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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!

  • 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

  • Writing Club - November 2025

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  • I haven't tried Obsidian on mobile actually, so I'll give it a shot maybe!

    As for LibreOffice, both reasons! Typesetting, more options, and partially comfort too

  • Writing Club - November 2025

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  • I can share the slides but since it was a lesson most of the things I said them by voice, including the experiments we performed in class 😔

  • Writing Club - November 2025

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  • Obsidian for notes and plans, worldbuilding on my personal site and LibreOffice for the actual text.

    Sometimes I'm on the move and I have to sketch something down, so I send it to myself on Telegram and then move it to Obsidian once I can use the PC again.

  • The era of jobs is ending

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  • We weren’t meant to do anything, no one exists and nothing happens for any particular reason, we are a chaotic yet structured event on the way from a big bang in a race towards the thermodynamic equilibrium and ultimately the heat death of the universe. This is a good thing, actually, because it means that you have the freedom to find your own purpose

    Is this Cosmology Sartre? Astroexistentialism? I love the combination 🤩

  • Writing Club - November 2025

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  • It's an incredible resource and I will definitely try and use it for my future stories! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.

  • Writing Club - November 2025

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  • I spent an ungodly amount of time in school last month (for my teaching practice), and I've only written... slides for my lectures 😅 ...which was an absolute blast! I even closed it out with a legendary story of our understanding of light, from optics to quantum mechanics, and the students loved it! This overshadows the disastrous failure of the crowdfunding campaign for the other book, from which I finally feel free. This last month will be entirely dedicated to writing Section B of the Kanteletar novel, which I can hopefully complete before New Year's Eve.

    So yeah, nothing new on the fiction front, but I got to try my hand at scientific outreach writing and I should absolutely do it again at some point!

  • Writing Club - October 2025

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  • I edit without issues many of my more recent stories, it's no big deal in general. It's just that I'm grown past fantasy and the thought of having to edit that thing simply demotivates me. I want to write solarpunk and scifi now, fantasy is behind me. I have no interest for it.

    Anyway, if the crowdfunding goes well, I'll be followed by an editor, and I know myself well enough to say that with a clear goal and a set deadline I'll breeze through it when push comes to shove. :D

  • Writing Club - October 2025

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  • Glad to see our club is slowly growing!

    Haven't written a lot, but I put down a short story I'm very proud of, and re-sketched the second section of the Kanteletar novel. Now for the whole next month I'll be busy with advertising the crowdfunding for the (still underedited!) fantasy books, although I'm not very hopeful about that going well 😅

    But regardless! Goals for next month are mainly to be able to do the required salesmanship and maybe polish that short story so I can share it with you!

  • Solarpunk

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  • I'm sorry but whoever made this completely missed the point of solarpunk.

    It also shows how much easier it is to repackage cyberpunk and make it look new, compared to actually imagining a positive future.

  • Writing Club - September 2025

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  • Great news! Soon the thesis is done, one last leg!

  • Writing Club - September 2025

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  • Congratulations! I'll try to read it as soon as I have some time and get back to you with feedback, if you don't mind.

    bio/corp/hell/hope/punk

    I think only two of these will survive by the end of it 😂

  • Writing Club - September 2025

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  • As I had predicted, this month has been absolutely hectic and riddled with deadlines; my customary bullet-point list will have to be shifted as-is to October 😓

    Not only that, but I've been addled with a poisonous idea that can't leave my brain and I know I can't write either. It's badass and it has potential, but the written page would be the absolute worst medium in which it should be told. Maybe I'll save it for some comic in the future, if life puts some eager artist on my path.

    The positive news is that one of the Meteorina short stories will be published in an Italian anthology at some point this month, so I'm glad something is bearing fruit!

  • The Best Solarpunk Books - recommended by Sarena Ulibarri

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  • I haven't read the whole global corpus yet, but two of my favourite authors are Renan Bernardo from Brazil and Wole Talabi from Nigeria (the latter writes more scifi, but has some interesting solarpunk-adjacent stories).

    In general, it's much, much harder to find authors from the Global South because USians have such an easier time not only promoting themselves to editors & publishers, but also reaching their audiences.

  • The Best Solarpunk Books - recommended by Sarena Ulibarri

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  • Curiously, all white American authors. I wonder why this keeps happening.

  • Writing Club - August 2025

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  • Thank you!!

    I started doing lists during the quarantine period in order to keep me on track and never let myself forget or postpone things, and by now I have incorporated them in my autism 😄

    As for the reading others' works, after many months of hearing everyone's projects, of course I got curious! And I want to interact more directly with people here, so maybe that's a good way to start 👀

  • Scrappy Capy Distro is open for submissions again

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  • I would love to try and send them a book review, but I need to rummage among those I've read in this last year. There's a very powerful one that comes to mind, but sadly it's only been published in Italian 😔

  • Writing for the people

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  • Missed this post earlier but absolutely seconded.

    I always try to make my prose as easy as possible, especially when describing characters and their dialogues. I don't always manage, especially because I let my hand run a bit for environmental descriptions, but ease-of-access is something I strive for. Look at Sanderson: he makes people read 1000-pages tomes of epic fantasy, how does he do it? It's his prose: mind-boggingly easy, to the point of numbing the reader. To me it's a flaw to push it to that extreme, but it works for his readers.