Reposted by Mystery JohnHare LockwoOoOoOod @harelockwood.com · 30/09/2026[with gritted teeth] the WHIMSY will be INCREASED proportional to the DIFFICULTIES 213043
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For no seemingly obvious reason beyond “suspicious activity” my wife’s BlueSky account has been suspended 210
Reposted by Mystery JohnJames Patricks @jpatricks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Heres the full page if that’s more your style ✌️ 8280135
Reposted by Mystery JohnAngie "Big spooky fan, me" Words @angiewords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026For the first time in ages, I've written a piece of original fiction for #SFSwap - you can read this short (704 words) comic sci-fi story for free at www.patreon.com/posts/170692...patreon.comSFSwap Prompt: Helpful Suggestions | AngieWordsIt's been a minute since I wrote any original fic, but the SFSwap challenge was a good way to dip back into it. Let me know what you think i 1106
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My post for #SFSwap which I technically uploaded this morning but haven’t posted here yet. Prompt from @queex.bsky.social rogueverbumancer.com/2026/09/27/s... 033
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At Uni we used to set aside entire bank holiday weekends for this damnable game. Complete with secret treaty negations in the kitchen. 030
Reposted by Mystery JohnDorkomatic @dorkomatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026My #SFSwap story is up - based on the prompt: “There’s nothing in the rules to say a robot CAN’T play basketball” from SamKurd42 (Organised by @glempy.bsky.social based on the original SFSwap by @frogcroakley.bsky.social ) #fiction medium.com/@dorkomatic/...medium.comSF Swap 2026PROMPT: “There’s nothing in the rules to say a robot CAN’T play basketball” 142
Reposted by Mystery JohnTh[Ominous Whoosh] @mrmoth.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026#SFSwap drop - prompt from @glempy.bsky.social, who also organised the scheme so blame HIM.microwrites.wordpress.comSF Swap: Luna, by Thom WillisWe were on a school trip, I may have been ten years old, when I first saw the bee-speakers. They were sort of street entertainers. There were some around Covent Garden dressed in furs and barefoot.… 133
Reposted by Mystery JohnA Demon Named Sam Kurd @samkurd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok, here it is, the first short story I've written to completion in years. Thank you for the #SFSwap opportunity, @glempy.bsky.social, and thank you @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social for the prompt! Be warned - it gets pretty dark. medium.com/@sam.kurd42/...medium.com‘The Ghosts of His Tears’ — An SFSwap StoryHey all, long time no see! 146
Reposted by Mystery JohnRachel Tonks Hill (they/them) @captainraz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Achievement unlocked: wrote a thing! It might be hosted on my Patreon, but there's no pawall for this post. Thanks to @glempy.bsky.social for reviving #SFSwap and giving me the kick in the pants I needed to make words happen again. www.patreon.com/RachelTonksH...patreon.comSFSwap: Dragon's Den 2126 | Rachel Tonks HillMy dear friend, Sir John of Glemp, has resurrected SFSwap from days of yore. Originally organised by Nate Crowley more years ago than I want 022
Reposted by Mystery Johnb𝚘օO𝚘ₒts @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have finished and posted my #SFswap story! Thank you to @glempy.bsky.social for arranging, and to @mrmoth.eurosky.social for the prompt. medium.com/@Thiefree/sc...medium.comScout to SolsticeSystem check, cycle 215,211. 575
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The toilets weren’t great, but it did have this positively ancient looking plug/fuse box 000
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 27/09/20264 stories are in, 9 warriors remain locked in battle with “the words beast” 020
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@ewacat.bsky.social important game based information store.steampowered.com/app/2870790/...store.steampowered.comDumpster Gang on SteamPlay as a gang of mischievous raccoons in this chaotic co-op sandbox for 1-4 players. Complete ridiculous missions, steal everything you can carry, and outsmart a relentless Exterminator determined to... 000
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hooooly shiiiiiiit, it’s all kicking off in football land www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukManchester City charges: Premier League club found guilty of breaking majority of 115 financial rulesManchester City are found guilty of breaking the majority of the 115 financial rules they were accused of breaching, sources tell BBC Sport. 000
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fun, useful things I’ve discovered this morning: a list of where all the toilets on the London Underground are content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-toilet-i...content.tfl.gov.uk 100
