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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hot damn. I'm now a member of @sfwa.bsky.social. There's another "writer goal" checked off.

Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When I first started trying to write SFF in my late teens, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction was my dream market and the first mag to which I sent a story. As part of Must Read, I won't send them another until this situation (THESE situations) are fixed.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A few years ago, I sold or gave away my copies of Harry Turtledove's (@hntdove.bsky.social) "Timeline 191" series in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War and another war 20yr later, setting off a very different WWI and WWII. In the past month, I've rebought all the e-books and read 7/11. Sigh.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you see me, come say hi! Winnie will not be accompanying me, alas.

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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 · 20/09/2026

She really needs to leave politics and start making stepmom porn.

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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 · 06/08/2026

Jake got all hot and bothered and writerly about some femme fatale 35yo Mrs. Robinson when he was like 15, and this was treated as okay, right? Does memory serve?

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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

my relevant specific details. My fly fishing business website has far more textual content than those of most competitors (all written by me over years). It's no wonder that Gemini or ChatGPT or whatever raided it for content to give for free to others, including lazy competitors.

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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 have something like a dozen translations of each of most of the "big" epics, and this is a good 'un for sure.

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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 · 21/07/2026

He really blew up with "failure pile in a sadness bowl." Look it up. Entirely SFW.

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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 · 02/07/2026

If one of those suit buttons fails under the strain, it'll put somebody's eye out when it shoots across the room.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@premeemohamed.com, you just made this person a bunch of money from me by reposting the coelacanth sticker. Good on you!

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

I have contemplated putting a whiteboard in the shower.

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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 · 17/06/2026

It's just old people tennis. Better than old people sitting on the couch watching FOX, though the demographics certainly overlap.

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Walter J. Wiese @walterwriter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It's like watching old Wayne Gretzky highlight reels, except the level of play in European and World Cup soccer (ahem, football) nowadays is worlds better than it was in the NHL in the early 80s.

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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

...once finished, I think it will not only be publication-worthy, but also the sort of thing that gets award consideration. Your own writing seldom makes you shake and cry when you read it, no matter how long ago you wrote it.

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

Tonight I read it through from beginning through what I have so far. I'm approaching the climax. Dunno why I chickened out. Because it's fucking good. I need to finish it. It will be 22,000 words or so, which is a really unfortunate length, but...

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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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