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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After a big acceptance email, we are regressing to the mean with three rejections in two days. #writing

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my first computer booted DOS 1.0 off those things!

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my (retired) librarian wife mentioned a recent library cat named "browser"

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

21 Second God was spectacular!

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We got accepted on the same day. Emily rocks!

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Success! For two weeks I have been sweating after sending in requested revisions to Emily Hockaday at Asimov's. She accepted them today! With this, the majority of my sales are in this millennium, which makes me a modern writer. #writing

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the early mistakes made about post viral sequelae was the idea that exercise helps. It makes it worse.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are few things more gratifying than typing and centering END at the end of a first draft. #writing

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, you can also meet those conditions by being retired. It's great, except for the not having long left to live part.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our neighborhood hawk after gobbling up a baby snake in our yard

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was wondering about that, though they seem shorter, more likely they are a new set of 40 year old trees grown since

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you don't play the NYT Connections game, today would NOT be a good day to start. #NYTconnections

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For #gingercatappreciationday I give you a bonus Squeaky, Dusty and Onyx

A ginger, a gray and a black cat nap in a garden window

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also from the trip home a double sun dog off the coast of Iceland

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Iceberg spotted off the coast of Greenland on my way home

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I could have sworn the traditional 12th anniversary gift is a Hugo Award….

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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Why do the wrong people keep dying?? 😭😭😭 #Dolly 💙

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One thing they don’t warn you about old age is being defeated by modern medical packaging.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Told it is likely October. Looking forward to being in the same TOC as you!

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The art of fiction is making untrue things sound believable, whereas non-fiction is about making the truth sound unbelievable. #writing

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

try Amazing Stories, March or July 1984

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Most representative photo from my #Scotland jaunt

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

By chance I was vacationing in the UK when this came out, sweltering in the London heat dome, walking the dried out parks, then headed north to cold and rain of Isle of Sky. For a small country, your climes vary a lot! Does that make it harder or easier to recognize climate change?

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The most moving memorial in London “They had no choice.” #dogs #horses

The front of the memorial, with a horse and dog statue

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That has to be a catnip mouse…

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It finally ended with a warning growl, but Marcia was laughing so hard she did not catch it on video

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Dusty discovers the visiting granddog, or at least her tail. #cats #dogs

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

In my 70+ years I cannot remember meeting someone who appeared more comfortable in their own skin than @scalzi.com #congregate12

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wait, if I count food it’s Murray Curry. Much better.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Murray Hummingbird Feeder. My papoo would have laughed

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I watched Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam cartoons as a kid, so I knew the word, but could not believe they used it. Played it not believing it would take it, but had nothing else left.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, das zu spielen, wenn man Deutsch spricht. Ich spreche Englisch und kenne das Wort kaum.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I watched Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam cartoons as a kid, so I knew the word, but could not believe they used it. Played it not believing it would take it, but had nothing else left.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I watched Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam cartoons as a kid, so I knew the word, but could not believe they used it. Played it not believing it would take it, but had nothing else left.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Anger over today's Wordle may finally top "homer". #wordle Wordle 1,852 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You are truly retired when you ask what day of the week it is.

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Science Fiction 101 Podcast @sf101.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New episode! We discuss the new magazine SMALL PLANET (about SF translation), and two great movies: La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) and Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025). 101sf.blogspot.com/2026/07/lost...

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Lost in Translation (episode 67)

This episode was intended to be a grab-bag of different topics, but we inadvertently dug up a show with a strong theme: translation! We star...

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Dusty is finally calming down a bit. #cats

A gray kitten sleeps in a garden window surrounded by plants and glass ornaments.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

After a long dry spell, at last an acceptance! It does not make up for all the rejections, but it makes them bearable. #writing

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Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸 @travelinbrian.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Well said. Fuck AI.

As a writer who doesn't us AI, it's not like there is some temptation I am resisting

I am a writer. I engage in the act of writing.

It's like asking someone who loves to play tennis would prefer to sitting on the sidelines and watching a robot play tennis.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wasn't this part of the zone that was left to recover naturally, as an experiment?

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

These kind of photos (particularly from Portland) give a sense of scale that stretches the brain. I maintain that only those whose brains stretch are interested. Those who just see photos dismiss it as puffs of smoke.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

last night (from phone) it gave me a blank screen, before that an error message. Today from my laptop it worked, thanks.

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Try as I might, I cannot subscribe to the newsletter. Is there a trick to it?

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Bob Morrell @wallet55.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I broke out some ghost pepper salsa to join in. Did some damage!

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