Derek Nason (He/Him)

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Writer. Travel writing as a day job but coming up with silly SF/H stories when I’m happy. I have a lovely wife and pretty fantastic dog.

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eating hot dogs, in a leftist way

It should somehow be possible to work seasonally as a humpback whale.

Problem: feedback loop of one thought saying “what’s wrong with me?” and another replying w/ “you are lonely” Solution: smoke weed. That way it’s 🎼 🎶🎶🎶🕺🏼what’s wrong with me?🎶🎸🎸, 🎶🎶🎶🎤 you are lonely🥁🎶🎼🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼

It must feel brutal to be one of the plants in my greenhouse I’m drying, while it’s raining

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me: “Witness us!!!” [Immortan Joe sprays chromey paint into mine & my gearmate’s mouth] me [to gearmate]: “Ewww😆🤣😜🤫.”

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In my culture, it's customary to shout as many incorrect words as possible when someone is searching for words

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yes, i chose to become one of the cenobites. but i'm changing the organization from the inside. anyway who are you to judge me, you don't even have any skin

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A version of “never have I ever” where you just take turns saying that phrase in the most offended southern belle voice you can muster

The most time-efficient humble brag is to refer to yourself as ‘just plain ol’ Renaissance folk’.

If anyone happens to pop by Israel’s Twitter, take a second to report this for incitement to violence. It probably won’t help. But I think it’s better than not doing it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency apnews.com/article/ursu...

Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residencyapnews.com The former home of the late Ursula K. Le Guin is being readied to become a base for contemporary authors.

If I’m being honest with myself, I’d love bring a mosquito. It’s fun to be sneaky.

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They closed the diner down after flies kept landing in huge numbers on the big front windows, forming themselves into the loose shape of a human being. Didn’t matter how many times they shooed them away, they just kept coming back. Nobody had much of an appetite seeing that, I guess.

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I hate that feeling, when I meet a frog, of not being sure if we’ve met before

Didn’t get selected for a jury. Feel like maybe I’ll start my own jury now.

If I were a medieval archer I’d always get into trouble for firing arrows straight up in the air.

Sick of all the attention Furiosa gets. I’VE had a hard life too, ya know.

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putting a whole banana in my mouth and slowly removing a gleaming white bone

If I’m understanding what I see on the internet correctly, chiropractors *only* work on giraffes now.

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In this economy, I can only afford to laugh at someone else’s expense.

[buying a new pair of running shoes] “So where do u keep the bowling balls for me to test the soles w/? They in the back, or?”

Imagine how lonely/profound it must’ve been to be one the few ppl doing acid in the 50’s.

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Cow or goat or sheep!! DO NOT DRINK RAW MILK. ANIMALS ON SMALL FARMS ARE NOT LESS VULNERABLE TO HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA I DO NOT CARE WHAT THAT HIPPIE ASS BACKYARD GOAT KEEPER TOLD YOU

It's starting to look like pasteurization inactivates #H5N1 #birdflu viruses in milk. But people who drink raw milk are playing with fire right now. www.statnews.com/2024/04/29/b...

There’s never a good time to drink raw milk. But now's a really bad time as bird flu infects cowswww.statnews.com People who drink raw milk from an H5N1-infected cow could get seriously sick, scientists say.

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Local obit after John Wick passed through town

What it will look like when Blaine Higgs is forced to run every cabinet position himself.