James Stegall

My wife just told me she's not a tradwife, she's a rad wife. I agree

#goat

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right

Another painting of parrot tulips, this time a pastel. These are in a favourite vintage glass jug which is a bit wonky and I like that. This was framed and sold and I think I probably pastelled out the white blank area top right.
#pastel #flowers #tulips

Thinkpad X61 12 inch laptop

Pomera D250US clamshell writing device

Alphasmart Neo2 keyboard and LCD writing device

BYOK phone sized LCD writing device with EK68 Bluetooth keyboard

A few of my writing devices for an upcoming post on Writer Decks for SFWA's Planetside Magazine

#SFWA #writerdeck #thinkpad #byok #alphasmart #pomera #amwriting

Iran latest: Pentagon identifies four US soldiers killed in drone strike

Iran latest: Pentagon identifies four US soldiers killed in drone strike

Happy paperback publishing day to Crown, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social and There’s No Place For Us. Glad there is now another way for readers to experience this incredible book

Bright pink flowers laying on the ground with a blue hyacinth.

The camellia is absolutely covered with blossoms this spring, they even put on a show when they drop.
#flowers

The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should | Social etiquette | The Guardian Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

I'm not a fan of being asked How's your day every time I buy something, but I do like actual random conversations more and more. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#introvert

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule | The Verge A lower court previously said that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”

www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

A book cover that says A HAUNTING ON THE HILL by Elizabeth Hand.

Been taking time away to fight back my brain woims. Absolutely devouring this book the last few evenings. Genuinely scary. Shirley would have loved it.

Arthur the man in a yellow jumper, white shirt, blue jeans, and round glasses

Arthur the cartoon in a yellow jumper, white shirt, blue jeans, and round glasses

Got dressed for work this morning and then realised

Willow trees against the light in a fairly large pastel painting

Willows at Newnham mill pond, Cambridge, pastel.

That wheel has seen some stuff

Portrait of Sam 1993 with arms crossed, Prismalo coloured pencil

Pencil portrait of Sam, 1995

Portrait of Sam using a felt marker pen (rare for me - I like traditional media)

Pencil portrait of Sam

Portraits of Sam who was a frequent sitter. I finally did one that she liked (not one of these) and she gave it to her mum. There are hundreds of portraits of her and other people to choose from so I'll post some more later.
#LifeDrawnPortraits #drawing

A black cat sitting on the dining room table inspecting my notebook

I'm here to judge your work, monkey

#voidcat #amwriting

A big of the increasing joylessness of social media is that we’ve all heard what each other has say about every bad thing many times already, and the bad things repeat almost daily

News orgs (especially wire services) have been using some type of automation for stories for more than a decade.

Here's the AP from 2015, for example.

Any reporting on newsrooms using LLMs today should put in historical context; what have we learned? Did it work? etc.

www.ap.org/the-definiti...

ちなみにヒヨドリも桜に囲まれて佇んでました😅
#野鳥 #birds #ヒヨドリ #サクヒヨ

Bernard "Bunny" Baker drawn in sepia ink. As always, I am using a traditional dip pen,

Bernard Baker sketched in pencil on pink Ingres paper 1968

Portraits of my dad from the '70s and the last portrait I did of him in 1990 #portrait #drawfromlife

a photo of a cat looking down at the camera under the door, his face slightly obscured by his fluff

I took a pic of alfie from under the door 😭

A rainbow crochet cupcake

A crochet doll with white dress

A purple crochet dragon

A crochet doll with pink dress

Amigurumi at the #SpringfieldOR #YarnCollective, #541Yarnies

Lego model of Serenity from Firefly

Serenty is built! Complete with crew area and Jayne’s weapons wall with Vera. #firefly #fakelego

A partially built Lego model of the ship Serenity from Firefly

She’s coming together. #Firefly #fakelego

A covered walking retail area with lights and a string group playing Christmas music at night.

Christmas at 5th Strret Alley in #Eugene #Oregon

The Internet Archive hosts 1300 historic NASA photos #nasa, #internetarchive

archive.org/details/grea...

Cyberselfish : a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high tech : Borsook, Paulina : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Includes bibliographical references and index

archive.org/details/cybe... #siliconvalley #to-read

If you're looking for an editor or publishing consultant, Nathan Toronto of Bullet Points Magazine is offering editing, typesetting, voiceover and narration services.

www.nathantoronto.com/consulting.

#indiepublishing, #editor, #authormarketing

This kind of ebay listing always feels bittersweet, because I figure the owner is either going through something terrible or died. #pynchon #thrifting

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social on Bluesky Are we still writing up our fall curriculum? Put me on your syllabus! https://metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/author-k-s-walker-teaches-playing-in-the-sandbox-experiments-with-form-and-structure-in-fiction

Signing up for this!