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Cuyler

@cuylermeade.bsky.social

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Husband and father of six (kids, not wives...one wife). Former journo. Now writing other things. Big-city California kid now living in rural Northwest Colorado. Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, and Trampset. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 2h

And they didn't get guns masks body armor and the full backing of the state, either!

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 2d

I think the word thrum is only used by creative writers. I've never seen it in any other context.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 6d

I'm finally gonna say it. Ned Stark deserved to lose his head just for the way he said "they have no ships, Robert" at their fancy King picnic. There. I said it. I'm glad he's dead.

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 9d

Hi! Why not read this story of mine? If you feel like it, you know.

Published in @trampset.bsky.social in February.

Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces trampset.org/margaret-mul...

Margaret Mulaney and the New Faces

by Cuyler Meade

trampset.org

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 9d

Gosh lucky. I so rarely field trenchant questions.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 9d

No freaking way. Octavia E Butler forecasting 2032 in 1998. Check the second to last line. This is nuts. Utterly eerie stuff.

Page 15 of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler, including a populist, Christian nationalist politician using the words "make America great again."

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 14d

Big this guy energy

a bald man with a mustache wearing sunglasses and a necklace with the number 999 on it

ALT: a bald man with a mustache wearing sunglasses and a necklace with the number 999 on it

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 14d

Good news, fans of art, the apocalypse is almost here, and you can be a part of it! (Apparently real job that LinkedIn recommended to me)

Job posting for a short story writer to write stories used to train AI models

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 17d

The contest that started it all (for me) is back! Join me in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 20th annual Short Story Challenge on January 23rd. Learn more at NYCmidnight.com/ssc

The Short Story Challenge — nycmidnight

The Short Story Challenge is an annual creative writing competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments in as little as ...

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 21d

The calendar invite just says "not the second to last step in a Bond villain plot, we swear!"

www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

Hegseth orders hundreds of senior military officers to Virginia for highly unusual meeting | CNN Politics

Hundreds of US generals and admirals around the globe have been called to Virginia for a meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, several US officials told CNN, though the reason for th...

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 22d

My seventh grader today was relating that in his ELA argumentative writing unit they aren't supposed to be writing about "facts that can't be debated."

I tried not to shatter his worldview. It's very sweet that he still thinks those exist. What a good, stable existence that must be.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 22d

This is all I've got for you today. I'm trying, Jennifer.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · 22d

Also one person can't take all the fully loaded ones. It's a rule the restaurant has.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 15

I got this one too today

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 14

@pablo.show can you find out about this hat?

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 12

I haven't watched Downton Abbey since the beginning of the second or maybe third season, but did the massive jumps in time just slow way down? Because they should be in like the 90s by now otherwise right? Does lady Mary listen to Garbage? Probably, right?

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 12

I don't need artificial intelligence to help me take cell phone photos or use Google. Until five seconds ago we just called that cool technology improvements. Now everyone insists on calling it AI. Please stop.

Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 12

It's interesting to watch brands lean so hard into AI as a selling point despite 1. The overwhelming disgust most people I know have for AI and 2. The usually meaningless (and often useless) distinction between what we used to just call an algorithm or programming but now insist on calling AI.

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Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social · Sep 11

The truest thing I've ever read.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 10

"My kids used to think I was a halfway decent parent until you two came along with your delightful Australian accents and seemingly endless stores of free time and patience."