Rudy Rucker
@rudytheelder.bsky.social
Rudy Rucker is a transreal cyberpunk writer with a checkered past. See Ware Tetralogy, Complete Stories & new evil president novel Juicy Ghosts. He posts on X, Bluesky & Mastodon. Paintings at https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
Barb with gnarly lowrider at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Barb with gnarly lowrider at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
Thinking back on my PhD in Set Theory, it's so funny. Set Theory is literally about nothing. See illo for INFINITY AND THE MND, drawn with Rapidograph pen in our Geneseo, NY, home, the very day I learned I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. But I knew infinity. So it didn't matter.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thinking back on my PhD in Set Theory, it's so funny. Set Theory is literally about nothing. See illo for INFINITY AND THE MND, drawn with Rapidograph pen in our Geneseo, NY, home, the very day I learned I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. But I knew infinity. So it didn't matter.
Great word: mojibake "the garbled or gibberish text from text being decoded by an unintended character encoding." Learned word while fixing mojibake in my 20-year-old Rudy's Blog with 1,200 posts, corrupted by recent a Word Press update. Rudy Jr saved the day. "You talkin' mojibake, dude."
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Great word: mojibake "the garbled or gibberish text from text being decoded by an unintended character encoding." Learned word while fixing mojibake in my 20-year-old Rudy's Blog with 1,200 posts, corrupted by recent a Word Press update. Rudy Jr saved the day. "You talkin' mojibake, dude."
Reading MOBY DICK today I came across a passage describing a jack-of-all-trades carpenger on the whaling ship...but I like to think of it as describing the way that an idealized creator might write or paint or photograph.
In the groove
In the groove
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reading MOBY DICK today I came across a passage describing a jack-of-all-trades carpenger on the whaling ship...but I like to think of it as describing the way that an idealized creator might write or paint or photograph.
In the groove
In the groove
With Barb at the Los Gatos Halloween festival. Before that we watched the new Frankenstein in our big theater. A good day!
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
With Barb at the Los Gatos Halloween festival. Before that we watched the new Frankenstein in our big theater. A good day!
New painting called "New Friends"! Took me a couple of weeks, off and on. Happy.
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
New painting called "New Friends"! Took me a couple of weeks, off and on. Happy.
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
My Halloween photo. Rudy with a Tibetan "apron" made from human bone. "Remember my cooking!" Supposedly grants the ability to teleport. Photo by Barb at Asian Arts Museum in SF.
searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/1052...
searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/1052...
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My Halloween photo. Rudy with a Tibetan "apron" made from human bone. "Remember my cooking!" Supposedly grants the ability to teleport. Photo by Barb at Asian Arts Museum in SF.
searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/1052...
searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/1052...
Dawn view at Tomales Bay Resort...out in nowhere. Paradise. What a change to drive home through 2 1/2 hours of traffic, esp on 19th. But I have this photo to treasure. Half the time, my camera is out of focus. Because I'm old, that's why. But here it doesn't matter...ahhh.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dawn view at Tomales Bay Resort...out in nowhere. Paradise. What a change to drive home through 2 1/2 hours of traffic, esp on 19th. But I have this photo to treasure. Half the time, my camera is out of focus. Because I'm old, that's why. But here it doesn't matter...ahhh.
The Zen doctrine of No Mind.
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Zen doctrine of No Mind.
Bronze Chinese rhinoceros from 1000 BC. I kind of handn't know that people were already such good artists three thousand years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__E...
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Bronze Chinese rhinoceros from 1000 BC. I kind of handn't know that people were already such good artists three thousand years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__E...
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I like the Specials A message to you Rudy
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...
The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO
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October 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I like the Specials A message to you Rudy
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...
Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy." psyche.co/ideas/when-t...
When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far | Psyche Ideas
‘Apophenia’ is reflected in pleasant and troubling experiences alike – from seeing faces in clouds to conspiracy beliefs
psyche.co
October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy." psyche.co/ideas/when-t...
Recping from the two montys of screen work. A new painting! Title? "Everything Has Eyes." "Portal." "Aquarium."
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Recping from the two montys of screen work. A new painting! Title? "Everything Has Eyes." "Portal." "Aquarium."
I can never believe how many separate steps are involved in a Kickstarter book release. It's all I've been doing for a month or two. Kind of like air travel. When I'm in a plane, I'm thinking, "I'll never do this again." But then ta-da, I'm somewhere I wanted to be. www.rudyrucker.com/sqinks/
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I can never believe how many separate steps are involved in a Kickstarter book release. It's all I've been doing for a month or two. Kind of like air travel. When I'm in a plane, I'm thinking, "I'll never do this again." But then ta-da, I'm somewhere I wanted to be. www.rudyrucker.com/sqinks/
Worrying about "tags" in the texts in my dialogs. Like 'he said' and 'she said'. When I read blocks of untagged dialogue, I can get confused about who's talking and it bugs me. I now tend to tag a lot, though some readers feel it slows things down, or is clutter.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Worrying about "tags" in the texts in my dialogs. Like 'he said' and 'she said'. When I read blocks of untagged dialogue, I can get confused about who's talking and it bugs me. I now tend to tag a lot, though some readers feel it slows things down, or is clutter.
I have a crow call, one of those wooden things you blow through, and yesterday I had about eight of them in my eucalyptus tree talking with me. "Caw caw caw! "Me too!"
October 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I have a crow call, one of those wooden things you blow through, and yesterday I had about eight of them in my eucalyptus tree talking with me. "Caw caw caw! "Me too!"
Song for the day, The Stooges. Wonderful fluid guitar lines. music.youtube.com/watch?v=eI_B...
Real Cool Time
YouTube video by The Stooges - Topic
music.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Song for the day, The Stooges. Wonderful fluid guitar lines. music.youtube.com/watch?v=eI_B...
Led Zep. Robert Plant is so cool. Poor quality video, but captutes fabulous moves. Plant playing with theremin, so wild and poetic. And Jimmy Page moaning and mumbling and screaming. And his smile when they're done.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nb...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nb...
Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love/Black Dog 5/25/1975
YouTube video by Daria Romero’s Concert Remasters
music.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Led Zep. Robert Plant is so cool. Poor quality video, but captutes fabulous moves. Plant playing with theremin, so wild and poetic. And Jimmy Page moaning and mumbling and screaming. And his smile when they're done.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nb...
music.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nb...
Reposted by Rudy Rucker
I wrote *Juicy Ghosts* in 2020, reacting to T's assault on the Capitol. In my novel, rebels bring down an insane, evil President who’s stolen a 3rd term. "Too radical" for the big houses. I pubbed it myself in 2021. And here we are in 2025. Time to read the book! rudyrucker.com/juicyghosts/
October 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wrote *Juicy Ghosts* in 2020, reacting to T's assault on the Capitol. In my novel, rebels bring down an insane, evil President who’s stolen a 3rd term. "Too radical" for the big houses. I pubbed it myself in 2021. And here we are in 2025. Time to read the book! rudyrucker.com/juicyghosts/
A funny link from Borderlands books
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Okay. So what if the Muppets formed a heavy metal band and started worshipping Cthulhu, but still wanted to teach you the alphabet? Click here to see what would happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTF...
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Okay. So what if the Muppets formed a heavy metal band and started worshipping Cthulhu, but still wanted to teach you the alphabet? Click here to see what would happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTF...
Cthulhu's ABCs: A Heavy Metal Muppet Parody Song about the Alphabet
YouTube video by The Cultists
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October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A funny link from Borderlands books
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Okay. So what if the Muppets formed a heavy metal band and started worshipping Cthulhu, but still wanted to teach you the alphabet? Click here to see what would happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTF...
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Okay. So what if the Muppets formed a heavy metal band and started worshipping Cthulhu, but still wanted to teach you the alphabet? Click here to see what would happen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKTF...
Spent another full day on the Sqinks project. Made small fixes and ordered new proofs. Tweaked the mailing list. Worked on the bookplates.
October 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Spent another full day on the Sqinks project. Made small fixes and ordered new proofs. Tweaked the mailing list. Worked on the bookplates.
Still in Moss landing.
October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Still in Moss landing.