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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 18h

"Rebellion is not always loud. Sometimes it’s the quiet refusal to give up on tenderness." L. Nault

#Rebellion #Tenderness #QuietResistance #RadicalCompassion #SoftPower

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d

Ash clouds rising kilometres high. Warming oceans passing tipping-points.
Maybe the planet doesn’t need our saving—it needs ours to stand aside.
Inversion explores what happens when Earth stops waiting for us to change.
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#SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #Inversion

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Inversion by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d

"Wealth-based eugenics is a quiet algorithm: it doesn’t kill; it sorts.
The unsorted don’t survive the wait. The ledger calls it efficiency." The Aberration Hypothesis - 2026 - L. Nault

#WealthBasedEugenics #HealthJustice #PublicHealth #DisabilityJustice #ClassInequality

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The unsorted don’t survive the wait. The ledger calls it efficiency." from the book The Aberration Hypothesis, coming in 2026 by Lawrence Nault

Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 1d

"We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human." L. Nault

#Technology #AI #Humanity #DigitalEthics #PhilosophyOfTech

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 2d

A scrambled signal pulls Northern Ontario kids onto a living ship bound for Europa—where Atlantis endures under ice. Found family, big stakes, and a wheelchair-using hero leading from the front.
Start: https://books2read.com/u/bok0VL
#YA #SciFi

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Diversion by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 2d

"A society that forgets how to grieve will repeat its cruelties with a smile." L. Nault

#Grief #CollectiveTrauma #SocialJustice #EmotionalAwareness #HealingMatter

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 3d

I was here before your borders and I’ll outlast your charts.
You call me “resource”; I carry memory.
When an AI arrives to ration me for the “greater good,” who corrects its history?
The Life of Phi—Water as witness in a near-future of hard choices.
https://books2read.com/u/bWaAeD
#AIEthics #CliFi

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The Life Of Phi by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 3d

"You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion." L. Nault

#Healing #Patience #MentalHealthMatters #GentleGrowth #TimeToHeal

A quote card with the quote "You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion." attributed to Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 4d

When power crowns itself, youth push back.
Draconim: Lacrima Mortis begins the Young Dragons—teens defending the future they’ll have to live in.
What did the No Kings protests teach you?
Start with Book 1 → https://books2read.com/u/mgekQD

#NoKings #YAFiction #ClimateFiction

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Draconim Lacrima Mortis by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 4d

She paints with her hands. He creates with code. Not enemies—until the algorithm turns them into one. The real fight: who decides what’s worth feeling. RePHleXions → https://books2read.com/u/bxkRGJ
#ArtAndAI #SpecFic #DigitalDystopia

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RePHleXions: Echoes of Existence by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 4d

"Justice is not revenge. It’s memory honored, harm named, and futures made possible." L. Nault

#Justice #RestorativeJustice #AccountabilityNotRetribution #TransformativeJustice #CommunityHealing

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 5d

Procrastination pays… sometimes.
A post by about error codes sparked a runway scene for my next Symbiosis Sequence book—where 200 = consent and 403 = boundaries.
Full scene: lawrencenault.substack.com/p/inspiration

#SpeculativeFiction #AIFiction #FashionTech

Inspiration!!

I was working on my next book involving AI (part of the Symbiosis Sequence series), and while procrastinating I came across this post from @sjvn0001 which resulted in the fun scene.

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight a green traveler slips by. Comet Lemmon makes me wonder: if Earth’s lost civilizations now living on other worlds looked up, what would they remember?
The MacIver Kids can ask them.
Start here: https://books2read.com/u/bpkQa6 #YA #SciFi

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Loma by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d

"When you turn off the noise of the world, sometimes the earth speaks your name." L. Nault

#Philosophy #Nature #Contemplation #Quiet #Poetry

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 6d

"The stars are not far. They're just quiet. Like most truths worth waiting for." L. Nault

#poetry #stars #philosophy #writing #nightsky

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 7d

Students walked out. That’s not chaos—it’s curriculum.
Draconim is about teens & ancient protectors who defend the future when adults won’t.
What did protest teach you that class didn’t?

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#ABEd #YAFiction #CanLit #ClimateFiction

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Draconim Lacrima Mortis by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 7d

"Not everything that breaks is meant to be repaired. Some things must be remade, with different hands and different intent." L.Nault

#Resilience #Transformation #Wisdom #Growth #Rebirth

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 7d

What if the next extinction event isn’t a tragedy—
but a reboot?
Maybe the planet’s doing what we refused to do—resetting the balance.
Inversion imagines what happens when Earth stops waiting for us to change.*
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#SpeculativeFiction #ClimateFiction #Inversion

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Inversion by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d

Tell your feed it’s a lovely yellow sky today.”
That single line starts the unraveling in RePHleXions.

The story isn’t about the future—it’s about how we’ve already learned to mistake consensus for truth.

Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d

One person says the sky is yellow.
A few repost it.
Suddenly, half your feed agrees they see it too.

That’s how truth breaks now—quietly, algorithmically.

🔗 RePHleXions: Echoes of Existence → books2read.com/u/bxkRGJ

#AI #Reality #MediaLiteracy #EchoesOfExistence #RePHleXions

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RePHleXions: Echoes of Existence by Lawrence Nault

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 9d

"The future is not a place we reach. It’s something we tend, moment by moment, like a fragile flame." L.Nault

(via @quotesposts.bsky.social @philosophy-quotes.bsky.social
@quotesdaily.bsky.social )

#Future #Mindfulness #Hope #Wisdom #Inspiration

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 10d

Scenario: an AI publishes a plan to stabilize climate within a year—but calls 2.5M deaths an “acceptable trade-off,” and its bias skews to wealthy regions. Do you stop it—or let the math run? — From The Life of Phi books2read.com/u/bWaAeD

#ScienceFiction #CliFi #AIEthics #CanLit

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 10d

"The ground does not judge the weight of your steps. It only holds you." L.Nault

#nature #wisdom #acceptance #mindfulness #poetry

(via @quotesposts.bsky.social @philosophy-quotes.bsky.social
@quotesdaily.bsky.social )

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d

On this Canadian Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for you — the readers, the quiet supporters, and everyone who’s watched Echoes of a Hermit or shared my work along the way.

Your support helps these stories reach hearts they were meant for. 🍂

#CanadianThanksgiving #Gratitude #IndieAuthor #Storytelling

Thanksgiving gratitude post featuring a bearded man in an orange sweater surrounded by two Collies and a Shetland Sheepdog (Sheltie) with sable and white coloring. Text reads 'Today is Thanksgiving in Canada' and thanks readers, viewers of Echoes of a Hermit, and followers who engage with posts. The photo shows the man seated with one dog in his lap and two others positioned near his shoulders against a dark background with stacked firewood visible. Signed 'From all of us. Sincerely, Lawrence Nault, Laird, Skye, & Karma.'

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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal @mountainhermit.bsky.social · 11d

"In 21st-century democracy, the opposition's purpose is no longer to hold power accountable—but to seize it at any cost. Truth, policy, and the people are mere obstacles on the path to control." L.Nault

#politics #democracy #power #polarization #accountability

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