David Dvorkin @DavidDvorkin@qoto.org

@earthstationtrek@nerdculture.de I have no idea. I hope so, and I hope we find some way to contact other intelligent life.

@raimalarter @prairiewind46 All I see when I do that is <Back link, not the image of a person with a + sign.

@joelodge I had read that it was possible, but it isn't showing up on my Web interface. Perhaps it depends on the instance. Separating each one into its own tab would be extra nice.

@joelodge That sounds really good. However, I almost always access Mastodon via the Web and browser; I'd love to have something like that capability there.

Behold the Cucumber God.

He is surrounded by His adoring worshippers. The crowd is so dense that some of those in it must stand upon others so that they can be bathed in the effulgence of His divine stupendiferousness as he spews his seeds (of wisdom). Sadly, there seem to be some doubters among the tomatoes.

You might notice that the god is made up of two conjoined aspects. How can this be? How can He be both one and two?

This is a deep mystery that can be understood, to the extent mortal mind can understand it, only by those who have studied deeply the ancient writings, the Cuke Canon, and the centuries of exegisis performed thereon and extrapolation derived therefrom by generations of cucologians, cranky fellows crammed together in stinky little rooms, performing their sacred labor while their wives and children labored to provide food and shelter for their families.

For us ordinary mortals, it is sufficient to know that He is the bigod. When a person thinks he is saying "By God!" he is in truth offering a prayer to the only true god, the bigod. Or should that be the bigods? It is a bit confusing.

#atheist

@Pat Those are snow peas. I love them.

@alexwinter What idiots.

'Tis the season when the coronavirus feels very, very thankful.

@atheistaddiction I see. The one I'm working (and working and working) on is fiction. Much needs to be added for purposes of character relationships, character development, and plot. I probably won't be cutting much. It could end up at 250,000 words, or close, which would make it more than twice as long as the longest book I've written before this.

@atheistaddiction That's quite a cull!

181,000 words, and still a long way to go. That may not sound like much to those who have written long books, but it's humongous by my standards. I wonder how long it will be when it's done. I wonder when it will be done. I'm trying not to wonder whether it will be done.
#writing #ScienceFiction #WritingCommunity

@RPGlover Except that I'm an idle thing instead of an idle king.

Now that I'm an old far-- guy, I write much more slowly than when I was young and the words poured out of me. However, the words that creep out of me so slowly now are better chosen, and the result needs far less rewriting to be good.

Or possibly I'm deluding myself about that.

#WritingCommunity #Writing #sff #ScienceFiction

Inevitably, after the mass murders at Club Q in Colorado Springs, newsreaders are telling us solemnly that the city is in mourning. It should be, but we all know that there are many in that city and across the country who are delighted and gleefully anticipating more murders of gays, trans people, Jews, blacks, Asians, and on and on -- and that will happen, thanks to the twin evils of hatred and the proliferation of guns.