AU Mick, Writer
@admiraltywriting.bsky.social
Veteran sci-fi and cyberpunk writer, shorts and novellas! Always looking to learn, sometimes to laugh. Hoping to meet other writers. I write about AI, not WITH AI! (he/they)
All opinions are mine, not reflective of other organizations or my employers.
All opinions are mine, not reflective of other organizations or my employers.
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A veteran seeks treatment from the newly reformed VA for the first time in my near-future thriller where hidden Als play intrigue with one other, motivated by corrupt and misinterpretated code, while a few humans grow wise to their games and race to stop them. #indie #amwriting 💙📚
A veteran seeks treatment from the newly reformed VA for the first time in my near-future thriller where hidden Als play intrigue with one other, motivated by corrupt and misinterpretated code, while a few humans grow wise to their games and race to stop them. #indie #amwriting 💙📚
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Stop thinking you are "in a relationship" like you are in a house. You are "doing a relationship" like you are knitting a sweater. A relationship is a path you walk together, not a destination.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Stop thinking you are "in a relationship" like you are in a house. You are "doing a relationship" like you are knitting a sweater. A relationship is a path you walk together, not a destination.
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🧪 Can we move beyond our reliance on plastics?
I explore this question in my Ask a Scientist video series. Give it a look if you're curious!
(I know we've all got busy lives, so this series is designed for each video to be 5 minutes or less.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflF...
I explore this question in my Ask a Scientist video series. Give it a look if you're curious!
(I know we've all got busy lives, so this series is designed for each video to be 5 minutes or less.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflF...
Can we stop relying on plastic? | Ask A Scientist
YouTube video by Sam the Scientist
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
🧪 Can we move beyond our reliance on plastics?
I explore this question in my Ask a Scientist video series. Give it a look if you're curious!
(I know we've all got busy lives, so this series is designed for each video to be 5 minutes or less.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflF...
I explore this question in my Ask a Scientist video series. Give it a look if you're curious!
(I know we've all got busy lives, so this series is designed for each video to be 5 minutes or less.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflF...
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I'd like to point out that many of us are just trying to hang on to our sanity in these insane times.
Often, for example, I won't talk about [current thing] because I simply do not have the reserves. It doesn't mean I don't care.
It means I need frivolous stuff like gremlins trivia to -->
Often, for example, I won't talk about [current thing] because I simply do not have the reserves. It doesn't mean I don't care.
It means I need frivolous stuff like gremlins trivia to -->
October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'd like to point out that many of us are just trying to hang on to our sanity in these insane times.
Often, for example, I won't talk about [current thing] because I simply do not have the reserves. It doesn't mean I don't care.
It means I need frivolous stuff like gremlins trivia to -->
Often, for example, I won't talk about [current thing] because I simply do not have the reserves. It doesn't mean I don't care.
It means I need frivolous stuff like gremlins trivia to -->
597 #wordcount been a long week. I know I should post on here more and participate in #WIPSnips and stuff, but my country is currently collapsing and bluesky is pretty much a firehose of nothing but news about that #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
597 #wordcount been a long week. I know I should post on here more and participate in #WIPSnips and stuff, but my country is currently collapsing and bluesky is pretty much a firehose of nothing but news about that #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
741 #wordcount a small cheat I've found for helping my characters feel dynamic (at least to me) is imagining certain actors playing them. Having Ted Danson play my protagonist would be pretty cool, though. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
741 #wordcount a small cheat I've found for helping my characters feel dynamic (at least to me) is imagining certain actors playing them. Having Ted Danson play my protagonist would be pretty cool, though. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
Sometimes when I'm bored I wash my hands. Not particularly germaphobic or anything. Just feel like it's a small, quick ritual to jog my mind towards actually doing something.
October 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Sometimes when I'm bored I wash my hands. Not particularly germaphobic or anything. Just feel like it's a small, quick ritual to jog my mind towards actually doing something.
