Mike Headley (He/Him)
@mikeheadley.bsky.social
Dayjob: Marketing for Insurance. It's fine.
Otherwise: I write books.
WIP: 3 Musketeers x Wonderwoman, but make it very queer.
Game designer.
Bi. He/him.
Otherwise: I write books.
WIP: 3 Musketeers x Wonderwoman, but make it very queer.
Game designer.
Bi. He/him.
Pinned
Mike, what ARE your projects?
Two completed manuscripts:
Adult SF: Pacific Rim x Firefly. A found family heist novel with GIANT ROBOTS.
MG SF: Oliver Astley and Santa's Giant Robot Vs the Abominable Snow Beasts. What it says on the tin.
Current:
Wonderwoman x 3 Musketeers, but make it queer.
Two completed manuscripts:
Adult SF: Pacific Rim x Firefly. A found family heist novel with GIANT ROBOTS.
MG SF: Oliver Astley and Santa's Giant Robot Vs the Abominable Snow Beasts. What it says on the tin.
Current:
Wonderwoman x 3 Musketeers, but make it queer.
...well done Mike, well done.
Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
...well done Mike, well done.
The MBA grads who moved in going "Okay but games already made millions, what if we do all that programming tricks to make 100x that amount" is just.
Ugh.
Ugh.
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The MBA grads who moved in going "Okay but games already made millions, what if we do all that programming tricks to make 100x that amount" is just.
Ugh.
Ugh.
I've got a handful of cleanup things left to do on this book and then... it's going to readers? Like. Literally tonight?
So that's fuckin cool.
So that's fuckin cool.
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I've got a handful of cleanup things left to do on this book and then... it's going to readers? Like. Literally tonight?
So that's fuckin cool.
So that's fuckin cool.
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Omg not what I was expecting at all 😂😂
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Omg not what I was expecting at all 😂😂
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
Legitimately I do have Balatro on my phone because sometimes the anxiety spiral is starting and I just need to watch number go up.
I've been intentionally LEAVING my phone as much as possible. I realized how reflexively I was grabbing it and how weird it felt not having it, and it pissed me off.
I've been intentionally LEAVING my phone as much as possible. I realized how reflexively I was grabbing it and how weird it felt not having it, and it pissed me off.
Productivity hack: do not fill your day with boredom busters. Ditch the mobile games, the doomscrolling, the TV binge, and whatever else you noodle on when you're bored.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
Then fight boredom by making something. Paint a picture, write a story, sing a song, code an app. Making stuff is awesome.
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Legitimately I do have Balatro on my phone because sometimes the anxiety spiral is starting and I just need to watch number go up.
I've been intentionally LEAVING my phone as much as possible. I realized how reflexively I was grabbing it and how weird it felt not having it, and it pissed me off.
I've been intentionally LEAVING my phone as much as possible. I realized how reflexively I was grabbing it and how weird it felt not having it, and it pissed me off.
If you aren’t asking yourself “is this too many mushrooms?” Then you don’t have enough mushrooms on your tree
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Hey y’all I’m allowed to block whoever I want for whatever the reason actually.
December 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Yall I loved this novella. It's got really fun characters, big robot punchy punchy, and a FASCINATING setting.
Just imagine pop-up ad bots. In your brain.
Just imagine pop-up ad bots. In your brain.
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Hard Reboot
Django Wexler's Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles and intergalactic diplomacy. When did academia get to be so complicated?
amzn.to
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yall I loved this novella. It's got really fun characters, big robot punchy punchy, and a FASCINATING setting.
Just imagine pop-up ad bots. In your brain.
Just imagine pop-up ad bots. In your brain.
We've ordered it and WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!
**slides this toward you** Surely, next year, you could use a poetry collection from moi?
I'm very, very proud of it, and I'd love it if you'd preorder!
I'm very, very proud of it, and I'd love it if you'd preorder!
Do you know I've got a poetry collection coming out next year? & you can preorder it? (Some links below, but you can preorder worldwide.)
Like tarot cards, witchy things, feminist rage (think Taylor's "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" & Fleetwood's "Silver Springs."), & mythology? You're in luck.
Like tarot cards, witchy things, feminist rage (think Taylor's "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" & Fleetwood's "Silver Springs."), & mythology? You're in luck.
December 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We've ordered it and WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!
So I came back from college on year, this was oh, 2008? And my Mom said hey let's go to the mall. I said sure. And then we get there, she goes left, I go right. And THEN I realized, oh no, shes doesn't have a phone.
We USED to do this but we had PLANS. Preparations. Meet at ___ at time Y.
We USED to do this but we had PLANS. Preparations. Meet at ___ at time Y.
And isn't it weird that how we used to roll now feels like a thing we need to prepare for.
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So I came back from college on year, this was oh, 2008? And my Mom said hey let's go to the mall. I said sure. And then we get there, she goes left, I go right. And THEN I realized, oh no, shes doesn't have a phone.
We USED to do this but we had PLANS. Preparations. Meet at ___ at time Y.
