(Has audio. Listen along!) -- "Pessimistic" (shorthanded) | © A.T. Pike | April 30, 2026 Life sucks and then you die. We just get better at hiding it. How has life changed for you in the past 5… 10… 20 years? Such a long stretch— and a blink at the same time. #AmWriting

Setting a boundary as an indie author. Respect the work before anything else. #NoColdCalls #RespectFirst #IndieAuthor

Warm coffee on a cool Sunday~. Happy Sunday, everyone. #Coffee #authorlife #happysunday

A common question I get: Do you plan your writing… or just run with it? For me— Poetry = instinct, freewriting Fiction = some structure + controlled chaos Both work. Both fight me in different ways. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

As Sir David Attenborough (Happy Belated Birthday!): "Here, we see the wild indie author, having just emerged from its slumbering den. His features are unusual for this hour, as he starts his day." Have a good day!

“How did your first book prepare you for your second?” Honestly? It didn’t. Life Through the Eyes of a Wolf was a collection. The Werewolf of the Castle is my first real dive into characters, dialogue, a full story. It’s new, challenging… and I love it. I’m writing this one for myself first.

Don't be a fool. Don't pay for reviews. It will only end in heartache for you. Buying, or incentivizing, reviews is against Amazon Terms of Service. Bad reviews will be removed, your page will be blocked from new reviews, or your entire book can get taken down. DON'T. DO. IT!

Quick update on my next book, *The Werewolf of the Castle*. I’m rebuilding it from a 10-year-old draft. It finally feels like a real story now. Something with structure. With weight. Something with more "bite" to it. 🐺 Now comes: the rewrite. I think you’re gonna like where it’s going. #Writing

📄 Writing Session Results 9 pages 3,263 words I damn near pulled an all-nighter for The Werewolf of the Castle. I'd be lying if I said I wasn’t having fun though. Once the ideas started flowing, I was on a roll. 🐺✍️

Someone tried to guilt-trip me into buying a marketing package—said my book wouldn’t sell without them. Every copy I’ve sold came from my own effort. Started from zero. Chose poetry anyway. No shortcuts. Just honest work. And when someone connects with your work? That makes it all worth it.

If you wanted to slot your Game Boy something akin to its own mech suit to boost your gaming and make it feel like a mini arcade cab, then the Booster Boy was an option. UK tech news and video games reviews show Bad Influence gave us a hands-on in '93 with the chonky (Game) boi. #VideoBytes

CALADRIUS BLAZE allows me to unlock controlling TWO SHIPS at once in mirror formation, with two different customizable weapons load-outs, and it's literally the most fun I've ever had in any SHMUP game ever. I need this feature in every STG game from now on. #SHMUP #STG

CORE Rules! ChimeraSHOCK! TTRPG in a world of Steam Engines, Bi-Planes, Airships, Black Powder, Super Science, Swords, and Majhic... Evolution on each world like ours doesn't happen all at once. Technology doesn't propagate at an equal rate. Cultures collide. #dnd #steampunk

Hey folks, it's time for some BG3 Hints and Tips #BaldursGate3 Today, we discover an expensive way into the House of Hope. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we have something for everyone, so why not like and subscribe for your daily tips- Tal

European Union was a way of replacing Nazism. It is one of the most ambitious projects in the history of man. Listen to @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social tell its story in episode 1 now! linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Register for your postal vote by tonight! Postal voting is a great way to make sure your voice is heard, even if you have mobility issues, if you're super busy with work and kids, away on holiday at election time... or if you just forgot to register! www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote

“As Steve Bannon so eloquently put it, quote, we're going to have ICE surround the polls. Let's be clear at the outset: that is flatly illegal. If that happens, we will go to court.” — @mawaldman.bsky.social at the Brennan Legacy Awards dinner

The plan was to get these four at low enough health that Ghost Rider can drain them all in one go. But I miscalculated and he could only do three 💀 Welp, Nico is there to clean up 😆🤣 🎮 Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Russia: New building construction in Tyumen, occupied Siberia. Such issues are systemic and nationwide as Russian developers cut corners because of a sharp rise in cost of construction materials over the last few years.

📌 Βίντεο στο Instagram με αφορμή την Εργατική Πρωτομαγιά έκανε ο πρωθυπουργός Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης, παρουσιάζοντας τα θετικά μέτρα της κυβέρνησης για τους εργαζόμενους. 🎥 kyriakos_ #iefimerida #κυριάκοςμητσοτάκης #μέτρα #εργαζόμενοι

🚨 Train Slams Into Septic Truck in Virginia Authorities are investigating after a train collided with a septic truck crossing railroad tracks in Chesapeake, Virginia. #SouthFloridaMedia #BreakingNews #Virginia #TrainCrash #Chesapeake

Il y a 3 infos aujourd'hui en imaginaire : - On a des images à vous montrer du prochain film de SF de Spielberg - Il FAUT que vous regardiez la BA de Speed Demon. - Un livre Baldur's Gate 3 arrive.. #Fantasy #horreur #fantastique #horrormovie #sciencefiction #stevenSpielberg #BaldursGate

Just days after amending 38 C.F.R. § 4.10, VA rescinded the interim final rule and restored the prior regulatory language. That means the change directing examiners to consider how disabilities function while treated with medication is no longer in effect.

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Hart28.com Terrifying reality check: Cardinal Czerny warns that AI’s energy demands are becoming so massive they’re driving an ecological crisis, fueled by the global tech elite🇺🇸

Mouse Mindfulness 5/19/26🐭💜 Sometimes if you change the way you look at things a whole new outlook can appear🫶🏻 #fyp #mousemindfulness🐭 #mindfulness #quotes #perspective

Of I didn't know this idiot as well as the entire planet know him I would probably not believe what he just said, but the world knows better. The foul thing can't even speak right. I'm Italian, what's his excuse?

