"It's like a mixtape you give to a girl you like."
My buddy @philsouth.bsky.social is a master at doing things that amuse him when he should be doing other things. He also has eclectic taste in music. Yesterday he recorded an "accidental radio show".
www.mixcloud.com/philsouth/th...
"This is an important thing to think about."
Probably LitRPG
My reaction when I read this was, "who exactly did they survey?"
I always wanted to do a psych PhD that involved redoing famous studies done with American undergrads and seeing if you could replicate the results with a more diverse sample. Affluent educated white US 20-somethings are not "normal".
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And by deserving, you mean "wealthy".
"Elephants are estimated to have up to four quadrillion cells, compared with a human’s 40 trillion. With such vast body mass, scientists have historically been puzzled by why they rarely develop cancer, which occurs as damaged cells accumulate."
www.importantnotimportant.com/p/the-medici...
Wow. Test pressing of Robert Johnson singing Cross Road Blues. Sound quality is astonishing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmnN...
Re-vision. Yes! My latest draft of my novel is a completely new take on the story. I tweaked it endlessly for ages until I realized I needed to see the whole thing in a different way. It's the same plot, but it has a a new setting, new narrator & new themes, and no longer feels like a D&D adventure.
Absolutely not. Most professional hermits took on the job as a late stage career option when their days of physical labor were over. Pay was terrible, but the benefits were good. Food, shelter, and plenty of time for thinking.
Wonderful piece on trying to avoid AI tells in your writing - whether you use AI or not.
open.substack.com/pub/thealgor...
I love visualizations like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhK...
They're not allowed to surveil you, but the government are allowed to buy masses of data from literally anyone and everyone on the planet and put it all together.
The collection and sale of private data should be heavily regulated, or, in most cases, banned.
theconversation.com/us-governmen...
Putting yourself into the mindset of someone else, whether from a different time or culture, is one of the most important skills an author should have. That doesn't signify approval, but authenticity.
It's interesting to me that today's trend is to write about historical people as though they were modern: they have modern perspectives on everything. It's fun in some ways, and can be enlightening if done well, but the anachronism can be jarring.
Pay me enough and I'll advocate for it too.
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First, we had Cocaine Bears. Then we had Cocaine Hippo. Now... Cocaine Salmon!
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
That's cool.
I didn't know until yesterday that Mork and Mindy was a spinoff from Happy Days. The opening ep features Mork and The Fonz. Didn't expect that.
Also, Mork and Mindy regularly got over 60 million viewers in the US. Shows these days would kill for viewing figures like that.
Come to think of it, no. We usually have a couple of mothers with a few fawns wandering around our yard, and there's plenty of poop to be found around the trees, but they never do it when anyone's watching. Never seen a squirrel poop either.
Porcupines, though, I've seen them poop.
And... done. Almost 5000 words, much longer than any of the other chapters, but the story calls for it. I'm happy with that.
Today I'm writing one of the scenes I've been looking forward to for a while (and struggling with, because it has to be right). We finally meet one of my favorite characters, who turns the entire storyline on its head.
The Minx, John Collier and A Classical Beauty, Léon-François Comerre.)
Leibniz: But let us set our differences on the matter of calculus aside for a minute. Perhaps you would care for a biscuit? I have some delicious chocolate-backed confections, far superior to those fig-based monstrosities that have become so popular recently.
Newton: now hang on just a minute…
This is the face of "no, you're not getting up today."
We shall see about that, Samhain. We shall see.
I keep meaning to ask - are you raising livestock or just crops?
I've got to get better at remembering to turn my compost. We have literally tons of leaves, and they make great compost along with the food waste but I need to be more efficient.
Got stuck waiting for a freight train to pass. I counted the cars, 68 of them, mostly lumber, limestone & slurry, roughly 200,000 pounds each. That's a lot of freight - 7000 tons.
Those locomotives have got some serious power! And it's not surprising they don't even slow down if they hit your car.
"No, my family were never Nazis." Sure about that?
I bet there are some very uncomfortable conversations happening in German homes. Of course, it's 80 years since the end of the Reich, so almost all card-carrying Nazis are now deceased, but still... grandpa lied.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/e...
