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Writes books, mostly about magic and outlaws. Making my nest in Providence. My latest, Firebreak, is available now. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCSJWJTR)

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Honestly, one of the better pickup lines I've heard.

05.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My new neighbor moved in last night. At three AM.

Isn't this how the movie Fright Night starts?

05.08.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I can use it for philosophy and therapy but nothing serious" is killing me. My dude, giving a lying plagariasm machine control of the basic building blocks of how you view yourself and your world is about as serious as it gets.

You can get another day job, you can't get another brain.

05.08.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the fuck is wrong with you? You turned a national tragedy into a commercial for generative AI and pissed on Joaquin Oliver's grave while you were at it. How much did the company pay you for this?

04.08.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New Helluva Boss short? Why yes, thank you, my day did in fact need this

02.08.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An AI generated cover of a dark romantasy book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. Sam has added the text AI FAKE across the cover with explosive emojis

An AI generated cover of a dark romantasy book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. Sam has added the text AI FAKE across the cover with explosive emojis

A screenshot of the title and blurb of an AI generated book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. There are no reviews which is something of a relief

A screenshot of the title and blurb of an AI generated book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. There are no reviews which is something of a relief

For anyone who got a notification that I've written a dark romantasy trilogy (this is book 1) - I haven't. Please don't buy any of them.

These books are AI generated &
Amazon should be removing them today.

For anyone who may have bought one, I hope you can get a refund from Amazon.

01.08.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 285    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 29

Happy birthday!

02.08.2025 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dune, 1965

02.08.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7007    πŸ” 2273    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 108

Everything I have ever written is political as fuck. I cannot imagine a story I could tell, worth telling, that wasn't rooted in politics because my stories are rooted in ME and my human identity.

01.08.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Classic!

01.08.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I'm starving."

ChatGPT: "I have placed food in your refrigerator!"

"There's nothing in there."

ChatGPT: "I'm sorry, you are correct! But now I have placed food in the refrigerator."

"It's still empty."

ChatGPT: "I am so sorry, you are absolutely right. But now I have definitely--"

01.08.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

When this dark hour ends, as it will, the current leadership at the Smithsonian needs to be run out of town on a rail. An exhibit dedicated to their utter, pathetic cowardice should be erected as a warning to future generations.

01.08.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

01.08.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4969    πŸ” 2083    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 32

Tonight I watched a man get thumbtacks poured down his pants before getting kneed in the balls, and he rallied and came back to take the championship belt.

And you're going to show me ads for BASEBALL? I think not, good sir. #AEW

01.08.2025 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is lovely.

31.07.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is pathetic even for Politico.

31.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

31.07.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3231    πŸ” 1366    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 42

They're adherants of a very popular political principle, "We got ours, so fuck you." They seem blissfully unaware that the same people intent on eradicating us are going after them next, and have openly said so.

31.07.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well...I'm not a Reagan Democrat

30.07.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am kinda fascinated by the emerging joint deployment of β€œMamdani would take away the NYPD’s ability to effectively deal with shootings like the one that happened on Monday” and β€œIt’s impossible to prevent shootings like the one that happened on Monday”, sometimes on the same page of the newspaper.

30.07.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8399    πŸ” 1766    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 89

Is Quak the Snake single? Asking for a friend of mine who isn't on Bsky. You don't know her, she's from Canada and doesn't go to this school, but she's very real and wants to know.

30.07.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering the volume of studies showing that AI use degrades critical thinking abilities, no one who uses AI should be anywhere near K-12 students.

30.07.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's really annoying; Joe would have been great on line delivery for Sweet Tooth, he's absolutely got the comedic timing AND he can be menacing AF.

30.07.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I not only heard it, I felt it. In my soul.

29.07.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have had people convinced I was either homaging or ripping off another author because I have a minor character named Coop who's a safe-cracker and apparently he does also? I've had to point out more than once that mine was written two years before his.

29.07.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have become allergic to the words "magic system." I do not give a shit, I don't have a magic system and don't want one, I'm telling a scary story not writing a fucking RPG rulebook

29.07.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've only had two cups of coffee. Yes, I'm drinking straight from the French press, but it has a handle and contains liquid therefore it is technically a cup.

29.07.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The fourth day of the lunar month belongs to Aphrodite. Do yourself a favor: take a few minutes, tonight. Go find something beautiful, and take it in. Ask yourself why it's beautiful to you. You don't have to know the answer, it's just a good question to ask.

27.07.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you don't use AI you'll be left behind (at the Hour of the Dark Apotheosis, when our infernal lord Mammon rises from the smoldering pit to claim the lives of the worthy and unworthy alike, reaping a harvest of merciless sorrow)

27.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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