James Geary
@jamesmgeary.bsky.social
Aspiring author. Husband. Dad. Environmentalist. Vegan. Atheist. SFF geek. Lifter of heavy things! He/him.
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Fables of Flower by @norab84.bsky.social is a fantastic collection of short stories, chronicling the life of Flower, a down-on-his-luck gig worker who gets caught up in missteps and adventures, both magical and mundane. He's a relatable character in a fantasy world. I highly recommend it!
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WRITER FUEL: See the stunning reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived 10,500 years ago in Belgium.
www.limfic.com/2025/11/10/w...
#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #MargauxWoman #StoneAge #History #FacialReconstruction
www.limfic.com/2025/11/10/w...
#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #MargauxWoman #StoneAge #History #FacialReconstruction
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
WRITER FUEL: See the stunning reconstruction of a Stone Age woman who lived 10,500 years ago in Belgium.
www.limfic.com/2025/11/10/w...
#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #MargauxWoman #StoneAge #History #FacialReconstruction
www.limfic.com/2025/11/10/w...
#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #MargauxWoman #StoneAge #History #FacialReconstruction
quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮
- Terra Nil
- Plan B Terraform
- Subnautica
- No Man's Sky
- Surviving Mars
- Terra Nil
- Plan B Terraform
- Subnautica
- No Man's Sky
- Surviving Mars
quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮
- Half Life 1 and 2 (planning on streaming these though)
- Finishing Cyberpunk 2077
- Terraria
- Alan Wake
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
- Half Life 1 and 2 (planning on streaming these though)
- Finishing Cyberpunk 2077
- Terraria
- Alan Wake
- Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮
▪️Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
▪️Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
▪️Cyberpunk 2077
▪️Persona 3: Reload
▪️Neva
▪️Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
▪️Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
▪️Cyberpunk 2077
▪️Persona 3: Reload
▪️Neva
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮
- Terra Nil
- Plan B Terraform
- Subnautica
- No Man's Sky
- Surviving Mars
- Terra Nil
- Plan B Terraform
- Subnautica
- No Man's Sky
- Surviving Mars
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November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Imagine if a man with no substance to his character became the richest man in the world, and all it achieved was that an unprecedented number of people were made aware that he had no substance to his character.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Imagine if a man with no substance to his character became the richest man in the world, and all it achieved was that an unprecedented number of people were made aware that he had no substance to his character.
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The abject terror of looking ahead to like 8-9 super busy weekends in a row
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The abject terror of looking ahead to like 8-9 super busy weekends in a row
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JUST TWO AWAY!!! I'm so, so close to selling 100 KDP copies of my dragon short story this year! LET'S FREAKING GOOOOO ;)
If you fancy a short story with dragons, knights and revenge, check it out! Only 99c!
Any reposts to help me get there would also be most fabulousssss.
If you fancy a short story with dragons, knights and revenge, check it out! Only 99c!
Any reposts to help me get there would also be most fabulousssss.
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
JUST TWO AWAY!!! I'm so, so close to selling 100 KDP copies of my dragon short story this year! LET'S FREAKING GOOOOO ;)
If you fancy a short story with dragons, knights and revenge, check it out! Only 99c!
Any reposts to help me get there would also be most fabulousssss.
If you fancy a short story with dragons, knights and revenge, check it out! Only 99c!
Any reposts to help me get there would also be most fabulousssss.
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Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Companies and institutions have given up on the idea of service generally. Now, it’s all about training the customer to do the work for them – and most of us don’t want to work for the companies we’re paying for service.
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And yet the current government seems to see economic salvation lies in LLM-based so-called AI (statistical best-guess vending machines) whose main selling point is enabling companies to do away with the entry level posts where employees used to learn how a business works and the skills to progress.
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
And yet the current government seems to see economic salvation lies in LLM-based so-called AI (statistical best-guess vending machines) whose main selling point is enabling companies to do away with the entry level posts where employees used to learn how a business works and the skills to progress.
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Arrival was released 9 years ago today.
Denis Villeneuve: "I was looking for something very specific and very special to enter into the sci-fi genre, and when I read Ted Chiang’s brilliant short story “Story of Your Life,” I knew that was it. There was something about the exploration of..."
Denis Villeneuve: "I was looking for something very specific and very special to enter into the sci-fi genre, and when I read Ted Chiang’s brilliant short story “Story of Your Life,” I knew that was it. There was something about the exploration of..."
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Arrival was released 9 years ago today.
Denis Villeneuve: "I was looking for something very specific and very special to enter into the sci-fi genre, and when I read Ted Chiang’s brilliant short story “Story of Your Life,” I knew that was it. There was something about the exploration of..."
Denis Villeneuve: "I was looking for something very specific and very special to enter into the sci-fi genre, and when I read Ted Chiang’s brilliant short story “Story of Your Life,” I knew that was it. There was something about the exploration of..."
Quote with an iconic fictional band.
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Quote with an iconic fictional band.
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of FUTURE’S EDGE)
(Here's the opening of FUTURE’S EDGE)
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of FUTURE’S EDGE)
(Here's the opening of FUTURE’S EDGE)
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…there are a thousand explanations, the easiest of which, that 007 (and with one neuron’s leap Bond’s identity) is a code name handed to multiple agents IS IN THE FILM THEY’RE COMPLAINING ABOUT.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
…there are a thousand explanations, the easiest of which, that 007 (and with one neuron’s leap Bond’s identity) is a code name handed to multiple agents IS IN THE FILM THEY’RE COMPLAINING ABOUT.
