ay!

these all look great!

The Saki barrels that are donated to the Shinto shrine.

The shrine with the steps I couldn’t go up without dying.

The Tori gate on the main approach to the Shinto shrine.

The bamboo forest around another Buddhist temple. You can do a matcha tasting in a little tea house in the forest.

More from Kamakura. It was the seat of the first Shogunate and you can see a lot in a relatively small area. Highly recommended if you ever have the chance. It’s a beautiful city.

The copper Buddha on a bright sunny day. You can actually go inside it.

This is a temple to a different aspect of the Buddha. You can’t take any photos inside the main shrine but there’s a large beautiful statue made of camphor wood.

Same temple but lower down the hill, it’s a cave with carvings and shrines. Some of the passages are low and you have to walk doubled over.

A large lovely Shinto shrine. I couldn’t see all of it because I couldn’t make it up the stairs to the upper part.

We’re having a fantastic time in Japan. This is all from Kamakura.

to both of you, same

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There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

Can we please Make America Normal Again?

As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.

End the project already, Dave.

You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.

Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.

The stupid just does not stop.

well done! You're certainly not a green man at this.

sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou. Red cover and a head on the cover too.

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Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social

New Fantasy Subgenres Explained A handy guide: Romantasy: fantasy in which there is at least one nation based on the Roman Empire. Mantasea: A sea full of manta rays. Spamtasy: an intermable series of fantasy books with a pile of…

thank you @camestrosf.bsky.social for this list of new fantasy subgenres and explanations ;)

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Showing the nature of his business, I did NOT know there was a 4th coming!

This sale on all my ebooks in the Quantum Evolution is good for about 12 more hours! Fill up your e-reader today - the 4th novel will be out in October!

We are BEHEXED to see so many delightful friends of the con among the nominees for this year's Aurora Awards!

Congratulations to all!

We would also like to thank everyone for nominating our convention for Best Fan Related Work.

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The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

congratulations!

Very pleased to be on the Aurora @csffa.bsky.social finalist ballot with three works -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS for related work, HUNTED TO EXTINCTION in short story, and THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES for novella! Thank you to all the nominators and organizers! 😍

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You are an awesome artist, on multiple axes of the word.

An alternate 17th century Europe where the Mongols previously conquered everything up to the Atlantic.

Lunae Palus on a future terraformed Mars. HD/Lore: https://www.deviantart.com/ynot1989/art/Lunae-Palus-1156447086

An alternate, heavily colonized Asia.

The first year of the 2nd American Civil War https://artifactsfromotherworlds.substack.com/s/the-center-cannot-hold

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yeah, as Simon and I have discussed. :(

"Dubai style" chocolate, once again.

heh, it's a good one. But yeah, the pIstachio-chocolate "Dubai style" seems to be ever expanding

Purple Liatris flowers as sun sets

Good morning 💜from last summer,Liatris flowers as sun sets, on our garden.This year’s are just starting to sprout #weekPforPurple #ECK #photography #bloomscrolling

aww yeah

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The magical beauty of a Southern California sunset, captured at the pier, in Oceanside, California.

Two juvenile great blue herons atop a tree branch, sparring with their beaks.

Normally, I try to limit myself to short bursts of frames, but when these two juveniles started sparring, I threw caution to the wind and just put the hammer down for a continuous sequence of 56 images, just to get the “moment.”
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Clouds surround a mountain peak. A utility pole is in the center, in front of Castle Hospital. Trees are in the foreground, they line the parking lot where we have a farmer's market on Sundays. April 19, 2026 Kailua, Hawaiʻi

Clouds hugging a peak of Ko'olau Range just after sunrise yesterday. I like to get to market and set up early, so I can go at an easy pace, visit friends, and not stress out. I got to see a sun halo yesterday too! Great market day.
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Hwy 89 curves around a very pristine Lake Helen & from the left: Mt Diller, Pilot Peak, Eagle Peak, Mt Lassen, & Mt Helen, at the top of Lassen Volcanic National Park remember Kings Creek in yesterday's pic? it begins high on the eastern slope of Mt Helen (opposite side from this pov). and what keeps Lake Helen so pristine, you ask? no wading, swimming, & nothing that floats.

I know I posted a Mt Lassen pic yesterday but it's #BlueSkyMonday & #MountainMonday & this is the widest panorama I have of Lake Helen & Lassen Peak. believe me, it was a huff getting up this talus slope to take the pic. see ALT for more info.

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