George Budd @Gbudd@social.cleverlibre.org

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"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." - Octavia Butler

#writingcommunity #writing #storytelling #screenwriting #authorquotes #octaviabutler

@Lowie Thank you. I spent 45 years as a "dishonest" writer. That's how long I kept a deep, dark secret from myself about something that happened. That I knew happened. A storyteller who can't (or won't) tell their own story isn't much of a storyteller. I hope I'm cured of that disease.

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.” - Harlan Ellison

#writing #writingcommunity #storytelling

#TheWildBunch - the build-up to the climax… How to write a great script with very few words… https://youtu.be/CYP38A-nwLY

Illustration by Christophe Vorlet

1/12 This 🧵 is called "That Ol' Black Magic".

My Sister and I were having one of our long, deep, philosophical conversations today, and she asked me:

“Given that you are science minded, do you think Black people are magic?”

I thought on this for a long, long moment.

My conclusion is that Black people are magic, and here is my proof.

When we hear about a "seemingly happy" person dying of suicide, we should all be thinking about what we can do to help people with depression. Depression is a chronic, invisible (mostly) illness. Many people have it. There is treatment. There are ways to help. But we all have to pay more attention to those we love. Sometimes there are signs, sometimes not. Slow down. Take time to listen.

Lisp: these are the fine artifacts of old. sometimes when you are not looking it creeps in to your life. but, sometimes, it's just clojure.
Lua: i'm not actually supposed to be here but someone decided to build a small universe entirely out of paperclips and it works somehow
Erlang: have they found out i run the internet yet
Rust: :blobcrab: rewrite it in rust! then die waiting for it to compile
C/C++: :blobcatdevil: why yes, we did find out how to transceive satan directly in computer form [crashes]

Time lapse of last night's #Jupiter with Io shadow transit. Covers five hours of real time. 200 x 2000 x 14 ms Ha 35 nm in Celestron 8" at f/10.

First post on here. Would love to connect with fellow lefties. A wee welcome boost would be much appreciated.

A public service announcement…

The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), an emission nebula about 8,000 lightyears from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team

The students in my upper-level electrodynamics course are taking their final exam right now, which always reminds me of the time I told my students they could bring a formula sheet to the final exam as long as it was on one side of a piece of paper.

If you look up to the sky with your naked eyes, the starry band of the Milky way appears constant.

If you could see it in X-rays - and we do, with space-based X-ray telescopes - it would be all glittering: here a black hole starting or ceasing to accrete from its stellar companion. There a neutron star on an eccentric orbit. A nova brightening up, a microquasar turning it's jets on and off ...

https://youtu.be/SZUuxbY8Mqw?t=81

#astrodon #astronomy #scicomm (infos ⬇️)