Reposted by Max GladstoneSam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I def don't have all the answers as to why there is such a persistent crisis/lull cycle in US orchestras, but one thing I do know from my 25 years at the high end of that business is that WAY too many execs and board leaders are convinced there is a magic sustainability formula hiding somewhere. 629447
Reposted by Max GladstoneAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyMexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk speciesThe insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides 161529564
Reposted by Max GladstoneDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET. 362697655
Reposted by Max Gladstonepmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026By Zdzisław Beksiński 127453
Reposted by Max GladstoneHanayoyo @hanayoyo-art.bsky.social · 02/10/2026#inktober Day 2: Relic (ft. Abelard, Saint of Kos, from @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Craft sequence novels) 0141
Reposted by Max GladstoneSerena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Disciplined Duelist - for Magic: The Gathering's Streets of New Capenna AD: Sarah Wassell The first painting I completed for Magic and still one of my favourites. 12718159
Reposted by Max GladstoneLuke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have no idea if this is true but the collage kills me 351377279
Reposted by Max GladstonePatch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Meiko Kaji (star of Lady Snowblood) struttin' through the subway in the 1970s. 91241257
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It doesn't even help you convince the two year old to do something they, the two year old, ACTIVELY WANT TO DO 140
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To give it credit, I guess, it's like the poor grammar in old scam emails: the *point* is that you don't want to reach people who think about what they're reading, those people won't give you their bank account information 0272
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Many very, very strange and disappointing features of our current reality but that fanfic being the point of reference it is, for the people in question, keeps hitting me 3231
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A friend sent me HPMOR about ten years back. The first couple chapters were a fun skim (little Harry having the least-10-year-old freakout ever about silver, gold & exchange rates was cute) before the accumulated curdled funk of the debate-club shut-in really got to me. 5261
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Clearly "intelligence is infinitely persuasive" is the reason we are here in the year two thousand and twenty six 2140
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026or, as often, "i am so much smarter than other people that *i* can make them do anything" Obvious cult-leader thought? Like the only way for this reasoning to survive contact with real humans is to unperson any humans you can't convince 1200
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think more than I should about what a person is really saying when they claim "a person sufficiently smarter than me could make me do anything" 2221
Reposted by Max Gladstonerobert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive 1879179
Reposted by Max GladstoneThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko. 1764732485
Reposted by Max GladstoneRyan Van Loan @ryanvanloan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Motherfucker, the rural blue collar workers here can't AFFORD to stay at home. Both parents work, they lose a huge chunk of one paycheck to daycare, but the small remainder keeps them floating from paycheck to paycheck. Get out of your fucking bubble. Honestly. 14110
Reposted by Max GladstoneStephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 29/09/2026THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP by @djangowexler.bsky.social www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/djang...hachettebookgroup.comThe Only Way Out Is Up“One of the most imaginative and hilarious writers I've ever read.”—Matt Dinniman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dungeon Crawler CarlA small-... 0135
Reposted by Max GladstoneSolaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We're so excited to see that @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social 's Hugo Award-winning BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY trilogy - an indigenous epic inspired by the pre-Colombian Americas -has an RPG launching soon from @montecookgames.com ! Buy the Books: geni.us/betweeneands Click the link below to learn more!backerkit.comBetween Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying GameGet notified when Between Earth and Sky: the Roleplaying Game launches on BackerKit! 0147
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Surrealist existentialist comedy / romance starring Tybalt and Mercutio -> “R+J Are Dead” (is this anything) 7305
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026there’s an issue of Al Ewing’s Immortal Hulk featuring Ben that runs for a whole fight and THEN hits us with this title card, I almost screamed 030
Reposted by Max GladstoneWill "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comThe Thing: Fantastic Four First StepsAlt: The Thing: Fantastic Four First Steps 1101
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026alt text for the second, a little yoda showing up like, “hi friend” 010
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026alt text for the first one should have been inigo montoya saying “now that it’s over, i have no idea what to do with the rest of my life” 120
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026static.klipy.comInigo Montoya from Princess BrideALT: Inigo Montoya from Princess Bride 030
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and then five minutes later, an idea for a new Thingstatic.klipy.comGrogu Says Hi FriendALT: Grogu Says Hi Friend 2100
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026me after finishing a Thingstatic.klipy.comInigo Montoya: Now That It's OverALT: Inigo Montoya: Now That It's Over 3311
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent” & all that 110
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Those are the 2 scenes that I copied into my book 110
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, perhaps, a book that hits particularly hard in 2026 130
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026they warned me that having children would change my emotional reaction to books and they were right but that scene with Camille and his boy, just, i am done, ended, over and then his father's letter, and 260
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I will be very very nice to you", jesus christ 100
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Finally forced myself to read the last 30 pages of A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY, dammit I thought I went into this with eyes open, "don't get attached to these beautiful passionate murdery kids, they're gonna get their heads chopped off," but NO, here I am, choked up thinking about Camille's son 2101
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've heard something about that! I didn't know they'd be "good enough" for coding but my sense has been that they're "good enough" for most of the stuff the general population uses AI for now. If they're good enough for coding... that does seem like a problem, yeah 110
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It seems to be genuinely transforming code which would transform the code economy but is that enough to pay off the X trillion dollar USD capital spend required to keep even the current state of the art up and running? idk 5321
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026By all reports it seems to be much better at being an early-to-mid-career software dev than it is at anything else, the particulars of early 21st C employment have allowed these people to persist in the illusion that coding skills are the only skills that matter, so here we are 5501
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sun Wukong and Tang Xuanzang in line for jianbing near Sanlitunr at 3:30 010
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I do think a lot of the SV fear / overwhelm response to AI comes down to "they've built a machine that's very good at eating their jobs *specifically*" 310212
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026as someone who dearly misses early-oughts Beijing, I can smell the cigarettes and erguotou coming off this title 171
Reposted by Max GladstoneJeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one. 1823925
Reposted by Max GladstoneAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 25/09/2026Y'all know there's a new book by Yoon Ha Lee coming soon, right?? www.simonandschuster.com/books/Code-a...simonandschuster.comCode and CodexThree-time Hugo Award finalist Yoon Ha Lee returns to science fiction with a swashbuckling space opera fighting against an evil empire trying to er... 1519152