Joseph Brassey
@josephbrassey.bsky.social
He/Him. Author of a buncha books. PRINCE OF CLAY out now. Serialized novel GLASSBLADE starting in January 2026. Swordsman. Repped by Laura Zats of Headwater Literary.
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My personal newsletter on fiction, life, art, and eventually serialized storytelling
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Okay y'all, my Beehiiv is up. The first post wont go live till June as I'm still working out the kinks of the platform and that first post will cover May. Sign up now, though, so that you get that first newsletter when it drops. #booksky
Yknow Samurai 7 is a great anime and a great adaptation with so many moving deaths but I think after his speech in the first few episodes about how there’s 7 Kami inside every grain of rice protecting it, his last line just kicks so hard.
“I’ll be in the rice.”
“I’ll be in the rice.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yknow Samurai 7 is a great anime and a great adaptation with so many moving deaths but I think after his speech in the first few episodes about how there’s 7 Kami inside every grain of rice protecting it, his last line just kicks so hard.
“I’ll be in the rice.”
“I’ll be in the rice.”
I dunno what’s more irritating: that I’ve been getting swordis ads for so long or that they’re working and I’m just waiting for a check to come in before I end up spending money.
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I dunno what’s more irritating: that I’ve been getting swordis ads for so long or that they’re working and I’m just waiting for a check to come in before I end up spending money.
Not sure if Japanese folklore and stories grapple with the duality of people more than is typical or if it just hits me a certain way but it sure is useful for pointing out that people are capable of being simultaneously monstrous and loving. Boy is that a lesson a lot of people need to learn.
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Not sure if Japanese folklore and stories grapple with the duality of people more than is typical or if it just hits me a certain way but it sure is useful for pointing out that people are capable of being simultaneously monstrous and loving. Boy is that a lesson a lot of people need to learn.
Torn between “being scared isn’t super helpful” and a chorus of panicked people screaming “YOU’RE NOT SCARED ENOUGH!”
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Torn between “being scared isn’t super helpful” and a chorus of panicked people screaming “YOU’RE NOT SCARED ENOUGH!”
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Already, we're seeing students in creative fields who don't distinguish between *thinking* about an idea and *generating a prompt* to ask a machine to think for them, because they had a moment of indecision and wanted an instant solution. They can't see how the generated idea *isn't their own*
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Already, we're seeing students in creative fields who don't distinguish between *thinking* about an idea and *generating a prompt* to ask a machine to think for them, because they had a moment of indecision and wanted an instant solution. They can't see how the generated idea *isn't their own*
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If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If your admin says "but we need to prepare students for AI-driven careers," you can calmly say no. Reiterate that AI-integration is the result of wild capitalist greed, the technologies themselves aren't "generative" or useful in most careers, and students should focus on process-based learning.
I burned the tip of my finger the day before I have to type a big newsletter GDI.
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I burned the tip of my finger the day before I have to type a big newsletter GDI.
There’s a lot of bad stuff in the world but it rained enough in the past two days that the dry creek beds in the park I walk through are finally flooded again.
Idk why I spend time worrying about these random stretches of outdoors, but I do.
Idk why I spend time worrying about these random stretches of outdoors, but I do.
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
There’s a lot of bad stuff in the world but it rained enough in the past two days that the dry creek beds in the park I walk through are finally flooded again.
Idk why I spend time worrying about these random stretches of outdoors, but I do.
Idk why I spend time worrying about these random stretches of outdoors, but I do.
I’ve struggled to articulate it in the past but kinda finally had it crystallized when I saw a white leftist guy ranting on TikTok about how unchecked rage was part of his privilege and he was gonna use it and it just kinda hit me.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ve struggled to articulate it in the past but kinda finally had it crystallized when I saw a white leftist guy ranting on TikTok about how unchecked rage was part of his privilege and he was gonna use it and it just kinda hit me.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
I do not trust this kind of white man.
So the day after Thanksgiving is the best day to hit the weight room if you like it pretty empty. That was amazing.
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
So the day after Thanksgiving is the best day to hit the weight room if you like it pretty empty. That was amazing.
The thing about integrating a discord with a newsletter and setting up paid tiers and getting ready to launch a serial all at the same time when you’re not a tech person is it’s easy to feel like a 15th century peasant trying to understand Linux.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The thing about integrating a discord with a newsletter and setting up paid tiers and getting ready to launch a serial all at the same time when you’re not a tech person is it’s easy to feel like a 15th century peasant trying to understand Linux.
This is the fifth time I’ve gotten compared to Giles from Buffy by a stranger. Of all the things to age into, Anthony Stewart Head is certainly one I can’t complain about.
November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is the fifth time I’ve gotten compared to Giles from Buffy by a stranger. Of all the things to age into, Anthony Stewart Head is certainly one I can’t complain about.
Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Don’t make me tap the “the answer to a lack of media literacy in the general populace is not to continue dumbing down your work” sign again.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you want a sense of the kind of things Liberal Currents is willing to publish under its banner of liberalism, read my magnum opus that debunks the entire 'sex based rights' scam, where I reframe that idea as a battering ram being used against the very *idea* of human rights.
BRING. BACK. LEXX.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
BRING. BACK. LEXX.
My son‘s middle school is in lockdown because there was a shooting two blocks away. I fucking hate this timeline.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
My son‘s middle school is in lockdown because there was a shooting two blocks away. I fucking hate this timeline.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
When a scientist says “Raw Water.”
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
When a scientist says “Raw Water.”
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yes. I understand. This is unfiltered water coming from a stream or lake or pond or other natural place.
When a woowoo health person says “Raw Water.”
What are you talking. Why are you you using the word “raw” WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT WATER.
Yeah. If people love you or fear you, they’re unlikely to move against you.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Machiavelli: It is better to be feared than loved, but you must absolutely avoid being *hated.*
So many forget that last part.
So many forget that last part.
It is a bit alarming, when rereading Machiavelli's The Prince, that it lands as reportage rather than political theory. However, I find great comfort in the fact that they are really effing it up.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yeah. If people love you or fear you, they’re unlikely to move against you.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Hatred though? That’s another story.
Reposted by Joseph Brassey
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
The belief in the possibility of encounters between alien life and some sort of future iteration of humanity directly mirrors broader cultural optimism on the whole and waxes and wanes alongside it, in this essay I will
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The belief in the possibility of encounters between alien life and some sort of future iteration of humanity directly mirrors broader cultural optimism on the whole and waxes and wanes alongside it, in this essay I will
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This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This is your sign btw that you should call Mastercard
Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Yesterday was heavy for personal reasons. Nobody died, but I was given reasons to contemplate mortality. Still, there was beauty in that too. Memento mori.