Ben Berman Ghan
@inkstainedwreck.ca
SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
EIC of Paper Bill Press
Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
This is a horrendous theft of my intellectual property and @scalzi.com is will be hearing from my lawyer. The original Ghan cut of #nipplesofgrimdark will be released as a 6 hour black and white special on HBO max
Obviously The Nipples of Grimdark would be a tale set in the hostile yet alluring Grand Teton-like mountains of Kwee'Glan (which translated out of Kweeish means "The Grim, Dark Land"), where our young hero must travel to battle the hot yet evil Queen Mam, who inevitably admires his, uhhhh, spunk
December 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is a horrendous theft of my intellectual property and @scalzi.com is will be hearing from my lawyer. The original Ghan cut of #nipplesofgrimdark will be released as a 6 hour black and white special on HBO max
the beginning, middle, and end of the year all belonged to poetry. I got to put out my poem "Home" last winter with @pinholepoetry.bsky.social
· P I N H O L E • P O E T R Y
BEN GHAN HomeI may be the only Jew sitting masked And corpse-like and truthful and mournful on the 10th floor of the bleeding slice of brutalist-turned-tender machine that iscalled Canada watching pla...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
the beginning, middle, and end of the year all belonged to poetry. I got to put out my poem "Home" last winter with @pinholepoetry.bsky.social
For a long time, I couldn't help but define my success as a writer each year based off how much fiction I put into the world, and I think 2025 was the first year since 2015 where I published not a word of fiction.
BUT it was an amazing year for poetry and non-fiction for me, and i'm very grateful
BUT it was an amazing year for poetry and non-fiction for me, and i'm very grateful
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
For a long time, I couldn't help but define my success as a writer each year based off how much fiction I put into the world, and I think 2025 was the first year since 2015 where I published not a word of fiction.
BUT it was an amazing year for poetry and non-fiction for me, and i'm very grateful
BUT it was an amazing year for poetry and non-fiction for me, and i'm very grateful
All jokes aside and whatever you think of it, I’d pay good money to have an audiobook of babel where all the footnotes are read by Ron Howard, come on
It’s like if the Arrested Development narrator was the most humorless college activist of all time
December 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
All jokes aside and whatever you think of it, I’d pay good money to have an audiobook of babel where all the footnotes are read by Ron Howard, come on
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"an internet witch hunt"
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
December 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"an internet witch hunt"
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official.
This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.
What happens in your head is the best goddamn thing ever if what’s happening in your head is Absolute Martian Manhunter 7 by
@denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
What happens in your head is the best goddamn thing ever if what’s happening in your head is Absolute Martian Manhunter 7 by
@denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social
@denizcamp.bsky.social @javierrodriguez.bsky.social
Cropped to avoid spoilers but oh my god the last page of Absolute Superman 14 by @jason-aaron.bsky.social and rafa sandoval and co was HEARTWRENCHING.
This is what comics are all about babyyy
This is what comics are all about babyyy
December 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Cropped to avoid spoilers but oh my god the last page of Absolute Superman 14 by @jason-aaron.bsky.social and rafa sandoval and co was HEARTWRENCHING.
This is what comics are all about babyyy
This is what comics are all about babyyy
Okay I’ve seen both It movies and the whole show and I’ve deemed the entire experience almost supremely Just Okay
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Okay I’ve seen both It movies and the whole show and I’ve deemed the entire experience almost supremely Just Okay
Become Ungovernable
(my 2026 lecture slides are functionally useless unless you actually attend the relevant lectures)
(my 2026 lecture slides are functionally useless unless you actually attend the relevant lectures)
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Become Ungovernable
(my 2026 lecture slides are functionally useless unless you actually attend the relevant lectures)
(my 2026 lecture slides are functionally useless unless you actually attend the relevant lectures)
Had to shout out @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social for the notable Notable 2025 Books list on the Ancillary Review this year, because man, it’s just stuck with me
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ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Had to shout out @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social for the notable Notable 2025 Books list on the Ancillary Review this year, because man, it’s just stuck with me
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
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ARB's Notable Books of 2025!
ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
ARB's Notable Books of 2025!
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fwiw, for me the whole discourse about AI "summarizing" materials comes from the idea that doing the Humanities is "easy" and books/ articles are simply information conveyance mechanisms, not the thing they are - knowledge creation machines with nuanced arguments
December 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
fwiw, for me the whole discourse about AI "summarizing" materials comes from the idea that doing the Humanities is "easy" and books/ articles are simply information conveyance mechanisms, not the thing they are - knowledge creation machines with nuanced arguments
Truly, what is the point of doing this. Why are people choosing to be researchers if they won’t do research. Why would you ever cite a source you haven’t read. Just go do another job
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Truly, what is the point of doing this. Why are people choosing to be researchers if they won’t do research. Why would you ever cite a source you haven’t read. Just go do another job
My greatest burden is I only have 7 extremely sick and cool and funky tattoos.
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My greatest burden is I only have 7 extremely sick and cool and funky tattoos.
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hot take but if using an llm in the process of writing your novel three years ago disqualifies it from an award that just updated their policy, that is fine. you do not have a god-given right to be a nebula finalist.
December 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
hot take but if using an llm in the process of writing your novel three years ago disqualifies it from an award that just updated their policy, that is fine. you do not have a god-given right to be a nebula finalist.
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“In this futuristic dystopia, love spans centuries, exceeds limits, and defies programming.”
-Katherine Westwood
Katherine Westwood is our Reviewer-in-Residence and her newest review is of Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn).
nortendbookster.com/the-years-sh...
-Katherine Westwood
Katherine Westwood is our Reviewer-in-Residence and her newest review is of Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn).
nortendbookster.com/the-years-sh...
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“In this futuristic dystopia, love spans centuries, exceeds limits, and defies programming.”
-Katherine Westwood
Katherine Westwood is our Reviewer-in-Residence and her newest review is of Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn).
nortendbookster.com/the-years-sh...
-Katherine Westwood
Katherine Westwood is our Reviewer-in-Residence and her newest review is of Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Wolsak & Wynn).
nortendbookster.com/the-years-sh...
Publish book.
Have next book acquired
Finish thesis
Confront the Great Demon in the Final Battle
Make cookie
Have next book acquired
Finish thesis
Confront the Great Demon in the Final Battle
Make cookie
My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?
December 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Publish book.
Have next book acquired
Finish thesis
Confront the Great Demon in the Final Battle
Make cookie
Have next book acquired
Finish thesis
Confront the Great Demon in the Final Battle
Make cookie
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Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!
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One Message Remains
Check out One Message Remains - <p>Pageantry, pomp, pretense, and peril-"The General's Turn," originally published in The Deadlands, drew readers into the dark world of a ceremony where Death herself ...
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December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Anyway! This seems like a good time to re-up my book that came out in February -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is a mini-collection with a brand-new novella and two new novelettes, plus one reprint, set in the same world!
bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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Area man who wants to dig tunnel under country's biggest highway says selling alcohol a daunting task.
December 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Area man who wants to dig tunnel under country's biggest highway says selling alcohol a daunting task.
“We get it, you hate this. Everyone hates this. But like, could you please use it because we invested in it? Money please? Moneyyyyyyyyy?”
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 AM
“We get it, you hate this. Everyone hates this. But like, could you please use it because we invested in it? Money please? Moneyyyyyyyyy?”
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
Please don’t buy your books from amazon this holiday season. There are so many other places to buy books.
Hell, there are so many other places to buy EBOOKS even. You can get mine and others right from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social so why bother with kindle
bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
Hell, there are so many other places to buy EBOOKS even. You can get mine and others right from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social so why bother with kindle
bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Please don’t buy your books from amazon this holiday season. There are so many other places to buy books.
Hell, there are so many other places to buy EBOOKS even. You can get mine and others right from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social so why bother with kindle
bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...
Hell, there are so many other places to buy EBOOKS even. You can get mine and others right from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social so why bother with kindle
bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...