Jasper
@jasperwrites.bsky.social
Stories told round a fire.
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Headshot art by Toblerone Tokić (based on a selfie)(https://www.instagram.com/toblerone.tokic/)
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An interesting project by my friend Mordechai. Check it out via the link below.
Consider supporting the writing of this book by Mordechai (physicist turned journalist) on how neuroscience influences AI by pre-ordering it (start at 10 USD)
You can check in his sample pages (around 40) that his writing is engaging and scholarly.
Please RT 🙏
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You can check in his sample pages (around 40) that his writing is engaging and scholarly.
Please RT 🙏
www.kickstarter.com/projects/454...
AI: How We Got Here—A Neuroscience Perspective
A deep dive into the research of neuroscientists, who have uncovered a stunning way of interpreting AI progress
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January 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
An interesting project by my friend Mordechai. Check it out via the link below.
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Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that…
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January 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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So excited to have a story in this issue!!!
Our January/February issue is on sale today [https://asimovs.com/store]! Pick up a copy to enjoy stories by James Patrick Kelly, Siobhan Carroll @siobhancarroll.bsky.social, Frank Ward, Faith Merino, Rick Wilber, Jendayi Brooks-Flemister, Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net, and more great authors!
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
So excited to have a story in this issue!!!
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Our sister imprint Violet Lichen is open for queries! Send in your weirdest, most wonderful speculative fiction before the mid-winter window closes on January 10th! 🔮🕯🕸🌙📚
Submission guidelines and details can be found in Marissa's blog post linked below, or here: violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
Submission guidelines and details can be found in Marissa's blog post linked below, or here: violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
Violet Lichen is currently open to novella queries!
🖤✨🍄💀🌿🖤
We are looking for weird, unsettling, or surreal speculative fiction with distinctive characters and settings that feel alive. The mid-winter window will stay open until at least Jan 10 (details below!)
violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
🖤✨🍄💀🌿🖤
We are looking for weird, unsettling, or surreal speculative fiction with distinctive characters and settings that feel alive. The mid-winter window will stay open until at least Jan 10 (details below!)
violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
Violet Lichen open to novella queries
It has been a truly wonderful few months reading all of the delightfully weird, creepy, and imaginative queries we received this summer. Almost all queries from our initial opening have been respon…
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December 9, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Our sister imprint Violet Lichen is open for queries! Send in your weirdest, most wonderful speculative fiction before the mid-winter window closes on January 10th! 🔮🕯🕸🌙📚
Submission guidelines and details can be found in Marissa's blog post linked below, or here: violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
Submission guidelines and details can be found in Marissa's blog post linked below, or here: violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...
I was called to read Vonnegut’s Mother Night again. Its focus on complicity rings so much more clear in this now.
“Witnesses reported seeing 10 buses lined up to take people away. One worker said she ‘saw workers at the plant bound with plastic cuffs and heard women screaming about who would pick up their children.’”
This was at a Minnesota meatpacking plant back in 2006.
What’s coming will be unbearable🎁
This was at a Minnesota meatpacking plant back in 2006.
What’s coming will be unbearable🎁
Burcum: Minnesota communities may land on deportation push’s frontlines
One of them, Worthington, had a preview in 2006 of what it will look like if Trump carries out campaign promises.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I was called to read Vonnegut’s Mother Night again. Its focus on complicity rings so much more clear in this now.
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So, this should be The Fire Next Time but since I enjoyed this movie so much and I can't just choose ONE of Baldwin's writings, reading the screenplay was absolutely a delight and Peck did Baldwin justice in this filmic realisation of Baldwin's writings.
November 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
So, this should be The Fire Next Time but since I enjoyed this movie so much and I can't just choose ONE of Baldwin's writings, reading the screenplay was absolutely a delight and Peck did Baldwin justice in this filmic realisation of Baldwin's writings.
How Friday begins and May ends. Text from Wife: "There is a small dead creature that is partially decapitated on the walkway to the front porch."
May 31, 2024 at 1:53 PM
How Friday begins and May ends. Text from Wife: "There is a small dead creature that is partially decapitated on the walkway to the front porch."
For Earth Day. Also, shouldn’t every day be a celebration of Earth, our only home.
#earthday #amwritingspecfic #amreading #anthonydoer #harrisonford #listentothequiet
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#earthday #amwritingspecfic #amreading #anthonydoer #harrisonford #listentothequiet
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Anthony Doerr on Instagram: "I was proud to draft this message for the great Harrison Ford — and it’s ready just in time for Earth Day. 🌎
In honor of the foundational work of the biologist E. O. Wils...
78 likes, 6 comments - anthonydoerrwriterApril 20, 2024 on : "I was proud to draft this message for the great Harrison Ford — and it’s ready just in time for Earth Day. 🌎
In honor of the foun...".
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April 20, 2024 at 6:23 PM
For Earth Day. Also, shouldn’t every day be a celebration of Earth, our only home.
#earthday #amwritingspecfic #amreading #anthonydoer #harrisonford #listentothequiet
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#earthday #amwritingspecfic #amreading #anthonydoer #harrisonford #listentothequiet
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Reporting in on my torque of weekend movie watching. Friday = Alex Garland's Civil War. Saturday=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. My personal concoction of Barbenheimer.
#civilwar #alexgarland #mr.rogers #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi
#civilwar #alexgarland #mr.rogers #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi
April 14, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Reporting in on my torque of weekend movie watching. Friday = Alex Garland's Civil War. Saturday=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. My personal concoction of Barbenheimer.
#civilwar #alexgarland #mr.rogers #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi
#civilwar #alexgarland #mr.rogers #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi
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If I started offering prairie pictures for download would anyone be interested in donating to our big conservation project?
I'm a worker, not a beggar - I want to earn these donations!
Would love to hear what you're looking for so I can offer it... 💚
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I'm a worker, not a beggar - I want to earn these donations!
Would love to hear what you're looking for so I can offer it... 💚
ko-fi.com/ladybugdawn
Support Wild Midwest Child on Ko-fi! ❤️
Become a supporter of Wild Midwest Child today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.
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April 12, 2024 at 12:47 PM
If I started offering prairie pictures for download would anyone be interested in donating to our big conservation project?
I'm a worker, not a beggar - I want to earn these donations!
Would love to hear what you're looking for so I can offer it... 💚
ko-fi.com/ladybugdawn
I'm a worker, not a beggar - I want to earn these donations!
Would love to hear what you're looking for so I can offer it... 💚
ko-fi.com/ladybugdawn
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“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” premieres Sunday, April 14, at 8pm ET/PT on CNN.
Tune in for an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built and the discoveries it has unlocked. #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪
Tune in for an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built and the discoveries it has unlocked. #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪
The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper & Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight
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April 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
“The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” premieres Sunday, April 14, at 8pm ET/PT on CNN.
Tune in for an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built and the discoveries it has unlocked. #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪
Tune in for an inside look at the most powerful telescope ever built and the discoveries it has unlocked. #NASAWebb 🔭 🧪
and for me the winner of the best eclipse art goes too ...
#eclipse #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi #amreading
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#eclipse #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi #amreading
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Morbid Anatomy on Instagram:
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April 10, 2024 at 12:19 AM
and for me the winner of the best eclipse art goes too ...
#eclipse #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi #amreading
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#eclipse #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amwritingscifi #amreading
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Some helpful reminders to those of us submitting and querying from the Kurt Vonnegut museum. #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amquerying
April 6, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Some helpful reminders to those of us submitting and querying from the Kurt Vonnegut museum. #amwriting #amwritingspecfic #amquerying
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So happy to have my piece, Redshift || Shiftred out on Uncanny. Themes of addiction to time, war, and a my love of Philly, set in space (if you've never had water ice before, come visit because it's a taste of heaven)
Uncanny Magazine Issue 57 Part 2 features all-new short fiction by Annalee Newitz, Valerie Valdes, and Parlei Rivière! www.uncannymagazine.com
April 2, 2024 at 4:10 PM
So happy to have my piece, Redshift || Shiftred out on Uncanny. Themes of addiction to time, war, and a my love of Philly, set in space (if you've never had water ice before, come visit because it's a taste of heaven)
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I like this concept of #ClimateQuitting. Should also steal stuff on your way out the door. And whistle blow. And
Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change https://theconversation.com/climate-quitting-the-people-leaving-their-fossil-fuel-jobs-because-of-climate-change-226246 #ClimateChange
Climate quitting: the people leaving their fossil fuel jobs because of climate change
Grace Augustine talks about her interviews with people who’ve chosen to leave their jobs over climate change concerns on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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March 23, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I like this concept of #ClimateQuitting. Should also steal stuff on your way out the door. And whistle blow. And
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If you haven't read Interzone, you should be. They're doing some really fantastic work in the SFF industry. So, please, let's help them get over the hump and keep them running. See links below.
March 19, 2024 at 8:52 AM
If you haven't read Interzone, you should be. They're doing some really fantastic work in the SFF industry. So, please, let's help them get over the hump and keep them running. See links below.
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This week, Steve Leard (a freelance cover artist and fellow podcaster!) joins us to demystify all things cover design: processes, briefs, trends, industry pay, the problem with thumbnails... and finally, the looming specter of generative AI.
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March 18, 2024 at 11:39 AM
This week, Steve Leard (a freelance cover artist and fellow podcaster!) joins us to demystify all things cover design: processes, briefs, trends, industry pay, the problem with thumbnails... and finally, the looming specter of generative AI.
