Grew up hating and fearing these guys. Now I love 'em. Any other recovering arachnophobes on here?

(Yes I know it isn't technically a spider)

#spiders #bugs #nature

What's up with Pathfinders? Well...

For various reasons---to be detailed in an upcoming blog post---I have decided to change my entire approach to the book. I'm shooting my shot at trad pub. Self-publishing just isn't for me.

My book will eventually get published, somewhere! But it'll be a while.

Dug too deep...

Small spider on the side of a computer mouse.

A little friend.

Pretty!

I remember driving a Warthog on that thing!

I also remember being the coolest kid in third grade, because my mom bought me Halo: Combat Evolved 😎

Aerial view of a dam seen from a passenger jet.

Bonneville Dam from the air yesterday! Seen as I was coming in for landing at PDX.

Important!

Also, fuck scammers.

🐛

Book Review - Extraterrestrial (Avi Loeb) | Let's Get Off This Rock Already! Avi Loeb believes aliens are real, and they’ve visited our Solar System. But this man is no fringe conspiracy theorist, dressed in ratty flannels and a tinfoil hat, broadcasting rants from a pirate ra...

Another review dug up from the archives: Professor Avi Loeb, Harvard, thinks we should take the prospect of alien intelligence seriously. I think he's right.

#aliens #space #science

letsgetoffthisrockalready.com/2025/07/14/b...

What a pretty box!

Coming this Friday: the third chapter of "Last Flight from Tazab Station"! In which we finally meet the big creepy crawly that has gotten loose aboard the Free Trader Chixlu, and action ensues.

#scifi #writing #horror

Man shit's depressing. What a bleak and sordid world.

A moral government would systematically favor employees over employers, tenants over landlords, and those without property over those who have it.

This should be contrasted not just with the policies of the current administration, but with the deeply ingrained culture of the American public...

BUY SOMETHING!

Is it truly social media anymore? Or is it more like selling media? It invades everything.

It's obvious to wealthiest and most powerful people on the planet don't care for nature, climate, the earth or the universe.

So I painted the invasive nature of ads in nature.

God I'm glad I got a copy of this book before people noticed it. Paid only $30, which was still pretty steep for a damaged paperback novelization of a '90s horror movie.

And no, I am not selling.

I see...

View looking across the tarmac of an airport, with a full moon in the daytime sky.

The Moon made an appearance above DFW today.

Tuscany is a magical place — warm, sunny and earthy. I toured through this summer and fell in love with the rolling fields, white gravel roads and iconic skinny Cypress trees. Enjoy!

TUSCAN RIDE, 16x16”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil

The least weasel - a brown ferret looking creature that can be as small as 8 inches

🚨⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ⚠️🚨

i just found out that the smallest mustelidae is literally called the least weasel

I'm really enjoying Anemone. It's a quiet, brilliant, arthouse film that requires all of your attention. It should have gotten more attention #filmsky

Do the chimera heads govern by majority, or do they need to be unanimous?

Metal!

HONK HONK! HONK HONK HOOONK!

I ironically love traffic. I unironically love this painting.

Stick it to the man! 1984 being one great example.

"If you are a man, then you are the last man."

Literally an entire sci-fi/horror novella just beamed into my brain while I was passed out for an evening nap. I will begin writing it presently.

Does anyone else ever have stories revealed to them in dreams? Are they ever any good?

#writing #WriteSky #amwriting

Morning fellow plebs and assorted rascals xx

A piece of paper labeled "Carthage" being placed in a box that says "to be destroyed".

If Cato worked in the filing room.
#Rome

AI-generated image of a female scientist scooping water from a pool in an icy landscape.

It isn't easy, doing field work 35 light-years from home---but there's nothing like the thrill of discovery.

#aiart #synthart #Midjourney #aiartcommunity

That's a good quote! I need to read some J.G. Ballard. He was before my time, but I've heard his stuff is good 😁