Keith W. Dickinson

Same energy.

Cool. Did you stick around to watch?

That's cool. I bet that was a surprise.

YouTube video by Make Some Noise The Worst Youtuber, Mr. Beastiality

That's not what he likes to do to animals. 🙄

A figure illustrating the rotation of neutral hydrogen (right) in galaxies residing in an extended filament (middle), where the galaxies exhibit a coherent bulk rotational motion tracing the large-scale cosmic web (left). Credit: Lyla Jung

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest spinning structures in the known universe.

This "cosmic filament" is 50 million light years long & contains 100s of galaxies that seem to be rotating in alignment. It's part of an even greater web linking the cosmos. 🧪🔭

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-12...

Ink and watercolor drawing of a small boy with wild black hair and a determined expression, holding a sword and walking through a misty wood as crows peer down from the trees.

Here's a drawing from last year's Folktale Week, sharing again for #KidLitArtPostcard day. I'm an author/illustrator with a pile of stories in progress, currently querying agents. See more at my website: johnlechner.com 🍄🦋🍃 #kidlitart

Four goblins stacked on top of each other wearing a too big wizard robe

Here's four goblins in a wizard robe trying to scam their way into a very secret wizard meeting ✨️

#myart #goblins

The image is of a comic. Panel one depicts Santa Claus. He says, "Have you been naughty or nice?" Panel two depicts a happy dog. He says, "I am ALWAYS a good boy." Santa responds "Very nice!" Panel three depicts Santa again. He says "...And you?" Panel four depicts an orange cat climbing a Christmas tree, turning his head to look back at Santa.

2107 words done, for a total of 76,731, and our night at Tromboni's Automatic Circus comes to an ignominious close.

#AttackMars

Delightful!

If you have to take the quiz, Ally has some news for you 👀

#AdventuringAcademy

YouTube video by Pandamoanimum Dirty Dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune

Are you familiar with this classic?

Anyone who thinks it’s possible to fake disability for fraudulent benefits has clearly never known anyone even obliquely who has had to interact with the systems involved. Driven by a false FEAR of fraud: labyrinthine friction and ridiculous obstacles, designed to get the user to give up.

2107 words done, for a total of 76,731, and our night at Tromboni's Automatic Circus comes to an ignominious close.

#AttackMars

THE END OF GODS IS HERE! ... sort of... More details on how you can read it (right now!) here: markstaywrites.com/2025/12/03/t...

I'm writing a night at the automatic circus in a bit of detail, fairly sure I'll have to replace it with a summary paragraph at some point.

I think it's good, but it might slow things down a bit much.

A page from the Dorney School punishment book showing various students, their offences, and their punishments

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.

If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h:

- Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points
- Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again

Remember, appeasement is never enough for these people. They want nothing less than total capitulation (with a smile on your face as you do it).

Never give an inch! ⛔

YouTube video by Pandamoanimum Dirty Dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune

Are you familiar with this classic?

This thread should amuse you for a few minutes. 😏

"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."

- Elmore Leonard

To any parents who read to kids: how often do you read children's books as an ebook, if at al?
We used to read ebooks with our nephews, but is do any parent do this regularly? Or do you prefer physical books when reading to your children?

A pen tester maybe? That also encompasses breaking into places as well, like in the movie Sneakers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetra...

'Fragile' and 'Do not bend' also helpful advice.

Or you pay a subscription to have direct access to your food.

Unpacking GIF ALT: Unpacking GIF

Box fort chic.

YouTube video by Sam Reich strangely inspirational

Regular affirmations.

Small white building on pillars with steps. ‘Prompt This’ with an image of a middle finger sticking up is graffitied along the top.

Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour