Scott Michael Powers
@scottfist.bsky.social
Indie author, retired journalist, lucky husband, proud father, Reds & Spurs fan, rocker, Florida man, lover of both fiction and facts, knower of the difference, unindicted co-conspirator. My latest great American novel: THE MURDER PLAGUE, on Amazon.
Headline today on an ESPN news story:
'New integrity crisis': Congress seeks MLB answers on betting
Also today, an invitation I received from the Cincinnati Reds:
'New integrity crisis': Congress seeks MLB answers on betting
Also today, an invitation I received from the Cincinnati Reds:
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Headline today on an ESPN news story:
'New integrity crisis': Congress seeks MLB answers on betting
Also today, an invitation I received from the Cincinnati Reds:
'New integrity crisis': Congress seeks MLB answers on betting
Also today, an invitation I received from the Cincinnati Reds:
Great news Pam Bondi!
You're gonna be immortalized!
(Soon as this new word enters American lexicon:)
bondi n. A desperate, futile attempt to cover up ghastly activity. (Her bondi crumbled when the files got released.) v. To attempt a desperate, futile coverup. (She bondied as long as she could.)
You're gonna be immortalized!
(Soon as this new word enters American lexicon:)
bondi n. A desperate, futile attempt to cover up ghastly activity. (Her bondi crumbled when the files got released.) v. To attempt a desperate, futile coverup. (She bondied as long as she could.)
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Great news Pam Bondi!
You're gonna be immortalized!
(Soon as this new word enters American lexicon:)
bondi n. A desperate, futile attempt to cover up ghastly activity. (Her bondi crumbled when the files got released.) v. To attempt a desperate, futile coverup. (She bondied as long as she could.)
You're gonna be immortalized!
(Soon as this new word enters American lexicon:)
bondi n. A desperate, futile attempt to cover up ghastly activity. (Her bondi crumbled when the files got released.) v. To attempt a desperate, futile coverup. (She bondied as long as she could.)
My latest blog post:
Joyce Carol Oates v. Elon Musk: A battle for our times - Scott Michael Powers
Arts and humanities versus STEM is a battle that should have been waged 30 years ago.
scottmichaelpowers.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My latest blog post:
At its base, this is a battle of arts & humanities V. STEM, of humanity V. technology, of caring V. calculating—a battle that should have been fought 30 years ago.
Who had Joyce Carol Oates V. Elon Musk as the fight for our times?
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
At its base, this is a battle of arts & humanities V. STEM, of humanity V. technology, of caring V. calculating—a battle that should have been fought 30 years ago.
Who had Joyce Carol Oates V. Elon Musk as the fight for our times?
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Who had Joyce Carol Oates V. Elon Musk as the fight for our times?
What a finish! What a game! Desmond Bane finishes a wild last minute.
Magic 115-112 Trail Blazers (Nov 10, 2025) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Orlando Magic vs. Portland Trail Blazers NBA game, final score 115-112, from November 10, 2025 on ESPN.
www.espn.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
What a finish! What a game! Desmond Bane finishes a wild last minute.
As for those GREAT PATRIOT air traffic controllers who might consider accepting Trump's $10,000 loyalty bribes, I'm hoping they would realize it would make them about as popular with colleagues as union scabs are on the docks.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
As for those GREAT PATRIOT air traffic controllers who might consider accepting Trump's $10,000 loyalty bribes, I'm hoping they would realize it would make them about as popular with colleagues as union scabs are on the docks.
Note to Josh Harris: Maybe wait to see if he can beat the pedophilia rap before you name a football stadium for Donald Trump.
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Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him
A senior White House source says there have been backchannel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dome...
www.espn.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Note to Josh Harris: Maybe wait to see if he can beat the pedophilia rap before you name a football stadium for Donald Trump.
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World Series are more fun when genuine characters who are otherwise not well-known emerge as stars for all of us to discover. Yesavage. Schneider. Kirk. Toronto's got 'em.
Schneider leads back-to-back barrage -- and Dad filmed the fam's reaction!
