Even as a kid, I knew the image of dull gray dinosaurs dragging their tails thru swamps couldn't be right-they were way too cool. "It’s the first time we’ve had a complete, fleshed-out view of a large dinosaur that we can really feel confident about" www.sci.news/paleontology... #dinosaur #fossil

Friend told me about News Feed Eradicators - browser extension replaces news feed on social media sites like Facebook with inspirational quote. Avoid addictive scrolling, access site intentionally. I can't recommend a particular one cause just learned... anyone using these? #doomgloom #socialmedia

Have you ever clicked “Buy now” on your phone? Ever picked “For you”? Seems convenient, but AI also reduced your options &diminished your control. Now it's slipping ads into your chats! Scifi doesn't write about this take-over, maybe because it's real-life. You'll be sorry... 🤖

Autumn is apple season. I buy local Red Delicious at farmers' markets. Grown on 80-year-old trees, they really are delicious. What about a grocery store favorite? "Honeycrisp’s a finicky fruit, she’s an absolute diva" #autumn www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ho...

I'm reminded of a Star Wars quote... the movie's still relevant #starwars #moviequotes

From Oct 26, 1825 Erie Canal built New York’s reputation as the Empire State. Mules on a canal towpath pulled barges at 4 mph, far faster than wagons on roads. Freight costs fell by 90% (My home of Ellenville NY grew on the D&H canal system.) theconversation.com/erie-canals-... #history

It's a pumpkin time of year: California engineer &gardening enthusiast won top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,346 pounds ktla.com/news/califor... #halloween

I usually post for fun... but I do know what's important www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLo5... #NoKings

National Novel Writing Month changes &continues. NaNoWriMo. org is gone, but not the concept. Search "write a novel month" for instructions or find free sites. Here's one: prowritingaid.com/novel-november Prepare your story idea in Oct, write your book in Nov. Good luck! #author #amwrite #writebook

What makes a Super Moon? Maybe click bait writers? A lot of silly adjectives have attached themselves to the Moon lately. The real-life meaning. Explained! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj2N... #moon #supermoon #fullmoon

Poetry of the Transition Time #poetry #nature #autumn I draw the western shadesAs the sun dips low.Land still holds the summer's heatThough autumn breezes blow.

History recedes into the past: Lt. Col. George Hardy, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen World War II combat pilots, died Tuesday night, according to Tuskegee Airmen, Inc, He was 100 years old. Thank you for my freedoms. I'll try to be worthy www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... #history #WW2

Mark your calendar for Feb 5, 2026: Launch window opens #Artemis #NASA It's too far away to start holding your breath, but astronauts aim to blast out beyond Low Earth Orbit for the first time in over 50 years. On a ten-day mission around the Moon, they'll test their rocket and spacecraft in…

Please note: The world did not end yesterday (it didn't end on many previous predicted dates either) I guess we're stuck with the responsibility of making the world a better place www.newsweek.com/rapture-theo...

Equinox is upon us on Monday, Sep 22, 2025, at 12:19 PM Mountain Time (USA) End of astronomical summer in the northern hemisphere: The best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. - Sylvia Plath www.fogchaser.net

Terrific imaginative story. More of my review here thesciencefictionfantasybookstore.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/a... #BookSky #sciencefiction #aliens

Sometimes profit & patient well-being align. AHIP (national association of insurance providers) sidesteps latest govt chaos. "Members will continue to cover all ACIP-recommended immunizations recommended as of Sep 1, 2025" (per Sep 16 press release) www.ahip.org/members #vaccine #health

Within commuting range to NYC, running into 9/11 isn't unusual, but can be breathtaking. "Rescue Company 1 showed up to stand in for the bride's father, who died on 9/11. At the ceremony, his uniform saved his seat, while his father walked Kristin down the aisle www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Australia’s Night Parrot, Believed Extinct for a Century, Survives! #extinction #parrot #Australia Good news from Down Under. is one of the most elusive and mysterious birds in the world, with no confirmed sightings between 1912 and 1979, leading to speculation that it was extinct. Wikipedia One…

Asteroids! Bits of rock strike Earth every day, and a large chunk is doubtless on its way, so learning all we can is important #asteroid

#History I didn't know: 1800s forgotten hero. Gettysburg now has a statue of Thaddeus Stevens defiantly clutching the 14th Amendment. Member of the Radical Republican antislavery bloc, he supported constitutional amendments for equality www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amer... #homeschoolers #voting

From my bookshelf - Here’s a story where I root for spiders over humans. Humongous terraforming goes wrong & insects dominate the new world - what's a human to do? See my full review & recommendation thesciencefictionfantasybookstore.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/v... #BookSky #sciencefiction

'15 plants contribute 90% of humanity’s food &, as climate change gathers speed, losing one could spell disaster. Yet there are more than 7,000 edible plants worldwide.' I'm game to try more! Include heat-resistant wild coffee trees www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/e... #warming #vegetarian #food

Anyone who wants me to remain ignorant raises my hackles. Like the tobacco industry, like opioid industry, alcohol industry wants Americans ignorant of evidence linking drinking alcohol to cancer. Will HHS release this new major study? Call your Congress Rep www.yahoo.com/news/article...

