Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Horror "writers" inventing fun new ways to be quislings. 051
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'm sure we're all exhausted at being so consistently correct. Alas, we must carry on. 0110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I am opposed to "AI" writing, and I am opposed to the HWA. But I repeat myself. 052
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026But what about the divisiveness? Have you thought about the divisiveness? Won't somebody think of the divisiveness????? 170
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The value of an editor who can say "you've got to fix this," and "this" is what's getting in the way of what you're trying to do, can't be overestimated. Even if I get a little whiny about it. Um, one. If one gets a little whiny about it. 010
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Hey, uh, what's that last story you mentioned? Asking for a friend... 100
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I showed up to voidcon last year in bright blue basketball shorts and, though no one asked, kept referring to them as my "punk rock shorts." I am unsure if this is helpful. 010
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 14/08/2025One day I'm gonna say something publicly about whether it was a good idea to make any sequels to Alien, a perfect movie, and then I'm gonna lose all my friends. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Carnage for Christmas is gorgeous. Good in a lot of ways, but oh boy did I love looking at it. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Oh, uh oh, there's a neat-looking region 2 of She Dies Tomorrow? Guess who's finally in the market for a region-free player... 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/06/2025At this point, the absence of a physical release for either of Amy Seimetz's movies is just a personal attack on me, right? 100
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I'd wager five American dollars that this shit's gonna sear my eyebrows right off. 141
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Even better that he didn't change the bits early on about campus Maoists, so now that song is coexisting with like SDS splinter groups. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I think this is more viscerally upsetting than anything I've ever written. Maybe everybody was just stunned. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025IT'S ALIVE! I'm excited for people to get their hands on my slimy (both senses) lil book. 052
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Oh, that is interesting! Guess I have a reading of the enemy to add to the other stuff I made note of to read. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 14/06/2025True to form, this is an excellent must-watch. Only thing I'd add is that the "tragedy" framing's popularity makes it much harder to talk to anyone about the *enclosure* of the commons, an actual tragedy that actually occurred, carried out by the state and not the self-interest of individuals. 040
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 14/06/2025My phone doesn't connect to the car radio anymore, so I've been listening to FM radio a bit, and there is an upsetting amount of Seether still happening. The past isn't dead, etc. 010
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Ah, yes, that eternal category, "Logic/Relationships." 050
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Got a new one next month! For the first time ever, the back cover copy doesn't mention Florida, but don't worry. It's set in Florida. 252
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Me, only reading novels I know I'm going to hate: There are no good novels today! 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Hell yes. Looked over at my buddy like ten seconds before this moment and said, "I swear to god, if he ninja-fights that fucking helicopter..." 210
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The science fiction establishment lining up behind the tech establishment that lined up behind the administration, a few months before getting together to give awards to Tales of Cozy Resistance at a banquet sponsored by an arms manufacturer. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I guess it simplifies the torment nexus process if both steps are done in-house. 020
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025"Worldbuild...film at scale" is absolute loser shit. Lyonne joining the war on AI on the side of AI. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Not saying Lebowski and Miller's Crossing and their best film Burn After Reading aren't bangers. Just...well. I guess we can see where nihilism goes. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I continue to find Sam and Weirdpunk's transparency and promptness remarkable, but they really shouldn't be. Every indie press can do this, and if they don't, it's a sign to me they're not really in it for the art or the artists. In which case, just go into finance like every other predator. 010
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Weirdpunk's cut is Weirdpunk's money. Mark's cut is Mark's money. We're not dealing with huge piles of cash from my little book, but even if we were, I am fully confident that the situation would be the same. I have this confidence because of how I've been treated. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I suspect Sam ain't gonna brag about it, because I know he thinks as I do it ought to be the default way of doing business, but he published my most recent book, and I know (to the copy!) how many books have sold and where they sold and how much each of us is making from that. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025I have a lot of thoughts about Recent Developments, but you know what I think is the key phrase here? "Other people's money." Royalties to authors aren't a favor the press is doing for authors, or a like a bonus from a nice boss. They're the author's money. 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Bet something real silly provoked this, but I shan't be finding out what. Just gonna enjoy. 020
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I saw the best art observations of my generation destroyed by bot replies, starving, hysterical, algorithmed 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Oh hell yeah, I think you'll dig it. And yep yep yep, that hallway... 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025And the Kafka "fathers and sons" volume probably fits, right? I've read all those but the print editions all also come with a letter to his father, which is none of my business. 000
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025And yeah, there's the Bernhard book where this is the title, and I haven't read it but I'm thinking horror, y'know?! 100
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Hmm, looks like Southard's book might have four. Not how I remember it! Though it would mean it's the same form as Chandler's TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS, and there's worse company. 100
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Every time I try to write something funny! "Wait. I wasn't even that sad...what happened?" 110
Mark @mutantcircuit.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Hell yeah, on it. Can't resist anything with even a whiff of "late last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him," especially if it gets weird. 010
