Let's Talk Worldbuilding: Geography Makes Your World Your fantasy or science fiction world needs to be grounded in reality. You need to give as detailed a map as possible, or as you need to carry the storyline. The more

My April Worldbuilding article is out at
WPNews, and I am looking for a few editing customers…#sff #editing #booktalk

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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. “Let’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

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II've posted a new newsletter issue about the need to save free expression and journalistic integrity.
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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

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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

To my Canadian friends:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

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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 “put on hold” by a major client. Hope it picks up again.

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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

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 out—-at least to the skilled nursing facility in Port Angeles.
We’ll find out when she can bail out tomorrow!

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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!

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ANOTHER JOY UPDATE— 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.

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

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.)

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We really need your help with Joy's and my medical expenses and other debt. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
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#fundraising #gofundme Joy and I could really use your help with our medical bills and other debt. Thanks for caring. gofund.me/2432a66e

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

#Remember Sophie Scholl!

Boyes: Use common sense in OT security | OTbase by Langner By Walt Boyes  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...

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

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#handsoff social security

#handsoff medicare

#handsoff medicaid

#handsoff veterans

#handsoff Port Angeles

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!

Here’s something useful from @Neil_Litherland
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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!

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.

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.

“…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.”