An Absurd Apocalypse – Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky #BookSky #sciencefiction #scifbook From my bookshelf... When robots are left unsupervised, they're stuck with whatever programming humans once provided. That leads to absurd situations. Funny situations. Even when murder is involved, I…

Simple task - replace a water filter. Shut off valve broke! Flood! Husband ran to utility room to main valve. I grabbed every towel in the house. Gunk clogged faucet! Gasket shot! DIY job got bigger. But, only one trip to hardware store in town. Now, quick, post, while still a success #DIY #plumbing

Waiting for the heat to come on... #caturday

Want proof the world has changed? On December 30, 2025, state-owned company Post Nord delivered its very last physical letter in Denmark. Brick-and-mortar post offices no longer exist. I've heard the Danish don't use cash much anymore either. The future is arriving in planet Earth piece by piece.✉️

Fungus is killing off coffee plants! Monoculture farms boost production until a disease sets in, then an arms race starts between treatments & fungus evolution. Did you know there's a fungus library to use for research? theconversation.com/coffee-crops... #coffee

From one of my author groups: Amazon is having system wide issues with digital books. Entire chapters at random show up as italics or bold. Amazon is not very vocal about such things & probably is trying to fix the problem. This is beyond an author's control #author #ebooks #amreading #BookSky

When we inevitably discover alien life, it may not fit anything we imagine. Mr Spock is unlikely. Maybe... Bugs-from-space. Swarm intelligence. Spores & parasites. Robots. Unrecognizable? Likely to be not-like-us and so... creepy bigthink.com/history-soci... #aliens #sciencefiction

Happy New Moon 🌒

Barack Obama: "Statistically, the universe is so vast odds are good there's life out there. But distances between solar systems are so great that chance we've been visited is low, & I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!" per CBS #UFO

We all want to eat healthy, but how to know what's what? Here's a test to do at home for carbohydrates - maybe you'll be inspired to cook more often. I have my own home-kitchen bread machine 🍞 #diet #health #homeschool www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...

I live with perhaps the only cat in the world not interested in boxes #caturday

Americans: If you don't have a passport, get one now. It costs money & takes a couple months, especially if you need to acquire necessary documents. But may be the only way to be sure you can vote in November. There are dark forces in motion to stop you eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds11_p... #vote

Got this link from Story Origin - never tried it myself. But, authors, are AI translations of your work a good thing? Totally AI or with a human editor? Will it put humans out of business? Or allow small-time authors who could never afford humans anyway a chance? www.ainoveltranslation.com #author

If you read Romance, you're not alone. 55% of 2025 top-selling Amazon Kindle ebooks are romance titles. 58% are self (or indie) published &another 17% were indies picked up by traditional publishers. Google searches for “romance books” doubled in past last 5years From K-lytics #BookSky #Romance

What total incompetence is this?

WTF? El Paso airport (my closest major) FAA announced closing airport and airspace up 18,000 ft for 10 days... FAA source says due to military operations from Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss WTF again. Now... closure lifted WTF 3rd time apnews.com/article/faa-... #ElPasoFlights

I didn't realize the plants worked this way for the halftime show... they simply walked on and off the field 🙂

Is it fair for authors to ignore American history, or at least, ignore it in their story's setting? Keep the story light &avoid noticing IRL dark past &lingering impacts? I don't read witchy romance, tho Star Trekkie type scifi does this too. What do you think? #BookSky

Recent trip to Ace for some toilet repair parts was more fun than I expected. Dinosaurs! Being set up in the parking lot. Don't know what the story was, since I continued home, but spotting them was fun #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Terrific concept 🏴‍☠️terrific writer 😊

NASA’s Artemis astronauts gearing up for extreme physical stress. They'll wear heavier spacesuits than Apollo astronauts did & have to do more. I guess they'll be hitting the gym before they leave Earth arstechnica.com/space/2026/0... #NASA #moon #Artemis

Everything I need to know about life, I learned from Star Trek #startrek

Any NRA people paying attention?

Masked agents executed a citizen on the street in front of witnesses—then lied about the victim. Don’t look away. Don’t give in to despair. Authoritarians want us tired. They want us confused. But do not let their lies go unanswered by truth. Speak out #Minneapolis #ICE apnews.com/live/minneap...

It's International Education Day today, January 24th. Thank a Teacher for their service.

