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Dennis M Powers

@dennismpowers.bsky.social

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Writer, Technologist, Quirky Old Guy, Sci-Fi Website: https://dennismpowers.com

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · Aug 6

Who am I - 2025 pt 2 (Sci-Fi)
After 50 years of wrangling electrons through tubes, transistors, gates, & chips, writing code and running a business, I retired a short time ago to write stories. I've completed three novels that will likely never be published and am still writing—still learning.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · Jan 9

Also, in a past life, I was the guy that created and maintained the Halomaps.org website for the Halo Custom Edition Game and ran a boutique website design and hosting service called UXB Internet.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 9h

I can relate

The top picture is of a three bowl cat feeding station labeled Developer Makes a simple, intuitive UI.

The bottom picture has three cats crawling over each other to eat from bowls opposite from where they were standing and it labeled Users

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 9h

You asked an LLM about that metaphor, didn't you? 😆👍

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck it. I am a member of Antifa.

My parents were antifa and lived with rationing while my father drove airplane wings to the shipyards for Navy fighter planes.

My late father-in-law was antifa and took shrapnel outside of Berlin fighting the nazis.

So yea. I'm antifa and proud of it.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 13h

Robyn doesn't know what she is talking about. My great-grandfather's name was changed from McPower to Powers when he immigrated. My ex-wife's grandfather's name was changed to the name of the town he was from, Cicero, also known as LoCicero, instead of his birth name, both through Ellis Island.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 20h

What advice can you offer a retired old tech guy on SS with no contacts in the industry who is attempting to break into writing?

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 21h

It's always bigger on the inside.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 21h

Dad, can we take him home?

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 21h

It's John Brunner's 'Stand on Zanzibar' come true. Buy a TV where you are the protagonist in every show you watch.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 22h

😆

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

I was too young (eight or nine) when my friend and I went to a matinee when The Tingler came to my local theater. It scared me under my seat, and the usher asked us to leave. Over sixty years later, I still can't bring myself to watch the digital copy I acquired.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

He has made me interested in things I never thought I would find of interest.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

Ping request time out

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked #PlotTober and it's the same.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

There appears to be a bug in their search algorithm, which may be caused by the distributive nature of the platform. It may not be indexing all instances or might be excluding some from indexed results. Regardless, it is a bug that wasn't there before.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

I just scrolled through the #WIPSnips tag and didn't see this post or your account. I noticed that the search results are close to date order, newest to oldest, but not entirely. For example, some posts from 9 days ago show up before posts from 1 day ago.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

It was one of my 2024 book reads. I enjoyed it and recommend it.

A collage of fifteen books I read in 2024

Children of Time - Sci-fi gold @aptshadow.bsky.social
The Underground - Sexy Adult Fantasy @roxannebland.bsky.social
Skyward - Good unfinished story #BrandSanderson
TaxMan - Intriguing short story @smartreads.bsky.social
Heritage of Blood & Magic - Family & magic. #MirnaChandrakumar
Cascade Failure - Cool fun like Firefly - #lmSagas
Blue Moon - Unstoppable Jack Reacher #LeeChild
Proxima - Good science #StephenBaxter
Who is Bobbie-Mae? - Self discovery #CCLegault
Steal the Stars - Witty sci-fi love heist @natcassidy.bsky.social & @macrogers.bsky.social
Ancestral Night - Thought provoking adventure @matociquala.bsky.social
Backyard Starship - Fun space adventure #JNChaney & #TerryMaggert

Starter Villain - A humorous SF adventure @scalzi.com
Dry Lands - Page turning adventure #ElizabethAnneMartins
Full Speed to a Crash Landing - Fun space heist @bethrevis.bsky.social

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 1d

I don't use the discover feed and curate who I follow. I don't follow people who create or post the slop.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 2d

Now I need to rewatch the Matrix movies.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

“No Speaker Johnson, The No Kings rally October 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a love America rally.” - Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 2d

Halo Custom Edition Map: Azera
User Rating: pending
Author: ²MôD²Glenn and ²MõD²Wrath
Date: 04/15/2012
www.halomaps.org/hce/detail.c...

Description:
On one side you have the hill billy style housing and on the other side you have a computer geek house.

#gaming #Halo #HaloCustomEdition #HaloCE

Halo Custom Edition Map: Azera
User Rating: pending
Author: ²MôD²Glenn and ²MõD²Wrath
Date: 04/15/2012
https://www.halomaps.org/hce/detail.cfm?fid=6309

Description:
On one side you have the hill billy style housing and on the other side you have a computer geek house.

#gaming #Halo #HaloCustomEdition #HaloCE

File Notes
About: In this map it is about what goes on in a man's head, one side you have the hill billy style housing and on the other side you have a computer geek house. There is a tree fort in the middle, tombs you can enter, and a few secret teleporters and weapons, and look where you throw your nades or you could do more than killing the enemy.

Recommendation: This map works on all game types.

Reposted by Dennis M Powers

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 2d

My body now laughs when my mind makes plans and pulls the covers over my head.

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 2d

Did someone hit her with a reality stick and open her eyes?

Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 2d

Better than the couch leg or door frames. 😀

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Dennis M Powers @dennismpowers.bsky.social · 3d

"I should be writing," he says, while waiting for Minecraft to load.