Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
· Nov 20
As I am a writer and must peddle my wares lest I die in the abyss, hey! In April 2025, THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS emerges from the fog and the trees and if you wanted to pre-order it from your favorite local bookstore -- or get signed, personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop -- that'd be nice.
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Thinking again about that anonymous whale who bet big on Maduro's removal on Polymarket just before the op happened... and about how Trump's been staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort through all of this
January 3, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Thinking again about that anonymous whale who bet big on Maduro's removal on Polymarket just before the op happened... and about how Trump's been staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort through all of this
GUYS, it’s okay, relax, we have accrued enough punches on our FIFA Peace Prize Card, and it lets us have One Free Unconstitutional War Maneuver — and presidential abductions are not exempted, so it’s totally fine!
January 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
GUYS, it’s okay, relax, we have accrued enough punches on our FIFA Peace Prize Card, and it lets us have One Free Unconstitutional War Maneuver — and presidential abductions are not exempted, so it’s totally fine!
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Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?
January 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Do I dare to skeet "impeach"?
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Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum condemns the US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president out of fear that the US may also violate Mexican sovereignty & Trump then tells Fox News that “something is gonna have to be done” about the Mexican President too.
Trump says "something is gonna have to be done" about Mexico and President Claudia Sheinbaum in response to a question about whether the Venezuelan strike was a "message" to her government.
January 3, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum condemns the US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president out of fear that the US may also violate Mexican sovereignty & Trump then tells Fox News that “something is gonna have to be done” about the Mexican President too.
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So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
January 3, 2026 at 12:44 PM
So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.
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Call me nuts but i think we probably have to go back to the system where only Congress can declare war as states in the .. where is it, I had it … oh this Constitution thingie. Here.
January 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Call me nuts but i think we probably have to go back to the system where only Congress can declare war as states in the .. where is it, I had it … oh this Constitution thingie. Here.
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Comparison to Panama 1989: in that case US courts had indicted Noriega for drug trafficking, and Panama had declared a state of war with the US and had killed a US Marine. No comparison really
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Comparison to Panama 1989: in that case US courts had indicted Noriega for drug trafficking, and Panama had declared a state of war with the US and had killed a US Marine. No comparison really
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Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text).
Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Calling is better if you can swing it, but if you're phone shy here's a slightly augmented script I made for faxing/emailing/etc (feel free to steal in alt text).
Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
Find Your Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Find Your Representatives: www.house.gov/representati...
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The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to
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anyhoo
So the plan is Don Jr. and Eric Trump corner the market to become the biggest drug cartel in the Western hemisphere.
CIA controls production, the US military kills the competition with Hellfire missiles, CBP controls drug routes into and out of the US, and ICE raids the local distributors?
CIA controls production, the US military kills the competition with Hellfire missiles, CBP controls drug routes into and out of the US, and ICE raids the local distributors?
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 PM
anyhoo
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Trump invaded a foreign country and kidnapped their leader, bombed their capitol, and is holding a press conference about it - not at the White House - but at his resort.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Trump invaded a foreign country and kidnapped their leader, bombed their capitol, and is holding a press conference about it - not at the White House - but at his resort.
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ICE defeated by SNOW
January 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
ICE defeated by SNOW
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I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
In an age where AI slop websites have made entire categories of information difficult to find, what we need is Yahoo (or Dmoz): a human-curated list of reliable websites, organized by topic.
January 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I actually think it's time to bring back the approach of curated lists and webrings from the early web again. Huge opportunity space for hand curation of information
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It's still unreal to me that a week later, we still don't know if the claim by the sitting COMMANDER IN CHIEF about a *military strike* in a country WE'RE NOT AT WAR WITH is real or not.
In this clip from a right wing radio show on Friday, Trump claims that on Christmas Eve the US “knocked out” a facility in Venezuela from which the supposed drug boats launch. Has this been reported anywhere else?
The station’s write up doesn’t mention it: wabcradio.com/2025/12/26/s...
The station’s write up doesn’t mention it: wabcradio.com/2025/12/26/s...
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
It's still unreal to me that a week later, we still don't know if the claim by the sitting COMMANDER IN CHIEF about a *military strike* in a country WE'RE NOT AT WAR WITH is real or not.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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welp
BREAKING: OpenAI is predicted to buy Pinterest, $PINS, in 2026, per the Information
January 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
welp
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Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
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I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
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A reminder that I've a book illustration course starting in a couple of weeks in the Irish Writers Centre. You only need basic drawing skills; illustration is a form of communication first, and an art second.
✍️ Finding Your North Star with Anne Tannam
✍️ Book Illustration with Oisín McGann
✍️ BOOKED OUT: Finish Your Novel with Conor Kostick
✍️ The Art of Poetry with Moyra Donaldson
✍️ Book Illustration with Oisín McGann
✍️ BOOKED OUT: Finish Your Novel with Conor Kostick
✍️ The Art of Poetry with Moyra Donaldson
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
A reminder that I've a book illustration course starting in a couple of weeks in the Irish Writers Centre. You only need basic drawing skills; illustration is a form of communication first, and an art second.
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A delicious takedown of AI, plus encouragement to be my weirdest self? Oh hell yes!
Writers, this one's a must-read:
Writers, this one's a must-read:
All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.
Writer Resolution 2026: Wield The Weapon That Is You
It’s never precisely easy to be a writer — professional or otherwise. I mean, it’s easy in the sense of, hey, anybody can open a word processor and start (fiercely or methodically…
terribleminds.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
A delicious takedown of AI, plus encouragement to be my weirdest self? Oh hell yes!
Writers, this one's a must-read:
Writers, this one's a must-read:
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What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
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I usually wait to share my favorite panel but - COME ON LOOK AT WALPURGIS 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I usually wait to share my favorite panel but - COME ON LOOK AT WALPURGIS 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
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"X generates images of child abuse on demand" would be a more accurate headline
Stop reporting on what a chatbot spits out about its internal processes and start holding the people who own the tech accountable.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements ...
www.reuters.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:10 PM
"X generates images of child abuse on demand" would be a more accurate headline