If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings. #DefyDogma

This Day in #History 1598 Boris Godunov chosen as Tsar of Russia... (His brother was not happy about this decision...)

I grew up opposite an airport, but it was a tiny one with all sorts of interesting piston engine sounds, from radials to whiny 2 strokes. Our local lakes always had giant V8 speedboats roaring around too. On quiet days, a race track 20 km away creates an ambiance of V8 supercars. Ah, the serenity!

🛰️ Pioneer Sun… LATEST RELEASE #Scifi #Wallops #NASA #JPL #Goddard #KU #Amazon 📚🛸 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBLJGWW5

🛸Almost a Best-Seller in the “Alien-Bureaucrat” Category A Comedy of Scientific Proportions 📚🛸 #scifi #AlienBureaucrat #amazon #Wallops #NASA #KU Mr Thursby www.amazon.com/dp/B07FZCS9FS

Thanks Mercedes! :) 📚🪐

MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social NASA’s final mission? 🛰️ Pioneer Sun… LATEST RELEASE #Scifi #Wallops #NASA #JPL #Goddard #KU #Amazon 📚🛸 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBLJGWW5

We learn from each other every day! 🖤 💯👍

It's a solid profession. Sort of like prostitution, but soul instead of body.

I'm pretty sure you can get real ones that go to 11 now, for the serious rockers! I buggered my right hand, so can't finger pick, so I've spent the last year learning lead. With a drum kit/looper, I usually lay down a 1-4-5 bassline, then explore pentatonic boxes and chord shapes. So kinda both.

I'm not into playing songs, so much as gaining the fretboard navigation, muscle memory, and listening skills to get the pesky tunes out of my head. It's a very pleasant journey.

Sweet. ♥️ Swoony. ♥️ Unputdownable. ♥️ Need a feel-good Valentine's Day read? Meet the women of the Becker family; where love blooms, hearts heal, and every story ends in a sigh-worthy happily ever after. ♥️ patwahler.com/womens-ficti... #sweetromance #valentinesday #feelgoodstories #romanceseries

Orienspace's Peng Haomin says the company is preparing for its next Gravity-1 solid rocket launch after Spring Festival and is also preparing for an IPO. Company will choose the right time to make the application. Source: m.chinanews.com/wap/detail/z...

#FREE #eBOOK #Giveaway #Horror #Detective #Zombie #doomsday WHEN GRAVEYARDS YAWN (The #Apocalypse Trilogy Book 1) Available at your favorite online bookstore, and as "NO STRINGS ATTACHED" direct download @gwellstaylor.bsky.social (click link in bio)

AI voices are getting so good it is almost impossible to tell. There is an ad for a notepad (XPPen) with a distinctive voice and curious phrasing. At first I thought AI, then a few quirks made it sound human, then...not sure. Maybe they can just prompt "quirks" into a delivery? (maybe subtle ones!)

"A sophisticated understanding of the darker hearts within us all." (5⭐️ Amazon review) When a car is found buried under snow, Sheriff Will investigates the death of the driver as his marriage crumbles and old demons return to haunt him. The link for Catherine!👇 www.amazon.com/Catherine-Th...

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Yes they do.

Splendid

Yeah, you can see the residual blood spots from the sacrifices, but the jaunty colours are a bit weird.

Across the street of the #Forbidden #City mirrored in tranquil #waters of moat at #sunrise 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 here bsky.app/profile/did:... #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #art #picoftheday #earth #landscape #forbidden #cityscape #photography #photographer #eastcoastkin

This is awesome! Tractus

A choir of them would be bloody annoying! Like one barking dog is annoying, but three of them doing syncopated semi-random barks is maddening.

We used to jump out of trees into the piles, then have to rake them all back neatly so they could be burned! The smell of absurd air pollution in Autumn is a childhood memory. I'm glad we don't do that anymore.

Albanese is the Manchurian Candidate now in place serving billionaires, corporations and lobbyists. He has moved Labor to extreme right. Responsible for killing the illusion of a Light on the Hill. RIP. #auspol.

Mine only goes to 10 😡 I can only annoy people 5km away, or add ambience to the local cemetery. 😈

In the vein of not over-spamming and continuing this existing thread, my latest article in the "How to Get Your Art/Writing to Escape the Longtail of Obscurity & Make a Decent Living as an Artist" has just dropped. 💙📚 Be sure to check it out here: www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-stay-to-2-150689108

aye. ☠️🦜

@bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social I’m thrilled that my Bunsen, Beaker, & Bernoulli (with Ginger) calendar arrived today. Yay!

I myself don't have dogs. But I do have a pair of budgies that like to perch atop my monitor and watch me write books... 👀

Blimey, Georgie did an excellent job remastering my original artwork for Bloodeater. (Vivian Amberville's trademark "thought-made-flesh" weapon).🗡️🤩 She even added the creepy red & black veins & swollen capillaries that take over your arm when holding #Bloodeater! 💙📚 #vivianamberville #DarkFantasy

Today was a good day. I only wish I could have finished the short story revisions this evening. Darn tinnitus.

☪️FORBIDDEN MEMORY A new entertainment project that combines music and story is now available on YouTube😊🌙💜 Produced by KENN #KENN #SciFi #Novel #Movie #NovelFilm #ForbiddenMemory #BeautifulMinorities

She’s taking a break from playing #cats

#cats 🐾 ❤️ 💜 im been very good kitty the last few days... and i am exhausted 😼

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 17 Beryl Blue, Time Cop so wants to change one character's future, butterfly effect be damned. But time won't let her. In the 1941-set A Moment After Dark, Addie wants to stop the vision she's seen of an attack on Pearl Harbor. Time might let her, but enemies spies won't.

We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will launch their Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour across the country this spring, kicking off at Minneapolis’ Target Center on March 31. The 20-date run will feature 19 arena shows, and a final night on May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson.

The Green Party wishes a happy and peaceful Ramadan to everyone celebrating in the UK and around the world. Ramadan Mubarak.

“Trump and his cowardly border officials want to rob this iconic place from all of us, locking away our swimming holes, hiking trails and desert vistas behind a monstrous steel wall, even as border crossings are at record lows.” www.marfapublicradio.org/news/2026-02...

BREAKING: We’ve just released an interactive map exposing every factory farm and slaughterhouse in the state of California. Check out the map and sign our open letter at FactoryFarmWatch.org

Going swimingly! A bit earlier today, I took a wee hike.

Rio de Janeiro, Carnival, sauna-level heat, packed beaches shoulder to shoulder and mosquitoes in full combat mode… that’s it, I’m trading samba for snow and fleeing to the North Pole, Immediately!🤣❄️🥵🍨🍧💃🦟

A tad scary..🫣

Copenhagen 🩵 #photography #window #architecture #Denmark #sky #community #peace #hope Photo credit: Marten Bjork

Two funerals Oy, what a week Lovely men gone #poetry #photography #grief #eastcoastkin #peace #community #empathy #humanity Photo credit: Jerry Bao

But we will enjoy it. HAL 's voice has a hypnotic quality.😳