Michael Maier
@empiemaier.bsky.social
Author, reader, scientist. Dipping a toe into the blue sky, fingers crossed it doesn't rain
November out here dishing out vibes left and right
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
November out here dishing out vibes left and right
1 year and 9 months later
Finished 22 minutes before midnight with a whopping 3300 words 🥵
(PS thanks @printrunpodcast.bsky.social for pumping me up to take part in my first NaNoWriMo type event. PRINT SPRINT 2025 continues tomorrow, with the start of a new project!)
Finished 22 minutes before midnight with a whopping 3300 words 🥵
(PS thanks @printrunpodcast.bsky.social for pumping me up to take part in my first NaNoWriMo type event. PRINT SPRINT 2025 continues tomorrow, with the start of a new project!)
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
1 year and 9 months later
Finished 22 minutes before midnight with a whopping 3300 words 🥵
(PS thanks @printrunpodcast.bsky.social for pumping me up to take part in my first NaNoWriMo type event. PRINT SPRINT 2025 continues tomorrow, with the start of a new project!)
Finished 22 minutes before midnight with a whopping 3300 words 🥵
(PS thanks @printrunpodcast.bsky.social for pumping me up to take part in my first NaNoWriMo type event. PRINT SPRINT 2025 continues tomorrow, with the start of a new project!)
#NowSpinning new haul (see me at Christmas with the Sharon Jones Holiday record I copped too)
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
#NowSpinning new haul (see me at Christmas with the Sharon Jones Holiday record I copped too)
No. No thanks. I like to fucking read. I like to read the whole document. I like to think about the document, I like to absorb the document, I like to talk about the document, I'd like to read it. I don't want to be more efficient. I don't need to be more efficient. Life is fast enough, let me live.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
No. No thanks. I like to fucking read. I like to read the whole document. I like to think about the document, I like to absorb the document, I like to talk about the document, I'd like to read it. I don't want to be more efficient. I don't need to be more efficient. Life is fast enough, let me live.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My beautiful boy 🥰🐶🐾
August 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My beautiful boy 🥰🐶🐾
And for storage, might I suggest a Throne-side position, for easy access? Combine Dad's two favorite activities: high-quality satire, and low-quality bowel movements
June 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And for storage, might I suggest a Throne-side position, for easy access? Combine Dad's two favorite activities: high-quality satire, and low-quality bowel movements
Rob Reiner deserves an Oscar. Do they make an Oscar category for "longest string of absolute bangers, each in a wholly unique genre"?
April 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Rob Reiner deserves an Oscar. Do they make an Oscar category for "longest string of absolute bangers, each in a wholly unique genre"?
Stories beginning with quotes should have stopped after the seminal 2006 film Talladega Nights. All others pale in comparison
February 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Stories beginning with quotes should have stopped after the seminal 2006 film Talladega Nights. All others pale in comparison
Wow this is actually quite cool. Good news for my self-published friends, who don't want to be reliant on Bezos for sales!
January 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Wow this is actually quite cool. Good news for my self-published friends, who don't want to be reliant on Bezos for sales!
This is Bert, with his beans. I call them Berts Beans. 🐶🐾
January 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is Bert, with his beans. I call them Berts Beans. 🐶🐾
Reminds me of Writing Excuses' @maryrobinettekowal.com recommending the 1855 Domestic Economy by Mrs Parkes, for writing books set in that time period.
The little details add to the realism, and realism sometimes really matters in fantasy
Take some magic from our world, then add your own!
The little details add to the realism, and realism sometimes really matters in fantasy
Take some magic from our world, then add your own!
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Reminds me of Writing Excuses' @maryrobinettekowal.com recommending the 1855 Domestic Economy by Mrs Parkes, for writing books set in that time period.
The little details add to the realism, and realism sometimes really matters in fantasy
Take some magic from our world, then add your own!
The little details add to the realism, and realism sometimes really matters in fantasy
Take some magic from our world, then add your own!
I'm gonna get so much use out of this book. Imagine if I had a character who was a glass maker in a fantasy world. Well, by getting some small but real details right about the glass, the reader might be more willing to buy the fantasy stuff too.
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I'm gonna get so much use out of this book. Imagine if I had a character who was a glass maker in a fantasy world. Well, by getting some small but real details right about the glass, the reader might be more willing to buy the fantasy stuff too.
Is your book about a thieving rug seller? A porcelain expert (who's also a genie)? A tiny fae who runs your dad's grandfather clock? The Antiques Roadshow Primer has a section for you!
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Is your book about a thieving rug seller? A porcelain expert (who's also a genie)? A tiny fae who runs your dad's grandfather clock? The Antiques Roadshow Primer has a section for you!
I was at a book sale for my local library ($5/bag, stuff as many books as you can!) and I found...the holy grail for writing research???
The Antiques Roadshow Primer is STUFFED with period specific ideas, on everything from culture to furniture to pottery. Hiiiiighly recommend for you writers!
