Jay Wolf
@jayxwolf.bsky.social
sff writer & dev editor, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast. writes books as @mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social
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Jay Wolf
@jayxwolf.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Hey all! I'm finally finding some equilibrium, after months of intensive care work with my mother, and seeing daylight on several creative projects.
Including: the 2025 Publishing Derby.
My latest book is one of the books on this page! Can you guess which one is mine?
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Including: the 2025 Publishing Derby.
My latest book is one of the books on this page! Can you guess which one is mine?
2025pubderby.carrd.co
2025 Publishing Derby - The Books
The books of the 2025 Publishing Derby
2025pubderby.carrd.co
Hey so I did a thing!
This is the first personal writing I've done since January that's gone anywhere, and I'd love to see if you can FIND ME!
check out the thread below and look at this year's book list.
Entries close Oct. 22nd.
This is the first personal writing I've done since January that's gone anywhere, and I'd love to see if you can FIND ME!
check out the thread below and look at this year's book list.
Entries close Oct. 22nd.
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My horror debut LESSER HUNGERS is out today!
A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.
AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...
Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...
A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.
AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...
Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My horror debut LESSER HUNGERS is out today!
A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.
AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...
Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...
A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.
AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...
Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...
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It is the whacking of that hideous weed!
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It is the whacking of that hideous weed!
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Pope Leo's winning streak continues
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Pope Leo's winning streak continues
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I'm guessing we've all aged roughly two years since I interviewed @brynhammond.bsky.social and company earlier this month.
That said, I recently picked up her latest short fiction collection and wanted to share some thoughts:
That said, I recently picked up her latest short fiction collection and wanted to share some thoughts:
I’m reading more steppe fiction: A Visit from the Scythians, a collection by Bryn Hammond
Evidently, I’ve been on a kick of reading, reviewing, and interviewing authors about their fiction set in the historical Eurasian steppe. Both the real and imagined Eurasian steppe (and its d…
sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm guessing we've all aged roughly two years since I interviewed @brynhammond.bsky.social and company earlier this month.
That said, I recently picked up her latest short fiction collection and wanted to share some thoughts:
That said, I recently picked up her latest short fiction collection and wanted to share some thoughts:
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Out today! And I'm in it too...
Good evening my creatures of the night, I come to you this Halloween with a truly chilling announcement!
My story, “The Black Dog of Hampstead,” will be featured in Dracula Beyond Stoker magazine’s Mina Harker issue! Out November!
Visit dbspress.com/shop-1/p/issue… to claim yours!
My story, “The Black Dog of Hampstead,” will be featured in Dracula Beyond Stoker magazine’s Mina Harker issue! Out November!
Visit dbspress.com/shop-1/p/issue… to claim yours!
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Out today! And I'm in it too...
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My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My heart is so heavy … I lost a friend and mentor yesterday and the disability community lost a leader.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
The incomparable Alice Wong passed away.
She inspired me to find my voice.
She encouraged me to take up space and embrace my disabled body.
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Key point whenever you see an Altman prediction: the purpose of his predictions is *not* to accurately guess the future but build rationales in the present favorable to his company's interests. If you ignore everything he says you'll be smarter about AI.
Altman, and all these folks don't make predictions in order to predict the future, they make them to a) justify an overclocked corporate valuation, and b) argue for undoing regulations and receiving government support.
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Key point whenever you see an Altman prediction: the purpose of his predictions is *not* to accurately guess the future but build rationales in the present favorable to his company's interests. If you ignore everything he says you'll be smarter about AI.
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The Duke and the Pirate Queen, on sale for 99 cents at Kobo: "Violent storms, marauding corsairs, and life-or-death sex games on a desert island--how fortunate for the seemingly insatiable lovers that danger and desire go hand-in-hand."
#romancelandia
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
#romancelandia
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Duke & the Pirate Queen ebook by Victoria Janssen - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Duke & the Pirate Queen" by Victoria Janssen available from Rakuten Kobo. Aboard her privateering ship, The Seaflower, Captain Imena Leung is the law. Ashore she answers only to her liege, D...
www.kobo.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Duke and the Pirate Queen, on sale for 99 cents at Kobo: "Violent storms, marauding corsairs, and life-or-death sex games on a desert island--how fortunate for the seemingly insatiable lovers that danger and desire go hand-in-hand."
#romancelandia
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
#romancelandia
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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"But it's not only the letting go — there's also the rejoicing of how we can break the system that created the trauma and the division between us and the original caretakers of the land."
