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Bill G
@bgallmeister.bsky.social
I like to be in the real world. I try to post things that are useful, interesting, or at least entertaining. Humor usually dry, veering into dark. You have been warned.

Onwards.
Next up, the last volume in Bertrand Russell’s amazing autobiography. #booksky
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Appropriate visitor in Los Gatos last night
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Rainy day punkinscape.
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Time for a happier read. I think I can count in Williams for calm, meditative happiness. #booksky
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Reward for rereading the series last month. Couldn’t make the event with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social last week, but thank you for the signed copies! #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It seems like a thing a serious person should do. So far, exhausting. #booksky
October 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A few days in Point Reyes. No Internet, just Aurelius and the ocean. Lost my Wordle streak but regained some sanity. #nature #california
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Resident elk on the evening commute in Point Reyes’ Wildcat Camp. #nature #california
October 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Always worth rereading, touching on, opening at random for three surprising insight, etcetera. I should probably get a more modern translation, but this one is nice and light and fit in my backpack easily. #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Some very nice, light, but thought-provoking bedside reading. Recommended. #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
On to part two! #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Your minute and a half of peace, courtesy of our California desert tortoise, Flash
September 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Okay I know who’s getting me over my “book count” target this year. High School me is stoked, and adult me can focus on “serious”/new/modern. $23 well spent :) #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Secondary book (because i don’t want to read anything too heavy before going to sleep). I think reading Scalzi made me harken back to the master of the form #booksky
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Next up, continuing the vaguely ecological theme #booksky
September 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Fig season. We’ve had a few years of poor harvests, but this year we loosened the soil around the roots and opened up the canopy to more sunlight, and BOOM. Fig jam earlier, and dehydrated figs today! #gardensky #cooking #noideawhathashtagtoputhere
September 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I’m guessing I read these first in 2018, based on the bookmark I used. It’s great to see little snippets of personal history like this pop up!
September 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Next up. So far, this trilogy has aged extremely well. Authority has a classic cliffhanger ending, leading into this one. #booksky
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Next up. Trying to read these as back-to-back as possible to catch commonalities. BTW “Annihilation” holds up as a beautiful, horrifying, propulsive read. #booksky
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Next up. Seems appropriate to read amongst busily wittering birds, madly ripening figs and persistently emergent mushrooms.
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today’s (re-) read, to be followed by the other three (trying chronological order) #booksky
September 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Short, evocative, powerful. Worth your read. #booksky
September 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thirty second mental health break
August 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Someone somewhere deserves a happy Friday! You made it!
July 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM