J. R. Pyle-Carter
@jrpylecarter.bsky.social
A welder, writer, and eat-my-feelings gal.
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.
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Found a puddle
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Found a puddle
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There's a Bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
There's a Bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
that wants to get out...
~Charles Bukowski 🪶
❄️💙❄️
📸 Aphelocoma woodhouseii, Blueborb of Happiness 🐦🌿
#Borb
#Corvids
#Bluebirds
#BlueSkyMonday
#EastCoastKin
#BirdLovers
#Winterbirds
#ArtYear
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Things I saw, a thread.
#Photography
#Photography
November 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Things I saw, a thread.
#Photography
#Photography
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Snow has fallen followed by a blanket of ice. Beautiful but lethal. The studio is snug. The dog on an eiderdown. Through the window I see the Sunshine catching ice crystals and droplets falling from the field gate turn to diamonds before they hit the ground
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Snow has fallen followed by a blanket of ice. Beautiful but lethal. The studio is snug. The dog on an eiderdown. Through the window I see the Sunshine catching ice crystals and droplets falling from the field gate turn to diamonds before they hit the ground
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
Pembrokeshire Farm in Winter
Available now
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Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Outside of Chicago, on the grounds of a former armory, decades ago an alliance of various orgs began restoring the prairie, and at Midewin Tallgrass Prairie they imported bison to roam the prairie once more. I love to visit my very large bi sons 💚🦬
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
Stand on the Appalachia Trail at night and you will know the answer to can a mountain haunt itself?
They're older than trees. And dinosaurs. And were maybe once as tall as the Himalayas.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
Anything that old has to be riddled with spooky shit, obvs, but y'all. They are a SPECIAL KIND OF HAUNTED.
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
November 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Stand on the Appalachia Trail at night and you will know the answer to can a mountain haunt itself?
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Singing Jenny, painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage folding Italian poplar wood panels. Available now dm for details
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Singing Jenny, painted on 23 carat gold leaf laid on vintage folding Italian poplar wood panels. Available now dm for details
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This morning we are waking up to a farm blanketed with snow, and it’s absolutely beautiful
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This morning we are waking up to a farm blanketed with snow, and it’s absolutely beautiful
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#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where it snowed!
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where it snowed!
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
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First I've heard of the Anthropic scam (towards the end of the article).
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
Update on those flattering AI book marketing scams
Those AI book marketing scams are proliferating like Tribbles. Here are the new variations authors are getting now.
annerallen.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
First I've heard of the Anthropic scam (towards the end of the article).
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
annerallen.com/2025/11/upda...
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the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.
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🌿 Totally gratuitous blue hour cloudscapes...💙☁️💙☁️💙
Trippy rain clouds edition. 🤘😶🌫️
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
Trippy rain clouds edition. 🤘😶🌫️
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
🌿 Totally gratuitous blue hour cloudscapes...💙☁️💙☁️💙
Trippy rain clouds edition. 🤘😶🌫️
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
Trippy rain clouds edition. 🤘😶🌫️
#BlueSkyMonday
#BlueHour
#CloudScape
#Photography
#SkyPainting
#SkyScape
#SkyCandy
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I have an assignment where I ask my students to identify a potential real trad publisher for their work. No matter how clear I am on which direction the money should flow, some invariably identify pay-to-players. Sounds like I'm also going to have to add a scam awareness component to that class...
Lost in the plot: how would-be authors were fooled by AI staff and virtual offices in suspected global publishing scam
Book publishing websites in Australia, the UK and New Zealand appear to be using fake testimonials and AI staff pages to lure aspiring writers into handing over their money
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have an assignment where I ask my students to identify a potential real trad publisher for their work. No matter how clear I am on which direction the money should flow, some invariably identify pay-to-players. Sounds like I'm also going to have to add a scam awareness component to that class...
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Plus I dont think it'll actually be too big a problem. For AAA games, maybe, but there will always be indies and AAs that will proudly make games without it.
Like, the artisan cheese market didn't disappear when cheez whiz was invented
Like, the artisan cheese market didn't disappear when cheez whiz was invented
"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Plus I dont think it'll actually be too big a problem. For AAA games, maybe, but there will always be indies and AAs that will proudly make games without it.
Like, the artisan cheese market didn't disappear when cheez whiz was invented
Like, the artisan cheese market didn't disappear when cheez whiz was invented
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Okay.
Real Estate Investing should not be a thing. the building I live in right now should have been a housing co-operative built with municipal, provincial, and federal funding and any "profit" made should have gone directly into a maintenance fund.
If you own more than house? TAXES. LOTS OF EM.
Real Estate Investing should not be a thing. the building I live in right now should have been a housing co-operative built with municipal, provincial, and federal funding and any "profit" made should have gone directly into a maintenance fund.
If you own more than house? TAXES. LOTS OF EM.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Okay.
Real Estate Investing should not be a thing. the building I live in right now should have been a housing co-operative built with municipal, provincial, and federal funding and any "profit" made should have gone directly into a maintenance fund.
If you own more than house? TAXES. LOTS OF EM.
Real Estate Investing should not be a thing. the building I live in right now should have been a housing co-operative built with municipal, provincial, and federal funding and any "profit" made should have gone directly into a maintenance fund.
If you own more than house? TAXES. LOTS OF EM.
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Posting this PSA again: Authors! Please post on your contact page that you have ONE EMAIL account, make clear what it is, and let people know you don’t use any others. I’ve already received THREE emails from folks who saw my message & realized a spam email was fraudulent. #booksky
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Posting this PSA again: Authors! Please post on your contact page that you have ONE EMAIL account, make clear what it is, and let people know you don’t use any others. I’ve already received THREE emails from folks who saw my message & realized a spam email was fraudulent. #booksky
I’m so grateful for all the aurora skeets. I would have never have known tonight was such a good night to go aurora chasing without them.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m so grateful for all the aurora skeets. I would have never have known tonight was such a good night to go aurora chasing without them.
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There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/
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Ohhh so it’s like the market-manipulation dagger next to titles on the NY Times bestseller list, but it’s not the NY Times bestseller list, it’s the Wilmington, Delaware B.Dalton bestseller list
I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:
1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people
2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake
1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people
2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ohhh so it’s like the market-manipulation dagger next to titles on the NY Times bestseller list, but it’s not the NY Times bestseller list, it’s the Wilmington, Delaware B.Dalton bestseller list