Jamieson Ridenhour
@jmridenhour.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, lover of jazz, punk, and prog. Creator of the audio drama palimpsestpodcast.bsky.social. Horror for the ears and eyes.
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Re: Frankenstein, an audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, is crowdfunding!
We're less than $400 from our next stretch goal (releasing a bonus episode on the main feed)!
We're also nearly at 200 backers!
igg.me/at/refrank
We're less than $400 from our next stretch goal (releasing a bonus episode on the main feed)!
We're also nearly at 200 backers!
igg.me/at/refrank
October 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Re: Frankenstein, an audio drama adaptation of your favorite gothic sci-fi novel, is crowdfunding!
We're less than $400 from our next stretch goal (releasing a bonus episode on the main feed)!
We're also nearly at 200 backers!
igg.me/at/refrank
We're less than $400 from our next stretch goal (releasing a bonus episode on the main feed)!
We're also nearly at 200 backers!
igg.me/at/refrank
New week, new episode.
September 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New week, new episode.
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The crowdfund is going live in 6 days! Ahhhh!
We're crowdfunding next month for an in-person audio fiction con next year! Follow our kickstarter prelaunch page to get an email when it launches! audiofictioncon.com
TAFCON
The Audio Fiction Convention
audiofictioncon.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The crowdfund is going live in 6 days! Ahhhh!
The weather has turned. Waking’s kissing. Yes.
August 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The weather has turned. Waking’s kissing. Yes.
Writing outside today.
August 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Writing outside today.
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As someone who saw this shit happen in audio fiction podcasting, LISTEN when people say this.
Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
not only is it very rude to treat your peers like competition; it also misunderstands the base market systems of small-press/indie ttrpg spaces
August 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As someone who saw this shit happen in audio fiction podcasting, LISTEN when people say this.
Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
Every smug podcaster I saw make a comment about other podcasts being 'the competition' is no longer a going concern in the industry. None of them lasted or had a scrap of community to work with.
I just had an epiphany that solved the thing I couldn’t figure out about my current WIP. It deepens all three main characters, ties together two disparate plot threads, explains a later event, and has real emotional heft. It just fell into place after months of trying to figure it out.
July 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I just had an epiphany that solved the thing I couldn’t figure out about my current WIP. It deepens all three main characters, ties together two disparate plot threads, explains a later event, and has real emotional heft. It just fell into place after months of trying to figure it out.
Sad to hear of the death of Dave Cousins of Strawbs. I’m in the midst of writing a new show heavily influenced by the sound of their Hero And Heroine album, a record that is permanently etched in my brain. His idiosyncratic voice and songwriting were important pieces of my musical history. RIP.
July 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sad to hear of the death of Dave Cousins of Strawbs. I’m in the midst of writing a new show heavily influenced by the sound of their Hero And Heroine album, a record that is permanently etched in my brain. His idiosyncratic voice and songwriting were important pieces of my musical history. RIP.
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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
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Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
July 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...
Just read a passage in House of Bone and Rain that made me flinch so hard I dropped my lit cigar on the book, then leapt up blowing ash off me and the book, yelling “fuck” so loud the dog came to check on me. That’s how good @gabino.bsky.social is. 😂
July 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just read a passage in House of Bone and Rain that made me flinch so hard I dropped my lit cigar on the book, then leapt up blowing ash off me and the book, yelling “fuck” so loud the dog came to check on me. That’s how good @gabino.bsky.social is. 😂
I’m about to pitch our new show to our agent. It’s just a test run to see how to package it. But I’m hells nervous, y’all.
July 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I’m about to pitch our new show to our agent. It’s just a test run to see how to package it. But I’m hells nervous, y’all.
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If you look around at everything and all you have to complain about is Zohran Mamdani, you’re probably an asshole.
June 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you look around at everything and all you have to complain about is Zohran Mamdani, you’re probably an asshole.
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If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
1000 words today. Actually writing on this thing now.
June 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
1000 words today. Actually writing on this thing now.
Hey! My story “Dark Gonna Catch Me Here,” (originally published in Mirror Dance) just got accepted into an anthology raising fund for reproductive rights, called Midnight at the Crossroads. Very cool.
May 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hey! My story “Dark Gonna Catch Me Here,” (originally published in Mirror Dance) just got accepted into an anthology raising fund for reproductive rights, called Midnight at the Crossroads. Very cool.
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I hate that "AIs" (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, incl. all my books. I hate more that it's eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It's ALSO the work. It's the whole point. It's what makes us human.
May 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I hate that "AIs" (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, incl. all my books. I hate more that it's eroding our ability or even desire to think. I get it. Thinking is hard. It's ALSO the work. It's the whole point. It's what makes us human.
Just finished my last week of fulltime teaching, which coincided with working alongside my freshly ex-wife to put on a garage sale of many of the things we amassed in our life. Feeling kind of broken at the moment.
May 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Just finished my last week of fulltime teaching, which coincided with working alongside my freshly ex-wife to put on a garage sale of many of the things we amassed in our life. Feeling kind of broken at the moment.
New painting by Chloe Gilmore. I love it a very lot.
April 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New painting by Chloe Gilmore. I love it a very lot.
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Spent the morning at @kellylink.bsky.social ‘s amazing bookstore Book Moon, where I bought books and a t-shirt and browsed for over an hour. Such a well-curated store.
April 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spent the morning at @kellylink.bsky.social ‘s amazing bookstore Book Moon, where I bought books and a t-shirt and browsed for over an hour. Such a well-curated store.
Writing at a coffee shop in South Hadley, Mass while I wait for my daughter. A good Friday.
April 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Writing at a coffee shop in South Hadley, Mass while I wait for my daughter. A good Friday.
Does RFK think vaccines made Musk autistic?
April 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Does RFK think vaccines made Musk autistic?
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Your nostalgia for HP does not and never will be more important than trans lives, safety and welfare.
Get rid of the media, stop buying the merch and don't support new things cause it just lines that hateful transphobes pockets so she can continue to use her wealth for evil.
Get rid of the media, stop buying the merch and don't support new things cause it just lines that hateful transphobes pockets so she can continue to use her wealth for evil.
April 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Your nostalgia for HP does not and never will be more important than trans lives, safety and welfare.
Get rid of the media, stop buying the merch and don't support new things cause it just lines that hateful transphobes pockets so she can continue to use her wealth for evil.
Get rid of the media, stop buying the merch and don't support new things cause it just lines that hateful transphobes pockets so she can continue to use her wealth for evil.