I can highly recommend "Fantasyland
How America Went Haywire : A 500-year History"
by Kurt Andersen
I think if you like that Asimov quote, you’ll like this book, too.
#Introduction: I live in Yorkshire though I'm determined to live in Scotland eventually. I have dogs and cats and a husband, and the day job is WFH doing proofreading and quality checking for an online learning company.
I knit and spin and weave and dye, seem to have amassed a collection of spinning tools, and used to teach these skills before the lockdowns.
I love language and poetry, live music and dancing, I'm learning Gaelic.
I have been doing more research on Mastadon and wanted to introduce myself!
I'm Isabella, #RStats lover and perpetual #Python beginner. I am a content strategist, data enthusiast, and author.
I work at @Posit as a Sr. Product Marketing Manager, where my main goal is to drive engagement around all the awesome things my colleagues are working on.
There’s so much to learn and we can do it together. Happy to be here! 🐘 #introductions
#introduction I'm Andrei from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and this is me trying the mas.to instance
A Moment #midjourney v4.alpha #AIArt
You know how to whistle don't'cha?
#midjourney #AIArt
for those of you
who hesitate
for those who shy
away from personal connection
those whose pens are so laden
with unspoken words
they cannot be lifted
i will eat your words
and keep you silent
and delight in the void
where hands used to touch
Still entirely lost here but working on it. #writingcommunity #sapphic #sapphicmigration #sapphicfiction
I have my book Black as Day coming out in 11 days and oh my does self promo bring all the hives to the skin.
I’m so proud of that book and I loved writing it.
If you like #sapphicspeculativefiction then this just might be for you 😍
Kia ora e hoa ma. New to Mastodon and feeling things out. Current Mayor of Wellington and lover of all things progressive. Climate action and social justice FTW #firstpost #newzealand #wellington #climateaction
This is a response to @nymag
For the poorly researched piece this past week. The tone of the author on social medial has been very dismissive of the people who suffer from these incurable diseases.
#pwME #LongCovid #MECFS #MyalgicE
https://www.meaction.net/2022/11/10/elementor-59066/
Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.
Here's a Zombie Beholder I painted for D&D, from the Dungeon of the Mad Mage range.
These D&D miniatures are tricky to paint imo because they're made of a much softer plastic which doesn't hold fine detail or sharp edges.
#PaintingMiniatures #PaintingWarhammer #PaintingAndModelling #Tabletop #Wargaming #TTRPG #DND #DungeonsAndDragons #RPG
Twitter is too valuable to lose, either due to bad business moves by Musk or spurious attacks from opponents of free speech.
Twitter's potential collapse could wipe out vast swathes of recent human history | MIT Technology Review
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.