Steen Comer

Dear Diary, today I discovered yet another reason to despise Morrissey. I swear that man is following me across careers as an object lesson of what not to do.

Using my astronomical calendar to calculate the exact time I should stop publicly endorsing any given author so I still look clean when The Inevitable Allegations occur.

Who wants to publish the 1400 word cosmic horror comedy story about a small yappy dog I just wrote?

Shout out to apple mail, which has decided, without me changing any settings, to show me a completely arbitrary and uncontrolable number of mails on the app badge, thus causing me to turn off notifications from it entirely.

Love an algorithm that thinks Billie Eilish is the same artist as Bile.

"My partner has been on NPR" is now a thing I shall be insufferable about henceforth. The piece also features @kissane.myatproto.social, so something for everyone!

Sorry y’all missed this, this panel was absolutely a high point of the convention. Check out Chris’s work if you want to see a new genre forming before your very eyes.

#xenolinguistics! And receptive multilingualism in non-human modalities!

I looked at some of their other "interviews", which are all clearly generated slop. Fuck these people in particular, a pox on all their servers.

Love to see @thomasha.bsky.social running the board with a stellar collection of stories 🤘

Thinking over World Fantasy this weekend and just want to give a shoutout to @nmamatas.bsky.social for being a mensch. Nothing specific happened, but I had a long conversation with a mutual friend about how many folks he's helped in the industry and I feel everyone needs to know about it.

Super excited to pre-order @weirdmedieval.bsky.social 's The Wordspotters Guide, it looks to be a great nerd snipe for those of us who love etymology a bit too much sites.prh.com/wordspotters...

While I'm here, a small reminder that I have a new novella at Clarkesworld this month, one I'm very proud of. clarkesworldmagazine.com/bear_10_26/

LOOK IT'S AN OPINION buttondown.com/matociquala/...

My plan for an ad hoc Erik funded book tour in 2027 is if there’s a city with a cool bookstore that I think I can get a local writer to join me in conversation and we can get 20+ people to show up, I will strongly consider going there. Except Connecticut. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Context-free sentence of the night at World Fantasy: “And then Jerry Pournelle pulled out a bowie knife.”

Don’t Stop Believing: you have to buy a round for everyone in the bar

The phenomenon of the horns extending beyond 180° was already noted by Johann Schröter in the late 18th century and was one of the first independent pieces of evidence for the existence of a dense atmosphere around Venus. Striking images like this one make it particularly clear. 🔭🧪⚛️ #sciart

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When you meet the Buddha, mogg the Buddha.

Whether you’re a Belle Époque art student, soldier in the weird Continental War, ex-revolutionary building a new democracy or just an ordinary person in our perfectly normal not at all reality shattered world, the Bundle of Holding has all the King in Yellow you need

It’s #funny how putting a bunch of #hashtags in a post can make #any statement seem #unhinged.

Why do they call them angry leftists when they could’ve called them Mad Libs?

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Gotta say, driving the kids to school in the giant 3-row EV and The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony coming on really makes you feel like a middle class middle aged dad in an ad for a Sensible Large Family Car

This makes me wonder: Has anyone ever designed a video game that explicitly says “you’re gonna need a notebook”? Like some synthesis of the strengths of computer games and single player journaling RPGs?

Good news everyone! Topological minigames continue with anakata. Puzzles in 4 dimensions. You can move in the standard 3 but can tune your vision to see another cross section of w. You also have a grappling hook you can fire through the fourth dimension to move boxes/you games.mino.mobi/anakata/

Response thread has a lot of good suggestions on this topic

It's 30 minutes left in the program and we have now heard Feels So Good (Single Version) eleven times.

Where else but @wfmu.bsky.social can you hear a three hour music and period readings analysis of the evil that haunted California in 1970, followed by an all Chuck Mangione special?

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

That awkward moment of "I wish to show appreciation for you writing your documentation in a way that is clear and concise in demonstrating to me that I do not wish to use your software."

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A legend has passed. RIP to the great Sanjulián.

In the nine years I've been freelancing with Wizards, almost every creative I've worked with has left for the exact reasons laid out by the Union here. Make sure to sign and support the people who make the game you love.

@airplaneian.com hey quick question: do you know why alameda sheriffs has a fixwing running search patterns over Oakland regularly? Surely they’re not still FLIRing for grow operations, right?

Air to Ground Message: NEED BIO KIT FOR FORWARD LAV BLOOD FROM VAMPIRE, Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Airbus A320neo A: #a87f43ff6f1 F: #fb71eb2cbd0

Had to take a moment to parse "big slow horses fan" as not "a fan of large slow horses".

While we're at it, might as well share Tom Baker's perennial masterpiece.