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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just dropping this here as no further comment necessary.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Amazing. I think I'm signing off BlueSky for the day. I don't know what more there is to say after this...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was first learning to write scientific papers, I went through a phase where I felt the same about definite articles. As though removing them somehow made my writing more technical? Or something? I guess?

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Left behind... with that strange, archaic ability actually to learn new skills.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First, a new jungle cat. Now a new penguin? It's almost as though there are still wonders in the natural world...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So... you're saying those aren't the same thing? 😀

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a'yup. I am certain the backlash is coming but I don't feel like I have any idea what form it will take. And I refuse to ask ChatGPT to find out...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My mom reads my books. It's gonna have to remain science fiction for me.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not Arthur C. Clarke! Didn't he basically think up the idea of geosynch orbit for communications satellites? and then say later he gave away a billion dollars... something like that?

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is an entire generation out there, possibly two, that cannot hear this word without thinking of a certain cartoon from our childhood...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Well as an American living in Europe all I can say is god bless the Danes… :-)

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please tell me that’s actually true

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a confession: I am pretty much addicted to watching Gen-Z react to Dire Straits on YouTube. This is, obviously, my age talking - but here's the thing. If we let AI take over all creative endeavors, there will never be another Mark Knopfler. I mean, there won't anyway, but you get the point.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is very context-light today, but from Second Carpathians. Reactor in lieu of meltdown. Make of it what you will! #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Herecic turned away from the ancient server room, its racks and blinking lights. “And that’s all you do, Per? Maintain a thousand-year-old server farm?”
“Yes, but I’m just a neophyte,” Per said. “This is where we all begin our work. The church has other concerns as well.”
“Such as?”
“Commercial Operations. There’s a fully modern computer center in another part of the church. We provide planetary state updates, which pays for all this, as I understand it.“
Herecic grunted. “I wonder how your people got that assignment.”
“We were the low bidder on the project.”
“Ah.” Herecic looked satisfied, like it was the first thing Per had said that made sense, which might have been true.
“Seen enough?”
“Yes.” Herecic shivered. “Cold in here.”
“Yes, well, a massive stone building like this would have naturally been that way. We use underfloor air conditioning to help the process along.”
“Must take a lot of power.”
“There’s a modular nuclear reactor in the vaults. It’s why they built the church near a water source, so I’m told. In this case, a river that runs by the cranberry bog outside. Would you like to see it?”
“The bog?”
“The reactor.”

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am pretty sure this reduces down to: take all remaining human activities that cause the release of seratonin in the brain by way of steady application of effort over time, and replace with another dopamine drip instead.

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Shimaira ⛥ @shimaira.com · 19/09/2026

Fuck all the AI slop flooding Amazon. Sigh the petition 💪 www.change.org/p/ban-ai-gen... 📚💙 #BookSky #authors

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From Second Carpathians. First draft legit on the homestretch now. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is awesome. And, I profoundly hope, inevitable.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vibes today. From Second Carpathians. Like of a contractor be like.... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Expect a lot more cephalopodic posts from me going forward... getting close to starting the next writing project!

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This makes me absurdly happy.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because there aren't many crafts in which the job is literally to build worlds! Timeline continuity, on the other hand... aargh.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This. Chinua Achebe's takedown of Joseph Conrad comes to mind... Honestly, it's pretty danged instructive for my generation (and presumably those who followed) to revisit our high school "classics" through this lens and see what exactly we were meant to read...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yup. This. Writing, like all creative endeavors, is about the journey. The process literally transforms the author, which is why the result can transform the reader. Skipping that step is exactly analogous to driving a marathon, helicoptering to a mountain-top -- pick your metaphor.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Exactly. I read once that NASA used the movie Armageddon to see how many physics errors their candidates for management positions could spot. Which is probably apocryphal (though i hope true), but feels very similar.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's aggressively awful. But probably from a teaching of craft POV actually invaluable.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes. This is utterly maddening.

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