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Max Gladstone
@maxgladstone.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Max Gladstone: Dead Hand Rule - Macmillan Publishers
Join award-winning author Max Gladstone for a discussion of his latest novel, Dead Hand Rule, book three of the Craft Wars series.
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We're coming up on the release for DEAD HAND RULE! Come see me and @matociquala.bsky.social on launch day, Oct 28, at @portersqbooks.bsky.social - or on Nov 12 at Pandemonium! us.macmillan.com/tours/max-gl...
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There are two types of people in this world:
People who immediately sang this to themselves to check
and
Liars
People who immediately sang this to themselves to check
and
Liars
Let this also serve as your annual reminder that “War Pigs“ can be sung to the tune of Deck the Halls, and vice versa. (“Generals gathered in their masses / fà la la la la, la la la la, just like witches at black masses / fa la la etc”)
On the subject of Christmas songs: a newsletter containing 3 tunes I come back to this time of year, and some "yes I am once again on my bullshit / re-reading Hogfather" thoughts about the season
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
December 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There are two types of people in this world:
People who immediately sang this to themselves to check
and
Liars
People who immediately sang this to themselves to check
and
Liars
Let this also serve as your annual reminder that “War Pigs“ can be sung to the tune of Deck the Halls, and vice versa. (“Generals gathered in their masses / fà la la la la, la la la la, just like witches at black masses / fa la la etc”)
On the subject of Christmas songs: a newsletter containing 3 tunes I come back to this time of year, and some "yes I am once again on my bullshit / re-reading Hogfather" thoughts about the season
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
A Little Christmas Music
Tunes for thought
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Let this also serve as your annual reminder that “War Pigs“ can be sung to the tune of Deck the Halls, and vice versa. (“Generals gathered in their masses / fà la la la la, la la la la, just like witches at black masses / fa la la etc”)
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Great thread, and I love this eminently actionable suggestion.
The only real way is to formally require divulging any degree of AI usage, in much the same way that we all already declare in contracts that out work is original. Plagiarists will simply lie here, but at least there are consequences when they're caught later. Establish those consequences as norms.
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Great thread, and I love this eminently actionable suggestion.
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It is possible to use the Economy to cross vast distances of space in an instant, but one must have a navigator who is subjected to the distortive perils of the warp
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It is possible to use the Economy to cross vast distances of space in an instant, but one must have a navigator who is subjected to the distortive perils of the warp
Good thread
There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.
December 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Good thread
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This thread sounds like something from The Craft series by @maxgladstone.bsky.social
The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This thread sounds like something from The Craft series by @maxgladstone.bsky.social
my personal 'favorite' is, "this isn't actually a new feature but Investor #3 really wants to see AI in the product and this feature used some hacked-together vintage 2012 ML implementation and he's never gonna know"
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
my personal 'favorite' is, "this isn't actually a new feature but Investor #3 really wants to see AI in the product and this feature used some hacked-together vintage 2012 ML implementation and he's never gonna know"
On the subject of Christmas songs: a newsletter containing 3 tunes I come back to this time of year, and some "yes I am once again on my bullshit / re-reading Hogfather" thoughts about the season
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
A Little Christmas Music
Tunes for thought
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
On the subject of Christmas songs: a newsletter containing 3 tunes I come back to this time of year, and some "yes I am once again on my bullshit / re-reading Hogfather" thoughts about the season
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
This, along with Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" was new to me this year on a Tidal "1970s Christmas Music" playlist, and I'd like to thank whoever put that together
Every year it's "Paul McCartney this" and "John Lennon that" which distracts from the true reason for the season: The Kinks' perfect Christmas Song about youths jumping Santa youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk?...
The Kinks - Father Christmas (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by TheKinksVEVO
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December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This, along with Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'" was new to me this year on a Tidal "1970s Christmas Music" playlist, and I'd like to thank whoever put that together
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Art I am thinking about: "The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux" by A.E. Housman.
"...The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
"...The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
December 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Art I am thinking about: "The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux" by A.E. Housman.
"...The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
"...The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
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So we’re still in the process of getting estimates but it’s beginning to look like getting the house foundation fixed is going to run upwards of $100k
So uh
We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol
So uh
We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol
Attention, horny weirdos! We are publishing @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social's WITNESS MARKS next year and we are very, very excited to finally have a reason to talk about exorcism bondage. All webstore pre-orders come w/ a signed bookplate from the author. Get it here: ghoulish.rip/product/witn...
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So we’re still in the process of getting estimates but it’s beginning to look like getting the house foundation fixed is going to run upwards of $100k
So uh
We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol
So uh
We’ll be okay, we’ll figure it out, but I do have a sexy horror book you can preorder lol
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So much this! For years, I was too intimidated to try bullet journaling because I thought bujos had to be impressively artistic. They really don't! Thank goodness.