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There is no goddamn reason the measles had to make a come back… but because of one shitty, debunked paper and a former MTV “star,” here we fucking are.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesSaveLives
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
The Americas Are No Longer Officially Measles-Free
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
www.scientificamerican.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There is no goddamn reason the measles had to make a come back… but because of one shitty, debunked paper and a former MTV “star,” here we fucking are.
#VaccinesSaveLives
#VaccinesSaveLives
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Guillermo del Toro on Avatar:
"I’ve seen the three Avatars. They are absolute masterpieces for me. I know where it’s going, and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people. I can’t say anything about [the third], but I can say very clearly that there are very few Americans that have...”
"I’ve seen the three Avatars. They are absolute masterpieces for me. I know where it’s going, and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people. I can’t say anything about [the third], but I can say very clearly that there are very few Americans that have...”
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Guillermo del Toro on Avatar:
"I’ve seen the three Avatars. They are absolute masterpieces for me. I know where it’s going, and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people. I can’t say anything about [the third], but I can say very clearly that there are very few Americans that have...”
"I’ve seen the three Avatars. They are absolute masterpieces for me. I know where it’s going, and I think it’s going to surprise a lot of people. I can’t say anything about [the third], but I can say very clearly that there are very few Americans that have...”
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Just to point out again: The inevitable technology that everyone's desperate for and is going to change the world . . . can't make a profit.
By free market standards, your local convenience store is a more successful business than OpenAI.
By free market standards, your local convenience store is a more successful business than OpenAI.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just to point out again: The inevitable technology that everyone's desperate for and is going to change the world . . . can't make a profit.
By free market standards, your local convenience store is a more successful business than OpenAI.
By free market standards, your local convenience store is a more successful business than OpenAI.
Me: So how was your day at school today?
Daughter: Good.
Me: What did you do today?
Daughter: Just work and work, then playtime, then more work.
Me: What kind of work?
Daughter: Normal stuff.
Daughter: Good.
Me: What did you do today?
Daughter: Just work and work, then playtime, then more work.
Me: What kind of work?
Daughter: Normal stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Me: So how was your day at school today?
Daughter: Good.
Me: What did you do today?
Daughter: Just work and work, then playtime, then more work.
Me: What kind of work?
Daughter: Normal stuff.
Daughter: Good.
Me: What did you do today?
Daughter: Just work and work, then playtime, then more work.
Me: What kind of work?
Daughter: Normal stuff.
It was a nice day for my work walk, though likely gonna be a washout later and for the rest of the week. Gotta take what you can get at this time of year!
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It was a nice day for my work walk, though likely gonna be a washout later and for the rest of the week. Gotta take what you can get at this time of year!
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Glacier retreat is fastest ever seen
"Hektoria Glacier is relatively small by Antarctic standards – but a collapse of similar speed on larger Antarctic glaciers could have catastrophic implications for global sea level rise."
www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/11... #Antarctic #glacier
"Hektoria Glacier is relatively small by Antarctic standards – but a collapse of similar speed on larger Antarctic glaciers could have catastrophic implications for global sea level rise."
www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/11... #Antarctic #glacier
Glacier retreat is fastest ever seen
Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica has undergone the fastest retreat of any land glacier on record, with nearly 50% collapsing in just two months.
www.futuretimeline.net
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Glacier retreat is fastest ever seen
"Hektoria Glacier is relatively small by Antarctic standards – but a collapse of similar speed on larger Antarctic glaciers could have catastrophic implications for global sea level rise."
www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/11... #Antarctic #glacier
"Hektoria Glacier is relatively small by Antarctic standards – but a collapse of similar speed on larger Antarctic glaciers could have catastrophic implications for global sea level rise."
www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2025/11... #Antarctic #glacier
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“It requires non-algorithmic understanding, which by definition is beyond algorithmic computation and therefore cannot be simulated. Hence, this universe cannot be a simulation.”
is exactly what I would program someone in my simulation to say. 😈
news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...
is exactly what I would program someone in my simulation to say. 😈
news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...
UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation - UBC's Okanagan News
New study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions
news.ok.ubc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“It requires non-algorithmic understanding, which by definition is beyond algorithmic computation and therefore cannot be simulated. Hence, this universe cannot be a simulation.”
is exactly what I would program someone in my simulation to say. 😈
news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...
is exactly what I would program someone in my simulation to say. 😈
news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/u...
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It is really fucked up that it even came this close, but at least one sigh of relief today.
The Supreme Court rejects petition from Kim Davis to reconsider its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, effectively preserving Obergefell for a long time to come. Marriage equality is safe.
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...
Supreme Court declines to hear case on constitutionality of same-sex marriage
The Supreme Court on Monday morning turned down a request from Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky, to reconsider its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex […]
www.scotusblog.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It is really fucked up that it even came this close, but at least one sigh of relief today.
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Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
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November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Anybody else want to weigh in on the accuracy of this meme?
Loved this one, along with Mission to Mars. Then there's the other one I watch for the laugh!
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Anybody else want to weigh in on the accuracy of this meme?
Happy Monday all! Got woken by my daughter twenty minutes before my alarm, and my brain didn't check in till an hour after I arrived at work. On the plus side, I finished reading a book and a short story today, and I might have purchased a few others! Hope you all have a good one.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Monday all! Got woken by my daughter twenty minutes before my alarm, and my brain didn't check in till an hour after I arrived at work. On the plus side, I finished reading a book and a short story today, and I might have purchased a few others! Hope you all have a good one.