Posts by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AoFhpMkU18NQ6NbxAW by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-11-21T01:39:29Z
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@futurebird I also suffer from people trying to spell my name "Stephen," and unfortunately, as a writer, this has happened to me repeatedly in print. Nothing more depressing than opening a magazine or seeing a book ad and I'm identified as "J. Stephen York." Or "Stephen J. York" or "Steven J. York" for that matter.
(DIR) Post #AoYCtAxngaGvwIAeMy by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-11-29T23:52:20Z
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@futurebird This is my mom exactly. She is a shut in and knows only what she sees on Facebook, TV, and surfing sketchy local news sites. It just feeds her inherent fears and anxieties. The election has her all amped up about "immigrants," despite our own ancestors having been chased out of most every country in Europe and half the United States, recently or not. All her media is fear poison.
(DIR) Post #AoYERSYis9TwJKLv7o by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-11-30T00:09:45Z
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@futurebird Strangely my mom is more worried about pot (which is legal where I live, and I don't imbibe anyway) than meth and fentanyl which are rampant where she lives (and most red states for that matter).
(DIR) Post #AogcXTaDvgpVOC8Tqq by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-12-04T01:17:26Z
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@futurebird Not My Cat (seen here begging at my kitchen window a few days ago) endorses this poetry. I ran out of the canned food my actual cat won't eat the other day, and had the audacity to put out a bowl of crunchy treats. She was so mad, she only ate half and has stayed away the last few days. (Yes, I bought more canned food anticipating her return.)
(DIR) Post #AomARXZiXkg2GR2XDs by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T08:33:04Z
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@MLE_online I-10 maybe? Traveled that freeway a lot of times. A lot of empty out there in the dark. Heck, there's a lot of empty out there in the daytime.
(DIR) Post #AplBiSksiFWRJ4DmbI by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-01-05T04:02:31Z
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@futurebird I'm still quite proud of the work I did for the 90s Sierra PC game, "Outpost 2." In addition to an 80k word fiction ebook on the CD, I wrote things like unit descriptions as narratively as I could, introducing characters and even mini-stories that supported both the book and the game. I STILL get the occasional fan letter on this game, 27 years after the fact. Anything CAN be "real writing," if you have the will (and a platform that's willing to support it).
(DIR) Post #Apm1nwyoxae86ygAwS by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-01-05T09:31:54Z
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@sullybiker @futurebird In the case of Outpost 2, it was a city-builder/real time strategy hybrid. It had maps, units, structures, but no people! I came in late and pointed this out, and it was my task to fill in what was happening inside all those structures and vehicles. I even got to script the cut scenes. It was a challenging schedule, but a lot of fun, and I learned (the hard way) I could plot on the fly. My writing skills definitely leveled up on this project.
(DIR) Post #Aquue7WOjchvrm6zL6 by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T18:30:26Z
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@futurebird @angelastella My problem is that I'm vaccinated by the minutia of so many things, and I flit from one to another like a butterfly.
(DIR) Post #Aquuw8IWaUJPUDDBIG by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T18:33:46Z
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@futurebird @angelastellaBut ants specifically were an early thing. I wrote my first book about them, printed by hand in a little green pocket notebook. I was 8 or 9 maybe? Wish I still had that notebook.
(DIR) Post #AquvXhwR1n5UkQnRLc by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T18:40:33Z
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@futurebird @angelastella I grew up in South Alabama in the 60s. So many species. You could leave on the porch light and see hundreds any summer night. I didn't know, pesticides and fire ants were already wiping them out. Most are gone now. The porch light disappoints. How many lost, because a little kid didn't preserve them and write them down?
(DIR) Post #AqvYIUL7DJNwQm4fJY by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T01:54:48Z
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@futurebird Used to have one of the Premium tins. Or maybe I'm thinking of my mom's. They used to be popular in the rural south because they were bug and rodent proof. That might be a factor in the cities too?
(DIR) Post #Aqx4DYu9y052bCCJKS by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T19:27:03Z
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@futurebird But there is a reverse that people don't consider. I'm 6' 6', and the bottom shelf is lost to me, especially things not on the front. I can't see them or reach them. I'm 67 and my knees are shot from being so big, so I can't crawl around on the floor if I wanted to. But if you are in a store and need something from the top, I am always cheerfully there to help you (or anyone). Top shelves are great, but being tall is often overrated.
(DIR) Post #Aqx5MdVOKbpXQZVG4G by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T19:40:01Z
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@futurebirdBefore I had cataract surgery a few years back (best thing I've ever done), even if I could see the stuff on the bottom shelf I couldn't SEE it to read the labels. But this is an everyday issue in my house. My wife is 5' 1', and we have a division in where things are and who deals with what. I put away most of the dishes, but the plastics and infrequently used pots in the bottom cabinet shelves are hers.
(DIR) Post #Aqx5yaL8Y4jsc9nnGK by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-02-09T19:46:50Z
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@futurebirdBut of course, there is a whole 'nother category of infrequently used things on high shelves that are my responsibility to put up AND take down. There is a little folding ladder in the laundry room for emergencies. Sadly, there is no ladder for me that goes DOWN. In general, the world is cruel to and of us who are, in any way, an edge case.
(DIR) Post #ArnPHqlt81cVv7iMGO by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-03-07T01:00:12Z
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Bought this lineman's (guys that climb poles) phone for five bucks at the Habitat for Humanity store. No idea what to do with it (I haven't had a landline for a decade) but the 70s-80s sci-fi aesthetic is wonderful. I can just imagine picking it up and hearing Han Solo's death star intercom conversation coming out. Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?#starwars #scifi #props
(DIR) Post #At5Zrh91qZUUJrTXOa by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-04-14T17:43:39Z
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@futurebird Dead on! When I see someone using AI in ads, for example, my immediate impression is, these people don't give a shit and are half-assing it. Minimal effort. They don't care and neither do I. D-
(DIR) Post #AtWx7akhv9W5p3Pgrw by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-04-26T22:43:01Z
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Notty cat subtly says "Hi!"#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #notmycat #nottycat #cats #catrescue
(DIR) Post #AvIzv6WiFeyAg9McgS by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-06-20T00:51:05Z
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@Nonilex Once again, the dumbest guy in the room thinks he's the smartest guy in the room...
(DIR) Post #B05paBMfltOLbsSwrY by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-11-09T08:42:16Z
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@futurebird I don't know what the little egg rocketship is, but I kinda want it.
(DIR) Post #B0X731rxWbRRxcW6uO by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
2025-11-23T09:37:23Z
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@futurebird Uuuuuuuuh...