In Malaysia, thousands are left homeless after a fire. #News #BreakingNews #ForYou #Learn #SawItOnNewsidly

Francesca Albanese tells the world of the plot for a ‘Greater Israel 🇮🇱’: ‘We are not post genocide’ ‘While the world is distracted’ ‘The genocide & destruction in Gaza 🇵🇸 goes on’ ‘🇮🇱 expands north & east’ ‘For a Greater 🇮🇱’ Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

"Die Daten scheinen nun ziemlich eindeutig zu bestätigen, dass wir in den nächsten Monaten einen El-Niño-Zyklus erleben werden, der alle bisherigen Rekorde bricht." Einer von unzähligen Gründen, Klimaschutz als Grundlage für alles zu sehen.

On our last episode, “Listeners' Therapy", we heard from Benjamin (19, Copenhagen) an honest and authentic depiction of the difference in experience between being Jewish in Israel and in the diaspora.

Ist zwar aus Oktober 2025, aber ich habe den Aufschrei vermisst und vermisse ihn noch immer! #(c)DU #(s)PD UND #AfD hatten ein neues Polizeigesetz für #Berlin beschlossen. #Überwachung #Spyware #Staatstrojaner

Alles wiederholt sich. 🤮 Deutsche Firmen finanzieren Nazis.

Post-apocalyptic extraction shooter 'Gravebound' challenges players to scavenge loot and survive against rogue machines in a devastated wasteland... Coming soon to Early Access on Steam 💀👇 #indiegame #indiedev

“Ford knows what he’s doing. His modus operandi is secrecy, using throwaway phones, code names on projects, files not existing… and he seems to always be positioned one level away from somebody who knows something.” 👀 @paulstewartii.bsky.social 🇨🇦 The OShow 🔗 youtu.be/-QvhzrxY7IU?si… #Onpoli #ON

📺 Amed Rosario anota en un out forzado.

Who speaks for the trees? Your student does! This science-integrated language arts program for grades 3-6 will teach them how. Curriculum by Wild Learning #homeschooling #homeschool #homeeducation #homeeducator #secularhomeschooling #secularhomeschool #secularcurriculum #wildlearning

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Some odd glitching across most of the country a few minutes before the end of The One Show. Viewers of BBC One Wales got to see BBC News Studio B (London) in darkness. The rest of the country (except Scotland) saw picture/audio glitching.

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W! The #Canes have done it again in overtime. Tonight, it's Sebastian Aho tipping home an Andrei Svechnikov shot. They take Game 3 by a score of 3-2 and claim a 2-1 series lead. A well-deserved victory after outshooting Montreal 38-12.

#PoliticsLive Reform UK Ltd are one-trick ponies. All they have to offer is anti-migrant bigotry, as they offer zero regulation policies to crypto ghouls. Their whole offer is fraudulent.

🆘 #ICE detain mother and 14 year old son outside school—day before 8th grade graduation‼️ Agents also broke car windows to arrest woman's 2 older sons—who had rushed to help their mom and little brother.

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CAN YOU GUESS THIS BOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR? HINT: KNOWN FOR HIS UNMATCHED ENERGY AND WILD FASHION CHOICES! #GuessTheActor #BollywoodQuiz #WhoIsThisActor #MovieTrivia #IndianCinema #PopCulture

Been working on the look of terrain and platforms, currently using a grid map setup. While it allows me to make blocky terrain of any shape, I'm not sure yet if it is an efficient way of making maps (both time and performance) 🤔 Does anyone have experience with gridmaps? #GodotEngine #GameDev

We’re hiring. 📢 An internal opportunity is now open in HSE Technology & Transformation for an Interim Assistant National Director, Head of SAP CoE. 📅 Closing date: 2 June 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4tqeLy8 #DigitalForCare #SAP #Hiring

MAJOR BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has just BLOCKED subpoenas against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, claiming there is "essentially zero evidence" of wrongdoing! In other words, Trump was once against using the DOJ as a means of political persecution against people he doesn't like.

The production of paper cups is inseparable from paper cup machines

From @thedreydossier.bsky.social Have you ever heard of the US CLOUD Act? No? It means the US government can demand data from American cloud companies, even when the servers are in another country.

How Blockchain is Transforming Trade Finance Through Tokenization By making these assets of blockchain-based tokens, stakeholders get more benefits: processes streamlined with immediate verifiable records, ownership rights become transparent. www.blockchainx.tech/trade-financ...

China NMPA Approves Secituzumab Tirumotecan for Injection 📩 info@dengyuemed.com 🔗https://dengyuemed.com #ChinaNMPA #DrugApproval #SecituzumabTirumotecan #ADC #TROP2 #TripleNegativeBreastCancer #KelunBiotech #Jiatailai

How Ilhan Omar Became $30 Million Richer

Costs keep rising. Wages don’t. That’s by design. On May 1, working people are taking action nationwide. Find yours: ppls.ac/whatyoucando #MayDayStrong

8 million people took to the streets yesterday: No Kings We’re saying the same thing in court! We are suing to scrape Trump's name off the building where it was put without Congress’s permission More on @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social 👇

Happy election day, Missoula! Get those ballots in! 💌

"It's just a game." #UCLfinal

We made it through the first day of Pride. It was rough. Who needs a drink?

Playful sand cat kittens~brother and sister Zayn and Ziri got to experience playing on grass for the first time at North Carolina Zoo💛