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Mike Headley (He/Him)

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Dayjob: Marketing for Insurance. It's fine. Otherwise: I write books. WIP: 3 Musketeers x Wonderwoman, but make it very queer. Game designer. Bi. He/him.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mike, what ARE your projects?

Two completed manuscripts:
Adult SF: Pacific Rim x Firefly. A found family heist novel with GIANT ROBOTS.

MG SF: Oliver Astley and Santa's Giant Robot Vs the Abominable Snow Beasts. What it says on the tin.

Current:
Wonderwoman x 3 Musketeers, but make it queer.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 8h

Fwiw, your writing is amazing, but also I TOTALLY understand you taking the stability.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 8h

Kai at work now it is in fucking NOTEPAD.

NOTEPAD.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

ty <3
Majestic kitty tho!

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

Actually it's even worse than that. I'm technically part of the Copilot pilot. And.

YALL.

It's made Excel LESS PERFORMANT. It's laggy. Not a LOT. But ENOUGH. Until you "Hide copilot til I next open this spreadsheet" DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY SPREADSHEETS I OPEN DURING A DAY?

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact my co-worker who does very little is part of the Co-pilot pilot project at work and discovered he can use it to answer e-mails and make summaries of giant PDFs.

So boy howdy have we gotten fast e-mails and everything possible summarized.

Actual value added: 0.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

Amusingly, the feverish investment into data centers comes as AI adoption has *already* passed its peak in Enterprise, the AI companies themselves admit hallucination is ubfixable, and studies are revealing that workslop is not merely low-value but actually negative value for companies using AI.

"Workslop" was the logical outcome of productivity maxxing

Local throughput optimization always externalizes costs onto downstream colleagues.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

I want you to know I stopped scrolling and literally was like "KITTY!" in my office.

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

dawww. ty Kate. <3

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

dawww pupper

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

Omg the little Triceratops is cute.

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

<3 ty YAY YO FACE!

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 17h

<3 ty

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 1d

Legit I'm going to put a bunch of bubble wands and stuff out at the smoker's hut next week at work.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Important content.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 16d

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 1d

The problem isn't that the guy doesn't understand how the economy works.

It's that he *thinks he DOES*.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 2d

So anyway, I got to go to the hospital today. My 94 year old Grandma fell and *broke her neck*. She's relatively fine and recovering. No surgery needed or anything. Like... all things considered about as good as "fell and broke her neck" could go at 94.

So. Friends. I'm tired. Share pet pics.

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 3d

😘

a man in a suit is smiling and pointing

Alt: FINGER GUNS

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Gail Carriger @gailcarriger.bsky.social · 5d

Storytime: How Soulless Got Its Cover gailcarriger.com/2009/10/07/h...

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 3d

Heh. I remember talking with my therapist. She asked about my current book and made some comment about it, "that's cool you're learning that" or something along those lines - not dismissive or anything. But I was like "Oh. It's not my first rodeo. This is like my 11th book."

Her: O

CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Her: Say that again?

Me: I'm supposed to be writing my book but I'm procrastinating?

Her: WRITING a book?

Me: oh! yes, I'm a novelist

Her: 😲😲 that's what I'm trying to do!

Me: Oh! Good luck with it!

Her: Have you written many?

Me: I'm working on my 60th.

Her: ...well, that's humbling...

Me:

a man is sitting at a table holding a board game that says monopoly

Alt: Castiel turns a board game around to say SORRY

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Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 3d

I believe @maryrobinettekowal.com was the one on a panel or podcast (or both) who has said "Genre is a conversation." It's constantly reacting to itself. So, you need to know where people are saying.

Where it started is << than where the conversation IS.

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1579: If you’re going to write in any genre (children’s fiction, SFF, romance, etc), you need to read EXTENSIVELY in that genre. You need to read current authors in the genre. You need to know what’s been done; what tropes exist; how the genre has changed.

Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 4d

RESPECT

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 4d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 4d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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