Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

[breathy voice] 🎶 I made it through the wilderness*...🎶

*Dunkin drive-thru

Everything will be alright
#oc #art

By banning authors as renowned as Plato, Texas A&M has staked out turf as the epicenter of higher educational censorship. Resistance can sometimes feel futile — but as @jennyboylan.bsky.social says here, we must stand up for Aggies’ freedom to read, write, and learn.

Very weird watching episodes of BANACEK from 1972. They hold up pretty well, but scary seeing how thoroughly a world I thought was chic has aged.

Stories in the Chain Story are a good place to start, if you want some light reading.

As for chatting, I do that over texts; or here through DMs; or at conventions—but nothing of the latter type until the Phoenix Film Festival next month.

Freelancer always has to hustle... Chainstorycore.com is a project I run, and a few of the stories in there are mine. They're all new. I've got a couple more novels lined up for the year. I tend to mix things up so I won't get bored. :)

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📝Timeworn Terra flash fiction by @jamesenge.bsky.social for all!
✍️A short story critique by @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social for the lucky backer whose pledge gets us there.

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Love your work.

A concert poster style graphic for SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY, "a night of spellbinding dungeon synth!" featuring Wizards of Aldur, Gloamwalker, Ervals and Fantasy Audio Magazine. Live tonight at 7pm EST, free admission, all ages.

🎹 SYNTHS AGAINST SORCERY IS TONIGHT!🔮
🎶💀Starting at 7pm EST, and hosted by @jayrequard.bsky.social. There will be interviews with and live performances by several cool characters from the Dungeon Synth scene!💀 🎶
Watch it here 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/new-edge-sword-sorcery-2026

@klaybourne.bsky.social

Zeynep and Kawtar by Luana Saitta. A muscle-bound woman with a sword and a classic pinup beauty with a long braid.

A little sword and sorcery pinup @minillajovovich.bsky.social

I thought, erroneously, it was clear in my initial statement:

What went wrong was humans failed to double check machine output and people died. It's not flavor of the month, it's fact of the situation.

And, yet, children died.

Thank you.

Satellite images show Iran school strike hit more buildings than earlier reported The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex.

Note: while the above may be a CLAUDE screenshot, there is original reporting (www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...) which makes the point.

My point being is that the humans who made the decision to pull the trigger should have checked the intel.

Not absolving of responsibility. That was the whole "Incarcerate" part of the post.

For the historical record UC Riverside's Special Collections & University Archives are digitizing Jay Kay Kline's vast collection of fandom photographs. It's a daunting and important project

.@ucriverside.bsky.social recently digitized thousands of pictures taken by Jay Kay Kline. It's a daunting and important project, and shines a great window into the world of fandom during the late 20th century.

I spoke with @dracopoullos.bsky.social about his work on it:

Computers cannot be 100% trusted doing proofreading...

How in the name of all that is holy do you trust them with picking out military targets.

Impeach. Prosecute. Incarcerate.

And degauss the AI.

Edinburgh!!!

Join me & @erisyoung.bsky.social tonight @argonautbooks.bsky.social for a wee chat on words, queer words.

7pm, come one come all

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Beautiful young Mitth'raw'nuruodo by @magalivilleneuve.bsky.social 🥵

A couple of APs I don't think I've posted before?

Gen Z Beowulf Beowulf, a new prose translation into Gen Z. - - -Fam. The Spear-Danes in, like, pre-Boomer days And the kings who ruled them served courage and gr...

"Beowulf drops Grendel MMA-style—and bruh, he yeets his arm right tf off. And then on God this MF goes to Grendel’s mom’s house and deadass k*lls her, too. 💀💀💀No chill whatsoever."
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The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

Oh man, how did I not know about this?!

Y'all know what I do for a living... and I'm finding my descriptive skills taxed beyond comprehension trying to parse "Radical Narco-Terrorism."

Which is also my new band name.

Pete Hegseth just fear-mongered about "radical narco communism"