532 #wordcount been playing around with the idea of generation ships and how society would be structured in one. Not writing a utopia or dystopia, but like a middle ground. An imperfect-topia. Maybe there's a word for that. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
532 #wordcount been playing around with the idea of generation ships and how society would be structured in one. Not writing a utopia or dystopia, but like a middle ground. An imperfect-topia. Maybe there's a word for that. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
294 #wordcount for the most part, did technical writing (not in the word count) but tomorrow I present the results of my internship! So evening writing sessions moving forward can focus on fiction after tomorrow evening! #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
294 #wordcount for the most part, did technical writing (not in the word count) but tomorrow I present the results of my internship! So evening writing sessions moving forward can focus on fiction after tomorrow evening! #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
464 #wordcount. Fall break is over now. Not that it was a huge boon to my writing but it was a nice break from the existential dread my major has become. Thinking of maybe just posting this first piece online for free. Maybe start a substack? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
464 #wordcount. Fall break is over now. Not that it was a huge boon to my writing but it was a nice break from the existential dread my major has become. Thinking of maybe just posting this first piece online for free. Maybe start a substack? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚
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As DOGE continues to compile vast reams of personal data, some in Congress and at the state level are increasingly raising the alarm that the federal government is violating Americans’ privacy and calling for laws to prevent such abuse, Gopal Ratnam reports for Tech Policy Press:
DOGE's Plundering of Data Hastens Calls to Tighten Government Privacy Laws | TechPolicy.Press
Federal and state lawmakers are eyeing privacy updates in response to DOGE's use of government data, Gopal Ratnam reports.
www.techpolicy.press
October 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As DOGE continues to compile vast reams of personal data, some in Congress and at the state level are increasingly raising the alarm that the federal government is violating Americans’ privacy and calling for laws to prevent such abuse, Gopal Ratnam reports for Tech Policy Press:
944 #wordcount. Hypothetically, a generation ship would not just bring humans but also creatures of Earth, right? To settle the new planet with? So logically, space zookeeper is a job you can have on certain spaceships #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
944 #wordcount. Hypothetically, a generation ship would not just bring humans but also creatures of Earth, right? To settle the new planet with? So logically, space zookeeper is a job you can have on certain spaceships #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
667 #wordcount. never been on a spaceship, right? But it seems pretty close in concept to being in a submarine. But I've never been on a submarine, except once at a museum (and yes I went back and added 1 word cuz I can't shake superstition) #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
667 #wordcount. never been on a spaceship, right? But it seems pretty close in concept to being in a submarine. But I've never been on a submarine, except once at a museum (and yes I went back and added 1 word cuz I can't shake superstition) #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
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in his morning preliminary remarks, pope francis explained his controversial decision to command games workshop to burn most of its warhammer 40,000 novels and only hire "cozy scifi" writers for the license going forward. the studio has said it "didnt know he could do that" but has agreed to comply
October 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
in his morning preliminary remarks, pope francis explained his controversial decision to command games workshop to burn most of its warhammer 40,000 novels and only hire "cozy scifi" writers for the license going forward. the studio has said it "didnt know he could do that" but has agreed to comply
1144 #wordcount. Fall break is upon us and I took work off as well, so today was a wonderful day for sleeping, chores, and writing my heart out. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
1144 #wordcount. Fall break is upon us and I took work off as well, so today was a wonderful day for sleeping, chores, and writing my heart out. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
782 #wordcount. I've only ever been on canoes and one houseboat. Never stepped foot on a spaceship, funny enough. Definitely calling an audible with the passage I wrote today. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
782 #wordcount. I've only ever been on canoes and one houseboat. Never stepped foot on a spaceship, funny enough. Definitely calling an audible with the passage I wrote today. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
581 #wordcount. Turns out space travel is slightly complicated. Make up one mcguffin just to find three new questions to answer hiding behind it. What's a fishing boat look like in space? What do you fish in space? Are there fish in space? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
581 #wordcount. Turns out space travel is slightly complicated. Make up one mcguffin just to find three new questions to answer hiding behind it. What's a fishing boat look like in space? What do you fish in space? Are there fish in space? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
858 #wordcount. I guess what I needed was a change of pace. Brand new story. Brand new setting. Some fun thought experiments to toss around. Don't even care about an overarching plot to connect all these scenes yet, just nice to get on the page #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
858 #wordcount. I guess what I needed was a change of pace. Brand new story. Brand new setting. Some fun thought experiments to toss around. Don't even care about an overarching plot to connect all these scenes yet, just nice to get on the page #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
334 #wordcount. Actually started entirely new story tonight. Just need a break from writing/researching AI. Lot of stuff coming out of the AIndustry is sinister and it's becoming a bit of a cognitohazard for me. Mental health first, you know? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
334 #wordcount. Actually started entirely new story tonight. Just need a break from writing/researching AI. Lot of stuff coming out of the AIndustry is sinister and it's becoming a bit of a cognitohazard for me. Mental health first, you know? #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
I have half a mind to stop trying to purely write this and instead learn color theory and how to draw and make this project a graphic novel instead. Surely that can't make things any more complicated right?
