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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This book rewired my brain. Immaculate combination of real history, fantasy, and horror. Witty and sharp and brutal. Religion, psychosis, combat-induced PTSD, faith, redemption, forgiveness. Love. One of those I wish I could go back and read again for the first time.

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Roz Foster @rozfoster.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Loved this—apart from the dark irony of counsel to go into nuclear ☢️ or cancer treatment 😂😭 and one leader tossing the need for "communications skills" in our AI future. Get a broad education, be adaptable, think critically, creatively and develop human skills & ethics. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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What AI Executives Tell Their Own Kids About the Jobs of the Future

We asked Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei and other AI luminaries about what they advise their own children on education and careers in an AI-driven world.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Find someone to love you the way Maryland parents love to bring their infants and toddlers into neighborhood breweries.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Assassins Anonymous by @robwhart.bsky.social has filled me with the seething jealously I save for the writers I really admire and enjoy. Got-DAING what a book. It cuts, it bleeds, it MOVES. Tons of humor, tons of heart, scads of action and real f*cking pathos too. Can’t wait for the next page.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

One day left to submit your work to Nightmare Magazine! We close at 11 pm tomorrow night. As ever, we're looking for short stories under 7500 words, flash stories 0-1500 words long, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Recently re-filed my paperwork with the VA, over 20 years since I was discharged with a service connected disability rating of 10%, and I was like dang there’s a whole lotta stuff wrong with me that I should’ve paid more attention to when I was originally bidding adieu to the Army.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Most common question I get at signings or conversations about writing novels: you have a family, a full time job, and scads of responsibilities. How do you get your novels written? Answer: sheer stubbornness. Cutting other stuff. Also I am frequently on the verge of nervous exhaustion. #booksky

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Listen I think in Hollywood more people need to take risks on original scripts and ideas, get more directors making more work from more writers, and stop relying so much on IP. Except for the Rocketeer. If you need a script for a sequel, Disney? Call me. I have like eight.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Alert Alert Author Achievement unlocked: I was just asked to blurb something. #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My wife is a professional opera singer and my 16-yo daughter has been massively into show tunes but recently started learning opera with my wife as her teacher. I feel like an eyewitness to the birth of genius, y’all. She is. So. So. Good.

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My newest creation is Amelia the Lovely and the Terrible. I designed and hand-sewed her, and I hand-embroidered all her flowers and markings. She is lovely to good people and terrible to bad ones. She enjoys coming up with new blessings, curses, and cookie recipes. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of my fabric art creature Amelia. She's a purple creature with a blue face, bulbous orange eyes, and purple eyelids. She has an open mouth with five sharp teeth. She's covered with embroidered blue flowers and orange line markings. She has long pointy ears decorated with a long row of orange lines. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely pic of Amelia where she's resting on my palm.

Here's a lovely photo of Amelia's back, which is decorated with a single blue flower and four orange lines.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We had the most lovely and sociable Chihuahua of all time. By which I mean her circle of trust was FIVE people and not the usual one/two. RIP Cheech, you were a real one.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We have completely de-Christmased the house and still no one has noticed.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Good morning from the greatest city in the world (Secaucus, New Jersey)

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

This tasted exactly as blue as it looked #beervent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Waiting to see if anyone notices this today. Don’t leave me alone to decorate.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Beervent 22: Peaks and Valleys Favorite book: one of the best crime thrillers I read this year was @browneallover.bsky.social’s They All Fall the Same. Phenomenal writing. Surprise beer: Mountain Girl Hefeweizen from Maryland’s own Union Brewing. A perfect thematic pairing. #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Beervent Day 21: Favorite Book: King of Ashes. No one writes crime fiction better than @blacktopkid.bsky.social; his debut, Blacktop Wasteland, made me want to write my own crime thriller (so I did). The best in the game, 💯. Surprise beer: a raspberry hefe—can’t wait to get into it! #beervent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Beervent Day 20 Favorite book: Brilliance, by my pal Marcus Sakey. This trilogy is an absolute ride—mutants, superpowers, bureaucrats, family. Heart and brains. Top notch. Surprise beer: Bell’s Porter, a great example of the style. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Not me writing K-pop Demon Hunters fanfic for my kid for Christmas.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Beervent 19: Throwbacks Random beer: Dogfish 30th Ann Decadence, the OG biggy stout, aged in palo santo marron, whiskey, and Utupias casks. Yes please. Favorite Book(s): classic Dean Koontz COOKED, and Strangers is in my top 5. #bookvent #beervent #booksky 💙📚

