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Day: June 7, 2025

Weekly Round-up, June 7, 2025

2025-06-072025-06-07 John Winkelman

House Finch nestlings in a potted fern, about to become fledglings.

[House Finch nestlings in a potted fern, about to become fledglings.]

My birthday was two days ago, and O BOY, is the world getting more interesting as we move farther into 2025. Ukraine took out a sizable chunk of Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers with swarms of off-the-shelf hobbyist drones, Trump and Musk broke up and are performatively feuding, and the financial aftershocks of Trump’s tariff nonsense are hitting the street.

But other than that, things are going great!

Reading

I have returned to The Wretched of the Earth and it is once again blowing my mind.

Writing

I managed a couple of pages of world-building notes for Cacophonous, as well as a couple of lines of verse, though they weren’t very good. Or rather, interesting ideas poorly executed.

Weekly Writing Prompt

Subject: Undead, Kaiju
Setting: Battlefield
Genre: Fantasy

Listening

Alice Coltrane with Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson, “Turiya and Ramakrishna”, from the amazing album Ptah the El Daoud.

Interesting Links

  • “Ukraine drones ’emerged from trucks’ before strikes on bombers during major attack in Russia” (BBC)
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