First full month living with solar + battery. We spent just 46.8c on electricity from the grid. Feels good!

My goal was 80k by the end of September. Just squeaked through!

Told the nurse at the Red Cross I was hoping to break the five minute barrier for blood donation (previous PB: 5:07) and ended up with multiple staff around my chair going AWWWW NOOOOO when I came in at 5:05. Anyway. Give blood!

Have now hit or exceeded my goals four days in a row, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

I just signed A Book Thing 👀

School holidays kicked off today which means I’m sprinting to get all the big chunks of this secret novel project in place before teaching resumes in 2 weeks. I need to hit 2500 words a day, every day. Wish me luck.

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

One of my responses to the reading-difficulty conversation is: if you want to do anything with theory whatsoever you’ve gotta get comfortable feeling like you got hit with a rock on first reading. It’s a good and healthy and *pleasurable* thing to strive to meet a text where it’s at!!

Student: Sir, are you wasian? Me,: No, I'm not wasian Student: Lee in the other class said you were wasian Me: Lee is mistaken Student: Then why are your eyes so small? Student 2: You can't say that, that's so racist Student 1: I can't be racist, I'm Vietnamese Me, sobbing: please do your calculus

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Me: so you see, with sunlight and vitamin D being so important to our wellbeing, people living at these polar extremes where they might not see sunlight for months at a time have higher rates of depression and- Student: but sir, can’t they just goon?

Wes Streeting should resign.

It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”

Me trying to convince my friends to watch Frieren: it's a beautifully animated, gently-paced adventure about coming to terms with loss and managing grief and considering how the impacts of your actions or lack of actions will reverberate after your own inevitable passing- Frieren:

I genuinely don't think there's anything that can kill my excitement for a new trad pub release faster than an obviously AI gen cover.

So far this month I’ve supplied 20x as much electricity to the Australian grid as I’ve consumed, but the compensation for one will not cover the costs of the other. Very good work, capitalism.

We're cooking with gas over here, folks

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

My Japanese studies have advanced from the “pointing at the tv and going AHA every time someone uses daijoubu in an anime” to “pointing at the tv and going AHA every time someone uses the te form in an anime”

Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.

Love how in publishing you can have the best day of your career and no one will know for a good six to eight business months.

Thought bubble: Sanderson-esque hard magic system where casting drains dopamine/serotonin/endorphins/oxytocin; magicians suffer come-downs post-battle; SSRIs, NRIs & bathtub MDMA are power boosters, but only every 2-3 months; hardcore mages hit F45 three times a week and eat all their leafy greens

Teens on the train discussing how they can’t wait to be old, like, 21 or 22 Suddenly feeling all of my greys.

Me when I sub for a new class and arrive with 5 mins to spare: download the roll, scan for unfamiliar names, look up pronunciation guides on Youtube, practice until the moment the kids walk through the door Hugo award presenters every year: haha whee

The Lodestar Award goes to Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido). #HugoAward

As respectfully as possible, if you are a Hugo MC it is your actual job to make sure you have the pronunciations of the people you are celebrating down. If you don’t get given a list from Worldcon you need to make your own or demand one in time to learn. This is egregious.

Related: if you're at Worldcon, wear your mask.

Worldcon folks! Come to room 429 at 6:30 to hear @kurellian.bsky.social (and perhaps! me!) read some stuff!!

*me writing a story about a man unable to type because he's chewed the ends of his fingers off while I am also unable to type because I slashed my fingertips open on a carving tray's steel spikes* ah, method acting, I am very professional

Very annoyed that I've struggled with hitting any sort of writing targets for the past year and all it took was reviving the ancient 2020-2021 strategy of "put a bunch of M&M's in a bowl and eat one every time you write 100 words" 7400 words in four days let's goooooooo

The only thing standing between you and a relaxing eastern European holiday in the Hostel Universe is saying no to a mysterious stranger inviting you to an underground sex party, and I'm simply not sociable or flexible enough to say yes to those sorts of shenanigans

With a deadline looming and my attention span more shattered than ever by social media dopamine addiction, it’s time to embrace the old ways. 100 words = 1 m&m. Let’s do this.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Currently pumping out 10 Ruz-houses worth of power and it’s only 10.30am what the ffffffff

Solar+battery install is finally completed, two months behind schedule. A new era of me being absolutely insufferable re: how sustainable my house is begins now.

Here we go, friends. Three months to make this secret manuscript a reality. Let's lock in.

Heading past the National Gallery

You are loved 🏳️‍⚧️

I know I’m in London because I just overheard a guy say, “And I got proper nasty, shouldn’t’ve done but he got my back up, one two three boom and it was strictly celery”

Carded! At The Soho Gay Bar

I know the opening of a Lovecraftian horror when I see one

Early access for Episode 44 of The Magnus Protocol has a now available!

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales. This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide. We are doing this and history will never forgive us. Gaza:

I made a friend

Hi, folks headed to WorldCon or GenCon or any other convention: Please, for the love of god, wear a mask. The whole time. Don’t take it off for selfies or food in the convention center. The summer surge of COVID is already violent, measles is doing her thing, and god knows what else is out there.

I’ve seen some shambolic airports in my time, but Heathrow, good God. 1 hour and 40 minutes to get from my plane to the in-terminal hotel.

15k into new project. Still can’t talk about it. Very excited to share, some day soon. It’s gonna be a good one! Maybe my best!

Reminder to regularly go give your juice to the Red Cross, they (probably) need it more than you

That's a wrap on another term of dance! DEER HUNTER by &TEAM might be my fave routine so far. Fun, sexy, a little bit technical. Thanks to Nyssa, Nasya and Astari for being my dance buds! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpF3...