John Bierce
@johnbierce.bsky.social
Fantasy novelist, author of Mage Errant, The Wrack, and More Gods Than Stars. Science and history nerd, some flavor or other of leftist/Marxist/anarchist, can burp the alphabet.
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A sentiment from a friend. (Available on CafePress…) 😏
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A sentiment from a friend. (Available on CafePress…) 😏
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WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
I had a dream where wrestlers fought inside a Mobius ring
It didn't really change anything it was just kinda neat
It didn't really change anything it was just kinda neat
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I had a dream where wrestlers fought inside a Mobius ring
It didn't really change anything it was just kinda neat
It didn't really change anything it was just kinda neat
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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So excited for this project! You guys are going to love it. 🐉🐉🐉🐉
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. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
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. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
Wraithmarked is teaming up with @christopherpaolini.bsky.social once again! This time... A Special Box Set of The Inheritance Cycle! Full-color printing! Fully-customized layout! Up to 40+ new illustrations!
More information on the pre-launch page! Link in bio!
Art by @dominikmayerart.bsky.social
More information on the pre-launch page! Link in bio!
Art by @dominikmayerart.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So excited for this project! You guys are going to love it. 🐉🐉🐉🐉
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. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
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. www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
Huh I just learned about this shield for the first time yesterday in a book on underwater archaeology, Baader-Meinhof illusion time!
What a gorgeous artifact, though, really.
What a gorgeous artifact, though, really.
The Iron Age ‘Battersea Shield’ which was found in the River Thames at Battersea in 1857. Dating to around 350-50 BC, the shield is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #BatterseaShield #IronAge
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Huh I just learned about this shield for the first time yesterday in a book on underwater archaeology, Baader-Meinhof illusion time!
What a gorgeous artifact, though, really.
What a gorgeous artifact, though, really.
There's always, always going to be someone trying to tell you what art is worthy of creating, what subjects are worthy of turning into stories.
Fuck 'em.
Create what you need to create, write what you want to write. Even if it turns out crap, it'll still be your crap.
Fuck 'em.
Create what you need to create, write what you want to write. Even if it turns out crap, it'll still be your crap.
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
There's always, always going to be someone trying to tell you what art is worthy of creating, what subjects are worthy of turning into stories.
Fuck 'em.
Create what you need to create, write what you want to write. Even if it turns out crap, it'll still be your crap.
Fuck 'em.
Create what you need to create, write what you want to write. Even if it turns out crap, it'll still be your crap.
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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I really hope I never attract the attention of Joyce Carol Oates, Kendrick Lamar, or menswear guy.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I really hope I never attract the attention of Joyce Carol Oates, Kendrick Lamar, or menswear guy.
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the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother
Like most novelists these days, I get an absolute ton of spam marketing emails. The newest left in the ChatGPT prompts and tried to sell me marketing on a true crime book I didn't write.
Really makes me sad for the state of scamming today. Scammers used to take pride in their work, but, alas...
Really makes me sad for the state of scamming today. Scammers used to take pride in their work, but, alas...
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Like most novelists these days, I get an absolute ton of spam marketing emails. The newest left in the ChatGPT prompts and tried to sell me marketing on a true crime book I didn't write.
Really makes me sad for the state of scamming today. Scammers used to take pride in their work, but, alas...
Really makes me sad for the state of scamming today. Scammers used to take pride in their work, but, alas...
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The City That Would Eat the World", my socialist sword and sorcery novel featuring a pseudomedieval megastructure arcology, carnivorous public transit kaiju, and fingernail priests.)
(Here's the opening of "The City That Would Eat the World", my socialist sword and sorcery novel featuring a pseudomedieval megastructure arcology, carnivorous public transit kaiju, and fingernail priests.)
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The City That Would Eat the World", my socialist sword and sorcery novel featuring a pseudomedieval megastructure arcology, carnivorous public transit kaiju, and fingernail priests.)
(Here's the opening of "The City That Would Eat the World", my socialist sword and sorcery novel featuring a pseudomedieval megastructure arcology, carnivorous public transit kaiju, and fingernail priests.)
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some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
Bonus points if you laugh maniacally while drinking it
you can just make a shirley temple at home. no one can stop you. you can have a silly little pink drink whenever you want.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Bonus points if you laugh maniacally while drinking it
I was not expecting a Predator movie to be adorable and heartwarming, but Predator Badlands was adorable and heartwarming, and I absolutely loved it.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I was not expecting a Predator movie to be adorable and heartwarming, but Predator Badlands was adorable and heartwarming, and I absolutely loved it.
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a crab is crawling on a sandy beach
ALT: a crab is crawling on a sandy beach
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November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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THE TIME TRAVELER'S PASSPORT is now available, a new collection from Amazon Original Stories. 99¢ each or free w/ Prime/KU membership. Stories by: John Scalzi, RF Kuang, Peng Shepherd, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, & Olivie Blake.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
THE TIME TRAVELER'S PASSPORT is now available, a new collection from Amazon Original Stories. 99¢ each or free w/ Prime/KU membership. Stories by: John Scalzi, RF Kuang, Peng Shepherd, Kaliane Bradley, P. Djèlí Clark, & Olivie Blake.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8CHTQD
My ex and I adopted our cats from here, they do wonderful work- please share, or even donate if you can!
We are literally drowning and need help!
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
The worst #flooding our area has seen in 60 years submerged our #CatShelter. Keeping the #cats safe was a huge challenge, and the shelter suffered significant damage.
Please watch and share the video or help us directly: www.vietnamcatwelfare.org/support/
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My ex and I adopted our cats from here, they do wonderful work- please share, or even donate if you can!
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For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.
@maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft books are a COLOSSAL influence on my own books, especially More Gods Than Stars. So much of my approach towards designing fictional economies in fantasy worlds is informed by the Craft Sequence and Craft Wars- I highly recommend all my fans check it out!
DEAD HAND RULE is out today! As an implacable enemy skitters nearer across the stars, Tara Abernathy gathers Gods and Deathless Kings alike to join forces. Of course, there's still a little fine print to be sorted out. But surely they'll be able to come together against the darkness. Any minute now.
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft books are a COLOSSAL influence on my own books, especially More Gods Than Stars. So much of my approach towards designing fictional economies in fantasy worlds is informed by the Craft Sequence and Craft Wars- I highly recommend all my fans check it out!
I generally maintain a policy of not talking bad about other living authors' fiction publicly- I'm of the opinion that skill as a writer doesn't necessarily translate to skill as a critic, and I also just feel bad criticizing other folks' work. (Their politics, on the other hand...)
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I generally maintain a policy of not talking bad about other living authors' fiction publicly- I'm of the opinion that skill as a writer doesn't necessarily translate to skill as a critic, and I also just feel bad criticizing other folks' work. (Their politics, on the other hand...)
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Eat shit Nigel
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Eat shit Nigel