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mediapathic.bsky.social
Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist. "Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear #sf
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One of my favorite parts of proofreading SFF is when you see a sentence out of the corner of your eye, think, oh I'm sure that's an error, then you get to it, and, no, the author actually intended that ridiculous thing and it works.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I swear if I ever see someone with a HAL icon get into a fight with someone with a Melon Helmet Cat icon on here it's going to be the most complex internet version of "mommy and daddy are fighting again" breakdown you've ever witnessed.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I am stealing a term from Gus Bodenheim on @wfmu.bsky.social and will henceforth be encouraging the description of ai slop as “blandfill”

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

TOMORROW! 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT I will be appearing on a virtual panel on short stories hosted by the Braille Institute, with wonderful writers @tananarivedue.bsky.social and Jendayi Brooks-Flemister! Register to attend here: bit.ly/44ppXks

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

I had two plane flights this past weekend and had to choose between doing admin tasks during the flight or reading the newly released sf novel THE FOLDED SKY by Elizabeth Bear. GUESS WHICH I CHOSE!? Yes, it’s great. Am 67% done. Aces. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fo...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

"A Muslim socialist won the Democratic nomination to be mayor of New York City by going on a radio show with antifascist conservatives" I say as I step out of the time machine in 2003 and am immediately institutionalized

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

I don’t know much about NYC politics but is it normal to give your speeches from the place where the food stalls are set up at the comics convention?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Heard a maybe racist song yelling about The Barbarians but his accent made it sound like The Bavarians and now I’m imaging some racist idiot writing screeds about people in tyrolean hats.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Performer on BART starts up. Old white lady to her husband, sounding knowledgeable: “he’s not an acrobat, he’s a rapper.”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

@kristodynamics.bsky.social oh my god “Cremaster and Commander” is amazing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I know you've seen this, but I really want to make "a turtle you saw" shorthand for this sort of thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It's finally official: I just received the first unbound proof for the trade paperback edition of my Kickstarter book, KAMIKAZE L'AMOUR. Backer copies of the bound books will be going out ASAP.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Not often you see graffiti in the Bay Area that evokes German Expressionism

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hell yeah to the old people making out in their car on the summer solstice. You rule.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I despise the current trend of shoehorning "AI" into everything, of course, but it is, in this very specific historical moment, a reasonable shorthand for "at least now I know this software project has been updated in the last six months"

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