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Shan Sado
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Reader, (aspiring) writer, dog momma and engineer working in the energy transition and dealing with chronic pain - I love sci-fi, fantasy, non-fic, and a hot cup of tea ☕
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I turned 31 recently. I didn't know until today that this is the age closest to 1 Billion seconds alive. Here's a quote from Ifeanyi Ogbo's beautiful collection of stories "A Backpack Filled with Sunsets"
#Read
#Booksky
💙📚💙
#Quotes
#Shortstories
#Inspiring
Picture of a paragraph from the book that reads: "He stretched out his legs in front of him and continued, "You turn 31 in a few days, don't you? That's the number of years approximately equal to 1 billion seconds. It means you have experienced 11,000, 300, and 46 sunsets thus far, but the best part is all your best. Sunsets are ahead of you. You have a cup that runs over with life. But remember someday your heart will run out of sunsets. Don't leave this planet without forgiving. Everyone. Don't leave with regrets."
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Word of the Day: "Recrudescence" - the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve. The recurrence of an undesirable condition or situation.
#wotd
#wordoftheday
January 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Bernie Sanders is my spirit animal
Bernie sitting with arms crossed and a hard frown at Trump's inauguration
January 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Commemorating my 2024 reads, 52 books in a year for the first time in my life - Largely sci-fi, sci-non-fi, and fantasy. Some retreads and mostly new reads. Thanks to all the incredible authors out there who put their heart and soul into writing 💙📚💙
#BookSky
#Books
🧵Missing 2 photos in next post
January 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Word of the (Sun)Day: Apricity (n) - the warmth of the sun in winter ☀️
#wordoftheday #happysunday
#writersky
#write
#winter
A picture I took on a dog walk with snow covering the ground and bright sun piercing through the lightly cloudy blue sky
January 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes." - Joanna Maciejewska
#AI #technology
January 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Happy (20+25)^2
January 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Happy Solar Revolution!
#HappyNewYear
#NathanPyle
#Comics
A comic by Nathan W Pyle. Each panel has a large and small being. First panel: large being says "We celebrate because we completed a revolution around the star." Second panel: Small being says "So it is identical to emergence day?" Large being responds "Emergence day is for one individual's survival." Third panel: Large being says "New revolutions day celebrates collective survival." Small being responds "Oh". Final panel: Small being says "We did not die!" While celebrating with arms in the air. Large being responds "Exactly"
January 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Trying to sit and write when this one thought my lap needed some warming
#Writing
#writingwithdogs
#writesky
#writersky
📝📚✍️ 🐕
My sister's not small dog Snax perched on my smaller lap
December 30, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Rewrite time - my favourite story I've written to date just isn't landing right, so I'm going to try a rewrite from third- to first-person view to see if that improves it ✍️📚
#WriterSky
#Writing
#Scifi
December 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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When you say you would like a couple Terry Pratchett books for Christmas and your Mum buys you 20 😂😊🎅📚💙📚 I have some fun reading ahead for 2025!
#BookSky
#HolidayReading
A stack of 20 new Terry Pratchett Discworld books
December 25, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Picked up some holiday short story reading 🚀📚
December 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Oh damn 😂 625 hours of listening to podcasts!
@grammargirl.bsky.social @writingexcuses.bsky.social
#Writing #WriterSky
"You spent 37,536 minutes listening to podcasts this year" from Spotify wrapped Top 5 podcasts were Writing Excuses, Grammar Girl, Huberman Lab, No Such Thing As a Fish and Mission Interplanetary
December 6, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
5/20 - Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
Cover of the book "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E Butler
December 6, 2024 at 4:12 AM
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"He laid down his pen and gave the kind of smile that suggested he'd learned it from a book."
The descriptions in Terry Pratchett's books are just so enjoyable. This one from *Mort*.
#BookSky💙📚
#FantasyBooks
December 5, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
4/20 - The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doige 🧪
Cover of book "The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doige
December 4, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#BookChallenge
3/20 - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Cover of Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (book)
December 3, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
2/20 - Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
December 2, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
1/20 - Semiosis by Sue Burke
December 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.
December 1, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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POV: was just casually reading my book winding down for the night and felt like someone was watching me 👀
#dogs #lifewithdogs
My brown and White dog (Leo) staring at me from behind a pillow Zoomed in on pic 1 a bit Zoomed in more
December 1, 2024 at 3:26 AM
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"Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchett in *Mort*
Book 50 of 2024 📚
November 30, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Calgary Library is back up and running and I'm just so appreciative of it and all the library staff 📚❤️ "A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert." ~Andrew Carnegie #calgary #library #calgarylibrary #yyc
November 26, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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First post! Finished "Guards! Guards!" yesterday - book 49 of 2024 for me and my fifth #Discworld novel - and can't wait to read absolutely everything else by Terry Pratchett. #books
November 22, 2024 at 5:48 PM