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@nemorosa@mastodon.nu
2026-10-11 13:58:23

#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion

‘Oh! Oh, this one. This one’s a beauty. Hold on, don’t breathe too loudly, it’s delicate.’ They lift a dream that glows colder than the others. The moment it rises from the chest, the air around you cools, and the shadows shimmer as though dusted with frost. The cloud unfurls, slow and reverent. You’re standing in a winter night so still it feels enchanted. Moonlight glistens on untouched snow, each crystal catching the light like a tiny star. The trees are coated in frost, their branches glit…
@tydalforce@mastodon.world
2026-09-08 11:09:24

IDK, call me old-fashioned, but maybe laying off thousands of your experienced and loyal employees is NOT the way to succeed....
Meanwhile, I'll take a small amount of delight in seeing them fall without me...
#oracle #oracleLayoffs

A screenshot of a 1 year stock history of Oracle Corporation, with a high of $328.33 when the poster was laid off, and a current value of only $158.78
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2026-10-07 15:16:27

RE: amicale.net/@libe/117400259947
Apparently the first talkie was a year earlier than The Jazz Singer, premiered in Edinburgh and featured the lowland Scots dialect.