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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley

@marcc.bsky.social
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I write short SFF stories & drabbles (kickin-the-darkness.com) and am a member of Codex and SFWA. Follow me for SF, Alabama (esp Huntsville), and democracy. BTW, AI slop is gross and "an insult to humanity." nobodywantsyouraislop.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24m
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 4h
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social · 9h
Suzie always empties a few pockets with her cover of Muskrat Love.
sidewalk chalk drawing of a muskrat with coins at her feet playing a cigar box banjo. She is singing, and may or may not be jinging the jango.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19h
...and smelled themselves on the moon
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 19h
only 12 people have ever smelled the moon
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hey look! Very cool books here, with WANDERERS in very kind company. I note too that if they’re on sale at AMZ, you can almost always find them on the same sale digitally at Bookshop dot org and Kobo… ahem ahem ahem
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 19h
Anything from Sid and Marty Krofft. Sleestak and creepy nightmare flutes and whatever the fuck this Hieronymus Bosch shit is:
I honestly don’t even know how to describe this nightmare. It’s from HR PUF N STUFF and it’s like, half cartoon looking and half animatronics but it’s all people in suits and there’s a weird little Tuk Tuk car carrying a bleary-eyed biscuit headed thing and the car is driven by these little fascist ACAB fraggle dudes and I just hate all of it so much
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Aperture Flash @apertureflash.bsky.social · 19h
The local radio station just played AC/DC thunderstruck, and then immediately followed it up with freebird. It's like they're TRYING to make me commit felony speeding.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 20h
It's very rare for a book to bring tears to my eyes, but the penultimate chapter of E. J. Swift's "When There Are Wolves Again" did just that. Wow.
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When There Are Wolves Again: Winner of the Best Novel Award 2025 from the British Science Fiction Association
'Vivid, tremendous, unforgettable' - KIM STANLEY ROBINSON * * * Winner of the Best Novel Award from the British Science Fiction Association * * * Decades from now, two women sit beside a campfire and...
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 21h
Once again former Alabama field goal kicker Will Reichard scores all of the MN Vikings' points in their win over Miami.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 04/10/2026
love LibreOffice!!!!! have been using it for years. if you want a no AI alternative to anything else? here you go!
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the foundation of so much Republican support.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Man: This toilet is out of order. Leslie Nielsen: You have to flush first?
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 04/10/2026
girl dinner
a delicate light tiffany blue porcelain bowl filled with candy corn on my dining room table. the owner of my ceramics studio gave it to me this this week when i got my first member shelf. that was so kind and generous, i love being in community with artists
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That was the first movie I saw Rutger Hauer in, and so in everything else he appears in I experience cognitive dissonance. (See also Bryan Cranston.)
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Never assume that just because people hate something that you love, they MUST be ignorant or not understand it.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Come at me bro!
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 23/04/2025
Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity. Please repost! Spread the love! Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 03/10/2026
I've had several super traumatic things happen to me over the past few weeks that I just have not had time to process, and I'm kind of afraid of what happens when I run out of panic & adrenaline and have to have my feelings. Fortunately 2026 is just made of panic and adrenaline. 😭😂
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the dozen or people in Huntsville that might be interested: Joel Elliott has resurfaced in good health and good spirits on his YT channel.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The image is of a four panel comic. The title reads "Poltergeist".
In the first panel we see a woman with a worried expression on her face. She says, "stuff keeps moving around my house."
In the second panel the same woman says "I'm terrified. I can't sleep."
In the third panel we see a ghost holding a candle and a pillow that reads "live laugh love". The ghost is zooming through the house.
In the fourth panel we see the same ghost hanging up a frame and thinking, "home decor is my passion".
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My drabble “Departing on Time” is out in ScribesMICRO #62. (Search for “Criley”.) Ralph Stanley’s “O Death” has stuck with me for decades ever since I heard it in "O Brother..." & served as the inspiration for this story. Jeeze, just listening to it right now makes the hairs on my arms stand up…
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Issue 62
​*   Managing Editor: Edward Ahern    * *   Associate Editor: Alison McBain    * *    Special Features Editor: Matthew P.S. Salinas    * *    Poetry Editor: Mary Keating   * ​ ​...
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Engineeringdude @engtechnic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'it's a tool, you need to learn to use it', ok, but in using it, I see more people who extensively use it spend more time and make worse results than if they didn't, and since it's being called a 'tool', I'll call it a bad tool, and what do you do with a bad tool, you throw it away
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chapter 4.1 of The Tao of Programming by Geoffrey James www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
"A well-written program is its own Heaven; a poorly-written program is its own Hell."

