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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 · 25/09/2026
Wait, hating sunlight is unnatural?
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Barnabas Collins Shocked in Dark Shadows
Alt: Barnabas Collins shocked and realizing something in Dark Shadows
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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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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is oddly comforting ✨
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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 · 30/06/2026
Yes, this for me too
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Your Danny Glover moment ✨
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Roger Murtaugh: Oh, I'm Too Old For This
Alt: Danny Glover from the Lethal Weapon franchise: Oh, I'm Too Old For This…
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I think there’s something to the training thing. My morning coffee shop routine really focuses me and extract the best from my brain bean.🫘
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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
Yes, all good writing juice
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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 · 20/05/2026
Came here to say the same. I was run off the road trying not to get hit by a car. Had a cliff I could’ve fallen over, chose instead to bounce on the pavement and skid, using my head to lift the rest of me off the ground as I scraped to a stop 🤷‍♀️
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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 · 12/05/2026
If only Burger King trauma centers advertised the diversity of their “have it your way“ services better
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Same. I use them predominantly when human beings are talking, because that’s what some of them do. It’s word economy, if an adverb isn’t pulling his weight in my work, it doesn’t make it in. So that’s most of them. If there’s a verb that does enough, why describe it?
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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 · 29/04/2026
Funnel! New technique unlocked! Now maybe I can make it past the second boss
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Related to Chernobyl, just saw this posted in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, invite to a New York screening of the documentary “Bombshell“… web.cvent.com/event/1adbc0...
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About the film - Bombshell (Special Screening)
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just wrapped chapter 20 in my YA sci-fi novel, 20% of the book left. This was the action scene/Friend break up, I’m kind of shivering still.
The view from my window, Spielman bagels in Portland, Oregon, terrible Crome book, delicious everything bagel, questionable ending to a chapter in my novel.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I just tried finding her again, it looks like her URL got sold 😞
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I was unaware of these videos, thanks! Quite a while back, there was someone who rode her motorcycle through the region, filming as well. I guess the road protects drivers a little bit from the rads? Nature is amazing in its ability to adapt to our stupidity.
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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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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
That’s awesome! 🤩 My buddy is had it for going on five years, so his hard to understand and is now down to eye movement tablet interactions. But the foul words coming from that tablet when he plays D&D as a raunchy dwarf, solid gold.
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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 · 22/04/2026
Keyboard: Sorry, no m key. Shiv: m’kay…
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Adding a funny line is tax-free ✨
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I got approached by a fake successful author wanting to help my career and steer me toward a bizarre editing service scheme 🧐
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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:

Mike Diamond
@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 · 17/04/2026
Many Shubs and Zuls knew what it was to roast in the belly of a sloar that day, tell you I can.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Gozer the Gozerian will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrinai, he came as a very large and moving Torb. Then after the reconciliation of the last of the Mecatrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a Sloar.
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Mike Diamond @mikediamond.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That’s awesome! What platforms work best for you?
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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 that same blade of Malach Hamavet Find soon its sheath and in it some rest May blood on the door be enough this Pesach To make this time truly a chag semeach 4/4
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