Cullen McHael 💛🤍💜🖤
@cullenmchael.bsky.social
Sci-Fi writer, video game dev, tech reporter, and teacher. Nerd for martial arts, video games, film, and coffee. Allergic to cats and they know it. They know. Former cultist. Circus escapee.
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I had the great pleasure of being the first guest on the "Inking Neon" podcast, chatting about "A Protagonist Worth rooting For". It was an absolute blast, and a great joy to talk with my friend Cullen, and to bat about thoughts on the topic.
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Inking Neon Episode 005 A Protagonist Worth Rooting for with Nicholas Atwater
YouTube video by Inking Neon
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November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I had the great pleasure of being the first guest on the "Inking Neon" podcast, chatting about "A Protagonist Worth rooting For". It was an absolute blast, and a great joy to talk with my friend Cullen, and to bat about thoughts on the topic.
youtu.be/jeVYoQtpeAY?...
youtu.be/jeVYoQtpeAY?...
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HEY YOU IN/NEAR NYC
Feeling mad about censorship? Furious about fascism? Fired up to protect freedom?
TODAY 9/19 AT NOON
JOIN the WGA East protest outside ABC’s offices
7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street)
@wgaeast.bsky.social
@wgawest.bsky.social
Feeling mad about censorship? Furious about fascism? Fired up to protect freedom?
TODAY 9/19 AT NOON
JOIN the WGA East protest outside ABC’s offices
7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street)
@wgaeast.bsky.social
@wgawest.bsky.social
Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country —
Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live!
RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally
Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live!
RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally
September 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
HEY YOU IN/NEAR NYC
Feeling mad about censorship? Furious about fascism? Fired up to protect freedom?
TODAY 9/19 AT NOON
JOIN the WGA East protest outside ABC’s offices
7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street)
@wgaeast.bsky.social
@wgawest.bsky.social
Feeling mad about censorship? Furious about fascism? Fired up to protect freedom?
TODAY 9/19 AT NOON
JOIN the WGA East protest outside ABC’s offices
7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street)
@wgaeast.bsky.social
@wgawest.bsky.social
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the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
All these people saying they stand with #jimmykimmel are lying. There is only one way to stand with a comedian put on the street for saying things the government doesn’t like, and that is to go out on the street with him until the cowards remember who in this country—in every country—has the power.
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
All these people saying they stand with #jimmykimmel are lying. There is only one way to stand with a comedian put on the street for saying things the government doesn’t like, and that is to go out on the street with him until the cowards remember who in this country—in every country—has the power.
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
May 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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We’re proud to share we’ve reached a tentative agreement with CBS News Chicago! None of this would have been possible without your public support for our union. #UnionStrong
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We’re proud to share we’ve reached a tentative agreement with CBS News Chicago! None of this would have been possible without your public support for our union. #UnionStrong
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Check out this post about @sillauthor.bsky.social 's Le Petit Mortuary, a contemporary romance set in a funeral home. There are even gnomes with a drug problem! I was lucky enough to give some critique on this. A book gnoman will forget!
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March 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Check out this post about @sillauthor.bsky.social 's Le Petit Mortuary, a contemporary romance set in a funeral home. There are even gnomes with a drug problem! I was lucky enough to give some critique on this. A book gnoman will forget!
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Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?
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To any folks still thinking of going to the US; don't.
Why would anyone who can avoid it come to the US now? Heartbreaking. Pointless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
To any folks still thinking of going to the US; don't.
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As the genocide of Palestinian people resumed, DWN remains resolute in our demand for a permanent ceasefire. We believe in the liberation of oppressed people & express our unequivocal solidarity with Palestine.
ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/kha...
ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/kha...
Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together
The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.
truthout.org
March 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
As the genocide of Palestinian people resumed, DWN remains resolute in our demand for a permanent ceasefire. We believe in the liberation of oppressed people & express our unequivocal solidarity with Palestine.
ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/kha...
ICYMI: Read @silkys13.bsky.social's op-ed in @truthout.org
truthout.org/articles/kha...
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ICYMI - Starbucks baristas have gone on strike, and along with allies + former workers, are occupying the lobbies of multiple stores.
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
March 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ICYMI - Starbucks baristas have gone on strike, and along with allies + former workers, are occupying the lobbies of multiple stores.
