That's some good readin' right there

Yeah, it’s this one. It’s easy to forget sometimes that these fascist pirates are profoundly stupid people. Every plan is fuelled by fear, paranoia, and grift and nothing else.

I was, like, a month ago years old when I learned that was Ken Watanabe in Tampopo

My internal dialogue

I opened some Tom Clancy knockoff book that was on the shelf at the dollar store and was met with some of the most hilariously bad misogynistic nonsense I have ever read.
No matter what I garbage I might write, I now know that I might be able to make it at the dollar store.

If you are going to tag -punk onto whatever media you are making, please go look up what punk is and what it means. Setting a story in space doesn't make it space-punk. Punk is a counterculture and creative movement. Punk is about people, not aesthetics.

“Fiction”

don't get me wrong - the business practices of most AI companies and the grifters who use them are repugnant. A net negative for the world.
but you can also use the same tools to scour massive amounts of cancer research... weirdly that sort of work doesn't seem to require a city block worth of power

No, but it's not even entirely on moral grounds.
I just think that AI is a bad primary tool for art. It's like painting your walls with a screwdriver. Not inherently a bad tool, but it's actively counterproductive for painting walls. A better screwdriver won't help either. Just not what it's for.

I played trumpet for the queen of England. I am not a musician.

Legends of the Fall.
Not one bit of the melodramatic bullshit they attempt in that movie is earned. Decades later I remain pissed that I watched all of that movie in a theater and didn't just leave.

where Deckard is very clearly a Muppet but dorks spend decades debating if he is actually a Muppet because it was never explicitly stated in the script

yeah! I have this shit on a VCD. It's terrible! High Five!

If you are considering stories for nomination, especially for the Aurora Awards, give Birds, Vibrant and Wild a shot. It's a pretty quick read too!

weird. seems fine to me. Now we just need our womens team to wake up. Oh. looks like they did this morning. cool.

Never. I bring it up every chance I get. Which is strangely often.

but now I really want to know what this toad / yoshi beef is all about... will they kiss?

A year ago today I wrote this.

I think they were prop planes, but yeah. still planes

want a palate cleanser? I can promise you that all my stories only use organically sourced words. I have no interest in outsourcing the fun part of writing.
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This one got a nice review in Locus, too!

These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...

My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!!

My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹

bought a brand new bike to replace my old the rickety one. I was so excited about the new bike that I bunny hopped the old one over a curb taking it to storage. The front wheel fell off and I face planted into the street. Mild concussion, scrapes everywhere, and I still have scars on my knuckles.

become the good Spider-Man you want to see in the world

Vaccines are one of the coolest things that humanity ever created. Right up there with agriculture.
Providing immune systems with a training dummy has dramatically extended and improved life for the past couple hundred years.
Amazing.
Imagine just saying 'Nah, Imma give tuberculosis a title shot"

That's why my favorite film version has always been the 1951 Alistair Sim version. Quickly paced, but surprisingly faithful. And Mervyn Johns puts on an absolute acting clinic.

My story Birds, Vibrant and Wild in Kaleidotrope, is both very different from me and the most 'me' thing I have ever written.
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the Irix FSN? do it!

- copy and paste direct into Unity -
Thanks!