#SF

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Ended Games:
#SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

Yes. I use symbolism. It's kind of inescapable. [shrugs] I write innuendo. I write double-entendre. I write simile. And, I write metaphor. I'll use any sort of elocution that can twist meaning into implication if need be.

Do I design it? Not very often—I'll /never/ write a Wuthering Heights or Finnegan's Wake—but sometimes appropriate symbology is the difference between the cut of a serrated blade and a razor. It depends on the wound you intend to make.

The deepest example I can recall offhand is what happened to my devil-girl MC on a rainy night, on a backwoods throughway, during lightning storm. Crude would be to mention or detail what /actually/ happened; I never do. There is lightning, being dragged through mud, slipping down slopes, jagged branches illuminated by strobes of light, and a whistling uncaring wind that buffets her from soggy handholds she really needs. He throws aside her actions as if she's fighting the unrelenting storm itself. Thrown rocks and sticks elicit a flash of teeth in the darkness as she reaches flooded pavement—only to realize with his shoes and longer legs, she can't out run him.

Despite crushing understanding, realization strikes: /It's not only her./ If she doesn't stop him, another woman will suffer, then another, as she has for her failure. It's the final spark for her to perform a miracle.

A deadly, fiery miracle.

In that circle of fire is forged someone who feels the thrill of knowing she will never be chattel again, who's suddenly confident she will succeed if she decides she must. Hidden inside, however, hides someone still callously cut, hardly healing, forever festering.

[A paraphrase of an earlier work. Author retains copyright.]

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#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders #WordWeavers

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Ended Games:
#SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Ended Games:
#SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

Lol, #SF police are complaining that they can't stop random cars (pretext stops) that they have no evidence related to a crime to try to catch car burglars. Literally using those cops for bait cars and stings would be better than racist pretext stops.

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Ended Games:
#SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Ended Games:
#SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
3:18 - 4th #SF 30 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#sf #books

TIL: Zelazny’s very good.

Ok, actually, I knew that already. But I’d forgotten that he had long streaks of excellent stories, with only a few relative failures mixed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCh3HaMyXJw&ab_channel=JosephReadsBooks

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
10:45 - 4th #SF 23 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
0:53 - 3rd #SF 20 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
5:45 - 3rd #SF 17 - 12 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
12:14 - 3rd #SF 17 - 6 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
Halftime #SF 17 - 6 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
2:00 - 2nd #SF 10 - 3 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
10:54 - 2nd #SF 3 - 3 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
3:18 - 1st #SF 3 - 3 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Running Games:
13:36 - 1st #SF 0 - 0 #NYG
Upcoming Games:
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 1 #22 — Would you ever consider collaborating on a book?

In the first instance, I have a novella length work that I know how it starts, know what needs to happen, and know what things need to happen when it ends. The characters are well developed, but open-ended because it is referred to as a subplot intersecting another novel. It's a fantasy naval engagement story. The skipper has unfairly never been promoted due to a grotesque disability, but is given a warm-body command on a museum-piece in the last days of her commission, only to have her ship called into service to protect the capital. I've no naval experience to do the story justice. Note the story is neither mainstream nor is it commercial. It ain't happening. My beta reader will know which story I refer to.

In the second instance, I'd certainly accept an invite to write in author's world whose series I've connected with. No expectation that'll ever happen, tho.

In the third instance, None of my close friends are writers, so I don't think I'll find a Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle relationship any time soon.

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#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#WordWeavers 9.21 — MC POV: What one thing would you change about your best friend?

We are talking about the nicest, kindest person you will ever meet. Some people think she slow in the head—but she is strong where it counts, her heart. The only thing I would change about her is /the world around her/ that insists on treating her so cruelly. One day soon, I hope we can go where our families' past can no longer savage at our backs, where she can can grow and bloom in the pleasant meadows she deserves /simply/ because of her radiant smile.

[M of TB&T talking about P.]

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#CommentingIsCool

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 1 #21 — Have you practised your autograph and your selfie pose for your best seller?

I once autographed a novel to someone who'd read my feminist SF book on a trip to Mexico City. Talk about contrasts in a mecca to machismo, especially back then! It proved an especially memorable autograph because that person decided to become my spouse.

39 years go by quickly.

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#CommentingIsCool

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

元アイドルのその後を描く『ファンファーレ』予告篇 https://www.moezine.com/807777/

#actress #cinema #CinemaGene #movie #SF #trailers #video #アクション #コメディ #サスペンス #シネマトゥデイ #スポーツ #ドキュメンタリー #ドラマ #ホラー #ムービー #ラブストーリー #予告 #喜多乃愛 #女優 #映画 #特報

Laura Birn on the "Unique" Challenge of Playing Eto #Demerzel in '#Foundation' Season 2

#appletvplus #appletv #asimov #sf #scifi #sciencefiction #cleon #hariseldon

https://collider.com/foundation-season-2-eto-laura-birn-comments/

Si il y a des amateur.ices en région bordelaise, mon nouveau recueil de nouvelles Dévorer le futur devrait être dispo en avp ce weekend sur le stand des éditions Goater, pendant le festival Hypermondes.
#sf #goater #sciencefiction #hypermondes

🔴EN LIVE🔴

🟣SUR TWITCH🟣

On continue Cloudpunk !

#twitch #live #cloudpunk #gaming #jeuvideo #sf #cyberpunk #voxel #stream #streaming #dystopia #dystopie #bladerunner #deusex #futur

https://www.twitch.tv/numa_thurman

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

It’s a change your HEPA filters in your Coway air purifiers sort of day. #sfba #sf

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

In the Marina right now to get my hair done. The air is a bit less bad here. #SF

I was born too late. I’d love to get a book cover for my time-travel story done by Vincent di Fate or Frank Kelly Freas.

#book #artist #sf

I’m beginning to think about cover ideas. Not that I’ll design this one.

#book #cover #sf

#NFL Week 3 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
9/21 - 8:15 PM EDT #SF - #NYG
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE - #TEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #DET - #ATL
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #GB - #NO
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIA - #DEN
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN - #LAC
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #NYJ - #NE
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #WSH - #BUF
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #JAX - #HOU
9/24 - 1:00 PM EDT #BAL - #IND
9/24 - 4:05 PM EDT #SEA - #CAR
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #KC - #CHI
9/24 - 4:25 PM EDT #ARI - #DAL

Rounded corner. #SF

@skinnylatte Speaking of COVID, I just got the new booster at a Walgreens here in #SF yesterday. Just FYI, hope you got to grab one!

Didn’t notice the smoke this evening until I went near a window. Thank god for the new air purifier. These ~160/170 readings are high. #SF #SouthBay #SFBA #SFBay #SFBayArea #Smoke #Wildfires #cawx

Tacolado is on Sunday at Spark Social. This is a La Cocina event. Please come out to support local restaurants. (Please boost)

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934890/tacolado-la-cocina-taco-ice-cream-festival-sf #SF #Food

Yep, we’re in the red, maybe even purple, for air quality in #SF 😕

He Watches Over Us All

Watercolor, 2018

Giclée print: https://www.gorney.studio/new-products/andys-place-46th-noriega-lhxpg-n5zey

#watercolor #watercolour #sf #sanfrancisco #sfart #sfartist #sfba #californiaart #californiaartist #aqvarell #aquarelle #acuarela #doggiediner

@analogfusion We used to have a "game" at SciFi conventions. The person that could read that book out loud without laughing the longest won. 😀​ There have also been drinking games based on this. 😀​

Also

https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/sf/eyeargon/argnrule.htm

#SciFi #SF #SFconvention

The #sfbayarea Department of Emergency Management has a temporary position for a data center engineer.
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CityAndCountyOfSanFrancisco1/3743990002645256-network-and-data-center-engineer-infrastructure-dept-of-emergency-management-1042-
#sfba #sf #fedihired

Devan Gregori: authentic and inclusive
Hailing from San Francisco and trained in Lyon, Devan Gregori’s journey to her eponymous label is a distinctive one, and shapes her unique approach to sustainable, comfortable and inclusive fashion. Jack Yan interviews her

https://lucire.com/2023/0916fe0.shtml #fashion #mode #moda #FashionDesigner #DevanGregori #SF #CA #USA #interview

#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 1 #17 — How do you promote your writing?

