Anthony Francis
@xenotaur.bsky.social
By day, Anthony teaches robots to learn; by night, he writes science fiction and draws comic books. Anthony lives in South Carolina with his wife and cat but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.
The Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes just funded, but there's still time to get some of the great rewards! This book will help make writing memoir accessible. The campaign ends today! #thinkinginkpress
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November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Kickstarter for Writing Memoir in Flashes just funded, but there's still time to get some of the great rewards! This book will help make writing memoir accessible. The campaign ends today! #thinkinginkpress
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Wow! What a successful #nokings protest! There was a massive turnout down at Falls Park Amphitheater, but since we had some mobility-limited people with us, our group actually stayed up on Main Street so we could share our signs with passing cars! Lots of positive energy at a peaceful protest
October 19, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Wow! What a successful #nokings protest! There was a massive turnout down at Falls Park Amphitheater, but since we had some mobility-limited people with us, our group actually stayed up on Main Street so we could share our signs with passing cars! Lots of positive energy at a peaceful protest
Thinking Ink Press has just launched a Kickstarter for the next book in our writing line, Writing Memoir in Flashes! This is a great way to tell your story one bite at a time!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
October 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thinking Ink Press has just launched a Kickstarter for the next book in our writing line, Writing Memoir in Flashes! This is a great way to tell your story one bite at a time!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Dragon Con day five! The Cruxshadows didn't go on until 230am last night(!), so getting a late start on the last few panels today! #dragoncon
September 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Dragon Con day five! The Cruxshadows didn't go on until 230am last night(!), so getting a late start on the last few panels today! #dragoncon
Dragon Con day 4! Tonight at 7, the Atlanta Radio Theater Company will perform Jeremiah Willstone and the Time of Ghosts, adapted for audio by my friend Tony Sarrecchia ! #dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
August 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Dragon Con day 4! Tonight at 7, the Atlanta Radio Theater Company will perform Jeremiah Willstone and the Time of Ghosts, adapted for audio by my friend Tony Sarrecchia ! #dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
Day 3 at Dragon Con! My reading is going on right now in the Learning Center in the Hyatt. #dragoncon #jeremiahwillstone
August 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Day 3 at Dragon Con! My reading is going on right now in the Learning Center in the Hyatt. #dragoncon #jeremiahwillstone
Dragoncon, Day 2! At 7pm in Hyatt Regency VI-VII, ARTC will perform my story Jeremiah Willstone and the Hour of the Wolf, adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia (seen moderating an audio panel below). Come join us for two fisted steampunk adventure!
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
August 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Dragoncon, Day 2! At 7pm in Hyatt Regency VI-VII, ARTC will perform my story Jeremiah Willstone and the Hour of the Wolf, adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia (seen moderating an audio panel below). Come join us for two fisted steampunk adventure!
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
Heading to Dragon Con! I'm super stoked that two episodes of Jeremiah Willstone and the Plague of Gears will be performed by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company (adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia)!
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#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
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#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
August 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Heading to Dragon Con! I'm super stoked that two episodes of Jeremiah Willstone and the Plague of Gears will be performed by the Atlanta Radio Theater Company (adapted for audio by Tony Sarrecchia)!
dresan.com/blog/2025/08...
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
dresan.com/blog/2025/08...
#dragoncon #artc #jeremiahwillstone
Worldcon, Day Five! Even though it was an abbreviated day, I got to see a lot of great talks and met with a lot of great people. You know you're where you need to be when you run into someone you wanted to see, but missed, at the con!
#worldcon
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#worldcon
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August 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Worldcon, Day Five! Even though it was an abbreviated day, I got to see a lot of great talks and met with a lot of great people. You know you're where you need to be when you run into someone you wanted to see, but missed, at the con!
#worldcon
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#worldcon
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Day four at Worldcon! My talk went well and the Hugo Awards ceremony was a blast!
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#worldcon
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#worldcon
August 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Day four at Worldcon! My talk went well and the Hugo Awards ceremony was a blast!
