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What if you built your life, so that rest was a part of the strategy. What if you didn’t have to push, or stick to the same routine every day. What if you didn’t have to burn out or crash. What if you created your life around your cycle, your mood, your energy levels. What if you created from softness, intuition and your own truth.
Want to just start writing? Join the “Write with Medium” June micro-challenge! Learn more and sign up here: https://medium.com/not-perfect/want-to-just-start-writing-join-the-write-with-medium-june-micro-challenge-d8a50f0e384a
#Medium #writers #writing #WriteWithMedium #WritingChallenge #WritersBlock
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The "Human Software" Leanpub page is now LIVE:
https://leanpub.com/humansoftware
Go there to get a sneak peek at the content, register your interest, and tell me how much you'd be willing to pay. This will help me set the minimum price for the e-book, which should be available towards the end of July.
The print edition will be coming towards the end of the year and will include a reimagined map of Kent.
Cover is WIP AI. A human-generated one is in the works!
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In this month’s Writer Newsletter, Zulie @ #Medium shares alternatives to AI #images for #illustrating stories, popular story topics, #DraftDay2025 stats, a request for editor recognition, and more.
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Green Queer Erotic Love Magic is the sometimes poetic and sometimes discursive imagination of a green queer erotic love-based anarchy. It discusses the meanings of green, queer, erotic and love and argues for the imagination to create "anarchy".
https://archive.org/details/gqelm-c
#politics #green #queer #erotic #love #anarchy #magic #imagination #pagan #art #writing #books
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I think I finally have this thing complete - the paper is live hosted on a little test node, also lives as README.md on the GitHub.
https://idens.net/iden://z1HRUsTNcYMkN5WPm9s1YjGaLUVs58RVRHPjBrV1kYwdAJ.642/pub
#P2P #distributed #text #smallweb #markdown #data #linkeddata #python #rust #rustlang #linux #unix #longread #code #opensource #helloworld #federation #peer2peer #peerreview #writing
“So, when I’m interested in what a person has to say, why would I willingly spend time reading or listening to a text that was mathematically calculated by a dead thing? I would not. And once you consider this reality, I believe you will lose interest as well.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ai-writing-novelist-texas-artificial-intelligence/
And so the publishing world began.
#fakefact #MaundyThursday #easter #humor #humour #books #book #writing #writingcommunity
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Interactive fiction. 48-ish choices. Two main storylines.
Follow the adventures of a roboticist and an artist, Karee & Talia, as they try to solve mysteries, explore science, and go to the moon.
⚠️ Unstable Home Life ⚠️
⚠️ Will soon be leaving to a personal account⚠️
$35/$1500
Thanks anyone who boosts/donates!
I'm going to be switching to a personal account. You're free to share my writing and ko-fi for donations since I'm still trying to move and I still will talk about mutual aid.
Hi. I'm terrified.
I've been trying to make my own space on the web for years. And I've been stuck. Badly.
But today is my birthday. And I refuse to let another year pass without putting something—anything—out there.
So here it is in all its messy glory. My first post on my barely-there #website: https://fromemily.com/hi-im-terrified/
It's not great. But it's okay...enough.
And I hope it means something to someone.
@actuallyautistic
#SmallWeb #ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD #writing #blogging
Introducing the Tinker WriterDeck OS!
Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck: A device designed solely for writing.
No distractions.
No internet.
No apps. No games. No social media.
Just writing.
The Tinker WriterDeck is very light weight and specifically seeks to lower the barrier of entry to creating writer decks. It converts older, reused, refurbished, or inexpensive laptops into a dedicated writing machine.
A digital typewriter.
The Tinker WriterDeck sits on top of a "headless" Debian Linux image and boots directly into a console based text editor.
We're using the Tilde Text Editor because it is a simple text editor, has an intuitive User Interface, and allows for customized color schemes for light and dark modes.
Operating System download and instructions on how to convert your laptop into a dedicated writer deck for free are found here: https://tinker.sh
See below for an example of the writer deck in light mode and dark mode.