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Beervent 18 Favorite Book: IS Berry’s The Peacock and the Sparrow is the best spy novel in decades. America’s le Carré. And a nice person to boot. Surprise Beer: Lakefront Honey Bock, with actual honeypot (ok barrel) on the label, which is perfect confluence. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Beervent 17 Surprise Beer: A chocolate coffee stout from Dewey Beer. Perfect for winter! Favorite Book(s): The Broken Earth trilogy, NK Jemisin. Strange, beautiful, rage-filled FAR future SF. Also a slow burning mystery with a staggering reveal and incredible payoff. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Reviews matter, y’all, I should know. #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Beervent 16th: Favorite book: Reacher, Lee Child*. Great collection of essays about the genesis, growth, and journey of Jack Reacher and the man who writes him. Surprise beer: a berry pancake sour from Imprint. Reacher loves pancakes, so it felt like a match. 1/2 #bookvent #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Beervent Day 15: Old School Mystery beer: Thomas Hardy’s Ale, a venerable English Barleywine (1986 vintage on left, 2024 on right). Favorite book: The Black Company series by Glen Cook. Grimdark low-ish fantasy before it was mainstreamed. Rough and ready. #beervent #bookvent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Beervent Day 14 Surprise beer: Free State’s west coast pils, a collab with Burnished and Lallemand. Favorite Book: The Dark Tower, #7 (well, 8) in Uncle Stevie’s magnum opus. Never cried so hard at a novel. And no, that’s not the horn of Arthur Eld (though I wish). #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Beervent Day 13: Favorite Book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chandon, about an alternate America where the Jewish homeland is Sitka, Alaska. A phenomenal work. Surprise Beer, a 14% abv malt liquor from Founders, my oh my. #beervent #bookvent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Beervent Day 12: 2 is better than 1 Today’s surprise beer: Brau Buddies, a collab lager between the venerable HofBrau and Lakefront Brewing. Today’s favorite book: Lucifer’s Hammer by BFFs and brilliant SF writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. #beervent #bookvent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Beervent Day 11 Favorite book: Swan Song by Robert R McCammon, a phenomenal post-apoc thrill ride that’s reminiscent of The Stand while being very much its own great thing. Random Beer: a peanut marshmallow stout from Equilibrium. Sign me TF up for this one. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Beervent Day 10 Random beer: Dewey’s Sunset Eclipse, a strawberry chocolate stout. I have more reservations than a Bennigan’s on St Patrick’s Day but I’ll give it a shot. Pair with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, a matryoshka novel that’s stayed with me for 15 years. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Pairing surprise beers with favorite books, day 9. This. Is. BEERVENT. Blue Milk, a smoothie sour from Magnify Brewing in a galaxy far far away (aka New Jersey); should be…interesting. Paired with Brian Daley’s Solo trilogy, the best Star Wars books; don’t @ me Thrawniacs. #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Beervent Day 8: Sweet n Sour @joerlansdale.bsky.social is one of eight authors who I’ll read anything they write, anytime, anywhere. Rusty Puppy is one of my favorites in his wonderful Hap & Leonard series. Pair with mystery beer number eight: Raspberry Jammin by Beer Tree! #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Beervent Day 7: Ben McIntyre wrote Double Cross, the best spy novel I ever read: At times hilarious, even poignant. Only it’s not a novel, it’s nonfiction that reads like one. Paired with Blush by Foam Brewers, because every now and again I like a fruited sour. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Beervent Day 6: Darker Succession + paranormal horror = FIEND, a deliciously sharp novel by the excellent @almakatsu.bsky.social, one of the best working today in *many* genres. Pair with mystery beer 6, Founders Porter, one of my favorites in the style. #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Beervent Day 5: Salvagia, by @timchawaga.bsky.social, a brilliant cli-fi noir that adeptly recalls the John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee, set in a climate-ravaged Florida and featuring secretive machines… …a perfect pairing with Dewey’s Secret Machine fruited sour! #beervent #booksky #bookvent

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

As a highly-trained former counterintelligence agent I am extremely adept at identifying surveillance.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Day 4 of Beervent, in which I open one of 24 random beers and pair it with a favorite book. @jordanharper.bsky.social’s LA noir, Everybody Knows, is a poetic, tanto-sharp masterpiece. Pair with The Bruery’s Valencia Orange radler; clean with a hint of sour—LA after a storm. #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Beervent Day 3: timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly. Had to pair Blake Crouch’s twisty Recursion, the most realistic time travel thriller I’ve ever read, with First State’s Lucid Refraction hefeweizen. I mean, the label and nomenclature similarities almost require it. #beervent #bookvent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Day 2 of Beervent (wherein I pair a favorite book with one of 24 surprise beers from my wife as we approach the holidays)! Today, darkness: - Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks; wrecked me when I first read it at 12, and doubly so at 32. - Robinson’s Fear of the Dark stout. #beervent #booksky 📚💙

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Every holiday season, my wife gets 24 mystery beers. I open one a day, pairing it with a book that’s special to me. This. Is. BEERVENT. Day 1: classics. - St Bernardus Christmas, a big spicy Belgian. - Jim Crumley’s Thr Ladt Good Kiss, truly the last great PI novel. #beervent #booksky

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Guess which one is the derpy young puppy and which is the crotchety ol lady of these two. Just guess. #DogSky 🐶

Iniga Montoya (little brown dog) and Addie (little brindle dog) trying to get their shit together for a Christmas card photo.

Iniga Montoya (little brown dog) and Addie (little brindle dog) trying to get their shit together for a Christmas card photo. Part two.

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Jeremy D Baker @jdbaker11058.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Between Ackerman and Baldacci, spittin distance of Berney. Happy to be in that company. #booksky

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