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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 24/09/2026

Since I know that @kateheartfield.com and @kevinhearne.bsky.social hang out together quite often, this particular bookstore situation tickled my fancy. (I don't know how I hadn't realized this would be likely until I saw it)

A bookstore bookshelf with several books, focused on Paper & Blood by Kevin Hearne right next to Mercutio by Kate Heartfield.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 12/09/2026

It seems risky that my employer is selling this book.

A book entitled "Murder Your Employer" by Rupert Holmes.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 06/09/2026

My elder daughter made this book for her younger sister when they were both tiny and it is a treasure to all of us. Not the physical book, the making of it. Fuck AI.

A homemade book with a child's handwriting entitling it "My Book of Mithackl Creechrs"

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 01/09/2026

I did not realize when I posted this that today was the official release day of the collected vols 1&2 of this book in print. I did manage to snag an ARC for myself. Highly recommended.

A green book, The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 10/08/2026

Holding off on my hiatus to post that I have @kateheartfield.com 's Mercutio in my hand. This is also an author bingo square checked off for me!

I'm so grateful to my friends Marco Cultrerra and Craig Shackleton for reading early drafts of this book in whole or in part, and giving me advice about it.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 30/07/2026

Hey, @taowong.bsky.social , this is right at the fridge not entrance to the store. They keep putting your books in more and more prominent positions.

A display shelf of books with one facing of The First Step and two facings of The First Stop.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 08/07/2026

I just got the professional photos of this and wow! (photo credit: heatherdoughtyphotography.com )

Brandon and I saluting each other before the fight.

Action shot of Brandon and I fighting with swords.

Another shot of Brandon and I fighting, This is one of my favourite gambits with single sword, taken from Meyer's rapier, but Brandon knows all of that. Still, I'm reassured to see my form here is excellent.

One of Brandon's hits on me, unfortunately obscured by the angle. They scored 2 of 3 passes, this was the best hit of the 3. We both look fantastic.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 02/07/2026

This has been my main experience of the storms yesterday and today.

A screenshot of a weather radar map. A blue dot indicates my location, where the weather is not bad, with storms passing close by to the north and the south.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 05/06/2026

Here's a picture of @thebrandoneby.bsky.social and I fighting, rapier vs. backsword. They beat me in two of three passes.

Two people in nice clothes sword fighting beside a river.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 31/05/2026

Hey @taowong.bsky.social , they've put you front of store, centre aisle.

Rack of books with "The First Step" front and centre.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 30/04/2026

One of them is enjoying this arrangement more than the other.

Two cats in a cat bed The tortoiseshell is cleaning herself and squishing her orange brother who is squinting and flicking his tail.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 07/04/2026

There are birds and squirrels and chipmunks outside, but Spark and Cinder are on the case.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 03/04/2026

Spark says that Steve is one handsome fella!

An orange cat on a pale blue patterned carpet.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 01/03/2026

2/ There's a model of the learning path that I find is pretty accurate, and I like it because it has multiple applications. To my surprise, I couldn't quickly find this online, so I drew a crappy one:

A simple x-y axis with a path of arrows starting in the bottom left, moving to the upper left, then upper right, then lower right.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 18/02/2026

I found this congruence of posts in my timeline funny. The computer isn't interested in you anymore, it's dating the CEO instead.

Two Bluesky posts:

Erik Hane
please do not try to date the computer

Aiden Mother

CEOs love AI chatbots because for the first time in their life they feel like they have a friend.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 19/01/2026

Something football just happened.

Several posts from people I follow who often mention football things, all exclaiming about something.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 12/10/2025

This seems like a fire risk, Finch app.

A screen cap from the Finch app showing a green bird in fancy clothes sleeping in a bed while holding a lit candle.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 06/10/2025

My medieval wardrobe had mostly worn out or no longer fit me. This weekend a friend gifted me with replacements for everything and I am so incredibly grateful. This is my favourite among them.

Me, standing in a medieval camp wearing a burgundy cotte, blue chausses, and a green hat.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/09/2025

Y'all, this used to say 55000, I have edited relentlessly and my novel is officially a novella.

Screenshot from Word saying "40000 words"

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 04/08/2025

This is probably only funny to people from Ottawa.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 31/07/2025

I forgot Bluesky's cardinal rule and engaged instead of blocking and moving on. I only aggravated myself by doing so, and have course corrected. As penance, here is a picture of a cat.

An orange cat, sleeping in a blue storage cube in a Kallax shelf.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 27/07/2025

This is so funny to me, they blocked all of the quote posts, but you can still see how high the ratio got before they shut it down.

Screencap from the bottom of the Codenames HP announcement post:
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 26/07/2025

Not really a selfie, but dramatic and black and white.

A picture of me from a newspaper from 2000. I am wearing a steel gorget and holding a rapier, guard-to-guard with another rapier held by someone out of frame. I am staring directly at the camera with ice in my eyes.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 17/07/2025

Banana cake with peanut butter icing for my birthday because my spouse is the best.

A slice of double-layer cake on a plate.

A big round cake with pale brown icing on a tray.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 09/07/2025

Something tells me there's a chipmunk on the front deck.

Two cats, one ginger and one dilute tortoiseshell, sitting on the back of an old chair, facing away from the camera to stare intently out the window of a log house.

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Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 05/07/2025

A while ago we bought a bunch of meat from a local farm. My spouse just cooked this steak. I think it is biggest steak I have ever seen in real life. It's at least an inch thick after being on the bbq. It could tip over Fred Flintstone's car.