If anyone has any questions or needs any help setting your laptop up, let me know here!
#solarPunk #linux #writerDeck #bookstodon #writing #writingCommunity #author #libraries
I will NEVER hold, represent, use an emoji, hang, or honor ANYWAY an American flag again.
Just those that America is hurting, and those I support or feel I belong to.
I am no longer an American.
I am simply ME.
I was already ashamed of the #usa after being #homeless and feeling/seeing first hand how horrible it treats its most vulnerable people.
I am EMBARRASSED to even have this accent.
It's now a red mark on me, and I don't appreciate that at all since I didn't choose that.
I wrote about how social media habits make it hard to write a good opening and how a BBC4 radio program helped me overcome the urge to waffle.
Neither waffle nor a cold open: In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg is my model for topic introductions
https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-03-22-neither-waffle-nor-cold-open/
Been working on this project for a while, but think I'm ready to make it public. Hope to write more about it soon.
"The videos you are seeing are news clips from the day before today.
The text is generated from the subtitles for those videos, alongside a journal of mine from late October to early November 2016.
The video ordering is purely random, but the text follows its own internal logic. "
'Times may be getting tougher, but a hell of a lot of people are committed to doing good. And the best of the good is the #nature that makes up our planet.' ▶️ https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017
My new blog post about #writing in hard times, developing a story, messy mind palace rooms, #accents, and the sweet poison of #passion. @writers @writing
#storytelling #podcasting #blog #naturelovers #accent #languages #interviews #moreThanHuman #creativity #journalism #solarpunk #hopepunk #author
🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to our next meetup on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at Taiste:
Talks:
✒️ @hamatti - Why developers should write blog posts
💉 Sakari Cajanus - Dependency injection in Python (or why Python is not Java)
🦀 Mislav Novakovic - Refactoring to Rust
And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306522919/
Please also drop us a line if you’d like to give a talk in April or beyond ⭐
#HelPy #Helsinki #Python #meetup #writing #blogging #DependencyInjection #Rust
:BlobhajPrideHeart: Hey everyone, I’m releasing Hey Boy Hey Girl, a story with 31 chapters that will take you on an unforgettable journey.
A new chapter will be posted daily, so you can follow along as the story unfolds.
You can check it out here:
https://www.wattpad.com/story/390633139-hey-boy-hey-girl
🔖 I’d love to share it with you all and hear your thoughts—let’s connect and chat about it! Thanks so much for your support! 
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Considering the recent trend toward media monopoly, I hope you won't mind me shamelessly promoting my newsletter, Brief Ecology. It's part #journalism, part #scicomm, part #political education. It's also free to read.
If you're interested in independent, ecologically-oriented writing, maybe check it out:
I've thought long and hard about this.
I built a #socialmedia presence to protect myself.
To seek #justice and speak out about what my father did to our #family and #poverty.
He #abused a woman with #tourettes into insanity, abused me into insanity and we were never the same.
Kidnapped me. Drove me to #idaho after I busted my hip and was staying with him in #seattle and was delusional, couldn't consent.
Jesse Hires - He works for #microsoft as a build engineer.
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#Retro #Book #QuestionOfTheDay show me your favorite old school fantasy or sci fi book cover.
As a bonus, tell me what you like about it or what memory/experience it's tied to if it is!
I am an amateur #writer and #photography is immensely interesting to me, and I deeply enjoy wandering, then finding beautiful, strange, and interesting things to capture.
I wouldn't mind being #professional though, so I have an idea I want to try-
I created a #kofi that's similar to #patreon where someone can #commision me for #writing as well as photography.
It's a draft, and #experimental but if you'd like to support or #FediHire me:
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The biggest reason the chaos in the #usa scares me is because I CANNOT live without #medication and a whole lot of #help putting my mind back together still.
I went through an extremely #traumatic few years.
Before that I wasn't doing well anyway.
If I don't have these meds and help, I am in so much pain I can't think.
I #panic constantly and can't stay inside because it terrifies me, then literally walk until I go insane from sleep deprivation.