Jon Chaiim McConnell
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It's up! Thank you @wallstrait.bsky.social for publishing Deep Fish, a short story about wading in offal, exploding laboratories, and disorienting grief.
Read at: www.wallstrait.com/post/deep-fi...
Read at: www.wallstrait.com/post/deep-fi...
Lakers being on at 11 seems entirely unreasonable
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lakers being on at 11 seems entirely unreasonable
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People are more interested in the welfare and sentience of ChatGPT than they are in the welfare of actual human beings and it’s so fucking bleak
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
People are more interested in the welfare and sentience of ChatGPT than they are in the welfare of actual human beings and it’s so fucking bleak
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We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! 💡
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
We want to read your previously published wonders!
Fiction, CNF, Poetry! We've even given a home to previously published visual art in the past!
Full Guidelines can be found Here:
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Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
A story draft is done and out to friends to read 🙏
This is #3 of 5 premises that have come to me the past year or so, which is the most in a very long time
This is #3 of 5 premises that have come to me the past year or so, which is the most in a very long time
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
A story draft is done and out to friends to read 🙏
This is #3 of 5 premises that have come to me the past year or so, which is the most in a very long time
This is #3 of 5 premises that have come to me the past year or so, which is the most in a very long time
Choosing!
I flunked outta engineering school
I flunked outta engineering school
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Choosing!
I flunked outta engineering school
I flunked outta engineering school
Honestly it made me a little emotional just how well executed of a vision it is - I kept thinking a good way to describe it is "evil Dr. Seuss" and apparently I'm very invested in the idea of someone even wanting to do that, going for it, and then absolutely sticking the landing.
Angel's Egg restored in a movie theater is one of the best things I've ever seen
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Honestly it made me a little emotional just how well executed of a vision it is - I kept thinking a good way to describe it is "evil Dr. Seuss" and apparently I'm very invested in the idea of someone even wanting to do that, going for it, and then absolutely sticking the landing.
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A completely inscrutable anime OVA from 1985 was in the US box office top 5 for a couple of days, congrats angels egg www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0208...
Angel's Egg
www.boxofficemojo.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A completely inscrutable anime OVA from 1985 was in the US box office top 5 for a couple of days, congrats angels egg www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0208...
I don't understand the scolds who are assigning any manner of political failures to people laughing about this?
The "oh so you like him/are giving him brownie points now?" take is basically illiteracy
The "oh so you like him/are giving him brownie points now?" take is basically illiteracy
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I don't understand the scolds who are assigning any manner of political failures to people laughing about this?
The "oh so you like him/are giving him brownie points now?" take is basically illiteracy
The "oh so you like him/are giving him brownie points now?" take is basically illiteracy
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
Angel's Egg restored in a movie theater is one of the best things I've ever seen
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Angel's Egg restored in a movie theater is one of the best things I've ever seen
Listening to the Leanne Morgan episode of Mike Birbiglia's podcast as a non-frequent listener and - had we already established the lore that he's a strip club guy??
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Listening to the Leanne Morgan episode of Mike Birbiglia's podcast as a non-frequent listener and - had we already established the lore that he's a strip club guy??
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
My favorite Yugioh archetype 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My favorite Yugioh archetype 🙏
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We're primarying John Fetterman.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
November 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're primarying John Fetterman.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
For as specific as I am about the taste of everything else, I can't really discern coffee quality unless it's *really* pronounced
So having Americanos all over the place whenever I travel feels very patrician
So having Americanos all over the place whenever I travel feels very patrician
Drip/pour over coffee is a very good and I want an apology from all the euros who have trashed it over the years. Especially the ones who tried to claim that an Americano is somehow an acceptable substitute
"In a nation renowned for sophisticated tastes, the acerbic, harsh espresso served in many bistros was not just surprising, but seemingly inexplicable."
This is why I always used to chuckle when Parisians offhandedly dissed Starbucks. The problem is that the French think their coffee is good.
This is why I always used to chuckle when Parisians offhandedly dissed Starbucks. The problem is that the French think their coffee is good.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For as specific as I am about the taste of everything else, I can't really discern coffee quality unless it's *really* pronounced
So having Americanos all over the place whenever I travel feels very patrician
So having Americanos all over the place whenever I travel feels very patrician
Me: "You don't like the waffles we got?"
My kid: "Well, I do like poking through them."
My kid: "Well, I do like poking through them."
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Me: "You don't like the waffles we got?"
My kid: "Well, I do like poking through them."
My kid: "Well, I do like poking through them."
FB slop world has really taken the Clinton thing and run with it, they're absolutely ecstatic
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
FB slop world has really taken the Clinton thing and run with it, they're absolutely ecstatic
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Huge congratulations to our former flash editor @eshanisurya.bsky.social on her debut book RAVISHING!🎉
What a fantastic night at Books Are Magic to celebrate @eshanisurya.bsky.social & her stunning debut RAVISHING! I could have listened to @roxanegay.bsky.social & Eshani talk all night. So much warmth, wit, and insight in that room.
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Huge congratulations to our former flash editor @eshanisurya.bsky.social on her debut book RAVISHING!🎉
They're just trying to manipulate Bayer stock like they were with the Tylenol guys, aren't they? Just going down the list? And in 2 months it's "nevermind it's a fine drug lol."
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They're just trying to manipulate Bayer stock like they were with the Tylenol guys, aren't they? Just going down the list? And in 2 months it's "nevermind it's a fine drug lol."
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Personally I think if you had these documents in hand you should not have backed down out of any fucking shutdown fight
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Personally I think if you had these documents in hand you should not have backed down out of any fucking shutdown fight
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"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."
We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain
This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...
buff.ly
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"We have included an advance copy of the hardcover edition of your diary, which Simon & Schuster will be releasing this winter. We think the photo of the time you laughed so hard in the school cafeteria that milk came out of your nose makes for a perfect cover."
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Absolutely over the moon that Nini Berndt's Split Lip story made it onto the Distinguished list in Best American Short Stories! I think this might be a first for our mag. A HUGE milestone. From the moment I read it in our queue, I knew WINGDINGS was very very special. I love it so.
If you want a read, we have WINGDINGS in the archives: buff.ly/BqCVJXh ✨and✨ an interview by SLM intern Evangeline Lim with Nini Berndt: buff.ly/gkepea4
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Absolutely over the moon that Nini Berndt's Split Lip story made it onto the Distinguished list in Best American Short Stories! I think this might be a first for our mag. A HUGE milestone. From the moment I read it in our queue, I knew WINGDINGS was very very special. I love it so.
Please for the love of god let the Lakers triangle die, it's so bad
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Please for the love of god let the Lakers triangle die, it's so bad
A new one for me in my old age - text sizing!
I can't read half this shit anymore
I can't read half this shit anymore
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A new one for me in my old age - text sizing!
I can't read half this shit anymore
I can't read half this shit anymore