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laurence

@laurence@petrous.vislae.town

Technologist, Writer, Futurist.

Stories at Nature, Escape Pod, PodCastle, Galaxy's Edge, etc.

Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon

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laurence, to books
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It's my birthday! Maybe read one of my stories to celebrate?

Story links (shorts are mostly free): https://www.laurencebrothers.com/bibliography

Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Laurence-Raphael-Brothers/author/B08692SG3G

Free romantic noir urban fantasy ebook on request (email to contact address on my website).

#books
#bookstodon
#sciencefiction
#fantasy
#noir

Binder, to random
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    laurence,
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    @Binder 💪

    network movie gif

    phiala, to random

    Learning to make onigiri. These are smoked salmon (triangle) or spicy vegetable (round). What would you put in them? Bonus points for vegetarian/fish, and for plausibly medieval.

    laurence,
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    @phiala Pretty much anything pickled would work for me.

    laurence, to art
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    If you see this toot, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings.

    "Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier."
    --Marie Laurencin


    laurence,
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    @disappearinjon Don't know. Naively translated, the word seems to be an unloaded term for a woman from Bohemia. But in context, referring to a wandering black woman, there may have been some negative implication because of widespread prejudice against the Romany. I believe there are many connotations to the word in French that have nothing to do with Bohemia or even to the English usage "bohemian".

    Binder, to random
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    Is it though?

    laurence,
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    @unprovoked @xantha @Binder even a cheap lighter has the buddha-nature

    laurence, to random
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    My romantic noir urban fantasy series starting with The Demons of Wall Street has a new volume, The Demons of Montmartre.

    • Dark sorcery
    • Devious intrigue
    • Hot romance
    • Found family
    • Good demons
    • Evil bankers

    From https://mirror-world-publishing.myshopify.com/search?q=laurence+raphael+brothers
    ...and most online bookshops.

    Demons of Montmartre bookcover

    laurence, to random
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    Lifetime one-machine MS Office 2019 license available for $29.97 for the next three days.

    https://shop.pcworld.com/sales/microsoft-office-professional-plus-2019-for-windows

    laurence, to random
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says

    "Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says"

    laurence, to random
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    s/Bankman-Fried/Altman-Fired

    laurence, to random
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    In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines
    lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.

    In two straight lines they broke their bread
    and brushed their teeth
    and went to bed.

    They smiled at the good
    and frowned at the bad
    and sometimes they were very sad.

    They left the house at half past nine
    in two straight lines
    in rain
    or shine--
    the smallest one was Madeline.

    laurence, to Haiku
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    a gasp; then a sigh
    between soft, rose-scented sheets –
    sweet exhalation

    #haiku

    laurence, to fantasy
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    You can buy my latest standalone novel, The World's Shattered Shell, from all the usual online shops.

    A psychedelic, romantic, and philosophical adventure beyond the end of the world.

    https://waterdragonpublishing.com/product/worlds-shattered-shell/

    From Water Dragon Publishing.

    #fantasy
    #bookstodon
    @bookstodon

    laurence, to fantasy
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    The latest volume in my noir urban fantasy series, The Demons of Montmartre, is available direct from the publisher Mirror World and at the usual online shops.

    https://mirror-world-publishing.myshopify.com/search?q=laurence+raphael+brothers

    The series starts with The Demons of Wall Street. Free ebook on request.

    #noir
    #fantasy
    #bookstodon
    @bookstodon

    laurence, to random
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    Not sure exactly what this is.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVvewPxyub0

    rolle, (edited ) to bluesky
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    Just noticed Bluesky doesn't ACTUALLY add the alt text in the img itself. This is a big mistake and makes the service very inaccessible.

    The text is actually in the very last part of the DOM (Document Object Model) tree... and is triggered via click. So, if the screen reader doesn't support JavaScript same way than for the seeing people, descriptive text is nowhere to be found. Even when it is, it can't be accessed easily.

    laurence,
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    @blobcat @rolle Do people actually still know HTML? That's only 50% snide.

    laurence, to food
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    Excellent meal tonight at Peka near Cleveland Circle in the Boston area. Not many people there, so I thought I'd advertise them a little....

    https://pekarestaurant.com/

    #food
    #boston

    Jon_Danger, to random

    Spoken like a true landlord. #notalllandlords

    laurence,
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    @Jon_Danger Of course all landlords are awful. They may not all start that way, but the position coarsens and degrades any human qualities they may have.

    Some_Emo_Chick, to random
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    Very easy

    laurence,
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    @Some_Emo_Chick Why yes, I would love to spend my life savings on a link to an ugly cartoon that doesn't even give me the right to display the cartoon itself because all I bought was the link and not the art.

    dangillmor, to random
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    No, Musk will not get away with charging a fee to use Twitter. There are still enough people who realize that handing their credit cards and physical addresses over to him is one of the most foolish things they could ever do. Never mind that the rancid site isn't worth paying for.

    laurence,
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    @dangillmor
    Somewhere people are calling doctors for Zuckerberg because he just can't stop laughing....

    laurence, to random
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    Pageshot courtesy Ray Nayler.

    allisonwyss, to random
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    I've been thinking about how speculative elements are sometimes clearly real in a story, sometimes clearly metaphor, sometimes clearly both, and sometimes--this is the one I'm most thinking--in a space between metaphorical and actual. That in-between space used to annoy the piss out of me (always a matter of taste, of course!), but now maybe I'm starting to appreciate it. There's maybe a different sort of magic in the in-between.

    #WritingConversations #WritingCommunity

    laurence,
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    @orionkidder @allisonwyss @JMaverickJacks1 @mcmullin @Mayobrot @BigFrickinSwede

    Agree about those kung fu movies.

    If it's a whimsical story that's there just to connect the fights, it's different from a serious drama that can be derailed by a big pointless fight scene.

    For example of one of those period films, Five Deadly Venoms was ridiculously silly, but superb. However the extended pointless fight near the end of Gideon of the Ninth carried no emotion with it and derailed the narrative.

    isisamrita, to random German

    bester Cartoon ever

    laurence,
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    @isisamrita Ha!

    Q. Why do programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween?

    A. Because 25 DEC = 31 OCT.

    Arotrios, to 13thFloor
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    @laurence I just read Houseproud and it's the best short form science fiction I've read in years. Your dialogue is top notch. May I have your permission to post it on the community magazine I mod - @13thFloor?

    laurence,
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    @Arotrios Sure, go ahead. It's been reprinted several times already. You can link my website, https://laurencebrothers.com.

    I like the story myself, but I'm a little surprised it's gotten so much traction. I suppose there's something about Domus's earnest sweetness that appeals....

    laurence,
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    @Arotrios Thanks so much for the kind words!

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