Matthew R Francis
Science writer, journalist, physicist, hat man, cat man, queer. Pfp by @makinaro.com . See my pinned posts if you're wondering why I disappeared and reappeared.
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- Tell me you’ve never been on Mastadon without telling me.
- I loved when on Mastodon someone told me, a professional writer, that I shouldn't post links to the stuff I write
- less urgent but still telling: one of the nurses at a clinic I use told me the reason they stopped doing telehealth visits is because Medicaid stopped reimbursing those, and insurance companies follow Medicaid's lead on everything.
- the cemetery right by my house has both a Hebrew cemetery and African cemetery inside it
- I need to unpack/shift stuff today but I also need to rest because Jeebus Hermione Chrysanthemum am I tired
- of course once I finish unpacking the living room, I'll have access to my record player and records again, which will facilitate the resting part
- the person in front of me in the donut shop drive thru is ordering a new species of donuts? they're researching dough rn
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View full threada squirrel once dropped a walnut. it has become a beautiful heritage tree
- and now I too want donuts
- as every good comedian knows, the more specific a joke is, the funnier it is. Would this be as funny with "several children"? No, no it would not.
- i have to relax for a little while as my antiinflammatories kick in so im going to do this also
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View full thread14. when fantasy novel has 2+ moons
- ... the fantasy novel I'm writing has no moons (but two suns)
- I mentioned in passing the other day that I was thinking about Getting Into Birding and got SO MANY REPLIES from strangers, including a handful of fairly famous strangers, all encouraging me into the cult of birdwatching
- by far the easiest bird to identify in this neighborhood is the fucking mockingbird, who yells at everyone from right outside my window all day every day
- anyway it's a friendly cult, almost nobody kills anyone else, and you only drink kool-aid if you want to
- whenever they want a "big tent" they mean they want to include people who hate us and our planet, not *us*
