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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on an action scene and just had this thought: There should always be an answer to "What's going on in this fight scene?" that's more interesting than "These guys are trying to beat each other." It could be a character thing, a tactical thing, a stakes thing—so many possible answers!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Plus I spent some time thinking about the difference between a rotting orange and a moldy orange, and what that means for Rania's hair

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍, including plenty of 😆 and 🥹. Consider yourself garlanded! Also, I too like to avoid unpleasant sensations in my teeth, and I want to know if this book's world had prehistoric dinosaurs like we did.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I just read The Unspoken Name off this list, and it was really good! Hench and The Obsidian Tower are two books on this list that I had read previously, and they're both really good too! I'm going to go for The Vanished Queen next, as soon as I can go to my library. Thank you for the list!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It's always easy to forget that the entire sky is glowing when it's gray out

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Winnie the Pooh (Official) @indianawalsh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

"Billions of people experienced measurable improvements in health, safety, and material conditions in 2025. That progress didn’t make the news. But it happened anyway." It turns out a better world IS possible.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The errors were reported by a company that makes an AI code screener, so I'm not going to trust this statistic enough to start citing it, but it IS nice to see something refuting the "coding is one of the things AI is good at actually" narrative.

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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 19/11/2025

chuck e cheese ass website

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

PUT A POWER BUTTON ON THE TV

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I didn't really understand how calendars worked until I was an adult. I knew how the days were laid out, but none of that information told you what day was today! Wasn't that supposed to be the whole point? But now, if I have enough half-remembered clues, then it does help me figure out the day

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I try not to be full of myself, but if there was an Olympic gold medal for this meme, I'd be hugging it.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

During my shower, there was a spider slipping down the tiles on the wall, and I tried to rescue it. But when I caught it, it just crawled down to the base of my finger and, as far as I can tell, died there before I could bring it to a safer wall. Poor spider.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

*sneezes out a bunch of snot mid-conversation* Sorry, I need a mucus moment

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I love seeing someone criticizing a bad take, clicking through to see what they're criticizing, and the bad take in question is just "ℹ️ Blocked". Good job, past me! Good job blocking whoever that was!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I like how the letters get gradually more purple

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Favorite genres: 5. Scary thing is friend?? (stealing this phrasing) 4. Old person goes on an adventure 3. Magic is small and normal, actually 2. Someone is crazy powerful but it's not me and not my problem 1. No one gave me a place to belong so I'm deciding to belong where I am

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm reading the Shamanborn series right now, and liking it a lot! (Forest of Souls, Broken Web, Calling of Light)

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It looks like this. I'm not sure what a knife like this is called or what it's supposed to be used for, but it works well when a recipe calls for bone-in skinless chicken and I need to cut the skin off myself.

A yellow knife. The sharp edge is... wiggly, like a sine wave.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The knives in my kitchen are the big knife, the slender knife, the chopper knife, the paring knife, the serrated knife, and the wiggly knife.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Unveiling the official U.S. cover for WEARING THE LION! My next book, about the messy relationship between Hera and Heracles. So glad to finally share this with y'all. I love its striking colors, and the creatures it hints at--each is a huge part of the book. The art is by Adam Auerbach! #BookSky

A fancy book cover! Against a nocturnal background of teals and purples, we see two Greek columns, done in black. Between them walks the silhouette of a bearded man in a tunic, carrying a lion across his shoulders. The man's head is tilted so he can smile into the peaceful lion's face; their look into each other's eyes like they share a secret. Around the right column, several serpentine heads of a hydra are watching them. From beneath the left column, a deer is watching them. In yellow text, the cover reads WEARING THE LION. JOHN WISWELL. AUTHOR OF SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN.

Teal outlines of silhouettes reveal

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I think Collateral Damage by Taylor Simonds fits this!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I hope she finishes the Steerswoman series, but ALSO the poetry project that the Patreon page is devoted to looks really really cool and interesting, especially coming from this particular author! If the Steerswoman books are any indication, Rosemary Kirstein is really good at this kind of story.

A screenshot of Rosemary Kirstein's blog post (linked in the quote). At the top is an image saying "Did I Tell You About The Light", with a landscape that's blurred and fragmented as if we're seeing it through textured glass. Under the image is text that reads:

So, that's it. Poems? Mostly. Some will be not-poems, but still related. Let's call them "entries."

The project as a whole is designed to work piece-by-piece. The effect is cumulative. You won't know what's happening at first. You won't know who's talking, or where they are.

That's okay. It'll all work out in the end.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This story is one of my favorites!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Nooooo you made the cartoon a reality

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I like the cause-and-effect from No Quote Dunking to The Main Character Is Pleasant! That makes me happy

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

October 31st being spooky day works well because 31 is like 21's bigger cousin, except it feels spikier, darker, and pricklier because it's not also a multiple of 7. Having completely baseless and unjustified feelings about certain numbers is fun!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Device manufacturer: the orange LED Me: that's red Me: the orange LED Device manufacturer: that's amber

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Optimist: the cup is ½ full Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty Physicist: the cup is made of lasers

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Oh that's just a mnemonic that tells you which letters of the alphabet are vowels.

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

I've been living in this apartment for 4 years, and only now discovered that the bathroom door has a lock. You have to push the knob in then twist it, and when I did that by accident I thought I'd broken the knob and trapped myself in the bathroom at first!

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Sometimes I think about how the new moon is only out during the daytime

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Brian Jenike @brianjenike.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

If I respond thoughtfully, a survey that actually "takes no more than 10 minutes to complete" should have one question. One (1) single question. That question could be anything, but unless I anticipated and pondered everything they want to know in advance, it's going to take me some time to answer.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

would love to abolish the notion that making your audience feel joy is inherently intellectually and artistically inferior to making them feel pain, a cheap and cynical attitude which poisons everything from misogynist disdain for romance to why it’s harder for comedies to win Best Picture

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