In Oklahoma USA a woman saw a ball of fire in the sky. Then something hit her shoulder. 1st person ever known to be hit by human-made space debris - bit of fiberglass from a Delta II rocket 🚀 It's so hard for us scifi authors to stay ahead of reality nautil.us/the-first-pe... #space #BookSky #scifi

Wonderful term: retro-futurism. Love 1899 illustrations with steampunk charm. I differ with the article here: Teamed with my Roomba I get cleaner rooms cause I stack stuff out of the way - chairs, etc - which I never did when I pushed the vacuum myself reactormag.com/why-science-... #scifiart #scifi

A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. I assume farmers have been observing such behaviors for millennia www.wired.com/story/veroni... #animals #nature

Lots of us Americans are trying to stop the insanity.

Izzy's favorite window. Overlooking the bird feeder and sun comes in all day. He came to us feral, but has turned into a couch potato. Happy to watch instead of hunt 😸 #caturday

Google analyzing all your photos to infer data about people, times &places... to infer your interests &relationships. AI will analyze your past choices &"offer" (advertise, cause that's how it makes $$$.) The world is big! I don't want to be funneled down into the silo they assign #google #AI

Actually this *is* the future liberals want, the fact it's sending Stephen Miller into conniptions is just a side benefit

AI run amok, perhaps trying to translate other languages into English? But why insert Latin names of fish in utterly unrelated articles? Also simply weird words &phrases lol. Is this how AI will destroy humanity? By ruining the written word? nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/is-this-fi...

Your risk of encountering ICE officera has increased in towns and cities across the country. Seemingly harmless interactions escalate &government surveillance is increasing, so whatever your politics - even for citizens & legal residents - plan ahead to stay safe www.wired.com/story/what-t... #ICE

I'm a woman, so I don't know... can only read what those more knowledgeable have to say...

I always skip the list of articles labeled "Recommended based on your interests." My interests are more than what I read yesterday & I don't want to get jammed into a narrower & narrower silo #discover

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Kate says... Non-fiction can be fun too. Serious answers to ridiculous questions. When you just gotta know. I read this book straight through, but feel free to skip around. Choose questions that have nagged at…

Pockets empty after the holidays? No problem. Free eBook edition! Find the collection at most favorite online book stores. Eight short reads from me &my closest author friends, each offered in a distinct style with unique characters books2read.com/StunningShor... #BookSky #shortstories

Beautiful Joe is a world-famous 1893 novel by Canadian author Margaret Marshall Saunders - told by a dog detailing his cruel past and eventual rescue. I could read my grandmother's copy when I visited her, and I wore it out. "My" copy is long-gone, but had a cover like this one #BookSky #dog #dogs

Mars is all about humans - unbelievable, gigantic, aspirational, inspirational goal of humans on Mars 🚀 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/cre... #mars #NASA

Perhaps the best book of 2025 -The Retired Assassin’s Guide to Orchard hunting: New Zealand cozy paranormal mystery by Naomi Kuttner E J says... There are quite a few places where I laughed out loud. The ex-assassin trying his best not to kill anyone even those who are dangerous and endanger his…

Lookout Hill - sounds like the spot you and I would want to stand. Perseverance continues it's journey on Mars leaving Jezero Crater's Margin Unit behind for Lac de Charmes to collect new olivine-rich samples to compare the two areas. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p... #NASA #Mars

Looking for a documentary? The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See. Watch for free on YouTube (with ads.) You Tube confirmed my age before I could watch! First time that ever happened. Can't imagine why - seemed suitable for all ages to me. #UFO #UAP #documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=s09k...

Scifi Horror & Military/Space Marines are very popular. Also Scifi Romance (but then, all Romance categories are big.) Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey protagonist is almost a requirement. Grimdark has spread - violent amoral dystopian. But the universe is bigger, and I've been reading hopepunk.

Don't trust government? Well, who does? Looking for a first-hand source? Old folks remember life before vaccines. Find some of their stories here grandparentsforvaccines.com/our-stories/ #vaccine #grandparent #familysky

Any retailers here? When your ad pops up over the article I'm reading, I'm tolerant. When I tap the little X to close it and instead am taken to your sales page, I'm truly annoyed 😠 I will never buy anything from you. Not then, not ever. Tell the platform you advertise on to Stop It.

Santa can inspire us: 'Nicholas secretly provided dowries for 3 impoverished girls whose father was unable to afford their marriages. By giving anonymously (traditionally under cover of night), he became a lasting model of discreet charity.' Daniel N. Gullotta on the medieval legend 🎅

Happy Holidays #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays

What did Jesus look like? Does it matter? #MerryChristmas #History #HistoricalJesus Christianity passed through the Roman Empire. How we imagine the physical appearance of Jesus of Nazareth was one element influenced along the way. The Jesus we’ve inherited from centuries of Christian art is not…