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Dad. Oregonian. U.S. Army Veteran. Science Fiction Novelist. Member of #SFWA Eugene #Wordos #Transfamilies I like digging in the yard, building stuff, riding bikes and reading books. Trying to do good in my bit of the world https://jamesaaron.net/books
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This is great #retrocomputing #vintagepc #retail youtu.be/KVQjPCJFjzk

I saw some guy online comment today that "we need a male AOC" and I had to shut my laptop and go for a nice, long walk in order to avoid screaming.

"After 53 Years, a Failed Soviet Venus Spacecraft is Crashing Back to Earth" #space, #venus #ussr https://gizmodo.com/after-53-years-a-failed-soviet-venus-spacecraft-is-crashing-back-to-earth-2000595234

In the interest of balance #news

I've been watching the #TeloTruck with interest, and now the Slate truck pops up. The pics in this article make it look like vaporware, but I'm all for any coming small truck wars. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/amazon-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20000/ #tinytruck

archive.org/details/rend... #cassettefuturism, #internetarchive

At Target, I managed a team that reset part of the store daily. It programmed shoppers for variety, but there was also the aspect in article. People who are lost in a store spend more money. https://sebs.website/blog/the%20gruen-transfer-is-consuming-the-internet #deadinternettheory, #consumerism

Can't find much info about this photo. Reddit says it's from the Soviet Union in the 80s. I'd like to meet this guy, and his camel. #sciencefiction, #photography, #ussr

Ooh, a six color e-ink screen appears in the wild, though it’s name tag sized. #eink #ereader shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04...

Awesome thread with a bunch of recommendations. I second Victor LaValle

Counter-argument: You should use Sinners to springboard yourself into some other Black American horror like the following

“Librarians are Dangerous.” —an appreciation #librarypunk, #librarians, #datahoarders bradmontague.substack.com/p/librarians...

Owl mural by Bayne Gardner in downtown Springfield, Oregon

I think we need to look past even the current batch of open platforms. Make backups, keep your contact lists, have an old school way to reach people you care about. Normalize asking for phone numbers. Original post: mastodon.online/@mastodonmig...

The #LEGO Ornithopter is a thing of beauty. It fills half our dining room table! #dune, #selfcare

Fear is the mind killer. #lego #dune

"Proof that we learn to live with the unthinkable." from Stacy-Marie Ishmael's newsletter today. It's always powerfull stuff. https://newsletter.galavantmedia.org/archive/proof-that-we-learn-to-live-with-the-unthinkable/ #poetry, #resilience #mutualaid

This made me lol #design #corpo velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

#PortfolioDay Sci-fi, ruins, and odd plants

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

Kurt Vonnegut man

This is probably one of the best things made with AI at the moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a1ugJX8U #pulp, #newdisco

This is the best thing I've heard in a few days at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJcDAiZDoI #boojums, #rocknroll

I like this crossover. #sticker

Wow. That’s something.

I think we’ve passed the point of no return on becoming #LEGO people

There's a #Murderbot movie coming!? Hell yeah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs

I cannot stress how hard IRL political and corporate powers are making writing villains in sci-fi right now. Nothing I come up with lately even vaguely matches the levels of unethical, destructive, and exploitative behaviours we're seeing. Like, I'll write an idea, think, it's evil, then see a...1/2

If you can actually get a #camping spot anywhere in #Oregon that hasn’t already been reserved, this is a great idea. Original post: ecoevo.social/@sarae/11427...

just a "teach me how" girl in an "let me do it for you" world

Things we found mixed up in a giant tub LEGO

Time for the special focused joy of sorting a giant tub of LEGO. #lego #adulting

I've always imagined my ideal reader as someone on their break at a job looking for something cool. Still this article doesn't bode well for the future of reading for pleasure. https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today #reading, #readers

I love janky old Sony Mavica cameras that write to floppy disk. Through the reddit group, someone just gave me a collection of Mavica photos from Gulf War One. https://www.flickr.com/photos/stegall/albums/72177720324716092 #mavica, #photography

This Stars & Stripes piece is the most granular report on the missing US soldiers in Lithuania. Clears away a lot of the confusing and garbled things that have shown up in mainstream press reports. ...https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2025-03-27/army-soldiers-search-lithuania-17275483.html

Starting Monday, for the first time in three years I'm taking a vacation without my work laptop, and I won't be answering email or calls. The idea is causing me a lot of unexpected anxiety, which might be the oposite of vacation. I'm going to have to relearn how to do this. #wageslave #legoland

I've been looking for an OS in a Browser solution. After banging my head against Guacamole, I stumbled on #Kasm which was a very easy install. I'm still figuring out their philosphy around apps vs using a full OS in their workspace, and nothing is persistent, but it's very polished. #selfhosted

Hello Sunshine looks great. Please don't be co-op or multiplayer, though! https://youtu.be/XI-HO3uoCmQ?si=2k6wcIeweE3CbIdA

And another article on undersea rocks producing oxygen https://phys.org/news/2024-10-deep-sea-oxygen-photosynthesis-deepening.html #savedforlater #storyideas

https://phys.org/news/2025-03-dark-oxygen-deep-sea-discovery.html #savedforlater #storyideas

www.telotrucks.com

Doppelganger by #naomiklein. It's nonfiction, heavy stuff but excellent.

Saved for later #nativeplants #oregon https://laneaudubon.org/habitat-haven/

3-3-24 Check In I took four days off work starting Thursday last week to try and get a handle on the last parts of my mom’s belongings that have been sitting in our garage. I’ve already finished with the garage sale, the thrift store and dump stuff, and now it’s down to boxes of things that we…

hi, are you doomscrolling? Try not to stay up too late tonight.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

right? like, why is this an entire GENRE of modern tv… ?? or TWO genres, if you split fiction and "reality" shows