Diana Thompson

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One that's still blowing mind: the government admitted "aliens are real" and because of the Orange Menace, no one gives a shite. 🤯

🌁 San Francisco gets tangled in murder, deception, and a missing statuette in this LibriVox recording of Dashiell Hammett’s 1930 public domain classic, THE MALTESE FALCON. 🕵️‍♂️ Follow the trail to the full audiobook 👇 archive.org/details/libr... 🧵

You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

Be a handwritten love letter in a world full of Snapchats.

I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

#mood

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Well, goodness. Those are such dangerous environments. I very much hope that nothing goes awry.

“Hey leave some for me!” IG: @duck.duck.daisy

i love when i go grocery shopping & it’s everyone’s first day on earth

Mama shows babies that the dog is nothing to fear. 😍🥹🐾

🧵 Nearly half of recorded history lives on fragile 78rpm discs. 🎙️🎶 From music & comedy to speeches & firsthand accounts of world events, these recordings shaped what future generations could know about the past. 📚 Read “On 78s” by George Blood in VANISHING CULTURE 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.

I always credit this book for starting me on my book journey. Baldwin took me down so many rabbit holes, I realized I wasn't smart enough yet to really grasp what he was saying. Baldwin was born 102 years ago today, and I owe his layered writing basically everything. Happy birthday James Baldwin

there's something about sleeping with the windows open while it rains. waking up to a cool breeze, a purring cat, the smell of coffee, and nowhere to be for a while. sunday morning 🩷

Morning Kitten

Common loon coming in for a landing TT: @harrycollinsphotography

Art installation in New York City

🤍 forever #caturday 🙃🤭🤣 🤍🤍🤍💛🔆 🎈🔆💛🤍🤍🤍

Book blurbs deciphered #booksky

Tiny Noodle Thief #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

The kestrel can hover perfectly still mid-air, locking its head in place while scanning for prey with UV-sensitive eyes that track rodent urine trails.

Someone just informed me that they find the Oxford comma to be “overrated and unnecessary." I find such comments to be discourteous, disrespectful, and unwarranted.

Wishing I was here...

As I transcribe my SF novel from paper to digital form, I see that when I did this edit, I was apparently enamored with my thesaurus and 3 or 4-syllable words. 😂 I'm finding words I can only know their definition by the context of the surrounding words. What was I thinking? That's going to change.

About to start my last chapter transcribe onto computer. It's 28 pages and at 10 pages a day, it'll take 3 days, but I want to be done in two. 😅 Next week, my writing website and patreon due for needed updates. I'm investigating getting a narrator for my SF novellas to be made into audiobooks.

I'll finish chapter 17 today. One last chapter to go. 😅

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LADY OF SCANDAL (1930) 🎩 This pre-Code romantic drama features Basil Rathbone in an early film role, showcasing the screen presence that would later make him famous as Sherlock Holmes. Watch it now ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

I'm done with chapter 16. 😄 Turns out, it didn't have any untoward effect on me. But then, I've read it probably 14 times and will probably read it 14 more times before the edit is done. Such is a writer's life. 🤷🏽

Current mood, but I need to get keyboarding chapter 16. Mondays.

Whenever people read my stories, they tell me: "It's so realistic! I felt like I was actually there!" Gratifying to hear, yes, but imagine what that means when my sex scenes are read. 😉 So, "alien sex scene"? Wowza. 😅