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  • About that Matriarchy | According To Hoyt

    Look, I grew up in a patriarchy.  No ifs, ands or buts.  You can tell by things like the seating precedence in a car.  It about broke my then 16 year old son’s head that when getting in a car… Source: About that Matriarchy | According To Hoyt

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  • The Fringe | According To Hoyt

    “I don’t think I need to tell anyone that the neo-nazis are assholes, right?  They are also in general mentally ill and have other issues. ” Source: The Fringe | According To Hoyt

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  • Advent of Ruin on Kindle Countdown

    Advent of Ruin on Kindle Countdown

    GenCon is gearing up today, with an official start tomorrow.  Even if you can’t join me at the Con, though, this is a great weekend to pick up Advent if you haven’t already! It’s on a Countdown deal through the end of the day Sunday. For the next day and a half you can snag…

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  • More on no-dig gardening

    Found this reading the news this morning, feel like I was in the right track with the garden I put in earlier this year. Managed to get a few heads of lettuce before they bolted, and my tomatoes are starting to ripen. It’s starting to look like I’ll have cucumbers, too! https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/the-zoo-beneath-our-feet-were-only-beginning-to-understand-soils-hidden-world/2017/08/08/f73e3950-7799-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.dc962880b675 UPDATE: Pictures!  

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  • There’s No Business…. | According To Hoyt

    World’s worst correspondent… Yep, that sounds like me.  https://accordingtohoyt.com/2017/07/24/theres-no-business/

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  • io9: Why War for the Planet of the Apes Ended the Way It Did (and Where It Could Go Next)

    io9: Why War for the Planet of the Apes Ended the Way It Did (and Where It Could Go Next) http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwvJesvTU Spoilers abound, but this is actually a really good explanation of why I loved this movie as much as I did. If you haven’t seen the trilogy, it is well worth watching.

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  • Freebie Weekend

    Freebie Weekend

    Just FYI, Advent of Ruin is free on Amazon this weekend.

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  • UPDATE: Growing Things

    UPDATE: Growing Things

    I finally managed to get everything together to get my garden in. Planted seedlings this morning, and I’ll go sow some more seeds into the bed later this evening. Back in March, I posted about staining the wood to make the bed. After a number of weekends/evenings that just wouldn’t work for getting the bed assembled,…

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  • White supremacists love Vikings. Sane people can too.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/31/white-supremacists-love-vikings-but-theyve-got-history-all-wrong/?utm_term=.6f3edd770a0a Holy carp, guys! When did this happen? Last I knew most of the people invoking Odin and Thor were just another flavor of pagan. (My best friends in high school were Wiccan, mostly. At least one of them said he worshipped… Thor?, though.) I state here, for the record and for all time, that…

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  • Phys.org: Astronomers discover ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting nearby star

    Phys.org: Astronomers discover ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting nearby star. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw9sj0_jQ Gotta admit, my author sense is tingling when the name of the survey used is Hades. 

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