Joz
@jozsongs.bsky.social
Singer, Seller, Storyteller
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Joz
@jozsongs.bsky.social
· Jan 7
Time to be blunt. With the disintegration of trad social media, AI BS, & the constant stream of distracting bad news, it is harder than ever to get readers for SFF magazines. If what we do is important to you, please boost our posts wherever you see them. ❤️🦄
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I am the executor of my parents' estate and I have mentioned, multiple times, to them that it would be a HUGE HELP if they would dump 20 pounds of the wheat they bought in 1980 every week into their green bin.
Do they listen? No.
Do they listen? No.
From fine china to model trains, millennials and Gen Xers stand to inherit much more than money.
Boomers Are Passing Down Fortunes — And Way, Way Too Much Stuff
As the $90 trillion Great Wealth Transfer begins, millennials and Gen X aren’t just inheriting money. They’re being buried under an avalanche of baseball cards, fine china and collections of all sorts.
bloom.bg
December 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I am the executor of my parents' estate and I have mentioned, multiple times, to them that it would be a HUGE HELP if they would dump 20 pounds of the wheat they bought in 1980 every week into their green bin.
Do they listen? No.
Do they listen? No.
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Let’s take care of each other today.
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Let’s take care of each other today.
"is to understand in our society, in the richest nation on the planet, how the hell has this happened? How have we allowed this essential thing that people need, like food, like medicine, how have we allowed it to just be auctioned off to the highest bidder?"
"When they finished work, they weren't going to a home. They were going to a shelter."
"[A]ctively written out of the story we as a nation have told ourselves about who becomes homeless, and why."
"[P]eople are not falling into homelessness; they're being pushed."
#Georgia #USA #Housing #Labour
"[A]ctively written out of the story we as a nation have told ourselves about who becomes homeless, and why."
"[P]eople are not falling into homelessness; they're being pushed."
#Georgia #USA #Housing #Labour
Working, homeless, hidden: A talk with Brian Goldstone
Street Sense editor-in-chief chats with author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” Brian Goldstone.
streetsensemedia.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"is to understand in our society, in the richest nation on the planet, how the hell has this happened? How have we allowed this essential thing that people need, like food, like medicine, how have we allowed it to just be auctioned off to the highest bidder?"
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it sounded really grim. her own caseload hasn’t been affected much yet, and we talked about the fear of what happens if everyone with a conscience just leaves the worst people in charge with no one to push back, but she says the pivot away from “we’re here to serve the people” came SHOCKINGLY fast
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
it sounded really grim. her own caseload hasn’t been affected much yet, and we talked about the fear of what happens if everyone with a conscience just leaves the worst people in charge with no one to push back, but she says the pivot away from “we’re here to serve the people” came SHOCKINGLY fast
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MrFish would like everyone to know that Fishmastime is here
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
MrFish would like everyone to know that Fishmastime is here
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Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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So here's what I wish for us:
* we give books as holiday gifts
* we get them from our local indie bookstores
* we spend time reading with the people and pets we love
* when we feel the call, we write
* we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep
* we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11
* we give books as holiday gifts
* we get them from our local indie bookstores
* we spend time reading with the people and pets we love
* when we feel the call, we write
* we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep
* we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
So here's what I wish for us:
* we give books as holiday gifts
* we get them from our local indie bookstores
* we spend time reading with the people and pets we love
* when we feel the call, we write
* we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep
* we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11
* we give books as holiday gifts
* we get them from our local indie bookstores
* we spend time reading with the people and pets we love
* when we feel the call, we write
* we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep
* we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11
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A writing career is cumulative. Ups and downs. And the rest of December is pretty much the Dead Zone. Figure out what is going to bring you the most peace and happiness and do that. Take a social media hiatus if you must, but seek your solace with aggressive compassion and determined joy. 10/
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A writing career is cumulative. Ups and downs. And the rest of December is pretty much the Dead Zone. Figure out what is going to bring you the most peace and happiness and do that. Take a social media hiatus if you must, but seek your solace with aggressive compassion and determined joy. 10/
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So here comes the encouragement:
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/
December 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So here comes the encouragement:
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/
* you are not alone
* this, too, shall pass
* keep writing because someone needs your story
* keep writing because you love the craft
* you have survived 100% of the times that felt impossible
* art is rebellion
* art feeds your soul
* winter is for lying fallow 8/
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This may sound like a pretty depressing thread when I'm usually cheering you on, but for real: If you're feeling demoralized, you are not alone. Editors are buying less. Advances are down. Sub times are up. Writers are being dropped. It's scary as hell out there, and I'm not here for pretty lies. 7/
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This may sound like a pretty depressing thread when I'm usually cheering you on, but for real: If you're feeling demoralized, you are not alone. Editors are buying less. Advances are down. Sub times are up. Writers are being dropped. It's scary as hell out there, and I'm not here for pretty lies. 7/
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Now is a great time to attack the TBR pile. A great time to take a walk in the sunshine. A great time to start dreaming about the next project. When the field is fallow, nutrients are building underground. Why? Because the old shit is breaking down. That's what feeds new growth. So we lie fallow. 6/
December 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Now is a great time to attack the TBR pile. A great time to take a walk in the sunshine. A great time to start dreaming about the next project. When the field is fallow, nutrients are building underground. Why? Because the old shit is breaking down. That's what feeds new growth. So we lie fallow. 6/
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This whole thread. After the election, caretaking, and spending a year laid up with health issues (lots of time to think), everything shifted.