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#worldcon
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#worldcon
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Worldcon, Day Two! The Neurodiversiverse is selling out at the Liminal Fiction table, and lots of people have come by the Clockwork Alchemy / Milford table!
#neurodiversiverse #worldcon
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#neurodiversiverse #worldcon
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August 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Worldcon, Day Two! The Neurodiversiverse is selling out at the Liminal Fiction table, and lots of people have come by the Clockwork Alchemy / Milford table!
#neurodiversiverse #worldcon
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#neurodiversiverse #worldcon
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Worldcon Day One! Lots of people have come by the Milford Writing Workshop / Clockwork Alchemy shared fan table! #worldcon
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August 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Worldcon Day One! Lots of people have come by the Milford Writing Workshop / Clockwork Alchemy shared fan table! #worldcon
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Hey folks, I'm at Con Carolinas this weekend! I'll be on four panels: “Playing with AI”, “Science Fiction, Science Fact, Science Future”, “Neurodiversity in Science”, and “There and Back Again: A Doctor Who Tale”.
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#concarolinas
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#concarolinas
May 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Hey folks, I'm at Con Carolinas this weekend! I'll be on four panels: “Playing with AI”, “Science Fiction, Science Fact, Science Future”, “Neurodiversity in Science”, and “There and Back Again: A Doctor Who Tale”.
dresan.com/blog/2025/05...
#concarolinas
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#concarolinas
Also coming up later this month is the workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond at #icra2025 socialnav2025.pages.dev ... AI is changing rapidly, and we will be discussing how that expands what we can do with socially navigating robots.
May 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Also coming up later this month is the workshop on Advances in Social Navigation: Planning, HRI and Beyond at #icra2025 socialnav2025.pages.dev ... AI is changing rapidly, and we will be discussing how that expands what we can do with socially navigating robots.
Hey folks! The call for papers for the Embodied AI Workshop is open through Friday: embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/#ca... ... we welcome submissions on the themes of embodied AI solutions, advances in simulation, generative methods, foundation models, and related areas of #embodiedai #cvpr2025
May 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hey folks! The call for papers for the Embodied AI Workshop is open through Friday: embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/#ca... ... we welcome submissions on the themes of embodied AI solutions, advances in simulation, generative methods, foundation models, and related areas of #embodiedai #cvpr2025
Hey folks! I'm proud to announce the Sixth Annual Embodied AI Workshop will be held June 12th this year at CVPR 2025 in Nashville!
Please stay tuned as we announce our speakers, challenges, sponsors and other special events associated with the workshop!
embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/
Please stay tuned as we announce our speakers, challenges, sponsors and other special events associated with the workshop!
embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/
April 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Hey folks! I'm proud to announce the Sixth Annual Embodied AI Workshop will be held June 12th this year at CVPR 2025 in Nashville!
Please stay tuned as we announce our speakers, challenges, sponsors and other special events associated with the workshop!
embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/
Please stay tuned as we announce our speakers, challenges, sponsors and other special events associated with the workshop!
embodied-ai.org/cvpr2025/
I took two naps with two different cliques of cats today. It was wonderful. But I'm reminded of the proverb:
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber."
I just don't know how to balance self-care and responsibility. :-/
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber."
I just don't know how to balance self-care and responsibility. :-/
December 16, 2024 at 3:11 AM
I took two naps with two different cliques of cats today. It was wonderful. But I'm reminded of the proverb:
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber."
I just don't know how to balance self-care and responsibility. :-/
"A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber."
I just don't know how to balance self-care and responsibility. :-/
This is the longest Loki (short for Loquacious(ness)) has stayed in the same room with Loli(pop(kins)), Lily(pad(skis)) and Luna(tic(les)). Yes, their common names are all 4-letter words starting with L (Loki Lily Loli Luna), so I call them the L^4.
The search for detente continues. #loquaciousness
The search for detente continues. #loquaciousness
December 16, 2024 at 2:36 AM
This is the longest Loki (short for Loquacious(ness)) has stayed in the same room with Loli(pop(kins)), Lily(pad(skis)) and Luna(tic(les)). Yes, their common names are all 4-letter words starting with L (Loki Lily Loli Luna), so I call them the L^4.
