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not the same vibe but adjacent

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, & is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man #terrypratchett #discworld #books #booksky #fantasy #death #light #darkness #reading #writing

If I have to know about Graham Platner then every American should have to know about Mark Latham. I’m not joking.

It's Calvino's world from If On A Winter's Night A Traveller. We're just living in it... #booksky

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Updating with a new link as the one below is broken - got rid of my #VocalMedia account due to them being an extremely dodgy platform... #writingcommunity #shortstory #scifi www.roderickmakim.com/new-page-38

Updating with a new link as the one below is broken - got rid of my #VocalMedia account due to them being an extremely dodgy platform... #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrysky www.roderickmakim.com/new-page-95

Updating with a new link as the one below is broken - got rid of my #VocalMedia account due to them being an extremely dodgy platform... #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrysky www.roderickmakim.com/sleeping-pil...

They should really subpoena Mitch McConnell to discuss, under oath, what he knows about the Epstein files.

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

AI videos. They're not sending their best and brightest. Geez, why DOES everyone think Monica Bellucci is beautiful? It's a real conundrum, that one. Much to think about, for sure.

today's poem from my book 'Circles In The Dirt' is called 'crowns' and is a pretty straightforward one, I think... #writingcommunity #poetrysky #booksky #amwriting #nokings

Hooray for Himalayan Ghorka Nepalese Restaurant on a hungover Sunday in Pristina. Hooray. Bloody hooray #travel #kosovo

Australia has already hit more 4's than England, only half way through the innings. This is turning into a thrashing of biblical proportions here. #EngvAus #WT20WorldCup

I liked the faded Coca-Cola sign. Shot on Kodak TMAX400 with my Nikon FM3A #believeinfilm #filmphotography

today's poem from my book 'Circles In The Dirt' is called 'crowns' and is a pretty straightforward one, I think... #writingcommunity #poetrysky #booksky #amwriting #nokings

Seated Woman Combing Her Hair, 1890 #degas #impressionism

Today's poem is for anyone looking for that place in their life where everything...just makes sense. I hope you can find it. #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #mentalhealth

Watching Australia v Egypt in a Kosovo beer garden. Not looking good thus far, to be fair. Still plenty of time though... #worldcup #travel

Evil, fascist, arguably insane, but lets not leave out: really fucking dumb www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...

Today's poem is for anyone looking for that place in their life where everything...just makes sense. I hope you can find it. #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity #mentalhealth

The way on the water #macke #expressionism

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Marco Polo coming back from China:

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

“What the? … Another little casket?”

Exit light Enter night Take my hand Morocco beat the Netherlands

Digital nomad lunch on a Monday #travel #paris #notredame #nomad

today's poem from my book "Circles In The Dirt" is called "sleeping pill dreams" and was inspired by the surrealist art of Dorothea Tanning #poetrysky #writingcommunity #booksky #art #surrealism vocal.media/art/sleeping...

When did we become such f’n prudes?

🎬Stokes: the legend and the fall www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfM8...

Kinda weird when people come to a revelation about needing to win elections after losing a couple primary contests to the left and not when the courts and both houses of Congress and the Presidency are controlled by the other party

Things are going to get interesting. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Death of Stalin is a very quotable film but the last line is probably the best "Can you ever trust a weak man?"

"missing links cheer for the return of their chains" - Babirusa (Dumb Evolution) is an angry poem about a society falling backwards into serfdom. Idiots cheering for the parasite Epstein class, even as it robs them blind. From my book "Circles In The Dirt" #poetrysky #writingcommunity #booksky

Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

Hey that's me. Someone liked my little story about trolls and bridges in space. #writingcommunity #scifi #furiousfiction

Silly things you started doing cause you thought it would make you like a person in a book & now just do. I’ll start. I swiftly cut apples into neat little slices with my pocket knife and arrange them on a plate for friends. Also I tuck pencils and pens in my hair so I have them when I need them.

Ukraine coming for Russian troops like

29 years ago today, “Buena Vista Social Club” was released. #jazzsky

I don’t truck with the doomers who think this was all part of the plan: I’m positive she convinced the Ellisons that she was a genius and represented what the real America wanted.

"missing links cheer for the return of their chains" - Babirusa (Dumb Evolution) is an angry poem about a society falling backwards into serfdom. Idiots cheering for the parasite Epstein class, even as it robs them blind. From my book "Circles In The Dirt" #poetrysky #writingcommunity #booksky

250 years of incrimentalist lesser evil electoralism and all we got is this bipartisan genocide abroad and technofascist police state at home

looking at news out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?

A mate has been telling me to read both these series for years. Time to finally get started on them. Red Rising first, I think #booksky #reading