Sunday, but does serve as a good reminder of how everything is completely broken.

An entirely reasonable decision on my part.

There is little else that is more Bluesky than this. Someone needs to buy it.

Drop some telephones! "You are on the Global Frequency."

Timeline cleanse.

9:30 a.m. and a hyper-local sports show (sponsored by a sports betting site) is running betting lines for the weekend NFL games.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

Happy Batman Day #BatmanDay2025

Hola, I'm a writer and I can never spell mnemonic, separate or necessary (I have to use the mnemonic to spell necessary) on the first try. Come, make me feel better and share your nemesis words. #WritingCommunity #Writing #WriteSky #Authors

The ones who thrive here are the poasters who do it for the love of the game And the metric poisoned pundits have neither love nor game

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing. Not distressing. Full tilt disturbing.

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Harrison Ford on punching Nazis: “He’d push 'em out of the way to get in the first punch. As well he should."

Today in LinkedInsanity: Former Company: "We're doing great. Everything is going so well!" CEO of Former Company: "We desperately need someone for this role! Message me!" Former Company Coworker: "Well, I just got laid off..."

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

The one where I make a promise I intend to keep. #Weather #Pittsburgh #KDKA #PAwx

Just 3?

There's a weird tragicomic dissonance to it all. I'd been led by decades of pop culture to assume that the sinister forces trying to seize control of society would be *competent*.

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya