Heading into a meeting in three minutes. Anyone else up for some #PotatoLit, as well?

"I Have No #Potato, and I Must Scream", anyone?

Or maybe Anne of Green Potatoes?

@Novels56 @gemswinc @LiseL @jenebene

Meeeee too! 🥳😅 And then I struggled with yellow of all things.

Connections
Puzzle #484
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Strands #218
“Most excellent”
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Perfect score!

#Redemption! 🥳

@VylaMundi

I think we all do, don't we? 🙃

*trundles off whistling the Mickey Mouse March and dreaming of #potato*

@VylaMundi

Uh uh!

Full Metal JACKET Potatoes!

(Some will look a little more as'plode-y than others by the movie's middle and end, mind you... 😬)

@CanisPundit

With a straight-cut fellow like yourself, why waffle? There are enough crinkles in life as is; no need to space out good chatter like we're on a shoestring budget here!

@Tacitus_Kilgore

🤔 I feel like you might be missing something... (🥔?)

@CanisPundit

Salty perfection!

#PotatoMovie

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Potato

How's everyone doing? Mood okay as the evening barrels in?

A decent summary of the long-term thinking lurking around the lastest looming crisis with #Milton.

Take care of yourselves. 🫂

"Faced with the impossible logistics of relocating a city like Tampa or Miami, that’s what will happen: repeated pulses of abandonment, performed chaotically and with almost limitless potential for immiseration, modernity’s wagon trains set out for who-knows-where as a warmed world reclaims chunks of land rendered, piece by piece, uninhabitable."
https://www.splinter.com/at-some-point-you-dont-go-back

@Blue_Skyesr_here

I found it by looking under #andes

Here it is!

https://counter.social/@Blue_Skyesr_here/113265332359821669

Today for Monday Media Review, we're reflecting on a US anti-fascist film from the 1940s--but looking at it in full, and not just the excerpt often shared online.

The lessons from the full film are more nuanced: they remind us that even living through history doesn't guarantee our understanding of it; and also, that we stand a better chance of defeating horrible ideologies when we acknowledge how mundane their starting-points in recruitment usually are.

#MediaLiteracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-real-message-of-dont-be-a-sucker

#Wellness #MediaLiteracy

This was the first news page to greet me today: another day in which so much fresh trauma will be heaped upon grief.

My first task today was counselling a blind friend trying to help her father with dementia in Florida right now.

I think we all have smaller crises we're trying to be present for, while navigating the greater violence of our world.

I want to encourage folks to take breaks and focus on what they *can* do.

Survive today, maybe to thrive later on. 🕊️

A little beauty to start your week.

So much of nature has no idea what we humans get up to.

Let's not tell it, eh?

Let's dwell awhile among the flowers and the trees, the birds and the beetles, and speak of simpler things instead.

#CoSoNature #Colombia

Did I get everything I wanted finished today? Nope!

But boy howdy, do I feel good about having been able to uplift and support some CoSonauts this weekend, and learn from them in turn.

To see you shine in your creative practice, and rise above the madding fray of terrible news to focus on what we can do for one another... that's a real gift.

I mean, I *am* still going to try to get some fiction written before bed now, but...

This was already a good day.

Thanks for spending it together. 🕊️

@cmskiera

Oh, I'm glad you enjoyed it, C.M. I couldn't offer a more direct review due to conflict of interest, but it was such a great work with which to talk about a whole slice of SFF that used to have a much greater presence in publishing - so thank you for writing such a worthy text!

(And yes! SASEs and hard-copy Writer's Market guides! The good old days of papercuts and postage! Isn't it fun to be old cranks in the genre now? 😉)

#AFSR #SFF #ScienceFiction #audiobook #Reading

Hey folks! This one's free-to-read.

Chapters 15 & 16 are now up in audio and text format for 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 we talk about the uncanny similarity of an old regional incident threatening to spill into greater war.

(History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes!)

Enjoy, if you do!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/113450749

@corlin @LiseL @Susandoyle

There were three on this year's Le Guin Award list that explore this question: Orbital, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, & Sift. The first uses the ISS to contemplate where we begin and end; the second is philosophical zombie fic; the third eradicates ego in a post-climate-change world.

Also, I think I mentioned The Employees to you (on the Arthur C. Clarke list some years back). That one is fantastic at meditating on the Self outside of Work. It's a great theme!

@LiseL @corlin @Susandoyle

(That is secretly/now-not-so-secretly my favourite episode. The question of Self and Choice that it presents is, to my mind, one of the biggest in all of Trek.)

@LiseL @corlin @Susandoyle

Well that's just it, isn't it?

The question of the episode is whether she made her final choice of her own volition, or because it was the kind of choice that Picard would have made. And if she has "chosen" to take his model for herself, then she'll retain that independent spirit of him, too.

From there on out, she will always have a private life that no one else can touch, and which will always be content simply on its own, as Picard affects he is so often, too.

@LiseL @corlin @Susandoyle

You know me perfectly. :) That is secretly the episode of TNG that haunts me to my core.