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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Mage Errant bookstore rerelease is today! I've been a full time author nearly eight years, but getting my books on store shelves is genuinely a childhood dream come true. www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Me, who should be working: "Georgism is the Live Laugh Love of economic reform"

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The pre-order short story is still available! It's a really fun one, too, if I do say so myself!

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has now officially surpassed the $30M amount Warner Bros. originally planned to write the film off for. The film is now projected to earn over $60M domestically.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Got my first DragonCon panel here in ten minutes! Title: Gods, Geography, and Jet Streams: Making Your World's Climate Feel Real Time: Fri 10:00 am Location: L401-L403 Marriott (Length:1 Hour)

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In Atlanta for DragonCon and just got offered a Waymo by Uber. I have literally never hit the decline button faster, folks.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this has to be one of the greatest clips of all time, i will sit and watch it through whenever it comes up because i love him and i love his delivery and i love how there's always a Herzog ending to the tale. god he's one of the greatest to ever do it

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/08/2026

as a theoretical physicist and a professional writer, I can tell you from personal experience that the ideas are *always* the easiest thing. I can generate lots and lots of ideas! But like insects that lay hundreds of eggs, most of those ideas will be eaten before they reach adulthood.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

What if -- and hear me out -- we gave all the cis guys in the paramilitary a bunch of shots of T, made them bulk up all their muscles, and then installed data centers inside their newly stacked bods? IT COULD WORK.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ayuuuuuuuup. Not to mention, a lot of the research I do involves materials that not only aren't on LLMs, but in fact aren't even on the internet! I have to buy a surprising number of out of print works for the stuff I do. (Which gets unpleasantly expensive at times.)

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

No, silly Adobe AI, I don't want you to summarise the contract. I need to read every word.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The worst part of being a leftist is having to spell bourgeousie regularly

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Reading Alan Moore's From Hell for the first time- goddamn, don't know how it took me so long, this is great.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've decided to get into Soulslikes

A pile of books- all three volumes of Marx's Das Kapital (the Penguin versions), David Harvey's Companion to Capital from Verso Press, and also the autobiography of Mother Jones because I couldn't be bothered to remove it from the pile and also there's probably a joke about theory vs praxis in there lol

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Burt Gummer: Household Chemicals (Tremors)

ALT: Burt Gummer: Household Chemicals (Tremors)

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This week trivia night had an artist identification category, and my team turned to me with huge smiles, because I love me some art history. And then I totally brainfarted Caravaggio and Goya. The Goya was fucking Saturn Devouring His Children, too! Urge to shrink into a corncob rising.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just a reminder, you can get an exclusive Mage Errant short story (7k words, so not particularly short!) if you pre-order the upcoming Simon and Schuster Mage Errant hardcover!

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finally got around to @derfbackderf.bsky.social 's graphic novel on Kent State, and cannot recommended it highly enough. It made me genuinely furious, some of the highest praise I can give a book, and the building tension all through the work to the events you know are coming is incredibly powerful.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just a reminder, you can get an exclusive Mage Errant short story (7k words, so not particularly short!) if you pre-order the upcoming Simon and Schuster Mage Errant hardcover!

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MD Presley @mdpresley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Two more days to grab three urban fantasy books for three bucks. Mystical mysteries Magical libraries Haunted houses Multiple magic systems And an enchanted iPod mybook.to/InnerCircle

Four books in the Inner Circle series, the first three marked at $.99 for July 20-26.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I used to listen to a ton of punk, and been getting back into it lately- it's great to write to- and one of the things I love about it is how nerdy some of the lyrics get.

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Jeremy Szal @jeremyszal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm doing a AMA over at the sciencefiction subreddit! Coming along and asking me a thorny question is mandatory. Mandatory, I say!

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's amusing, but not surprising, how many economists and economics fans are getting very angry at this comic, and decrying it as anti-intellectualism. It's also amusing, but not surprising, how many data nerds are delighted at this comic.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I just ordered kebab for delivery from a different place than usual, and only realized it was in walking distance after the app notified me that the driver was at the restaurant. I may never recover from this humiliation.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I wasn't sure what I was expecting from Nolan's Oddessy, but I had high hopes for it- hopes that were fortunately met and exceeded. I certainly did NOT expect Nolan to turn it into an absolute banger of an anti-war film!

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gryphoneer @gryphoneer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

i'm getting flashbacks to final fantasy the spirits within. remember aki, the first "digital actress"? sony had big plans to reuse her model in different movies and roles. the press ran articles expressing concern about the future of human actors. then the hype train crashed into reality.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Deeply weird that I keep seeing this dichotomy framed between the "white working class" and "college educated women" like my brothers in christ my sisters in sacrament class is about your relationship to the means of production stop doing these weird cultural Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just picked up a couple SFF classics in Portuguese translation for a euro each:

Portuguese paperbacks of Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed (Os Despojados) and Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Krull.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

it goes without saying that it's racist to refer to immigrants as "invaders" who must be met with lethal force, but the 'traitors then invaders' framing here isn't just xenophobia - it's a recurring theme in some of the most violent neonazi propaganda of the late 20th century.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Should writers use unfamiliar or uncommon words? Yes, of course. Grow the fuck up.

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you don't want all the big money in publishing to go to celebs, talk about books you love. Write about them. Borrow books that excite you from the library. Read reviews. Listen to podcasts about books. Go to book events if you can afford it. Celebs get book deals because people talk about them.

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hey! Secret* short story! *Not actually a secret

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 17/01/2024

the punishment is a bit medieval but i appreciate the enthusiasm

verge tweet saying call of duty removes streamer's skin after homophobic comments

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Periodic reminder that contacting me with bullshit AI or NFT services will get you yelled at.

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Just a reminder, there's a free short story on offer!

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Update: Anyone who pre-orders the new Simon and Schuster Mage Errant hardcover is getting an exclusive Mage Errant bonus short story, The Stargazer's Tower! You can find more details on my website! johnbierce.com/blog/mage-er...

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Mage Errant Pre-Order Exclusive Bonus Story!

As a special bonus, anyone who pre-orders the new Mage Errant hardcover is getting a brand new exclusive* Mage Errant short story, The Stargazer’s Tower!

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Rob Thomas @itsrobthomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I don't write enough about books, but boy, AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER @mollytanzer.bsky.social is as much fun as you'd think an outer space art heist novel would be while giving the reader a lot to think about. notthatrobthomas.substack.com/p/book-revie...

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Book review: Molly Tanzer’s “And Side By Side They Wander”

You had me at “outer space art heist”

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I had a really bad day today dealing with petty bureaucratic bullshit that took up hours of my day, but then I thought about how messed up the ultra wealthy like Musk are who can pay others to sand down all the friction in their lives. So I guess I gotta hand it to the bureaucratic bullshit.

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