Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 2
July 26, 2023
Bye Bye Birdie…?
Like a lot of people, I’m in some shock about what’s going on at Twitter right now. (ETA, 26 July 2023: Terrifying to see that that statement is if anything…
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July 17, 2023
We’ve lost a faithful web provider
Just a word about our websites at YoungWizards.com, PeterMorwood.com and EuropeanCuisines.com: All three of these sites (and in YW.com’s case, the smaller sites associated with it) are currently down due…
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April 27, 2023
A shout-out from above atmosphere
Something a little unusual (and delightful!) in the “Meanwhile, on Twitter…” dep’t! A shout-out to something of “mine” that appears in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard���the Denebian-crewed Federation…
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November 13, 2022
Bye Bye Birdie…?
Like a lot of people, I’m in some shock about what’s going on at Twitter right now. The massive firings that started happening in early November (2022) and continue as…
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I’m on Mastodon
(I���m ���@dianeduane@mastodon.social over there.) …Actually I���ve had an account there since spring of last year, with an eye to a time when the kinds of things might start happening to…
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August 30, 2022
On becoming a Star Trek novelist
(Ported in from Tumblr, for those who don’t want to deal with its data ToS…) tall-tree-tales asked: Hi Diane! I���ve been a huge fan of your Star Trek work for…
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July 15, 2022
CrossingsCon 2022
It’ll all be happening in Montr��al! I’m one of three guests���alone with Megan Whalen Turner and Ursula Vernon���at this very cozy, intimate and exclusive gathering of cousins and associated others.…
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June 9, 2022
Today’s bit of #YoungWizardsMeta
So the Washington Post tells us today that President Biden is proposing that Hudson Canyon be designated as a new national marine sanctuary — more or less the undersea equivalent…
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April 28, 2022
Good trouble
(Just to clarify: the above phrase isn’t used here in the far more important sense in which John Lewis used it… but for something that’s “good” as we sometimes define…
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April 3, 2022
Fanfic Rye Bagels
So I was wandering through Tumblr (as I do at least once a day, occasionally leaving evidence that I’ve been there) and ran across someone’s rather plaintive message to Neil…
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