Brian McCullogh
@webmccullogh.bsky.social
73 year-old retired guy, didn’t expect to have followers. Joined to continue reading interesting posts from favourite f&sf authors, science writers, and learning new things from other interesting people. Occasional likes, replies, and reposts.
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And if you haven't yet read the first in this trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, you can get that one NOW: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
Wooing the Witch Queen - Stephanie Burgis
North American cover art by Mike Pape Order your copy from the US or find it in the UK. In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alli...
stephanieburgis.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
And if you haven't yet read the first in this trilogy of fantasy rom-coms, you can get that one NOW: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen
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Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
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Awful and important. This stuff isn't only happening in America - and it's terrible in both countries.
The Government says these reforms are “for councils”, but councils themselves are warning they will cause real harm.
Southwark Council’s leader has said the Government’s new asylum plans are “deeply concerning” — increasing homelessness, traumatising children, and separating families.
Southwark Council’s leader has said the Government’s new asylum plans are “deeply concerning” — increasing homelessness, traumatising children, and separating families.
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Awful and important. This stuff isn't only happening in America - and it's terrible in both countries.
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HEY! HEY #BOOKSKY!
Today is NEW BOOK DAY! :D
My next Virtue Shifters #paranormalromance, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is now available!
WHOO-OO says you can't go home? Romcom star Kayla finds herself in a meet-cute when she returns to Virtue to film her next movie! 🥰
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCXL6Y...
Today is NEW BOOK DAY! :D
My next Virtue Shifters #paranormalromance, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is now available!
WHOO-OO says you can't go home? Romcom star Kayla finds herself in a meet-cute when she returns to Virtue to film her next movie! 🥰
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCXL6Y...
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
HEY! HEY #BOOKSKY!
Today is NEW BOOK DAY! :D
My next Virtue Shifters #paranormalromance, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is now available!
WHOO-OO says you can't go home? Romcom star Kayla finds herself in a meet-cute when she returns to Virtue to film her next movie! 🥰
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCXL6Y...
Today is NEW BOOK DAY! :D
My next Virtue Shifters #paranormalromance, OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, is now available!
WHOO-OO says you can't go home? Romcom star Kayla finds herself in a meet-cute when she returns to Virtue to film her next movie! 🥰
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCXL6Y...
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Tea set complete with vibrant nebula, destination planet, and kitty spacecraft 🚀
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tea set complete with vibrant nebula, destination planet, and kitty spacecraft 🚀
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1000000000000000000x cooler to do this & pay an artist to do what they’re trained to do than to fire up the art theft tech to generate crap.
Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
1000000000000000000x cooler to do this & pay an artist to do what they’re trained to do than to fire up the art theft tech to generate crap.
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Author friends—I read this in one sitting, couldn’t put it down. If you’d like to take a peek for a possible blurb, I can hook you up. Holler!
Today our feathers are floofed because we have copy edits back from @jomiles.bsky.social for THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH and we get to prepare the ARCs! Hey: Any reviewers want a look? Any author peeps want to blurb it? It’s SO DANG GOOD
December 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Author friends—I read this in one sitting, couldn’t put it down. If you’d like to take a peek for a possible blurb, I can hook you up. Holler!
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A BC MLA wants a stat holiday to honour the dishonourable 'freedom convoy.' Seems like most RW, racist cons have the same wide-eyed, dim expression on their faces.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. MLA wants statutory holiday to honour Freedom Convoy
A B.C. legislator who previously argued Truth and Reconciliation Day should not be recognized as a statutory holiday is proposing a new one that would celebrate the self-described “Freedom Convoy.”
www.ctvnews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A BC MLA wants a stat holiday to honour the dishonourable 'freedom convoy.' Seems like most RW, racist cons have the same wide-eyed, dim expression on their faces.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Just as a general statement, if everybody who wants a sequel to one of (almost anybody's) books got 3 to 5 other people to buy the one they want a sequel to? That would go a LONG way toward making more sequels practical. :D
This is a riveting story! 😇
I hope a bunch of people buy copies in the selfish hope that a sequel(s) will move up on the priority list. 😊
I hope a bunch of people buy copies in the selfish hope that a sequel(s) will move up on the priority list. 😊
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Just as a general statement, if everybody who wants a sequel to one of (almost anybody's) books got 3 to 5 other people to buy the one they want a sequel to? That would go a LONG way toward making more sequels practical. :D
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Here is my rant for the year and The Era:
We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.”
It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.
We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.”
It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Here is my rant for the year and The Era:
We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.”
It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.
We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.”
It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.
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“nobody can get a virus that is objectively bad for you, objectively harmful, that we know invades the brain, degrades the immune system, and attacks the blood vessels, dozens and dozens of times, and just “be fine” That is not how human bodies work.”
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
“nobody can get a virus that is objectively bad for you, objectively harmful, that we know invades the brain, degrades the immune system, and attacks the blood vessels, dozens and dozens of times, and just “be fine” That is not how human bodies work.”
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if you’re proudly vaccinated against COVID but you don’t bother with other precautions like masking in indoor spaces, you’re actually *undermining the effectiveness of the vaccine*
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
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@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
if you’re proudly vaccinated against COVID but you don’t bother with other precautions like masking in indoor spaces, you’re actually *undermining the effectiveness of the vaccine*
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social dropping truth on the “public heath is dead” podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
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the host of CBC radio’s flagship science show was struck with apparent wonder when he asked this on the *fifth* anniversary of the pandemic. and then? it was monday again. that’s a serious problem
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
the host of CBC radio’s flagship science show was struck with apparent wonder when he asked this on the *fifth* anniversary of the pandemic. and then? it was monday again. that’s a serious problem
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The sheer dedication to avoiding any mention of COVID when talking about things that we know for certain are heavily impacted by COVID is...impressive.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
November 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The sheer dedication to avoiding any mention of COVID when talking about things that we know for certain are heavily impacted by COVID is...impressive.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
The "after pandemic" bit is a red flag too - someone's either not keeping up, or deliberately trying to manipulate the narrative.
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its not that insane. the right has been supremely successful at culture war grievance. they are helped by liberals who dont want to engage in these fights and institutionalists who take their bullshit claims as legitimate gripes made in good faith. why not keep doing the thing that works?
Basically they are trying to bully teachers giving them good grades. Knowing absolutely nothing about that topic and become victim. It's totally insane how stupid these people are, it truly is.
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
its not that insane. the right has been supremely successful at culture war grievance. they are helped by liberals who dont want to engage in these fights and institutionalists who take their bullshit claims as legitimate gripes made in good faith. why not keep doing the thing that works?
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There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
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The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up.
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
December 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The Gerald Locklin poem never fails to make me tear up.
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
This one, on the other hand...do I ever feel like it? Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.
(by Robert Florence)
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Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
I would have blocked you for that comment, too. I have only not blocked you now because I am serving as Krista's anger translator. Please develop at least one (1) other social media interest or hobby other than posting about US politics and at least one (1) additional frame of reference.
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
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On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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@fortune.com #NYC
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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@fortune.com #NYC
@wutangforchildren.bsky.social
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We told you AI was a tool of fascism.
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We told you AI was a tool of fascism.
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I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...