David Anaxagoras (he/him)
@davidanaxagoras.com
SFFH & TV writer. Author of The Tower (Recorded Books). Shows on Amazon, Netflix. Fiction in Lightspeed, Worlds of Possibility, Factor Four, et al. UCLA MFA. Codex.
https://davidanaxagoras.com
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Introducing The 2025 Story Yearbook—a small collection of my published fiction from this year that I put together, along with an introduction and brief notes about what sparked each piece. If you’d like to read it , you can download the EPUB for free, no email req'd: davidanaxagoras.com/yearbook/
ICYMI:
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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January 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
ICYMI:
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
Happy New Year.
Hold on through the dark. Light is coming.
A gift from @omgjulia.bsky.social—free cozy, hopeful fiction to carry with you into the New Year. Includes my story The Last Time I Went on a Prowl with Farrell Jenkins about holding on to wonder and a boy who may have been raised by cats. Proud to share the TOC with so many amazing writers.
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
A gift to end 2025 — Worlds of Possibility Volume 2!
This second volume collects short stories, flash fiction, and drabbles from the August 2023 to June 2025 issue run of Worlds of Possibility.
www.juliarios.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A gift from @omgjulia.bsky.social—free cozy, hopeful fiction to carry with you into the New Year. Includes my story The Last Time I Went on a Prowl with Farrell Jenkins about holding on to wonder and a boy who may have been raised by cats. Proud to share the TOC with so many amazing writers.
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up (ft. Kate Bush)
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Who needs a six minute hug from Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel?
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
Sending you into the New Year with hope, love, and comfort. Don't give up.
If that dude has shown up at my University preschool not only would I not open the door for him, he'd be face down on the ground surrounded by campus police before he could say pizzagate.
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If that dude has shown up at my University preschool not only would I not open the door for him, he'd be face down on the ground surrounded by campus police before he could say pizzagate.
Actual result of Google Maps search for "daycare". Searches for "childcare" and "preschool" gives slightly different location results but similar numbers.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
December 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Actual result of Google Maps search for "daycare". Searches for "childcare" and "preschool" gives slightly different location results but similar numbers.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
I was an early childhood educator for over twenty years. This bullshit needs to stop now or children are going to get hurt.
what are you doing What Are You Doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!? STOP TOUCHING THE GROOVES!!!!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE EATING BY A DEMOGORGON!!!!
#vinylsky
#vinylsky
December 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
what are you doing What Are You Doing WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!? STOP TOUCHING THE GROOVES!!!!!! YOU DESERVE TO BE EATING BY A DEMOGORGON!!!!
#vinylsky
#vinylsky
I never hate myself more than when I end up watching something on tv with ads when I own the Blu-ray.
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I never hate myself more than when I end up watching something on tv with ads when I own the Blu-ray.
If you're the dad of two boys who go off to use the restroom and you don't yell after them "Don't cross the streams!" you have failed as a father.
December 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If you're the dad of two boys who go off to use the restroom and you don't yell after them "Don't cross the streams!" you have failed as a father.
No state funeral when it happens.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
December 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
No state funeral when it happens.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Clog the procession route.
Humanity displacing a last reach for legitimacy.
The final no kings protest.
Reposted by David Anaxagoras (he/him)
If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you have a billion dollars, you literally have enough money to never have to hear any criticism for the rest of your life. Just because they’re all addicted to going online and getting yelled at isn’t my fucking problem.
Sometimes I think about hosting a co-writing video session or something but I'm afraid I'll forget I'm on camera and start picking my nose.
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Sometimes I think about hosting a co-writing video session or something but I'm afraid I'll forget I'm on camera and start picking my nose.
Darmok after the discourse happened
December 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Darmok after the discourse happened
already on my last candy cane
December 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
already on my last candy cane
Also, "I'm afraid to say nice things about AI because people are so mean about it" is pure Harper's Letter imaginary victimhood and also people do tend to react strongly when you steal everything they worked hard to create and then threaten their livelihood with the stuff you stole.