This is the reason I am on Mastodon. I hope that didn't sound callus or self-serving, but it is a first step for me going from traditional commercial agent-mediated publishing to publishing commercially myself.

By being here, I am making an effort to help others with my experience as a published author and am encouraging writers who are feeling the less fun side of writing. As always, I am open to questions either as public comments because #commentingIsCool or via private mention toots.

I'm also getting samples of my writing out there, and preparing to go with a website in the near future. In the background, I'm revising unpublished manuscripts and publishing some non-commercial novel-length works on another site under different alias.

I also feel I'm networking. I'm connecting with lots of other authors and hopeful I'm find some of my Clarion buddies one day.

I am very much looking forward to other answers to this prompt! I really need ideas.

#BoostingIsSharing

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders

"A protest against the Berkeley Property Owners Association’s celebration of the end of the city’s pandemic eviction moratorium on Tuesday night ended in fistfights and shoving matches, according to witnesses.

Nearly 100 protesters from the Berkeley Tenants Union and the Tenants and Neighborhood Councils assembled outside of the ironically named Freehouse Pub around 5 p.m. where around 40 landlords were gathering to fête the end of a policy that banned them from evicting tenants who couldn’t pay rent. As landlords entered the mixer, picketers chanted “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” and displayed signs reading “No peace for evictors.”'

#BayArea #Berkeley #Oakland #SF #SanFrancisco #California #HousingCrisis #RentStrike #TenantUnion

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/09/13/fights-break-out-at-protest-of-landlord-party-celebrating-end-of-eviction-moratorium/

october 27 @ #theLab #sf

@loscil + lawrence english

> loscil (Scott Morgan) and Lawrence English present a #liveAV edition of their collaborative album Colours of Air (#kranky, 2023). Drawing from the rich palette of #pipeOrgan sounds sourced for the album, the duo process, rearrange, remix and supplement with live, adaptive visuals bringing new perspectives to their recorded work.

https://www.thelab.org/projects/2023/10/27/loscil-lawrence-english?mc_cid=f21c54e3da&mc_eid=6f7a24d54e #LawrenceEnglish #sfba #ambient #electronicMusic

Destry, dit Ellie après un moment de silence, tu as vraiment l'étoffe d'un homme de science.

Écoutez, dit le garçon, embarrassé, l'idée n'est peut-être pas très bonne, mais pourquoi m'insulter?

La Vague Montante - Marion Zimmer Bradley

#VendrediLecture #SF

Virgil Finlay illustrating “The Goddess of World 21” by Henry Slesar in Fantastic Science Fiction, March 1957. For no reason at all I’ve added an extreme crop of a photo of Bettie Page in Miami Beach by Bunny Yeager circa 1954. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #HenrySlesar #BettiePage #BunnyYeager #GGA #WeirdTales #Pulps #Illustration #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Per their blog post today, Caltrain 🚄 is unfortunately not planning to issue service updates in the Fediverse. 🫠However, they will continue to use Twitter and issue text/email updates, and set up a new Discord server (for some unclear reason). https://www.caltrain.com/blog/2023/09/note-caltrain-alerts-and-service-communication #SF #SFBA #SFBayArea #Caltrain #SFBay

#PennedPossibilities 72 — MC POV: Describe a recent dream.

I woke feeling claustrophobic. I flailed my hands, found them gloved, clinked the fishbowl surrounding my head. I blinked. Hadn't I just read a newspaper article of the 200th anniversary of profound discovery?

I focused—and saw them: Plates of glass... No /crystal/ floating, gliding, maintaining position. Bright searchlights gleamed, each a minor star. Fuzzy lights: Nebulae. Two-hundreds standards away, I saw an egg-shaped crystal-scaph. White with black-orientation lines and the words HOME-SPACE. It got smaller as I watched.

A daemon had lifted the vehicle on a wish and a miracle. A night angel maneuvered it once in space.

Space.

Space! I was...

My tether flapped around, spewing frost. Snapped.

I jerked, starting rotating, A blue marble rotated into view and I screamed.

[Author retains copyright. From a current SF WiP]

#BoostingIsSharing
#CommentingIsCool
#EntertainOrDie

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #WritingWonders

@bookstodon

Book 76 Catharsis 2066 by David M. McGoings

This book has quite a lot of flaws,. To name a few: iffy science, an excess of machismo, simplistic characters and unlikely plot developments.

And yet ...

I couldn't put it down.

McGoings is a talented story weaver and knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat, even though you mutter and complain about the characters, the science and the plot while you're there.

A great read if you want to give your brain a rest.

#SF

Looking to my #SF folks for some guidance. I know TogetherSF's lobbying arm is an astroturf group dedicated to policies that I strongly oppose.

Their nonprofit arm also sponsors events like neighborhood cleanups. My co-teacher has been thinking about having our students volunteer on one of those cleanups. As a progressive, should I steer us away from them? I will of course be open with the kids about the politics involved and let them help make the decision.

Thanks for any thoughtful takes you may have!

#SanFrancisco #civics #politics
#ethics

Hi fediverse!

If you're reading this, I'm looking for work. I'm a ceramicist, photographer, and all-around craftsperson based out of the so-called San Francisco Bay Area.

Please let me know about any open positions for a:

🏺 production potter
🎨 studio assistant
🖌️ arts educator
🖼️ museum/gallery staff

I'm currently open to part time work and (paying) internships, ideally in the city proper but I'm also more than willing to commute to the east bay or the peninsula for the right position. If you have any leads on these or similar roles (or, tbqh, any open roles in the arts or arts management), please hit me up!

Thanks for reading this far; please enjoy some of my work as thanks. Boosts very much welcome and appreciated :)

#GetFediHired #FediHired #FediHire #Ceramics #Pottery #Photography #SF

Outer Noriega

#watercolor #watercolour & #gouache

#sf #sfart #sfartist #sanfrancisco #sfsunset #sunsetsf #watercolorpainting #california #californiaart #californiaartist

#WritersCoffeeClub 12 — If you write novels, would you consider a short story, and vice versa?

I'm a novelist. They all start as short stories. They rarely end up that way.

#BoostingIsSharing
#CommentingIsCool

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon

Ravi de cette nouvelle! Jusqu'à fin Septembre, mes titres sont en promo numérique à 2.99€/u aux #editionsdu38. L'occasion de me découvrir en tant qu'auteur ou de soutenir une vaillante petite maison d'édition à l'heure où de plus grandes chancellent ou tombent.
À noter que la suite des "Aventures occultes de Lady Bradsley" sort le 22, précipitez-vous sur le 1er tome si #fantastique et #occulte vous plaisent!
https://www.editionsdu38.com/18-nos-promotions
#mastolivre #promo #sf #fantastique

Max discovers the one constant in the multiverse is stupidity.

Now available wherever you buy books, including ebooks:
https://books2read.com/u/m0olnY

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09BSQ7Z8M?tag=markarayner-20&geniuslink=true

#book #books #humor #humour #SF #sciencefiction #SFF #comedy #darkComedy

#NFL Week 1 Scores:

Ended Games:
#KC 20 - 21 #DET
Running Games:
4:13 - 1st #ATL 0 - 0 #CAR
7:13 - 1st #CLE 0 - 0 #CIN
8:05 - 1st #IND 0 - 0 #JAX
8:19 - 1st #MIN 0 - 0 #TB
12:11 - 1st #NO 0 - 3 #TEN
8:00 - 1st #PIT 0 - 7 #SF
7:35 - 1st #WSH 0 - 0 #ARI
7:20 - 1st #BAL 0 - 0 #HOU
Upcoming Games:
9/10 - 4:25 PM EDT #CHI - #GB
9/10 - 4:25 PM EDT #DEN - #LV
9/10 - 4:25 PM EDT #NE - #PHI
9/10 - 4:25 PM EDT #LAC - #MIA
9/10 - 4:25 PM EDT #SEA - #LAR

Only thing planted here are #drugs, and #gorgeous too!

#plants #soma #sf #sanfrancisco

Totally enjoying Exadelic by Jon Evans - Ai, magick, simulation, time travel, universes… #books #sf

interesting!: "NFT collapse and monster egos feature in new Murakami exhibition"

this will be at the asian art museum in SF, running from sept. 15 to feb. 2024.

https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/nft-collapse-and-monster-egos-feature-in-new-murakami-exhibition/

video trailer for the exhibit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5nj9OHOPvE

#SF #art #NFTs #tech

All ready to release my novel, Two Earths Are Better Than None, on Monday.

As alien ships appear, Mason Ross discovers his marriage is failing in more than one reality. With nothing to lose, he grasps the chance to help save the Duality from collapse in exchange for cash and spaceflight.

What could go wrong? Then he meets Beth Borden. Together they face an unexpected threat, armed only with Beth's sarcasm.

https://www.markwhitebooks.com/two-earths
#WritingCommunity #Writing #SF #SciFi #ScienceFiction

In progress...

#WIP #watercolor #watercolour #sennelier #sennelierwatercolors #fabriano #fabrianopaper #archisketcher #archisketch #sf #sanfrancisco #sunsetsf #sfsunset #sfart #sfartist #californiaart #californiaartist #aqvarell #aquarelle #acuarela #commission #artcommission

We often hear about the challenges facing San Francisco, but we don’t hear nearly enough about how tech billionaires wield their power to serve themselves even if it means making life for everyone else harder.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with SF District 5 Supervisor @deanpreston about the robotaxi chaos in the city and the many ways the tech industry tries to shape local politics for their ends.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13544176-how-tech-wields-its-power-in-san-francisco-w-dean-preston

#tech #sf #politics

In which week will Nick Bosa suffer a season ending injury?
#49ers #SF #nfl

Of you're in the SF Bay Area later this month, come out to B0ardside's fall spectacular. Art, music, and the release of B0ardside Zine No. 6. Behind the very red house at 43rd Ave. & Moraga, Spt. 23, Noon-5:00

#art #electronicart #artshow #artevent #sfart #sfartshow #sf #sanfrancisco #sfba #sfsunset #sunsetsf #music #livemusic #musicshow #electronicmusic #electronicmusicfestival #zine #zines #zinerelease

The #STUD is coming back to SF! They need some help to get the bar going again, so please consider donating at https://givebutter.com/Stud2024. I just donated, and I hope y’all do too!

#LGBTQIA #SFBA #SF

often, I feel like I ought to write about how I love SFF, but I've never been to a science fiction or fantasy-related con, I love tabletop roleplaying games, but I've never been to a ttrpg con, (and I don't own a table), I've been using free, libre, and open source software since about 1995, but I went to only one con and never again ...

but it's difficult to build a narrative around the multitudinous contributing factors ...
#SF
#ttrpg
#DnD
#cons
#floss

The @balboatheatresf in the usual cool grey of the Richmond. Was there yesterday with the Sunset Sketchers.

We'll meet again on Saturday 9/9 at Flower Piano at the SF Botanical Garden, 10AM-12:30PM. Get a ticket (at the SFBG site), grab a sketchbook and join us! Ping me for deets.

#sketch #sketchbook #sf #sanfrancisco #sfrichmond #richmondsf #urbansketching #urbansketchers #theater #cinema #marquee

A #watercolor (#watercolour) sketch of San Francisco's beloved Balboa Theater, one of the few independent cinemas left in the city. The #marquee shows that Heavy Metal, The Room and Clueless are coming up.

