Mx. Prompt - let’s get writing. ✍️

Thanks, Ma 🥰

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Writing prompt towards action!
⏲️ 20 mins to start. Let’s go!

EPISTEMICIDE: destruction of a knowledge system by killing, silencing, or devaluing it.

How have we seen it?
How do we stop it?
If we can’t, how do we disrupt?
If we can’t, how can we slow it?
If not that, how do we keep others safe?

Thanks, but hard pass.
Among several other reasons: I purposely let my phone die out for some peace and quiet.

Reject the leash, become ungovernable. 😆

I was going to give a horror writing prompt, but (according to the algorithm) there’s a toe video going around, or something.

I think you’ve had enough horror today.
Go drink some water, get some eye bleach.

Here. Have mine.

Opinion | I, Human (Gift Article) We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world.

This time the robots have gone too far. (A few words about James Dickey, Isaac Asimov, and a nearly 40-year-old memory about writing a poem. Gift link via @nytopinion.nytimes.com.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

How does #SciFi tackle authoritarianism?
“Faith in the Future” module wrap up,

FEATURING
📖 The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

RIFFING:
🐺 Jason Aukerman
⚡️ Dr Ree Guthrie
👨‍🔬 Mike Hughes
🤖 Siren Hand

Spy stuff, a nuclear event, faith/belief systems, dynamics of power. We cover a lot.

If you haven’t already checked it out: Ujamaa Community Book Store (NNW) has a pretty good selection, and some awesome community programming.

Also: Indy Book Crawl’s coming up!

Amplification, let’s go! Keep the momentum.

(Also, separately: these are some of the best protest signs I’ve seen in a long time. 🏆)

Hello from Indianapolis!

Today’s #Writing Prompt: ⏲️ Take 10.
Describe a setting that’s invigorated you, using as many sensory details as you can recall. An extra one: consider your gut/instincts.

How did you find yourself there?
What things about it energized you?

(Work off a pic if it helps! Here’s mine for today ⬇️)

SciFi asks: Can faith & science coexist in the future?

Legends Mike Hughes, Jason Aukerman & I (mere mortal) discuss •The Perimeter of Ignorance by Neil deGrasse Tyson • The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke • The Man by Ray Bradbury

🪐 What are some of your favorite SF Religions?

This is the first argument of this sort that I’ve heard, and I appreciate it.

Today’s #writing prompt:
How did you arrive to where you are now?

Today’s #writing prompt:
What are you waiting for?

[He wasn’t. Boooooooooo.]

For the sake of the bit, I hope he was a leg.
A dirty, dirty leg. 😄

[deep pull off a Djarum Black outside the goth club, one heel kicked up on the aged red brick wall.] Pepperidge farm remembers.

Never be afraid to write your heart out. To write your ass off. To write until your hands cramp. Because when you look back at the miles of ink behind you you might just have a masterpiece.

Hey, #WritingCommunity!

What classic poem would you pair with (what) modern iconography?

Picture originally shared without credit… help me tag the photo/mix collaborators!

Let’s go!! Congrats!!! 🍾

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Calm vibes here, thanks to seeing people doing the hard work at all levels. Motivation’s pretty contagious, if you’re open to it!

And… Chicks.
🤦

I would tell him to check with the SecDef, but that guy’s just a major with one Harrison command under his belt.

Lord, why?
((Enjoy your ☕️!))

Dry eraser. Fridge door.
Also, shower walls work.
Can’t help when an idea comes 🤷

This looks amazing. I’ll let you know how it goes after I make ‘em on Sunday!

I feel like they’re right in calling it out, but the reasoning is off: BHOtR has been/is being co-opted and sanitized by white nationalist movements.

Recontextualizing the song disrupts its power & historical record as a song of protest, abolition, and action. Appropriation’s a strategy.

((This message brought to you by escapism.))

I like trains... though there are issues there, too. Roomette’s the way to go, if you can treat yourself. Good privacy, good writing/relax space. Great dining cart.

… I took a typer, to absolutely no one’s surprise.