Grigory Lukin ✨️is on sub✨️

me (front) in yellow shorts and blue shirt hugging my new elephant friend (back)

me (left) in yellow shorts and blue shirt hugging my new elephant friend (right)

me (right) in yellow shorts and blue shirt scrubbing and helping wash my new elephant friend (centre); some kid in a white shirt (left) is helping

me (right) in yellow shorts and blue shirt smiling and scrubbing and helping wash my new elephant friend (centre); some kid in a white shirt (left) is helping

Just goofing. Elephant sanctuary goofing. 😌

Sci-fi writer. 👋🙂 Treating this as a thought exercise: they may have created huge generation ships using the best tech Earth had and launched them. The shoddy starships on the show are just their version of clankers. 🤣

E.g., first colonizers sailed on huge sailships. Now we have dirty diesel boats.

You know what they say - even Thor himself had started out as a mere god of static electricity. You got this!
😀👍👍

LOL! Back in the day, I used to go to all those timeshare presentations for free snacks + the looks on their faces when I kept saying "no" + the promised shoddy free swag hahaha

Nah, I would just infect people's cats. Some estimates claim 30% of humanity already have Toxoplasma gondii. 😱

Hey... We don't kink-shame on this here app.

OMG you have superpowers 😮

Hey this reminds me of something; can't recall what.

(Article date: September 29, 2008)

2027 - the original writer starves to death

That is goddamn modern-day poetry is what it is. 💖

The best I can do is a redbull IV.

DARPA employee looking for a bathroom 😭

MBA cultists think one quarter at a time.

Can. Shouldn't.

💪🧠

… it’s the same picture

About a year ago, I made a short film about NASA getting defunded, resulting in one astronaut's quixotic quest. I thought I was making a parody... I thought wrong.

Thai dive bar guitarist absolutely crushing it. He looks cooler than cool.

(dive bar guitarist's final photograph, taken just prior to attaining godhood)

The patchwork writer! 😮

What we in ignorance call
"time and space"
ruptures
just for a bit
but long enough.
They will need a replacement.

Dive bar guitarist
Is about
to ascend.

I wrote of this, so many years ago...
grigorylukin.com/2013/10/11/s...

Aldiss’s Error: Aliens, Science Fiction, and the Problems of Genre By James C. Bassett Brian Aldiss, map of ‘Helliconia.’ I recently came across a most curious and unsettling pair of essays by Brian Aldiss that I am still trying to process, because the…

This is an interesting and educational essay that starts out as a critique of a 1996 essay 🙃 by Brian Aldiss and then goes on to explore the concept of "sci-fi ghetto." It also has lots of really fun reading recommendations. 🤓

Check it out, eh: vector-bsfa.com/2026/03/06/a...

Sleep in. Do some writing stuff. Walk to the beach. Grab some coconut water and snacks on the way. Splash around, get some sun. Free entertainment and cheap beer at the night market. Authentic Pad Thai. Walk to the hostel. Snack. Do some writing stuff. Pass out.

I could get used to this... 😌

“Art is the process by which raw experience is stylized into aesthetic expression.”
Albert Murray

Boo indeed! 😉

When objective truth is unattainable, anything is fair game. 🙃 (See also: the mysterious Sea People and the Bronze Age collapse.)

Adding it to my list! :)

unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live

(Ancient = before Columbus. Whole giant city complexes abandoned to the jungle. No clear answers even today. 🫠)