Today in "the metaphors just write themselves, don't they":

In a store, a stranger once helped me to my feet while I struggled to rise after tying my shoe. I was so embarrassed. While others walked past, he offered a hand and pulled me up without saying a word. I never forgot that.

me in the bluesky group chat with my beloved moots

Yup, that tracks. I trust you (NOT)!

So why is amazon delivering 165 lbs of fish food to my door? I don't have a fish tank. Oh...

So far, I have only published two short stories in magazines. The two dozen rejections were painless, being automated replies, and the very few with comments helped me improve. The cost to self publish properly is out of my reach so for anything longer I'll have to go traditional.

Called a friend. him: Hello. me: Hey, been a while. him: I haven't heard from you in ages. me: You don't answer your texts. * long pause him: I have a touch-tone phone. He's 15 years younger than me.

Aliens spirited humanity away and separated them by their political ideology.

This is how you govern. This is the way.

Kate really brightened my spirits with this video and brought me back to an earlier time.

I know I shouldn't complain, considering how long I've had it, but my workhorse HP 1200 printer just died, and I'm bummed about it. New printer won't arrive until Monday.

Did everyone get up on the wrong side of the bed today? like me.

You’re trapped in the last TV show you watched. Where are you?

Was getting angry at the scroll. I forgot to renew my mute words. *Sigh* much better now.

In the Old Man's Legacy he is trying to learn how to bake bread.

We opened concentration camps in this country, many for profit, in full view of everyone. I thought babies in cages would be the red line, but no. Now we are killing people. I am so deeply ashamed of us.

We don’t usually see each others headers. Here’s mine! Quote post with yours (if you feel like it) 💙

I haven't scrolled today (busy) but this is the best news I've head in a while. The Felon in Chief was loudly booed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The president’s motorcade passed signs that read “Nobody wants you here” and “Trump must go,” [...] from lower Manhattan up the FDR Drive"

Yup.

Reverse Darwinism.

I get asked all the time what advice I'd give to younger generations. Here's what I say.

I got about 6K words and an outline into a prequel for Carter's World. Then I learned how poorly written the first two Carter's World books are and dropped it to write other things. If I ever revise the first two books I might go back to it. Most likely I'll scavenge the ideas for something else.

I’m sure I didn’t agree with every view Terry Pratchett had, but in this he and I were perfectly aligned. The world is beautiful and amazing. Our existence is astonishing. Never, ever, let that slip out of sight. Always fight for it 🩶

I went for my first walk this year. Doctor advised. I won't embarrass myself by stating the distance, but I sort of overestimated my stamina and learned a few things. ▪️ Walking is overrated. ▪️ I'm not aging well. ▪️ I need to rewrite a scene I glossed over in the Old Man's Legacy.

What is your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 50s - Forbidden Planet 60s - 2001: A Space Odyssey 70s - Jaws 80s - Blade Runner 90s - Schindler's List 00s - The Dark Knight 10s - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 20s - Dune 1 & 2 Answers may change without notice.

In the Old Man's Legacy... another human voice.

In the Old Man's Legacy... All of them. His neighbors, his friends, his family.

A supernova from a foot away is less obvious than the corruption in SCOTUS

Apparently, Jeff Bezos is the only one allowed to have nice things. Bummer.

Don't I know it? Add to that a stroke induced vertigo and people wonder why I don't talk much when I am walking.

For my friends who celebrate. Be who you are.

Sure hand over all the information on your PC or phone to an Ai agent.

Want and need. If it ever gets produced.

I still can not believe that in my (and your) lifetime we have established concentration camps in the United States of America. Where is the fucking outrage? We fought a world war to end this shit but here we are committing it.

There’s a lot going on these days, so here’s a reminder about one of them.

This and then the Commodore VIC-20. I can assure you you never lived until you loaded a program using audio cassettes. It was so much easier than paper tape or punch cards.

On a daily basis.

I really liked "The Boroughs." Adults adulting in weird circumstances while smarmy condescending young people look exactly like they are. The story is fun and the acting fantastic.

My latest release was "A Man Walks Into a Bar." A short story in the spring 2026 issue of Perseid Prophecies Magazine @perseidprophecies.bsky.social edited by @esraye.bsky.social It's a different take on the Groundhog Day trope. Cover: (1989) illustrated by NASA/Paul DiMare. public domain image

The cost of war is high and never paid by those who start it. With WWII 25% of the nation was involved in the war effort, 9% for Vietnam and our 20 year war in the middle east less than 1% yet contractors made $billions while the rest of us can't pay for medical care, buy gas or food. it has to stop

As a nascent technology, LLMs can be useful for pattern recognition, but as a knowledge resource, they are deeply flawed. ChatGPT insisted Blueberry was spelled with 3 Bs, and now Gemini can't spell its parent's name, both without additional tweaking. The tech bros want us to rely on it. No way!

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” - Brad Meltzer

My first home was in a trailer park next to an orchard that looked better than this. Republican governance at its finest.

Combine this with a nuclear-diamond battery containing 1 gram of carbon-14 that delivers 15 joules of electricity per day and your robotic butterfly will last for centuries.

The kitchen garbage smells, but the bag is nowhere near full. The trials and tribulations of the financially challenged.

Why hasn't social media lifted my mood?

Duh!

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.