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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author

@mbaileywriter.bsky.social

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Independent author (superhero, fantasy, urban fantasy), stage combat director/instructor in the central MA area. Native Cape Codder. Shares a bed with one wife, two dogs, and three cats. He/him/his. https://innsmouthlook.com

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · Nov 19

Pinning this for folks who might be interested in my writing:

WEBSITE: innsmouthlook.com

AMAZON AUTHOR CENTRAL: www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/a...

You can order print editions through the website. I'll happily sign them, too!

InnsmouthLook.com

Your Home for Quality Snark Fiction by Michael C. Bailey

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

Big corporations are doing everything they can to crush human creatives across the spectrum, all so they can turn around and sell the same product, but of vastly inferior quality, to rubes too frigging clueless to see how easily they've been conned.

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 18h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 19h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

James, I feel this pain. I usually do fine on panels, but I don't do readings because I feel hella awkward, and most of my time in a dealers room is spent avoiding eye contact and fumbling to describe my work to people who stop to look.

I became a writer to avoid people, dammit.

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

Burgers. They're basically idiot-proof, and you can dress them up in any number of easy ways for variety.

Anne Mo 😷 @toughestfrail.com · 5h

What's your favorite low effort meal?

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

Prediction: the vast majority of users will be men who spend a lot of time complaining online they can't get a woman. They'll use gAI to craft fantasies in which all the women who ever turned them down, all the way back to middle school, will suddenly be ultra-horny for them.

Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 11h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 3h

Let's not pretend that the first people to lecherously rub their hands together when genAI arrived were overworked creatives or white-collar workers in desperate need of e-mail summaries. It was businessmen not wanting to pay workers, followed by guys who take pictures of kids in playgrounds

Hampus 🎃 @hampus.bsky.social · 4h

The real money is in blackmailing all the creeps who provided a photo ID to generate illegal porn

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

Pandora has some user friendliness issues, IMO, but its shuffle feature introduced me to a lot of new music, and I've not heard anything about it being a shitty company.

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER: For anyone confused, your political views are more than opinions. They're a reflection of your values, your empathy, and the way you see humanity.

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

You had me at the sensible plate armor over the well-rendered gambeson.

Myrmidia 🔛 Patreon ✷ Commissions CLOSED!! @myrmidia.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday I’m Myr & I draw moody TTRPG fantasy commissions for cool people (you) ✨

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

If your electricity rates are spiking, it's because of tariffs -- especially in New England, which gets a lot of its power from Canada -- and the proliferation of data centers.

Not liberals or Democrats, not renewables failing to live up to their promise. Tariffs and AI data centers.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1h

The sleeper issue?

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1h

The Sirens bit was pure gold. I also live for Vic Michaelis going off the rails.

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 11h

Dear General Public: you wouldn't know how to put a story together if your lives depended on it. There's a reason why you're the audience and not a creator.

Also, don't click on the link and support this pandering bullshit.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 16h

🤡 (1/5)

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 12h

I'm going with Red Sonja: Consumed by @gailsimone.bsky.social. I tore through it in a few hours. Lots of fun, moments of earnest emotion, sly humor, and more than a little naughty.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 17h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

Make Some Noise on Dropout.

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

Watch this show. The first five minutes made me laugh hard enough to make my face hurt for the rest of the night.

Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 20h

have you heard?

Josh Ruben, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zac Oyama miming offering gifts. In each of their hands, text is overlaid that reads "MSN is back"

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

If it makes you happy and doesn't cause you harm, it has value, so fuck this "coffee isn't important" bullshit.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

Captain Planet in the 90s: the former.

Captain Planet if it was rebooted today: the latter.

exfauna @poisonjr.bsky.social · 1d

i like that in fiction, enemies of the environment are just like “i love pollution!!! YES!!! MUCK!! GOOP” instead of “We have a duty to our shareholders”

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

Struzan was a modern master who illustrated a massive chunk of my childhood. RIP.

Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 20h

We’ve lost Drew Struzan. A modern master, who by all accounts was a humble, sweet, loving, dedicated man. His work influenced culture itself, & we’ll be seeing that influence until the end of the modern world. What a legacy. What a body of work. May he rest well, & may his memory be a blessing.

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 19h

Gavin Newsom is Trump's enemy, that doesn't mean he's your friend.

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19h

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 22h

Weekly Update – October 14, 2025

On the writing front, I wrapped over the long weekend -- belated Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day, by the way -- the first draft of a new project I'm keeping hush-hush for the moment, but it's one I've had tucked in the back of my head for quite a while now, so I'm…

Weekly Update – October 14, 2025

On the writing front, I wrapped over the long weekend -- belated Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day, by the way -- the first draft of a new project I'm keeping hush-hush for the moment, but it's one I've had tucked in the back of my head for quite a while now, so I'm happy to finally be putting it to (metaphorical) paper.

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1d

We're heading toward the holiday shopping season, so remember to treat retail workers with kindness. It's not their fault that...

* Prices are up and inventories are down
* Other shoppers are in shitty moods
* You're stressed out because you waited until the last minute to go holiday shopping

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1d

The hierarchy is:

No ads: Apple TV +
Ad-supported: Apple TV
No shows, nothing but ads: Apple TV -

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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.📺

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 1d

MA Creative Writing programs that alienate and bully speculative fiction author students are part of the reason our country is so messed up right now, and it’s beyond time they examine the white supremacy and white privilege history of “literary fiction.”

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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