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Michael Kazarnowicz

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I spent 20+ years on the hedonic treadmill, only to realize it doesn't lead anywhere. Now I'm a metamodern hippe living in the far north with my husband […] [bridged from unstraight.club/@kazarnowicz on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

The universe had my back yesterday. I was hauling a little more than half a metric ton behind my car. Suddenly, a moose comes running out of the forest. I slam the brakes while the moose is running towards me in the ditch. He threw himself up on the road just in time to be right in front of my […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

This response to “is it possible to be bigger than a blue whale?” In r/AskScience is an absolute masterclass in how to make your PhD accessible to the public. I knew about the thermoregulation issue, but the others were news to me. Like 37 BPM being the maximum heart rate, down to 2 when diving […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

One piece of advice I’d give anyone who’s discovering writing is to get a second hobby, if you don’t already have one. I’ve found that meaningful activities that don’t have anything to do with the story are quality marination time. Sometimes you need to step away from the picture for a while to […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Apple’s AutoMix is starting to sound like a DJ who never heard the song he’s about to play. All the DJ knows is the BPM of the next song, but they cannot understand the vibe. Stochastic Parrot DJs, what a time we live in, eh?

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

We just finished watching Ted Lasso. It’s easily one of my favorite TV shows, together with The Good Place and Killjoys. The way they package conflict and drama in kindness is so wholesome and human. The cast is great, but Hannah Waddingham is in a league of her own. What an actress! (Soon […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I just finished the first chapter of the second book. The process was more streamlined now, it's easier to stay in the spotlight illuminating the scene and not stray to other cool parts. I had forgotten the feeling of writing a scene, the marvel of discovery, the joy of putting it into actual […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Don't get me wrong, that 5-year-old is incredibly helpful in world building, and in discovering parts of the plot I can't initially see. … but you might also end up having to invent a base-6 time-keeping system and then having to coordinate events down to the minute both across different […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

That helps with future marketing too: the first chapter is a good glimpse at the aliens, their relation to the plot, and what my style of telling this story is. I think I'll have fewer disappointed readers this way: if you like the first chapter, you'll enjoy the book. The aliens also are more […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

First time writing aliens takes longer, because I easily stray and start describing the stage instead of the story playing out on it. In my first book, the first chapter introduces the two alien characters, and it was once this chapter was finished I knew I had found my voice. Trusting that […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I'm glad I stayed away from is tips on editing. Discovering being a discovery writer also means discovering your own editing process. Once I found my voice and narrating style for the books, I've settled in a rhythm that feels right: I write a chapter, read through it and edit it, then move on […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

It's heartbreaking to see how long it takes for a dog to fully trust humans after being abused as a puppy. Ori, our youngest, is six years old and has been with us for five years now. It's first now we see the cuddly side of him. A new current ritual of his is to give my hands and/or face a […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

In all the jobs I've had since, there has been a limit to the emotional responsibility I have in a group. This means that my hyperempathy wasn't triggered to the same degree. High school and hormones made that go into overdrive, because you couldn't avoid the social drama even if you were the […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

They built up over a couple hours, and started as a headache around the left temple. That's where all my regular headaches sit too, so I never knew when one would simply not stop escalating until all I could do was rock back and forth, barely aware of the outside world. I'd fall asleep after a […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

On a personal note: I've taken the first step to getting an official autism diagnosis. Being back in a school environment, this time as a teacher, gives me frequent flashbacks to my own childhood seen through the lens of me being autistic. One memory is physical: as a teenager, I had what […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

My students are at the nervous system, and looking in the text books gives me flashbacks from having my mind blown as a twelve-year old in science class: The fact that the image that hits our retina is upside down. Our brain turns it right. It brings the fact that we're hallucinating reality […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Is it just my weird corner of the internet, or has it become more and more common that random pages (in the most recent case: sciencedirect.com) throw up Cloudflare's "confirm that you're human" page with just a tick-box? Cloudflare must host so much of the internet that it would be a prime […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@iakonkret Apropå peppar så introducerade en kompis mig till Espelette-peppar i somras. Jag fick en liten burk och den är helt fantastisk på omelett. Mild, fruktig, pepprig, med liten efterhetta. Ser jättefin ut också. @onkologen

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

If you want to know exactly how horrible the first draft was, my short TikTok career peaked with a joke about it featuring Kristen Wiig. She's a fantastic comedian, and if you know her character Dooneese this is probably funnier than if you don't, but the point can't be missed.

