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  1. Is AI the true enemy, or just a convenient distraction from systemic failure?

    New piece on why moral panics around technology are often just masks for structural decay. Instead of fighting the machine, we should be auditing the foundation.

    Read:
    open.substack.com/pub/brandonb

    #AI #TechEthics #SystemicChange #CriticalThinking #reading #writing #substack #change #government #society #outrage #bigotry #robots #machines #economics #technology #ethics #futureofwork

  2. Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.

    #writers #writing #writingtheoccult #occult #writingcommunity #writingevents #creativity #creativetoots #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #gothic #ufo #uap #ghost #haunting #ghosthunter #explorer #supernatural #paranormal #parapsychology

  3. Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.

    #writers #writing #writingtheoccult #occult #writingcommunity #writingevents #creativity #creativetoots #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #gothic #ufo #uap #ghost #haunting #ghosthunter #explorer #supernatural #paranormal #parapsychology

  4. Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.

    #writers #writing #writingtheoccult #occult #writingcommunity #writingevents #creativity #creativetoots #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #gothic #ufo #uap #ghost #haunting #ghosthunter #explorer #supernatural #paranormal #parapsychology

  5. Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.

    #writers #writing #writingtheoccult #occult #writingcommunity #writingevents #creativity #creativetoots #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #gothic #ufo #uap #ghost #haunting #ghosthunter #explorer #supernatural #paranormal #parapsychology

  6. Who's on what and where this Saturday for Writing the Occult: Seekers? The schedule is now confirmed! You can still get your ticket until the end of Friday 29 May; head to writingtheoccult.carrd.co for details.

    #writers #writing #writingtheoccult #occult #writingcommunity #writingevents #creativity #creativetoots #horror #fantasy #darkfantasy #sciencefiction #scifi #gothic #ufo #uap #ghost #haunting #ghosthunter #explorer #supernatural #paranormal #parapsychology

  7. Indie authors must be political

    📚 Indie authors: people will complain about you and call you too political, and beg you to stick to writing fiction. But if we don’t speak up and push back, our stories will be banned from libraries, book stores, and online. It’s already happening.

    Literally if I don’t get political there’s a real chance I won’t be able to write stories anymore because it’ll be illegal for me to do so.

    So I say: write like hell and yell like hell. Because our stories deserve to be read.

  8. New post on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest!

    "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

    chiply.dev/post-ij-sierpinski

  9. I mean, I've been told sex is great and all, but have you ever had an existential crisis writing a book at 11 at night after finding several logical errors in your plot and inconsistencies in your characters, then spent the next five hours feverishly ripping months of work apart so you can rebuild them to be so much better?

    #writing #writersofmastodon

  10. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive & Others Die "Anyone interested in influencing others can learn from this book" Sale: $32 to $2.99 by Chip Heath Rating: 4.6/5 (5,370 Reviews) #business #communication #marketing #psychology #success #books #ideas #leadership #writing #productivity #booksky

    Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas ...

  11. Coming 6/18 Discovering the Greatness of America 40 years traveling the highways and byways by Roy Owenby

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Z9sh2NHeZjs Not since William Least Heat-Moon’s “Blue Highways” has a travel documentary been so dear to America’s heart.  The writer travels the country on two long journeys thirty-seven year’s apart.  His sense of adventure and love of travel is addictive.  Maintaining journals on both trips, he provides amazing detail about the heart and soul of America.  On the first trip in 1962, he and three friends hitchhiked to the World’s Fair in […]

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  12. The Quintessential Tucson Taste: Mastering the Sonoran Hot Dog - Tucson's most controversial local dish revealed! Discover the secret ingredients and shocking preparation steps. Click now – you won't believe it!.
    momvoyage.web.app/journal/tucs
    #FlipboardUserGroup #blog #writing

  13. Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-28-26

    I have more work ahead of me today. But once again, I refuse to let work stand between me and another edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Can an ESPN analyst revive the Scripps Spelling Bee? (Molly Liebergall for Morning Brew. May 28, 2026.) The premise presupposes that the spelling bee needs to have big (it's relative) TV ratings. 2. Hochul tries to dunk on Trump over Knicks fandom — but it totally backfires (Haley Brown, Mark Lungariello, and David Propper for the […]

    social.emucafe.org/naferrell/p

  14. Take this job

    Rojie’s prompt today, just 85 hours and 50 minutes (or so?) until the first of June, is:

    What is your own pet peeve about yourself?

