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Mike Diamond

@mikediamond.bsky.social
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✍️ Writing YA Sci-Fi “Brilliance of Earth—Tangle and Tether” (sapphic and STEM) 📘 Nonfiction book on ethical phishing “Swim Like a Phish” (under consideration). 🤲 Excited to help build community! Especially in the arts 💖✨

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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What are the odds that a voting disenfranchisement crime would bring back the hanging Chad debate? #HangingChad #Vote #NoKings 
News article snapshot from The New York Times, showing a horrible sheriff with one of those 70s porn mustaches, pretending to be morally outraged but really being a criminal clown. Here’s the text of it: 
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Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules The California Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County to return more than 650,000 ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for a voter fraud investigation that state officials said had no basis in fact.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In 2021, Matt Barry distanced himself from the 2008 IT crowd episode that was anti-Trans.  “I don’t condone anything that that comedy portrayed, you know? I don’t share any views that the writer has.” …and yet, he’s in the new Harry Potter, working for the queen TERF. #transrights
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Matt Berry Has a Type
The actor is known for playing ridiculous characters with a straight face — the stupider the better.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
…or wonder what swam there 20M years ago and what it would do to their nonfunctional ship 😅
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Austin @austinmaine.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I have no idea if I'll ever get published, but I know I'll never stop writing... #writing #querying #booksky #writingcommunity
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Overall, good advice. After 40+ years, I have had a handful of “easy” writing moments. And they would not have existed without all the not easy moments prior 😅
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
AOC: This is an inhaler pump. Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Stupid feelings! Right as I was tearing up, my drink order was ready at the bar. I know that’s why I’m doing this, but why can’t my emotions show up at a convenient time? #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #StupidFeelings
A coffee shop in Cannon Beach, insomnia. Some words written meticulously on a super crappy Chromebook in Google Docs. Somehow, I have wrangled that terrible system to be a dark screen. Here’s the text on it:

…this thought experiment, the possibility of a brain appearing through random quantum fluctuations. Back then, the idea consumed her!
Her mother had corrected her. "Obviously, that appearance, statistically, would take time, far more than the age of the Universe."
But Brilliance had disputed its unnecessary complexity. "Why a whole brain? Why not a blip of thought? We have narrow context windows. We don't need to be more than that blip. No need for memories, strings of logic. We'd be a nanosecond of belief. Why even have time? Probably only takes a few bits of quantum-level processing. Much more plausible."
Her mother had conceded, coining it Brilliance's "Blip Brain." ven now, that
acknowledgement was what truly consoled her in the dark.
Tajiq's voice broke the perfect silence.
"Is everyone alive?"
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My current chapter is titled “Any landing you can run away from” and I just can’t stop smiling. #WritersCommunity #WritingCommunity
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If I could walk into a bunch of smears, I would want to walk into these smears.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My favorite writing juice is iced soy Matcha. Mmmm, writing juice 🤤 Definitely works. What’s your writing juice? #WritingCommunity #Skywriters #writingjuice
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My cancel subscription poem to Paramount. #AngryPoem #Poetry #StephenColbert
This is my Paramount cancel subscription screen. I selected the option labeled other, which provided a text field. In that box, I wrote the following poem:

Dared they meddle in stately affairs Pandered to ogres, absent of care Lost without compass, moral or fair
Costing them half of their market share
When it all crumbles, you'll land where?
Plentiful, places to dream, may you dare When all your bosses end up downstairs Long shall you live, Stephen Colbert!
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
In a way, getting author spam is recognition of authorship. And who doesn’t like recognition?
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
… But if it had to be someone dead, I would want it to be someone who was alive before I chose their orange faced ass.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🫦mmmgay…
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 3: You don't need an MA in Creative Writing to write. You don't need special software to write. You don't need online services to write. All you need is a notepad, a pen and the willingness to take time, make mistakes and learn.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
What is everyone’s everything bagel strategy when every seed gets everywhere? Sometimes I sprinkle them back on the bagel or the toppings or filling. Sometimes I eat them directly. #Bagel #EverythingBagelEverywhereSeedsAllAtOnce
Mostly eaten everything bagel with avocado, sprinklings of various seeds on the wrapping paper.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Warner Brothers shelved this for three years. Now, released as if “Acme” owns the production and didn’t want us to see it. #IsItIronyOrAMirror #IDon’tCareAsLongAsICanSeeIt
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Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Imagine reducing the need for knee replacements by 62%! A groundbreaking injection could rejuvenate your cartilage using your own cells. What if aging joints could be treated without surgery? This research might just change everything. 🦵✨
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Stanford finds the switch for joint aging: an injection could prevent millions of knee replacements - Sinaptica
A team from Stanford University has identified a key protein that controls the aging of joint cartilage and developed an inhibitor capable of reversing it, open
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Literally needed this last night 😅
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Man, my Bsky feed today is full of a lot of mealy-mouthed walk backs. No, fam, the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend and I'm not gonna ignore decades of cruelty and greed because I like who he's attacking. So, no, I will NOT be siding with Coyote against ACME and will be taking no further questions
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This little gem popped up in my memories. *Laughs at own joke he’d forgotten*
Screen grab that says:

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@mikediamond.bsky.social
In support of freeze peach, I will
refer to it as freeze peach, so the antifreeze peach Al won't freeze my peach.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wonder if there’s any red headed rapper whose handle is MC1R? #GeneticJoke
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Stoked about reading this, so is Miss Lottie Lou 😹 Pre-signed, so that should make it easier when I see her in Portland next week 🤷‍♀️
Loyalty sticker, very cool service to purchase in a way that helps local bookstores. Miss Lottie Lou, hey ridiculously small young striped tabby cat is seen sniffing all the elements, from cardboard box to blue tissue paper. She is waiting to see what lies beneath…Cover picture of “The Edge of Space-Time: Practices, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie” Author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. There is no cat in this picture.The same book, only being sniffed by Miss Lottie Lou, a cat who inspects all things.Author signature on the title page, and a cool bookmark that says “in books, we are free to be”
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🤣 … I’m not sure the floor will consent
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Less than five minutes remaining on my 30 minutes a day limit of social media, so I wanted to hurry up and let you know, hi.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
I love how this ended: “Chanda Prescod-Weinstein distills the knowns and unknowns of our universe in a heady brew of astronomical observation, complex calculus, personal anecdote, and political polemic…Literature may well be physics’ conjoined twin…Buckle up and shoot for the stars.“
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The 12 New Books You Should Read in April
From 'Yesteryear' to 'Transcription,' these are the can't-miss books coming out this month
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Imagined conversation… Doggie: Why so many unprompted “who’s a good boy” questions? Person Friend: First, those questions are rhetorical. Second, they’re prompted by your resting “who’s a good boy“ face. #WhosAGoodBoy #Rhetorical
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🌔 Listen in on NASA astronaut Victor Glover sharing his impressions of the moon's geology as the Artemis II Orion capsule approaches ever closer 🌔 And watch live with us here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
May the many eyes of Malach Hamavet Look to the jackals for blood to let Not to the lambs who have given their share Nor to the lions who fought true and fair 1/4 #Poetry #Passover #AngelOfDeath
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Just a note If you wrote You’re the GOAT Go promote! #poetry #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #muchasidamnwellplease
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rhysknightstudio @rhysknightstudio.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Only a few prints left of my work ‘Appeals to the Underworld’ over at my Etsy shop ✍️ Be sure to check them out at the link below 👇 www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #art #drawing #charcoal #darkart
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So unique, you have no mate Solitude, alas, your fate For you, there is no equal Your story has no sequel Would you have me hop? Or haberdashery shop? Is that the scheme you’ve hatched, My favorite sock, unmatched? #Poetry #SeriouslyWhereIsThatOtherSock
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Someone should mcboost it
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I was writing about l rumples of fabric, and I realized how angry Rumpelstiltskin would be about predictive text. #writingcommunity #PredictThis #DoYouMeanRumpelstiltskin
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Writing the oh no, big meltdown, argument, action chapter, is turning out to be a lot. Guess what’s also a lot? Me. Seems like a fair matchup? 🤷‍♀️ #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #WritersImpunity
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
#WritingTips #writing #writingsociety #Thewritingcommunitychatshow #WritingCommunity
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L Ramalho 🍉 @ramalho.org · 23/03/2026
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My copy hasn’t arrived yet, but even now, I feel connected with its “matter” 🤓 This peek already appeals to my need to connect my art and science callings, something I often forget to do ✨ se wo were fi na wosan kofa a, yenkyi it is not incorrect to go back and get what you forgot -Akan proverb
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately, so it feels like a good time to share my painting "Steady".
A giant ox walks through a valley, it carries a city on its horns.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Happy World Contact Day!👽🛸✨
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Carpenters - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (Full Version)
YouTube video by The1970sChannel
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Had big plans for Pi Day today, circled it on my calendar, but was told it’s irrational, so I never got around to it #piday #ConvergenceOfMathAndDadJoke
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Not sure if this is pick one or a composite… #WritingCommunity
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Proud to be among such good company in this charitable book of poetry. If you’re able to purchase, it’s for a good cause. If not, give a share or 💖 Thanks! #Poetry #WritingCommunity
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Real problem: Transparent containers for hot drinks. Can I take an imaginary sip once the glass is empty? Thus extending my right to loiter a bit longer? Yes, but then my lie is also transparent 😅 #WritingCommunity
Coffee shop, 1/3 of a Matcha latte with soy sits in a glass beside a laptop with the following text on it:

"Noble sponsor, forgive me. I understand some Earth terms. I don't believe Romacca is responsible for any misdeeds.”
"I allow the transgress." K' Palis's features softened, "You've proven your loyalty to Avram, which I know reverberated through your family." Emella's brow furrowed with a memory. "But star laws are clear. Her culpability is not ours to decide." To Romacca, "It is time." They strode toward her.
Brilliance jumped in the way.
"No." Many of her red tangles slipped from their green binding, turning half of her head wild.
"Brillz, what're you doing?"
With a curious frown, K'Palis echoed her, "No?”
"Now you don't understand the word "no"?" Brilliance sneered at the mechanical person staring her down. “I'm claiming amnesty for Romacca in the name of the Earth."
"And Rotha." said Arrifal. He turned to Jaf. "I can do that, right?"
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We live in a magical semi-queer time! ✨ I’ll be watching a show with two dude-bros and not know if they are going to kiss. In the past, I knew they wouldn’t. In future shows, I’ll know they will. Right now? Mystery! #WritingCommunity #Queer #WillDudeBrosKiss
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Unfinished— Among tons of critics, lonely As the first, worst, and only #Poetry #YeahWellThatsJustLikeYourOpinionMan
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Markwayne is the antithesis of Mark Twain #Markwayne #MarkTwain
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/03/2026
Consider making a solid tech adoption by preordering my book about the cosmos, metaphors, and liberation bsky.app/profile/chan...
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Heroin. Write your ending.
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