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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 4d

That is very kind of you to reach out and say, Joel. Thank you for taking the time, and for taking the time to read this piece at all. I'm grateful that it struck a chord.

M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I finally posted something: a piece that reflects on deep time, how to cope with deep disappointment in humanity, and random walks with photons / on the streets.

It's been really hard to juggle everything, but making time for #WorldGrief matters.

Hope you're taking care of your noggins, too.

On "Random Walks" in Awful Times

Seven ways of looking at two scattered months amid atrocity

open.substack.com

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 5d

Just out of the last of four meetings today.

Filled with gratitude for the first especially, where I was privileged to see Sheila Williams of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social show the same care & consideration for early-career SFF writers as she does for so many in our genre.

Good instruction is a gift!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 7d

Been a long while since an #ArtBreak, eh?

But Andrea Kowch's creations have a mood to them that certainly encapsulate how I feel these days. May the ferocious busy-ness of these Neo-Gothic scenes reach you with all the command of inner wildness they also portray.

Go forth and be ungovernable.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 9d

Not too much missed there, Jen! @cjlavigne.com covered the key points. We've been using a temp solution on Discord while bigger data migration work is underway, and I sorely hope to have a fuller update for everyone next week in Singularity. Thanks for reaching out - and to CJ for the solid answer!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 20d

Morning in the park with the girls. ¡Feliz día del amor y la amistad!

#NatureBreak

Two of the horses that spend their early morning idling in the park by my home.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 23d

Here's a chuckle for SF-history-lovers, from @wordsmithfl.bsky.social. Just as mesmerism was all the rage in 1920s SF, so too did our love affair with mind control influence 1960s Trek. When people talk about "hard SF", just remember that every era has its misguided notions of what is within reach.

Dagger of the Mind (Episode 11)

As pressures built on him to deliver an action-adventure show on time and on budget, Gene Roddenberry personally rewrote yet another writer's script.

www.thewrittentrek.com

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 23d

#PoetryBreak before bed.

A simple one, but the kind you tuck away and recite to yourself whenever you need a reminder that the world hasn't necessarily become more cruel - only, regained a level of honesty around the cruelty it always had.

Let us ache and struggle for better all the same. 🕯️

Tired
Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two--
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 24d

Say hello to my little friend.

This itty bitty member of the gecko committee got lost in my apartment today, and she's been happily chilling in a little sheltered set-up by my desk for a few hours now. We'll see if she wanders away tonight.

Thanks for the emotional support today at least, buddy!

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 27d

#ArtBreak before evening web-dev work, after one more day-work task.

Well, #MusicBreak.

This is Hildegard von Blingin's Bardcore cover of "We Didn't Start the Fire".

You're welcome, and be beautiful to one another. I look forward to being post-web-dev and back to other creative practice soon.

🫂💛

We Didn't Start the Fire (Bardcore | Medieval/Renaissance Style Cover)

YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin'

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M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social · 29d

#ArtBreak, anyone?

Joanna Karpowicz's most famous work is perhaps her series of Anubis wandering the world.

It would be a gimmick if not for the artist's primary commitment to capturing everyday scenes, *then* adding an element that highlights the deep history that walks with us through it all.