Brian McNett
@bmcnett.bsky.social
Radical Mycologist and Gnome Appreciator on full disability. Occasional writer of EXTREMELY short fiction. Pronouns: he/him. Rather more than a bit ace. Will likely not notice you flirting with me.
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Brian McNett
@bmcnett.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Reliably Narrated Armageddon and Other Stories
Reliably Narrated Armageddon and Other Stories - Kindle edition by McNett, Brian. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Reliably Narrated Armageddon and Other Stories.
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I honestly think that @lanedraws.bsky.social knocked it out of the park, but this ebook edition doesn't do the full cover justice. The paperback will have the ENTIRE graphic including the back. But for now, the ebook is both economical and available for pre-order this very minute.
Releases 9/26.
Releases 9/26.
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Dear Author:
People want to lick your book. They want to moisten its salty pages with their tongues. Why not let them???
For a modest administrative fee we can guarantee thousands of disembodied tongues, across all platforms, slathering and slobbering on your beloved novel. Give them a taste!
People want to lick your book. They want to moisten its salty pages with their tongues. Why not let them???
For a modest administrative fee we can guarantee thousands of disembodied tongues, across all platforms, slathering and slobbering on your beloved novel. Give them a taste!
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Dear Author:
People want to lick your book. They want to moisten its salty pages with their tongues. Why not let them???
For a modest administrative fee we can guarantee thousands of disembodied tongues, across all platforms, slathering and slobbering on your beloved novel. Give them a taste!
People want to lick your book. They want to moisten its salty pages with their tongues. Why not let them???
For a modest administrative fee we can guarantee thousands of disembodied tongues, across all platforms, slathering and slobbering on your beloved novel. Give them a taste!
Subway has a special holiday turkey sandwich. Or, they would have a special holiday turkey sandwich if my local Subway had gotten their shipment of ingredients (which they did not).
Instead, I bought some turkey breast at the deli, and some cranberry sauce from the grocery, made my own stuffing...
Instead, I bought some turkey breast at the deli, and some cranberry sauce from the grocery, made my own stuffing...
November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Subway has a special holiday turkey sandwich. Or, they would have a special holiday turkey sandwich if my local Subway had gotten their shipment of ingredients (which they did not).
Instead, I bought some turkey breast at the deli, and some cranberry sauce from the grocery, made my own stuffing...
Instead, I bought some turkey breast at the deli, and some cranberry sauce from the grocery, made my own stuffing...
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I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever
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If you're not going to read a sci-fi detective comedy narrated by a footnoting coffee-machine robot, what is even the point of being literate?
“This zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
www.amazon.com/Great-Americ...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
“This zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
www.amazon.com/Great-Americ...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you're not going to read a sci-fi detective comedy narrated by a footnoting coffee-machine robot, what is even the point of being literate?
“This zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
www.amazon.com/Great-Americ...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
“This zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
www.amazon.com/Great-Americ...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.
November 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators of all sorts. If you have the means, buy a book, sign up for someone's Patreon, commission an art piece. It's also a lovely day to leave a nice comment, post a short review, spread the word about someone's work. Everything helps.
Oh my God, this! 1,000,000% this. This from here to the supermassive black hole at the heart of M31 and back.
My first job in the industry, my boss said “This is a de facto hostile workplace environment.”
You can’t hand this off to random people off the street.
My first job in the industry, my boss said “This is a de facto hostile workplace environment.”
You can’t hand this off to random people off the street.
Oh Jesus Christ no you do not want an election or jury duty system for T&S, EVER. Every site that's ever tried it has it crash and burn in a horrible fireball of drama, AND you have absolutely no concept of the kind of deeply traumatizing content moderators are exposed to every five minutes.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Oh my God, this! 1,000,000% this. This from here to the supermassive black hole at the heart of M31 and back.
My first job in the industry, my boss said “This is a de facto hostile workplace environment.”
You can’t hand this off to random people off the street.
My first job in the industry, my boss said “This is a de facto hostile workplace environment.”
You can’t hand this off to random people off the street.
Our “side” is People Who Don’t Fuck Children.” It is what it says on the tin.
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Our “side” is People Who Don’t Fuck Children.” It is what it says on the tin.
Please hire @lanedraws.bsky.social.
And I have a flat tire. Please, if anyone needs art done for them, consider hiring me.
Hey, I'm going to be honest, I've had some rotten luck these last couple months. About three different projects got cancelled, so, if you need covers, pages, posters, album art, and you like my style, please consider hiring me.
Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com/cover-work
Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com/cover-work
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Please hire @lanedraws.bsky.social.
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Don't forget to read The Histories, an encyclopedia of "totally true" stories about real people.
The dozens entries include folks like Stina Leicht, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Premee Mohamed, Catherine Lundoff, and more!
Maybe you'll join the halls of history, too! #writing
shaunduke.net/thehis...