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
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Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This whole thread. After the election, caretaking, and spending a year laid up with health issues (lots of time to think), everything shifted.
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
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I have spent much of my adult life trying to reconcile the America I was promised with the America I actually got. That was a long and painful process. And here we are. It's a game of chance, and very often, bare bones survival. That just is what it is. I don't moan about it anymore. I just live it
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I have spent much of my adult life trying to reconcile the America I was promised with the America I actually got. That was a long and painful process. And here we are. It's a game of chance, and very often, bare bones survival. That just is what it is. I don't moan about it anymore. I just live it
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My biggest challenge in my life has been related to learning what success is TO ME. And what is "enough" for ME. Not for HGTV. Not for the way "things are supposed to be" or what mom or great grandma or anyone else would think of the dog-chewed coffee table. They don't have to live my life. I do.
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My biggest challenge in my life has been related to learning what success is TO ME. And what is "enough" for ME. Not for HGTV. Not for the way "things are supposed to be" or what mom or great grandma or anyone else would think of the dog-chewed coffee table. They don't have to live my life. I do.
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I've known coworkers at many jobs investing in new houses and big purchases, and here in my Old Lady years, i understand the impulse but have learned that the time of windfall is for investing in fundamentals and not growth. Do I really need a new house, or do I just need to deep clean this one? 😆
December 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I've known coworkers at many jobs investing in new houses and big purchases, and here in my Old Lady years, i understand the impulse but have learned that the time of windfall is for investing in fundamentals and not growth. Do I really need a new house, or do I just need to deep clean this one? 😆
This whole thread. After the election, caretaking, and spending a year laid up with health issues (lots of time to think), everything shifted.
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This whole thread. After the election, caretaking, and spending a year laid up with health issues (lots of time to think), everything shifted.
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
Now, my goals are making a living space for current caretaking & future me. All projects are focused through a lens of aging needs. Not whoo shiny!
cont/
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
Makes me think about how I've changed.
Used to draft everything longhand. Then started regularly public speaking using an iPad mini for cues.
At some point, I realized it was much easier drafting directly into the tablet. Where before, longhand was how my brain processed.
Used to draft everything longhand. Then started regularly public speaking using an iPad mini for cues.
At some point, I realized it was much easier drafting directly into the tablet. Where before, longhand was how my brain processed.
I know a number of writers who draft in pen and I consider them like I would someone who insists on making bread by first planting the wheat
And if you're already quite mad, like Neal Stephenson, you might write upwards of 3500 pages with a fountain pen.
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Makes me think about how I've changed.
Used to draft everything longhand. Then started regularly public speaking using an iPad mini for cues.
At some point, I realized it was much easier drafting directly into the tablet. Where before, longhand was how my brain processed.
Used to draft everything longhand. Then started regularly public speaking using an iPad mini for cues.
At some point, I realized it was much easier drafting directly into the tablet. Where before, longhand was how my brain processed.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
This!!!
It’s also a direct penalty for driving a sedan or station wagon when every third car is an SUV blasting its headlights at you at the exact height of your forehead
Driving back home from the post office, it seemed like every third car had brights on. Cannons of light blasting into my retinas. These are standard now! People tell me I should start wearing yellow-tinted glasses at night to cut glare. But should *I* be the one that has to adjust?
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This!!!
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Driving back home from the post office, it seemed like every third car had brights on. Cannons of light blasting into my retinas. These are standard now! People tell me I should start wearing yellow-tinted glasses at night to cut glare. But should *I* be the one that has to adjust?
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Driving back home from the post office, it seemed like every third car had brights on. Cannons of light blasting into my retinas. These are standard now! People tell me I should start wearing yellow-tinted glasses at night to cut glare. But should *I* be the one that has to adjust?
Yep.
In my almost 20 years as a lawyer, as a leader, as a department head, as an executive...the people I have worked with who are the biggest gossips, who are the most emotional, and who are the most conflict-averse are men. And the women are the ones who end up cleaning up that mess as a result.
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yep.
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