John Degen 🍁
@jkdegen.bsky.social
Sleeping dog. Novelist, poet, rock & bird nerd. He/him. CEO @twuc, Chair @IntAuthors - Opinions entirely my own, so don’t even. Bird and book content at my website— jkdegen.com — and substack https://substack.com/@johndegen
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
He reminds me of the anti-science online trolls debating climate change in the aughts. Constantly moving the goalposts of the argument so he never has to admit he’s wrong about anything.
Not sure America can survive three more years of this guy.
Not sure America can survive three more years of this guy.
December 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
He reminds me of the anti-science online trolls debating climate change in the aughts. Constantly moving the goalposts of the argument so he never has to admit he’s wrong about anything.
Not sure America can survive three more years of this guy.
Not sure America can survive three more years of this guy.
Prediction: If the Dems roll through the midterms, the GOP leak everything incriminating their own president in the Epstein crimes. They let the outrage play out for a year, and have a year to try and recover before the election.
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Prediction: If the Dems roll through the midterms, the GOP leak everything incriminating their own president in the Epstein crimes. They let the outrage play out for a year, and have a year to try and recover before the election.
Happy Christmas Eve to you all.
December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy Christmas Eve to you all.
Guadalajara, Mexico.
You should go there. You’d like it.
You should go there. You’d like it.
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Guadalajara, Mexico.
You should go there. You’d like it.
You should go there. You’d like it.
There is no way the DOJ, with all its resources, could not have fulfilled its obligation under the law by releasing everything with few redactions.
There is only one conclusion to come to. Massive cover up for one person alone.
In plain sight.
There is only one conclusion to come to. Massive cover up for one person alone.
In plain sight.
December 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There is no way the DOJ, with all its resources, could not have fulfilled its obligation under the law by releasing everything with few redactions.
There is only one conclusion to come to. Massive cover up for one person alone.
In plain sight.
There is only one conclusion to come to. Massive cover up for one person alone.
In plain sight.
This photo by Greta Rybus of the New York Times is exquisite.
The woman is Kristin Cabot, who was brutally shamed for a very public mistake.
The woman is Kristin Cabot, who was brutally shamed for a very public mistake.
December 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This photo by Greta Rybus of the New York Times is exquisite.
The woman is Kristin Cabot, who was brutally shamed for a very public mistake.
The woman is Kristin Cabot, who was brutally shamed for a very public mistake.
According to their President, the US has “completely surrounded” Venezuela with an armada of naval vessels.
Meaning, I guess, they have somehow managed to get ships on the ground in Columbia, Guyana, and Brazil.
What CAN’T the Americans do?
Meaning, I guess, they have somehow managed to get ships on the ground in Columbia, Guyana, and Brazil.
What CAN’T the Americans do?
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
According to their President, the US has “completely surrounded” Venezuela with an armada of naval vessels.
Meaning, I guess, they have somehow managed to get ships on the ground in Columbia, Guyana, and Brazil.
What CAN’T the Americans do?
Meaning, I guess, they have somehow managed to get ships on the ground in Columbia, Guyana, and Brazil.
What CAN’T the Americans do?
There is something seriously wrong — mentally and emotionally — with whoever wrote this.
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
There is something seriously wrong — mentally and emotionally — with whoever wrote this.
I watched Stand By Me in France during my backpacking year (1987). A couple hours removed from homesickness.
December 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I watched Stand By Me in France during my backpacking year (1987). A couple hours removed from homesickness.
If the world could stop shooting on me birthday that would be much appreciated. Sixty years of this shite is quite enough.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If the world could stop shooting on me birthday that would be much appreciated. Sixty years of this shite is quite enough.
I am anticipatorily disappointed by how little time this will be given at the eventual trials in The Hague.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I am anticipatorily disappointed by how little time this will be given at the eventual trials in The Hague.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Honestly @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social — what a load of horseshit right now with this Trump award. So offensive.
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Honestly @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social — what a load of horseshit right now with this Trump award. So offensive.
What a disservice and insult to every athlete and fan involved in @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
FIFA would give an award to a giant meteor heading straight for the planet. Pathetic.
FIFA would give an award to a giant meteor heading straight for the planet. Pathetic.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What a disservice and insult to every athlete and fan involved in @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social
FIFA would give an award to a giant meteor heading straight for the planet. Pathetic.
FIFA would give an award to a giant meteor heading straight for the planet. Pathetic.
I suggest the problem is NOT that the AI produced some bad images for this government-financed commercial, but rather that an AI commercial was made at all.
Our governments should prioritize human labour. Stop “experimenting” at replacing people with technology.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Our governments should prioritize human labour. Stop “experimenting” at replacing people with technology.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Province pauses AI commercial from N.B. Liquor after negative reception | CBC News
N.B. Liquor is catching enough heat for a holiday video campaign made with artificial intelligence that a government minister has directed the Crown corporation to take the ad down.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I suggest the problem is NOT that the AI produced some bad images for this government-financed commercial, but rather that an AI commercial was made at all.