The real question is HOW do we want time travel? Upgraded Delorian? Old-timey British Police box? Fancy art nouveau design with upholstered seat? HOW do we want time travel!

#timetravel #scifi #SF #SFF #writing #sciencefiction #humor #humour #funny

remember those headlines like "mystery company buys 800 acres of northern california!"

well the buyers finally put up a website and y'all...it has AI-generated art!!! they couldn't even pay an artist.

also, how about this creepy url? https://californiaforever.com/

how can i tell that the art is AI? look at the details:

pic 1: person in upper left. which way is he facing? where's his right arm? is his left arm facing backwards? also, look at the lines on the "solar panels". some are narrow, some are wide, it makes no sense.

pic 2: look at the details of the people's bodies and faces. if you're having trouble figuring out their body parts, that's because they were generated by AI & AI doesn't actually know the details.

pic 3: seems ok, until you look in the background and realize the train is coming out of a "tunnel" in a building. probably not what they had in mind.

pic 4: what *exactly* are those workers building? i couldn't figure it out. AI is good at giving the impression of people working on something, but if you look at what those people are actually doing, it often doesn't make sense. also, i love the yellow "ladder" on the left.

#AI #AIart #ML #Solano #SolanoCounty #SF #BayArea

Virgil Finlay illustration for “The Spoilers of Lern” by Clee Garson (David Wright O'Brien) from Fantastic Adventures, August 1951.

#FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #FantasticAdventures #Trees #Illustration #WeirdTales #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

#tech #AI #ML #SF

sound familiar?: "Welbe comes back about a year later, once again in prison, and says, “You know what, that plan is not going to work anymore, but I've got a better plan because I've actually figured out the secrets to the philosopher’s stone and now I can actually just make gold and silver myself. All I need is some start-up money from the Crown or Parliament to get it off the ground.” Needless to say, it didn’t work, and his trail goes cold at that point. " - Prof. Philip J. Stern talking about his new book "Empire, Incorporated"

https://history.duke.edu/news/what-was-corporation

#books #history #colonialism #empire #imperialism #BritishHistory

Waterstones Amsterdam purchase 1 of 2. I’m delighted for Ann Leckie that her books are presumably selling well enough to merit new covers but now my Imperial Radch books are mismatched! The old covers were pretty generic #SF but I’m really not sure how to feel about the new style. It’s probably an improvement from a marketing point of view.

@fulelo fascinating story, because however things work out specifically in #SF, it feels inevitable to me that #driverless cars will eventually be introduced elsewhere in some shape or form.

#BBCNews - How #robotaxis are dividing San Francisco
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66611513
#driverless #SF

Crab Tales Magazine is an SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.

🦀 https://crabtalesmagazine.com 🦀

We are open for submissions until the 23rd September.

Please see our submissions page for guidelines on what we are looking for.

We pay 3 cents per word.

We love SFF and we love crabs!

*clicks claws*

@_RachelHandley is our EIC (and everything else).

You can support the magazine here: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine

All donations go towards paying our contributors!

#writingcommunity #writing #sff #sf

Nothing to see here, just a perfectly ordinary writer at work.

#writing #writer #writingcommunity #books #book #bookstodon #sff #SF #WIP #humor #humour #funny

@lauren

@cstross has mentioned frequently that this crazypants timeline we find ourselves in has made it effectively impossible to continue his near-future Scottish police procedural series.

I think he once said he would pick it up again when the world returned to sanity, but ... at least he's still writing other stuff. 😂

#scifi #sf #timeline #crazy

I love dialogue-based short story #sf, so this piece by James Patrick Kelley, "What It Means to be a Car" was really enjoyable. https://www.tor.com/2023/07/26/what-it-means-to-be-a-car-james-patrick-kelly/

Godzilla has escaped!
#godzillafest #balboatheater #sf