Jon Ficke
@jonficke.bsky.social
Husband, Writer, Woodworker, SFWA Member.
Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.
https://jonficke.com
Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.
https://jonficke.com
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Good. Rw Catholics need to be forced to choose
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller openly attacks Pope Leo XIV.
December 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Good. Rw Catholics need to be forced to choose
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Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Do you know how many generated and partially-generated stories authors have tried to submit to Clarkesworld over the last three years? Thousands upon thousands. But they all check a box saying their story didn't use it. It's no longer just side-hustle crap and it's really depressing.
December 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Do you know how many generated and partially-generated stories authors have tried to submit to Clarkesworld over the last three years? Thousands upon thousands. But they all check a box saying their story didn't use it. It's no longer just side-hustle crap and it's really depressing.
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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Well, speaking of the Nebulas, I can assure you no part of this story was created using AI. In fact, it’s inspired by my utter disgust of AI-generated art. I wrote is as an F-you to this whole shoehorning of AI in art. Give it a read if any of that speaks to you. #fuckai
Nebula nominations are open. It would mean a lot if you’d consider “Through the Machine.” Published in Lightspeed and featured by Gizmodo, it’s a cautionary tale of AI in the arts, using the film industry as example. Thank you for your consideration.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thro...
Through the Machine - Lightspeed Magazine
“Steve, over here! Turn to your right. Can we get a smile?” He falls back on his training easily enough, turns to the cameras, gives them his famous crooked smile, tilts his head just so as the flashe...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Well, speaking of the Nebulas, I can assure you no part of this story was created using AI. In fact, it’s inspired by my utter disgust of AI-generated art. I wrote is as an F-you to this whole shoehorning of AI in art. Give it a read if any of that speaks to you. #fuckai
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Boxing is problematic etc etc but Anthony Joshua cracking a smile as he lines up his kill shot on Jake Paul is giving me life
December 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Boxing is problematic etc etc but Anthony Joshua cracking a smile as he lines up his kill shot on Jake Paul is giving me life
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
One weird thing is that we always kinda do the “what if… Time Machine…Hitler” thing, but for McCauley caulkin specifically he’ll have to live with “I didn’t need a Time Machine”
Fate’s weird, man.
Fate’s weird, man.
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One weird thing is that we always kinda do the “what if… Time Machine…Hitler” thing, but for McCauley caulkin specifically he’ll have to live with “I didn’t need a Time Machine”
Fate’s weird, man.
Fate’s weird, man.
“Feels”
The only way the files were gonna be released is if they were completely scrubbed of anything that could hurt the regime politically. Feels like a farce.
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“Feels”
These monsters gonna turn me into a Hapsburg loyalist. Goodness gracious.
Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas...$70 per ticket.
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
These monsters gonna turn me into a Hapsburg loyalist. Goodness gracious.
Answer with “we’re not done until we score his name from his cursed tombstone.”
Anything less is a betrayal.
Anything less is a betrayal.
I doubt that any Democrat in the '28 mix would leave Trump's name on buildings. Questions are how they talk about taking it off, and what they say when reporters ask some version of "but wouldn't that further divide the country?"
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
December 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Answer with “we’re not done until we score his name from his cursed tombstone.”
Anything less is a betrayal.
Anything less is a betrayal.
Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae!
Kerry Kennedy — Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter and RFK Jr.’s sister — says she’s going to grab a pickax as soon as Trump’s term is over and take his name off the Kennedy Center.
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae! Damnatio Memoriae!
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Kerry Kennedy — Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter and RFK Jr.’s sister — says she’s going to grab a pickax as soon as Trump’s term is over and take his name off the Kennedy Center.
December 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Kerry Kennedy — Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s daughter and RFK Jr.’s sister — says she’s going to grab a pickax as soon as Trump’s term is over and take his name off the Kennedy Center.
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this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever
December 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever
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(Whisper.) "Are vaccines bourgeois?"
December 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
(Whisper.) "Are vaccines bourgeois?"
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Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.
man, it's pretty bleak that open antisemitism is like generally inside the overton window now
On a livestream yesterday, Puka both:
- Said that the Refs throw flags that they know are bad to brag to their friends in group chats, and
- Told Adin Ross that he'd do a "covetous jew" celebration on his next TD score
Suspend him tbh
- Said that the Refs throw flags that they know are bad to brag to their friends in group chats, and
- Told Adin Ross that he'd do a "covetous jew" celebration on his next TD score
Suspend him tbh
December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
man, it's pretty bleak that open antisemitism is like generally inside the overton window now
good god.
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
good god.
There's a real "collective action would break the system" problem at play in almost any court system.
If *every* small claims collection defendant contested their case with even a rudimentary defense that forced hearings, the system would collapse. There's simply insufficient judicial capacity.
If *every* small claims collection defendant contested their case with even a rudimentary defense that forced hearings, the system would collapse. There's simply insufficient judicial capacity.
How much of this is "the court system is the same size as it was in 1974"
Extremely blackpilling fact is that apparently, as recently as the 1970s, something like 20% of all cases actually went to trial. Today, it's like 1-3%, depending on which state or federal system we're talking about.
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There's a real "collective action would break the system" problem at play in almost any court system.
If *every* small claims collection defendant contested their case with even a rudimentary defense that forced hearings, the system would collapse. There's simply insufficient judicial capacity.
If *every* small claims collection defendant contested their case with even a rudimentary defense that forced hearings, the system would collapse. There's simply insufficient judicial capacity.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Just declare war already, this is taking forever.”
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Just declare war already, this is taking forever.”
wtf man
the January 6th pipe bomb guy was a brony who faved over 300 pictures of a nazi my little pony character on Derpibooru, the fandom's largest image site.
@derpibooru.bsky.social
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December 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
wtf man
There was a post imagining some kind of chicken-based nightmare plague sweeping France that was stopped only by the heroic self-sacrifice of Gaston meeting that plague with an egg holocaust that was pretty funny.
Not sure it supports a whole dang movie though.
Not sure it supports a whole dang movie though.
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
There was a post imagining some kind of chicken-based nightmare plague sweeping France that was stopped only by the heroic self-sacrifice of Gaston meeting that plague with an egg holocaust that was pretty funny.
Not sure it supports a whole dang movie though.
Not sure it supports a whole dang movie though.
I hate this, but on some tiny level I find this a bit like I found people wearing "Let's go Brandon" shirts or putting decals like that on their cars. If someone is going to great lengths to identify as a soulless monster, I see no reason not to avoid them at least or treat them as such at worst.
Our local news recently reported that a nonprofit is collecting toys for kids whose parents were deported. FB commenters were overwhelmingly negative. Many suggested ICE raid the toy drive and arrest the kids, too.
I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.
I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I hate this, but on some tiny level I find this a bit like I found people wearing "Let's go Brandon" shirts or putting decals like that on their cars. If someone is going to great lengths to identify as a soulless monster, I see no reason not to avoid them at least or treat them as such at worst.
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I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.