LOS ANGELES -- Blue Jays left fielder Davis Schneider tells his dad not to film his at-bats. There’s no need, Davis has told him. The at-bats are all on TV anyway -- filmed from a dozen different angl...
www.mlb.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
World Series are more fun when genuine characters who are otherwise not well-known emerge as stars for all of us to discover. Yesavage. Schneider. Kirk. Toronto's got 'em.
Journalist @bethmacy.bsky.social has been writing some of the best nonfiction books of the 21st Century. Her new book, #ThePaperGirl, might be her best yet. At least @theatlantic.com suggests so.
A Writer Who Did What Hillbilly Elegy Wouldn’t
In her new book, Beth Macy returns to her Donald Trump–voting hometown to find out how America got so divided.
www.theatlantic.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Journalist @bethmacy.bsky.social has been writing some of the best nonfiction books of the 21st Century. Her new book, #ThePaperGirl, might be her best yet. At least @theatlantic.com suggests so.
A corollary truth: Our front lawn/walkway/porch is decorated only by a single, fake, pathetic jack-o-lantern. Yet all the kids in our neighborhood know we are the cool people—the must-visit house. Why?
Full-size candybars, baby.
Full-size candybars, baby.
A funny thing I just learned: if you have a dozen lawn skeletons and a pulsating light show for Halloween but you give out fun size candy bars, you will not see the light of Heaven.
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
A corollary truth: Our front lawn/walkway/porch is decorated only by a single, fake, pathetic jack-o-lantern. Yet all the kids in our neighborhood know we are the cool people—the must-visit house. Why?
Full-size candybars, baby.
Full-size candybars, baby.
It seems as if Brightline hits a minivan about once a week.
A ‘Death Train’ Is Haunting South Florida
The Brightline has been hailed as the future of high-speed rail in the United States, but it has one big, unignorable problem.
www.theatlantic.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It seems as if Brightline hits a minivan about once a week.
Hard to describe the grief one feels at the loss of a beloved… pressure washer. We’ve been together a long time. But today she quit spraying. I took her in, but my guy said her pump is shot and, well, she’s just old. No point in prolonging. Move on, he urged. Trying.
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Hard to describe the grief one feels at the loss of a beloved… pressure washer. We’ve been together a long time. But today she quit spraying. I took her in, but my guy said her pump is shot and, well, she’s just old. No point in prolonging. Move on, he urged. Trying.
NBA Commish Adam Silver: “I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”
October 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NBA Commish Adam Silver: “I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”
My latest blog post, trying to make sense of the ridiculousness of AI, in light of its recent, totally false overview of my short story.
AI is dangerous, but at least it’s inept - Scott Michael Powers
Their machines would be clueless about matters of the heart and soul.
scottmichaelpowers.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My latest blog post, trying to make sense of the ridiculousness of AI, in light of its recent, totally false overview of my short story.
Talk about AI craziness!
W/ my latest short story newly published online, I Googled the title to see if and how the published story is showing up in Google.
I got this hit labeled "AI Overview" ... it appears to be AI-generated speculation about my story. It is all wrong.
Wait? What? Why?
W/ my latest short story newly published online, I Googled the title to see if and how the published story is showing up in Google.
I got this hit labeled "AI Overview" ... it appears to be AI-generated speculation about my story. It is all wrong.
Wait? What? Why?
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Talk about AI craziness!
W/ my latest short story newly published online, I Googled the title to see if and how the published story is showing up in Google.
I got this hit labeled "AI Overview" ... it appears to be AI-generated speculation about my story. It is all wrong.
Wait? What? Why?
W/ my latest short story newly published online, I Googled the title to see if and how the published story is showing up in Google.
I got this hit labeled "AI Overview" ... it appears to be AI-generated speculation about my story. It is all wrong.
Wait? What? Why?
I am thrilled to announce that my short story, "Whatever Happened to 'The Next Sudden Sam?'" has just been published by TheSportScribe, a terrific online literary magazine focusing on serious sports literature.
Not every sports story is inspirational.
You can read "Next Sudden Sam" for free here:
Not every sports story is inspirational.
You can read "Next Sudden Sam" for free here:
Whatever Happened to “The Next Sudden Sam?” - The SportScribe
First coffee in hand, Rusty Woodward read a text from Peter Roche of the Society for American Baseball Research: “Sam Miller. Sept call-up w/ Seattle in 70, then 12-8, 3.36, for Seattle in 71.” “Come ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I am thrilled to announce that my short story, "Whatever Happened to 'The Next Sudden Sam?'" has just been published by TheSportScribe, a terrific online literary magazine focusing on serious sports literature.
Not every sports story is inspirational.
You can read "Next Sudden Sam" for free here:
Not every sports story is inspirational.
You can read "Next Sudden Sam" for free here:
Opportunity missed? My latest blog post, musing on #NoKings.
Why No Kings might have been a bust - Scott Michael Powers
Organizers should take notice of the numbers who left early.
scottmichaelpowers.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Opportunity missed? My latest blog post, musing on #NoKings.
I don't have a problem w/ Trump building a White House ballroom. I'm surprised the WH doesn't already have one.
Yes, no doubt it'll be so Trump-promotional & garish it would embarrass the ghost of Liberace. But that's an issue of Trump's boorishness.
I prefer to keep focus on his far worse deeds.
Yes, no doubt it'll be so Trump-promotional & garish it would embarrass the ghost of Liberace. But that's an issue of Trump's boorishness.
I prefer to keep focus on his far worse deeds.
October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don't have a problem w/ Trump building a White House ballroom. I'm surprised the WH doesn't already have one.
Yes, no doubt it'll be so Trump-promotional & garish it would embarrass the ghost of Liberace. But that's an issue of Trump's boorishness.
I prefer to keep focus on his far worse deeds.
Yes, no doubt it'll be so Trump-promotional & garish it would embarrass the ghost of Liberace. But that's an issue of Trump's boorishness.
I prefer to keep focus on his far worse deeds.
Attn: #writingcommunity. Here's another dubious marketer usurping the name of a well-known book brand, in order to hit on #indieauthors. This is not @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social. I wrote earlier about a similar charlatan using the name Barnes & Noble.(scottmichaelpowers.com/barnes-noble...) Beware!
October 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Attn: #writingcommunity. Here's another dubious marketer usurping the name of a well-known book brand, in order to hit on #indieauthors. This is not @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social. I wrote earlier about a similar charlatan using the name Barnes & Noble.(scottmichaelpowers.com/barnes-noble...) Beware!
Connie & I attended our 1st No Kings rally today in Orlando. Big crowd. Great day. Lively. Peaceful. Inspiring. Fun.
2 criticisms:
“No Kings” is a dumb slogan.
Libs/Dems/Anti-MAGAs/general opposition need to focus. Any & every progressive cause means something in the platform to turn off everyone.
2 criticisms:
“No Kings” is a dumb slogan.
Libs/Dems/Anti-MAGAs/general opposition need to focus. Any & every progressive cause means something in the platform to turn off everyone.
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Connie & I attended our 1st No Kings rally today in Orlando. Big crowd. Great day. Lively. Peaceful. Inspiring. Fun.
2 criticisms:
“No Kings” is a dumb slogan.
Libs/Dems/Anti-MAGAs/general opposition need to focus. Any & every progressive cause means something in the platform to turn off everyone.
2 criticisms:
“No Kings” is a dumb slogan.
Libs/Dems/Anti-MAGAs/general opposition need to focus. Any & every progressive cause means something in the platform to turn off everyone.
The book that turned me on to horror when I was a teenager—and still one of my favorites.
SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The book that turned me on to horror when I was a teenager—and still one of my favorites.
I am very excited to announce that my short story "Arlene, the White Oak Tree" has been accepted for publication in a very cool literary mag. More details later, when it is published!
Arlene, the White Oak Tree: a flash-fiction story - Scott Michael Powers
Arlene brought happiness to a few squirrels and birds.
scottmichaelpowers.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am very excited to announce that my short story "Arlene, the White Oak Tree" has been accepted for publication in a very cool literary mag. More details later, when it is published!
Science News is reporting that the Earth is experiencing a massive #coral die-off, because of a #globalwarming tipping point. Now what?
Coral collapse signals Earth's first climate tipping point
The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones.
www.sciencenews.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Science News is reporting that the Earth is experiencing a massive #coral die-off, because of a #globalwarming tipping point. Now what?