Craig Shackleton

I'm gonna get heat for this but everyone told me that Gideon the Ninth had awesome sword stuff and in the prologue some dude showed up with a sword strapped to his back and that's as far as I got.

The whole thing with meta glasses spying on their owners thing is just another leopards eating faces situation.

I love when they specifically can't connect with or don't understand or dislike the characters that are actually based on me and my own neurodivergent experience.

The employment contracts for Preservation citizens were pretty simple, because their planetary legal code had so many in-built protections already.

Wait, wait, wait, are you saying a good writer should be able to adapt their writing style to suit the story!? That we shouldn't all have to climb into a pigeonhole!?

"We've got the right to choose it / There ain't no way we'll lose it" hits different right now.

A light blue box reading "Nicholas Eames in conversation with Miles Cameron", with text below reading "Bakka Phoenix | 84 Harbord St | Toronto, ON." "Saturday March 7, 3:00pm". The graphic also features the covers of Miles Cameron's ARTIFACT SPACE and Nicholas Eames's KINGS OF THE WYLD

Tomorrow!

Come join Miles Cameron and Nicholas Eames in conversation, Saturday March 7 at 3:00pm!

There'll be a fun chat, books, and snacks!

@phokion.bsky.social @nicholaseames.bsky.social

I have had enough to drink that I just almost posted something I meant to type into search so AMA.

I am taking this post out of context and applying it to every fucked up thing happening right now.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

That's wild. I guess don't use @proton.me anymore

If I ever get to write the sequel to my first (unsold) novel, you may get to see a mech fight between Talos the bronze man and the Colossus of Rhodes.

If you're into that kind of thing.

She hasn’t been fired.
She’s been relocated.
It may well turn out that she’s received a lateral promotion.

We’ll see.
They say they will announce this new agency “Shield of the Americas” on Saturday.

My immediate assumption is that Shield of the Americas' primary mandate will be the annexation of the rest of North and South America.

Once again, most organizations would fire someone for posting like this about their user base on social media, but Bluesky employees do it on their own platform.

"Yeah, we fucked up, but it's your fault for not trusting us."

Bored? Looking for something to do Saturday?

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

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

One slip of the thumb, but otherwise one of my best solves.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 5th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes
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Better Off Ted warned us about our current tech environment in so many ways, but perhaps none more on the nose than

JABBERWOCKY (jabberwocky jabberwocky jabberwocky)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAv...

Not the Onion.

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!

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Yes, this worked.

A publishing strategy where the only acceptable result is a blockbuster is a strategy doomed to collapse. It's economically unsound *and* magnifies existing/historical practices of excluding and under-supporting marginalized writers.

Amazing to me that someone can post on the website they work for that they don't do any of their own work anymore and still be employed.

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

I understand completely, my gut does not want to acknowledge the nonexistence of the Minnesota Northstars on a very primal level.

Wild if true!

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I am not the one to write them, but there is clearly a market for near-future thrillers where the current regime has collapsed and special agents track down former billionaires, war criminals, ICE agents, etc. and bring them to justice.