Reposted by Mystery JohnBen Wright - Queex @queex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026After forgetting about this for an entire week, I smashed this out in a couple of days. Happy with how it turned out, and I like how knowing the prompt itself is quite an important key to unlocking a lot of the sly little jokes in there. www.patreon.com/Queex/posts/...patreon.comStory - Common Assent | QueexThis is not, despite appearances, this month's story. Over on bluesky, @glempy.bsky.social did a thing where people could sign up to a flas 012
Reposted by Mystery JohnJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made 242612612
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I do sometimes picture Klingon honour being something that is almost entirely an upper/ruling class affectation and a lot of normal Klingons just don’t buy in to it unless they also want to be part of the ruling elite 020
Reposted by Mystery Johnparticle dogs @particledogs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026An energy weapon (work computer) is beaming harmful rays (emails) at me 2639167
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These remind me of articles I saw on “anti-facial recognition make-up” in the earlier 2010s 020
Reposted by Mystery JohnLiam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026awhile ago I saw a post that DAYS was the best @themountaingoats.bsky.social driving album, which I think is probably true, but there's also a lot of nuance so I've made a helpful guide 59415
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Newcastle was built on the site of Pons Aelius, a Roman fort at the end of Hadrian’s wall. Friends, you’ll never guess what the area of Newcastle where the wall ends is called… 100
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You can tell we've got visitors in the office today because they've put the FANCY soap in the toilets 120
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This year was a really shitty year to try and get more into gardening 000
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 20/09/20261 week remains! Brave warriors! @mrmoth.eurosky.social @samkurd.bsky.social @captainraz.bsky.social @sasooli.bsky.social @queex.bsky.social @dorkomatic.bsky.social @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social @bolt451.bsky.social @collincannaday.com @angiewords.bsky.social @ewacat.bsky.social @dasmunch.eurosky.social 221
Reposted by Mystery JohnSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74255809588
Reposted by Mystery JohnSolaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Welcome to Yoon Ha Lee's Hexarchate, home to epic military SciFi, Calendrical Heresy, space marines and immortal madmen! Buy the 10th anniversary edition of Book 1 - NINEFOX GAMBIT - with a new introduction from @annleckie.com ! geni.us/ninefox10th 07127
Reposted by Mystery JohnJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Sexy apocalypse problem" is such an great way to explain the current AI drama 39724
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We all have that one co-worker who makes you want to say “interacting with you in any form is a blight on my consciousness” right? 110
Reposted by Mystery JohnGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048481481
Reposted by Mystery JohnCasey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it 10868242
Reposted by Mystery JohnGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am going to say two quick things that happened to me in two separate restaurants a few weeks apart. One a few weeks ago, one two days ago. They aren't really great STORIES, just incidents that I think are kind of neat, taken together especially. 1/ 959097
Reposted by Mystery JohnJohn V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Having listened to the whole interview now, I would be both a bit angry and regretful if I were Mustafa Suleyman about that #r4today interview. The trail in news headlines across the morning was that he’d claim we could “create a new silicon species” if #AI development continued unchecked. 1196
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh? is someone in tech actually being vaguely sensible... No. It's still yet more unhinged nonsense. 120
Reposted by Mystery JohnHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland. 552431588
Reposted by Mystery JohnNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Hazard Tarot — Organical Mechanical organical-mechanical.itch.io/iso-tarot 2386189
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The responses are tabulated and the dark science of randomisation has been completed. Prompts are assigned and #SFSwap is go for launch! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...docs.google.comSFSwap (Master) 140
Mystery John @glempy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This MFer looks like he’s been cropped from an old style MtG card 100
Reposted by Mystery JohnNullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The sound I make since age 35 when I get up from the couch 5735245
Reposted by Mystery JohnSam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you. 103105043369
![script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read
ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]
CURTAIN](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:64mdicpo7sq4k5bx2z3m2jo6/bafkreia7vy7yqqyb7ytslx43odsuqsi4etojsjjntlqcrsguwncynwrfpm)
