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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me, drawing a planet-sized dark-matter entity in its baryonic matter warshell... A thousand times. In color.

Circle template on a stamped page. Step 1.

Circle segments drawn, sketch number written, step 2

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you. If you scream into the abyss try screaming without closing your eyes unless you want the abyss to win the staring contest.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I tried some of these Australian pizza-flavored crackers. The flavor is faint, and pizza-adjacent. They taste like someone ran through the room with a Hot Pocket.

A box of Arnott's Shapes pizza-flavored crackers

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Aeryn Rudel @aerynrudel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every hitter has what I call a killer’s #intuition. It’s that little Spidey-sense tingle that says not yet, wait until dark, or bring the .44 magnum instead of the 9mm. Ignore that intuition at your peril. There’s always room for a new hole in the desert outside of Vegas. #vss365 #microfiction

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Darrin aka Bundy @dkbundy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#ComicsThroughTheYears #comicsky Day 7: 2000s comics. SCHLOCK MERCENARY: TUB OF HAPPINESS by @howardtayler.bsky.social

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Driving from LA to Seattle is taking longer than I expected. America is wide, sure, I knew that, but it's also TALL. As are the redwoods.

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I am Erk🍁🪿 @i-am-erk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Had one of those days where I just suddenly and deeply miss #schlockmercenary. I like when stories end, dgmw, and it ended well, but... Sigh. Hope you're having a good summer @howardtayler.bsky.social.

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Redwoods!

Howard Tayler photographing the texture of redwood bark

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/08/2026

It's Jack Kirby's birthday! Celebrate by creating, discovering, inventing, whole universes using the power of your mind! Then go fight some nazis.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anyone saying that AI can make your life better is trying to sell you a combination cult membership, addiction, and brain damage. They are not trying to help you. They want to convert you and hook you on the tech that is destroying everything it touches and enriching the worst people on Earth.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Project Manager: drinking the rest of what's in the cup will take 5 times as long as drinking the first half.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I will have cards at WorldCon that link to a page of parts and instructions for making your very own Technocane. That page is here. Please share if you or someone you know needs it. howardtayler.com/2026/08/tech...

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Technocane

The Technocane is what happened when, in my own words, “I taught my stick how to carry my phone so that my phone would teach me to never leave home without my stick. This page is a parts list…

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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Take a Segway, Ray. Rent an E-Bike, Mike. Uber away, Trey. Schedule a Lyft, Biff. Robotaxi it, Mitt… #50NewWaysToLeaveYourLover

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sketching in books while watching DUST BUNNY for the (*math math math*) fourth time.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2 hours from home. I didn't skeet during Gen Con Indy because for some reason da bloosk thought I was in Texas and was asking for age verification. And then I got busy and forgot.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm watching ICK now. This movie is incredibly tight.

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Trip @triphazard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It was the role he was born to play. It has his NAME in it. SkeLETOr!

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm watching MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE on Prime. It's... a thing that people got to have fun making, I hope. I'm not sure what this movie wants to be. I expected it to try to sell me some toys, but I guess we haven't gotten to that part yet.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

💯💯💯 If it was really "inevitable," they wouldn't have to try so hard.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 16/07/2026

my unholy creation. its actually working, it hasnt been an hour yet and the air quality in my place is noticeably better. i can breathe in comparable comfort, and my eyes dont hurt! link to build ur own here: engineering.ucdavis.edu/news/science... beware walmart, they overprice their filters

instructions for making a corsi-rosenthal box. too many to print, so see the link i give

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026

I hate going to a website and immediately some bot is like "Hi! Can I help you?" yeah you can go away.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"neighbor volunteered their forklift" is one of those casual conversation things I did not expect to ever hear in casual conversation. In related news, four pallets of books arrived at the Hypernode Media warehouse. I'm about to be very busy...

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

MSFT laid off the Elder Scrolls artist who designed the Khajit and the Argonians. She has been with the franchise for 27 years. When she started work there the guy who would eventually helm X-Box and lay her off was 9 years old.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Because of extreme fire risks this year the state of Utah has made fireworks illegal. Municipalities can make whatever exceptions they want, but my city said nope, no fireworks. I fully expect to hear neighbors "patriotically" breaking the law all evening.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's our last day of recording sessions. If we get all eight of our planned episodes done then we'll have recorded 47 episodes this week.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm recording episodes of @writingexcuses.bsky.social this week. It's exhilarating, and it's exhausting.

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 26/06/2026

Honey, what's wrong? You haven't even tried sitting in the butthole.

A leather chair that looks like a puckered b-hole

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 16/12/2025

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The unholy thing shambles in He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me His white teeth make a musical din Sing us a song, you’re the piano man Your skin is a wooden facade You’ve brass pedals for hands And your hair’s copper strands Give unbearable insult to god

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

It no longer goes without saying, so I'm saying it. I have never used AI to make words or pictures. I don't have ChatGPT, Claude, or anything like them installed, and I turn off every AI-branded feature i find in the tools I use.

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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And Claude, and all of the other water-burning plagiarism machines I not only think less of you but I have evidence that I am ontologically better than you in every possible way

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Put in some work on Year of Creativity today. Howard (as usual) had excellent graphic design insights. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

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Get Ready for A Year of Creativity

From Sandra Tayler - Get Ready for A Year of Creativity

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"It is SO much easier to get fluids OUT of a human than to put them IN." -- overheard in the ER. (Probably, by someone listening to me.)

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Today is Schlock Mercenary's 26th birthday. Schlock Mercenary is older than I was when I got married.

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Jim Zub @jimzub.com · 11/06/2026

A friend bragged about their Steam playtime stats, with thousands of hours on strategy games and RPGs. (My highest is Baldur's Gate 3, with just over 200 hours.) He was surprised I didn't have more game time. He asked if I was watching lots of TV or reading books...

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today I discovered that there's a Google Gemini button cluttering the bottom of my page when I write in Docs. I also discovered that it can be made to go away.

Gemini Menu in Google Docs. Select "Bottom bar preferences" and then select "Turn off."

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Big words are easy to remember if they're made out of words you already use. They're harder to remember if they're made out of mostly new or unfamiliar stuff. This is why I can never remember that "brain freeze" is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia without looking it up to check my spelling.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today I discovered that there's a Google Gemini button cluttering the bottom of my page when I write in Docs. I also discovered that it can be made to go away.

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Darrin aka Bundy @dkbundy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I think the majority of the books for this year's Gen Con booth have arrived. Come to booth 1349 to meet @howardtayler.bsky.social , @sandratayler.bsky.social , @jimzub.com , and @stacyking.com . #gencon #gencon2026 #schlockmercenary #conan

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Okay, we've cleared the Q&A threshold. The next goal is about $5k away, and it's the addition of 16 more pages to the book. Twenty-three hours to go... www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

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Doodling as a Hobby

The Retrospective Sketchbook of an Accidental Career illustrated (and apologized for) by Howard Tayler

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Only $28 away from unlocking this Q&A.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We're quite close to $45k on the Retrospective Sketchbook Kickstarter. That threshold is where I do a Zoom Q&A with backers *after* they get the PDF, and want to ask me for the deep deets that didn't make it into print. www.kickstarter.com/projects/how...

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Doodling as a Hobby

The Retrospective Sketchbook of an Accidental Career illustrated (and apologized for) by Howard Tayler

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