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Ian Denning

@ian-denning.com

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Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · Nov 1

Pumped to announce that my novel and I are now represented by Sophia Bark and Sian-Ashleigh Edwards at WME Books! I couldn’t have found a better team to help this novel transform, Sephiroth-style, into its final form and bring it out into the world 🎉

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 4h

Escaping from the airtight vessel known as New Jersey to see how this is

Title card for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" at the New York Metropolitan Opera

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 9h

Hard to really get into horror movie season when it's 83⁰ and humid outside, but Lord I am trying

Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 10h

Who's writing middle-aged millennials better than @somers.bsky.social?

Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 1d

New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...

Pleasantries

‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...

granta.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14h

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 14h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 14h

If I have to use AI tools at work, I might as well use them to force an AI influencer to recite Taylor Holmes's 1915 recording of Rudyard Kipling's "Boots."

Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 15h

Waiting for notes from my agent like

43. Do I, on some level, want to be haunted by my own fiction—in a Rube Goldbergian method of self-destruction—somehow unconsciously craving the very anxiety my story generates in order to obliterate all potential forms of pleasure that writing my story confers?

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 15h

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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 1d

instantly 100x your short story writing prowess by asking yourself these 50 questions every time you write a short story joylandpublishing.com/fiction/50-q...

50 Questions to Ask About Your Story

Does my story have a big enough concept? Does my story have interesting characters? Does my story have interesting set pieces? Does my story have an interesting conflict? Does my story have big eno...

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 11d

maybe she should have just donated it in the off season

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 11d

"We created the ambiguously menacing creative consulting firm from William Gibson's novel 'Don't Create the Ambiguously Menacing Creative Consulting Firm'"

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 15d

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 15d

The whole back half of the interview gets even weirder when you realize Star Wars doesn't refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative Star Wars but to Star Wars Star Wars

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 15d

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 19d

Bookmarking this excellent @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

"If you create things for the public, you will get yelled at by dumbasses. Indeed, this is the primary experience of being the sort of writer that I am. If you make a joke, they won’t get it. If you use sarcasm, they won’t detect it. If you exaggerate for effect, you will be taken literally, and if you try to be understated, you will be accused of a contemptible lack of urgency. If you make a reference, it will not be understood; if you choose one topic, they will wonder why you didn’t choose another; if you try to focus on one thing, they will ask why you didn’t focus on something else. Your high-minded arguments will be dismissed as inscrutable, your simple arguments will be dismissed as unsophisticated, and you, personally, will be dismissed as the sort of lightweight who should try getting a real job. Ever thought of that?"

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 20d

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

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Ian Denning @ian-denning.com · 20d

Just incredible schadenfreude happening here

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 21d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 21d

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21d

ah, well

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Jan 23

a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 22d

hayao miyazaki refusing to go to the american premiere of howl until he found out bacall was gonna be there at which point he adjusted his tie & vanished in a cloud of dust headed for manhattan is possibly the most relatable thing dude has ever done

Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 22d

Lauren Bacall - BOTD in 1924

Black and white photo of Lauren Bacall leaning against a bicycle while taking a coffee break.

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W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social · 23d

25th U.S. Poet Laureate, first Asian American to hold this honor. A big hell yeah for Arthur Sze today!
www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

Arthur Sze named 25th U.S. poet laureate

Sze is a poet with a lot of acclaim — he's won the National Book Award, was a Guggenheim fellow and was a finalist for the Pulitzer. He aims to promote interest in translated poetry in his new role.

www.npr.org

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 24d

on that shit that got me forgetting how to use a zipper and then realizing it's part of god's plan

Dr. Caelan Conrad PhD CPI @caelan.bsky.social · 24d

At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 26d

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person @junlper.beer · 26d

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

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