186 in France, +200 in Italy, 20 to 50 in Switzerland and an undefined number in Austria and Germany. Approximately 7 to 11% of ski resorts are already abandoned in the whole of Europe.

blogged out my HRT rant from yesterday: open.substack.com/pub/yeahrigh...

Looking forward to another insecure year. What's peeking over the horizon for the rest of you? #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

If you own or are interested in The Hobbit: There & Back Again, I wrote up a little reflection post on designing the solo mode on @boardgamegeek.com, along with a suggestion to loosen up the game a bit more in solo for those that want a more relaxed experience! boardgamegeek.com/thread/36333...

This is a great example of how genAI steals from us all on multiple levels. It's stolen a promotional spot for real books and authors, it's stolen a job from an actual journalist who could have compiled this, it's stolen an opportunity for parents to be recommended good NZ books for their kids

I hope all your #Christmas surprises were pleasant. Happy Holidays for those lucky enough to have them. (Cartoon by Gary Larson) #xmas #presents #gifts

Bit of a weird #xmas #christmas. Both parents ended up in hospital. Picked up mum yesterday, but Dad is going to stay there, and then move to a home. He's too infirm for us to look after. Made a very tasty chicken tray bake for me and mum. #Tasmania #Australia #WritersLife

Can't stop the signal. #firefly #CECOT #60Minutes mastodon.online/@davidaugust...

It might rain on xmas day. So we're not planning on going to the park to have a barbeque. #Summer #Australia #Christmas

A collection of weird #xmas cards. #Christmas #cards #yule #MerryChristmas

Give your character an idyllic childhood. So they have something to lose. . (Summer by Ivana Kobilca, 1889) #WritingTips #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Not much happening for #xmas, but on #NYE #NewYearsEve I'll be joining a massive gaming session at my local club. #BoardGames #gaming

Not much happening for #xmas, but on #NYE #NewYearsEve I'll be joining a massive gaming session at my local club. #BoardGames #gaming

Give your character an idyllic childhood. So they have something to lose. . (Summer by Ivana Kobilca, 1889) #WritingTips #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

An excellent model for historians

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Hooray! My sapphic romantasy short story "Five Reasons Why I am Absolutely Not in Love with my Nemesis" is available as an ebook now. Just subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $5/month upwards to snap up this & a whole bunch of other stories from me: patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

oh, I like this one. GenAI is inherently evil. #GenAI #ai

Things are winding down for the holidays. Dad's in hospital with a mild infection. He's 92 so, may well be there for the whole of xmas. Mum and I are enjoying the gift of not having to look after him for a week or so. #xmas #Chirstmas #HappyHolidays

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

What keeps your character awake at night? #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #characters

Insomnia over the guilt that he both denies feeling and thinks should be more than it is.

New painting scene from Gemini movie #Koffiart37 #koffiimageworks #visdev

Finished a rough draft of a book for another series, but here's a reminder that the next novella in the Desolation series is up on Kickstarter soon! You can grab all the Desolation books at a discount here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dha... #books #BookSky #reading #AmReading #SciFi #SteamPunk

What keeps your character awake at night? #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #characters

Finished a rough draft of a book for another series, but here's a reminder that the next novella in the Desolation series is up on Kickstarter soon! You can grab all the Desolation books at a discount here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dha... #books #BookSky #reading #AmReading #SciFi #SteamPunk

It's been a week since my big episode of food poisoning and my guts still haven't fully settled. At least I'm able to eat without feeling like crap. Crapping, on the other hand... #WritersLife #illness

Only nine tabs today, but a good chunk of writing done. Less bouncing around distracted and more flow of words. #writing #AmWriting

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

16 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- After being targeted by online harassment campaign and almost dropping out of the race, Amy Heutmaker stays in and wins county trustee in conservative rural NE Ohio county, becoming perhaps first elected Ohio trans municipal official.

When you're reading and someone assumes that means you're doing nothing and they can interrupt you. #books #reading #writing

Lawsuits claiming Ozempic, other GLP-1s led to blindness become second mass litigation over the drugs reut.rs/3N2CHXp

I'm hugely into metal, but this appeals to me somehow. I have friends who might like to discover this group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlTo... #Music #heavyMetal #n0trixx

won't get my NESSes until new year, but in the meantime there's my Kobo. Chimquar the Lionhawk, too-forgotten Sword & Sorcery hero from the 70s-90s, walks again in my article 'Raw: Janrae Frank and Chimquar the Lionhawk'. See my post for what else I have out and about.

Twenty-Two browser tabs open for this writing session. I've decided to abandon the word-count and keep a tab-count for my writing. It's weirder and you can speculate more. Today's best tab: King of Mali: history.howstuffworks.com/historical-f... #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

What is the state of the art in your world? When might your characters encounter this? (Wood Shipped by Nishimoto Ryota) #WorldBuilding #Art #sculpture #writing #AmWriting #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints. www.propublica.org/article/educ...

White House: Up is down. Left is right. False is true. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

From an attempted whitewashing of the guy who tackled the shooter, to targeting a guy with the same name, there was a lot of misinformation circulating in the hours after the Bondi terror attack. And X seems to be the focal point. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.

I am appalled and terrified by the immediate weaponisation of the devastating nightmare at Bondi. Jillian Segal’s recommendations were that universities and arts institutions who allowed criticism of Israel should have their funding removed- how would that have stopped this horrific attack?

How did your character lose their virginity? What might have made it good or bad? ##WritingPrompt #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #sex #background

Okay. Feeling a bit better. Hopefully I'll get some sleep tonight without constantly having to rush to the toilet. #WritersLife #writing

It's so unbelievably refreshing to see bullshit called out like this. Q: "So where is Antifa headquartered?" A: 😦 www.reddit.com/r/law/s/EaeL... ❌👑

“It’s how gambling companies get to run amok online, or how you end up paying $370 billion for nuclear submarines and a closer alliance with Trumpian fascism but “can’t afford” to properly fund the CSIRO, the BOM or universities. Or dental care or mental health.” #AusPol #ClimateCrisis