The Antiques Roadshow Primer is STUFFED with period specific ideas, on everything from culture to furniture to pottery. Hiiiiighly recommend for you writers!
January 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I was at a book sale for my local library ($5/bag, stuff as many books as you can!) and I found...the holy grail for writing research???
The Antiques Roadshow Primer is STUFFED with period specific ideas, on everything from culture to furniture to pottery. Hiiiiighly recommend for you writers!
The Antiques Roadshow Primer is STUFFED with period specific ideas, on everything from culture to furniture to pottery. Hiiiiighly recommend for you writers!
Tried a new "spicy butter" and "herb whipped goat cheese" recipe with my breakfast
-butter melted in crushed red flakes and paprika 🌶️
-goat cheese whipped with basil and dill 🐐
It's....it's a game changer. Feels like free DLC
-butter melted in crushed red flakes and paprika 🌶️
-goat cheese whipped with basil and dill 🐐
It's....it's a game changer. Feels like free DLC
January 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tried a new "spicy butter" and "herb whipped goat cheese" recipe with my breakfast
-butter melted in crushed red flakes and paprika 🌶️
-goat cheese whipped with basil and dill 🐐
It's....it's a game changer. Feels like free DLC
-butter melted in crushed red flakes and paprika 🌶️
-goat cheese whipped with basil and dill 🐐
It's....it's a game changer. Feels like free DLC
Garbage bags keep slipping into your trash can?
Take two Command hooks. Attach them about halfway down the outside of your trash can (hooks should be upside down, one on either side of the can).
Fit your bag over the can, and then hook the trash bag "handles" around the Command hooks. Tada!
Take two Command hooks. Attach them about halfway down the outside of your trash can (hooks should be upside down, one on either side of the can).
Fit your bag over the can, and then hook the trash bag "handles" around the Command hooks. Tada!
January 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Garbage bags keep slipping into your trash can?
Take two Command hooks. Attach them about halfway down the outside of your trash can (hooks should be upside down, one on either side of the can).
Fit your bag over the can, and then hook the trash bag "handles" around the Command hooks. Tada!
Take two Command hooks. Attach them about halfway down the outside of your trash can (hooks should be upside down, one on either side of the can).
Fit your bag over the can, and then hook the trash bag "handles" around the Command hooks. Tada!
So my SD card from my recent Australia/New Zealand trip has snapped in half. 2000 pics gone, I only saved 51 before I broke it. Tryna feel very Buddhist about it (failing)
Happy that this is one that lived!
Happy that this is one that lived!
December 20, 2024 at 2:47 PM
So my SD card from my recent Australia/New Zealand trip has snapped in half. 2000 pics gone, I only saved 51 before I broke it. Tryna feel very Buddhist about it (failing)
Happy that this is one that lived!
Happy that this is one that lived!
It's snowing on Thanksgiving, so you know what that means
Now Spinning: Ray Charles's The Spirit of Christmas
Now Spinning: Ray Charles's The Spirit of Christmas
November 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM
It's snowing on Thanksgiving, so you know what that means
Now Spinning: Ray Charles's The Spirit of Christmas
Now Spinning: Ray Charles's The Spirit of Christmas
Now Spinning: Al Green
Sylvia got this for me when we were in lockdown in Australia, 2020. We used to sit on our tiny balcony and listen to it. It always makes us smile when we throw it on now
Sylvia got this for me when we were in lockdown in Australia, 2020. We used to sit on our tiny balcony and listen to it. It always makes us smile when we throw it on now
November 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Now Spinning: Al Green
Sylvia got this for me when we were in lockdown in Australia, 2020. We used to sit on our tiny balcony and listen to it. It always makes us smile when we throw it on now
Sylvia got this for me when we were in lockdown in Australia, 2020. We used to sit on our tiny balcony and listen to it. It always makes us smile when we throw it on now
My mom took my nephew to the circus. I asked her how it went and this is all she sent me
November 19, 2024 at 3:56 PM
My mom took my nephew to the circus. I asked her how it went and this is all she sent me
If you see this, quote post a pic of the mountains 🌿
November 1, 2024 at 12:53 AM
If you see this, quote post a pic of the mountains 🌿
Sometimes I think about death and how it'll really blow when the reality in my brain collapses in on itself like a dying sun
Other times I step out and see the changed leaves and think that this moment is wonderful because of its impermanence not in spite of it
Mostly I think ah fuck. gotta rake
Other times I step out and see the changed leaves and think that this moment is wonderful because of its impermanence not in spite of it
Mostly I think ah fuck. gotta rake
October 23, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Sometimes I think about death and how it'll really blow when the reality in my brain collapses in on itself like a dying sun
Other times I step out and see the changed leaves and think that this moment is wonderful because of its impermanence not in spite of it
Mostly I think ah fuck. gotta rake
Other times I step out and see the changed leaves and think that this moment is wonderful because of its impermanence not in spite of it
Mostly I think ah fuck. gotta rake