Pals, I keep forgetting my writing is on the Hugo Awards ballot this year (as part of On Spec's 2026 run in the Best Semi-Pro Magazine category). It's weird and cool.
Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴
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Author, Editor, Hovercraft Enthusiast. THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL released 2020 by Parliament House Press. Best First Novel finalist, Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence. (He/Him)
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Back To The Future: Flying Car Time Travel
ALT: Back To The Future: Flying Car Time Travel
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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦@ourmankoto.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
"Radio edits" of songs were the thin edge of the wedge which led us to this AI hellscape. In this paper, I will (For real, though, the fact that some goofball decided for us all that six minutes was an impossibly long duration to expect to hold a person's attention, so let's chop songs in half...)
Farmers Market Vendors: You do not need to use AI to create an image of a pie for your booth banner. You baked a pie. Many pies! You can take a photo of a real pie. Don't try to sell me a pie by showing me a garish cartoon rendering of a theoretical pie when you have actual pies readily at hand.
My kingdom for a new Netflix series that hasn't been cancelled before I've had time to watch the first episode.
Today I learned Don Bluth had planned an animated adaptation of @robertjsawyer.com's Quintaglio Ascension novel series, and now I'm fascinated by what might have been... and wondering if filmgoers would have thought it was some sort of sequel to The Land Before Time.
The Land Before Time: Dinosaur Friends Hugging
ALT: The Land Before Time: Dinosaur Friends Hugging
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I just ordered some copies of my novel from my US-based publisher and, oh boy (a) that exchange rate, and (b) ugh the import fees I'll probably end up paying
The first song I heard this morning was
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Official Video)
YouTube video by Domino Recording Co.
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Rebecca does a lot for the indie and small press writing community!
My sophomore novel comes out at the end of this month! It's queer, political, magical, and the great @johnlangan.bsky.social compared it to Thomas Pynchon. bsky.app/profile/carr...
Carrie-Edmund Laben@carrielaben.com · 5mo agoDid somebody say COVER REVEAL? Pre-orders are live too! wordhorde.com/product/ss-b... Thank you @lossrockhart.bsky.social, @sadiehartmann.bsky.social, and Matthew Revert for the fantastic cover art.
It's on my shelf! It should also be on yours! Go! Swarm! Obtain!
Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. I have a dark one for you that was born in the summer near the ocean and takes place in the summer near the ocean, so…perfect summer read (and 51%off)! Go ahead, share what you love. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
AI Fucks Up Everything it Touches (Season 1, Episode Eleventy-Thousand)
Citizen.Coping@propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2mo agoTeams have to wash and steam #WorldCup shirts to remove shoulder bulges. "Nike boasted about the use of 'computational design'… driven by performance data that incorporated elements of AI to work alongside the company’s designers as they crafted the kits." How could they even ship these?! Shame.
Guys, I've actually just written my first children's picture book. It was inspired by a bedtime conversation with my 6yr old about two weeks ago, and it really all just fit into place. And... I think it's good?
Facebook is down? Now where will I go for Reels showing me how I can easily make $5000/week reselling thriftstore paperbacks on Amazon or refinishing thriftstore cabinets and dressers to sell on Facebook Marketplace?
Them: So what's the WIP you really want to clear your schedule to work on? Me: It's kinda... well, it's half Space Adventure Cobra, half Sherlock Holmes, half David Bowie.
Space Adventure Cobra Anime
Alt: Space Adventure Cobra anime. Cobra wears a white coat and lights a cigar.
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Me: *spends two minutes online* Y'know, maybe I dodged a bullet by not getting into Marketing during my last career pivot (2022-23).
Home renovation and landscaping companies using AI images in your marketing, what the fuck are you thinking? Clients want to see actual work you've done, not some grotesque cartoon rendering of what it might look like.
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Blue Fire: A Jirel of Joiry Novella
An officially licensed novella starring the first lady of Sword & Sorcery, Jirel of Joiry!
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