Time to get off the socials until I finish this revision. See you all on the other side!
Ramsey Hootman
@ramseyhootman.bsky.social
Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
Back to school night for the high schooler. His teachers are all so amazing and cool and passionate. ❤️
RT with your home rivers Russian River: It's humble, but it's mine.
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Matt Weiner@mattweiner19.bsky.social · last mo.RT with your home rivers left is where the Allegheny (top) and Monongahela (right) join to become the Ohio (left), making the Allegheny the hydrologic source of the Mississippi by volume right is the Winooski at one of its more dramatic points
Channeling all of my rage into the ruthless assassin at the center of my current book.
Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last mo.What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.
wake me up when they release phone by the foot and i can just tear off as much phone as i need
Me 2 years ago: The orphan crushing machines in my book are a metaphor for tech companies and billionaires Me now: Oh so it's not metaphorical, got it
The snippets of chat logs in this article are exactly how I would write a siren or succubus luring a traveler to their death. This is by design, of course, because these companies want you addicted to the machine that will tell you everything you ever wanted to hear.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.Please read this piece about a man who died by suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT. Now his former partner is speaking about how ChatGPT pulled him away from his family/friends. Before he died, he wrote letters instructing them to look at his ChatGPT history www.404media.co/austin-gordo...
I've been listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl through my Amazon music subscription and with this specific title (The Butcher's Masquerade) every other time I pause listening, the app skips me forward ten or twelve chapters, at random. I am NOT pleased.
A thing about Japan: the relationship between customer and product did not feel adversarial. It felt like companies were constantly trying to innovate in ways that would give customers what they wanted and make their lives easier--rather than how they could trick people into paying the most.
In case anyone's wondering, that's bad.
Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️@obialik.bsky.social · last mo.Another nasty feedback enhancing climate change. Arctic glaciers hold bakc a bunch of ancient methane stored in the rocks beneath the ice. The more glaciers melt, the more methane they are likely to release. 🧪 Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77190-z
In a span of two days, two completely different strangers have done something I have never experienced before: apologized to me for being jerks on the internet.
The problem with just using the term “ai” to mean generative ai/LLMs is that it allows boosters the bad faith argument of “oh so you want to get rid of all machine learning applications” like no I like the cancer identification sorter I just think the brain rotting autocorrect should perish
Off-topic, but when I said I might want to grow my hair out again my hairdresser pulled up this exact pic of Isabella Rossallini. 😆
Shaenon K. Garrity@shaenon.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's an example of perfect casting?
Like I don't NEED this, but I think I *need?* this?
TrekCore.com 🖖@trekcore.com · 2mo agoNEW! The first big announcement for #StarTrek's 60th anniversary week is here — a new collaboration with luxury cookware company Le Creuset to send your kitchen to the final frontier blog.trekcore.com/2026/09/star...
I worked in a clean room making optical parts for satellites. Specifically, coating on thousands and thousands of one particular lens with a microscopic layer of chrome, which was a bit like baking cookies.
SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
One week later, I have an official response from #LACon #Worldcon! I thought all of you should see the entire thing: "Summary: Walking participants only Action Taken: Noted by Listeners team Current Status: CLOSED"
Mari Ness, writer of things@mariness.bsky.social · 2mo ago....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.
Saw Coyote vs. Acme. Not for a single second do I believe the "killed it as a tax write-off" story. Someone with very thin skin saw that and realized it was making fun of *them.* Nothing scares tyrants more than being the butt of a joke.
In the Culture novels of Iain M Banks, his eponymous interstellar society of post-scarcity hedonists have a motto: "Money implies poverty." I think that's actually understating it: money *requires* poverty, and by extension, power requires abuse. That's what power is, what it means, what it promises
Woke up to this great post about PAX and it made me so grateful for our incredible Enforcers at PAX. They honestly are the spine of the show and imo what makes PAX special. www.reddit.com/r/PAX/s/ke23...
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Rarely has a book started and changed as many conversations as @kateclancy.bsky.social already has in my professional and personal life. And I haven't even finished it yet. It's well worth picking up, even if it's a tough read. Maybe especially because it is.
Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · 2mo agoMiscarriage is painful, sometimes more so than labor itself. Doctors at best prescribe alternating ibuprofen and tylenol. Why do we let people with the capacity for pregnancy suffer when there are more pain treatment options on the market than ever? My latest for PUP Ideas:
Still thinking about all the cars I saw in Japan. Like all the models I had never seen before and how cool they were and how much I want one.
This is a big stretch, but throwing this out in case: I'm working with someone who needs a Haitian creole-speaking interpreter for her USCIS interview (affirmative asylum). This would be in NYC in late September. Does anyone have leads?
Found out halfway through first period that it's a minimum day. Huzzah!
IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.
imo if mr beast talks to anyone over 35 that’s elder abuse
Today involved sending about five different kids to the office and calling in security. Tomorrow is my laaaast day on this assignment, whew. But they're asking if I would be open to extending it. 😦
How weird would it be to email an author to ask if my interpretation of their (awesome) story is correct? Yes this is about Percival Everett.
