Marko Kloos
@markokloos.bsky.social
I tell lies for fun and profit. Author of the Frontlines and Palladium Wars SF series, Wild Cards writer, contributor to Love Death + Robots.
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Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.
If AI is inevitable, then why do so many terrible people spend so much time, money, and effort trying to get us to use it?
December 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If AI is inevitable, then why do so many terrible people spend so much time, money, and effort trying to get us to use it?
AI is the tool of the exploiter, and artists who use it are class traitors.
December 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
AI is the tool of the exploiter, and artists who use it are class traitors.
Wherever they can, they're cutting blue-collar jobs with automation and white-collar jobs with AI, while promising that everyone will totally have everything they need when everything is automation and AI, trust me, bro.
Well, who the fuck do they think is going to have money to buy their products?
Well, who the fuck do they think is going to have money to buy their products?
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Wherever they can, they're cutting blue-collar jobs with automation and white-collar jobs with AI, while promising that everyone will totally have everything they need when everything is automation and AI, trust me, bro.
Well, who the fuck do they think is going to have money to buy their products?
Well, who the fuck do they think is going to have money to buy their products?
I think it's hard to overstate just how much damage the "short term gains at any cost" mindset and incentive structure of venture capitalism has done to the economy and the social fabric of society.
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I think it's hard to overstate just how much damage the "short term gains at any cost" mindset and incentive structure of venture capitalism has done to the economy and the social fabric of society.
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Love how our tools are never allowed to be good enough the way they are. We still use hammers that haven’t changed in 200 years bc they already work, but if they were proprietary tech of HammerSoft they’d work like shit bc investors demanded growth so now HamR v200 uses AI to guess which nail to hit
I don't want new shit. I want Windows to announce they're rolling back like the last five years of crap and also I get to throw tomatoes at their executives.
August 27, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Love how our tools are never allowed to be good enough the way they are. We still use hammers that haven’t changed in 200 years bc they already work, but if they were proprietary tech of HammerSoft they’d work like shit bc investors demanded growth so now HamR v200 uses AI to guess which nail to hit
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
How very quaint our snark at Romney's "binders full of women" seems in retrospect.
December 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
How very quaint our snark at Romney's "binders full of women" seems in retrospect.
Denny's is egalitarian, but I think a case can be made that the true and universal consecrated ground in American culture is Waffle House.
I will tolerate no slander of the Denny’s good sir - where else can thirty exhausted goths show up at 2:00 am after a Vampire: The Masquerade gave and actually get them all fed and served no problem
December 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Denny's is egalitarian, but I think a case can be made that the true and universal consecrated ground in American culture is Waffle House.
I wish I could remember where I read it or who wrote it, but I distinctly recall someone putting forth "Pneumatic Elf Babes In The Valley of Baby Oil" as a book title to match a certain publisher's cover art for fantasy novels, and it's been my go-to snark for such sightings ever since.
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I wish I could remember where I read it or who wrote it, but I distinctly recall someone putting forth "Pneumatic Elf Babes In The Valley of Baby Oil" as a book title to match a certain publisher's cover art for fantasy novels, and it's been my go-to snark for such sightings ever since.
One thing that readers/fans don't always get is that when they see a bunch of writers hanging out at a con hotel bar, it's not elitist snobbery or "getting an in", it's usually "friends catching up". It's a pretty small field and most of us have known each other for many years.
This whole thread. This isn't like sucking up to broligarchs or venture capital fund tyrants. It is, unironically, about the friends you make along the way.
That said, I'm all for @markokloos.bsky.social 's John Wick style literary underground so long as it's got neon noir lighting.
That said, I'm all for @markokloos.bsky.social 's John Wick style literary underground so long as it's got neon noir lighting.
Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
One thing that readers/fans don't always get is that when they see a bunch of writers hanging out at a con hotel bar, it's not elitist snobbery or "getting an in", it's usually "friends catching up". It's a pretty small field and most of us have known each other for many years.
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Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
December 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.
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Let's take a moment to remember the reason for the season
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Let's take a moment to remember the reason for the season
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And Tiny Sim, who DID die
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And Tiny Sim, who DID die
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, had seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror, unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name.
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, had seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror, unheeded, without knowledge or luster or name.
"And when Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
December 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"And when Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."
The wholesale crippling of American soft power in the world is going to be the most damaging thing his administration has done in the long term. It takes decades to build and nurture what they destroyed in just a few months. Nobody trusts our word or believes in our good faith anymore.
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad.
Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
www.inquirer.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The wholesale crippling of American soft power in the world is going to be the most damaging thing his administration has done in the long term. It takes decades to build and nurture what they destroyed in just a few months. Nobody trusts our word or believes in our good faith anymore.
“Yes, sir. A battleship, with lots of guns and missiles. And lasers too. Will be the biggest and strongest ever, absolutely. What is it going to be called? The Trump class, sir. All the guys voted.“
December 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“Yes, sir. A battleship, with lots of guns and missiles. And lasers too. Will be the biggest and strongest ever, absolutely. What is it going to be called? The Trump class, sir. All the guys voted.“
If you're late to the party, let me assure you that Resident Alien is a fucking delight, and Alan Tudyk is a goddamn comedic genius.
December 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you're late to the party, let me assure you that Resident Alien is a fucking delight, and Alan Tudyk is a goddamn comedic genius.
Wake up, babe, first Democrat campaign ad of the midterm election just dropped.
Johnson: If we lose the House majority, the radical left will impeach President Trump.
December 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Wake up, babe, first Democrat campaign ad of the midterm election just dropped.
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Someone needs to convince that Mr. Beast dude that he’d be a natural at boxing.
December 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Someone needs to convince that Mr. Beast dude that he’d be a natural at boxing.
<points at menu item> "Ia! Ia!"
I'll have the ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn omelette, please.
HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
<points at menu item> "Ia! Ia!"
We're getting Jake Paul AND Andrew Tate punched in the face as PPV events in one week? IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.
I don't want to seem greedy in the face of such blessings, but if we get the Big Beautiful Obituary before Thursday on top of it, I swear I'll start going to church again.
I don't want to seem greedy in the face of such blessings, but if we get the Big Beautiful Obituary before Thursday on top of it, I swear I'll start going to church again.
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're getting Jake Paul AND Andrew Tate punched in the face as PPV events in one week? IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.
I don't want to seem greedy in the face of such blessings, but if we get the Big Beautiful Obituary before Thursday on top of it, I swear I'll start going to church again.
I don't want to seem greedy in the face of such blessings, but if we get the Big Beautiful Obituary before Thursday on top of it, I swear I'll start going to church again.
Getting paid to beat up Andrew Tate. Bro got the best temp job assignment in the world that day.
🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor
December 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Getting paid to beat up Andrew Tate. Bro got the best temp job assignment in the world that day.
He doesn't give a shit what I think, and he certainly got millions of dollars he can use to dab his wounds, but it's pretty satisfying that the first time that obnoxious YouTube douche went up against an accomplished heavyweight boxer in his prime, the YouTuber got his clock cleaned comprehensively.
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
He doesn't give a shit what I think, and he certainly got millions of dollars he can use to dab his wounds, but it's pretty satisfying that the first time that obnoxious YouTube douche went up against an accomplished heavyweight boxer in his prime, the YouTuber got his clock cleaned comprehensively.