    Many years ago, in an earlier life, I was spending my days happily working at a job that excelled at keeping my mind busy. One day I saw there was an internal job posting that I thought sounded interesting. It was a white-collar, entry level job in IT and I kind of liked the thought of going to work wearing smart-casual shoes, chinos and a button down shirt instead of sneakers, jeans and a Grateful dead t-shirt. I had many some a few a couple of the minimum job qualifications so I applied and surprisingly, I got notified that I was selected to be interviewed for the job. Wow, great! Now what? Interviews for all the jobs I’d held to this point had been simple: Why do you want the job? You don’t use drugs, do you? Will you remember to come to work everyday? Ok, see you Monday morning at 8:00.

    Now I was going to interview for a real job, one that meant something, and I needed to get some insight into interviewing. I got a book from the library about job interviews, and I actually read it and I was as ready as I could be.

    The interview was with two people, the direct supervisor and the branch manager. The direct supervisor asked me questions and the branch manager sat there and stared at me like she thought I might steal something if she blinked, and if the goal was to intimidate, it worked.

    The supervisor was nice and the interview was going well and a quick glance at the clock told me we’d been at it almost 10 minutes and I thought we had to be near the end because all my earlier job interviews had lasted like a minute or two and then the Staring Branch Manager broke her silence and threw me a curveball and asked me to talk about my greatest weakness. Ok, let’s play. I had read the book, and I knew what to possibly expect so I was sitting, waiting on the curveball and when I saw it headed right at me at 80 miles per hour I leaned back and took a swing for the fences and framed what I believed was my greatest weakness was into an actual strength. Thank you interview book!

    Swing and a miss. There was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out and there was no joy in that hot interview room because the Staring Branch Manager said, “How about you give me an answer that didn’t come from a book?”

    Strike three.

    This part, the part about the interviewer knowing what was in the book, wasn’t in the book. Thanks a lot interview book! Was she a mind reader? Had to be. Maybe she wrote the book, or certainly a book? I had nothing else to do at that point but panic. I answered poorly and that was that. Thank you, nice seeing you, blah, blah, blah. I left, and like The Wizard of Oz movie Dorothy who realized she was very happy right there in her own backyard, I just wanted to put my sneakers, jeans and t-shirt back on and return to my comfortable little backyard.

    If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” – Dorothy Gale

    This is a really long way of saying that today’s prompt, “What is your own pet peeve about yourself?” reminded me of a job interview question.

    If you’ve made it this far and are sitting there thinking, like the Staring Branch Manager who was likely a telepath, that he didn’t answer the question, I’ll just say that like everyone, I have pet peeves about myself, and when life starts to spiral for any reason it’s incredibly easy to get lost in that spiral which can lead to emotional overload. I work hard to not get lost in that spiral, to avoid the overload, but I admit I don’t always recognize it as quickly as I could.

    You can decide for yourself if any of that is true.

    #CaseyAtTheBat #DorothyGale #Interview #JobInterview #Life #Love #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #Spiral #Telepaths #TheWizardOfOz #Work #Working #Writing
  15. Take this job

    Rojie’s prompt today, just 85 hours and 50 minutes (or so?) until the first of June, is:

    What is your own pet peeve about yourself?

    Many years ago, in an earlier life, I was spending my days happily working at a job that excelled at keeping my mind busy. One day I saw there was an internal job posting that I thought sounded interesting. It was a white-collar, entry level job in IT and I kind of liked the thought of going to work wearing smart-casual shoes, chinos and a button down shirt instead of sneakers, jeans and a Grateful dead t-shirt. I had many some a few a couple of the minimum job qualifications so I applied and surprisingly, I got notified that I was selected to be interviewed for the job. Wow, great! Now what? Interviews for all the jobs I’d held to this point had been simple: Why do you want the job? You don’t use drugs, do you? Will you remember to come to work everyday? Ok, see you Monday morning at 8:00.

    Now I was going to interview for a real job, one that meant something, and I needed to get some insight into interviewing. I got a book from the library about job interviews, and I actually read it and I was as ready as I could be.

