I am often asked: What is the best telescope to buy for someone just getting into astronomy?

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As a theorist, I am absolutely useless and can tell you nothing. HOWEVER, my friend the wonderful @philplait.bsky.social is NOT useless and has great advice & relevant links here! ⤵️

Twin Cities folks! This is tomorrow (Sunday). Come and be entertained!

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#vss365 (chic) Human skin is *so* last season. This century, all the #chic demons are wearing unicorn-hair toupees and tailored suits over t-shirts. You would not believe how picky they are about their t-shirts. Are they pre-debauched? Despair-scented? Dry clean only? #microfiction 🧵 1/2

Me: I wonder if I can train myself to drink black coffee? It would be better for me.
Also me: Wincing after every sip.

Feeling very called out right now, with all those dirty dishes sitting in the next room.

And it’s live!

The Mistletoe Creeps for You or A Discussion of the Transformation of Xmas Horror from Societal to Fantastic
BY JORDAN SHIVELEY IN UNCANNY MAGAZINE ISSUE SIXTY-SEVEN | 2738 WORDS

www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Read it! Pass it on!
Thank you @uncannymagazine.bsky.social 🙏

#vss365="https://gavagai.com/posts/1133" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#vss365 Prompt: Aphotic — by Abra Staffin-Wiebe
#vss365 #microfiction Between stars, in the the #aphotic depths of space, a whaleship sings to itself. The captain hums along, because what else can you do but go mad? She's tried going mad in the past, but getting new crew is so tedious. And then--so…

A nice thing about writing is that literally anything in your life can be used as a driver for a story. Social mistakes, embarrassing stuff, failures, world events … can always be turned into an emotional core for art. It’s a layer of protection or maybe a “gotcha” for whatever life throws at you.

Me: "I'm a writer."
Them: "Have I read anything you've written?"
Me, thinking: ...I don't know, I haven't been keeping track of YOUR reading!

(After the first time when I was too flummoxed to have a good answer, I have used it as an opportunity to make them a recommendation.) #WritersLife

BCS is a great magazine to read, but also nobody else gives the feedback that Scott gives on stories, and his contracts are author friendly. In a world where that isn't the case, it's worth sending a couple of bucks their way. There's a subscription option if you don't do patreon.

Day 1 of Cheese Advent Calendar. Truffle cheddar cheese. Mmm... #Christmas #TisTheSeason #Food

Stout and self-assured, he sauntered down the street with the glorious peace of someone for whom money never mattered. Not because he had so much, but because a smile and the smarts to know when to be sincere and when to be #suave had always served him better. #AmWriting #vss365 (suave)

Last Christmas I gave you my heart, and, here’s the thing, I know it’s the very next day, but I’m going to have to ask for it back. The thing is, it was more of a metaphorical gesture. I didn’t expect you to take it literally. Medically, I need it to live. I hope you understand.

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"You Are in the Heart of the Corn Maze" is today's Editor Pick at Gavagai! Check it out if you like quiet horror flash fiction, autumnal pumpkin patches, growing dread and unease, or story structures that play with 1st/2nd person. www.gavagai.com/posts/465

#AmWriting #Horror #ShortStory

It took 3 days for my m-i-l's cat to get this close. His mama told him not to trust strange humans. #Caturday #BskyCats #Thanksgiving

My standalone adult fantasy, The Crimson Mouse, is free until Dec. 1st!
Grab a copy on Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google Books!

This is true of any ruminant whose diet is low enough in protein. There are videos on the internet of cows and goats casually snapping up baby chickens that happen to wander by. Ruminant molars are sharp enough to give you cuts like a scalpel, they can easily grind tiny birds.

She looks so, so happy.

for example:

I am in charge of executing Grandpa Sal’s stuffing recipe, a responsibility I inherited from my mother, who snatched it back from Uncle Pat after an incident in like 1987 where he went rogue and added orange juice & sunflower seeds, which she bitched about until the day she died

**points**
**stares at you**

This.

Hey, what happened to the Anthropic lawsuit website? I went to file, and it's redirecting everything to documents. Lookup, Claims, FAQ etc aren't showing up. WTF? It's not the deadline yet...

Halp!

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Inspired by someone elsewhere, I hereby vow to try to avoid the terms "content" and "content creator," unless I *must* talk about work across so many fields that a generic term is the only one that will suffice. Let's not reduce art, criticism, journalism, etc. to an undifferentiated smear of Stuff.