Joyce Reynolds-Ward

@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social

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Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Rural liberal. Dispenser of horse cookies to the Desert Prince and Grumpy Old Mare. Former special ed teacher who's forgotten more about cognitive assessment than most people knew. #SFWA

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Laura Anne Gilman

Yeah. We'll be getting the smoke. Just glad this gives me the chance to learn what the app does before it's absolutely crucial. As long as I have a connection, I'll get evacuation levels and warnings. This is a good thing. Oh! And it gives management updates! Size and support stuff.

Guess it's time to turn into the summer fire geek mode for real now (looking up smoke checks on WildCad, reading the Blue Mountain Fire Information blog, but this is awfully nice to have on top of that).

Well...I *guess* I'm glad my Watch Duty app works. Not to worry. Said fire just crossed the county and state line, 70 miles off. Conditions aren't such that we're in trouble here and there's a canyon or two in the way....but still...gettin' real here.

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Notorious CFB [Charlie Farnsbarns]

Yeah, once they get their adult teeth there's no solid way to tell.

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Notorious CFB [Charlie Farnsbarns]

But not ideal. My young gelding was aged by one veterinary as being 9-10 years old last year, by my vet as around 7 this year. Now my vet actually put a speculum in his mouth and did work, so his assessment might be more accurate--but past a certain point you don't know for certain.

Unless you have registration papers on the horse, you really don't know. I think my vet's assessment is closer to the reality, based on behavior and how the horse is starting to look like a mature horse.

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Yell In a War

Oh dear god yes. There's also the recent discovery that the best way to cool off a horse is to pour lukewarm water over it and let it sit. No scraping.

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Jordan (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️

Love this. I've been more into style rather than fashion all of my life.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

If you, like me, don't eat fresh pineapple or kiwi because it's like eating razor blades, you might want to be more careful than I was when offered (delicious) vegan pineapple ice cream. I just took for granted it would be tinned. Result: razor blade feeling *in throat* and 10 day allergy asthma.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Kids, if you went to #Readercon, test yourself for #Covid-19. Some folks have already been testing positive. 😢

I now know at least three people at Readercon who currently have COVID. If you attended, please test yourself ASAP!

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Funny how "art" is the only thing they're willing to steal. How about groceries, gas, and rent?

Well, blathered on today about a subject near and dear to my heart...finding an organizing method that might just work. www.joycereynoldsward.com/writing-orga...

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Brigid Keely She/Her

Me too.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

The problem with people who do Copyright Discourse to justify not wanting to pay for stuff ("ideas landlords! capitalism! sharing ebooks is redistribution of the means of production!") is, basically, they're morons.

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Ninjakick

It's a bad anarchist argument. I keep running into it periodically.

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Kingfisher & Wombat

Oh dear ghod now I think the guy I was arguing with on Substack Notes is one of THOSE.

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Avram Grumer

There's a strain of anarchists who sincerely believe this, alas.

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Jody Wallace

Nah, they wanna steal it and think they're sticking it to The Man.

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Kingfisher & Wombat

A bunch of these arguments sound a lot like half-digested versions of Abbie Hoffman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_T...

Steal This Book - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

No kidding. It's when they start spouting the "corporate shill" arguments that I start wondering when they're gonna start calling me a capitalist running dog. Seriously, some of these ppl sound like they haven't moved past STEAL THIS BOOK.

Damn right.

Yep. Completely agree. I've been more productive in retirement but...that's because writing has become my job. Not a hobby. A job.

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Courtney Milan

Absolutely agree.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Just to make it clear, since someone is already like “NICE TO ANNOUNCE THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO CARE WHAT YOU MAKE,” that is not what I said. It’s more that I don’t actually think there’s much that I, an individual, could do to stop piracy of my books.

Look, I’ve made it a practice to not care about individuals pirating my books, and to make my books available DRM free everywhere possible, for a lot of reasons, including my not actually caring and also not having any executive function.

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Joyce Reynolds-Ward

I made a rule in like... 2015 that I wasn't allowed to discuss digital piracy online anymore because the rhetoric around it is bananas coming and going. But yeah. I don't have the energy to fight the wind. I care so much about what I make that I just make more of it and keep it moving.

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Tade Thompson

Agreed. I've been screening my new follows and blocking anyone who gives me edgelord vibes. Life's too short for that BS. I wanna chat with interesting people and learn stuff.

Reply to

Katherine Villyard

I'm on two virtual panels.

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Reply to

Amber

scifi is great but a certain number of these dudes have yet to figure out that pretty much any innovation in modern day publicity and marketing was driven by romance writers who are always on the cutting edge. But who couldn't possibly be because ladies and kissing!!

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)

if we could capture and bottle the unlimited free energy of mansplainers… imagine… we could stop climate change tomorrow

Reply to

Courtney Milan

Sigh. Of course.