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I think I'm ready to start book two, because now I see scenes on pretty much every walk with Dante and Ori. It will be quite different from what I first imagined when I sat down to write, but that's the thing with being a discovery writer: you need to be open for the story to take you in […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I think that the best tip I can give new writers is to eschew all tips, because most tips tend to be for plotters. To me, it's less of a binary and more like a spectrum. If you don't know where on that spectrum you are, give discovery writing a chance first. It's easier to go from discovery […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

In my second draft, I made a common mistake that many new sci-fi writers do: I tried to introduce the stage for the reader in the first chapter, instead of focusing on the story and choosing key elements where the narrator could explain the bits relevant to the story. All in all it took a year […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

In hindsight, it was really simple: once you start asking the first how's and why's, they multiply. All those questions resulted in the first book. It basically ends where the first draft started. Most of those questions didn't make it into the story, but all of them helped with the world […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Fostering a curious and inquisitive mind is a great practice if you're a discovery writer. Algorithm driven content is anathema to the curious mind, it ends up locking you in a bubble. I read about a study the other day, where Netflix users were found to have lower contentment in the long run […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

One thing I've learned so far from discovering being a discovery writer, is that you can't speed up the process. The journey cannot be reduced to cliff notes. I haven't written much for almost two years simply because it was like trying to grasp for glimpses of light whenever I saw a scene from […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/11728… This is now confirmed by the US S4S according to space-track.org: www.space-track.org/auth/login Let's hope the damage caused by the debris is minimal.

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@Eorlingur jag hittade Aroma-äpplen i butiken idag. De är fantastiska. Det finns så många goda äppelsorter i Sverige. Synd att klimatet här inte tillåter äppelträd, men jag får väl bygga mig ett orangeri om min bok blir en storsäljare.

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@Xavier I hope the people on it brought their towels! (I have a huge nod to Douglas Adams' books in the story in the books I'm writing. Such a fantastic author!) @futurebird

Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@futurebird This is exactly the reason I left that industry, after stumbling into it in my 30s. At 40, I was quite good at it and could choose clients. I also realized that unless it's changing people's lives or the world for the better, it's not worth it. And frankly, there are very few […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@futurebird I suspect that in order to be able to introduce the butterfly effect, you would need a simulation that is so close to reality it would be indistinguishable. A computer that can calculate the butterfly effect for Earth, like the effect of a butterfly in Tokyo flapping her wings on […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

With climate change speedrunning at a pace that surprises many academics, I don't know how much time we have left before civilization starts to crumble (more than it already has for minorities in "civilized" countries like the USA). I just know that for this blip in spacetime, I got to be with […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

The drive with the trailer was 5 hours, due to speed limits when towing a trailer. As I was listening to "Curious Cases" while endless evergreen forests lined my asphalted way home, it hit me: I'm married. We own a house, two cars, and a trailer. We have two dogs. It's a life I used to scorn in […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I traveled down to get the car, which had been outfitted with a hitch, additional beams because it's pitch dark here, and an engine heater that also charges the battery. On the 1000 kilometer drive home, I stopped by Ikea to get a few things we needed. I managed to buy only the necessary stuff […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

We had a week at home, and we leveled out one of our sheds (Little Lucy, the others are Wylene, Outback Betty, and Boop - the last being in the same small glade). One sunny day, we took a hike up a mountain with the dogs. Ori managed to snap a claw pretty much clean off, leaving the pulp […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

The drive home is a two-dayer, and this time we stopped at a smaller, gay-owned camping on the northern coast. Closer to my style, even if it didn't convert me to caravan life. The next day, we woke up to the most intense thunderstorm I've experienced. Right above us. The small cottage (a shed […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

While down there, we researched cars. Public transport/school bus + 1 car worked with our previous schedules at school, but fall semester we'll need one each. I'm not good at cars, but fortunately with our demands (4WD, hatchback, high ground clearance) the supply becomes manageable - […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

We drove 670 miles to visit my mom and her partner. She really thrives in summer, and loves gardening and geraniums. The porch of their house is like a symphony of colors against the 18th century house with red paneling and white corers. My mom really is the sweetest person. My friends adore […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

If you want to meet a Summer Swede, you need to get outside of the big cities. You might get the occasional glimpse on the outdoor serving of a restaurant but to hang out with a Summer Swede you have to go where they go in summer. And I think that camping grounds are ideal. And also not […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I used #camping, but I think that #glamping is more fair. Sure, there were a few tents on the well-manicured outskirts that were designated for them, but the bulk is caravans. Room: 1100. People build decks around theirs. Get out the attachable tents, creating a living room. For a few weeks […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Every summer, I'm grateful for unions (socialism!) that gave us 5 week vacation time. T Our first four weeks have been lovely. Midsummer at Piteå Havsbad, the latter a quintessential Swedish experience. Sweden's largest camping ground at the Gulf of Bothnia features a water park, padel boards […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

I'm going to get an "utredning" (the process of seeing if one is on the spectrum) - not really because I need help, but because then I can be open about it. We have kids with autism in school, and I know that role models and representation matter. I have told the special ed teacher that I […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Life update: working in an elementary school is among the most meaningful jobs I've had. It's also one of the most demanding and I'm just a substitute. There's a Swedish verb for a mass that has had soluble components removed through percolation: "urlakad". It's used metaphorically for humans […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

It's rare that I read a book that stays with me for years after I've finished it. Octavia Butler's Parable duology is among the best books I've read. Maybe it's because it's so prescient. Written in the 90s, it plays out in 2024, and has a fascist president candidate running with the slogan […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Today I learned that there are adoptions where the dog chooses their human. This is the stuff I need to see when the world is sliding into cruelty and insanity. If you too need a good cry but for the right reasons, there's a lot of videos from the various places that have tried this […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

I ran across a post in r/SciFiWriting: “Your Scariest Horror Tech?" asking for technology defying physics in truly terrifying ways. I started writing my answer, but then I realized that I don't want to be training data for stochastic parrots, who get makeup and lipstick and are called AIs. In […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

I've been pondering the difference between “unconscious" and "subconscious". I think that they're like two circles in a Venn diagram that overlap to a large degree. I believe that what Kahneman calls "System 1" in “Thinking Fast and Slow" is the process on the border between the conscious and […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Swedish government going down the Zionist path: Members of parliament called Jews protesting an IDF-soldier's talk “odjur" (the translation would be something like animal/vermin) One of the *ministers* amplified the message. As far as I can tell, nobody has apologized and when journalists ask […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

Whenever I'm in a writing period, my amount of open tabs increases exponentially. The flip side of being a discovery writer of hard sci-fi is that you often have to research the details of the settings. Like the hours and browser tabs (so many tabs!) spent on researching how oil platforms work […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

If we ever make contact with aliens, I don't think that communication will be an easy problem. I base this on the fact that I have been able to establish a language with both our dogs. It consists of signs and words and sounds and even body positions. Seeing things from their perspective has […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025

The most infuriating thing is that politicians see low birth-rates as a problem that needs to be fixed - because the economy demands it. To me it seems like the captain demanding more chairs on the deck of Titanic as it sinks, so that everyone can comfortably sit as they drown. We created an […]

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Michael Kazarnowicz @kazarnowicz.unstraight.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025

I'm a grass widower since @Nightwolf is in the US, visiting family and friends. I stayed home because I ain't risking getting a boot licker as border security officer and getting denied entry because of everything I've written about Badgolf Shitler. It's just me and the doggos. It's been nice […]

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