Jared Pechaček
@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Debut novel THE WEST PASSAGE out now from tordotcom!
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I didn't have anything out in 2025, but I'm still within the window of eligibility for the Astounding Award, so, for your consideration,
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
ottorino respiggy’s swines of rome
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
ottorino respiggy’s swines of rome
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“You will be visited by three spirits”
The three spirits (plus Marley, faintly)
The three spirits (plus Marley, faintly)
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“You will be visited by three spirits”
The three spirits (plus Marley, faintly)
The three spirits (plus Marley, faintly)
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1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI.
Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech!
On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill.
We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives!
Rsvp link in thread!
Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech!
On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill.
We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives!
Rsvp link in thread!
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI.
Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech!
On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill.
We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives!
Rsvp link in thread!
Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech!
On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill.
We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives!
Rsvp link in thread!
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"You will be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
ask your doctor if a blazing syllable of the true name of god is right for you
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ask your doctor if a blazing syllable of the true name of god is right for you
oh no he’s loose
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
oh no he’s loose
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Logging off until the weekend, so here's one more reminder:
✨10% of every purchase✨ from the Bonedust Press site will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank until Dec. 31st!
#traitorandthewretch
✨10% of every purchase✨ from the Bonedust Press site will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank until Dec. 31st!
#traitorandthewretch
Shop small for the holidays, support independent publishing, and do some good!
From now until Dec. 31, we will donate 10% of every single direct sale from our site to local food banks.
Treat yourself to our debut title, The Traitor & The Wretch, or gift it to a friend!
www.bonedustpress.com/shop
From now until Dec. 31, we will donate 10% of every single direct sale from our site to local food banks.
Treat yourself to our debut title, The Traitor & The Wretch, or gift it to a friend!
www.bonedustpress.com/shop
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Logging off until the weekend, so here's one more reminder:
✨10% of every purchase✨ from the Bonedust Press site will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank until Dec. 31st!
#traitorandthewretch
✨10% of every purchase✨ from the Bonedust Press site will be donated to the San Diego Food Bank until Dec. 31st!
#traitorandthewretch
in pre-collapse America, the citizens would engage in ritual combat over which holiday food was the best or worst. though many theories have been advanced, the true purpose of this tradition is unknown
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
in pre-collapse America, the citizens would engage in ritual combat over which holiday food was the best or worst. though many theories have been advanced, the true purpose of this tradition is unknown
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𝔄 𝔜𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔜𝔲𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡🍂
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
𝔄 𝔜𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔜𝔲𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔡🍂
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be buried with baffling grave goods
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be buried with baffling grave goods
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Uhhh exclusive breaking news here in my replies in a parenthesis?
I have some friends that worked on it & apparently it was unfettered access to the worst people behaving badly & without filter (racist senators, Melania’s boyfriend drama, infighting, etc) so a good portion of that $40 million might just be hush money to insure the raw footage never escapes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Uhhh exclusive breaking news here in my replies in a parenthesis?
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If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
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IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
The Butcher of the Forest Audiobook on Libro.fm
A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.At the northern edge of a ...
libro.fm
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
IT'S LIVE YOU CAN BUY IT :D
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is up on @libro.fm and probably other sites idk I'm too excited
This has been a long time coming!
Step into the forest and don't lose your nerve...
defeating my opponent by explaining my technique in such excruciating detail that they die of boredom (the forbidden 144,000 Words Technique)
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
defeating my opponent by explaining my technique in such excruciating detail that they die of boredom (the forbidden 144,000 Words Technique)
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A small selection of faces you may encounter in my book BRAMBLE (which is still available on the hollow press web store!)
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A small selection of faces you may encounter in my book BRAMBLE (which is still available on the hollow press web store!)
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ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
if an argument isn’t going your way, you can always just claim you were initiated into various mystical societies
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
if an argument isn’t going your way, you can always just claim you were initiated into various mystical societies
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Reposted by Jared Pechaček
Reposted by Jared Pechaček
You's a fine motherfucka won't you back that ass up?
In English we say “I want you.”
In poetry we say______?
In poetry we say______?
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You's a fine motherfucka won't you back that ass up?
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace