Meg Gardiner
@meggardiner.bsky.social
#1 New York Times bestselling author
Headline of the day. Man sues casino after waking up in handcuffs with $75k debt he doesn’t remember
Man sues casino after waking up in handcuffs with $75k debt he doesn’t remember - Dexerto
The man accused Aria Resort Casino and its parent company of failing to ensure his safety while he was incapacitated.
www.dexerto.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Headline of the day. Man sues casino after waking up in handcuffs with $75k debt he doesn’t remember
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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In a novel, you can sometimes get away with ONE coincidence. Anything more, and you'll lose all credibility with your readers.
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In a novel, you can sometimes get away with ONE coincidence. Anything more, and you'll lose all credibility with your readers.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1726:
Fiction hates coincidences. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean it will work in fiction. In 1379, in Yorkshire, there was born a girl named Diot Coke. This, although actually true, still doesn't mean you can use her name in your historical novel.
Fiction hates coincidences. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean it will work in fiction. In 1379, in Yorkshire, there was born a girl named Diot Coke. This, although actually true, still doesn't mean you can use her name in your historical novel.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1726:
Fiction hates coincidences. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean it will work in fiction. In 1379, in Yorkshire, there was born a girl named Diot Coke. This, although actually true, still doesn't mean you can use her name in your historical novel.
Fiction hates coincidences. Just because it happens in real life doesn't mean it will work in fiction. In 1379, in Yorkshire, there was born a girl named Diot Coke. This, although actually true, still doesn't mean you can use her name in your historical novel.
THIS
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
THIS
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I also frequently think about this poster on the back of Scotty Lundegaard's bedroom door
![big poster of the ACCORDIAN KING [sic] feat. a the world's most cheerful man wearing short lederhosen, suspenders, knee-high socks, a jaunty hat, playing an accordion against a backdrop that appears to be the Alps - mountains, a field of grass and heather, a deer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:57to4anm3kiw2kmo2mudl7fn/bafkreiaomrmkzuexmn4ff47d2ybkymnzzyljfpyymvm7uv2ohy65k4c52y@jpeg)
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I also frequently think about this poster on the back of Scotty Lundegaard's bedroom door
"The sun rises and sets with her, man."
‘The Sun Rises and Sets With Her, Man’
The director Michael Mann isn’t thought of as a romantic, but the men of Heat, which turns 30 today, are fueled by their relationships.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"The sun rises and sets with her, man."
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for sale
baby shoes
never worn
BECAUSE THE BABY CAN FLY!
EVERYTHING TURNED OUT GREAT
THE END
baby shoes
never worn
BECAUSE THE BABY CAN FLY!
EVERYTHING TURNED OUT GREAT
THE END
December 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
for sale
baby shoes
never worn
BECAUSE THE BABY CAN FLY!
EVERYTHING TURNED OUT GREAT
THE END
baby shoes
never worn
BECAUSE THE BABY CAN FLY!
EVERYTHING TURNED OUT GREAT
THE END
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Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the release of Michael Mann's HEAT, a hacker movie classic. (Shoutout Kelso.) We did an episode on HEAT last year with the great @meggardiner.bsky.social (co-author of HEAT 2) and our friend @cje.io.
The podcast IS the juice!
youtu.be/b2cfEXeWSn0?...
The podcast IS the juice!
youtu.be/b2cfEXeWSn0?...
Deciphering Heat
YouTube video by Decipher
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December 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the release of Michael Mann's HEAT, a hacker movie classic. (Shoutout Kelso.) We did an episode on HEAT last year with the great @meggardiner.bsky.social (co-author of HEAT 2) and our friend @cje.io.
The podcast IS the juice!
youtu.be/b2cfEXeWSn0?...
The podcast IS the juice!
youtu.be/b2cfEXeWSn0?...
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Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
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This is absolutely correct. Almost every artist I know is DROWNING in ideas. The issue is in executing the ideas.
& this nonsense that whomever has “the most ideas the fastest” is “the most creative” is ridic. There’s ppl with 1,000 ideas for paintings yet will never paint The Starry Night. An idea and $2.90 will get you a ride on the subway in NYC.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
Artistry isn’t solely manufacturing ideas. It’s the process.
December 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This is absolutely correct. Almost every artist I know is DROWNING in ideas. The issue is in executing the ideas.
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Happy birthday to Shirley Jackson, an all-time favorite of mine.
To celebrate, here's my favorite Jackson paperback cover art, an image that famously captures the central theme of The Lottery: boobs.
To celebrate, here's my favorite Jackson paperback cover art, an image that famously captures the central theme of The Lottery: boobs.
December 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy birthday to Shirley Jackson, an all-time favorite of mine.
To celebrate, here's my favorite Jackson paperback cover art, an image that famously captures the central theme of The Lottery: boobs.
To celebrate, here's my favorite Jackson paperback cover art, an image that famously captures the central theme of The Lottery: boobs.
