Another full, full day starts in 5.

Everyone got their screams out?

Catch you on the flippity-flip!

🤨 The correct time to go to bed was a minute before reading this.

Also, in general, never read a New York Post article. Any news outlet with "Post" in it, really!

#NotSafeForLife #PeopleAreTheWorst
#EarlierBedtimesAreTheBest

I'm really hoping our US friends are feeling even more relieved and confident about their future this morning.

May the momentum keep building to an election day and inauguration that spell the decisive end of so much nonsense and pain. The whole world's been waiting a good eight years for the circus to close up shop, and we're rooting for you every step of the way. #Politics #Democracy

But also... for laughs...
#Meme #Humour

Good morning, good morning, to you~!

More beauties from the day. I'll write about a few related themes for either Substack or Patreon soon-ish.

Books as art objects, and (of course) a visit to the local anarchist press. One of their selections is a children's book of Kropotkin! 😅 #CoSoBooks #Colombia

Book fair time! 🥳

If you don't hear from me, IT'S FINE.

I HAVE GONE TO A BETTER PLACE!

Didn't forget you, US CoSo!

A few weeks back, some of us were tossing around ideas for refreshments to survive the next big event in the US presidential election campaign.

For those enduring tomorrow's three-ring-circus of a debate, please enjoy this silly drinks and snacks menu (ideas c/o @BrentSullivan and @JoyfullyDazed) with a "solidarity game" thrown in.

Here's to all of you reaching the polls in November with the remainder of your sanity intact!

Love,

A Canuck

#Debate #Politics #US

🤨 Why is it that when my schedule is packed packed packed, my brain is suddenly screaming about all the original fiction it wants to write?

Dollars to doughnuts it loses this urgency the next moment I *can* focus on fiction, both to fill up more submission queues and to plot the next novel to write in the hope of better luck with an agent and press. (*Not* SFF, possibly! The mind is percolating something else.)

But for now, this fool noggin needs to jump in the lake. 🙃

#QuietBrain #BackToWork

🧐 Jellyspoons of CoSo, do we need to have a talk? #Meme #Humour

#Poetry #WritersOfCoSo

Well I feel seen. 😂

Frank O'Hara's "As Planned"

(Read it slowly. The lines and their meaning intentionally jumble a bit by the end.)

I never want to hear another creator (myself included) or other person struggling to get by blame themself for not being able to "make it" in this world.

The game's made up.

All the points matter, but there's no justice in this world.

We must help one another to live as best we can, and transform power from whatever this is to something better.

#Economics
#Bullpucky
#UtterBullpucky
#AHotSteamingPileOfShavingCream

So this is a wee warm-up exercise I do:

Give yourself a prompt, *one page*, and a pen. No correcting as you go. You are stuck with the words you set down, and have to try to craft a full story by the page's end.

This is the "flash page" I wrote for the above image prompt. Not stylistically perfect, but still - it has an arc and conveys a world. That's enough to get cracking on the "real" writing today.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersOfCoSo #Ekphrasis

I feel like some of you resemble these remarks. 🙃

#Technology #ItsATrap
#Humour #Meme

#AFSR #SFF #ScienceFiction #audiobook #Reading

Chapters 13 & 14 are now up in audio and text format for Patrons following A FERTILE SOURCE OF RUIN, my wartime space opera inspired by Thucydides.

Each post includes some historical reflection, along with a summary of the story to date. Today's selection answers the Easter egg question in our last chapters, and discusses pre-war and mid-war Athenian politics and political actors.

Enjoy, if you do!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fertile-source-111656857

Happy #StarTrek Day!

On ciclovía Sunday, when half the highway closes weekly until 1p.m. to encourage physical activity, the fruit and juice vendors are always the first people I greet coming into my park for a run. 💛 Gotta love a community of work like this. Every role that helps everyday human beings is a good one. #Colombia

Following government negotiations with a wide range of paramilitaries is always a trip. Two parts of EMC (a post-FARC group) recently split over disagreements at the table. ELN also makes negotiations a headache for other local outfits, who have demanded that the gov't exclude ELN from such talks.

But the gov't keeps working on it, & today's paper reports a key step in other talks: dropping leader arrest orders so can ACSN come to the table. #Colombia is a fascinating lesson in peace as a verb.

🥳 Feria de los liiiibros! Quién quiere ir conmigo esta semana? 👀

(Book fair in Medellín! Who wants to go with me this week?!) #Colombia

Sending a random burst of love, well-wishing, and warmth @NiveusLepus's way.

I hope our dear Bun and buddy is taking good care of herself. The work of being present so much and so often with others is wonderful *and* can take a toll.

May you always feel supported in turn, and remember that your core value lies not in what you *do* for others, but in the sheer fact of being you. 🫂💜