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Happy Caturday! Lockwood says I need to go outside and touch some grass, but he'll be happy to keep my chair warm for me. #caturday #catsOfMastodon
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David Lee Holcomb
@davidleeholcomb@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Married, gay, getting on in years. Retired graphic designer for television news. I play the saxophone, grow orchids, write fiction, obsess about political and social trends, and tinker with computers. I'm also an elected official in my little town, heaven help us all.
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Surveillance is real. #caturday #catsofMastodon
Happy Caturday to those who celebrate! Lockwood is perfecting his bad-boy come hither look. #caturday #catsOfMastodon
Happy #Caturday! Lockwood is concerned that the party hasn't started yet. #caturday #catsOfMastodon
Happy #Caturday! Lockwood may be only a little thing, but he dreams big. (Notice the cardinals in the bush.) #caturday #catsOfMastodon
My work-in-progress has been stalled for eight weeks. Usually, I just power through, then go back and tidy the mess later ... but not this time.
Looking over past projects, I realize the issue is always the same: there comes a point at which the story refuses to go where I want it to go, and we fight.
So, it's time: If my characters have a plan they haven't shared with me, then maybe my best bet is just to ride along and see what they have in mind.
Happy #Caturday! Lockwood is conducting an experiment. He wants to see how much of my desk he can occupy at one time, without actually having to get up.
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@cstross@wandering.shop -- This is why birth rates are so low today. Nobody knows how to put together a proper mixtape to hand over as that essential next-to-last step in the mating ritual.
@deliaturner@mindly.social -- Nothing says "I'm the champion of the working man!" like passing out wingtips to your billionaire cronies.
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@3x10to8mps@mastodon.social -- And he knows it.
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@Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com -- I've got two out of three already in the bag!
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@cstross@wandering.shop -- Hieronymous Bosch does the holidays. It'll be a classic.
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@nixCraft -- When I was a kid (pre-home computers) the phone hung on the wall in the kitchen. If we wanted to call our friends, we had to do it with Mom right there in the room. Not much room for risky behavior.
As a local elected official, I try to get along with everybody, but when the neighbor's dogs tear my favorite jeans trying to get to my flesh, the milk of human kindness curdles a bit.
There are so many things that we take for granted about the people around us. We like to think that they want to do the right thing, and that when they don't, they regret it. But no. That's all too often an unwarranted assumption.
What to do? Hope for the best, but always carry a big stick?
@Jarvis3@mastodon.social -- Pleased to meet you, Jarvis! I just pre-ordered your book for my mother. She's from Rollinsford/Dover/Berwick/Wells, ME, and those parts, but currently spending her golden years in a small town in Alabama. I think a book of essays about life in the shadow of Mt Monadnock will please her to no end.
@CoolerPseudonym@wandering.shop -- Eich is still the President and CEO at Brave, but I'm not aware of any connection with Thiel, apart from some ideological overlap between the two men.
@deliaturner@mindly.social -- At least he didn't spray-paint them gold this time.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social -- And, of course, the oligarchs pay for the occasional Trump wedding...