December 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Also, "I'm afraid to say nice things about AI because people are so mean about it" is pure Harper's Letter imaginary victimhood and also people do tend to react strongly when you steal everything they worked hard to create and then threaten their livelihood with the stuff you stole.
We live in an age where it's not enough that some people want to be incredibly destructive—they insist we appreciate them for it. Love them. Give them awards.
This open letter is disingenuous, condescending, and gross.
This open letter is disingenuous, condescending, and gross.
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
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December 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We live in an age where it's not enough that some people want to be incredibly destructive—they insist we appreciate them for it. Love them. Give them awards.
This open letter is disingenuous, condescending, and gross.
This open letter is disingenuous, condescending, and gross.
We Will Force to You to Perform For Us at our Venue brought to you by the party of You Can't Force Us to Make a Cake for Your Gay Wedding.
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We Will Force to You to Perform For Us at our Venue brought to you by the party of You Can't Force Us to Make a Cake for Your Gay Wedding.
On the "intimacy" of datasets: "We might be stored next to each other in a folder. Electrons might zap through my face and into yours. We might be touching."
I AM VOMITING FROM BOTH ENDS
I AM VOMITING FROM BOTH ENDS
What if AI datasets are gatherings we never chose, but could reclaim?
This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
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This new #NothingPersonal article explores the hidden intimacy of datasets and what consent, care, and agency could look like if we took the lead.
Read more ⤵️
mzl.la/3MS6ouo
The Art of the Dataset Gathering
Generative AI datasets take something that might seem small from each of us in order to accumulate something vast that is stored seemingly indefinitely. Since we are already a part of these billion do...
mzl.la
December 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
On the "intimacy" of datasets: "We might be stored next to each other in a folder. Electrons might zap through my face and into yours. We might be touching."
I AM VOMITING FROM BOTH ENDS
I AM VOMITING FROM BOTH ENDS
The best things about A Man Called Sloane are 1) had a groovy disco theme complete with laser pew-pew sound effects and 2) co-starred Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Torque, a tall black dude who had a mechanical hand that could SLICE OPEN A COCONUT IN ONE CHOP.
Classic TV Theme: A Man Called Sloane (Robert Conrad)
YouTube video by David Gideon
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December 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The best things about A Man Called Sloane are 1) had a groovy disco theme complete with laser pew-pew sound effects and 2) co-starred Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Torque, a tall black dude who had a mechanical hand that could SLICE OPEN A COCONUT IN ONE CHOP.
Reposted by David Anaxagoras (he/him)
Thought on this, slept on this, and I'm going to say:
"Be nice to everyone, because you don't know who will end up famous" is gross opportunistic advice.
Hang with the people you want to hang with. Befriend likeminded souls. Be kind but also confident. Don't string people along. That's cruel.
"Be nice to everyone, because you don't know who will end up famous" is gross opportunistic advice.
Hang with the people you want to hang with. Befriend likeminded souls. Be kind but also confident. Don't string people along. That's cruel.
December 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Thought on this, slept on this, and I'm going to say:
"Be nice to everyone, because you don't know who will end up famous" is gross opportunistic advice.
Hang with the people you want to hang with. Befriend likeminded souls. Be kind but also confident. Don't string people along. That's cruel.
"Be nice to everyone, because you don't know who will end up famous" is gross opportunistic advice.
Hang with the people you want to hang with. Befriend likeminded souls. Be kind but also confident. Don't string people along. That's cruel.
I resent having to say "human-made art" because genAI text or images aren't any kind of art at all.
December 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I resent having to say "human-made art" because genAI text or images aren't any kind of art at all.
How I'm walking out of 2025
December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
How I'm walking out of 2025
Stranger Things: The Drawing Of The Three
December 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Stranger Things: The Drawing Of The Three
Okay ST5, what do you got for me?
December 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Okay ST5, what do you got for me?
In the 80s we wore our sunglasses at night so we could watch you weave, then breathe your story lines.
December 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In the 80s we wore our sunglasses at night so we could watch you weave, then breathe your story lines.