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Choy Moo Kheong (Singaporean b.1950), Blue Whispering Day, 2022, Acrylic on canvas

Sometimes it's just... Very difficult to stay focused.

It's been a while since I binged anything this good! <3

For many of us, the last grandparent passing unearths the understanding that some day we might be the last remaining survivor.

Just waiting on fate.

It's never ending, had the same happen to me. Just keep at it and try to find deals where you can!

Bee and Magnolia at the incomparable San Francisco Botanical Garden

A false-color infrared (my other favorite 'invisible light')

#flowers #photography @gardensofggp.bsky.social

Morning opens softly
like magnolia blooming—
I'm grateful for
its calm shades

a wish to be
as the farmer
harvesting stalks
to import into
black rose days
that feel more minus
than plus—
where not a thing
can facinate

for now,
I'll breathe in
the sweet
vanilla scent,
leaving thorns
to yesterday.

Have seen at least one. Keep up the good work!

Dusk is my favorite character to write. Though her story is heartbreaking, every scene with her feels intense and personal. She may be a deer, but she's no doe eyed fawn.

Good #WIPSnips to you today!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Resisting the urge to edit my #WIPSnips is a mighty task indeed. (I failed)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I'm still pretty inexperienced, but my last work stayed pretty close to target. That could be a result of detailed outlining.

This one... I already have to rework chapter one and the chapter in progress may end up twice as long as I wanted. The idea I'm working on is too fun to truncate.

It seems purity culture has some odd side effects.

Happy π day!

Fun fact: Albert Einstein was born on pi day.
Not so fun fact: Stephen Hawking died on pie day.

Tasty fact: Pie sounds an awful lot like pi, but tastes way better. Try it!

This is encouraging information. Now I can finally begin my zombie space cat romance novel.

My life is forever a pop culture reference I've missed with enthusiasm.

Honestly the potential of the models to do good is huge. Sadly, like you say, it's very focused on "look at me!" instead of "we fixed cancer!"... That's probably the most discouraging part. I'm an engineer when I'm not being a hobby writer, I find the tech fascinating, but it's poorly utilized.

I think working to spread information on how LL and world models work is probably the most powerful guardrail we can adopt. Sadly, corporations have bought their way around regulations for as long as regulations have been a thing. But knowledge is power.

It would be nice if information worked, in that way.

It would be nice if humanity could unify, in that way.

It would be nice if 'another choice' weren't a trope, in that way.

There is a lot of discussion on how bad AI is, but little discussion on how to live with it's inevitability.

Knowledge, once known, has little chance of being forgotten.

Does anyone have a solution to it's danger, other than forgetting it exists?

Benjamin, is... Paws down... My absolute favorite zoot fuzzbutt. 🙀

<3

Not "Meow"!?

I certainly have an appreciation for folks that wordsmith for a living. As a hobbyist, the playing field looks an awful lot like trying out for the major leagues.

I'll stick with t-ball, thanks.

Comparative anatomy illustration showing different mammal species bones where all the knees point in the same direction, as they always have. Taken from the paper "Comparative anatomy and morphology of the knee in translational models for articular cartilage disorders. Part I: Large animals"

Comparative anatomist expert witness at the Furries v. Subscribestar trials:
Your honor, as exhibit A clearly demonstrates, all mammals have "human-like knee orientation." It is only the relative proportions of the limb segments that change.

The way readers told me how they fell in love with Dusk; but they simultaneously felt her inner turmoil was a threat to that love... I can't describe how gratifying it felt to hear that. (They really understood me?!)

I'm reminded of the puzzle balls from my younger years. If you knew how, you could assemble the six identical shapes into a ping-pong ball sized thing that resembled a volleyball.

I just love when the pieces come together to create that perfect circle. (or sphere)

This would look amazing as a tapestry.

I know that feels good!

Despite being a cat, I don't want to fit into someone else's mold.

Congrats <3