John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“WASPS IN TOWER” Terrify W.A.S.P. in Tower (2027) 020
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerDustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 257183484848
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerUndertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca 510242
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerJacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biology is applied chemistry is applied physics is applied math is applied logic is applied English QED 051
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ambrose Bierce: Not a Furry. 34711
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We must hold the Cornell 7 accountable now because if the last ten years have taught us anything, it’s that it’ll be a lot harder to hold them accountable down the road when they are Presidents, members of the cabinet, and Supreme Court Justices. 0193
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 205189675408
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“Writing isn’t as important as we think,” he wrote thoughtlessly. 0162
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerJohn MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Increasingly I think of the disruptions of our current AI moment, at least in education, as in some ways analogous to the disruptions of the peak of the pandemic—that time when the situation was clearly pervasive, persistent and dire, before any vaccine was available to partially counteract it. 184
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Increasingly I think of the disruptions of our current AI moment, at least in education, as in some ways analogous to the disruptions of the peak of the pandemic—that time when the situation was clearly pervasive, persistent and dire, before any vaccine was available to partially counteract it. 184
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 385113243077
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nepobabies and rich kids aren’t bad on an individual level, but as groups they’re both problematic and significantly different—and each group requires different social and political solutions. That’s what I’m trying to suggest, at least, in this thread. 010
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Lingusitically, socially & politically, this is dumb. We should be clear re: the semantics of “nepobaby.” A nepobaby benefits from massive access to a *specific* field. A “rich kid” benefits from the removal of prior barriers to success in any field. Both are privileged, but the difference is real.wsj.comWe’ve Reached Peak Nepo Baby. Every New Artist Is Hit With the Label These Days.The term once referred to children of A-listers following their parents footsteps. It now includes artists with any kind of leg up. 161
Reposted by John MacNeill Millernoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026[telling people what I work on] Wow that’s so interesting Not if I keep talking about it it’s not 823621
Reposted by John MacNeill Millernoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is sorta a funny thing about philosophy that the questions are inherently fascinating and exciting—there’s a reason people wind up talking about this stuff in dorm rooms—and the best methods we have for investigating them involve being as tedious and pedantic and boring as possible 1028625
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hey there. Latest story now available to read online! "Jempo." A maquinista out to advance her career encounters someone with a different approach to competition. A (relatively?) light story in terms of tone, for me. Hope you enjoy!lightspeedmagazine.comJempo - Lightspeed MagazineJempo took a deep bow on the iron platform. His body flopped forward, limbs like thick braided wire. No obvious weapons in his large and rubbery hands. Little digital eyes and a bright smile that lit ... 34322
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerStephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of the best things I’ve read in a long time, an essay by my friend Sarah. pshares.org/issue-articl... 57426
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerMr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New novella imprint dropped. 0105
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerEric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026got my contributor copy of LOVECRAFTIAN PROCEEDINGS #6, which includes my paper "Transalting Weirdness: Farnsworth Wright, World Literature, and the Creation of Weird Fiction" 1104
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerBen Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026announcing, well, a natural sensation - the new volume "Sensoria," from @humansandnature.bsky.social collects reflections on animals, humans, sensation and the natural world, and I am honored to have an essay on natural history museums in the mix: humansandnature.org/shop/sensoria/humansandnature.orgSensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of NatureBuy Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature, an immersion in the sensual experiences of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. 1114
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’m not sure this kind of reporting is helpful—it just breeds a sense of hopelessness. (If you read a disastrous student paper, you don’t spend your time tracking all its many failures. You focus on a few practical, structural changes that can make a big difference and inspire a course correction.)theguardian.com‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warnNew report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms 010
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Enjoying the new Cory Doctorow book on AI, but the one thing discussed in the book that I feel I have some expertise in (the definition of art) is treated in such an old-school Romantic way that I’m beginning to wonder how much I should be nodding along to all the stuff I don’t have any expertise in 040
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/09/2023pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life 322430655
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerRachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026back in the good old days, Emerson biographers used to acknowledge that it was extra-offensive when a young wife died a painful death if she was also hot. 1155
