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December 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Profane tmesis

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The key was to make it out of chocolate.

https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-kim-nuclear-submarine-trump-042354b0b38bb429f937a4ecb7f70df2

North Korea displays apparent progress in construction of nuclear-powered submarine

North Korea displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology.

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December 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Profane tmesis

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My recommendation for the Christmas movie this year is Guillermo del Toro's Pinnochio on the first day of Christmas and his Frankenstein on the second.

December 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM

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It's a good thing Thom Yorke doesn't enunciate very well. Most of Radiohead's back catalogue would be far too depressing to listen to if you could clearly hear the lyrics.

December 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM

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#scribesandmakers Dec 20. What do you do to discourage or prevent insects and animals from eating your garden?

I occasionally order some lady bug larvae online, when I get a bad aphid infestation. They eat their bellies full, mature and then fly off.

December 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM

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If the kids who listened to Radiohead and Pulp and Oasis in the 90s grew up today, what would they be listening to?

I have absolutely no sense of the music landscape right now. Something happened somewhere after after Billie Eilish, that doesn't allow me to absorb any new music information. A […]

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December 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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The third one is "god and the devil" are both in the details.

The devil is in the details means that the details is where screwups are hiding.

"God is in the details" means something slightly different. Vermeer spent months painting this, blocking out the […]

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Girl with a pearl earring by Vermeer. A young woman with a blue-and-yellow headscarf looks at the camera. She wears a large pearl on her ear. The highlight on the pearl matches the highlights in her eyes and on her lips.

December 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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These three are more personal, and some fiction writers may not agree, but it's worth thinking about.

Asking the right questions in functional writing means "who is it for, what do they want." In fiction, it's trickier, but the general message translated to […]

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A lecture slide. It says Three tips:
1. Ask the right questions first.
2 .Work from coarse to fine
3. God/the devil is in the details.

Four slides on the theme of working from coarse to fine: Girl with a Pearl by Vermeer. Some sketches. A picture of a blank word document and a literal sketch of the pages of a research paper.

December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM

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#writerscoffeeclub 20251219
If you were to teach a writing course, what would be the most important lesson?

I did a lecture on writing once; academic rather than fiction, but some of the lessons translate.

Here is one: writing is not just the stuff you do […]

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A photograph of a man for a walk with a coffee in his hand and his laptop under his arm. He is smiling, and it's a sunny day. The caption says "this man is writing."

December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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We set up a CRASH Clock website here: https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Note that this is a probabilistic calculation. A catastrophic collision could happen sooner than 2.8 days of no maneuvers. In our (extremely computationally expensive) collision […]

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A plot showing how the 24 hour collision probability rises at lower values of the CRASH Clock. At very short CRASH Clock values (less than about 1.5 days), the probability of a collision happening within 24 hours if no avoidance maneuvers are executed is larger than 50%.

December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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When we were growing up, we were so poor we could only afford local hypercolor.

December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM

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Here is the whole story on my website if you don't like reading on Royal Road.

https://profane-tmesis.info/aut__r-inf_ct_d

#writing #shortstory #fiction

AUT__R INF_CT_D

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June 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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Somebody asked on twitter to adapt one of my stories (maybe a hustler, it's hard to tell). In any case, I've decided to release all my short stories under CC-BY.

https://profane-tmesis.info/about

That means anybody can do what they like. Run it through […]

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Can I use or adapt something you’ve written?

All short stories currently published on the front page are released under CC-BY 4.0. That means you are free to use any material from them, or to adapt them for commercial or non-commercial work, so long as you credit me. The form of credit depends a little on the medium you use. I’d prefer credit at the start (where that makes sense), but at the end is fine too. Where possible, please include the title of the original story and a link to the website. If this is not possible, reach out to me on Bluesky or mastodon to discuss.

Fan art is fair use, and does not require credit.

Don’t expect me to endorse something you make. Even if it’s good, it might simply not be what I imagined when I wrote the story. This applies especially if generative AI is involved. I’m not fully anti-AI, but I do find that these works are currently quite low effort and derivative by nature, with little respect for the work that went into the styles they ape. Still, technology evolves, and I’m always happy to be proved wrong.

...
AI training This license includes the right to use these stories in AI training data. However, if the resulting AI system spits out something that is similar enough to my stories to be covered by copyright, then it’s the responsibility of the system to give credit. If this is not technically possible, then the stories should not be included.

June 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Why are scifi and fantasy always lumped together when they're such different genres? I think I've finally figured it out.

It 's to keep the nerds confined to one, clearly marked, section of the bookshop.

July 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM

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Borges on Peronism.

It is useless to list the examples; one can only denounce the duplicity of the fictions of the former regime, which can't be believed and were believed. It will be said that the public's lack of sophistication is enough to explain the contradiction; I believe that the cause is more profound. Coleridge spoke of the "willing suspension of disbelief," that is, poetic faith; Samuel Johnson said, in defense of Shakespeare, that the spectators at a tragedy do not believe they are in Alexandria in the first act and Rome in the second but submit to the pleasure of a fiction. Similarly, the lies of a dictatorship are neither believed nor disbelieved; they pertain to an intermediate plane, and their purpose is to conceal or justify sordid or atrocious realities. They pertain to the pathetic or the clumsily sentimental. Happily, for the enlightenment and security of the Argentines, the current regime has understood that the function of government is not to inspire pathos.[99]

August 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM

Profane tmesis

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God damn ye, merry gentlemen.

December 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM

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I'm trying to work, but stack exchange has thrown this absolutely mad bit of TV history in my face, and I can't stop watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFx9KdXbMLE&t=210s

December 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM

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That crying laughter emoji is a real little shit. I don't trust him at all.

November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115633422761194741

This is what a poor grasp of numbers does to people.

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November 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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Just realized: being "the man" is an auto-antonym.

November 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM

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Mission Impossible is pretty much a perfect franchise, but part of me wishes they'd kept going with the different authorial directors per movie. There's something really cool about the way each director takes the key ingredients and makes their own thing with them.

November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM