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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy to report my story "Something Fishy in Absako" will appear in issue 3 of Matter of the Imagination, an almost new print and online speculative fiction magazine published right here in my home state of Montana. Out in a few weeks!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hopefully another dog witch story will be available for your reading pleasure sometime in late fall or winter...

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lauren Boebert's true calling was making "stepmom" porn on OnlyFans.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump is going to nuke Iran, isn't he?

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Universe at Large! I will be attending @milehicon.bsky.social next month and just got my schedule. I'll be on three panels (one Fri, two Sat) and also be giving a reading. Hope to see you there!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is how you make a cover version of a song your own: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j8i...

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The Lemonheads - Fade To Black (Milan)

YouTube video by schlitsz

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Charlie Kirk = Horst Wessel. It is so fucking obvious what the fascists are trying to do.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I am currently getting massively downvoted on Reddit because I responded to a post in which somebody is whining about their writing being tagged as AI-modified after they (checks notes) used AI-augmented Grammarly by reminding them that qualifies as AI. Okay, fella...

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Any public "funeral" for Dolly Parton would be a travesty. Dolly would want a public PARTY.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I swear I read and re-read the story I am currently revising on request from a magazine editor many times before submitting it. Despite that, a character name from a very early draft somehow made it into my original submission four or five times.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A good judge of both character and musical intelligence is to ask somebody what they think of Meg White's drumming in the White Stripes. Everyone who shits on her is some combo of misogynist and musical moron.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In a world full of Donalds, be a Dolly.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Reminder: That hellbound SOB Mitch McConnell is still either dead or basically a vegetable.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This makes me want to sit in the bird house in the St Louis Zoo for hours, watching the hornbills or whatever, and then writing a story about their concerns.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

EVOL, Sister, and Daydream Nation by Sonic Youth. Dirty, Experimental Jet Set Trash and No Star, and Washing Machine by Sonic Youth are right up there. So is Murray Street, Sonic Nurse, and Rather Ripped by... Sonic Youth. I really like Sonic Youth.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If there's one thing I've learned from working in libraries, it's that the interest of girls/women aged from puberty to basically dead in stories of 19yo 100lb badass heroines having adventures and kinky sexytime with 1000yo fae/vampires/werewolves CANNOT be overstated.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Finally got bit by AI, specifically in regards to my fishing business. Was looking at a competitor's site, which obviously used content "written" by AI. Some of the specific bullet points about things like streamflow and flies to use did not precisely match my terminology, but did precisely match

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I feel like if I had been exposed to music like this at a younger age, my overall musical tastes would be very different. This is sublime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q8n...

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Gasoline - A Journey Into Abstract Hip-Hop [Full album]

YouTube video by Quantum Dream

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Scene: My 6th birthday party. Midsummer in St. Louis. All the heat & humidity that entails. My best friend had a big appetite. Running around playing. The inevitable results of all of the above. My birthday outfit (and birthday in general) ruined. I haven't had a hot dog since.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Welp. Platner is the asshole all the other accusations suggested he was, and the USA men's soccer team flopped. At least McConnell is probably a vegetable. There is no hell hot enough or deep enough for him.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I was today years old when I learned Neil Young briefly played in a band fronted by Rick James. I've seen the needle and the damage done, bitch.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I apparently like to preface my snarky anti-right wing posts with "to be clear" or "let's be clear."

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Let's be clear. Eric and Don Jr ALSO look like shit.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

To be clear, UFC has a very strong homoerotic subcontext that its practictioners are EXTREMELY unlikely to acknowledge, especially if they are MAGA. Mount me and give me some ground & pound, baby.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I would like just one (1) MAGA aficionado to explain why the White House lawn is an appropriate place for a cage fight. I have seen and expect to see zero justifications for this defilement of the nation's house.

