This is a plea for help.

My father-in-law is in palliative care. My wife is flying out to be with him. I'm broke and we need money.

If you can, please buy a book. If you can't please share so this will reach folks that can.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ErikBuchananAuthor

#amwriting #pleasehelp #buymybook

Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

Not today, Satan.

A reminder to look up from the garden insects occasionally ☝️

Not a common sight, but always a welcome one – a circumzenithal arc appeared above the Sun this evening, with a bonus parhelion to boot.

Among the most saturated atmospheric phenomena colour-wise, they're often missed because they're so high in the sky. I once saw one reflected in a car windscreen, before looking upwards.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#AtmosphericOptics

Today, Amazon effectively kills support for older Kindles. Not because the screens stopped working. Not because the batteries all died. Because Amazon decided perfectly usable e-readers should be cut off from the services that made them useful. That is not innovation. That is forced obsolescence with a checkout button. Sign PIRG’s petition and tell Amazon to stop bricking working Kindles.

PIRG Petition: https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-amazon-dont-junk-older-kindle-models/

BREAKING: VA Gov Abigail Spanberger just vetoed a bill that would ban ICE from making warrantless arrests inside of courthouses.

Let me be clear, if we do not have due process of law, then we have fascism.

Virginia Democrats have the House, the Senate, and the Governorship. They have all the power and still under a Corporate Centrist Democrat, align with fascist ideology. Just indefensible.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/116608515170969849

“But what if I’m citing someone’s work I haven’t read but it’s in a language I can’t understand but for sure it’s informing my work”

Tells more about the absolute awful state of scientific research under the publish or perish mantra than about chatbots