Penhead
@penhead.bsky.social
He/Him. By night, I'm a writer working on my novel when I'm not caught up in life. Expect excerpts and some stories. Not on X and ain't interested. I'm open to DMs.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans Rights = Human Rights
Working for better things.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans Rights = Human Rights
Working for better things.
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Penhead
@penhead.bsky.social
· Jun 3
Gonna continue to be radio silent here for a bit since I'm quietly working on a few personal and professional things this summer, but I think I'll have some good updates on the other side.
Research is the secret sauce that fills out your writing and makes it go down easier. It's not prose or plotting, which are also big ingredients, but research helps your writing feel more real.
July 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Research is the secret sauce that fills out your writing and makes it go down easier. It's not prose or plotting, which are also big ingredients, but research helps your writing feel more real.
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We’re at 100 backers and almost 20% funded! We’ll reprint Volume 1 alongside Volume 2 if we hit our goal, and you can get them together as a bundle pledge.
We also have retailer packs for any stores out there!
#sciencefiction #scififantasy #scifi #fantasy #fantasymagazine #scifimagazine
We also have retailer packs for any stores out there!
#sciencefiction #scififantasy #scifi #fantasy #fantasymagazine #scifimagazine
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We’re at 100 backers and almost 20% funded! We’ll reprint Volume 1 alongside Volume 2 if we hit our goal, and you can get them together as a bundle pledge.
We also have retailer packs for any stores out there!
#sciencefiction #scififantasy #scifi #fantasy #fantasymagazine #scifimagazine
We also have retailer packs for any stores out there!
#sciencefiction #scififantasy #scifi #fantasy #fantasymagazine #scifimagazine
Gonna continue to be radio silent here for a bit since I'm quietly working on a few personal and professional things this summer, but I think I'll have some good updates on the other side.
June 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Gonna continue to be radio silent here for a bit since I'm quietly working on a few personal and professional things this summer, but I think I'll have some good updates on the other side.
It's striking how much Russian forces failed to learn from their wars in Chechnya, which led to them not applying those lessons against the Chechens, thankfully, though seemingly western defense analysts forgot these lessons too.
I'll spool this out into a thread later, when I have the time.
I'll spool this out into a thread later, when I have the time.
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
It's striking how much Russian forces failed to learn from their wars in Chechnya, which led to them not applying those lessons against the Chechens, thankfully, though seemingly western defense analysts forgot these lessons too.
I'll spool this out into a thread later, when I have the time.
I'll spool this out into a thread later, when I have the time.
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Well, this is true.
March 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Well, this is true.
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This is some of the most common sights - a person reading a book because now protests are our regular daily task and we need to incorporate our lives into it.
She’s also covering her face from the Chinese surveillance cameras that would impose debilitating fines on her. 2/2.
She’s also covering her face from the Chinese surveillance cameras that would impose debilitating fines on her. 2/2.
April 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is some of the most common sights - a person reading a book because now protests are our regular daily task and we need to incorporate our lives into it.
She’s also covering her face from the Chinese surveillance cameras that would impose debilitating fines on her. 2/2.
She’s also covering her face from the Chinese surveillance cameras that would impose debilitating fines on her. 2/2.
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Day 125 of daily protests in Georgia.
While we need to forge new political approaches and methods of resistance, we are again out today, because we simply won’t stop - we cannot. This is our endgame, the issue of our existence as a nation, and our life here or lifetime emigration at best. 1/2
While we need to forge new political approaches and methods of resistance, we are again out today, because we simply won’t stop - we cannot. This is our endgame, the issue of our existence as a nation, and our life here or lifetime emigration at best. 1/2
April 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Day 125 of daily protests in Georgia.
While we need to forge new political approaches and methods of resistance, we are again out today, because we simply won’t stop - we cannot. This is our endgame, the issue of our existence as a nation, and our life here or lifetime emigration at best. 1/2
While we need to forge new political approaches and methods of resistance, we are again out today, because we simply won’t stop - we cannot. This is our endgame, the issue of our existence as a nation, and our life here or lifetime emigration at best. 1/2
We have protestors against genocide getting snatched off the street and deported and while billionaires buy the media, but let me take a moment to spotlight a true tragedy, Idaho banning truck nuts.
This is how civil wars start.
www.outkick.com/culture/its-...
This is how civil wars start.
www.outkick.com/culture/its-...
It's Official: Putting Truck Nuts On Your Pickup Isn't Welcome In Idaho
Truck nuts appear to be on the chopping block after a new bill was signed into law in Idaho.
www.outkick.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We have protestors against genocide getting snatched off the street and deported and while billionaires buy the media, but let me take a moment to spotlight a true tragedy, Idaho banning truck nuts.
This is how civil wars start.
www.outkick.com/culture/its-...
This is how civil wars start.
www.outkick.com/culture/its-...
If you lock yourself in a room and avoid everyone on April Fool's Day, you avoid being fooled, like that guy in Final Destination who locked himself away to cheat death.
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If you lock yourself in a room and avoid everyone on April Fool's Day, you avoid being fooled, like that guy in Final Destination who locked himself away to cheat death.
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AI disruption: "programmers and writers: occupations where the job from start to finish is as close as possible to what AI excels at: nice, clean, linear and sequential tasks, exam-style questions and essay assignments. both jobs also have high rates of contracting or freelancing."
My thoughts below
My thoughts below
In which @jburnmurdoch.ft.com concludes that AI might soon take his job.
I reckon he’s got a while yet!
www.ft.com/content/471b...
I reckon he’s got a while yet!
www.ft.com/content/471b...
Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?
[FREE TO READ] New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers
www.ft.com
March 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
AI disruption: "programmers and writers: occupations where the job from start to finish is as close as possible to what AI excels at: nice, clean, linear and sequential tasks, exam-style questions and essay assignments. both jobs also have high rates of contracting or freelancing."
My thoughts below
My thoughts below
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Help us convince the UK government to uphold the law on copyright which Meta has ignored in order to use the illegally shared work of thousands of writers, without asking permission and without payment, with the explicitly stated aim of making money for themselves.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
www.change.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Help us convince the UK government to uphold the law on copyright which Meta has ignored in order to use the illegally shared work of thousands of writers, without asking permission and without payment, with the explicitly stated aim of making money for themselves.
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
Penhead @penhead.bsky.social
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Costco is a much better, with a bigger selection ... and actually supports by valuing diversity and hiring our people.
Choose the red pill, take the spill.
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2m
Costco is a much better, with a bigger selection ... and actually supports by valuing diversity and hiring our people.
Choose the red pill, take the spill.
Target’s stock plummeted by ~ $27.27 per share by the end of February, erasing about $12.4 billion in market value.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.
Target takes a hit: $12.4 billion in value lost after boycott
Economic blackout over company shuttering diversity commitment
www.thecharlottepost.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Penhead @penhead.bsky.social
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2m
Costco is a much better, with a bigger selection ... and actually supports by valuing diversity and hiring our people.
Choose the red pill, take the spill.
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2m
Costco is a much better, with a bigger selection ... and actually supports by valuing diversity and hiring our people.
Choose the red pill, take the spill.
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apropos of nothing
November 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
apropos of nothing
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Heads up if relevant to you:
just found out about this. if you are distributing information under this government be very careful
March 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Heads up if relevant to you:
I don't want to be the partypooper on piracy, but writers need to be as angry about piracy without permission as they are about LLMs. Both are threats to the trade.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I don't want to be the partypooper on piracy, but writers need to be as angry about piracy without permission as they are about LLMs. Both are threats to the trade.
Forget Folger's. Nothing wakes me up quite like dooming in the morning.
March 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Forget Folger's. Nothing wakes me up quite like dooming in the morning.
47% of voters approve of President Trump’s performance, matching his last highest approval rating. 44% think the country is on the right track, the highest percentage in over 20 years.
Are we close to being able to ask whether the average voter can identify what the "right track" is anymore?
Are we close to being able to ask whether the average voter can identify what the "right track" is anymore?
March 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
47% of voters approve of President Trump’s performance, matching his last highest approval rating. 44% think the country is on the right track, the highest percentage in over 20 years.
Are we close to being able to ask whether the average voter can identify what the "right track" is anymore?
Are we close to being able to ask whether the average voter can identify what the "right track" is anymore?
Competition writing taught me that writing under a limit is harder than writing over a limit, which elementary school me would contest to death.
March 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Competition writing taught me that writing under a limit is harder than writing over a limit, which elementary school me would contest to death.
"I told you so"s are always satisfying, in such a short time after the fuck up.
March 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
"I told you so"s are always satisfying, in such a short time after the fuck up.
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Going forward make an effort to obscure or hide your faces where possible or when needed. Wear a mask or anonymitize your images and videos if able. If you own a shirt, you own a mask. #3E #3Eguide #USprotests
March 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Going forward make an effort to obscure or hide your faces where possible or when needed. Wear a mask or anonymitize your images and videos if able. If you own a shirt, you own a mask. #3E #3Eguide #USprotests
What's a decent app for making text quotes to post here? Accepting all suggestions.
#amwriting #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingcommunity
March 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's a decent app for making text quotes to post here? Accepting all suggestions.
#amwriting #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingcommunity
At first I thought it just inspired fight clubs at every academic institution I'd ever been in, but Fight Club really did predict the culture now, down to the toxic manosphere, popularity cults, and accelerationism, huh?
Life does imitate art.
Life does imitate art.
March 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
At first I thought it just inspired fight clubs at every academic institution I'd ever been in, but Fight Club really did predict the culture now, down to the toxic manosphere, popularity cults, and accelerationism, huh?
Life does imitate art.
Life does imitate art.