October 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I have half a mind to stop trying to purely write this and instead learn color theory and how to draw and make this project a graphic novel instead. Surely that can't make things any more complicated right?
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And what’s the bad news?
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
And what’s the bad news?
1/ I've been trying to do a lot of research on LLMs, machine learning, and AI in general while working on this thriller. Something I see in a lot of this is just human loneliness. As much as I oppose the current plagiarize-and-vaporize model that LLMs take, my heart breaks for the users. 🧵 ⬇️
October 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
1/ I've been trying to do a lot of research on LLMs, machine learning, and AI in general while working on this thriller. Something I see in a lot of this is just human loneliness. As much as I oppose the current plagiarize-and-vaporize model that LLMs take, my heart breaks for the users. 🧵 ⬇️
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Everything we try seems to break down at last, and the only answer to that which we ever find is the brute simplicity of Caesar.
--Poul Anderson, THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND
This sentence has haunted me for 50 years now.
--Poul Anderson, THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND
This sentence has haunted me for 50 years now.
October 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Everything we try seems to break down at last, and the only answer to that which we ever find is the brute simplicity of Caesar.
--Poul Anderson, THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND
This sentence has haunted me for 50 years now.
--Poul Anderson, THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND
This sentence has haunted me for 50 years now.
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:D
Making and sharing them DEFINITELY helps in the same ways for me
Making and sharing them DEFINITELY helps in the same ways for me
October 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
:D
Making and sharing them DEFINITELY helps in the same ways for me
Making and sharing them DEFINITELY helps in the same ways for me
What on earth is this? Two seemingly different accounts otherwise acting naturally posting the exact same message?
![Two separate accounts with different profile pics and names post the exact same message, linking to different websites beneath "I'm up to date on Murderbot Diaries now and have to wait until may next year for the next one to come out. I am in the mood for more sci-fi and cyberpunk. Maybe I'll pick up the Judges series (prequel to Dredd: the Early Years). I'm kind of itching to re-play Deus Ex with all the chatter about a [...]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vic3xyf5cy6rwlqjtdlidx5m/bafkreigm2zh5cxkstokxochznfh23zf7pnc2fwioqe43pqck7faqik5br4@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
What on earth is this? Two seemingly different accounts otherwise acting naturally posting the exact same message?
110 #wordcount. Not a lot but trying to keep with it. Going back to school is a lot harder than I thought, still trying to make time for my own writing. Internship currently has me writing too, tho. That takes a lot of the day's writing energy. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.
October 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
110 #wordcount. Not a lot but trying to keep with it. Going back to school is a lot harder than I thought, still trying to make time for my own writing. Internship currently has me writing too, tho. That takes a lot of the day's writing energy. #amwriting #indiewriter #indie #Writing #WriterLife 💙📚.