Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.com
Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (January, 2027) | patreon.com/kameronhurley | Newsletter: https://bit.ly/HurleyCut | kameronhurley.com
A little light reading tonight 😆
January 13, 2026 at 1:01 AM
A little light reading tonight 😆
OMG I just also made this one!!
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
OMG I just also made this one!!
Consider that social media in the 60s would have felt very similar. My mom says often she thought the world was ending. But Tolkien (who also knew some shit) said it best:
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Consider that social media in the 60s would have felt very similar. My mom says often she thought the world was ending. But Tolkien (who also knew some shit) said it best:
I want to do the 1920s porcelain black and white tile (off the shelf at Lowe's) and white beadboard (which is way cheaper than tiling walls but gives similar vibe). The house is circa 1909 and we want to stay somewhat period appropriate.
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I want to do the 1920s porcelain black and white tile (off the shelf at Lowe's) and white beadboard (which is way cheaper than tiling walls but gives similar vibe). The house is circa 1909 and we want to stay somewhat period appropriate.
For the next year+, however, the solution for the ever-increasing broken and peeling peel n stick vinyl will continue to be "just keep getting larger bathroom rugs" 🙃
Bless.
Bless.
January 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
For the next year+, however, the solution for the ever-increasing broken and peeling peel n stick vinyl will continue to be "just keep getting larger bathroom rugs" 🙃
Bless.
Bless.
We think it will be one or the other. More often, it's both.
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
January 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
We think it will be one or the other. More often, it's both.
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
This is from Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
We got a speckled black finish on our counters and love it.
January 11, 2026 at 12:32 AM
We got a speckled black finish on our counters and love it.
A fierce contest of wills
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A fierce contest of wills
Big old lady bog witch mood
January 7, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Big old lady bog witch mood
Super fancy door hardware finally installed in downstairs bathroom.
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Super fancy door hardware finally installed in downstairs bathroom.
I now use this framework to navigate relationships in my life that are important to me, but also useful for online interactions 😆
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
I now use this framework to navigate relationships in my life that are important to me, but also useful for online interactions 😆
Had good writing block this morning, good enough that I was actually sad I had to stop and switch gears to new day job. Also, if ya'll doubt just how much last year's day job implosion where I lost my team to the LLM monster fucked me up...I dedicated this current wip to my old team. 😆 THE TRAUMA
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Had good writing block this morning, good enough that I was actually sad I had to stop and switch gears to new day job. Also, if ya'll doubt just how much last year's day job implosion where I lost my team to the LLM monster fucked me up...I dedicated this current wip to my old team. 😆 THE TRAUMA
Catching up on putting together end of year collections of the patreon stories. Friends, I have been writing a short story a month for TEN YEARS.
WHAT EVEN IS TIME
WHAT EVEN IS TIME
January 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Catching up on putting together end of year collections of the patreon stories. Friends, I have been writing a short story a month for TEN YEARS.
WHAT EVEN IS TIME
WHAT EVEN IS TIME
Ahhhh! The dream. I use this display case from IKEA, which I love
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Ahhhh! The dream. I use this display case from IKEA, which I love
If you're looking to follow the short essays here about writing, power, failure, survival, and why stories are worth telling at all, I've rounded them up at ye olde blogge
www.kameronhurley.com/blog/
(HOW RETRO IS THAT???)
www.kameronhurley.com/blog/
(HOW RETRO IS THAT???)
January 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
If you're looking to follow the short essays here about writing, power, failure, survival, and why stories are worth telling at all, I've rounded them up at ye olde blogge
www.kameronhurley.com/blog/
(HOW RETRO IS THAT???)
www.kameronhurley.com/blog/
(HOW RETRO IS THAT???)
"We have lost faith in a future that once powered out optimism. We fight instead over what we have, or what we had... What if, rather than having no sense of a different future, we decided history hadn't actually begun?"
January 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
"We have lost faith in a future that once powered out optimism. We fight instead over what we have, or what we had... What if, rather than having no sense of a different future, we decided history hadn't actually begun?"
A more lucid and appropriate vision for how to think about, regulate, and manage LLMs.
(This is from Abundance by Ezra Klein)
(This is from Abundance by Ezra Klein)
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 PM
A more lucid and appropriate vision for how to think about, regulate, and manage LLMs.
(This is from Abundance by Ezra Klein)
(This is from Abundance by Ezra Klein)
We're still replacing several of these, but this saved me buying new for the basement, bedroom closet, and pantry push plates. Oh!! And the pocket door hardware. Which was so eye-wateringly expensive that it was well worth cleaning instead. Turns out OG is $$$. Who knew??
January 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM
We're still replacing several of these, but this saved me buying new for the basement, bedroom closet, and pantry push plates. Oh!! And the pocket door hardware. Which was so eye-wateringly expensive that it was well worth cleaning instead. Turns out OG is $$$. Who knew??
Difference in the cheap looking painted door hardware and the cleaned up version.
It's wild how cheap the paint made these look.
It's wild how cheap the paint made these look.
January 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Difference in the cheap looking painted door hardware and the cleaned up version.
It's wild how cheap the paint made these look.
It's wild how cheap the paint made these look.
We also got the silver paint off the mortise locks. I don't know WTF this guy was thinking
January 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
We also got the silver paint off the mortise locks. I don't know WTF this guy was thinking
Today I learned you can verify you have real brass door plates (as opposed to plated) using a magnet
Brass isn't magnetic!
You can see difference here w/old plates still on closet door (not brass: magnet sticks) and new plates we just put on my office door (solid brass: doesn't stick
Cool fact!
Brass isn't magnetic!
You can see difference here w/old plates still on closet door (not brass: magnet sticks) and new plates we just put on my office door (solid brass: doesn't stick
Cool fact!
January 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Today I learned you can verify you have real brass door plates (as opposed to plated) using a magnet
Brass isn't magnetic!
You can see difference here w/old plates still on closet door (not brass: magnet sticks) and new plates we just put on my office door (solid brass: doesn't stick
Cool fact!
Brass isn't magnetic!
You can see difference here w/old plates still on closet door (not brass: magnet sticks) and new plates we just put on my office door (solid brass: doesn't stick
Cool fact!
So, let's just go full Hurley, Hurley.
January 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
So, let's just go full Hurley, Hurley.
Finished up this delightful book nook build that spouse got me for Xmas. It was soothing blend of Lego building and puzzle making that I found extremely satisfying, promoting extreme focus and deep work that magically settled anxiety. Now I understand the "old people working on puzzles" stereotype.
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Finished up this delightful book nook build that spouse got me for Xmas. It was soothing blend of Lego building and puzzle making that I found extremely satisfying, promoting extreme focus and deep work that magically settled anxiety. Now I understand the "old people working on puzzles" stereotype.