The search for detente continues. #loquaciousness
The search for detente continues. #loquaciousness
So, here's a sentence I never expected to write:
A car ran over the Internet.
I wonder what happened. But the impact was ... kinetic. The neighbor's mailbox was reduced to brick shrapnel and the AT&T equipment box was hurled all the way into our yard, along with a piece of the assailant's car.
A car ran over the Internet.
I wonder what happened. But the impact was ... kinetic. The neighbor's mailbox was reduced to brick shrapnel and the AT&T equipment box was hurled all the way into our yard, along with a piece of the assailant's car.
December 16, 2024 at 2:18 AM
So, here's a sentence I never expected to write:
A car ran over the Internet.
I wonder what happened. But the impact was ... kinetic. The neighbor's mailbox was reduced to brick shrapnel and the AT&T equipment box was hurled all the way into our yard, along with a piece of the assailant's car.
A car ran over the Internet.
I wonder what happened. But the impact was ... kinetic. The neighbor's mailbox was reduced to brick shrapnel and the AT&T equipment box was hurled all the way into our yard, along with a piece of the assailant's car.
The season has started again ... and even at Thanksgiving last Sunday (our family does our collective Thanksgiving the Sunday before, because the kids at the kids table when I was growing up now have kids and grandkids of their own), the Christmas decorations were already up!
There is no escape.
There is no escape.
December 4, 2024 at 2:47 AM
The season has started again ... and even at Thanksgiving last Sunday (our family does our collective Thanksgiving the Sunday before, because the kids at the kids table when I was growing up now have kids and grandkids of their own), the Christmas decorations were already up!
There is no escape.
There is no escape.
Happy to announce that The Neurodiversiverse has launched! This hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology features many #ownvoices stories of neurodivergent folks encountering aliens, and my co-editor Liza Olmsted and I are proud to see it in the world!
#neurodiversiverse neurodiversiverse.com
#neurodiversiverse neurodiversiverse.com
August 12, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Happy to announce that The Neurodiversiverse has launched! This hopeful, empowering science fiction anthology features many #ownvoices stories of neurodivergent folks encountering aliens, and my co-editor Liza Olmsted and I are proud to see it in the world!
#neurodiversiverse neurodiversiverse.com
#neurodiversiverse neurodiversiverse.com
At RSS 2024 next week, the Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation Workshop will bring robot navigation researchers together to discuss making robots move better around people!
The workshop is July 19, 2024 from 1:30 to 6:
unsolvedsocialnav.pages.dev
#socialnav #rss2024
The workshop is July 19, 2024 from 1:30 to 6:
unsolvedsocialnav.pages.dev
#socialnav #rss2024
July 10, 2024 at 11:01 PM
At RSS 2024 next week, the Unsolved Problems in Social Robot Navigation Workshop will bring robot navigation researchers together to discuss making robots move better around people!
The workshop is July 19, 2024 from 1:30 to 6:
unsolvedsocialnav.pages.dev
#socialnav #rss2024
The workshop is July 19, 2024 from 1:30 to 6:
unsolvedsocialnav.pages.dev
#socialnav #rss2024
Using a specially designed camera from the future, we've prepared a picture of what it might look like if you attend the Embodied AI Workshop tomorrow!
To learn the latest on open-world embodied AI, join us at CVPR 2024 tomorrow!
#cvpr2024 #embodiedai embodied-ai.org
To learn the latest on open-world embodied AI, join us at CVPR 2024 tomorrow!
#cvpr2024 #embodiedai embodied-ai.org
June 17, 2024 at 7:55 PM
Using a specially designed camera from the future, we've prepared a picture of what it might look like if you attend the Embodied AI Workshop tomorrow!
To learn the latest on open-world embodied AI, join us at CVPR 2024 tomorrow!
#cvpr2024 #embodiedai embodied-ai.org
To learn the latest on open-world embodied AI, join us at CVPR 2024 tomorrow!
#cvpr2024 #embodiedai embodied-ai.org