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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NO NOTES

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So weird. A really good book makes me want to go find another book.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LAKE PLACID is available on Netflix right now so it is time to watch LAKE PLACID again. I don't make the rules.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm watching THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU. It's very pretty, but the dialog has zero wit.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"But Howard, how is the dark matter visible?" False color rendering of gravitational data. And it's meta-stable dark matter, not the stable "WIMP" stuff that dominates the real universe. Some Schlockiverse dark matter can clump, and do chemistry.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I need to work my way up to doing 50 per day. Right now my body quits after 20. I think if I do ten at a time in five sessions with 30 minute breaks I'll be okay.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've been timing myself. The first one (after half a dozen practice runs) took 6 minutes. Most of them take about 3 minutes and 30 seconds. If I push for speed I can do one in 3 minutes flat, but I can't sustain that.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me, drawing a planet-sized dark-matter entity in its baryonic matter warshell... A thousand times. In color.

Circle template on a stamped page. Step 1.

Circle segments drawn, sketch number written, step 2

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Creative, in-character swearing is at the heart of good writing. Show me what you'll invoke as a curse, you show me your soul.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you. If you scream into the abyss try screaming without closing your eyes unless you want the abyss to win the staring contest.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Weird. I just put Marmite on one of the pizza crackers. It improved both items significantly. Not enough for me to have a second one, though.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've tried it with hot cocoa. It was nice, but not worth chasing.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I took FEMA training 25 years ago. Best survival advice for disasters: shoes next to the bed. If you run outside naked but with shoes on you're more likely to survive than if you have clothes on but are barefoot. The FEMA guy had numbers for this. So... shoes next to bed, then relax.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tim-Tams are fine. I don't crave them, though, and won't eat more than a couple, not even if the bag is undefended and there are no witnesses about.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Marmite doesn't trigger it, and apparently there's much less folate in Marmite. "Vegemite and cheese" crackers don't trigger it either, but that's not surprising. Crackers -even the good ones- aren't really food. They're spoons that you can digest.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The same thing happens sometimes when I peel an orange. Hindbrain says "PUT THAT IN US RIGHT NOW." I'll kill three or four clementines before the voice stops. I've long associated it with a temporary nutritional deficit. I first noticed it when I was in college and eating terribly.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I really like vegemite, and will eat a spoonful right out of the jar. It's probably my hindbrain crying out for the folate in the stuff. About two teaspoons per day, and then my hindbrain doesn't light up at the smell. This isn't comfort food or an acquired taste. It's something primal.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This brand also offers a Vegemite and Cheese flavor. It was utterly unlike both vegemite and cheese, and I say this as someone who has eaten quite a bit of both. Those tasted like dirt and disappointment with a bit of added salt.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I tried some of these Australian pizza-flavored crackers. The flavor is faint, and pizza-adjacent. They taste like someone ran through the room with a Hot Pocket.

A box of Arnott's Shapes pizza-flavored crackers

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Aeryn Rudel @aerynrudel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every hitter has what I call a killer’s #intuition. It’s that little Spidey-sense tingle that says not yet, wait until dark, or bring the .44 magnum instead of the 9mm. Ignore that intuition at your peril. There’s always room for a new hole in the desert outside of Vegas. #vss365 #microfiction

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Darrin aka Bundy @dkbundy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#ComicsThroughTheYears #comicsky Day 7: 2000s comics. SCHLOCK MERCENARY: TUB OF HAPPINESS by @howardtayler.bsky.social

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And now we drive three hours or so from Portland to Seattle. I have no expectations for the scenery, but I'm told there's a big mountain out here somewhere.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Sequoia forests are south. This was all coastal redwoods. The ones near the 101 are just taller than in Muir. Less city, less disturbed.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This was not a dark patch, but it was a good place to show the scale of things.

A stretch of US 101 with trees and cars and the trees dwarf everything.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Muir Woods was amazing, but the best trees we saw were along the 101 a day's drive north. "DAYTIME HEADLIGHT ZONE" the sign said. Yup. The avenue was narrower than a Manhattan roadway, and the skyscrapers were designed to eat all the light.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Driving from LA to Seattle is taking longer than I expected. America is wide, sure, I knew that, but it's also TALL. As are the redwoods.

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I am Erk🍁🪿 @i-am-erk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Had one of those days where I just suddenly and deeply miss #schlockmercenary. I like when stories end, dgmw, and it ended well, but... Sigh. Hope you're having a good summer @howardtayler.bsky.social.

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Sandra Tayler @sandratayler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Redwoods!

Howard Tayler photographing the texture of redwood bark

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 28/08/2026

It's Jack Kirby's birthday! Celebrate by creating, discovering, inventing, whole universes using the power of your mind! Then go fight some nazis.

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Big Spooky ColBosch @colbosch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anyone saying that AI can make your life better is trying to sell you a combination cult membership, addiction, and brain damage. They are not trying to help you. They want to convert you and hook you on the tech that is destroying everything it touches and enriching the worst people on Earth.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Project Manager: drinking the rest of what's in the cup will take 5 times as long as drinking the first half.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Your design doesn't solve the problem. What I want is an open-top claw-cage that screws to the arm BELOW the magnet mount, so the phone can be knocked off the magnet, but it's now batted back by the cage.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I will have cards at WorldCon that link to a page of parts and instructions for making your very own Technocane. That page is here. Please share if you or someone you know needs it. howardtayler.com/2026/08/tech...

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Technocane

The Technocane is what happened when, in my own words, “I taught my stick how to carry my phone so that my phone would teach me to never leave home without my stick. This page is a parts list…

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Muskrat 8647 @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Take a Segway, Ray. Rent an E-Bike, Mike. Uber away, Trey. Schedule a Lyft, Biff. Robotaxi it, Mitt… #50NewWaysToLeaveYourLover

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Alt text missing, out of practice...

The last page of a Schlock Mercenary book. There's a sketch of Sergeant Schlock, numbered 063/1200, and a stack of tracking sheets sit next to it.

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Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sketching in books while watching DUST BUNNY for the (*math math math*) fourth time.

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