I don't know EXACTLY who needs to hear this but I know it's at least some folks who do daily planners: your planner doesn't need to be fancy! It doesn't need fancy stencils, multicolor artwork, stickers, or washi tape.
All your planner actually needs to do is work for you.
All your planner actually needs to do is work for you.
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So much this! For years, I was too intimidated to try bullet journaling because I thought bujos had to be impressively artistic. They really don't! Thank goodness.
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@hiddenschools.bsky.social Do you think the Church of Kos has its own brand of cigarettes? I can't stop thinking about Abelard buying smokes: what brand? filtered?
For some reason, I imagine he smokes Red Apples. The brand Tarantino created for his movie universe.
cc: @maxgladstone.bsky.social
For some reason, I imagine he smokes Red Apples. The brand Tarantino created for his movie universe.
cc: @maxgladstone.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
@hiddenschools.bsky.social Do you think the Church of Kos has its own brand of cigarettes? I can't stop thinking about Abelard buying smokes: what brand? filtered?
For some reason, I imagine he smokes Red Apples. The brand Tarantino created for his movie universe.
cc: @maxgladstone.bsky.social
For some reason, I imagine he smokes Red Apples. The brand Tarantino created for his movie universe.
cc: @maxgladstone.bsky.social
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I am currently both loving and hating @maxgladstone.bsky.social right now, and it’s going to take me a while to deal with it.
December 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I am currently both loving and hating @maxgladstone.bsky.social right now, and it’s going to take me a while to deal with it.
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Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
December 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Re gender affirming care for youth: They will come for the haircuts and the clothes next. And it won’t stop with kids or trans people. And I’ve been telling people this for a decade and now here we are with lots of cis people shrugging and saying it’s unfortunate. How are you going to save a life?
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Writing the Other is doing their ends of year fundraiser!
writingtheother.com/2025-eoy-fun...
writingtheother.com/2025-eoy-fun...
Verifying…
writingtheother.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Writing the Other is doing their ends of year fundraiser!
writingtheother.com/2025-eoy-fun...
writingtheother.com/2025-eoy-fun...
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i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video
so ok universe you win this time
so ok universe you win this time
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
i was reading this at the bus stop and having complicated feelings about it, and the bus came and i got on and sat down and i noticed the guy next to me was watching tiktok (you know, like everyone on the bus), and i glanced over, and it was a jamelle bouie video
so ok universe you win this time
so ok universe you win this time
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they all desperately want to be a part of a Grand Ideological Struggle a la fascism/communism/liberal democracy in the 20th century but it's just "the government has to make girls stop quote-dunking on me for posting that i can't eat pussy"
December 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
they all desperately want to be a part of a Grand Ideological Struggle a la fascism/communism/liberal democracy in the 20th century but it's just "the government has to make girls stop quote-dunking on me for posting that i can't eat pussy"
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Once again, all the books I loved most this year
www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12...
containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....
www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12...
containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....
Books I Have Loved Without Reservation This Year (2025) — R. K. Duncan
thought this was going to be one of the shorter lists, but it turns out there are 21 books I want to talk about this year, as well as shouting out some previously mentioned books. I think it’s partly ...
www.rkduncan-author.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Once again, all the books I loved most this year
www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12...
containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....
www.rkduncan-author.com/blog/2025/12...
containing: @r-emrys.bsky.social Suzan Palumbo, Sofia Samatar, @amalelmohtar.com ....
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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love how i heard him say it in his kind gentle bandit voice lol
it sounds doubly manipulative coming out of someone with that naturally gentle tone of voice like bandit has as opposed to someone who naturally looks and sounds ominous in both english dubs + japanese dub as gendo ikari
it sounds doubly manipulative coming out of someone with that naturally gentle tone of voice like bandit has as opposed to someone who naturally looks and sounds ominous in both english dubs + japanese dub as gendo ikari
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
love how i heard him say it in his kind gentle bandit voice lol
it sounds doubly manipulative coming out of someone with that naturally gentle tone of voice like bandit has as opposed to someone who naturally looks and sounds ominous in both english dubs + japanese dub as gendo ikari
it sounds doubly manipulative coming out of someone with that naturally gentle tone of voice like bandit has as opposed to someone who naturally looks and sounds ominous in both english dubs + japanese dub as gendo ikari
My Newsletter (on Buttondown) for Friday! After leaving Substack, I wanted to take a chance to talk a bit about the why of it all:
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Why I Left Substack
in case you can't guess
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My Newsletter (on Buttondown) for Friday! After leaving Substack, I wanted to take a chance to talk a bit about the why of it all:
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
Sportin' Jenny claims another victim
Man arrested, accused of robbing Tulsa liquor store with antique gun
Man arrested, accused of robbing liquor store with antique gun
The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man accused of robbing a south Tulsa liquor store with an antique gun on Friday night.
www.fox23.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sportin' Jenny claims another victim