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"But it's not only the letting go — there's also the rejoicing of how we can break the system that created the trauma and the division between us and the original caretakers of the land."
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Family vloggers who censor spouse faces but not their child's face... Are so close to getting the point about privacy and digital footprints and yet... So far away.
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Family vloggers who censor spouse faces but not their child's face... Are so close to getting the point about privacy and digital footprints and yet... So far away.
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Every 5 years or so, some genius VC-backed startup tries to monetize fanfic. 831 Stories seems particularly cynical to me, astroturfing their own tag on AO3 and even linking the site on their official page as though it's just another place to have a social media presence.
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Every 5 years or so, some genius VC-backed startup tries to monetize fanfic. 831 Stories seems particularly cynical to me, astroturfing their own tag on AO3 and even linking the site on their official page as though it's just another place to have a social media presence.
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I will never understand the behavior to comment on a YouTube video saying "I haven't watched but..."
The answer is always in the video. Their question is always answered in the video.
The answer is always in the video. Their question is always answered in the video.
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I will never understand the behavior to comment on a YouTube video saying "I haven't watched but..."
The answer is always in the video. Their question is always answered in the video.
The answer is always in the video. Their question is always answered in the video.
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🤨🧐🫠
AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Humans need other human beings to survive. I'm sorry that this makes some people lose their shit but it's one of the key truths of life.
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I dunno, but maybe we just SHOULDN'T USE tools that just parrot whatever 50,000 racists say and pass it off as fact.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
“Earlier this year, a NewsGuard study revealed that 10 major #AI #chatbots, including #ChatGPT-4, #MicrosoftCopilot, #Gemini, and #Meta
AI, reproduced falsehoods from #Pravda networksources roughly one-third of the time & sometimes cited its articles directly” policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/stat...
AI, reproduced falsehoods from #Pravda networksources roughly one-third of the time & sometimes cited its articles directly” policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/stat...
Countering the threat of AI manipulation by authoritarian states
Authoritarian regimes are using AI to pollute information. Canada must lead efforts to protect truth, trust and democratic integrity.
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I dunno, but maybe we just SHOULDN'T USE tools that just parrot whatever 50,000 racists say and pass it off as fact.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
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I do have a label printer but this is a great resource if you don't and also pirateship.com is my favorite!
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I do have a label printer but this is a great resource if you don't and also pirateship.com is my favorite!
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I know it has been said before but people are still doing it so I beg, stop using random Cyrillic letter in your English titles.
I just feel like if you knew how incredibly stupid it looked to people who read both alphabets, you would stop.
I just feel like if you knew how incredibly stupid it looked to people who read both alphabets, you would stop.
November 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I know it has been said before but people are still doing it so I beg, stop using random Cyrillic letter in your English titles.
I just feel like if you knew how incredibly stupid it looked to people who read both alphabets, you would stop.
I just feel like if you knew how incredibly stupid it looked to people who read both alphabets, you would stop.
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33) Job titles are arbitrary, but adventurers are weird
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
33) Job titles are arbitrary, but adventurers are weird
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
A lot of folks have absorbed the idea of the D&D-esque adventurer w/o thinking about how we got that point. Adventurers are fundamentally people who don't fit into established society. They exist outside of it. That's what an adventure is.
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I could talk at length about this
A lot of talk about autism, adhd, and anxiety without identifying and dealing with the causes of all that anxiety, which is almost certainly in the limbic system and a lived experience of invalidating and forced assimilation.
November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I could talk at length about this
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OpenAI's "guardrails" for copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book. OpenAI will never stop Sora from doing copyright infringement because the AI generator was built with stolen content. www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
OpenAI’s guardrails against copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
OpenAI's "guardrails" for copyright infringement are falling for the oldest trick in the book. OpenAI will never stop Sora from doing copyright infringement because the AI generator was built with stolen content. www.404media.co/openai-cant-...
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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This whole thread is a correct take.
Shittification and shareholder return
A rehash of an old thread
Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets
He had zero faith in merchants
And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline
1/n
A rehash of an old thread
Why is everything crap. Well, here we learn why Adam Smith was an early Marxist, in that though he had great faith in markets
He had zero faith in merchants
And the reason why, is why no one answers your helpline
1/n
a woman is wearing a headset while sitting at a desk .
ALT: a woman is wearing a headset while sitting at a desk .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This whole thread is a correct take.