25 DAYS OF ROBOTS In anticipation of my @lightspeedmagazine.com novelette "Ladd's Robot Repair" going live on 8/27, I'm sharing 25 robots that have fired my imagination. Some are cute. Some are terrifying. Most are just trying to do the job they were given—even after the job is no longer needed.

I love my novel so much just 5,934,944 more words to go until I can share it.

Just take those old records off the shelf I said I'll have to bag them myself Do you know how much vinyl costs these days? What are you even thinking keeping the record inside a paper sleeve?

Whoever licensed David Bowie's music to Meta to sell AI can go fuck themselves.

I have applied my butt to this chair but turns out you also need to wiggle your fingers in contact with keys to make words go

I've never loved a bad movie more. Happy Krulliversary to all who celebrate and especially to those who don't.

ULTRA🏝️BLAST@ultrakillblast.bsky.social · last wk.

43 years ago... KRULL

If you identify as an atheist after attending religious services or maintaining a religious affiliation, the case for you atheism is a stronger one, not weaker. Honestly if you didn't want me to become an atheist you shouldn't have let me read the Bible.

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We're working on it. 📈

Oligarchs don't want you to own anything. They want you to keep paying for their shit that they force into obsolescence and which you can't repair. Refuse to live in that world. Don't lease--buy used and keep perfectly good electronics out of landfills. And fuck the oligarchy.

Apple plans to lease iPhones for $17.99 a month through partnership with Klarna

Apple is announcing an iPhone lease option weeks after raising iPad and Mac prices due to the global memory shortage.

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Did I intend to write 500 words about a fiddle today? No. Did I? Yup.

Non really interested in not Greek experts having opinions about the way Greek epics are adapted by not Greek directors, writers, producers and actors. You can all just make some room for Greek voices for a change. I've not met one classics professor who can pronounce my name right.

Avatar Aang and I are getting old and we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence.

I need to clean my fountain pens. All of them.

Just look at Tyrone Power, man. I SAID LOOK AT HIM!

Ah, something we've never seen—a Scrooge origin story. Finally we'll get to see what haunts him from his childhood, the "ghost of Christmas past," if you will.

I would say Elon Musk can go get eaten by a cyclops but I would never wish such a terrible fate on a cyclops.

My signature scent is "the cheapest body spray on Amazon right now". Unfortunately, today that means I smell like I've been accosted by an angry lemon.

Weird Western Novella Update Day #82 691 words today 14,485 / 30,000 words total (48.28%) "Sheriff's breath steamed out in the cold morning air. I looked into that puzzling red glass eye of his, but it gave no answers."

When you don't allow children to accompany you out in the world to interact with others and their surroundings you end up with people like this guy who can't tolerate sharing the Earth with any other human beings for even the length of time it takes to pop in and out of the grocery store.

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry but the only person who should be denied access to the grocery store is this person.

Wondering what happened to Polyphemus after The Odyssey? Healing is hard in a world that only sees you as a monster. My flash fiction "The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus" is free to read. Please support Greek authors telling and retelling the stories we've lived with for thousands of years.

The Everlasting Wound of Polyphemus by David Anaxagoras

The museum warehouse was more than ample space for Polyphemus, and he could make it a true home with just a little effort. That’s what Gale, his social worker from the Department of Mythical Beings…

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Nolan's The Odyssey continues the long proud Hollywood tradition of keeping Greeks out of foundational Greek myths and epics.

I always thought "poppycock" was a polite whimsical substitute word for "nonesense" but turns out it's actually Dutch for MUSHY SHIT.

Big change. Wendy has been editing my stories since my first professional sale to Lightspeed five years ago. She has been an absolute delight to work with. I'll miss you, Wendy!

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃@wnwagner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Exciting news from Lightspeed -- an old hand leaves, an older one returns. I am going to miss the team so much, but I'm so excited for what will come next! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Live your life in such a way that people don't have hot takes about whether or not to say something nasty about you or just remain silent after you die.

Weird Western Novella Update Day #74 507 words today 12,812 / 30,000 words total (43%) "You only come calling afore breakfast for one of two reasons, Sheriff. Which is it?" "Bear." "Okay. Three reasons."

For once the asshole that's trending actually died.

Probably not a good sign the Mission: Impossible theme plays in my head whenever I open my word processor.

The stunning cover is sure to be matched by the brilliant fiction within. Looking forward to this collection!

P.A. Cornell (She/Her)@cornellwriter.bsky.social · 4w ago

I could not be more excited to reveal the cover for my very soon-to-be release short fiction collection. If you like SFF, this one’s for you.

When someone shows you their Nazi tattoo, believe them.

Weird Western Novella Update - Day #71 402 words today 11,627 / 30,000 wds total "Now here I was in none but my muddy boots and long johns full of holes what Sheriff done mended twice over already, strutting down Main Street like some kind of highfalutin rooster what got a big opinion of hisself."

I am done being an adult for the day.