The dozens entries include folks like Stina Leicht, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Premee Mohamed, Catherine Lundoff, and more!
Maybe you'll join the halls of history, too! #writing
shaunduke.net/thehis...
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Don't forget to read The Histories, an encyclopedia of "totally true" stories about real people.
The dozens entries include folks like Stina Leicht, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Premee Mohamed, Catherine Lundoff, and more!
Maybe you'll join the halls of history, too! #writing
shaunduke.net/thehis...
The dozens entries include folks like Stina Leicht, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Premee Mohamed, Catherine Lundoff, and more!
Maybe you'll join the halls of history, too! #writing
shaunduke.net/thehis...
The British package their hot dogs in GLASS JARS. I don’t want to hear anything about their 240v 50hz AC power system and how much that makes a British microwave superior to a US kettle.
You misunderstand, I use an electric kettle like a true American patriot.
It's Brits who went over to the dark side of the microwave.
It's Brits who went over to the dark side of the microwave.
I was totally in the @gailsimone.bsky.social "just microwave your water for tea" camp until I got an electric kettle after moving here to Uruguay. I'm so sorry, Gail. It's just so convenient.
November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The British package their hot dogs in GLASS JARS. I don’t want to hear anything about their 240v 50hz AC power system and how much that makes a British microwave superior to a US kettle.
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I will no longer be commenting on how stupid everything is, I think my contribution to the discourse is unhelpful
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I will no longer be commenting on how stupid everything is, I think my contribution to the discourse is unhelpful
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Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider
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Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.
There are two ways in which you know that fusion is taking place. The reaction produces gamma rays, and the reaction produces neutrons.
It’s necessary to shield against both. Neutrons will render all the surrounding shielding radioactive over time.
It’s necessary to shield against both. Neutrons will render all the surrounding shielding radioactive over time.
Such claims are always BS. This is a Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor, a lab demo that can fuse hydrogen--releasing gamma rays but not net power, and is really just a fancy plasma globe. There is no such thing as fusion without radiation--period, but if you don't know science, you'll fall for anything.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
There are two ways in which you know that fusion is taking place. The reaction produces gamma rays, and the reaction produces neutrons.
It’s necessary to shield against both. Neutrons will render all the surrounding shielding radioactive over time.
It’s necessary to shield against both. Neutrons will render all the surrounding shielding radioactive over time.
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
“Lichens are fungi that have discovered agriculture.”
—Trevor Goward, Lichenologist
—Trevor Goward, Lichenologist
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Lichens are fungi that have discovered agriculture.”
—Trevor Goward, Lichenologist
—Trevor Goward, Lichenologist
Homoiomerous.
Just sayin’.
Just sayin’.
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Homoiomerous.
Just sayin’.
Just sayin’.
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🧪🛟 #PublicHealth #EpiSky
“Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.”
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...
“Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.”
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...
Want to eradicate malaria-bearing mosquitoes? Try fungus, this researcher says
A Northeastern postdoc has created a mathematical model that demonstrates how a fungal solution could control malarial mosquito populations.
news.northeastern.edu
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
🧪🛟 #PublicHealth #EpiSky
“Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.”
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...
“Pant’s math shows how the numbers would play out: An 86% decrease of the mosquito population in Burkina Faso, with the fungal method.”
news.northeastern.edu/2025/11/12/f...
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Surprising nobody who understands how any of this works.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Surprising nobody who understands how any of this works.
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Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
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If you say things on TV like "Raping an 8yo is worse than raping a 15yo" you should be launched into a volcano
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If you say things on TV like "Raping an 8yo is worse than raping a 15yo" you should be launched into a volcano
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So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
More in the piece:
More in the piece:
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
More in the piece:
More in the piece:
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Amazon for instance used very dodgy language during its mass firing event, saying that because of AI, Amazon had "to be organized more leanly."
Meanwhile, workers themselves released a statement saying AI could not do their jobs yet at all.
Meanwhile, workers themselves released a statement saying AI could not do their jobs yet at all.
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Amazon for instance used very dodgy language during its mass firing event, saying that because of AI, Amazon had "to be organized more leanly."
Meanwhile, workers themselves released a statement saying AI could not do their jobs yet at all.
Meanwhile, workers themselves released a statement saying AI could not do their jobs yet at all.
Burgess Shale will distract you from <waves hands at all this>.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Burgess Shale will distract you from <waves hands at all this>.
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Get your shots, folks. It won't prevent you from getting infected, but it could lessen the severity and keep you out of the hospital.
“It’s just the flu”
Mask up, get vaxxed.
Mask up, get vaxxed.
Warnings rise for U.S. as a severe flu strain causes outbreaks. A flu strain that emerged over the summer is causing unprecedented outbreaks in Japan, as well as in Canada and the U.K. The CDC hasn't provided insights on flu in the U.S. in nearly 2 months.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Get your shots, folks. It won't prevent you from getting infected, but it could lessen the severity and keep you out of the hospital.