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Voting blue in a very red state. Retired geologist w/ wide science interests. Fluent in genteel profanity and typos.
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I *definitely* want to live in your world.

submitted 412 days ago • 1 comment

Or space for bookshelves. (Looks around, ponders purchasing a mansion. Or an entire deserted island.)

submitted 418 days ago • 0 comments

@scalzi I suspect I know the answer to this question, but I hope I am wrong. I'm slightly obsessed with Tony Valdez and the Dispatcher series. Do you have plans for additional stories?

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments

You don't have to go back in time and kill baby Hitler to make the world a better place. What you can actually do is prevent the NEXT Hitler and you don't even have to smother any babies. Just show up and vote. And bring your friends. Want a better future? Be a better citizen.

submitted 434 days ago • 39 comments

Wrote another blog post, this one is on TMI.

submitted 435 days ago • 1 comment

Heard someone refer to the “Cybertruck” as a “sport-futility vehicle,” and that one is gonna take.

submitted 435 days ago • 47 comments

You know what is infuriating?? Perfect day, perfect temperature to work outside, gardenias arriving from nursery shipper ... and gastritis flare. Don't mind me, I'll be in bed not far from the bathroom. Scowling.

submitted 445 days ago • 0 comments

I *love* this image of scallop shells. The symmetry delights my OCD brain.

submitted 446 days ago • 1 comment

Not particularly practical for those who suffer from seasickness.

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submitted 447 days ago • 3 comments

Do not go gentle into that good night

submitted 450 days ago • 69 comments

If you make something that you sell on Etsy or your own place elsewhere and want other people to see how to find it, please respond here. And feel free to share this so that other people can see how to find as many individual makers and artists as possible.

submitted 457 days ago • 0 comments

If you can, strive to lead a life filled with curiosity, kindness, and wonder. Also, curly fries, cozy bookstores, and long blimp rides across star haunted seas are also pretty good.

submitted 457 days ago • 1 comment

This just went live: The John Scalzi @humblebundle! Get a whole bunch of my books really cheap - and support the literacy charity First Book, which provides books and literary resources to kids in need. A perfect way to stock up on my eBooks. Please feel free to share around!

submitted 458 days ago • 34 comments

Happy Thanksgiving. Greenwich Village, NYC, St John’s on Christopher St

submitted 458 days ago • 0 comments

In this house, we believe: - love is love - science is real - carbs are our friends - gravy can fill the cracks in your heart - turkey ghosts rule the night, and their terrifying gobble will one day find us all

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