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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 56m
How is this not Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth
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Paste Magazine @pastemagazine.bsky.social · 1h
Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
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Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately
The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 1h
MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1h
YOU WILL ALL LEARN TO LOVE THE APPLES unless you have oral allergy syndrome then you’re excused
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 4h
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4h
The Lowdown was likely the best show on TV last year (I mean, according to me, not some kind of scientific process), and I am deeply wildly pleased we're getting more of it.
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Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social · 6h
Thank you so much, Stina! ♥️🚨
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h
Guys, I made the TIME100 Next list (?????????)
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Ben Collins Is on the 2026 TIME100 Next
Find out why Ben Collins is on this year’s list
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 7h
Make some good (or bad!!) art with your own brain today just bc you can ❤️
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 7h
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 7h
The AI bubble is even more precarious than you knew.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h
Time for this classic again.
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 8h
I don’t know any woman friend (or family member) who hasn’t been sexually assaulted or molested. Including myself.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 8h
I uploaded a ton of Halloween stuff yesterday btw. www.peculiarityshop.com
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The Peculiarity Shop - Jewelry & Accessories
Peculiar jewelry and more for people with peculiar tastes.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 8h
HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!
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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding
Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 8h
They put Trump on full display and now they’re shocked voters noticed. We told you the guy was an anchor. Thanks for insisting on tying him around the neck of every Republican on the ballot.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 20h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 19h
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Mike Giordano @jcmmike.com · 20h
@chuckwendig.bsky.social Calamities. 32%. What. The. F***. Did. I. Just. Read?
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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 20h
How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...
Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...
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Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties
A plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly, if we're gonna have a dystopia, we're gonna need boozy-ass Pop-Tarts. Plus maybe we can turn the empties into little grenades or something.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's always an XKCD: xkcd.com/2030/
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Voting Software
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Possible, but I’d like to see someone more reputable confirm it.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Yeah that part affects EVERYONE YOU'VE EVER MESSAGED WITH, WHETHER THEY HAVE MUSE OR NOT. Seriously: do not use muse. Ever.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Kevin Sonney @sonney.com · 29/09/2026
It's ASTARION day! Did you see that @tkingfisher.com wrote a 1-shot adventure to go with it? You can get it as part of the Book Club Kit at bg3books.com/book-club-kits
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Baldur's Gate 3 Book Club Kits - Official Baldur's Gate 3 Books
Resources for book clubs and adventuring parties everywhere
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John Copenhaver @johncopenhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In this week's Substack article, I write about new pressures on MFA students, what federal funding changes mean for programs like UNO’s, and why the arts and humanities are the future. Read/follow/subscribe! johncopenhaver.substack.com/p/the-arts-a... #unomfa #mfainwriting #arts #humanitiesmatter
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HELLO, GOOD MORNING, please buy and review my books because this dude needs kibble -->
This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. Here he's stretching out, and giving that little tongue pokey-outey business.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo, he's just snoozling real damn hard. It's hard to be a pro-level snoozer like this.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's under the dining room chairs/table with an elk antler bone. This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's having a good laugh, just a hearty canine guffaw. That or he's yawning. I choose to believe in mirth for dogs. Why do you hate mirth and dogs. Believe in dog mirth. You monster.
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Ann Laabs 🩷💜💙 🏳️‍🌈 @annlaabs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mini-Review: Reading Wanderers and Wayward felt like I was on my own odyssey across America. This duology joins Swan Song, The Passage, and The Stand on the Great American Novels of Post-Apocalyptic Horror reading list. (Black River Orchard is on my TBR shelf. :) #Booksky #Books #Horror #Horrorsky
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One more thought: the Democrats need to take advantage of this. It barely seems to be penetrating their messaging right now, but if they don't go in like Gingrich did in '94 with the promise of cleaning house, then the angry people will turn on them so quick and blame them for everything.
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Leeja Miller @leejamiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here @apnews.com I fixed this headline for you. He didn't use a "rare authority" he violated the constitution. You're blatantly buying into administration talking points by saying he has "authority" to just decide not to spend Congressionally approved funds at the last minute
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is true that a Dem Congress will not be able to do any effective legislating under the Trump regime. But that’s a given. What Congress can do is investigations that drive stories into the media. Every day should have headlines about Trump stealing from us, about Trump harming us.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the best American EVs: General Motors is producing about 75% fewer Chevrolet Bolts than originally planned because the Trump regime removed federal subsidies for EVs.
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GM’s pint-sized Bolt EV gets smaller production run
General Motors is building about 75% fewer Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles than had ‌originally been planned before federal support for EVs was yanked last year, a union official said.
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Yggy Stardust @yggystardust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Calamities, @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Wendig has become one of my favorite authors over the past several years, and I was very excited for this book to come out. It did not disappoint. Plus, I got my very own demonic progenitor (Draugmoraj) upon pre-order #booksky
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The press coverage of the Academy of Natural Sciences has gone from "Oh how sad" to sounding like a hostage negotiation. Which maybe sounds bad, but elected leaders, the press, the people online, all saying "You don't have to do this, man" is better than mourning. share.inquirer.com/YTQg0s
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Philadelphia shouldn’t give up on the Academy of Natural Sciences’ historic museum | Editorial
The Academy's 150-year-old building faces roughly $150 million in deferred maintenance costs. While that may seem daunting, it is not insurmountable.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HELLO, GOOD MORNING, please buy and review my books because this dude needs kibble -->
This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. Here he's stretching out, and giving that little tongue pokey-outey business.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo, he's just snoozling real damn hard. It's hard to be a pro-level snoozer like this.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's under the dining room chairs/table with an elk antler bone. This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's having a good laugh, just a hearty canine guffaw. That or he's yawning. I choose to believe in mirth for dogs. Why do you hate mirth and dogs. Believe in dog mirth. You monster.
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