@coreyredekop.bsky.social
Author, SHELF MONKEY, HUSK, assorted literary sundries. Socially and emotionally distant. Also Canadian. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/758661.Corey_Redekop
How can you say no to this face?
06.12.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
All authors have one at some point in their lives, but I’m thinking the writer’s block I picked up at a mysterious back-alley flea market a few years ago may not have been the wisest of purchases…
06.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Life advice:
- be kind
- tip well
- read banned books
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- never enter into a verbal agreement with a squirrel
- dress like the Muppet you wish to be in the world
All authors have one at some point in their lives, but I’m thinking the writer’s block I picked up at a mysterious back-alley flea market a few years ago may not have been the wisest of purchases…
06.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
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How can you say no to this face?
06.12.2025 18:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0As always folks, if you can get a flu shot/COVID shot, it’s not just yourself you’re protecting—it’s everyone who can’t.
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Book cover, HEMO SAPIENS, by Emily Weedon. Dundern Press, 2025.
BOOK #76, 2025
HEMO SAPIENS, by Emily Weedon (2025)
Greatly entertaining fusion of cop procedural and monster mash. Weedon’s experience as a screenwriter is evident in the novel’s filmic quality, efficiently cutting together several POVs while keeping the plotline humming. More, please.
#booksky❤️📚
The Q&Q team reached out to authors, booksellers, librarians, and reviewers across the country to find their notable books of 2025. Click here for highlights from the year’s books for kids ranging from picture books to YA novels. https://bit.ly/4oFFdA9
04.12.2025 22:24 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
“In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there.”
Writer and concerned parent @drewmagary.bsky.social lays it all out here 🎯
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
01.12.2025 02:28 — 👍 622 🔁 213 💬 12 📌 6
Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
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Npw watching www.imdb.com/title/tt0261...
29.11.2025 02:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
BOOK #75, 2025
TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, by Stephen Moss (2024)
The title is slightly misleading; it’s humanity’s interactions with birds that has changed the world. But IGNORANCE, FEAR, & OVERALL A$$HOLISHNESS LEADS TO TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES FOR AVIAN POPULATION was too unwieldy.
#booksky❤️📚
Book cover, WHAT MOVES THE DEAD, by T. Kingfisher. Tor, 2023.
BOOK #74, 2025
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD, by T. Kingfisher (2023)
Creepy take on Poe’s HOUSE OF USHER. Adding ghoulish twists to the narrative, Kingfisher delivers a tight gothic that’ll give you the willies. When a story makes a rabbit unnerving (or a hare), you know it’s working.
#booksky💙📚
R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
24.11.2025 00:55 — 👍 522 🔁 152 💬 6 📌 39
Now watching: boxd.it/rXBe
22.11.2025 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Facebook post from Scrivener: "Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you're on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. Here's why, and what you can do if you want to remove this" attention-grabbing graphic says "SCRIVENER AND AI: WHY DO I SEE AI PROMPTS IN MY SCRIVENER PROJECTS ON MAC?"
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
19.11.2025 20:19 — 👍 1733 🔁 733 💬 21 📌 75
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
Book cover, THE WHITE LIBRARY, by Paul Voermans. PS Publishing, 2020
BOOK #73, 2025
THE WHITE LIBRARY, by Paul Voermans (2020)
Strange, exuberant sci-fi fantasy. In alternate history Australia, a librarian invents a travel portal that leads to physical transformation. A strange plot, but Voermans layers further absurdities that eventually overwhelm it.
#booksky📚❤️
When 35-year-old republicans got caught supporting Hitler in a group chat, JD Vance called them "kids." When 15 year old children get sexually abused by the president and his pals, they called them "young women." This is your republican party, Family Values and all. DAPSTAR Instagram.com\dapstar
16.11.2025 21:19 — 👍 102 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 3THIS MUST HAPPEN
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Book cover, BLOOD MUSIC, by Greg Bear (1985) Science Fiction Book Club edition, 2006.
BOOK #72, 2025
BLOOD MUSIC, by Greg Bear (1985)
Fascinating take on the Frankenstein scenario. A scientist discovers his cells have become self-aware & want answers as to their existence. It’s terrific fodder for dense sci-fi, but Bear’s talent for plotting keeps the story grounded.
#booksky♥️📚
Book cover, VENISS UNDERGROUND, by Jeff VanderMeer. McClelland & Stewart, 2003.
BOOK #71, 2025
VENISS UNDERGROUND, by Jeff VanderMeer (2003)
Phantasmagorical wonder. Plot is secondary to presentation, a world as dazzling as it is dangerous, saturated with imagery in a voice henceforth known as “VanderMeerian.” It’s a spectacular accomplishment in world-building.
#booksky❤️📚
Book cover, THE QUEEN, by Nick Cutter. Gallery Books, 2024.
BOOK #70, 2025
THE QUEEN, by Nick Cutter (2024)
Extreme horror by a Canadian master. Cutter cranks it up to eleven, giving us an ultra-gory freakfest of missing kids, mad scientists, insect imagery, & gooey body horror. Hardcore sci-fi horror that hits all my feel-bad nihilistic buttons.
#booksky♥️📚
Book cover, LIGHT INTO INK, by S.M. Guariento. Ideogram Press, 2025.
BOOK #69, 2025
LIGHT INTO INK, Rev. Ed., by S.M. Guariento (2025)
An exhaustively/lovingly researched look at the art of film novelization. Deep diving into 50 such titles, Guariento’s mix of scholarship and passion is a treat & a half. Highly recommended for book/movie lover.
#booksky♥️📚 #filmsky🎥
The meme of "my body is a machine that turns 'the passage of time' into 'not writing'." This is a joke about writing and how so much of writing is not writing— or at least, that's what I tell myself when I am avoiding writing, which is a big part of my actual job. I mean writing, not *not* writing. Bosses: do not look at this, especially if you are expecting something from me soon. Obviously, everything is going great. I am not procrastinating by making this meme. I am not deliberately wasting time in every possible way I can think of after already having made breakfast int he most laborious way possible, catching up on email and slack messages, engaging in some discord discourse, and checking every social media feed I have the misfortune to remain entangled with, and I fully intend on starting to write for real the moment I hit the button to send this tweet. Yes, I still call them tweets. It's an act of resistance at this point, calling them tweets. I remember there was some discussion of what to call them, and I have to say I did laugh about "skeets," since the act is comparable in some ways: it feels good in the moment, but results in something useless and gross just moments later... is this too much to get into here? I don't know if the wrongheadedly censorious people who run this platform even check descriptive alt text, come to think of it. Anyway, I should get back to writing, for real, which I will do now. That reminds me, did you catch the discourse the other day about dialogue choices in games? I don't have much to say, really, other than that creative works can be literally whatever you want them to be, so arguing about them isn't as productive as simply making the work you want to see in the world (and which I'll get back to doing in just a moment). If you want to see my approach to dialogue choices, why not play my visual novel, Eliza? If you've made it this far and haven't yet, I suggest you check it out. Okay, back to writing for real now. Definitely.
11.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 766 🔁 267 💬 1 📌 14
Two days away!
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Book cover, BLOOD MUSIC, by Greg Bear (1985) Science Fiction Book Club edition, 2006.
BOOK #72, 2025
BLOOD MUSIC, by Greg Bear (1985)
Fascinating take on the Frankenstein scenario. A scientist discovers his cells have become self-aware & want answers as to their existence. It’s terrific fodder for dense sci-fi, but Bear’s talent for plotting keeps the story grounded.
#booksky♥️📚
