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@ Clockwork @slrpnk.net

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Failed theoretical physicist trying to write and become a teacher. PhD in fermionic superfluidity ⚗️

I like: 🦴 Neolithic, 📖 Books, 🌱Permaculture, 🗺 Cosmopoiesis

It's not over as long as there's someone telling another story.

Read my stories for free!

  • Writing Club - April 2026

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  • Would you mind sending the story once you feel confident with its final version? I'd love to give it a read!

  • Writing Club - April 2026

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  • Finally getting the chance to post without several days of delay! 😂

    April has been quite fruitful! I've finally completed the revision of Kanteletar's Section B, so I've already started to outline Section C (which is to be written across May and June, if I manage). School practice was intense so I didn't get to write anything else, and next month will also be quite busy with... more useless essays 😩 Hopefully the last ones for the foreseeable times.

    Plenty of summer projects:

    • Kanteletar Section D (4/5)
    • A short story (maybe 6k words? Not too long) about a tribe of Kobolds displaced by a faceless Empire and the social consequences of their migration
    • Maybe something to send for Karl Schroeder's "solarpunk" contest?

  • Writing Club - March 2026

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  • You won't believe me but this time I've been late INTENTIONALLY! I wanted to write/edit a lot during Easter vacations and I managed to do so, so I postponed the update to include this writing burst 😤

    • Edited four (out of six) chapters from Kanteletar's Section B
    • Submitted some flash fiction to Scrappy Capy's Harbour magazine after a loooong time not submitting anything!

    Considering I'm very deep into teaching practice (and I will be for the rest of April as well), I'm very proud! :D

  • Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

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  • It isn't when you have complete tactical superiority and you want to intimidate your opppnents

  • i am one of like 8 high schoolers on this platform. AMA

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  • Do you think tech amdo social media are a positive or negative thing?

    Do your friends share the same opinion?

  • What are your thoughts on "Just write."?

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  • To me, it's valuable in the sense that you shouldn't be overly judgemental/self-critical towards your own writing and write anyway. In this sense, it resonates with me.

    But if one reads it in the sense of "just write whatever, even if you have nothing to tell", then I'd hard disagree; there are no worse stories to read than those in which the author doesn't like/know what they're trying to tell. I believe writing without purpose is counterproductive.

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    Can you do the work of two men!

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  • Did you really have to use AI for the picture?

  • Babe, what's wrong? You haven't even touched your.....

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  • Did you really need to make it with AI?

  • Writing Club - February 2026

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  • I’ve done lots of writing these past two months I was excited up until here, and then... 😅

    But I vouch for the dream journal! I've done it some years ago and it really helps if you want to get into lucid dreaming. Not so much for story inspiration though 😅

  • Writing Club - February 2026

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  • If you're looking for a new topic, I'd be interested in learning how to deal with copper tailings! 👀

  • Writing Club - February 2026

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  • "What a year, huh?" "Captain, it's March"

    ...I've been swamped in university essays so I completely missed last month's WC!! 😭

    I'm slowly getting back in creative-mode-brain, and I did so with a quick not-so-solar-but-very-punk flash fiction. I'm planning to use this month to edit Kanteletar's Section B before getting on to sketching Section C. I've watched a documentary on Gemeana's copper mine, and I might write some hard-solarpunk story on the restoration of the valley's ecosystem.

    If all works out, it's the last time I'm wasting my wordcount on dubious-utility academic essays!

  • And then Princess was the dragon

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  • Have you ever watched Shrek?

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    Tankie

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  • God fuck this is so wrong and disrespectful at the same time

  • A political strategy for degrowth | tldr: mass parties founded on egalitarian principles and courageously advocating for anti-capitalist policies

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  • Before reading the article: party politics is a 20th Century form of organization that worked in the context of 20th Century conditions; expecting it would work for the 21st Century and the digital era is, in my opinion, not going to work. From what I read on history of economics, a new paradigm is adopted when the current one fails repeatedly and the ruling class has no option but to pick some different framework that can still benefit their interests. I think this is the most likely (although not the most desirable) path to degrowth in the next ~20y.

  • Writing Club - December 2025

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  • Happy to hear you're now employed, and hopefully the job will leave you enough headspace to put some words down at the end of the day!

  • Writing Club - December 2025

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  • I've finally started the second section of the Kanteletar novel, and the first half went very smoothly... until I got kinda stuck and I might have to tinker with the ending more than I had imagined. I wanted to complete it by the end of December, but it looks like I might need a couple more weeks.

    I started taking part in a monthly anarchist writing workshop, so I hope I can get some new insights on my work AND I can provide mine to other likeminded authors!

    Anyway, the target for this 2026 year is going to complete this novel and possibly write a quick fantasy novella I've had in mind for some time. Not too high effort, possibly Pratchettian, just to take my mind off the solarpunk genre before the next project.

  • What mediocre game, show, or movie has an incredible soundtrack?

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  • Didn't like how the plot hooks you in with Gustave & Lune having to deal with a world on the brink of the end, and then it becomes Verso & Maelle having to deal with family drama. Massive disappointment.

  • Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

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  • Thank god it's not quantum computers

  • What mediocre game, show, or movie has an incredible soundtrack?

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  • Expedition 33

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    Clockwork @slrpnk.net

    Can we help this fellow writer looking for site advice?

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  • Italy @lemmy.ml
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    Biblioteca dei Semi Narrativi: Galleria d'Arte Virtuale Creative Commons

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    Ciao Ciao Festival jonglöörauksen työpaja!

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  • Fiction @slrpnk.net
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    Has anyone read Grist's top12 stories from Imagine 2200?

    grist.org /imagine2200-climate-fiction-contest-2025/
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    I'm a solarpunk writer; here's my smallweb site with free stories and novels!