Our governments should prioritize human labour. Stop “experimenting” at replacing people with technology.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Our governments should prioritize human labour. Stop “experimenting” at replacing people with technology.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
One would think the Secretary of Defence of the United States would know what the term “fog of war” actually means.
It is not the smoke caused by a missile strike.
Complete asshat.
It is not the smoke caused by a missile strike.
Complete asshat.
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
One would think the Secretary of Defence of the United States would know what the term “fog of war” actually means.
It is not the smoke caused by a missile strike.
Complete asshat.
It is not the smoke caused by a missile strike.
Complete asshat.
My work for The Writers' Union of Canada and International Authors Forum brings me to The Guadalajara Book Fair, where I am speaking about the economic realities of professional authorship.
See the IAF’s program here in this national media article from Mexico.
www.milenio.com/cultura/fil/...
See the IAF’s program here in this national media article from Mexico.
www.milenio.com/cultura/fil/...
¿Qué protegen los derechos de autor? Los desafíos en la era digital
El International Authors Forum se realiza en la FIL para debatir sobre la profesionalización del oficio y poner sobre la mesa los desafíos actuales ante la era
www.milenio.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My work for The Writers' Union of Canada and International Authors Forum brings me to The Guadalajara Book Fair, where I am speaking about the economic realities of professional authorship.
See the IAF’s program here in this national media article from Mexico.
www.milenio.com/cultura/fil/...
See the IAF’s program here in this national media article from Mexico.
www.milenio.com/cultura/fil/...
If fighting drug cartels is priority one, why is the President pardoning a drug kingpin duly convicted by a US jury?
Is this that four dimensional chess they keep talking about?
Is this that four dimensional chess they keep talking about?
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If fighting drug cartels is priority one, why is the President pardoning a drug kingpin duly convicted by a US jury?
Is this that four dimensional chess they keep talking about?
Is this that four dimensional chess they keep talking about?
I spoke with Sarah Tomlinson at CBC/Radio-Canada about professional creative work and artificial intelligence. You should read the article but, really, the sign over my right shoulder says all you need to know.
Don't make me tap the sign.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Don't make me tap the sign.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
IA : le Canada face au défi du droit d’auteur
Des organismes artistiques craignent des impacts de cette technologie sur leurs industries et en ont fait part au Comité permanent du patrimoine canadien.
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I spoke with Sarah Tomlinson at CBC/Radio-Canada about professional creative work and artificial intelligence. You should read the article but, really, the sign over my right shoulder says all you need to know.
Don't make me tap the sign.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
Don't make me tap the sign.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/220...
So, everything that happens on their watch is Joe Biden’s fault, and we should applaud when they manage to do basic investigative functions. Got it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So, everything that happens on their watch is Joe Biden’s fault, and we should applaud when they manage to do basic investigative functions. Got it.
Just woke from a stress dream in which I was desperately trying to identify a bird.
Glad to know my midlife anxieties are evolving appropriately as they accompany me into the next phase.
Glad to know my midlife anxieties are evolving appropriately as they accompany me into the next phase.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just woke from a stress dream in which I was desperately trying to identify a bird.
Glad to know my midlife anxieties are evolving appropriately as they accompany me into the next phase.
Glad to know my midlife anxieties are evolving appropriately as they accompany me into the next phase.
In a first for Northern Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie makes space for natural burials in a municipal cemetery.
Green interment — without embalming chemicals or non-biodegradable containers — is a growing practice.
open.substack.com/pub/shorerep...
Green interment — without embalming chemicals or non-biodegradable containers — is a growing practice.
open.substack.com/pub/shorerep...
Experimenting with Natural Burials in the Soo
Council approves by-law change to allow unembalmed, green interment
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
In a first for Northern Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie makes space for natural burials in a municipal cemetery.
Green interment — without embalming chemicals or non-biodegradable containers — is a growing practice.
open.substack.com/pub/shorerep...
Green interment — without embalming chemicals or non-biodegradable containers — is a growing practice.
open.substack.com/pub/shorerep...
Obviously, the files released will have been sanitized for his protection. The world needs a leaky hero.
November 20, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Obviously, the files released will have been sanitized for his protection. The world needs a leaky hero.
TFG excusing the murder of a journalist from the oval office.
Come get your drunk uncle, America.
Come get your drunk uncle, America.
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
TFG excusing the murder of a journalist from the oval office.
Come get your drunk uncle, America.
Come get your drunk uncle, America.
No seriously, the major social media platforms are absolutely infected with AI crap photos and videos right now.
This is the great promise of technology? Obviously fake content?
Please go read a book. It will heal you.
This is the great promise of technology? Obviously fake content?
Please go read a book. It will heal you.
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
No seriously, the major social media platforms are absolutely infected with AI crap photos and videos right now.
This is the great promise of technology? Obviously fake content?
Please go read a book. It will heal you.
This is the great promise of technology? Obviously fake content?
Please go read a book. It will heal you.