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The Hunt for Red October is not explicitly a holiday movie in any way, but it's one of my favorite movies to watch in the stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas
thinking about The Hunt for Red October again
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December 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Hunt for Red October is not explicitly a holiday movie in any way, but it's one of my favorite movies to watch in the stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas
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Wife: [watching tv]
Me: …
Wife: [watching tv]
Me: It’s not clear to me what …
Wife: I DON’T CARE WHAT NCIS’ BASIS FOR JURISDICTION IS HERE
Me: I’m just saying it’s not particularly nautical
Me: …
Wife: [watching tv]
Me: It’s not clear to me what …
Wife: I DON’T CARE WHAT NCIS’ BASIS FOR JURISDICTION IS HERE
Me: I’m just saying it’s not particularly nautical
May 12, 2023 at 4:25 AM
Wife: [watching tv]
Me: …
Wife: [watching tv]
Me: It’s not clear to me what …
Wife: I DON’T CARE WHAT NCIS’ BASIS FOR JURISDICTION IS HERE
Me: I’m just saying it’s not particularly nautical
Me: …
Wife: [watching tv]
Me: It’s not clear to me what …
Wife: I DON’T CARE WHAT NCIS’ BASIS FOR JURISDICTION IS HERE
Me: I’m just saying it’s not particularly nautical
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🎅My Evil MoPac Merch Holiday Sale has arrived, y'all!🎅
The coolest anthropomorphic highway merchandise line out there, with all kinds of awesome gifts 🎄🕎🎁
Check it out here: evilmopacatx.com
The coolest anthropomorphic highway merchandise line out there, with all kinds of awesome gifts 🎄🕎🎁
Check it out here: evilmopacatx.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
🎅My Evil MoPac Merch Holiday Sale has arrived, y'all!🎅
The coolest anthropomorphic highway merchandise line out there, with all kinds of awesome gifts 🎄🕎🎁
Check it out here: evilmopacatx.com
The coolest anthropomorphic highway merchandise line out there, with all kinds of awesome gifts 🎄🕎🎁
Check it out here: evilmopacatx.com
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Orcas gonna get their own Andor-style prequel.
Orcas have started targeting commercial ship control systems, like rudders, to disrupt or break them. Eyewitnesses feel unnerved by the precision of these attacks in how the orcas ignore peripherals and know exactly what to do. Well, duh. Sophisticated intelligence as good or better than our own.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Orcas gonna get their own Andor-style prequel.
Last night we rewatched GET SHORTY and it was as perfect as I recalled
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Last night we rewatched GET SHORTY and it was as perfect as I recalled
Crime headline of the day. May claims he 'teleported' into stolen BMW before 130 mph crash, deputies say
Man claimed he ‘teleported’ into stolen BMW before 130 mph crash, deputies say
A Florida man accused of stealing a BMW convertible and crashing it at high speed told Volusia County deputies he had “teleported" into the car, according to body camera footage released by the sherif...
www.fox35orlando.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Crime headline of the day. May claims he 'teleported' into stolen BMW before 130 mph crash, deputies say
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I BET YOU MY LIFE SAVINGS THEY PICKED TIMES NEW ROMAN BC IT HAS ROMAN IN THE NAME
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I BET YOU MY LIFE SAVINGS THEY PICKED TIMES NEW ROMAN BC IT HAS ROMAN IN THE NAME
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Specifically, we’ve cut/permanently taken aware your wedding ring. You now belong to us. Kiss your old life goodbye. 3 & end/
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Specifically, we’ve cut/permanently taken aware your wedding ring. You now belong to us. Kiss your old life goodbye. 3 & end/
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Taken all personal possessions & filing them when booking someone is law enforcement SOP. Cutting a wedding ring is not. I can’t prove the officer who did this is part of the specific subculture I’ve described or aware of it, but it was the first thing that came to mind. 2/
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Taken all personal possessions & filing them when booking someone is law enforcement SOP. Cutting a wedding ring is not. I can’t prove the officer who did this is part of the specific subculture I’ve described or aware of it, but it was the first thing that came to mind. 2/
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I’ve been studying these weirdos, & regardless whatever else they are they’re weirdos, since I was in my mid 20s. The extremist subculture has absorbed or connected to other ones over time. A lot of acceleration of that dynamic over the past decade or so. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’ve been studying these weirdos, & regardless whatever else they are they’re weirdos, since I was in my mid 20s. The extremist subculture has absorbed or connected to other ones over time. A lot of acceleration of that dynamic over the past decade or so. 1/
Fucking hell
Cutting off a woman’s wedding ring has a very specific meaning to those in the extreme right subculture.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fucking hell
Crime headline of the day.
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Crime headline of the day.
Crime headline of the day.
Oh, #Florida! Actual headline: "VIllager won't be prosecuted in umbrella attack on 'bastard' husband." www.villages-news.com/2025/12/07/v...
Villager won’t be prosecuted in umbrella attack on ‘bastard’ husband - Villages-News.com
A Villager will not be prosecuted in an umbrella attack on her “bastard” husband.
www.villages-news.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Crime headline of the day.