Andrew Berac
@andrewberac.bsky.social
Fantasy author, gamer, dabbles in 3D renders, probably rather too fond of coffee (always black).
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Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.
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Seconded. Really fun, sometimes scary, sometimes hilarious, really good stories.
do you like creepy eldritch mystery romances? LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO @jordanlhawk.bsky.social AND WIDDERSHINS
(everyone who complains about not enough men/masculinity in literary fiction should be forced to read no fewer than five (5) books by trans men before they are allowed to publish any more opinions)
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Seconded. Really fun, sometimes scary, sometimes hilarious, really good stories.
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Me: Wow, at least I won't see anything more sickening than that decomposing fox today!
Nigel Newton: Hold my beer.
Nigel Newton: Hold my beer.
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Me: Wow, at least I won't see anything more sickening than that decomposing fox today!
Nigel Newton: Hold my beer.
Nigel Newton: Hold my beer.
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Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Not to add to the discourse, but…
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’
It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’
It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’
It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’
It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
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DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
August 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
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HP Lovecraft: what if you you saw a cosmic horror and it made you go crazy
August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it
Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow
August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it
Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow
July 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
HP Lovecraft: what if you you saw a cosmic horror and it made you go crazy
August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it
Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow
August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it
Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow
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Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man: this was his response to Paramount’s demand for changes
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
June 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mel Brooks produced The Elephant Man: this was his response to Paramount’s demand for changes
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
"We are involved in a business venture. We screened the film for you, to bring you up to date as to the status of that venture. Do not misconstrue this as our soliciting the input of raging primitives."
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Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG
Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript
Out in pb too, audio on its way.
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One of our slides from the Whatever it Takes panel. We wanted to be sure any of the devs who worked on DA past & present knew we (at least) appreciate the hard work to make Thedas a world we all loved roaming in.
#ThankYouBioware
#ThankYouBioware
May 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
One of our slides from the Whatever it Takes panel. We wanted to be sure any of the devs who worked on DA past & present knew we (at least) appreciate the hard work to make Thedas a world we all loved roaming in.
#ThankYouBioware
#ThankYouBioware
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Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans.
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
April 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Imagine sucking so much that countries where you’re not on the ballot vote against you
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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On this day we remember that he died for us and was indeed resurrected
April 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On this day we remember that he died for us and was indeed resurrected
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reposting with alt text.
omg DO NOT DO THIS.
omg DO NOT DO THIS.
April 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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omg DO NOT DO THIS.
omg DO NOT DO THIS.
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It must be concluded that she is just a genuinely awful person; a hater for no reason other than she loves the hate game.
i sometimes still can't believe that jkr can't just stfu. that literally all she ever had to do to be some kind of positive influence is stfu and count her piles of cash.
April 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It must be concluded that she is just a genuinely awful person; a hater for no reason other than she loves the hate game.
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Gemini: You will be driven mad by the insanity inducing music of the Blind, Idiot God Azathoth who spins in the center of all creation screeching into the emptiness of space. Wait. That's, uh... That's Rush. Huh. That explains a lot.
February 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Gemini: You will be driven mad by the insanity inducing music of the Blind, Idiot God Azathoth who spins in the center of all creation screeching into the emptiness of space. Wait. That's, uh... That's Rush. Huh. That explains a lot.
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Magister Dorian Pavus. Based on Veilguard artbook concept art.
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
December 26, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Magister Dorian Pavus. Based on Veilguard artbook concept art.
#DragonAge
#DragonAge
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There’s a caveat to this.
Indie authors HEAVILY rely on KU and Amazon to make their books accessible. Some people can’t sell directly and keep stock.
Bookstores don’t really or at all have indie books and ESPECIALLY by marginalised people.
I wish we would think about this #booksky #blackbooksky
Indie authors HEAVILY rely on KU and Amazon to make their books accessible. Some people can’t sell directly and keep stock.
Bookstores don’t really or at all have indie books and ESPECIALLY by marginalised people.
I wish we would think about this #booksky #blackbooksky
A reminder - don't use Amazon, but go to bookshops, which play a far more vital role in promoting literacy just by simply making books more visible, and allow you to find things by chance rather than by what the algorithm decides.
January 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
There’s a caveat to this.
Indie authors HEAVILY rely on KU and Amazon to make their books accessible. Some people can’t sell directly and keep stock.
Bookstores don’t really or at all have indie books and ESPECIALLY by marginalised people.
I wish we would think about this #booksky #blackbooksky
Indie authors HEAVILY rely on KU and Amazon to make their books accessible. Some people can’t sell directly and keep stock.
Bookstores don’t really or at all have indie books and ESPECIALLY by marginalised people.
I wish we would think about this #booksky #blackbooksky
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For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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I can't get enough of the cover art and design Stephen Embleton did for The Company of Birds, releasing early next year via Mirari Press and available in all good bookstores in South Africa. So yay! It's cover reveal day! I am so excited.
December 2, 2024 at 11:21 AM
I can't get enough of the cover art and design Stephen Embleton did for The Company of Birds, releasing early next year via Mirari Press and available in all good bookstores in South Africa. So yay! It's cover reveal day! I am so excited.
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“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
Looking for a Halloween read that still leaves you time for Halloweening?
I have a novella for that!
It's a dark fantasy tale about parasites, and the perils of meeting your neighbors.
If you'd like to check it out --
books2read.com/Parasites
I have a novella for that!
It's a dark fantasy tale about parasites, and the perils of meeting your neighbors.
If you'd like to check it out --
books2read.com/Parasites
October 29, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Looking for a Halloween read that still leaves you time for Halloweening?
I have a novella for that!
It's a dark fantasy tale about parasites, and the perils of meeting your neighbors.
If you'd like to check it out --
books2read.com/Parasites
I have a novella for that!
It's a dark fantasy tale about parasites, and the perils of meeting your neighbors.
If you'd like to check it out --
books2read.com/Parasites
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1. I chose traditional publishing because I didn't have thousands of dollars to gamble on self publishing. are you kidding?
I'm also disabled along multiple axes. I'm so anti AI I went on national TV for the chance to say that it sucks.
This take from Nanowrimo is bad fiction.
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I'm also disabled along multiple axes. I'm so anti AI I went on national TV for the chance to say that it sucks.
This take from Nanowrimo is bad fiction.
🧵
September 2, 2024 at 1:49 PM
1. I chose traditional publishing because I didn't have thousands of dollars to gamble on self publishing. are you kidding?
I'm also disabled along multiple axes. I'm so anti AI I went on national TV for the chance to say that it sucks.
This take from Nanowrimo is bad fiction.
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I'm also disabled along multiple axes. I'm so anti AI I went on national TV for the chance to say that it sucks.
This take from Nanowrimo is bad fiction.
🧵
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If I were rich I would start a company called Just. And the products would be, for example, Just a Dishwasher. It would be a strictly non-smart object that would do its job and last a hundred years. Just a Refrigerator. Just a Microwave. Etc
Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...
July 31, 2024 at 2:09 PM
If I were rich I would start a company called Just. And the products would be, for example, Just a Dishwasher. It would be a strictly non-smart object that would do its job and last a hundred years. Just a Refrigerator. Just a Microwave. Etc