Walt Boyes's Avatar

Walt Boyes

@waltboyes.bsky.social

Industrial Grade Storyteller, Editor, Husband, Dog Lover

670 Followers  |  1,498 Following  |  89 Posts  |  Joined: 21.08.2023
Posts Following

Posts by Walt Boyes (@waltboyes.bsky.social)

Preview
Let's Talk Worldbuilding - Let's All Start Rubbing Blue Mud in by Walt Boyes In designing your world, you are going to be confronted with the need to deal with sex and sexuality, ethics, mores, customs and how your characters react

My March article on Worldbuilding has been published. β€œLet’s all rub blue mud in our navels” (homage to Robert A. Heinlein) is about writing sex, sexuality, mores and other cultural artifacts. #sff #writing

writersandpublishersnetwork.com/lets-talk-wo...

03.03.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LinkedIn Login, Sign in | LinkedIn Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.

II've posted a new newsletter issue about the need to save free expression and journalistic integrity.
www.linkedin.com/groups/66429...

03.02.2026 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

Joy has a pacemaker and it seems to be working. She had a dialysis yesterday with no AFib. She’s cranky and hungry so she’s getting better. She needs to be able to walk before she can come home. I can’t keep driving to and from Seattle every day. gofund.me/44be2d8e7

23.10.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

I ought to know better. Joy has fallen down four times in 48 hours.This nightmare is not ending. We still have $30,000 of debt we've carried since Covid, and now the bills from Joy's latest bout.I hate to keep begging for help, but we need it. gofund.me/4df28758

16.10.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

To my Canadian friends:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

13.10.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

gofund.me/44be2d8e7
Good News! Neither of us has been to the hospital in the last week!!!

Bad News: We just received a hospital bill for Joy’s hip replacement of $16,000!. There are more bills to come.

And More Bad News: I have been β€œput on hold” by a major client. Hope it picks up again.

13.10.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

I sprung Joy from Harborview, and took her directly to Port Angeles for rehab.

Thanks to you donors, I paid some bills Joy is looking at three more surgeries in the next two to three months.So we really need the help.

Thank you you all, from Joy and me! gofund.me/6ca506b47

13.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

Yay! We dodged a bullet! The cardiac cath showed no new problems with Joy’s heart!!
This means we can start planning for her getting outβ€”-at least to the skilled nursing facility in Port Angeles.
We’ll find out when she can bail out tomorrow!

gofund.me/44be2d8e7

10.09.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ANOTHER JOY UPDATE 9/8/25
We have been waiting for Joy’s cardiac cath since early this morning
Good news: Joy is recovering well from the hip replacement surgery, She can walk to the commode and expects to be able to walk to the bathroom. Please keep Joy in your hearts!

gofund.me/4df28758

08.09.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

ANOTHER JOY UPDATEβ€” We got not-so-good news this morning from the cardiologist. Joy has beginning heart failure.
She’s going to undergo exploratory surgery to see if they can put another stent in, or rebuild her valves. Please keep her, and me, in your prayers.

gofund.me/6ca506b47

05.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

JOY UPDATE!
They did her hip replacement surgery yesterday. She appears to be mostly doing well, but the pain gets to her from time to time. She did dialysis right after surgery, too, Thank you to everyone who's donated so far.
lnkd.in/g62Qs9D3

01.09.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

Joy’s first eye surgery went well! Now we have to pay for what Medicare doesn’t. www.gofundme.com/f/help-joy-a...

22.08.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Joy and the kids. From the left, Brady, Tilley Grace, and Prettygirl.

Joy and the kids. From the left, Brady, Tilley Grace, and Prettygirl.

Tomorrow is the first surgery on Joy's eyes. If this works she will get some of her sight back. We will need help with medical costs and expenses. To save hotel bills, I'm driving back and forth from Port Angeles to Silverdale (a 2.5 hour drive.)

21.08.2025 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

We really need your help with Joy's and my medical expenses and other debt. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-joy-a...

20.08.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please do share!

19.08.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Please share!

19.08.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Donate to Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden, organized by Walt Boyes We are Walt Boyes and Joy Ward, and we really need your help. … Walt Boyes needs your support for Help Joy and Walt ease their medical and debt burden

#fundraising #gofundme Joy and I could really use your help with our medical bills and other debt. Thanks for caring. gofund.me/2432a66e

19.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@maddow.msnbc.com We ought to be calling the black concentration camps what they areβ€”Alcatraz was a real, legitimate prison. This is more like Auschwitz. So let’s start calling it β€œAlligator Auschwitz.”

13.07.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Remember Sophie Scholl!

17.04.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Boyes: Use common sense in OT security | OTbase by Langner By Walt BoyesΒ  Our last article identified some serious and quantifiable risks for cyberinfrastructure failure not caused by external threat actors. These

Here’s the second of the blog posts I’ve been writing for Ralph Langner. It is time that we faced facts. #OTSecurity #CyberSecurity #automation #otbase www.langner.com/2025/04/boye...

13.04.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Boyes: OT security defenders need to look inside, not outside | OTbase by Langner By Walt Boyes For over a decade, we have been reacting to the fear of cyber intrusion into OT (Operations Technology) networks in our industrial process

www.langner.com/2025/04/boye...

08.04.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
#handsoff social security

#handsoff social security

#handsoff medicare

#handsoff medicare

#handsoff medicaid

#handsoff medicaid

#handsoff veterans

#handsoff veterans

#handsoff Port Angeles

05.04.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Walt Boyes Walt is a gifted industrial strength storyteller and editor. Tipping me a coffee now and again allows me to create content for you that is meaningful, interesting, and relevant.Thanks!!

Today Joy and I are at the U Dub medical center for a bunchaton of tests to see if she will get a kidney. Prayers, good wishes, white light, or whatever juju you like will help. If you’d like to help financially visit www.buymeacoffee.com/waltboyes and thank you!

17.03.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s something useful from @Neil_Litherland
m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

15.03.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Walt Boyes We were supposed to go to a town hall meeting for newly elected Congressmember @Emily_Randall. I want to explain why we aren’t going. We are card-carrying, dues-paying active members of the Clallam....

www.facebook.com/1116441202/p...?

15.03.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Adam Schiff tried to explain what the Democrats did yesterday on X. The Trumpies and the bots swarmed his post and posted evil images of Schiff being butt-raped and his mouth photoshopped into an anus. He tried to keep Schumer from surrendering, but WE ALL FAILED!

15.03.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s another diss to the military. Sure, the reason they deleted the page was because the most decorated unit in US military history is a non-white unit. But what they’ve done is to devalue the valor of the entire US Army. If you voted for Trump, this is what you bought.

14.03.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stop the Rethuglican posturing. Vote NO and take it to the people. Town Hall meetings everywhere, until the Republicans agree to negotiate in a bipartisan fashion. The government is already closed by Trump.

14.03.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦Part and parcel to this mission was also identifying and recruiting next generation leaders for a capitalist Russia, among whom Putin was identified for cultivation. Trump is perceived as Capital's assurance that communism doesn't make a resurgence in Russia.”

14.03.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œβ€¦ during the Clinton administration he actively worked on behalf of US interests to promote these oligarchs and advised on their privatization plans as well as help build the Yeltsin campaign to prevent the resurgence of Zhyuganov and the Communists who were at 32-38% in the 1996 polls.”

14.03.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0