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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 14/09/2026

My shower wasn't this clean when I bought the house.

John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 14/09/2026

You think you're keeping yourself young at heart, and then one day a new set of scrub brushes is the highlight of your week.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 12/08/2026

4200 words over the past 3 days. I've been getting back to work after a lengthy downtime. Life has been lifing but I'm back on the horse or whatever.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/08/2026

I've had the music from an original NES game stuck in my head off and on for over 3 decades. I'm humming it right now. I have zero idea what game it was.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 28/05/2026

Have decided to add a bit more whimsy.

Small brick lined square in my front yard, nestled between railed porch and concrete steps, filled with pea gravel. A garden gnome sits in meditation amongst glass mushrooms.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 21/05/2026

How am I supposed to accomplish my ambitious goals for the day when it's raining and I have this perfectly good porch from which to watch said rain?

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

can't help but think how even a scrap of a fragment of a fraction of the money being shovelled into genai deceit engines would be enough to keep FIYAH running for several thousand years at least

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In case you need someone to give you either permission or a sign: Go write the weird thing.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 21/05/2026

I was aiming for variety there and didn't even include my favorite random show. Driving through nowhere Florida, saw their name on the sign for this weird bar out in a swamp, pulled a fucking U turn to see Igor and the Red Elvises.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: The Meat Puppets Parliament-Funkadelic Lords of Acid That 1 Guy Flogging Molly Willie Nelson Jimmy Buffett Todd Snider Peter Frampton CAKE

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Alexis Ames @alexisames.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today is a great day to check out a scifi book that has: ⭐queer characters over 40 ⭐enemies to lovers ⭐a disabled MC ⭐a mystery on a stranded spaceship ⭐grief, loss, love, and second chances ⭐people telling me they stayed up all night reading it books2read.com/u/mdBDo5

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The Chamos Project by Alexis Ames

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 05/05/2026

The actual linked article is quite worth a read.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 02/05/2026

I feel this. I decided a few years ago that if anyone had the audacity to look sneeringly in my direction at a hotel breakfast bar, I would respond with "what are you doing in my house?" Like an escaped dementia patient thinking I'm somewhere else.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 28/04/2026

You are not the weird one here.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 23/04/2026

Quite a bit closer to home, I've also taken up #birdwatching I am so far terrible at identifying them, but maybe if they'd sit still for a photo I could get better.

An adult cardinal clings to a metal pole above a bird feeder. What I believe are two juvenile cardinals peck seed on the feeder ledge.

A pair of birds, possibly either juvenile cardinals or adult finches, peck at fallen seed in the grass beneath the feeder.

Bird in flight is approaching the feeder to land on the ledge.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 23/04/2026

Other contacts in my phone: La Chupacabra Dirty Earl Fat Kitty Savannah Frandemonium 🐻 🫎 Pretzel Pal Tequila Bestie Wu Wes

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

writing characters be like: [writer]: you're my baby [writer]: i love you [writer]: i will spend hours writing you [writer]: *adds a torture scene* [writer]: *adds break up scene* [writer]: *adds background angst* [writer]: *adds family drama* [writer]: i love you [writer]: *adds more pain*

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 20/04/2026

Princess Bride, Office Space, Dr Strangelove

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Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You asked, and I answered, because I am, if nothing else, a woman of the people. Warren Zevon prints are now available for pre-order in the shop, in an itty bitty run of 15! www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 17/04/2026

Let’s all go to the library this weekend

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 30/03/2026

Ethan Zuckerman. He actually apologized about a decade ago, calling it the "original sin" of thr internet.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 19/03/2026

Last reskeet: complete fucking tangent and irrelevant in this rising tide of doom, but the snippet of text in that screenshot is a fundamental detail that Brian Herbert and KJA either missed or ignored and their prequels are terrible not solely because of it but it is a big factor.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 17/03/2026

AI will never be able to roll its eyes like I just did.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 17/03/2026

Oh! And the gutters: it depends on the length of gutters needed really. The quote for mine was close to 20% of the roofing quote, yes, but your house may require more or less gutter length depending on the lines.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 17/03/2026

You want a reputable and competent company that does an affordable job, yes of course. But you're going to want the best guarantee terms you can get as well. The company that did mine provides a free yearly inspection and guaranteed their work for 25 years. Anything AT ALL goes wrong, they fix. 2/2

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 17/03/2026

Replaced mine last year. Minimal savings on homeowners, but some. The gutters didn't need to be touched at all to complete the job. They did give me a quote for replacing those as well, but I declined. My biggest advice: shop the guarantee/warranty. 1/2

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 16/03/2026

None close enough to me, but at least 3 different battlefields. And of course Stone Mountain.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 13/03/2026

"Not like the other beers" really taps the nose, doesn't it?

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

I mean, based on that I want to know more so don't knock your subject. And did the person saying it shouldn't be fantasy like fantasy or not like fantasy? Maybe it isn't meant for that reader.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

It isn't about participation so much as getting where you're going. The only way out is through and so on.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

Or it might be inability! And the determination is still yours, but one thing I really believe in writing an everything else is you encourage people whether they've got "it" or not, because they have to walk their path until they figure it out themselves.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

The obstacle needn't be down to inability though. It may be something else.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

Depends what you do with that baggage. What genre are you trying to write?

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

...intriguing plot, or envision a character's arc, or devise an emotionally valid motivation I would accept you may be no storyteller. So again, the determination is yours to make but you've not convinced me. (You don't have to, of course) Would you be at all willing to send me something?

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

The determination is yours to make. To me, it seems your issues are not rooted in talent but in skill. Not about having or not having "it." I think all of these things you've mentioned are things that are learned and practice, not inborn. If you told me you can't for the life of you conceive an ...

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

It was jarring. Did not seem like a choice. Maybe a "get through this sentence and we'll figure out a better verb on the next pass" that got forgotten.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

But if I whiz through a first. Revising takes longer but not as much longer as the first would have taken.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

All right. Do you think writing a first draft where you *don't* do that would be a helpful experiment? I get further when I manage to do that, but I usually agonize so much over a first draft that it takes forever ... of course my revising takes far less time and effort.

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John A. Underwood @modayode.com · 08/03/2026

Also. In an early book that was otherwise well written or at least well edited, one of my favorite science fiction writers has a character "viewing the viewscreen," so we are all capable of weak construction.

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