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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I had no idea men played soccer, too! Good for them! Go boy soccer!! ⚽️

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

BAD NEWS: I HAVE THREE HERNIAS! I NEED SURGERY! GOOD NEWS: IT CAN WAIT UNTIL FALL! MY GUIDING SEASON (IN WHICH I MAKE 80% OF MY INCOME) ISN'T WRECKED!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I certainly hope Stephen Baxter got a check from Apple TV, because that ending of Season 5 of For All Mankind is taken whole cloth from his novel Titan.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Remember the Butlerian Jihad. "No machine shall be made in the likeness of the human mind."

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I don't post my wife enough. Here's Jani!

Pretty woman smiling while standing in a cave. She is wearing black tights with bright leaves and flowers on them.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A couple years ago I was working on a story that got an extraordinarily positive response in workshops and "first page idol" panels. One editor: "Is this a novel? If so, is it done? If so, I want to see it." It wasn't a novel. It was a novella, and for some reason I stopped working on it.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I have serious doubts that the story draft I finished last night at 9159 words can be cut to 7500, especially since in my notes I mention possibly needing to add a brief scene along with all the cuts, so I'm calling it: I drafted my first novelette!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

From the Concellation 2026 Facebook Group:

Photo of a list requesting attendees at science fiction and fantasy conventions to say hello, introduce themselves, ask for hugs, etc.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Here's some Jandek for your listening... pleasure? Interest, anyway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua7T...

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Jandek--Down In A Mirror

YouTube video by Taylor K Conrad

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is pretty dang close to my favorite song these days. Rock and roll (not "rock") is the best, and bangin' rock and roll played and sung by a fifteen-year-old girl who I didn't know existed until a year or two is even better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMh...

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Bang Bang

YouTube video by Janis Martin - Topic

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My writer brain may have been broken yesterday. I wrote the following sentence: "Dirty is water on for a day or two after the warmest days."

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I just had the epiphany that many (and I mean many) of my stories are inspired in part by the 2005 Disney film Sky High. My stories involve magicians with seemingly-useless powers. The film involves superhero teens with seemingly-useless powers. (It is a delightful teen/family movie.)

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I wonder how a candidate for high office would do campaigning under a "fuck gerrymandering" platform. I understand why it was necessary in VA (namely because Trump's buds in TX et al did it first), but Congressional districts should be set in a non-partisan fashion nationwide.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Echoing! No AI people are allowed to read my work.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What happens with the 80s-style teenage hero couple when they break up horribly, the chosen one boy hero implodes and then eventually gets his shit together in a small way, and the girl becomes a high-level wizard with a family... ...and they have to fight an old evil together as 30-somethings?

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Winnie! Her Gotcha Day is April 20, and she was about a year old when we got her in 2019.

Image of tan dog cuddling with large plushie toy

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#Norwescon pro tip: leave NOTHING in your car. Not even your dirty laundry. Thanks to @tkingfisher.com for being gracious when I was a bit rude while pushing our luggage cart (with the non-dirty laundry, etc.) back to our room while we dealt with the inevitable consequences of not doing the above.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If I was some AI-pushing tech bro, or especially someone considering flinging money at such a tech bro, I would go to a speculative fiction con and then reconsider my choices. For a sample size of about ten instances, every mention of AI in any context has drawn a hiss.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy to report a fun first day at Norwescon, capped by an excellent barcon convo with fantasy novelist Carol Berg, litrpg author kmac, SF author Mark Rounds (aka my father in law), and my software engineer and fan extraordinaire wife Jani. Now to bed!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hey! I'm going to be at Norwescon next weekend. If you see a dude with "Walter" on his name tag, it's probably me unless Walter Jon Williams comes too. I'm not a panelist (this is my first time to this con, so I've got to get the lay of the land), but I'll be in panels and so on all con. Say hi!

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Random thought just now: Harley Quinn, Medicine Woman

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm pretty sure the reason I keep petering out on the short story I'm working on is because it isn't a short story. It's the second chapter of a novel.

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