John Bierce
@johnbierce.bsky.social
Fantasy novelist, author of Mage Errant, The Wrack, and More Gods Than Stars. Science and history nerd, some flavor or other of leftist/Marxist/anarchist, can burp the alphabet.
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At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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We received another rescue call and now have two more adorable #RescueKitten in our already crowded #CatShelter.
If you are not in our area and can't adopt or foster, please check our website for ways to support our crucial mission: vncw.org/support/ - or like and share this video.
#CatsOfBluesky
If you are not in our area and can't adopt or foster, please check our website for ways to support our crucial mission: vncw.org/support/ - or like and share this video.
#CatsOfBluesky
January 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
We received another rescue call and now have two more adorable #RescueKitten in our already crowded #CatShelter.
If you are not in our area and can't adopt or foster, please check our website for ways to support our crucial mission: vncw.org/support/ - or like and share this video.
#CatsOfBluesky
If you are not in our area and can't adopt or foster, please check our website for ways to support our crucial mission: vncw.org/support/ - or like and share this video.
#CatsOfBluesky
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Ah, my favourite Sword & Sorcery hero: Godzilla.
November 4, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Ah, my favourite Sword & Sorcery hero: Godzilla.
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Jan 1: this is the year of new Me
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
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I read some books this year. I enjoyed almost all of them.
I think I'm gonna read a bunch of books next year too.
Shout out to @johnbierce.bsky.social's latest book for being the coolest thing I read this year; it's so full of cool ideas and places and I absolutely cannot wait for the next one.
I think I'm gonna read a bunch of books next year too.
Shout out to @johnbierce.bsky.social's latest book for being the coolest thing I read this year; it's so full of cool ideas and places and I absolutely cannot wait for the next one.
January 1, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I read some books this year. I enjoyed almost all of them.
I think I'm gonna read a bunch of books next year too.
Shout out to @johnbierce.bsky.social's latest book for being the coolest thing I read this year; it's so full of cool ideas and places and I absolutely cannot wait for the next one.
I think I'm gonna read a bunch of books next year too.
Shout out to @johnbierce.bsky.social's latest book for being the coolest thing I read this year; it's so full of cool ideas and places and I absolutely cannot wait for the next one.
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I've waited 3 years to make this post
I don't think I have my original physical copy anymore, but reading Stephen King's Misery was the first time I saw the craft of being a novelist discussed in detailed terms- it was the first time that I realized that authors were just people, that I could be one too.
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I don't think I have my original physical copy anymore, but reading Stephen King's Misery was the first time I saw the craft of being a novelist discussed in detailed terms- it was the first time that I realized that authors were just people, that I could be one too.
I just installed the Wikipedia app on my phone for the first time, because I'm so tired of wading through AI slop search results to get to Wikipedia, or adding "Wikipedia" to every search.
Not a huge fan of apps that are just repackaged websites, but...
Yay enshittification?
Not a huge fan of apps that are just repackaged websites, but...
Yay enshittification?
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I just installed the Wikipedia app on my phone for the first time, because I'm so tired of wading through AI slop search results to get to Wikipedia, or adding "Wikipedia" to every search.
Not a huge fan of apps that are just repackaged websites, but...
Yay enshittification?
Not a huge fan of apps that are just repackaged websites, but...
Yay enshittification?
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O to be a little bird flying through the water with my friends
🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
O to be a little bird flying through the water with my friends
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The most important post on Bluesky today
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The most important post on Bluesky today
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Spot on. The UK scene, but the situation in North America, too.
"We will be left with nothing but commentary about super-hero movies, anti-progressive podcasts and YouTube channels, and whatever the hell it is Comicsg*te are vomiting out this week."
Ugh. Yeah, it's bleak right now.
"We will be left with nothing but commentary about super-hero movies, anti-progressive podcasts and YouTube channels, and whatever the hell it is Comicsg*te are vomiting out this week."
Ugh. Yeah, it's bleak right now.
"We Have Been Feeling the Pressure Like Never Before" - The Worrying Disappearance of Comics Commentary and Journalism Sites from a Broken Frontier/UK Small Press Perspective – Broken Frontier
Broken Frontier's Andy Oliver takes a look at the bleak landscape for indie/small press comics commentary and journalism in the UK.
www.brokenfrontier.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Spot on. The UK scene, but the situation in North America, too.
"We will be left with nothing but commentary about super-hero movies, anti-progressive podcasts and YouTube channels, and whatever the hell it is Comicsg*te are vomiting out this week."
Ugh. Yeah, it's bleak right now.
"We will be left with nothing but commentary about super-hero movies, anti-progressive podcasts and YouTube channels, and whatever the hell it is Comicsg*te are vomiting out this week."
Ugh. Yeah, it's bleak right now.
Ayuuuuuuuup. Seriously, make friends with other writers at your career stage, folks. They're not only the ones most likely to be able to help you, you also, you know, make new friends, which is awesome?
Oh, and incidentally. Those other writers, they are not your competition. They are your colleagues, and the kinder, more generous you are to them the better things will go for you.
2/2 "fame" is not evenly temporally distributed; some people are hot out of the gate, some build over time, some get hot years or even decades after their debut. Every writer you meet, "famous" or not, will remember how you treated them, their friends, and why. Treat everyone as having value.
December 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Ayuuuuuuuup. Seriously, make friends with other writers at your career stage, folks. They're not only the ones most likely to be able to help you, you also, you know, make new friends, which is awesome?
The world can't stop flipping off Francis Fukuyama
the first time in history this shit has happened. first time and it's on camera. what a privilege
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The world can't stop flipping off Francis Fukuyama
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If you or a loved one received a Kindle or eReader this holiday season, please make the sensible choice and load it up immediately with the r/fantasy yearly megasale.
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December 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you or a loved one received a Kindle or eReader this holiday season, please make the sensible choice and load it up immediately with the r/fantasy yearly megasale.
megasale.yrliu.com
megasale.yrliu.com
I have a tummyache. Help me feel better with photos of your pets in stupid poses please. The stupider the better.
December 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I have a tummyache. Help me feel better with photos of your pets in stupid poses please. The stupider the better.
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It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
The hour of my yearly Gremlins rewatch draws nigh. I can hear the stirrings of that bizarre electro-klezmer theme already.
(Mostly because I'm playing the theme on repeat, admittedly.)
(Mostly because I'm playing the theme on repeat, admittedly.)
December 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The hour of my yearly Gremlins rewatch draws nigh. I can hear the stirrings of that bizarre electro-klezmer theme already.
(Mostly because I'm playing the theme on repeat, admittedly.)
(Mostly because I'm playing the theme on repeat, admittedly.)
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there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats
Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats
Things I enjoy about getting back into shape: being in good shape
Things I don't enjoy about getting back into shape: getting back into shape
Things I don't enjoy about getting back into shape: getting back into shape
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Things I enjoy about getting back into shape: being in good shape
Things I don't enjoy about getting back into shape: getting back into shape
Things I don't enjoy about getting back into shape: getting back into shape
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My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!