New story from Masimba Musodza up on Gavagai! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!

New Editor Pick on Gavagai from @amandamblake.bsky.social!

Another one for today! Come and have a read! #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

Our Editor Pick for today: Colleen Anderson’s Love Bites. Happy #Halloween!

Our Editor Pick today was Susan L. Lin’s Revenge Dress. Amazing writer!

Hey all - I am looking for an artist for mainstream horror illustration work. Maybe some Stephen Gammell-esque stuff, black and white/inky. I’m not sure how to articulate that so any help is appreciated! Oh and open to commissions in the near future. Tysm! #art

We are open for the first round of submissions for our #horror submission call #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

I feel like selling an old iPhone on eBay thrusts you into the world of Russian mobsters where the stakes are life and death and survival hangs on the results of an IMEI check.

Bumpy attacking Weeze’s tail in triptych #Caturday #FatherICraveViolence

Happy birthday to the sweetest girl in town… LOUISE! AKA “Weeze!” The big 10 today! #DogsOfBlueSky #WritersDogs

Omg my wife and I were away last night and our house sitter stayed over but Bumpy is so angry with us. He wouldn’t even deign to look at me until I offered him a small turkey peace offering. So temperamental 🙄

Just under a week to Gavagai’s grand opening and #horror short story submission call. Hop on over to gavagai.com and get an invite homie!

Bumpy decided to just go stand in his little travel basket. He’s been doing this a lot. We started taking him for walks when we took Weeze, and I wasn’t sure he liked it. But now I think he’s really starting to dig it. This basket pops right onto the wheeled stroller thing

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

Submissions open October 13 for #horror! We’re a new paying market for short fiction and a Bluesky-adjacent writing community. Join in the fun! #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WriterSky

Open subs for #horror #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

It’s an acorn year. The barrage of acorns falling on the roof and skylights is like gunfire. It’s every couple of years and I always forget how loud it is

Did you know that Starburster is the only song that was allowed to be recorded in Ireland for the last two years? It’s Irish law.

Hey all! Please give my new project a peek. It’s a writer-focused community that leverages the open Bluesky infrastructure to provide a new way for writers to socialize and publish. We’re excited to open later this month and are looking forward to showing what the team and I have been building

Wistful autumn Weeze #DogsOfBluesky

When I was a kid I had… not quite an imaginary friend, but like an imaginary cool kid I knew named “Boy Hoshens.” Every time I watch Alien: Earth I think of that when I hear “Boy Kavalier.”

Man has anybody gotten oauth stuff working with Bluesky? It’s a bear. What a rat’s nest of requests and tokens 😞

I got a shit ton done today. We are prepping for my wife's shoulder surgery later this week and getting the house one-hand friendly. It was also Litter Box Day and I attended the 3PM First Clumping of the Clay. Very moving.

Been quiet and busy with myriad projects and feeling the weight of everything. But there's been a lot good happening personally and I'm starting to emerge from my self-imposed isolation. Hope everyone is doing well!

Has anyone ever gotten a random text that asks if they’re interested in selling their home and thought, “Yes. Yes, let’s proceed with this transaction initiated by an unknown party via text.” How is this a viable business model for someone?

Giancarlo Esposito bears a stunning resemblance to my mom.

Doing some morning testing with Bluesky’s UI…

I think I already posted about this before, but Bumpy climbs to the highest level of his condo in my office and he just writhes around up there. I am so paranoid he’s gonna fall. I guess I need to put some guard rails or something up

Curious what time people eat dinner. I’m outside grilling fish at 10:15 Saturday night. This is pretty typical for us, but not really typical for most US people I don’t think.

Anybody know what this is on this cucumber? I guess eggs but not sure what type #gardening

It’s here! My debut sci-fi/horror novel ABDUCTED is out from Dark Matter Ink & available wherever books are sold. Get your copy today before they’re all taken!

Hey everybody don’t start a big refactor of your codebase at 9:30 on a Friday night it’s just not the smartest idea ever

Bumpy helping with home improvement. And probably accruing some feline bad luck

We’re taking Weeze to meet a new dog we’re hoping to adopt. Weeze is great with other dogs but first meetings can be tricky because she is super exuberant and it can be overwhelming for some dogs. The candidate is the first non pit bull-type dog we’ve adopted since our basset/dachshund mix years ago

Went and saw Fantastic Four today at a new theater near me and was astounded that two people took phone calls during the movie. One got up and at least left the theater, but talked the whole way out. The other just had a conversation in their seat. It was short, but damn. I hadn’t see that before.

get a load of how excited Trump is to see Putin

Traitorous little bitch

If you’ve visited DC recently you know how absolutely fucking absurd these assertions of an “out of control” city are. Delusional. Completely contrary to reality. I was literally downtown on Saturday. We had a great time. Never felt unsafe walking around northeast and then Columbia Heights.

The ridiculous MAGA perception of crime in DC makes me think of this gem

I’m trying a little vibe coding today just to get a sense of the experiences I’ve been reading about. It is SO much harder than understanding and implementing solutions oneself. Reconciling changes with previous modifications is ridiculously time consuming #VibeCoding

I am still amazed #Hannibal was on network television. How did that happen?

All of history is basically the story of hats.

Donna Tartt’s got it right… one book like every ten years and just work that shit to death #AmReading #WritingCommunity

It’s Laotian food time!

It seems odd to me to have an animal for your high school mascot that isn’t found anywhere in the state where said high school is located

You’d think most of the data center processing power and network traffic was all AI related but it’s really just all bird cam data #BirdCam

We got one of those bird camera feeders. This was kind of an alarming message when a squirrel jumped on it. Reminded me of Martin Sheen’s line, “Terminate… the colonel” from Apocalypse Now. Afaict no squirrels were actually harmed #birds #squirrels #SquirrelColonelKurtz

Awwww yeah you know shit’s getting serious when you switch to double-spaced 12 point Times New Roman #WritingCommunity #writing #WriterSky #CurrentWIP

There was a black #bear sighting in our neck of the woods! This is less than a quarter mile from my house. This is very unusual. We just don’t get bears around here