EJ
@writinsmoke.bsky.social
Writer, TTRPG creator & GM, space enthusiast, tarot nerd, part-time realist, occasional starship captain, raging against the dying light, queer af, disabled, still here. (xe/xem/xyr)
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EJ
@writinsmoke.bsky.social
· Oct 27
Received a negative comment that just said "Forgettable. Weird." And honestly I'm considering having a T-shirt made.
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I'm experimenting with how many apples I need to eat a day to keep EVERYONE away, whatever their profession.
December 11, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I'm experimenting with how many apples I need to eat a day to keep EVERYONE away, whatever their profession.
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Well, have you? Saved the daylight?
Because I'm here to tell you, if you don't, you'll miss out when I eat the Sun.
Because I'm here to tell you, if you don't, you'll miss out when I eat the Sun.
March 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Well, have you? Saved the daylight?
Because I'm here to tell you, if you don't, you'll miss out when I eat the Sun.
Because I'm here to tell you, if you don't, you'll miss out when I eat the Sun.
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I was reliably informed by science fiction that when things got this bad there would be a cool new future drug to keep me unaware and complacent. Where is my soma? My Substance D? My Forgetall and Acceptol? My Plutonium Nyborg?
February 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I was reliably informed by science fiction that when things got this bad there would be a cool new future drug to keep me unaware and complacent. Where is my soma? My Substance D? My Forgetall and Acceptol? My Plutonium Nyborg?
One of the funny things about playing Music League with numerous folks with normal taste is it makes the urge to go full goth nearly overwhelming. Me: "Hmm I see you've submitted a well known pop megastar. Interesting. In return may I interest you in an industrial song about driving your car naked?"
February 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
One of the funny things about playing Music League with numerous folks with normal taste is it makes the urge to go full goth nearly overwhelming. Me: "Hmm I see you've submitted a well known pop megastar. Interesting. In return may I interest you in an industrial song about driving your car naked?"
This checks out.
Ok, we’ve got the fifty story hulking lizard monster…like a dinosaur but it breathes fire. But we need a potential nemesis…something that could take on this titan and win. Ideas?
🙋♂️: Moth.
🙋♂️: Moth.
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This checks out.
Every time I check on this the probability is higher.
NEW: Probability of “city-killer” asteroid YR4 impacting Earth on December 22, 2032 now increased to 3.1% (now 1 in 32), per NASA.
February 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Every time I check on this the probability is higher.
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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.
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February 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Exploring slot canyons is magical, but being able to do it with your best friend makes for a truly special experience. He was a trooper! Enjoy the *acoustics* in the beginning lol. ❤️🐾
February 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Exploring slot canyons is magical, but being able to do it with your best friend makes for a truly special experience. He was a trooper! Enjoy the *acoustics* in the beginning lol. ❤️🐾
Every year I mix annual playlists & in 2024 I listened to more music than ever. As a result I have 10 mixes rather than my usual 3! I'll post them over the coming weeks. I'm kicking things off with this mellow & slightly haunted mix. I hope it brings joy. Lord knows we could all use more right now.
2024 - Concord
Playlist · EJ · 23 items
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February 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Every year I mix annual playlists & in 2024 I listened to more music than ever. As a result I have 10 mixes rather than my usual 3! I'll post them over the coming weeks. I'm kicking things off with this mellow & slightly haunted mix. I hope it brings joy. Lord knows we could all use more right now.
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Just a reminder that if you tell a disabled person to move out of the US if they’re scared of living here, other countries don’t want us either. Countries will turn you away because you’re disabled. We’re seen as a burden and that’s so normalized that it’s okay to turn us away.
January 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just a reminder that if you tell a disabled person to move out of the US if they’re scared of living here, other countries don’t want us either. Countries will turn you away because you’re disabled. We’re seen as a burden and that’s so normalized that it’s okay to turn us away.
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution."
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed
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Good morning
art by kaiwan shaban
art by kaiwan shaban
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Good morning
art by kaiwan shaban
art by kaiwan shaban
Worth revisiting. For reasons.
January 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Worth revisiting. For reasons.
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I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.
January 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I have a little plea and it's this: please keep posting about things that aren't The Horrors. I am not saying to not look at or be informed about The Horrors. What I am saying—what I am genuinely kind of begging you to do—is keep posting about books and movies and sunsets and pets and joy. Please.
