Ryan Grabow

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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Meeting Trump in Budapest is perfect. That's where we promised never to invade Ukraine in the first place.

(Context: Humanity has lost the ability to read, and is surrounded by their ancestors advanced technology.) [4/4]

The machine is inhuman. One cannot badger it into compliance. [3/4]

Only Zanine can understand such a design by its creator's native logic. Sarsa, like Cericef and everyone else, can only muddle through a learning process of sights, sounds, and an elusive intuition that's just as likely to get her shocked or start a fire as it is to perform the intended task. [2/4]

Happy 'That Day'. 16 years ago today, I completed my first novel. In the editing process that followed, many many extraneous 'that's were cut. ha ha

To commemorate this writing holiday, I'll post my favorite line from This Falling Eden, chapter E15, which I'm editing today... [1/4]

Four panel cartoon. First panel has female presenting white person with long dark hair, glasses and a green shirt saying “today we are going to learn about insurance!” Second panel has woman talking to the edge of a brown desk, with bubble that reads “hey insurance, I am injured and I need some of that money I give you for in case I get injured.” Third panels is the woman sitting at a desk with a nameplate reading “insurance.” She wears a black top hat and a gold necklace with a dollar sign, and piles of bags with dollar signs on them are behind her. The bubble above her head says “no.” The fourth panel has the woman back to regular dress saying “and that is how insurance works!”

Ouch…

Third draft has started. 😵‍💫

Gowron from Stark Trek, but he's Mr. Rogers, and he says "Glory to you... and your neighborhood."

Amai. Malvirai. Abfore. HNADC. (and a few more I can't think of at the moment)

Preview chapters are now available for This Falling Sea and This Falling Tower:
www.egrabow.com/eden/S20.htm
www.egrabow.com/eden/T07.htm

These are from the first draft, which won't be touched for a while. A preview of This Falling Eden (the first book) will go up when its third draft is complete.

Adulthood is realizing that when neurotypicals say "give 100%" the actually mean "give 30% but act like it's 200%"

With covers done up, and some back cover copy written, I've launched pages for the other two books of the trilogy:

www.egrabow.com/rm.php?e=Eden
www.egrabow.com/rm.php?e=Sea
www.egrabow.com/rm.php?e=Tower

Only the pre-existing Eden page will receive many updates in the near future, though.

Work on the "Iridium" covers is complete. These are all prospective until the trilogy is actually published. Eden's is red. Sea's is yellow (the color of the sky and sea in this world). Tower's is blue.

Carl Sagan on why books are human’s greatest invention:

Fascinating: Did you know that the Sun's energy output per cubic meter is only about the same as that of a compost heap? ☀️🍂

About 277 watts per m3

(277 watts per m3 doesn't seem very impressive. But the sheer volume of the Sun generates an immense output.)

My feelings exactly

Russian casualties: 1,000,000
NATO casualties: 0

Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”

#booksky

And thus did your Prez father a meme.

how it sounds arguing with die hard capitalists.

writers on our way to study a subject so niche for our books that's mentioned once in the entire story

CHARACTER IS HOW YOU TREAT THOSE WHO CAN DO NOTHING FOR YOU.

1992 - 2025 🥹

BREAKING NEWS - Eyewitness gives amazing interview.

#catsofMastodon #CatsofBluesky #Caturday #Cats #rescuekitties #aww

ok this one is sick

a three frame comic: 1) a man is reading a book entitled "Monetizing Your Bluesky Followers: The Definitive Guide" 2) the man reads from one of the pages which has the words: "You can't, you dummy!" 3) the man cries

Today is the 20 year anniversary of the first YouTube upload EVER. "Me at the zoo" now has 355 million views and over 10 million comments 🎂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQX...

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

Draft book cover

The final book of the trilogy is donnnnnneeee!!!!! 🎉

Here's where the word counts stand.
This Falling Eden (2nd draft): 91K words
This Falling Sea (1st draft): 90K words
This Falling Tower (1st draft): 94K words
Each ~250 pages

275K words is a marathon. I'll go lie down now. 😵‍💫