Fantasy shark detective writer
@skis-n-reads.bsky.social
J. Ives. Author, adventurer, & data job office drone. I post about books, fantasy, tabletop gaming, mtg, skiing, and sometimes environmental and health policy.
Opinions are my own unless they’re bad.
Opinions are my own unless they’re bad.
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A Shark Never Sleeps: Arrow Dodger Files
Amazon.com: A Shark Never Sleeps: Arrow Dodger Files eBook : Ives, J.: Kindle Store
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Next ebook drops in August and paper copy should be out about the same time:
It’s a fantasy detective story featuring a former pirate turned novice detective in a romp through an industrializing magic city. Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Shark-Never-...
It’s a fantasy detective story featuring a former pirate turned novice detective in a romp through an industrializing magic city. Hope you enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Shark-Never-...
The way these guys are tearing down public health achievements (pasteurization, vaccines, cross-state outbreak coordination), they’re on track to get smallpox circulating again by like mid 2027
Story today from the great @lenasun.bsky.social, who tracked down shocked CDC scientists who said they didn’t know the website was changing.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
She also summarizes RFK Jr’s efforts to resurrect false claims on autism this year.
Under RFK Jr., CDC promotes false vaccines-autism link it once discredited
The CDC’s website now says health authorities ignored evidence of a potential connection between vaccines and autism, despite dozens of studies showing no link.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The way these guys are tearing down public health achievements (pasteurization, vaccines, cross-state outbreak coordination), they’re on track to get smallpox circulating again by like mid 2027
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately
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This is what happens when a society starts to think virtue signaling is a BAD thing
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is what happens when a society starts to think virtue signaling is a BAD thing
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People will later understand November 2025 as the beginning of Revelations
would all of God’s children please calm the fuck down
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
People will later understand November 2025 as the beginning of Revelations
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh
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We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”
Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as "a community preventative thing"
www.mediamatters.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
Monk and robot: gave me hope for the first time in awhile
Mystic river: taught me about nostalgia and aging
Blacktongue thief: made me love fantasy again after a hiatus
City we became: made me dream different and fall in love with cities
Staying alive in avy terrain: made me a snow nerd
Mystic river: taught me about nostalgia and aging
Blacktongue thief: made me love fantasy again after a hiatus
City we became: made me dream different and fall in love with cities
Staying alive in avy terrain: made me a snow nerd
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Monk and robot: gave me hope for the first time in awhile
Mystic river: taught me about nostalgia and aging
Blacktongue thief: made me love fantasy again after a hiatus
City we became: made me dream different and fall in love with cities
Staying alive in avy terrain: made me a snow nerd
Mystic river: taught me about nostalgia and aging
Blacktongue thief: made me love fantasy again after a hiatus
City we became: made me dream different and fall in love with cities
Staying alive in avy terrain: made me a snow nerd
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obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
terminal Math Brain truly is a cancer that is eating the world
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
obviously there’s nothing wrong with being good at math, and I also don’t believe that studying the humanities is some sort of magic anti-evil antidote, but our society has become truly pathologically unbalanced with how much Good At Math is valued over everything else
“My masculinity is threatened because they put more cloth on the boobs and made other fantasy races less one-dimensional” is such a funny manifestation of manchild syndrome.
Also the article is def worth the read!
Also the article is def worth the read!
I’ve been hearing Adam talk through this piece in stages for a year but didn’t understand it because I don’t understand gaming or the history of D&D. The last time we had dinner he went through the whole thing and it blew my mind
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
“My masculinity is threatened because they put more cloth on the boobs and made other fantasy races less one-dimensional” is such a funny manifestation of manchild syndrome.
Also the article is def worth the read!
Also the article is def worth the read!
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I continue to think one of the biggest divides on this site is between people who understand that the last time we had a good, relatively easy way out of all this was Nov 5, 2024, and people who still don’t.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I continue to think one of the biggest divides on this site is between people who understand that the last time we had a good, relatively easy way out of all this was Nov 5, 2024, and people who still don’t.
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Daylight savings time is so cool, now my dog AND my infant are mad at me
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Daylight savings time is so cool, now my dog AND my infant are mad at me
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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No literature escapes its culture. Scripture, politics, philosophy all have a taint that we can welcome as an opportunity for reflection—on the progress of humanity and our own failings that will only become more clear in time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
No literature escapes its culture. Scripture, politics, philosophy all have a taint that we can welcome as an opportunity for reflection—on the progress of humanity and our own failings that will only become more clear in time.
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“Salt Lake County health officials say it’s probable they have found the county’s first measles case since a national outbreak…They say “probable” because the person officials believe is infected has declined to be tested or take part in an investigation, the Salt Lake County Health Department said”
Salt Lake County probably has its first measles case — but the patient is refusing to get tested
Salt Lake County health officials believe there is a likely measles case in the area, the county's first in the current national outbreak. The likely patient, they say, has been unwilling to cooperate...
www.sltrib.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Salt Lake County health officials say it’s probable they have found the county’s first measles case since a national outbreak…They say “probable” because the person officials believe is infected has declined to be tested or take part in an investigation, the Salt Lake County Health Department said”
The people of love is blind Denver are so terrible that one of the only 2 or 3 people who even has a modicum of emotional maturity drinks raw chicken milkshakes
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The people of love is blind Denver are so terrible that one of the only 2 or 3 people who even has a modicum of emotional maturity drinks raw chicken milkshakes
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I have a radical idea: let's get some clever pencil-neck geek Democrat a personal trainer and some steroids. Hollywood superhero makeover style. It's easier to make a smart guy butch than a butch guy smart.
October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have a radical idea: let's get some clever pencil-neck geek Democrat a personal trainer and some steroids. Hollywood superhero makeover style. It's easier to make a smart guy butch than a butch guy smart.
“They call me chipotle because of the way I swaddle this baby burrito,” the new parent starting to feel confident mutters under his breath.
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“They call me chipotle because of the way I swaddle this baby burrito,” the new parent starting to feel confident mutters under his breath.
Based on the ending of this episode of love is blind, I don’t think love is blind understands what love is.
“Love is writing your own story”
What the hell does that even mean???
“Love is writing your own story”
What the hell does that even mean???
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Based on the ending of this episode of love is blind, I don’t think love is blind understands what love is.
“Love is writing your own story”
What the hell does that even mean???
“Love is writing your own story”
What the hell does that even mean???
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Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Not enough of you believe me right now, but "Rebuild The White House" is going to become one of the most popular slogans in American political history
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Wait so the plan is to basically end the concept of night for places that subscribe? And people are going along with it??
Forget the fact that this is the plot of the worst James Bond movie, this is just bonkerd
Forget the fact that this is the plot of the worst James Bond movie, this is just bonkerd
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Wait so the plan is to basically end the concept of night for places that subscribe? And people are going along with it??
Forget the fact that this is the plot of the worst James Bond movie, this is just bonkerd
Forget the fact that this is the plot of the worst James Bond movie, this is just bonkerd
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one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
November 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM
one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.
fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.