    The interview was with two people, the direct supervisor and the branch manager. The direct supervisor asked me questions and the branch manager sat there and stared at me like she thought I might steal something if she blinked, and if the goal was to intimidate, it worked.

    The supervisor was nice and the interview was going well and a quick glance at the clock told me we’d been at it almost 10 minutes and I thought we had to be near the end because all my earlier job interviews had lasted like a minute or two and then the Staring Branch Manager broke her silence and threw me a curveball and asked me to talk about my greatest weakness. Ok, let’s play. I had read the book, and I knew what to possibly expect so I was sitting, waiting on the curveball and when I saw it headed right at me at 80 miles per hour I leaned back and took a swing for the fences and framed what I believed was my greatest weakness was into an actual strength. Thank you interview book!

    Swing and a miss. There was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out and there was no joy in that hot interview room because the Staring Branch Manager said, “How about you give me an answer that didn’t come from a book?”

    Strike three.

    This part, the part about the interviewer knowing what was in the book, wasn’t in the book. Thanks a lot interview book! Was she a mind reader? Had to be. Maybe she wrote the book, or certainly a book? I had nothing else to do at that point but panic. I answered poorly and that was that. Thank you, nice seeing you, blah, blah, blah. I left, and like The Wizard of Oz movie Dorothy who realized she was very happy right there in her own backyard, I just wanted to put my sneakers, jeans and t-shirt back on and return to my comfortable little backyard.

    If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” – Dorothy Gale

    This is a really long way of saying that today’s prompt, “What is your own pet peeve about yourself?” reminded me of a job interview question.

    If you’ve made it this far and are sitting there thinking, like the Staring Branch Manager who was likely a telepath, that he didn’t answer the question, I’ll just say that like everyone, I have pet peeves about myself, and when life starts to spiral for any reason it’s incredibly easy to get lost in that spiral which can lead to emotional overload. I work hard to not get lost in that spiral, to avoid the overload, but I admit I don’t always recognize it as quickly as I could.

    You can decide for yourself if any of that is true.

    #CaseyAtTheBat #DorothyGale #Interview #JobInterview #Life #Love #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #Spiral #Telepaths #TheWizardOfOz #Work #Working #Writing
  16. Take this job

    Rojie’s prompt today, just 85 hours and 50 minutes (or so?) until the first of June, is:

    What is your own pet peeve about yourself?

    Many years ago, in an earlier life, I was spending my days happily working at a job that excelled at keeping my mind busy. One day I saw there was an internal job posting that I thought sounded interesting. It was a white-collar, entry level job in IT and I kind of liked the thought of going to work wearing smart-casual shoes, chinos and a button down shirt instead of sneakers, jeans and a Grateful dead t-shirt. I had many some a few a couple of the minimum job qualifications so I applied and surprisingly, I got notified that I was selected to be interviewed for the job. Wow, great! Now what? Interviews for all the jobs I’d held to this point had been simple: Why do you want the job? You don’t use drugs, do you? Will you remember to come to work everyday? Ok, see you Monday morning at 8:00.

    Now I was going to interview for a real job, one that meant something, and I needed to get some insight into interviewing. I got a book from the library about job interviews, and I actually read it and I was as ready as I could be.

    The interview was with two people, the direct supervisor and the branch manager. The direct supervisor asked me questions and the branch manager sat there and stared at me like she thought I might steal something if she blinked, and if the goal was to intimidate, it worked.

    The supervisor was nice and the interview was going well and a quick glance at the clock told me we’d been at it almost 10 minutes and I thought we had to be near the end because all my earlier job interviews had lasted like a minute or two and then the Staring Branch Manager broke her silence and threw me a curveball and asked me to talk about my greatest weakness. Ok, let’s play. I had read the book, and I knew what to possibly expect so I was sitting, waiting on the curveball and when I saw it headed right at me at 80 miles per hour I leaned back and took a swing for the fences and framed what I believed was my greatest weakness was into an actual strength. Thank you interview book!

    Swing and a miss. There was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out and there was no joy in that hot interview room because the Staring Branch Manager said, “How about you give me an answer that didn’t come from a book?”

    Strike three.

