Jim Munroe

@jimmunroe
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He/him. SF novelist/filmmaker at http://jimmunroe.net ~ Producer/Narrative designer ~ Co-founded Hand Eye Society, now Game Arts International Network and Toronto Games Week ~ Designed IF tool http://texturewriter.com
A panel from Roaming by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki. I love how it incidentally captures trying to squeeze a takeout container into a too-full garbage can -- a weirdly familar moment I've never seen in print.
I've been trying to quit Google for years, and I finally did it: https://jimmunroe.net/writing/divestment-december.html
Anger at the techno-fascists wasn't enough on its own:
I got a big boost of inspiration and mutual aid from the brilliant community at @yunohost who provide ways to install and maintain -- with very little technical knowledge --
digital services like forums, cloud services and media streaming apps. Check them out at https://YunoHost.org !
At Sitges, the sci-fi and horror film festival just outside Barcelona. Really amazed at how it totally transforms the town... There's even a statue of the festival's mascot! It's been going since the late 1960s.
Kudos to @daff.space and the Game Sewer folk for their on-theme sludge refreshments served in petri dishes.
Hard not to read this as the choice in this cultural moment.
What's wrong with this picture?
Overheard on the Vancouver-Nanimo ferry:
"Hey Siri, does Rolls Royce make a diesel engine?"
Proud to be representing @inkskratch.com and my graphic novel ZEROED OUT in a Vancouver co-launch with the delightful doodlin' diarist @jasonturner.bsky.social
Sneaking away from the game conference to say hi to an old friend, the coliseum inspired Vancouver Public Library. We arrived in town around the same time, May 1995!