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I’ve donated a writer's most crucial resource to the Locus fundraiser: my TIME. Half hour Zoom chat with me. Wanna snag it? Link is here to check it out--and the other great rewards: igg.me/at/locusmag2... We can talk about walnuts, cats, cat walnuts, walnut cats. You know. Stuff. See you in August!
Locus Mag: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror 2024
Celebrating and uplifting authors, artists, and story -- the guide to the world's imagination
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March 7, 2024 at 1:31 AM
I’ve donated a writer's most crucial resource to the Locus fundraiser: my TIME. Half hour Zoom chat with me. Wanna snag it? Link is here to check it out--and the other great rewards: igg.me/at/locusmag2... We can talk about walnuts, cats, cat walnuts, walnut cats. You know. Stuff. See you in August!
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hey eligible work by ppl last year's Hugos f*d over:
Paul Weimer (fan writer): www.nerds-feather.com/search/label...
Yang Wanqing (novelette, Ch 2023 Eng 2024): clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/
R.F. Kuang transl. Regina Kanyu Wang (novelette): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...
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Paul Weimer (fan writer): www.nerds-feather.com/search/label...
Yang Wanqing (novelette, Ch 2023 Eng 2024): clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/
R.F. Kuang transl. Regina Kanyu Wang (novelette): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...
(1/2)
March 7, 2024 at 2:05 AM
hey eligible work by ppl last year's Hugos f*d over:
Paul Weimer (fan writer): www.nerds-feather.com/search/label...
Yang Wanqing (novelette, Ch 2023 Eng 2024): clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/
R.F. Kuang transl. Regina Kanyu Wang (novelette): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...
(1/2)
Paul Weimer (fan writer): www.nerds-feather.com/search/label...
Yang Wanqing (novelette, Ch 2023 Eng 2024): clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_02_24/
R.F. Kuang transl. Regina Kanyu Wang (novelette): www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-re...
(1/2)
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March 7, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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Can't beat Amanda Gorman and a cello. In case you missed it, as I did, here she is riffing on resilience, creativity and hope. Enjoy!
#amwriting #amreading #amlistening #amandagorman
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#amwriting #amreading #amlistening #amandagorman
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The Late Show on Instagram: "Enjoy this stunning collaborative performance of “What We Carry,” between National Youth Poet Laureate @AmandascGorman and distinguished cellist @janvoglercello.
Gorman’...
51K likes, 795 comments - colbertlateshow on February 27, 2024: "Enjoy this stunning collaborative performance of “What We Carry,” between National Youth Poet..."
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March 6, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Can't beat Amanda Gorman and a cello. In case you missed it, as I did, here she is riffing on resilience, creativity and hope. Enjoy!
#amwriting #amreading #amlistening #amandagorman
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#amwriting #amreading #amlistening #amandagorman
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✨ March Writing Classes and Workshops ✨
3/6 Using Language to Build Your Fantasy World with Walt Boyes
3/12 Writing Disabled Characters with John Wiswell
3/16 Better Futures through Solarpunk with Andrew Dana Hudson
Find these and more: www.clarionwest.org/programs/onl...
3/6 Using Language to Build Your Fantasy World with Walt Boyes
3/12 Writing Disabled Characters with John Wiswell
3/16 Better Futures through Solarpunk with Andrew Dana Hudson
Find these and more: www.clarionwest.org/programs/onl...
February 26, 2024 at 8:14 PM
✨ March Writing Classes and Workshops ✨
3/6 Using Language to Build Your Fantasy World with Walt Boyes
3/12 Writing Disabled Characters with John Wiswell
3/16 Better Futures through Solarpunk with Andrew Dana Hudson
Find these and more: www.clarionwest.org/programs/onl...
3/6 Using Language to Build Your Fantasy World with Walt Boyes
3/12 Writing Disabled Characters with John Wiswell
3/16 Better Futures through Solarpunk with Andrew Dana Hudson
Find these and more: www.clarionwest.org/programs/onl...
I want a portal. Also, why does Lithuania always get all the cool stuff?
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#amreading #writingCommunity #speclit, #specfic, #scifilit, #horrorlit, #fantasylit, #sff, #sffh, #portal
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#amreading #writingCommunity #speclit, #specfic, #scifilit, #horrorlit, #fantasylit, #sff, #sffh, #portal
Portals.org on Instagram: "Thank you @edita.kaite for sharing your Portal experience! ✨ #planetearth #unity #peaceandlove #peace #humans"
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February 27, 2024 at 12:12 AM
I want a portal. Also, why does Lithuania always get all the cool stuff?
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#amreading #writingCommunity #speclit, #specfic, #scifilit, #horrorlit, #fantasylit, #sff, #sffh, #portal
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#amreading #writingCommunity #speclit, #specfic, #scifilit, #horrorlit, #fantasylit, #sff, #sffh, #portal