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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

@jackscarab.bsky.social

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Writer, teacher, 🍞&🌹 socialist, somehow Oklahoman. Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it! https://lnk.bio/JackDuffe https://books2read.com/aethertorrent 💙📚 #booksky

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · Sep 2

AETHER TORRENT, my anti-capitalist LGBT-protags YA fantasy adventure novel, is now out in eBook and paperback!

At any moment of your choosing you can buy it from any of several vendors and then read it! Including right now! Exclamation point!

💙📚 #booksky
#aethertorrent
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The cover of Aether Torrent, a YA fantasy book now available for pre-order.

Two women sit on the ground among a growing field of curling wheat, fingers linked over what appears to be a chunk of petrified wood.

Tori, the one on the left, concentrating with her head down, has long orange hair and is wearing jeans and a black-and-blue jacket. Avani, the one on the right, looking up at Tori, has short brown hair and is wearing a lightly striped shirt and skirt in two shades of green.

The title AETHER TORRENT hangs above them, in front of a circular wave design.

Above that are the words:

"This story is cinematic as all get-out. It's a ton of fun ... everything is bursting with life."

Trick Weekes, author of FEEDER and the ROGUES OF THE REPUBLIC series

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 36m

Me, out loud, having just written dialog for a character I created: "She's so stupid"

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 30m

my favorite thing besides the wild concepts is getting to the end of the description and finding out what they're the mascot for

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 1h

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 12h

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12h

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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RobotLyra, Insufferable Lisa Simpson Era @robotlyra.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes a rich evil person watches a movie or reads a book or comic or listens to music that's explicitly about how they as a rich evil person are what's damaging the world humanity and they have to be discarded, and they get so mad about it they invent the most incorrect interpretation ever.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 58m

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know?

Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

cryptonews.com

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 53m

Huge Nanny Ogg energy.

David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 6h

I was reminded recently of the fun fact that the Cadbury's Caramel bunny (voted 3rd sexiest cartoon character of all time) was voiced by Miriam Margolyes (drawing on her experience making adult audio tapes for sex shops)

thebritishcandyconnoisseur.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/f...

The Cadbury Caramel cartoon Bunny, seductively offering candy, wearing a big pink bow round her neck. Alongside middle-aged grey-haired Miriam Margolyes

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 15h

Feeling less sick today and was tired of being stuck in bed. So with all the Tron talk, I did a couple quick and dirty sketches to see if I could come close to hitting the look of the original. Might try to do more with it?

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 2h

JESUS CHRIST, Hi and Lois

what the fuck

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 5h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 4h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

Trump just said online the "Biden FBI" placed agents into the crowd on January 6, but Trump was president on January 6.

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 1h

"Kids found your alt."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 2h

200/hr, no min

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

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

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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RobotLyra, Insufferable Lisa Simpson Era @robotlyra.bsky.social · 3h

This dude is grasping onto every drug-induced straw he can to deny the fact that he is a tyrannical World Noble that Luffy would punch in the nuts and laugh about

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent @jackscarab.bsky.social · 3h

Peter Thiel, Reading One Piece While Masturbating:

"Gear 5 Luffy is exactly how I imagine Christ returning to destroy (((Globalism)))."

Luffy from One Piece, striking a jolly running pose while exercising the powers of ultimate rubberhose cartoon physics over reality.

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 4h

When you're so stupid you get the famous Dr. Manhattan quote from Watchmen exactly backwards in wording and meaning, but so rich nobody will tell you to shut up:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.

Smithsonian closes as government shut down continues

The Smithsonian's museums and zoo are now closed due to the government shut down. Tours of historic Washington, D.C. sites have been suspended and the National Gallery of Art is also closed.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 4h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4h

"Riyahd."
"King Salmon."
"Vetrans."

Central casting leather jacket, fake-ass introspective pose, insane downplaying of a literally murderous regime as agree-to-disagree type shit.

Perfect. 10/10. No notes.

John Calvin’s Strongest Soldier @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Heidecker putting out an apology for performing at Riyahd (he did not) is such a good bit.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4h

Hey cousin can Chicago borrow The Swiss Guard for a sec, we've got some fed-level trash to take out

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · Aug 13

I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️

サッカー大好きですっ☆特に関節技が得意ですっ☆

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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 7h

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