Strange that so many orders now require the barista to use the nuclear centrifuge.

"Chat, give me the recipe for a uranium spice latte"

What might cause a sudden flood of people posting books that never sell anything??? It's a mystery.

For me it catches a totally different kind of problem: A sentence can be grammatically correct, but almost impossible to read aloud.

Have mercy on your audiobook narrator and do it yourself before publishing.

Stealing from Wizards Audiobook Podcast — Stealing from Wizards A story of magic, mischief, theft, and friendship.

New episode day!

I love this chapter. There is something absolutely wonderful writing about a formal wizard feast. I get to be weird and invoke nonsense like hovering truffle orreries and kelpie salads that try to wriggle away because the wizards can't help themselves.

#booksky #audiobooks

Go on...

Public service reminder: fans produce heat. If left on in a room, they will heat up the room.

(This is for my interns who left the table fans on overnight)

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That was my first thought as well, which I felt fundamentally undermined the fun thought experiment a fan was having. Hence reaching out.

If Kuro was teleported into the pokemon universe what kinda team do you think he'd try to build

I need expert opinions!

A fan has DMed me with an important question for which I lack the necessary depth of knowledge.

@dmos150.bsky.social maybe?

a bike trail through a park leading to a huge puddle.

Seems it rained a bit last night...

For the curious, that unexpected lake is ankle deep... while on a bicycle.

Ask me how I know. 💧🧦😓

I was about to make this list and realized I haven't seen many of these in a long time and am worried whether any hold up.

😬

Block printing stamp of the Avalon Academy crest from Stealing from wizards coated in black ink. (Crest includes a ring of celtic knots around a maple leaf, raven, and fleur de lis.)

Block printing of the Avalon Academy crest from Stealing from wizards coated in black ink on a greeting card. (Crest includes a ring of celtic knots around a maple leaf, raven, and fleur de lis.)

The anachronism continues!

Hand carved a block print of the Avalon Academy crest for Stealing from Wizards thank you cards.

Piss off robot overlords, I'm using 1600 year old technology.
#booksky #art #printmaking

I am continually baffled by what goes viral. I post video on other places, and a few things have exploded:

Derivation of what % Fluff is Hello Kitty
Relative sizes of planets as food
Archetype analysis of Alucard from Helsing
Smurf Biology
Basic metallurgy of steel

Please explain how why this!?!?

Kuro from stealing from wizards, a small boy with messy hair and unkempt clothes, with a raccoon perched on his shoulder.

New Stealing from Wizards art has been delivered!

I continue to use the money I'm not spending travelling to US conventions to pay human artists to make art.

This one is by ceruleanrobynbird who you can find over on Insta.

#art #booksky

I worry less about professions where people interact with the actual physical world. Pilots, surgeons, welders, there's a built in filtering mechanism if they have not skills or knowledge.

The mediocre middle might get their brains hollowed out and be unable to do anything without their AI crutch.

For student privacy reasons, I cannot post what I get here, but some of what we're getting is embarrassing for everyone involved. At least those students don't pass.

What I worry about is the slightly more competent ones who can use GenAI well enough that we can't prove they used it.

State of GenAI in education: I had a student submit a programming assignment in the wrong language.

Wait wait! Is CHARLIE the fourth nourn?!?! I think she is. Could she be? Maybe? She’s the only character who has mentioned sowing so far? I think she is. But HOW? This has never come up? I didn’t even know she liked sowing. My head is SPINNING. That means it’s a really good episode! 10/10!! Absolutely legendary! ❤️❤️❤️🤩🤩🤩

Releasing Stealing from Wizards chapters as weekly podcasts provides the absolute delight of watching people react through the comments as it comes out.

This wild speculation is giving me life in these bleak times.

#booksky #writersky

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I have become less agreeable since getting progressive lenses. Nodding too much makes my eyes hurt.

ink drawing of a portrait of a raven facing right in front of a tree whose leaves are bursting into a flock of birds.

Digging through an old sketchbook and found the best ink drawing I think I've ever done which was a character portrait for someone else's DnD character, a Kenku named Cawcophony.

#art

Come plaaaay! I've a spare room!

And two incomplete versions of envy which I never inked, I think because they made me sad.

A drawing of a chipmunk with very full cheeks

drawing of a raccoon with a very full belly

Greed and Gluttony

ink drawing of an otter reclining

Ink drawing of a wasp ready for a fist fight

Lust, which apparently I invisioned as an otter posing like Jurassic Park Jeff Goldblum

Wrath, rendered as a wasp ready to throw many hands.

Pen and ink drawing of a sloth sleeping

An ink drawing of a prideful cat

Ever go through an old sketchbook and wonder what was happening on your brain when you discover something you completely forgot you made?

Here are, apparently, the seven deadly sins as cute animals.

#ink #art

Sloth and Pride

As I seem pathologically incapable of *sitting down and reading*, I am always excited by New Chapter Day. The incoming ~drama~ is getting very intense!

Stealing from Wizards Audiobook Podcast — Stealing from Wizards A story of magic, mischief, theft, and friendship.

It's new episode day!

Need some wholesome and whimsical escapism?
You're not alone. Dive in, drown out the horrors with a "Charmingly Canadian narrator." <- Real listener review

#booksky #audiobooks #podcasts

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Such wordplay may get you panned, or make people so heated they lose their temper.

Oh! I'll check that out.

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is probably the closest. It's retty happy. About an android that runs a cafe in the twilight of humanity. Genuinely lovely and weirdly optimistic.