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@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.social
2025-05-21 01:51:16

Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

A screenshot of my full post (available in the link of this post). It reads (in part): 

"In this reading note, Mandy quotes from Verlyn Klinkenborg’s:

"...why not give up on the idea of “flow” and accept the basic truth about writing?

It’s hard work, and it’s been hard work for everyone all along. There’s good reason to believe this, apart from the fact that it’s true. If you think that writing—the act of composition—should flow, and it doesn’t, what are you likely to feel? Obstructed, defea…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-05-14 22:18:35

On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds

A small shiny black greyhound boy with a white chest patch sits in the boot of a car laying on his left side propped up and looking towards the left of the camera. He wears a red patterned martingale collar.
A small shiny black greyhound girl standing facing towards the legt side of the camera with her ears at half attention. She wears a Star Wars themed fleece coat in black, white and blue and a red patterned martingale collar. She stands on a tarmac path in a cemetery.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-05-14 22:18:35

On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds

A small shiny black greyhound boy with a white chest patch sits in the boot of a car laying on his left side propped up and looking towards the left of the camera. He wears a red patterned martingale collar.
A small shiny black greyhound girl standing facing towards the legt side of the camera with her ears at half attention. She wears a Star Wars themed fleece coat in black, white and blue and a red patterned martingale collar. She stands on a tarmac path in a cemetery.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 21:55:43

A great blog post from Mandy Brown, via @….
I have an addendum, but it’s minor; the post is the thing:
1/
follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 21:55:43

A great blog post from Mandy Brown, via @….
I have an addendum, but it’s minor; the post is the thing:
1/
follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep

@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-04 07:52:22

Synergy-Informed Design of Platform Trials for Combination Therapies
Nan Miles Xi, Man Mandy Jin, Lin Wang, Xin Huang
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03086

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-06 09:09:18

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade:
🎵 Body Language
#MANDY #BookaShade
getphysicalmusic.bandcamp.com/
open.spotify.com/track/5lebr2F