    This part, the part about the interviewer knowing what was in the book, wasn’t in the book. Thanks a lot interview book! Was she a mind reader? Had to be. Maybe she wrote the book, or certainly a book? I had nothing else to do at that point but panic. I answered poorly and that was that. Thank you, nice seeing you, blah, blah, blah. I left, and like The Wizard of Oz movie Dorothy who realized she was very happy right there in her own backyard, I just wanted to put my sneakers, jeans and t-shirt back on and return to my comfortable little backyard.

    If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” – Dorothy Gale

    This is a really long way of saying that today’s prompt, “What is your own pet peeve about yourself?” reminded me of a job interview question.

    If you’ve made it this far and are sitting there thinking, like the Staring Branch Manager who was likely a telepath, that he didn’t answer the question, I’ll just say that like everyone, I have pet peeves about myself, and when life starts to spiral for any reason it’s incredibly easy to get lost in that spiral which can lead to emotional overload. I work hard to not get lost in that spiral, to avoid the overload, but I admit I don’t always recognize it as quickly as I could.

    You can decide for yourself if any of that is true.

    #CaseyAtTheBat #DorothyGale #Interview #JobInterview #Life #Love #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #Spiral #Telepaths #TheWizardOfOz #Work #Working #Writing
  17. Take this job

    Rojie’s prompt today, just 85 hours and 50 minutes (or so?) until the first of June, is:

    What is your own pet peeve about yourself?

    Many years ago, in an earlier life, I was spending my days happily working at a job that excelled at keeping my mind busy. One day I saw there was an internal job posting that I thought sounded interesting. It was a white-collar, entry level job in IT and I kind of liked the thought of going to work wearing smart-casual shoes, chinos and a button down shirt instead of sneakers, jeans and a Grateful dead t-shirt. I had many some a few a couple of the minimum job qualifications so I applied and surprisingly, I got notified that I was selected to be interviewed for the job. Wow, great! Now what? Interviews for all the jobs I’d held to this point had been simple: Why do you want the job? You don’t use drugs, do you? Will you remember to come to work everyday? Ok, see you Monday morning at 8:00.

    Now I was going to interview for a real job, one that meant something, and I needed to get some insight into interviewing. I got a book from the library about job interviews, and I actually read it and I was as ready as I could be.

    The interview was with two people, the direct supervisor and the branch manager. The direct supervisor asked me questions and the branch manager sat there and stared at me like she thought I might steal something if she blinked, and if the goal was to intimidate, it worked.

    The supervisor was nice and the interview was going well and a quick glance at the clock told me we’d been at it almost 10 minutes and I thought we had to be near the end because all my earlier job interviews had lasted like a minute or two and then the Staring Branch Manager broke her silence and threw me a curveball and asked me to talk about my greatest weakness. Ok, let’s play. I had read the book, and I knew what to possibly expect so I was sitting, waiting on the curveball and when I saw it headed right at me at 80 miles per hour I leaned back and took a swing for the fences and framed what I believed was my greatest weakness was into an actual strength. Thank you interview book!

    Swing and a miss. There was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out and there was no joy in that hot interview room because the Staring Branch Manager said, “How about you give me an answer that didn’t come from a book?”

    Strike three.

    This part, the part about the interviewer knowing what was in the book, wasn’t in the book. Thanks a lot interview book! Was she a mind reader? Had to be. Maybe she wrote the book, or certainly a book? I had nothing else to do at that point but panic. I answered poorly and that was that. Thank you, nice seeing you, blah, blah, blah. I left, and like The Wizard of Oz movie Dorothy who realized she was very happy right there in her own backyard, I just wanted to put my sneakers, jeans and t-shirt back on and return to my comfortable little backyard.

    If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” – Dorothy Gale

    This is a really long way of saying that today’s prompt, “What is your own pet peeve about yourself?” reminded me of a job interview question.

    If you’ve made it this far and are sitting there thinking, like the Staring Branch Manager who was likely a telepath, that he didn’t answer the question, I’ll just say that like everyone, I have pet peeves about myself, and when life starts to spiral for any reason it’s incredibly easy to get lost in that spiral which can lead to emotional overload. I work hard to not get lost in that spiral, to avoid the overload, but I admit I don’t always recognize it as quickly as I could.

    You can decide for yourself if any of that is true.

    #CaseyAtTheBat #DorothyGale #Interview #JobInterview #Life #Love #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #Spiral #Telepaths #TheWizardOfOz #Work #Working #Writing
  18. Take this job

    Rojie’s prompt today, just 85 hours and 50 minutes (or so?) until the first of June, is:

    What is your own pet peeve about yourself?

