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And conference buffet 101: when they announce it's break time bolt out like there is no tomorrow to get first pick of the food that no one else has puddled through.

My Grandma taught me that. ;)

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Handwritten inscription in book: Top right - Dorothy M Pyatt. August 4th 1938. Middle - To myself, for being a Bloodthirsty Ruffian.

Cover of Dorothy's book. Top is a pale green background with yellow block writing providing the title of the book: 'They Died with their Boots On' (Thomas Ripley). Underneath is a cowboy on horseback taking aim with a gun at folk standing outside a building in the same yellow and green tones.

I dunno who Dorothy is but I like the spurrs on her boots!

Book is the 1937 edition of 'They Died with their Boots On' by Thomas Ripley.

I just love the look on people's faces.

Ooh. How did that change the flavour?

If you're in this business long enough you'll see:

- People you don't like seeing success
- People who annoy the shit out of you seeing success
- People who are successful despite incredible mediocrity (in your opinion)

You know what? Everyone deserves their success. Just keep working on your own.

Image is of a huge pan of Bolognese sauce on a stove with a carton of lactose free milk being poured into it.

I said what I said.

The real piss off it the "personalised" ones written by ai because they have probably fed your work into an ai generator to produce them.

While at FAN EXPO recently, horror legend, John Carpenter, confirmed that he is currently working on a sequel to his classic 1982 movie, The Thing.

"We're working on it now," he said.

😯🤯

What's it going to be called? I'm voting for:

And Another Thing

your moment of calm, if you deserve it

5.30 am - wake up and lie there and think. 6.15 am - get up and eat breakfast (lots) 7.15 - get to work writing, writing, writing. Noon - lunch. 1.00 to 3.00 pm - reading, music. 3.00 to 5.00pm - correspondence, maybe house cleaning. 5.00 to 8.00 pm - make dinner and eat it. After 8.00 pm - I tend to be very stupid and we won't talk about this.

Ursula K Le Guin's schedule - an inspiration to us all.

Are you really going to point it out to the guy with A LOT of gun's?

Friend of mine and I were talking about how much our grammatical education was lacking (bless the 90s!) and that we learned what a preposition was from Bevis and Butthead...

Misty Halloween moon...

So much this.

So far I have made my family watch Mars Attacks, Annihilation, and Plan 9 From Out of Space for movie night.

On the basis of sheer weird randomness, I'm pretty sure I'm either going to get banned from recommendations, or they are going to get weirder in their movie tastes... Possibly both.

Just make eye contact and finish eating it.

(Also, I too have just learned a new thing. Lol)

We do love our pop culture! ;)

@teamcherry.bsky.social #HollowKnight #Silksong

The AI-response "Everything can be faked" discourse interests me partly by how much it leaves out of "everything."

AI might be able to fake a picture of a meal or video of a football match, but it can't fake the experience of eating or playing.

Being embodied seems like a kind of resistance.

a group of stuffed animals are standing next to each other in a forest ALT: a group of stuffed animals are standing next to each other in a forest

Nope. Nope. Nope. Furbies are way more terrifying.

The Next 'Murderbot' Novel Finally Has a Release Date Alexander Skarsgård's Apple TV series based on Martha Wells' hit 'Murderbot Diaries' books also has a second season on the way.

Gizmodo article on next Murderbot novel Platform Decay: gizmodo.com/murderbot-pl...

Hmm. Glad it's the last season; it's been getting boring. But hopefully they were saving it all up for now!

BLISS BALLS (Snack) - I added details with * Need: 300g pitted dates (soaked for 15 min " *in hot water*) 100g cacao powder *or cocoa* 200g shredded coconut, 2tbsp chia seeds, 100g coconut oil, Extra coconut *or cocoa* to coat. Do: Mill cacao (if nibs), 30 sec Speed 9. Add nuts and chop *coarsely* 20 sec speed 4, Add fruit (all of the ingredients) chia, oil, coconut, cacao powder, *soaked* dates. Blend for 50 sec speed 6 using spatula to push mix down. Leave to sit for 10 min. Spoon out small amount and roll into balls. Roll in extra coconut *or cacao powder* and place in fridge for 1 hour to set.

If anyone wants to have a crack at it.

Inside a plastic tub is a selection of brown balls that look suspiciously like large cooked meatballs but are in fact date, LSA, cocoa bliss balls.

All food should be made with love. These weren't. These were pure rage. Bliss balls that taste like vaguely sweet, cocoa, compressed gritty dirt. Sensory hell to make. Stupid attempt at increasing energy. Mana from hell.

(I forgot to soak the dates... 🤦🏻‍♀️)

Image is of a hot pink rose covered in droplets of rain. Green foliage provides a backdrop.

Take a moment to stop and smell the roses (and the rain).

Nice to see Claire G Coleman also on the list! First Nations Australian's are brutally underrepresented in fiction and Aboriginal horror is almost non-existent.

This timeline manages to be both gravely horrific and deeply unserious at the same time.

Horror is bigger than Stephen King. These spooky Seattleites help find the right scare for you Since it's spooky season, and readers of all sorts may be looking for scares, KUOW's Katie Campbell called up a couple of local literary horror experts to talk about how the genre has evolved and who ...

Absolution featured on KUOW's recs for the "spooky season." But Absolution is also fine for bar mitzvahs, weddings, monster truck rallies, gallery receptions, etc.

www.kuow.org/stories/horr...

Life is too short to read everything.

This is a fact that genuinely stresses me out.

My speaker's bureau would like me to apologize for implying that I eat pets at literary events to help preserve the planet's resources. In fact, I do it because I can. I mean, I don't do that. Ever. At all.