W. Keith Tims

"We're going to send a tech to your house to fix your internet. We need you to be at home and available between 6am and the Winter Solstice."

Pleasepleaseplease...

#books #writing #writingcommunity #scifi #sff #booksky

What people must think of a writer's search history. Here's some from today:

"How long to fly from DC to St. Thomas"
"French cuss words"
"Jar Jar Binks racism"

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As more and more creators turn to direct funding of our projects, it might feel like - as a consumer or a reader or a listener - you’re being asked to pay again and again, and it’s getting mad expensive, and what on earth can you do?

Epistle 1 - The Long Night Listen to The Book of Constellations on RedCircle

"The work continues. Even in the face of overwhelming darkness, the work continues. Do not despair. The long night will end so long as the work continues. And the work is love. Here in the long night, your work is to love *everyone*."

redcircle.com/shows/716b16...

#audiofiction #booksky #books

I am not feeling the 4th of July this year. It is hard to celebrate America while SCOTUS is honoring a convicted rapist as their king, letting him kidnap people, and build concentration camps. — Does anyone else feel this way?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

HR1 gives #ICE a bigger budget than the Marines.

Police w/o uniforms, badges, in unmarked cars, masked, operating without warrants or due process, who can (& have already) detain anyone they want & ship them to a 3rd world prison gets over $100 bn.

You are not safe. #resist #fascism #oligarchy

YouTube video by vlogbrothers What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means

Thanks to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for a little perspective and reminder.

"85% of traditionally published books sell fewer than 5000 copies, and only 0.4% sell more than 100,000."

youtu.be/oqE_3CQpQf4?...

#books #writing #writingcommunity #fiction #booksky

The advisor in question is Laura Loomer.

Just disgusting.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

US friends: call your Rep and tell them to vote “no” on HR1, the budget bill that will gut #Medicaid, fund #ICE, and add trillions(!) to the debt all to give the rich more money.

I use the “5 Calls” app to make it easy.

Call every day.

#trump #resist #fascism #immigration

5calls.org

After blowing off the funerals of politicians slain by a member of his own party, the US President toured a concentration camp for immigrants in Florida and promoted his own line of fragrances.

If I put that in a novel, you’d say it was far fetched or I had an agenda.

#fascism #trump #oligarchy

And before that it was the Robber Barons. And the pre-union factories of the Industrial Revolution.

I believe the recent imperialism toward Greenland is largely Theil’s idea: a place that will become more habitable with the oncoming warming which he can set up a private technocratic autocracy to practice his whims.

The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.

The billionaire class believes humanity is beneath them. And our Conservative government is enabling their cruel transhuman fantasies at the expense of the rest of us.

#resist #trump #eattherich #oligarchy

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Can we start calling the “Big Beautiful Bill” the “Fuck the Poor” bill?

Like, everywhere? In public? All the time?

#trump #politics #fascism #eattherich #resist

No uniforms. No ID. No badges. Wearing masks. They grabbed her on the street and took her away.

They didn’t ask her name. Didn’t check ID. Just took her.

The cops didn’t stop it.

And she was a citizen.

Are you next?

#ice #immigration #fascism #resist #trump

ktla.com/news/local-n...

A large deposit of quartz crystals.

My idea of getting stoned.

#rocks #minerals #geode #quartz

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

We can change things. And it will only take some of us. But we can’t just be on the internet.

#resist #impeach #trump #fascism #eattherich #nowar

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Trans rights are human rights. Protect trans kids.

“Show me a warrant.”

And they arrested him.

Masked faces. No badges. Unmarked cars. No trials. No warrants.

ICE is Trump’s secret police.

#ice #immigration #fascism #trump #resist

#writershelpingwriters #authoradvice #writingadvice #writingcommunity

I have a small role in this fun audio horror story. Lots of talented folks, and the anthology podcast is worth your time! Check it out!

#audiodrama #audiofiction #horror #voiceacting #podcast #fiction #anthology

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

A crown in black with a red circle-slash 'no' symbol over it. "No Kings."

No Kings!

#nokings #nokingsday #trump #resist #eattherich #impeachtrump #fascism

So a lot of this will depend on style and genre, but just curious:

Do you prefer to write (or read) stories in past tense or present? Why?

#books #booksky #writing #writingcommunity #author #fiction

"Our terms & conditions have changed!"

thisecommercelife.com/blogs/comics...

My next work, 1st draft. 27.9k words so far.

#books #booksky #writing #wordcount #ebook

A rainbow heart. Text reads “Love is love. Pride Month.”

Happy Pride Month!

Love Everyone!

#pride #lgbtq #love

The 10 richest American men collectively “earn” a billion dollars a DAY.

But yeah, let’s blame the #trans folks and the #immigrants for our problems.

How are those egg prices for ya?

independent.co.uk/news/world/a…

#trump #oligarchy #eattherich #resist #fascism