J. Russell

Needs more radiators.

Increased visits by loved ones to people in California prisons—thanks to cheaper gas prices—decreased misconduct incidents, according to a new #ScienceAdvances analysis. https://scim.ag/4zkZu3F

Man have I been busy. Although I have only written about 20,000 words this past month, life never stops. Work, renovations, preparing to be a father, and sending out submissions is a lot. Fortunately, it keeps me so busy that I can ignore the world being a dumpster fire.

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

I don’t have anything ready but it seems like a good time to post this (

A beautiful ship from any angle. No matter where I stand, this model above my desk looks great. Happy Star Trek Day to all who celebrate!

Happy Star Trek day! Here's my ENTERPRISE official piece with @vicepress.bsky.social I'll have these with me at Open House this Sat, or international friends can get it from Vice Press- shipping galaxy wide! vice-press.com/products/uss... Boldly going (on the wall?) #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #art

We are currently OPEN for submissions until 30th September 23:59 BST. Please email us your manuscript in .doc or .docx format to ichorzine@gmail.com with the word SUBMISSION clearly in the subject. We do not require a cover letter. For guidelines please see ichormagazine.com/submissions/

How do I know I have management potential? Look at how many unread emails I have.

Wait a minute... I just threw you out!

“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4

What Happens Inside a Black Hole? youtu.be/X_UdE4YuDO0 What really happens when you fall into a black hole? We explore event horizons, spaghettification, what you’d see inside, possible gateways, and why future civilizations might deliberately build around these cosmic engines.

Somehow, it’s only Wednesday.

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

The First Generation Problem – Who Shapes a New Civilization’s Values? youtu.be/_45OuS8mZHc What happens when a colony ship’s children inherit a mission they never chose? We explore the values, conflicts, and founding myths that shape civilizations born between Earth and the stars.

Absolute longshot: I'm looking for Euan Smith who drew artwork for White Dwarf magazine in the mid 1980s and therefore is probably British and probably in his late 50s or 60s. Do you or did you know him?

Still a bit stuck on tone for Ichor? Check out our Appendix I which has some stories that we believe hit what we are looking for. ichormagazine.com/appendix-i/

I mean, gunpowder (and thus firearms by extension) had a place in LotR. Tolkien shows Gandalf using fireworks for merriment, while Saruman use explosives for war. (Though, it wasn’t directly called black powder, but portrayed that way in the movies.) Just write.

RE: Recent light discourse on if guns have a place in fantasy or not is that it is only really a problem for people more concerned with Worldbuilding™ than people who are actually _writing_ fantasy.

Triumph of Neptune and the Four Seasons, Late 2nd-century AD, from La Chebba, Tunisia #MosaicMonday 📸 my own via Bardo Museum, Tunisia

月の入まで1時間ちょい 西の空で25% (漸増)の月🌒が輝いています すでに少し色が濃くなっているようですが、昼間は雲で全然分かりませんでした 只今(東京)🌡️27℃ 少し蒸してきました💦 #イマソラ #月 #sky #moon #photography #NoWar☮️

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

Album Sheet with Two Armadillos, unknown artist, c. 1550 - c. 1570 During the 16th century the armadillo became the symbol of the Americas. It was often depicted on prints and maps, and dried specimens were collected in cabinets of curiosities. (Rijksmuseum)

Because of travel last month, and revelations that Google Drive could be scraping information for LLMs, the friendly writing competition I had going among some acquaintances died. #ayearofwrites may return in the future once a stable schedule and hosting platform for sharing our files can be found.

'The wreck, measuring about 21 metres long and 6 metres wide, was described by Italy’s culture minister, Alessandro Giuli, as “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years”.'

Fire-damaged head from a Chryselphantine (ivory & gold) statue thought to represent Apollo. Dated to 6th century BCE. Found buried next to the Sacred Way, Delphi, Greece. Sacred items could not be destroyed so were therefore buried. Archaeological Museum of Delphi. 📷 Helen Simonsson

"We can't afford to let the human consequences of nuclear war become an abstraction," write Victoria Kelly and Karin Tanabe, whose documentary, "Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories of World War II" explores the legacy of nuclear war through interviews with both American veterans and Japanese survivors.

LGR building update vid! youtu.be/hBkMCSMikjc Progress so far on the LGR archive (LGRchive?) warehouse/workshop/storage building! Going over what's been built and moved in so far, what is still to come, and ideas for future usage and customization.

Bounty hunters have been drawn to Whisko Reach by rumours of a reward. Details seem curiously hard to come by but they are sure it's good pay for easy money. Several fights break out across the Reach's habitats and you are asked to help keep order in space.

A snoozy dog escaping the midday sun in the Bronze Age Mycenaean tholos tomb known as the 'Treasury of Atreus' (aka ‘Tomb of Agamemnon’), Mycenae, Greece. 🐶💤 📷 me

I had a dead juniper tree on one of the property lines that I needed to cut down, so now I get to use it for “research” by turning it into a new longbow since I’ve never used anything related to yew for a bow. Or I could sit down and write some more instead of messing around in the garage.

hashem.alghaili Centuries before dental clinics, the ancient Maya used sophisticated jade fillings to treat toothaches. For decades, archaeologists have uncovered Maya teeth decorated with precious stones like jade and pyrite.

Proper crowdfund update soon, but we JUST got the NESS 2026 files to the printer and boy are our arms tired. Publishing nerds, like us, may enjoy this free Patreon post on the process we've just begun: www.patreon.com/soimwritinga...

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The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats youtu.be/L7woLWtsN3E Mars won’t get cities because it becomes easy to live there. It gets cities because people stay. We explore how the first fragile outposts become homes, economies, neighborhoods, and civilization.

don't follow your heart. follow MY heart. only write things i want to read please and thank you

Can You Survive Inside a Star? youtu.be/9DUn44KPvrM Can you survive inside a star? The answer is stranger than “no.” Explore plasma storms, red giants, magnetic shields, and how future civilizations might turn stars into fortresses.

When Lord #Elgin stripped the Treasury of #Atreus at #Mycenae in 1802, he left its monumental entrance a bare, undecorated skeleton. We look at these fragments today and forget they were once part of a dazzling Late Bronze Age façade. #ReliefWednesday #AncientBluesky 🏺