We USED to do this but we had PLANS. Preparations. Meet at ___ at time Y.
Alriiiight the duck is in the oven.
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Alriiiight the duck is in the oven.
At this point if I was OU faculty I would be walking the fuck out. I know it's not actually that easy for them (I mean, would you walk away from tenure?). But shit this is some bullshit.
Samantha Fulnecky, the OU junior who wrote an intentionally shitty essay to incite a harassment campaign against a trans graduate student, should have been expelled.
University of Oklahoma has removed another professor because they said they would excuse students who wanted to attend the protest against the firing of the FIRST professor (the one who failed the student for the bad essay)
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At this point if I was OU faculty I would be walking the fuck out. I know it's not actually that easy for them (I mean, would you walk away from tenure?). But shit this is some bullshit.
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Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Re: everybody getting got by an ai dog video: I want to talk about propaganda in general as well as ai in specific. We are awash in way too much stuff to pay deep attention to and that's absolutely by design.
Them : Omg what’s in that huge delivery truck?
Me: Sage
Me: Sage
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Lol what a loser.
See THIS is why you don't let your founder keep special voting shares so they can maintain control. He *genuinely* thought this was a great idea. And they incinerated BILLIONS. And there was nothing shareholders could actually DO.
See THIS is why you don't let your founder keep special voting shares so they can maintain control. He *genuinely* thought this was a great idea. And they incinerated BILLIONS. And there was nothing shareholders could actually DO.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Lol what a loser.
See THIS is why you don't let your founder keep special voting shares so they can maintain control. He *genuinely* thought this was a great idea. And they incinerated BILLIONS. And there was nothing shareholders could actually DO.
See THIS is why you don't let your founder keep special voting shares so they can maintain control. He *genuinely* thought this was a great idea. And they incinerated BILLIONS. And there was nothing shareholders could actually DO.
So @mayorq.bsky.social how uh, how are we going to protect people from ICE when the World Cup is going on?
Kansas City is happy to welcome you for the World Cup. I need to practice the languages of all our visitors like Dutch, Arabic, and more, but know all are welcome. We will see you this summer in Kansas City!
🇦🇷🇩🇿🇪🇨🇨🇼🇹🇳🇳🇱🇦🇹!!!
🇦🇷🇩🇿🇪🇨🇨🇼🇹🇳🇳🇱🇦🇹!!!
December 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
So @mayorq.bsky.social how uh, how are we going to protect people from ICE when the World Cup is going on?
6 great qualities of a leader:
- Bitchin boss music
- Good motivational barks, a la "Fresh Meat" or "You're that Ninja"
- An excellent second stage attack
- Good resistances / immunities
- Good status effects really help
- Excellent drop rates
- Bitchin boss music
- Good motivational barks, a la "Fresh Meat" or "You're that Ninja"
- An excellent second stage attack
- Good resistances / immunities
- Good status effects really help
- Excellent drop rates
6 qualities of a great leader:
- Vision
- Confidence
- Inspires loyalty
- 2 or more health bars
- Second, more powerful form they can transform into
- Secret base that instantly begins to fall apart when they are defeated
- Vision
- Confidence
- Inspires loyalty
- 2 or more health bars
- Second, more powerful form they can transform into
- Secret base that instantly begins to fall apart when they are defeated
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
6 great qualities of a leader:
- Bitchin boss music
- Good motivational barks, a la "Fresh Meat" or "You're that Ninja"
- An excellent second stage attack
- Good resistances / immunities
- Good status effects really help
- Excellent drop rates
- Bitchin boss music
- Good motivational barks, a la "Fresh Meat" or "You're that Ninja"
- An excellent second stage attack
- Good resistances / immunities
- Good status effects really help
- Excellent drop rates
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In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.
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Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
Past me, why did I put a daguerreotype in my book? Because now I have to SPELL daguerreotype.
I just literally came across a passage "daguasekjhasekau" where I had just given up lol.
I just literally came across a passage "daguasekjhasekau" where I had just given up lol.
December 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Past me, why did I put a daguerreotype in my book? Because now I have to SPELL daguerreotype.
I just literally came across a passage "daguasekjhasekau" where I had just given up lol.
I just literally came across a passage "daguasekjhasekau" where I had just given up lol.
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Join our podcast to meet literary agent Eric Smith from Neighborhood Literary. And learn about genre hopping!
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #AuthorLife #writers
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #AuthorLife #writers
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Join our podcast to meet literary agent Eric Smith from Neighborhood Literary. And learn about genre hopping!
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #AuthorLife #writers
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast #AuthorLife #writers
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Gawd, this is a grim warning for me. So I watched that animal shelter vid going round, felt all teary and happy, shared it - without the ability to parse that it was AI because I *wanted* to believe it. Have unshared. Wish it was real. But mostly wish we weren't lied to by AI.
December 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Gawd, this is a grim warning for me. So I watched that animal shelter vid going round, felt all teary and happy, shared it - without the ability to parse that it was AI because I *wanted* to believe it. Have unshared. Wish it was real. But mostly wish we weren't lied to by AI.
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