Paul Pritchard (He/Him) 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m thinking of starting this, just a gut feel that tells me I’m going to love it.
Will I buy Vol 1? 🤔

You’re so right. There is a very cozy fantasy that we once lived in harmony with the land, like the Hobbits.
This was never so. We, the Western World, were once at the mercy of the land, then, thanks to Nitrates, we became masters of the land.

Be kind, not judgemental.
Be accepting, not entitled.
Be strong, not aggressive.
Be still, stop striving.
Trust yourself, question your motives.
Listen to the breeze in the trees,
it will never lie.

Incy Wincy spider climbed up the Water Spout.

Then came AI, and Incy was let go under the misguided idea that you can replace employees with Tensors and Back Propagation.

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Love this 😍

How to Get the Most out of Your Time on BookSky The BlueSky thread I did about this a while back was quite popular, so I wanted to expand on it and update it with some new recommendations for you. 1) Be really, really generous with your hearts/rep...

new blog post on the #booksky blog! 📚💙

How To Get the Most Out of Your Time on BookSky ( with tips for readers and writers!) ⤵️

I was very dissatisfied with that book. Two hundred pages and not a single mention of Cthulhu.

Congruent Circles is definitely a Booker Prize nominee someone needs to write. ✍️

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Me: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Mary: GET AWAY FROM ME, FACIST!
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Me: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Mary: with silver bells and cockleshells,
and a big bottle of Baby-Bio

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Nice 👌 2000 man is such a good vibe, I learned to play that one ☝️
New York groove is a banger 💥
I’d add RIP it Out too, it’s my official breakup song 🎸 🤘
So glad I’ve got his music 🙏

You’re not on your own, wishing you well. What are your fav songs?

Respect 🫡

Rip it out 👌

Cover of Ace Frehley’s Solo Album. A portrait of Ace Frehley head and shoulders. Ace’s face appears from a black background his stage make up lit from his right side, white face, silver stars over each eye, his dark hair,long and falling either side of his face, lit from behind with a blue light defining the edges.

Still one of my favourite albums of all time. Star Child and Rock star ⭐
Thanks for the music ❤️

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#WallsSayItBetter
#StreetArt
#Murals
Kowloon, HongKong, 2018

Me: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?

Mary: Actually, I think you’ll find that’s a hydroponic biosphere.

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A WD40-powered Time Machine is now the plot of a novel I have to write. The protagonist will travel to the distant future where WD40 is no longer needed and has to reinvent it,
ending up litigation with the original patent owner.
Essentially a time travel court room drama.

A photograph of an eight inch floppy disk next to a five and a quarter inch floppy disk. Showing the much larger size. The eight inch disk is on the left and the five and a quarter on the right. Both disks are a flat black square of Matt plastic sleeve with a round hole punched in the centre. A narrow slit which is rectangular but with rounded ends is at the bottom centre of each disk.

If you needed more storage you had to go for the 8 inch Double Sided Double Density floppy, getting you a whopping 1.2MB, still not enough for a single MP3.

To really put it into perspective you could get one .png file on there, not a photo though, you’d only get a logo or other simple graphic.

cynthiasaysboo@bsky.social

Cynthia Gómez, please 🙏

Librarians are nuts 🥜😂

This is a fine essay indeed, and has sparked questions in my mind now.

The main one is why now?

Loomis tells us Michael has been catatonic since that night in ‘63
What has caused him to awake from this state to repeat on this particular Halloween?

I am putting that on a T-shirt! 👕💡

Cozy Horror is going to be the next big genre 🤓

Screen shot of the horror zine submission guidelines for fiction. They contain a long list of what they want and how you should write it. It is very prescriptive but covers things even an average writer should know already.

But they REALLY know what they do want, and have created a good AI prompt for you to cut and paste.

Book cover for the novel The Last Astronaut by David Wellington. The Cover is a close up of a female face through the clear glass visor of her helmet. The text is the book title and author name along with the sub title: We thought we no longer needed her.

3I/ATLAS - just saying. 🤔

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Show don’t tell:

Tell: “Not me.” He said, angrily.

Show: Stabbing a thumb into his chest, he snarled through gritted teeth, “Not me.”

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Still from the film Longlegs showing the main character Lee Harker, played by Maika Monroe, in a white blouse and black pants with her FBI lanyard around her neck. Her hair is drawn back in a loose ponytail and her collar is open showing a crucifix necklace. She is centre frame from, just below, the waist up. Arms a straight down at her sides, her expression is one of tension, fear and shock. She stares straight ahead, head tilted slightly backward and her mouth open. She is pressed back against up what looks like a white roller door. The picture suggests someone frozen in place through fear or shock.

Bit late to the party on this, but is Maika Monrore's Lee Harker in Longlegs one of the best characters in a story. Gripped from the opening scene to that shocking climatic scene.

I would like to be able to write a character like that.

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