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
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Who writes dystopian fiction in the Year of Oh-Dear-Lord 2025? It's me! My jam is:
near-future thrillers
tight-knit communities ready to fight back
lots of snark & a dash of romance
how-to manuals for the resistance
giving villains really brutal comeuppances
This you too? Let's be friends!
near-future thrillers
tight-knit communities ready to fight back
lots of snark & a dash of romance
how-to manuals for the resistance
giving villains really brutal comeuppances
This you too? Let's be friends!
February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Who writes dystopian fiction in the Year of Oh-Dear-Lord 2025? It's me! My jam is:
near-future thrillers
tight-knit communities ready to fight back
lots of snark & a dash of romance
how-to manuals for the resistance
giving villains really brutal comeuppances
This you too? Let's be friends!
near-future thrillers
tight-knit communities ready to fight back
lots of snark & a dash of romance
how-to manuals for the resistance
giving villains really brutal comeuppances
This you too? Let's be friends!
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We want to wish “Solidarity Forever” a happy 110th birthday!
“Solidarity Forever” was originally written in 1915 by Ralph Chaplin, and its many covers have since become an anthem for the labor movement and working people’s fight for their fair share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK...
“Solidarity Forever” was originally written in 1915 by Ralph Chaplin, and its many covers have since become an anthem for the labor movement and working people’s fight for their fair share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK...
Solidarity Forever
YouTube video by Pete Seeger - Topic
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January 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We want to wish “Solidarity Forever” a happy 110th birthday!
“Solidarity Forever” was originally written in 1915 by Ralph Chaplin, and its many covers have since become an anthem for the labor movement and working people’s fight for their fair share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK...
“Solidarity Forever” was originally written in 1915 by Ralph Chaplin, and its many covers have since become an anthem for the labor movement and working people’s fight for their fair share.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eK...
Florida can now arrest trans people for going to the bathroom. Once in prison, they can be forcibly “detransitioned” through denial of medications, hair shaving, and other abuses.
The term for this is “cold pogrom.” It uses rule of law to hide the violence from the public eye and outcry.
The term for this is “cold pogrom.” It uses rule of law to hide the violence from the public eye and outcry.
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Florida can now arrest trans people for going to the bathroom. Once in prison, they can be forcibly “detransitioned” through denial of medications, hair shaving, and other abuses.
The term for this is “cold pogrom.” It uses rule of law to hide the violence from the public eye and outcry.
The term for this is “cold pogrom.” It uses rule of law to hide the violence from the public eye and outcry.
We choose to eat this turkey in this sitting and all the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard;
November 29, 2024 at 4:36 AM
We choose to eat this turkey in this sitting and all the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard;
I’m 40 years old, as of this week. I got pretty cynical in my 30s. So I’m committing my 40s to conscious optimism. Offensive kindness. Militant decency is the goal, in a neon pallet. I will greet this cyberpunk collapse with a tray of cookies and a hug.
Time to learn how to bake cookies.
Time to learn how to bake cookies.
September 28, 2024 at 2:44 AM
I’m 40 years old, as of this week. I got pretty cynical in my 30s. So I’m committing my 40s to conscious optimism. Offensive kindness. Militant decency is the goal, in a neon pallet. I will greet this cyberpunk collapse with a tray of cookies and a hug.
Time to learn how to bake cookies.
Time to learn how to bake cookies.
What’s something weird, cool, spooky or just neato that you know from your job but most people don’t know?
September 16, 2024 at 8:03 PM
What’s something weird, cool, spooky or just neato that you know from your job but most people don’t know?
What are your favorite tropes of the Cyberpunk genre? What would you like to see more of?
September 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM
What are your favorite tropes of the Cyberpunk genre? What would you like to see more of?
Audio people, sell me on the DAW you use? I’m using Reaper because it’s cheap and a forever license, but it seems like there must be a better option out there.
September 6, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Audio people, sell me on the DAW you use? I’m using Reaper because it’s cheap and a forever license, but it seems like there must be a better option out there.
As both a teacher and a game developer I've learned that all games are education: they must teach you how to play them, with most of the learning during play. The reverse should also be true: all education as play. But alas, due to legacy issues, this is seldom the practice for education.
September 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
As both a teacher and a game developer I've learned that all games are education: they must teach you how to play them, with most of the learning during play. The reverse should also be true: all education as play. But alas, due to legacy issues, this is seldom the practice for education.
Hello world! I'm Cullen McHael, a writer and video game dev. I primarily post about writing, gaming, and sci-fi topics. Always up for discussion of game mechanics.
September 5, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Hello world! I'm Cullen McHael, a writer and video game dev. I primarily post about writing, gaming, and sci-fi topics. Always up for discussion of game mechanics.