I’m a massive sci fi fan and played the ever loving shit out of Star Citizen for a while there. Loved the 6 degrees of freedom and the capability to be a person or a starship....
Hi, I’m Simi. I’ll be honest I have 0 friends and I’m in need of a community 🙏
A little about me: 🏳️🌈 as fuck. I’m an Jr. editor / post PA at an advertising agency. I live with my two dogs, Simba and Prince. Aspiring lead editor / director
🌌 On this day in 1978 the very first episode of the very first version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy went out on Radio 4. We can't tell you how proud that makes us.
Here's a lovely programme about Douglas and his creation, presented by his friend John Lloyd, that went out on the 40th anniversary.
Cher gens du #mastodon. Je cherche unE personne pour pratiquer parler #français. J’ai appris avec la chouette #duolingo 🦉depuis deux ans, mais ne peux jamais parler. Ça m’intéresse dans les #artes, #scifi, #societe, les #animaux et plus des choses. Nous pourrions recontrer deux fois par mois en ligne, si tu veux. Allons-y #apprender#langues#tandem! 😀 Je peux parle #anglais ou #allemand avec toi. 😊
It's funny how not that long ago there was "The Family Computer." There was only one #computer in the house. We all had to share it and allocate time. I couldn't play my edutainment point and click games because mom was working on a spread sheet for the finances. Also those family computers were often in computer cabinets because god forbid you had company over and they saw you owned technology. Funny how times have changed. Now you have a super computer in your pocket. That's some #SciFi shit.
"Yes…fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”
i tooted out yesterday an off-hand comment about how i was enjoying #TheExpanse because they actually have to deal with things like g-forces (quite realistic compared to my usual #StarWars-style #SciFi), and it spawned a two-day long multi-branch conversation between at least a dozen people including (but not limited to) Bussard ramjets, fusion reactors, socio-economic analyses of science fiction politics, the list goes on.
“Hope begins with the ability to imagine alternatives. And there is always an alternative.” - part of a brilliant graduation address by Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) to York University.
A great piece about science fiction, optimism, pessimism, fatalism, humane agency, Luddites, tech bros, inevitability, and the need to always seek alternatives… and to find hope.
Okay so NOW this FREE cyberpunk collection (which is so old you can see on the cover that it was only $3.50 for a paperback copy), is available as an #ebook download (FREE, I said!) as well as just opening it to read on your device. If you want it in that format, you can go there and try out the two ebook download systems it's offered on, let me know if it's not working.
I just moved to a new instance, so here's a new #introduction
I'm the host of the Grammar Girl #podcast. You may have hit my website searching for something like "semicolons." I love #writing books, #teaching online courses, and I founded the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.
Looking for a spaceship/sci fi game to play. Any thoughts?
I’m a massive sci fi fan and played the ever loving shit out of Star Citizen for a while there. Loved the 6 degrees of freedom and the capability to be a person or a starship....