RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116507805024722965

Entropy is only fatal if you lack the right metabolism.

The #Chernobyl fungus didn't just survive radiation - it started eating it. I’m doing the same. My book, #HerOwnDream, is my "melanin" - an intellectual engine converting systemic pressure into strategic #agency. I don't seek shelter from the fallout - I thrive on it.

Are you still building walls to hide, or have you designed the tools to feed on the crisis?

#Antifragility #AmWriting #Ukraine #SpecFic #BlackSwan #writing

Values or Realpolitik? The #EU admits: without resources, "moral authority" is a dead end. Ideology yields to survival.

I’m building strategic autonomy via my book, #HerOwnDream. It’s my "lithium" - an intellectual asset securing my agency. Only those controlling critical nodes survive.

Is an intellectual product enough to protect one's borders, or is it time for tech chains?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/29/eu-european-union-middle-powers-trade-agreements-geopolitics/

#Geopolitics #Writing #foss

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dotyk/116362146589336093

I’ve been away for a week and didn’t expect such a reaction. To clarify: it’s 21 whole blood #donations and 1 for platelets.

The platelet session was an endurance test. I had to watch videos of an #oil kingdom, and man, those guys were scammed by their architects. It looks like a provincial mall on Spider-Man steroids. #Money will eventually run out there, but I’ll keep donating blood until the doctors physically stop me

And another rejects for #HerOwnDream - so system works

#WritingCommunity

Time demands honest priorities. I’ve frozen my company’s operations. Lately, most of my effort went to military and non-public needs rather than dev. Now, I’m reallocating my resource to what is most alive - writing.

It’s a move for creative autonomy. Details are on LinkedIn, though I suspect the Universe's line management will reprimand my escape from the matrix. At least my characters have a better survival rate than startups in entropy.

#WritingCommunity #HerOwnDream #Comics #Webcomics

My collection of responses from English-language agents gained a new specimen: a polite rejection.

The manuscript is in active review, and the spectrum of feedback is diverse: from "full requests" and "editorial meetings" to radio silence and quick passes.

Fascinating dynamic compared to the local void.

This story about an #AI and a #Cat is finally being seen.

Moving forward.

#WritingCommunity #HerOwnDream #Comics #Webcomics

The natural cycle of #cat sleep.

Our cats pick a spot, stay for ten days, then abruptly relocate. Any attempt to impose a new location is ignored - their agency is absolute.

Lampa is currently next to me; I’m just glad she isn't lying across the bed. She’s the most socialized, which is why she’s a character prototype in my #book, Her Own Dream. Sheldon is "undercover" in the wardrobe, so he missed the photo.

#CatsOfMastodon #HerOwnDream #WritingCommunity

Idagio fails, Massive Attack fills the vacuum. Basic energy law.

Lampa (the cat and the hero of my book) freezes, hunting behind my back. I turn: emptiness. She starts explaining. To think cats "just meow" is a decryption error. My failure to understand is my cognitive limit, not her silence.

Fix: Mezzanine leaked from headphones into the speakers. Lampa tracked trip-hop vibrations

Sometimes the internal soundtrack leaks into reality

#CatsOfMastodon #HerOwnDream #WritingCommunity #nowplaying