This is my "how it started" picture. Today I taught myself how to chain. For the life of me I cannot grok a crochet stitch, but I'm not giving up. I'll eventually learn how to make a granny square. Absolutely determined to make a book blanket this year.
January 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This is my "how it started" picture. Today I taught myself how to chain. For the life of me I cannot grok a crochet stitch, but I'm not giving up. I'll eventually learn how to make a granny square. Absolutely determined to make a book blanket this year.
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Take a 10 minute break to relax and soar with Juno over the clouds of Jupiter in real time.
Sound on, full screen recommended.
youtu.be/jNkKg_iUV-Q?...
🔊 Chris Zabriskie
Sound on, full screen recommended.
youtu.be/jNkKg_iUV-Q?...
🔊 Chris Zabriskie
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Juno Perijove 7 in Real Time
YouTube video by Kevin Gill
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January 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Take a 10 minute break to relax and soar with Juno over the clouds of Jupiter in real time.
Sound on, full screen recommended.
youtu.be/jNkKg_iUV-Q?...
🔊 Chris Zabriskie
Sound on, full screen recommended.
youtu.be/jNkKg_iUV-Q?...
🔊 Chris Zabriskie
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There is little else in life that I love more than columnar basalt.
Yes, they're "just" rocks, but I mean come ON 🤩
Yes, they're "just" rocks, but I mean come ON 🤩
January 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
There is little else in life that I love more than columnar basalt.
Yes, they're "just" rocks, but I mean come ON 🤩
Yes, they're "just" rocks, but I mean come ON 🤩
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January 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Remember when the pandemic began and everyone started accommodating remote work? Everyone began showing brand new movies and live concerts streaming? Disabled people had been fighting for this for decades. Now it’s all taken away. It’s not that they can’t accommodate us, they just don’t want to.
January 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Remember when the pandemic began and everyone started accommodating remote work? Everyone began showing brand new movies and live concerts streaming? Disabled people had been fighting for this for decades. Now it’s all taken away. It’s not that they can’t accommodate us, they just don’t want to.
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If genAI was any good, all they'd have to do is tell us about it, and show us a demo.
We'd taste it and say, "Egad! This is truly a tool of the gods!" and we'd throw all our money at it.
But it's no good, so they jizz it all over our basic work tools, stand back, and smugly say, "you're welcome."
We'd taste it and say, "Egad! This is truly a tool of the gods!" and we'd throw all our money at it.
But it's no good, so they jizz it all over our basic work tools, stand back, and smugly say, "you're welcome."
January 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If genAI was any good, all they'd have to do is tell us about it, and show us a demo.
We'd taste it and say, "Egad! This is truly a tool of the gods!" and we'd throw all our money at it.
But it's no good, so they jizz it all over our basic work tools, stand back, and smugly say, "you're welcome."
We'd taste it and say, "Egad! This is truly a tool of the gods!" and we'd throw all our money at it.
But it's no good, so they jizz it all over our basic work tools, stand back, and smugly say, "you're welcome."
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One of my favorite images that I’ve processed. It was fun working with such old data and hand-written mission notes.
#PPOD: NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer. But contrary to its serene appearance, Venus's clouded globe is a world of intense heat, crushing atmospheric pressure, and clouds of corrosive acid. 🧪 🔭
January 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One of my favorite images that I’ve processed. It was fun working with such old data and hand-written mission notes.
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The surface of Saturn’s icy moon Dione at approximately 13 meters per pixel. Visible are craters and fault scarps of the moon’s “Wispy Terrain.”
At this scale, the viewable area would fit the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
flic.kr/p/2qFp8i1
At this scale, the viewable area would fit the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
flic.kr/p/2qFp8i1
January 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The surface of Saturn’s icy moon Dione at approximately 13 meters per pixel. Visible are craters and fault scarps of the moon’s “Wispy Terrain.”
At this scale, the viewable area would fit the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
flic.kr/p/2qFp8i1
At this scale, the viewable area would fit the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
flic.kr/p/2qFp8i1
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STOP. ASKING. CHATGPT THINGS. TO OWN IT.
We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks
We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks
January 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
STOP. ASKING. CHATGPT THINGS. TO OWN IT.
We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks
We all know it's bad and it can't count the number of Rs in strawberry. Quit boiling the planet with your fucking dunks