Jay Wolf

Hey all! I am officially hanging out my shingle for book layout and design work outside of my immediate if-you-know-you-know circle. I can't start work outside my current client portfolio until sometime in mid-August so I am canvassing for work that would start in MID-AUGUST OR LATER for now. ¹/

To clarify my phrasing in the first post, I meant that Brazilians are the ones who lead by example during the elections Specifying in case it wasn’t clear

Without the attention economy artery that they spilled so many billions into, the right is nothing Brazilians have truly been the best of us by demonstrating how to get things done and to also advocate *for* something instead of always playing defence

Agorithms never distinguish in between a fan and a hater, and anger is the easiest emotion to capitalise on, hence all the ragebait and right wing vice signalling It’s time for all of us to turn the tides and, in our respective countries, completely wreck the chuds at their own game

We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

The Killing of a Chestnut Tree is out today! 🌳 A gentleman detective murder mystery like no other - because the victim is a tree. I hope - if you choose to read it - that you enjoy it. I like to think of it as the book equivalent of a peaceful walk in the woods. 🌳

It's a great day to unfollow @file770.bsky.social, which has become a Nazi bar.

people told me that it’s -not fascist -not a big deal I don’t like being correct all the time actually

Ha ha. Just a joke guys. Just horsing around with ya. Definitely not something I've stayed up late thinking about and obsessively planning out every step

Like… this baseline assumption that things from sources that are treated as authoritative obviously must thus be trustworthy is circular reasoning that is doing and will continue to do a lot of harm unless and until we tackle this shit at a BUNCH of levels of society.

fuck YES, read Worm read Worm read Worm

If you missed Winifred's recent departure from Bluesky, you can still support her vital work as a Black midwife & writer here for as little as $3, $5, or $25 monthly: ko-fi.com/winifredburt... Even if you cannot contribute, please please please share this post to amplify its reach in her absence!🫂

reminds me very much of this article about inspiration in tabletop RPGs — there's a whole ecosystem of advice and commentary that's straightforwardly less useful than just going way, way outside the hobby to learn something new or feel something new jdcspot.bearblog.dev/the-designer...

One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

You have to be familiar enough with the genre you're writing that you don't just show up all "heh, bet you slop-eaters have never seen anything like this: [unoriginal work derivative of the most mainstream entries in the genre]" and you also have to bring in ideas from outside the genre.

Heads up: this website also "reviews" publishers, writer-beware-style. Lists big reliable publishers as safe, warns about many known scams, and then... Lists a few scam presses as "safe and reliable". Couched in professional language with buzzwords about transparent contracts and payment schedules.

It is also, obviously, ethically grotesque, just a fucking evil thing to do, which is perhaps something we ought to start caring about with regards to elected officials.

I always liked that bit from the beginning of Snow White

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

Composer Austin Wintory was once in talks to make music for Mass Effect 5, and now that EA has shuttered BioWare and canceled the game, he's released his drafts online. https://bit.ly/4evMujI

The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing.

The way reading this article gave me an instantaneous migraine

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Long post, no paywall: I wrote about meeting the love of my life during the worst time of my life, and the song I sent him to say I liked him: jude-doyle.ghost.io/e-bow-the-le...

I love how On-Some-Other-Shit Penzy’s is, man

Congratulation to all of the finalists and winners of the World Fantasy Awards! locusmag.com/2026/10...

Noachian King, personal project illustration. "Noachian" means something so old it's obsolete ("belonging to the times of Noah"). This guy meant to be an old king of an old kingdom not existing anymore, but still attached to the throne and the power.

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

Oh hey guess who owns Head of Zeus. I do not know what's going on at Bloomsbury, a publisher that has lots of money and at least had a lot of great people.

I have quite strong feelings on publishers taking 92.5% on paperbacks and 75% on ebooks and not actually providing a competent human editor. And I think an additional factor in the great GenAI discussion is that if you're going to provide less of a service you shouldn't expect to take the same cut.

Reading preview of a self pub book. A fair few spelling/grammar/word choice errors, which I get, costs and all, but it's offputting in a sample. Tsk. Then I looked at the sample of a book published by Bloomsbury and it had a catastrophic punctuation fail *in the first line*.

Seeing photos/reports that the weathered, twisted tower of the derelict St. Olaf Church near Tioga in western North Dakota finally toppled a few weeks ago. It’s amazing it held on as long as it did. Glad I made it back out there for these photos earlier this year

The death of the monoculture makes us all anthropologists.

"Ethical" AI models is an oxymoron No matter what they do, or who they ask for help, this cannot exist as they were implemented using stolen knowledge and everything they do perpetrates & imitates the worst impulses of their creators Glorified cheaters & hackers trying to crack humanity's code

Yes yes "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." We've all read Count Zero

The rich guys with zero internality or theory of mind who keep inventing the torment nexus make more sense when you realize They're This. They're not engaging with a story. They're just watching (not reading lol) cyberpunk stories going "wow what if your health insurance had flying ambulances"

Do you ever think about how there's a kind of guy who genuinely engaged with Science Fiction as like... Stories whose entire purpose is to ask "what if your car was a doctor"? Just purely wish fulfillment what ifs about fake inventions and nothing narrative at all. Fucking incredible 

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...