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little nor too much. Neither needless loops nor useless variables; neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity.
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i love this so much
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You reach the Gates of Hades & find them guarded by this: (📷: USFWS)
Spooky Season has officially begun, and we’re kicking things off with a three-headed ferret.

OK, technically it’s three black-footed ferrets, but October calls for a little imagination.

Once thought to be extinct, black-footed ferrets are one of North America’s rarest mammals. At the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center, staff work to breed and recover these endangered little creatures and return them to the wild.

Cute? Absolutely. Three-headed monster? Only in October.

Photo by USFWS
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 02/10/2026
guy who has only seen marvel movies: "this is one of the darkest movies ever made"
Avengers: Doomsday reportedly has at least 6 major deaths.

It's described as one of the darkest movies ever made.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I despise straight ticket voting with the heat of a thousand suns. Had Jones and Moore been in a general election in '17, I've little doubt Moore would've won b/c of the free straight ticket votes. It was only b/c GOP voters who didn't like Moore would've had to vote *for* him that they opted out.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hard to disagree with this.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda
Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 08/03/2024
Here's a combined screenshot with instructions to show how easy it is to add embedded links / hyperlinks into Bluesky posts via deck.blue. Super-handy for keeping Bluesky posts clutter-free but still including lots of opportunities for users to click through for more info if they're interested!
Screenshot of a social media post by Debbie Ridpath Ohi explaining how to add embedded links in Bluesky posts using Deck.blue. The post shows a step-by-step process with annotated arrows and text highlighting the ease of turning URLs into markdown links by pasting them after selecting text. The final result shows a clickable hyperlink in the post. The image is labeled 'Easy way to add embedded links in your Bluesky posts via Deck.blue' and includes Debbie's profile picture and handle.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard occasional references to "Trump's handlers" being behind his policies. No, he's just an addled, narcissistic asshole who acts on the shit he believes.
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Eric Fomley @ericfomley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
State of Decay (Out 3/2) -- Snag it for .99! From post apocalyptic and dystopian futures to ordinary people facing extraordinary threats, each story offers a glimpse into worlds where survival comes at a cost and humanity is tested in unexpected ways. Check out the cool cover art by @addi.social!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No lies detected.
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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My uncle fixed fighters in Vietnam. WHOO-EEE! I'm gonna hit the afterburners on an F-22!
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HOW TO BLUESKY: The news is rough out there, plus the US election is coming. So here are some ways to tame your timeline so you see what you want. 1) You can mute words and phrases! Go to Settings, then Moderation and Content Filters, then Muted Words and Tags. Mute for a short time or forever
A beautiful blue sky with big poofs of white clouds. A law is below with a line of green trees at the horizon. But mostly the photo is sky.
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 01/10/2026
Facebook is a hot mess of garbage that I only still have for very stupid reasons, but every so often it serves up something beautiful. I will probably never be anywhere near this coffee shop, but if I were, I would throw money at them
A facebook post from Caffe Lucca - which appears to be in Halifax - that reads "We don't use AI for anything, but we don't want to be left behind with so many restaurants churning out slick flyers. Here's our best made-by-humans approximation." The image shows a white person with short hair holding three paper coffee cups in about four hands. The fingers are all weird and the images have been pasted together badly. Down the left side of the image, a series of paper coffee cup sleeves have been written on. They say "coffee!" and "hurry!" and "cud" among other somewhat random and repetitive words.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2026
not helping, @theonion.com
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