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The weird thing about Lovecraft is he was a rabid racist but the whitest guys in his fiction are…the most evil of men? Herbert West—surname West & Aryan man incarnate—is a total monster. The villain in “He” turns out to be the Euro settler, too. Feels like HPL’s stories were often wiser than HPL was 011
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerUsman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ted Chiang's fav writing quote is from her essay 'Write till you drop' "There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment." 015065
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerSusana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 16/09/2026Excited BEYOND MEASURE for @edyong209.bsky.social’s new book!!penguinrandomhouse.comLife Beyond Measure by Ed Yong: 9780593733288 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksJust as he did in his New York Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales. "A... 2144
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerMatthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 14/09/2026my mistress' dumps are nothing like a truck 194
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065521391
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026’Twas Gemma, and the junk algos Did prompt and process in the web: All flimsy were the chat windows, And the meme stocks did ebb. “Beware the JabberBot™️, my son! The slop that’s shite, the flaws that crash! Beware the Jubjub drift, and shun The frumious data snatch!” 14311
Reposted by John MacNeill Millerwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026introducing our revolutionary new technology. with the potential to show richer colour than any existing screen. battery life effectively infinite. it’s foldable. it’s thinner than you could imagine. it weighs next to nothing. introducing Papr™️ 25919
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerAgita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Our Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers series has been delayed until February 2027. But look at these covers! I think they'll be worth the wait. Covers by (L) Daimon Hampton, (C) Julie Anderson, (R) Maurice Buckley. 12415
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card. You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:billbiggart.comSeptember 11th — Bill Biggart Photographer 291350524
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Discussing work all the time = shoptalk Discussing AI all the time = sloptalk 010
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Favorite collections of deep space / intergalactic / alien / sf poems? Along the lines of Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars or Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s Rocket Fantastic or even Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem? I would like some interstellar / celestial-terrestrial Earth poetry plz! 8108
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my renamed geographical features, ye Mighty, and despair! 070
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026OK, so AI can apparently solve the puzzles of the Navier-Stokes equation. But can it solve the puzzles of the universe, in the way that Einstein did? My latest news feature for @nature.com looks into the question of how far AI can go towards scientific discovery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs. 46019
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerCenter for Humans & Nature @humansandnature.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We love this. Send us Sensoria photos. Dog photos, too! 📚 Happy pub day to our latest book, Sensoria! Readers in the US: www.humansandnature.org/shop/sensoria Readers outside the US: www.humansandnature.org/sensoria ⚡ Readers may also order Sensoria at bookstores via our distributor, Ingram.humansandnature.orgSensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of NatureBuy Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature, an immersion in the sensual experiences of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling. 012
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/09/2026[me, playing with my kids]: fantastic raw data for novel, great foundation for world design 36210
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s the release day for Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature from @humansandnature.bsky.social! Tilly is excited to crack open her copy. I hope she enjoys my little contribution to the anthology… 031
Reposted by John MacNeill Miller19th Century Theatre Caucus @19ctheatrecaucus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hello Bluesky! This is @lerikscline.bsky.social writing on behalf of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus. We're excited to share and repost publications, events, and news of interest to caucus members and other lovers of nineteenth century theatre and performance. 099
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerElephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction. 131315349
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I wrote about being torn between academia and wilderness, scholarship and nature. And hunting deer, and Austyn Wohlers' great novel Hothouse Bloom. William Cronon and Alyssa Batistoni. And the way a river flows to the sea. www.thenation.com/article/envi....thenation.comHow a Creative Mind Lives In NatureWorking in the wilderness could not satiate my intellectual impulses. But for the protagonist of Hothouse Bloom, the binary between mental and physical labor is what calls her. 1812134
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Academia used to be so wild. I mean, William James had no Ph.D. & had taken years off after undergrad (to be sad in Europe) & Harvard was just like “You’re pretty smart—maybe be a professor here?” WJ was like “I’ll give it a shot” & modern psychology was born. Anywho things no longer work that way 060
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026GREETINGS. 1816030
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026THUNDER, a true and terrifying story (starring Tilly Miller) 1120
Reposted by John MacNeill MillerJohn MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Pittsburgh-area friends! I’m very excited to be speaking at this event in three weeks celebrating the release of Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature. If you’re interested in attending, please click through to read more and RSVP! #envhumpenguinbookshop.comSensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature 023