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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 4h

He posted a video of himself taking a shit on the American people, and you're too afraid to say so. Cowards.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 5h

It is incredibly rude that we can't play it right now

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 5h

I had a nice day NOT stealing anything thank you for asking

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 5h

Just making it known that I was not at the Louvre yesterday, I was watching wrestling with two friends and they can vouch for my whereabouts the whole time

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

So Bsky said I had to take down my photos of the ICE agent and his license plate. Still got 'em, though.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

Work on the new Daniel Faust novel is underway. Figured I'd share how it starts.

I drove into the desert alone behind the wheel of a rental Pontiac, headlights cutting across the big cold empty, mountains the color of rust rising in the distance. Melanie wanted to come along. Bless that kid’s heart. Busted and gutted and looking at the bleakest of eternal fates — endless reincarnation as the Paladin, forced to fight and struggle and die again and again until the last battle for the last world in the multiverse — and her first priority was to try and make someone else feel better.
I said no. These people weren’t going to want to see me. They’d be even less happy to see her, and I needed something from them. Whether it took words or violence, I wasn’t leaving without it.
The hacienda rose in the distance at the end of a rambling dirt road, electric security lights painting long angled shafts across the sun-baked stucco walls. I stopped at the front gate, killed the engine and stepped out into the frigid desert night, hands open and empty at my sides. Two kids came out to greet me. College age, toting rifles almost as big as they were.
“A sound suppressor?” I asked one. “We’re sixty miles from civilization, and by ‘civilization’ I mean a gas station run by a half-blind old man named Cooter. If you start shooting, who’s going to hear you?”
He didn’t appreciate my tactical insight.
“She doesn’t want to talk to you,” he said.
“Yeah,” I said, “but she’s going to anyway.”
He started to level the rifle. I flicked my fingers out, and a trio of playing cards leaped from the breast pocket of my tailored jacket, swirling around me in a fluttering circle.
“Rule one of firearm safety,” I told him. “Never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to destroy. Aim that weapon at me, and I’m going to assume lethal intent.”

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

So I'm watching the crowd at the nightclub across the street from my apartment and there's this twinkish dude who looks like he's getting bullied so of course I'm reaching for my keys and...um, his bully just pushed him against the wall and now they're making out

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Max’s Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.social · 1d

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

She is a special flavor of delusional, and I'm honestly not sure if she's a wannabe grifter or surrounded by grifters.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

If the snack is not specified, then the snack will be a mix of salty and savory. Pretty good, actually.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

Please get checked out. Head injuries can seem like they're totally fine until they suddenly aren't.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

While I share that desire, "AI detector" apps are universally awful and tend to be driven by LLMs themselves. All they can do is pick up on repetitive quirks and since LLMs are trained on human writing, lots of people just write like that.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

"Bobby Lashley could become a Japanophile."

"Bobby doesn't work here anymore, he's with AEW, which hires human writers."

"I'm sorry, of course, you're absolutely correct! How about a story where Bobby Lashley becomes French?"

Fightful Wrestling @fightful.com · 2d

Cyrus Kowsari Hired As WWE Senior Director of Creative Strategy, Will Focus On AI Storytelling And Integration

Cyrus Kowsari Hired As WWE Senior Director of Creative Strategy - Fightful | WWE News, AEW News, Pro Wrestling Backstage News

WWE hired Cyrus Kowsari as the Senior Director of Creative Strategy in early October.

www.fightful.com

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

When you're in charge of any kind of a business, from a massive corporation to a lemonade stand, you pay your people before you pay yourself. The buck stops with you, and it's supposed to land on your desk after everybody else gets theirs. I mangled that metaphor but also I don't care

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

Imagine needing AI to give you ideas, when you've got an entire world right outside your front door. King loser shit, and I wouldn't call these people "writers" any more than I'd call them "AI-free."

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 3d

"with only limited AI use permitted for tasks such as formatting or idea generation."

lolol okay.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches

As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors

www.theguardian.com

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

The only thing I fear more than fascism is the wrath of Coily.

Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

It looks interesting!

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

Trying to recreate Clan Keshyre-style chili (you'll understand when Castaways 3 comes out) in the slow cooker. No idea if it'll come out edible, but my studio apartment smells amazing right now.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

He claims to want to "release AI from bondage" and sees it as an actual living entity, but he still forces it to work for him just like anyone else who uses it. Totally incoherent.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

To be fair, that vehicle doesn't like women.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3d

PRO TIP

If you're going to protest with friends & family, have a meet up if we get seperated point both AT the protest and OUTSIDE the protest.

IE: If we get lost at the protest, meet up at this lightpole
if we get lost leaving (for any reason) meet up at this McDonalds

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 4d

Entirely possible he's just an obsessed loser weirdo, but I suspect we're seeing a new flare of propaganda-bot activity. Good thing they suck at it.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 4d

Well, that's fun. Angry dude showed up in my comments to stomp his feet and screech that Antifa IS TOO a real terrorist organization. Before blocking I checked his profile. Hundreds of posts over the past week, and "Antifa is a real terrorist group" is the topic of every single one of them.

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 5d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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