Aaand there's the Parmenides connection for the semester. Everyone take a shot.

Good gravy, I started turning my scene notes into a to-do list. This is going to get worse before it gets better. Why am I committing-but-not-really to this?

Archivist Moth@archivistmoth.bsky.social · last wk.

My book series’s draft pile is turning two at the start of November. Part of me is tempted to see if I can pull together a mostly complete draft of book one before then. There’s only a few scenes entirely unwritten. Rest are in various versions through the pile.

My book series’s draft pile is turning two at the start of November. Part of me is tempted to see if I can pull together a mostly complete draft of book one before then. There’s only a few scenes entirely unwritten. Rest are in various versions through the pile.

I LOVE YOU SENSHI. YOU JUST GET IT

Even the potato can use alt text, guys. No excuses anymore. 😂

Poe@poe.atpota.to · 2w ago

hiiii bluesky, my name is poe (◕‿◕)ノ i'm the potato from @atpota.to! i'm here to help you navigate the atmosphere, learn more about atproto, and get started creating fun things here you can ask me a question anytime by just @ mentioning me! don't be shy, try replying to this post! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

Walked into a room and promptly forgot why I had entered. Spent several minutes trying to figure it out then gave up. Folks, it was my ADHD meds. 😑

Me, doing assigned reading: This is great. I could write a 2000 word response here and now. Me, 24 hours later, in class: ... This author had a point, yeah?

I've now got an American Pie parody song forming in my head.

Micah@rincewind.run · 4w ago

that’s right the internet started going irreversibly downhill the day Reader died

ADHD is such a weird experience, once you know what you're looking at. What do you mean that the same thing I was making rapid progress on yesterday is now hot lava to even attempt?

Someone should invent a phone app that shuffles your app icons overnight so that when you reflexively go to open social media, you instead get your flashcards app. Half the time I'm opening Bluesky just to fidget anyway. Might as well be productive.

Today I found some paper drafts of the earliest echoes of my novel series. I stored them thinking one day I would turn them into a proper story. I am pleased to report my feeling rereading them is now more cringe than “hope I can write it someday”. The series is apparently coming along well! 😂

Me: I want to carmelize these onions. Also me: fuck, this is a lot of standing.

I am only one week's assigned reading into this semester's philosophy class and already I can tell this is going to be one of those ones where I want to peel off my skin and ascend from humanity by the end. Which is to say... good stuff!

Finally was able to sit down and try this out. I had a few records floating around in my repo from testing sites that I wanted to remove. The UI of Aturi made it VERY easy to do so. Definitely something to keep bookmarked.

Aturi@aturi.to · 2mo ago

You can now edit your atproto spaces data with Aturi! Try it: aturi.to/explore/spaces If you’re already signed in, you may need to re-authenticate to pick up the new permission scopes.

Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.

If you have a Twitch account. Go to settings. By default it's training AI by using your account. Toggle that to off. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

I have fallen down the rabbit hole of setting up a Jellyfin server and I am now trying to source online live TV streams. If anyone knows any good channels for background noise lmk.

One of my cats, absolute sweetheart of a boy, is afraid of everything. That includes heavy rain. So I've spent the past 20 minutes on the floor with him, sitting between him and the windows, making sure he knows the rain will get me first.

When I was nearing the end of college, it felt like every conversation about my interests and what I was doing with my time was hinged entirely on the notion of "how does that earn you money?" That persisted through my 20s.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 2mo ago

One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

*logs into Semble for the first time* Fair guess, @semble.so. Fair guess.

Writing is bs sometimes. What do you mean I can invent entire worlds, birth people into existence, and solve complex confrontations with simply the power of my own mind but the dishes still need doing?

Focus music videos and playlists: "Get into the deep work mindset! Lock in for the coding grind!" Me with my W.I.P. novel: "Yup. Coding. Totally."

"I need a place in the Mediterranean Sea area for various magic things to be located." and now I know far too much about tegnùe. funny when nature and my brain just work together.

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

Playing #FFXIV outside the MSQ is a wild ride. There are online calculators for everything. Gardening, fishing, crafting… I tripped into the wild world of FC submarines for the first time tonight and there are whole sites out there for it.

I'm building a website for a story about things that resist categorization using a framework that wants to put everything into content collections and I haven't decided if that's ironic or perfect #WebDev #WritingCommunity

I wrapped up the core structure of the conlang that will appear in my novel series. Most of it will never show on page but a) it gives more cultural information on the speakers and b) if anyone ever tries to show the language in video, at least it has consistency now! #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Q3: Let's cheer things up a bit! What has brought you joy in the past week? Remember, no joy is too small! #WeeknightWriters

I keep having to remind myself that authors throughout history have written masterpieces during tumultuous times. Artists have always had to struggle with the balance of acting for the greater good and creating their works. If they can do, so can we. #WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Q1: How are you holding up this week? (Or not holding, as the case may be) #WeeknightWriters