Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸

@travelinbrian

SF/F/H writer. Novel SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE available now. Short stories in Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, OnSpec, Phano, Andromeda Spaceways + more. Traveler (45 nations), and herder of dogs (3).

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Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 12d

An hour in the canyon with the #pitbulls #hiking #pitties #dogs #NewMexico

White and fawn pit bull standing on red rocks, side-view

Light brindle pit bull, side view, red cliffy rock in background

Two pit bulls standing in a canyon wash. Brindle facing camera, light brindle side view further back.

White and fawn pit bull drinking from a puddle in a canyon wash, red rock and green foliage around.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 13d

Where and when we can hang out at #worldcon

Graphic: LAcon V
where to find me at Worldcon

I won't be there

But I'll be at Books on the Bosque in Albuquerque Aug 6th, 5:30 pm

Below is an author pic of me, a long-haired white dude.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 16d

Today's walkie. Only got a shot of Yuri before the camera battery died. #hiking #dogs #pitbulls #NewMexico

White and tan pittie walking along, side view, red rock and greenery in the background.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 17d

I'm not a parent, but it wasn't until I was in my 30s and heard a couple of parents talking about 7 diapers/day/per infant that I realized and I was like

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 20d

Depressing. #literacy

On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024.

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.

Massachusetts was the state with the highest rate of child literacy.

New Mexico was the state with the lowest child literacy rate.

New Hampshire was the state with the highest percentage of adults considered literate.

The state with the lowest adult literacy rate was California.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 26d

It was this. I was about four. There was lots of blood and beat-downs. My parents took me along. They just wanted to see a flick about a folk hero in Tennessee, where they're from.

Movie poster for 1973 movie Walking Tall. Pictured: a dude with a baseball bat. He's not playing baseball.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· 26d

Excellent retort. #AI

Socialtypro: You are still an artist if you Use AI.

uppity_negress_: You are still a chef if you steal leftovers.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jul 7

Was called off from work, so we took a walk. #NewMexico #hiking #dogs #pitbulls #pitties

Pittie Yuri, white and tan, quarter rear view, standing among red rock and sparse foliage

Three pitties standing in a row beneath a red rock that hangs over them.

Reverse brindle pittie Jefferson standing among the trees

Brindle pittie Zia, tongue out, standing among sparse grass and rocks.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jul 3

Anyone know where I can get some black market RAM?

Thieves are hitting AI data center shipments, stealing supplies worth $1,5 million.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jul 2

My debut novel has been out for just over two months now. There be dragons inside. In World War I. www.briandhinson.com/novel-skies

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 30

Well said. Fuck AI.

As a writer who doesn't us AI, it's not like there is some temptation I am resisting

I am a writer. I engage in the act of writing.

It's like asking someone who loves to play tennis would prefer to sitting on the sidelines and watching a robot play tennis.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 27

This morning's walk. #NewMexico #hiking #dogs #pitbulls

White and fawn pit bull in a harness, side view, in a canyon

Brindle pit bull side view standing, mouth partly open, kinda grinning.

Two pitbulls in foreground, one fawn + white, the other brindle. One pit bull in background, reverse brindle. Scrub and pines around them as the morning sun shines on the foliage.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 21

The #cholla is a-bloomin' by the house. #flowers #NewMexico

Cholla bloom about to open. Fuchsia petals, spiky green cactus branches.

Cholla bloom open. Fuchsia petals, Yellow pistils, spiky green cactus branches.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 14

So, just detaining people of a non-white skin hue.

Headline: just 3% of recent ICE detainees had a violent felony conviction, government data shows.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 14

Impressive

Headline: Man ejaculated 3 meters out of car after head-on crash.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 13

Nazis suck. #belfast

**White person murders another white person**
Nazis: Sad, but these things happen

**Person of color murders a white person**
Nazis: WE MUST EXPEL AND
KILL ALL OF THE ((SLURS))

#BELFAST

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 13

Morning canyon hike. #hiking #dogs #pitbulls #newmexico

A black and a brown dog both standing together in the background beneath a red Cliff in the sunlight. A white and fawn dog in a harness stands facing away in the foreground

In the background among the trees one one black dog and another brown dog stand. A white and fawn dog in a harness stands side to the camera and facing away in the foreground

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 12

Sure, sure, it's everything but the cost of living.

Headline: America's birthrate has plunged. Are smartphones to blame?

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 11

We might have the same pool. The water's murky because Yuri (white) leaps out to do zoomies in the dirt before jumping back in.

Three pitties, two in a doggie pool, one in the play stance outside.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 5

Now that a little taste of the Zs treatment hits some white people, NOW it might be a war crime.

France opens war crimes probe over Israel's treatment of flotilla activists

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· Jun 1

SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE. 1916: The Church and all the corrupt cardinals and pope are allies of dragons. #alternatehistory #fantasy #booksky

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 31

Apache plume on today's walk. #NewMexico #flowers

Apache plume: dark pink filaments with whitish fuzz sprouting from a green stem.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 24

A pic from my author reading event this afternoon in Mountainair, #NewMexico for my novel SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE. It went well, and I don't know what this expression is. #booksky #writing

The author, Brian Hinson, a long-haired white dude with a silly goofy expression. The backs of two heads in the foreground.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 22

My debut novel, SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE, was released in April from Inkd Publishing. It has: dragons in WWI, evil cardinals, a gay romance between pilots, a spy for the dragons in an officer's household. It's here, among other places. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skies-of-f...

A fire-breathing dragon chasing a WWI triplane, the cover for SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 22

I have a reading thing promoting my novel at a local gallery in my small town of Mountainair, #NewMexico Public speaking always makes me nervous. Last month I had one at the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society and it went well. I always get the nerves, though. #booksky

Flyer for author reading by Brian D. Hinson at the La Galeria at the Shaffer. Picture of long-haired author and also a picture of the cover of the book, SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE, depicting a fire-breathing dragon chasing a WWI triplane.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 13

I wonder why? Maybe it's the wildfires.

42% drop in canadian visits to US last year

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 12

SKIES OF FIRE AND SMOKE an alternate history of WWI. #alternatehistory #fantasy www.briandhinson.com/novel-skies

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 11

This pic blows me away. "Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a stunning view of the Milky Way arcing through the night sky above Scotland's Isle of Skye, as shooting stars carved fiery paths through Earth's atmosphere." --SPACE.com

a stunning view of the Milky Way arcing through the night sky above Scotland's Isle of Skye, as shooting stars carved fiery paths through Earth's atmosphere. There's waterfalls, too.

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 10

Morning ride in the Manzano Mountains. #motorcycles #motosky #NewMexico

Closeup biker and red and black helmet and jacket with motorcycle beside and Green mountain in the background

Close up of biker in red and black helmet and jacket motorcycle beside mountains and background

Brian D. Hinson 🇵🇸@travelinbrian· May 7

Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.