Your sense of humor is fine. That’s absurdly funny.
20.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@sstein.bsky.social
Latest novel: THE GREAT AMERICAN BETRAYAL "Best Comedy Books of 2022" —Vulture English professor, novelist, satirist, editor, father, husband, dog owner, gardener https://scottsteinonline.com
Your sense of humor is fine. That’s absurdly funny.
20.02.2026 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re saying it’s going to snow Sunday into Monday. Excuse me while I lose my shit.
20.02.2026 23:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah. Kafka’s THE TRIAL is hilarious in spots. People who object to this are using the word “funny” in a very narrow way.
20.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Freedom of the press.” Not “Control by the government on behalf of some alleged reader.”
20.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0His influence on language is like Bizarro Shakespeare
20.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me complaining that someone drank the beer in my fridge
20.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you realize how terrible you are if you’re the worst person in the history of a country like ours?
20.02.2026 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exactly what led me to post this bsky.app/profile/sste...
20.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dude could not look more like the Grinch if he was CGI.
20.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dude could not look more like the Grinch if he was CGI.
20.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I have to watch this soon. Joke density is a main feature of my current novel series.
20.02.2026 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beer glass and beer bottle on a kitchen counter. Boulevard Rye on Rye barrel aged in a Boulevard glass.
It’s Friday.
20.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Neil, WE KNOW
20.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Difficult claim to verify
20.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I did not watch Trump talk about tariffs. Too absurd for me. Instead, I read and graded student papers about the Kafkaesque.
20.02.2026 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A country so great, even its tariffs have tariffs.
20.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Teabag tag: The purpose of life is to know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, and be yourself.
Teabag doesn’t say what to do if knowing yourself is why you don’t trust yourself.
20.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a book full of friendship and love…and creatures from beyond the reef, santería, and vengeance.
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Private detective Frank Harken could really, really use a cup of coffee. Can you blame him? His new case features a missing woman, a flaky client, a cranky security officer, a mysterious assassin, an overbearing mob boss, an ice-cold enforcer, and the best mini-golf the world has ever seen. Did we mention the fate of millions is at stake? “Stein delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity… Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming … Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Get ready for some super great fun! The Great American Deception is a hilarious (and deeply disturbing) voyage through a futuristic netherworld of caffeinated robots and diet pizza. Somewhere—possibly nowhere—Douglas Adams is sighing pleasurably with a combination of approval and afterlife indigestion.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Lake Success “The Great American Deception is by far the most enjoyable novel told from the point of view of a futuristic coffee machine I have ever read!” —Ben Schwartz, actor and writer
“A clever novel that just consistently dances on the edge of absurdity; it’s a great and witty time.” —Vulture.com, “The Best Comedy Books of 2022” “The Great American Betrayal is a wickedly funny novel jam-packed with madcap invention and verbal hijinks that are sure to be a hit with fans of Douglas Adams and Stanislaw Lem. Scott Stein writes wild plots and sentences that tie your brain in delicious knots while working his inimitable brand of bravura cosmic absurdity. God bless him.” —Gabe Hudson, author of Dear Mr. President and Gork, the Teenage Dragon “Delightful, sparkling, zany, with clever references to Kafka and Orwell and Borges, and narrated by a lovable crime-solving coffeebot, The Great American Betrayal takes the dysfunction of our social-media-riveted world and ramps it up to absurdist heights in service of a rollicking, engrossing mystery.” —Vikram Paralkar, author of Night Theater and The Afflictions “I love Scott Stein’s writing. It’s effervescent. The Great American Betrayal practically fizzed on my tongue. It’s sharp and silly and a hell of a lot of fun to read.” —Mike Sacks, author of Passing on the Right, Stinker Lets Loose, and Poking a Dead Frog “Stein’s The Great American Betrayal is a blast! A coffee-maker turned detective and his laconic, ‘Not-An-English-Professor’ partner deliver a fun story and a good-humored skewering of contemporary American culture in this winning sequel.” —Chantel Acevedo, author of the Muse Squad series and The Curse on Spectacle Key
Sci-fi detective comedy series set in a mall that spans the continent, narrated by a coffee machine robot who uses too many footnotes.
“A constant delight.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319
Plenty of non-Amazon options at my website scottsteinonline.com
"Plantation owners could be unduly burdened."
20.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most people keep their charger with their verification.
20.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But I already spent my tariff bonus.
20.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tariffs struck down? Be right back. Going to stock up on Belgian beer.
20.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It turns out that wasn't a tariff in your pocket and you were just happy to see me.
20.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But I already spent my tariff bonus.
20.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy birthday to Pierre Boulle!
Planet of the Apes is once again a required text in my upcoming spring course "Strangers in Strange Lands."
Another novel of his, Desperate Games, is not as good but also explores humanity's self-destructive behavior.
And which many of them are continuing to deny.
20.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Private detective Frank Harken could really, really use a cup of coffee. Can you blame him? His new case features a missing woman, a flaky client, a cranky security officer, a mysterious assassin, an overbearing mob boss, an ice-cold enforcer, and the best mini-golf the world has ever seen. Did we mention the fate of millions is at stake? “Stein delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity… Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming … Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Get ready for some super great fun! The Great American Deception is a hilarious (and deeply disturbing) voyage through a futuristic netherworld of caffeinated robots and diet pizza. Somewhere—possibly nowhere—Douglas Adams is sighing pleasurably with a combination of approval and afterlife indigestion.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure and Lake Success “The Great American Deception is by far the most enjoyable novel told from the point of view of a futuristic coffee machine I have ever read!” —Ben Schwartz, actor and writer
“A clever novel that just consistently dances on the edge of absurdity; it’s a great and witty time.” —Vulture.com, “The Best Comedy Books of 2022” “The Great American Betrayal is a wickedly funny novel jam-packed with madcap invention and verbal hijinks that are sure to be a hit with fans of Douglas Adams and Stanislaw Lem. Scott Stein writes wild plots and sentences that tie your brain in delicious knots while working his inimitable brand of bravura cosmic absurdity. God bless him.” —Gabe Hudson, author of Dear Mr. President and Gork, the Teenage Dragon “Delightful, sparkling, zany, with clever references to Kafka and Orwell and Borges, and narrated by a lovable crime-solving coffeebot, The Great American Betrayal takes the dysfunction of our social-media-riveted world and ramps it up to absurdist heights in service of a rollicking, engrossing mystery.” —Vikram Paralkar, author of Night Theater and The Afflictions “I love Scott Stein’s writing. It’s effervescent. The Great American Betrayal practically fizzed on my tongue. It’s sharp and silly and a hell of a lot of fun to read.” —Mike Sacks, author of Passing on the Right, Stinker Lets Loose, and Poking a Dead Frog “Stein’s The Great American Betrayal is a blast! A coffee-maker turned detective and his laconic, ‘Not-An-English-Professor’ partner deliver a fun story and a good-humored skewering of contemporary American culture in this winning sequel.” —Chantel Acevedo, author of the Muse Squad series and The Curse on Spectacle Key
Reminder (unless you're a new follower, in which case this might be the first you've heard): I write funny novels. The current series is narrated by a coffee machine robot who uses too many footnotes.
www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319
Plenty of non-Amazon options at my website scottsteinonline.com
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