    Many years ago, in an earlier life, I was spending my days happily working at a job that excelled at keeping my mind busy. One day I saw there was an internal job posting that I thought sounded interesting. It was a white-collar, entry level job in IT and I kind of liked the thought of going to work wearing smart-casual shoes, chinos and a button down shirt instead of sneakers, jeans and a Grateful dead t-shirt. I had many some a few a couple of the minimum job qualifications so I applied and surprisingly, I got notified that I was selected to be interviewed for the job. Wow, great! Now what? Interviews for all the jobs I’d held to this point had been simple: Why do you want the job? You don’t use drugs, do you? Will you remember to come to work everyday? Ok, see you Monday morning at 8:00.

    Now I was going to interview for a real job, one that meant something, and I needed to get some insight into interviewing. I got a book from the library about job interviews, and I actually read it and I was as ready as I could be.

    The interview was with two people, the direct supervisor and the branch manager. The direct supervisor asked me questions and the branch manager sat there and stared at me like she thought I might steal something if she blinked, and if the goal was to intimidate, it worked.

    The supervisor was nice and the interview was going well and a quick glance at the clock told me we’d been at it almost 10 minutes and I thought we had to be near the end because all my earlier job interviews had lasted like a minute or two and then the Staring Branch Manager broke her silence and threw me a curveball and asked me to talk about my greatest weakness. Ok, let’s play. I had read the book, and I knew what to possibly expect so I was sitting, waiting on the curveball and when I saw it headed right at me at 80 miles per hour I leaned back and took a swing for the fences and framed what I believed was my greatest weakness was into an actual strength. Thank you interview book!

    Swing and a miss. There was no joy in Mudville when Casey struck out and there was no joy in that hot interview room because the Staring Branch Manager said, “How about you give me an answer that didn’t come from a book?”

    Strike three.

    This part, the part about the interviewer knowing what was in the book, wasn’t in the book. Thanks a lot interview book! Was she a mind reader? Had to be. Maybe she wrote the book, or certainly a book? I had nothing else to do at that point but panic. I answered poorly and that was that. Thank you, nice seeing you, blah, blah, blah. I left, and like The Wizard of Oz movie Dorothy who realized she was very happy right there in her own backyard, I just wanted to put my sneakers, jeans and t-shirt back on and return to my comfortable little backyard.

    If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” – Dorothy Gale

    This is a really long way of saying that today’s prompt, “What is your own pet peeve about yourself?” reminded me of a job interview question.

    If you’ve made it this far and are sitting there thinking, like the Staring Branch Manager who was likely a telepath, that he didn’t answer the question, I’ll just say that like everyone, I have pet peeves about myself, and when life starts to spiral for any reason it’s incredibly easy to get lost in that spiral which can lead to emotional overload. I work hard to not get lost in that spiral, to avoid the overload, but I admit I don’t always recognize it as quickly as I could.

    You can decide for yourself if any of that is true.

    #CaseyAtTheBat #DorothyGale #Interview #JobInterview #Life #Love #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #Spiral #Telepaths #TheWizardOfOz #Work #Working #Writing
  19. So excited to share the sneak preview of this excellent book written by @jonn_blanchard and cover illustration by yours truly. Eeeeeeee!!!

    It should be available on Amazon next week 🙏💓

    #alipunkart #Art #mastoart #bookstodon #writing

  20. Ebook and paperback: books2read.com/JigsawCity

    Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

    @bookstodon
    #author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books

  21. Our Interview with Author Linda C Wright along with some clips from the Show.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1BU0rbJgBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuHmK9cKCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CNaEcwTnLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSVhipDHxns https://allthingsbooksandpublishing.riverside.com/ this is our website for All Things Books and Publishing you can do and watch the arcived shows as well as clips from other shows and book trailers, Susbscribe and stay up to date. […]

    midnight-publishing.org/2026/0

  22. A Truth Buried in My Phone

    I found a note buried in my phone — words I wrote 18 months after losing my mom and 4 after losing my dad. Reading them now reminded me how quietly a person can be falling apart while looking fine. And right under those words was a line that stopped me cold: “Y’all, I tried.”

    lauraleacupp.wordpress.com/202