For Asimov fans - Collected short stories &non-fiction articles. I read cover story Gold, Asimov's response to critiques of my fav: The Gods Themselves. Read the book first, then the short story Gold. Version he wished he could write? Think I'm right? #scifi #BookSky www.amazon.com/Gold-Final-S...

What, indeed? 😼 #caturday

Champion level napping #caturday

Are you from Baltimore? Post your video of walking thru the city- say what street- what time of day- are you safe- is it a nice day? Here on BlueSky sure, but every other platform you visit too. Ask others in Baltimore to do the same. Let's see hundreds of such videos #Baltimore #crime #notcrime

Do you have school-aged kids? What do you think of this resource: Civic Online Reasoning? Kids today must be prepared to defend themselves - will this help? 🎓 #parenting #curriculum #highschool #middleschool cor.inquirygroup.org/curriculum/

Weird &fun science findings from a guy who does research using real sources (see references.) Are white or black Bedouin robes cooler? where might it rain diamonds? critters that have cells that divide forever with no DNA damage, so why aren't they immortal? #science skeptoid.com/episodes/1003

The spousal unit & I visited Tucson's Desert Museum &Zoo for an open-till-10-pm night, because it gets down to 90 after sunset - even into the 80s! Here I am on right with one of the docents on left. Special activities going on, so they dressed up a bit. Are we a pair of 70s ladies or what? #70s

When those in power hide data, that's what I want to know! When those in power hide a book... that's the one I want to read! 📚 😁 #BookSky

From my bookshelf - Lots of science, alternating 2 time lines kept story moving along, strange alien, wild propulsion system, hero dragged into adventure. Holy cow, Weir's joke on himself? Can we call it hopepunk? thesciencefictionfantasybookstore.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/h... #BookSky #scifibook

Wherever Humans Go, We Take Hitchhikers #biology #space #evolution A previously unknown species of bacteria was collected on China's Tiangong space station and returned to Earth in 2023. You read that right - an aerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacteria was living on a hardware surface inside…

Household rule says, no cats on kitchen counter. Silly rule #Caturday

Interesting article: Old witch hunts show delusion &misinformation are features of society. Who's responsible when mis-information leads to real harm? How to protect the vulnerable from exploitation by those who profit from confusion &fear? #misinformation #fake theconversation.com/from-printin...

Your brain glows. Scientists who study nerve cells have known for a hundred years that biophotons exist, but it's news to me.

From my bookshelf: In my stories, the fun is on Mars. This story for Mars is rockets. Labs growing potatoes in simulated regolith not nearly as exciting as rockets (true or false?) Hard Science Fiction–Old School thesciencefictionfantasybookstore.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a... #booksky #scifibook

Reverse Evolution? No, no, no… #BasicBiology #science Wild Galapagos tomatoes are in the news. I cringe at the way media outlets are phrasing this: "Tomatoes growing on the Galápagos Islands appear to be going back in time by producing the same toxins their ancestors did millions of years ago."…

Schrodinger's cat isn't the only feline scientist. Pepper, a field biologist, collects samples for her person, a University of Florida virologist www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #Caturday

I write science fiction for fun, but some books are truly important. They contain stories we all should know, discuss, and learn from. Celebrate success &noble aspirations &study times of darkness. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" #history #AmericanHistory

Let's all do it 🙂

Find my science fiction on sale too 🚀 Happy reading 🙂 from Amazon, sure, and also many other favorite bookstores katerauner.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/s... #Booksky #scifibook #reading

Yee ha! A July 4th eBook sale www.kobo.com/us/en/p/inde... Scifi &horror under "Embrace the freedom- adventure." Pick your category - click View All - be Adventurous! www.kobo.com/us/en/list/e... Sort by something other than Bestsellers. Find authors &share with friends. They'll thank you #Booksky

Whatever you like to read, you'll find great eBooks and great deals in July. This annual sale is the time to try something new! Find your next favorite book! Next favorite author! Click now for Smashwords July Sale - eBooks, all genres.

What does everyone need? A good book! For the first week of July, price reductions for the first book in each of two of my science fiction series. Snap these up now because the week will be over before you know it.

Readers! Kobo's running their July 4-8 sale &while it officially starts July 3rd, many books have already dropped in price. Like my scifi adventure 🙂 Lunar Base 🌖 in "Embrace the freedom and go on an adventure" category. All genres! Check it out www.kobo.com/us/en/p/inde... #reading #book #BookSky

An experiment in classical physics... #caturday #physics

Einstein said he didn't bother to memorize things he could quickly look up. Testing memorized facts is easier than testing critical thinking, so that's what we do in our education system. But that's not where the fun is. Sigh. #education #students

Cat haiku All kittens can fly. Gravity waits patiently till they're old and fat. #Caturday