Mark Keating

These goats are called “Nachi Goats” which literally means Dancing goats. They walk as if they were dancing... 😅🤣 #bluesky

At the VERY LEAST don't suggest anything you haven't read in the past, let's say, decade
Because the suck fairy is a busy, busy girl

Yup. For the same reason you shouldn't show a movie you loved as a teen to your kid without watching it again first, ie the Sixteen Candles Problem

I've told this story before but I was in a taxi once and my driver, learning I was a writer, complained his young kid only wanted comic books. I told him to encourage that, because that was the kid's door into reading and the rest would come in time. I think it helped that advice came from a writer.

This weekend’s Sturgeon Moon over Lake Michigan ⛵️🌕

#Chicago #fullmoon #photography

Starting with today’s Podcast and continuing every week through season two we now have a new feature: John’s Peace Thoughts.

Listen to the rest of John's thoughts on the Official Peacemaker Podcast today.

This is Basil. She just wanted to let you know that you can run, but you can't hide. 13/10 (TT: christaniner)

Got his ass

For the folks suggesting I'm promoting science fiction works from this millennium because I want an extra sale or two

1. I assure you I am doing fine, thanks for your concern

2. Otherwise FUCK YES support currently living/working writers please and thank you, they need to eat and live in a house

Me: 2025 has been so good for horror

You: Yeah! What have been your favorite movies so far

Me: What's a movie

I like Brooks Adreniline GTS (currently in year 5 of using this brand and year 3 of the style). They are a good all round trainer suitable for outdoor or treadmill, comfortable and cushioned enough for distance walking as well. They are very light foam with 'guide rails' to keep foot aligned.

Fuck canon. Read widely, read what you like. Stay curious.

And do your art.

Cover art by Christian Ward

TODAY is Final Order Cut-off for 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗘: 𝗔 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛 #1 from Wes Chatham, Francesco Pisa and me — with main cover art by Christian Ward!

That means if you want to pre-order it from your local comic shop, DO IT NOW!

#TheExpanse 🚀

Grief taught me to feel joy
so rich it bubbles over with laughter
even as my heart and soul
are mourning
chest a canyon of aching loss
how sweet
this unexpected
unwarranted delight
so sharp
remembrance cuts through it
breath caught on machete edge
tastes like iron
salt
life

#vss365 #laugh #poetry

The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons

If he likes them I may steer him towards the Expanse books and maybe some of @scalzi.com lightrer books, I think he'd like the Kaiju Preservation Society for its irrevelant whimsy as well as Starter Villain.

As for 'classic'. Read a lot of it as a kid and varied in my joy from 'absolutely love' to 'did nothing for me'. I certainly wouldn't recommend anything classic to my kids unless they asked. 15 year old loved Animal Farm and War of the Worlds and wanted more so I suggested V for Vendetta and 1984.

I personally preferred Neuromancer, I know it is more problematic and raw in style, maybe those are the reasons I like it more ('cause I am a contrarian arse). I also don't mind 'manspalined' as long as the explanation is interesting, but do want the people in the story to have full life as well.

See also: You don't have to listen to the Beatles.

Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

Everyone British on here 40ish: What a lovely morning
Me: EARWORM MUTHERFUCKAS

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Reporter: Here’s that article, chief!

Editor: Great! We’re gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you!

Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess it’s worth it if they read it.

Editor: Haha, don’t worry, they won’t. Here, let me throw that away for you.

Gravestone inscribed: Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell. 13-6-1957, 10-2-2019. Barrister of the Middle Temple. My brain, socialist. My heart, anarchist. My eyes, pacifist. My blood, revolutionary. Around the edge, the legend: The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman with someone else’s teeth.

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby.

Note the border inscription.

Incredible footage of Plasma ejecting from the Sun.

Never judge a book by its cover!

That is an assumption that it is a square and not say a cube etc. (other root variables are available, you best turn it in to a equation where Mathematicians get their kicks on a variable root of 66).

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

He was in the FAFO region

I'm sad to say that since leaving Twitter/X my sales for live shows have dropped quite a lot - it turns out that even though it's a dreadful place it was still useful for getting the word out about events. So any shares / RTs of my posts about live shows are hugely appreciated!

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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