Christopher Caldwell
@seraph76.bsky.social
Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
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Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock
A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....
www.neonhemlock.com
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
AaaaaaaAAAh
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
AaaaaaaAAAh
Maybe I booed too hard
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Maybe I booed too hard
Of course the bloviating racist cretin in the White House watched the actual half time show
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Of course the bloviating racist cretin in the White House watched the actual half time show
Booing the Patriots like the harridan in The Princess Bride
February 8, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Booing the Patriots like the harridan in The Princess Bride
Of course creepy weirdo RFK is afraid of seed oils.
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Of course creepy weirdo RFK is afraid of seed oils.
“If I can vomit out a puddle of nutritionally complete goo in 45 seconds, and it takes you two hours to prepare a meal, who’s going to win the prize for best dinner?”
“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:18 PM
“If I can vomit out a puddle of nutritionally complete goo in 45 seconds, and it takes you two hours to prepare a meal, who’s going to win the prize for best dinner?”
I broke the horrible google AI with my last story. I’m not sorry.
February 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I broke the horrible google AI with my last story. I’m not sorry.
I’m not going to watch the Mistborn series, and I’m already tired of hearing about it
February 8, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I’m not going to watch the Mistborn series, and I’m already tired of hearing about it
Reposted by Christopher Caldwell
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February 5, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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A sensitive film about grief and loneliness should not also be as funny as Twinless.
February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A sensitive film about grief and loneliness should not also be as funny as Twinless.
I, a person who walks everywhere, get tired of ads scolding me about reducing carbon emissions when the UK government keeps announcing new initiates for AI, which means more massively wasteful data centres for tech that is largely junk.
February 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I, a person who walks everywhere, get tired of ads scolding me about reducing carbon emissions when the UK government keeps announcing new initiates for AI, which means more massively wasteful data centres for tech that is largely junk.
Wonder Man is good?
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Wonder Man is good?
Came across internet white people deciding “unc,” means uncool. Language mutation is interesting, but every time AAVE gets plundered, people seem to assign ridiculous meanings to words that have clear, unambiguous antecedents (see “bae,” “woke”)
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Came across internet white people deciding “unc,” means uncool. Language mutation is interesting, but every time AAVE gets plundered, people seem to assign ridiculous meanings to words that have clear, unambiguous antecedents (see “bae,” “woke”)
Reposted by Christopher Caldwell
Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026.
8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
February 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Open to submissions of short stories for What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style until April 15th, 2026.
8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
8¢/word. <6,000 words. Simsub ok, no multiple submissions, original stories only.
www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Emerald Fennell’s “Passing”
Everyone is white, actually.
Everyone is white, actually.
February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Emerald Fennell’s “Passing”
Everyone is white, actually.
Everyone is white, actually.
Emerald Fennell cast Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton?!? WTF
February 6, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Emerald Fennell cast Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton?!? WTF
It’s Black History Month in the US and LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. I’m a citizen of both, and I have a book that’s both Black and queer, like me.
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!
Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock
A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....
www.neonhemlock.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:43 PM
It’s Black History Month in the US and LGBTQ+ History Month in the UK. I’m a citizen of both, and I have a book that’s both Black and queer, like me.
Happy Black History Month, Americans! Sort of shocked the President hasn’t re-designated White Citizens Council Month
February 6, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Happy Black History Month, Americans! Sort of shocked the President hasn’t re-designated White Citizens Council Month
Someone explain to me why the internet has randomly decided that “why did the chicken cross the road?” Is a suicide joke?’!?! I keep seeing this, and it’s just not true.
February 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Someone explain to me why the internet has randomly decided that “why did the chicken cross the road?” Is a suicide joke?’!?! I keep seeing this, and it’s just not true.
So maybe I cried watching the muppet show special. Shut up.
When I was about to turn 3, I wanted a Miss Piggy birthday cake, and my mother devastated a baker who objected to that not being appropriate for a little boy.
When I was about to turn 3, I wanted a Miss Piggy birthday cake, and my mother devastated a baker who objected to that not being appropriate for a little boy.
February 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
So maybe I cried watching the muppet show special. Shut up.
When I was about to turn 3, I wanted a Miss Piggy birthday cake, and my mother devastated a baker who objected to that not being appropriate for a little boy.
When I was about to turn 3, I wanted a Miss Piggy birthday cake, and my mother devastated a baker who objected to that not being appropriate for a little boy.
It was interesting seeing Vivre Sa Vie with an audience of mostly students who had never seen it. They were shocked by the ending, despite the heavy foreshadowing
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 PM
It was interesting seeing Vivre Sa Vie with an audience of mostly students who had never seen it. They were shocked by the ending, despite the heavy foreshadowing
An acquaintance asked how to go about asking for salary negotiation with a job offer he received. I gave him advice. He decided to use ChatGPT to write a letter asking for higher pay. They rescinded the job offer.
He will not learn from this.
He will not learn from this.
February 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
An acquaintance asked how to go about asking for salary negotiation with a job offer he received. I gave him advice. He decided to use ChatGPT to write a letter asking for higher pay. They rescinded the job offer.
He will not learn from this.
He will not learn from this.
I need people to stop saying “internalized racism” when they mean “unconscious racism”
February 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
I need people to stop saying “internalized racism” when they mean “unconscious racism”
I expect them to name a new air force base after Evers’ killer.
I am speechless.
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I expect them to name a new air force base after Evers’ killer.
Woke up randomly singing “fithos, lusec, wecos, vinosec”
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Woke up randomly singing “fithos, lusec, wecos, vinosec”