Joshua Mannix
@joshuamannix.bsky.social
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Bullet Points - Forthcoming (Jan 2026)
Sci-fi Shorts -
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Acidic Fiction - https://www.amazon.com/Acidic-Fiction-Toxic-Tales/dp/0692537384
Bullet Points - Forthcoming (Jan 2026)
Sci-fi Shorts -
https://ift.tt/2ByQMbP
https://ift.tt/crMTBY8
Acidic Fiction - https://www.amazon.com/Acidic-Fiction-Toxic-Tales/dp/0692537384
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Omni-Body Technologies
Joshua Mannix
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New story day! Inspired by some IT customer service experiences I've had...
#fiction #scifi #IT
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#fiction #scifi #IT
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"We changed our minds after the Transline's resident AI read it."
I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the AI hated it?"
"The AI loved it," said Tyrena. "Thats when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the AI hated it?"
"The AI loved it," said Tyrena. "Thats when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"We changed our minds after the Transline's resident AI read it."
I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the AI hated it?"
"The AI loved it," said Tyrena. "Thats when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the AI hated it?"
"The AI loved it," said Tyrena. "Thats when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
The Running Man: B to A- depending on your tastes.
a man giving a thumbs up in front of a sign that says running man
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November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Running Man: B to A- depending on your tastes.
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times in a gif.
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A movie you’ve seen more than seven times in a gif.
New story day! Inspired by some IT customer service experiences I've had...
#fiction #scifi #IT
ift.tt/2ByQMbP
#fiction #scifi #IT
ift.tt/2ByQMbP
Omni-Body Technologies
Joshua Mannix
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September 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
New story day! Inspired by some IT customer service experiences I've had...
#fiction #scifi #IT
ift.tt/2ByQMbP
#fiction #scifi #IT
ift.tt/2ByQMbP
September 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Then lets have people subscribe to short story magazines, new and old!
Publishers are noting a shift in industry mindset around short stories as readers embrace shorter works, with a number feeling like “something is slowly shifting” and that “there’s a real excitement around stories again” 👇 #BookSky
Publishers say 'mindset around short stories shifting’ as readers embrace slim fiction
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August 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Then lets have people subscribe to short story magazines, new and old!
New story submission...
August 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New story submission...
August 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Some days are just depresso days.
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Some days are just depresso days.
Reposted by Joshua Mannix
The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to keeping paying our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium. Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But <1% of our readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/2
June 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
50 rejections for the year? Sure. But two acceptances! Lets hope to grow at least one of those...
June 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
50 rejections for the year? Sure. But two acceptances! Lets hope to grow at least one of those...
June 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
You know, at least all this out right showcases the little boys who wear "Don't tread on me" depictions love the boot when its up their own ass but don't feel it yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/t...
The GOP Is Way Too Fucking Excited About Using US Troops On American Protestors
On the latest episode of the always excellent “The Bugle” podcast, comedian Alice Fraser amusingly describes the horror of what’s happening in Los Angeles the following way: So let’s just clarify: …
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June 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
You know, at least all this out right showcases the little boys who wear "Don't tread on me" depictions love the boot when its up their own ass but don't feel it yet.
www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/06/11/t...
One of the most offensive (lacking a better word) claims people make about "AI" is that they work the same as human creativity. As if someone writing a story just added a couple things we've seen before together and *bam* something new. That is not how it works at all.
June 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One of the most offensive (lacking a better word) claims people make about "AI" is that they work the same as human creativity. As if someone writing a story just added a couple things we've seen before together and *bam* something new. That is not how it works at all.
135 hours later...Im finally at the Last Light Inn on BG3.
May 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
135 hours later...Im finally at the Last Light Inn on BG3.
I just came to the realization that a short story magazine could, theoreitically, sue a person for damages if they inexplicably accepted a LLM generated story despite the submitter confirming on the submission that it wasnt. It fits all the criteria.
May 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I just came to the realization that a short story magazine could, theoreitically, sue a person for damages if they inexplicably accepted a LLM generated story despite the submitter confirming on the submission that it wasnt. It fits all the criteria.
Sinners - 5/5
Are Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan the Scorsese/De Niro of this era?
Are Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan the Scorsese/De Niro of this era?
May 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Sinners - 5/5
Are Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan the Scorsese/De Niro of this era?
Are Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan the Scorsese/De Niro of this era?
Days away from having 10 stories on submission...
May 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Days away from having 10 stories on submission...
My flash fiction for Bullet Points, "A Hollow Victory", is scheduled for Jan 2026...!
May 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My flash fiction for Bullet Points, "A Hollow Victory", is scheduled for Jan 2026...!
How any editor could let this go by knowing that llms are a thing...for shame. It should get someone fired for letting this slop through.
It's a multiple failure of editing; first of the editor in "assigning" the piece to "AI," and second in not knowing enough about what they've "assigned" to understand that the output is bullshit. In a different era, this would have gotten someone fired.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
How any editor could let this go by knowing that llms are a thing...for shame. It should get someone fired for letting this slop through.
Cheap choices make cheap product. No thanks to generated slop.
Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Cheap choices make cheap product. No thanks to generated slop.
All Electric Ghosts by Rich Larson @clarkesworldmagazine.com
Lots of things clicked after reading and analyzing it. Really this story is what brought me down the path of writing a lot of short stories and flash.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_10_19/
Lots of things clicked after reading and analyzing it. Really this story is what brought me down the path of writing a lot of short stories and flash.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_10_19/
May 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
All Electric Ghosts by Rich Larson @clarkesworldmagazine.com
Lots of things clicked after reading and analyzing it. Really this story is what brought me down the path of writing a lot of short stories and flash.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_10_19/
Lots of things clicked after reading and analyzing it. Really this story is what brought me down the path of writing a lot of short stories and flash.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_10_19/
May 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
3 stories, 3 personal rejections in a row...
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April 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
3 stories, 3 personal rejections in a row...