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Robert Rath

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Head Writer of EXTRA HISTORY. Author of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, and ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER for Black Library. Freelance word mercenary. Born Hawaii, live HK. All views my own. He/Him

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hey Bluesky!

I’m Robert Rath, author of the Warhammer 40,000 novels THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER, and Head Writer of the YouTube series EXTRA HISTORY.

Follow me for comfortably warm takes, writing news, and photos of Hong Kong.

Book cover of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Warhammer Tokyo! 🌸

The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤

Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 10h

Dropsite Massacre is up for preorder now.

#horusheresy #warhammer

www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/t...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yeah we hit the one at Huashan Creative Park. Kids loved it.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

He's literally speaking out against the idea of representation for the American people and saying we have a corrupt SCOTUS that does what we want. Just saying it all out loud

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

rare earths are an exercise in American inability to govern. the problem of Chinese dominance in the sector has been known for over a decade. there was a broad bipartisan consensus that it was a problem in DC, at least among anyone who knew even a little about it, and constant discussion of ...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 1d

Funky bars are something Taipei has in spades, but among them Vinyl Decision stands out.

A part of the Huashan 1914 Creative Park—housed in a former winery and sake distillery—the host spins records by request between live music sets.

Who doesn’t love sake alongside live Brazilian Bossa Nova?

Sake bottle and cups with records in the background.

Performance in front of huge record collection.

Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 1d

The publication of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE five years ago marked a change in my life in a way that would be trite if you wrote it in fiction.

I took the book home, let my daughter play with it, then went to dinner to celebrate and was told we were going to have another kid.

This was my face.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 1d

Happy book birthday to THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, which released in hardback five years ago today!

Thanks so much to everyone who’s taken the ride with these two on their ten-millennia tropical vacation disaster.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

Also missionaries.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: the U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corp for much of its history. Businessmen doing shit drove a lot of U.S. policy, including the acquisition if imperial territories in the Pacific.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

Is Jared a government employee given that he's running around doing diplomacy or...?

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been on a previous trip but yeah, it seems like a heavy lift with small kids.

Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

Though then again it happened all the time before I had a family too, so…

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

Feel like these days this is the unfortunate cost of a creative career if you also have a family.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 3d

Had no idea the Taipei Zoo was considered the best in Asia—and for good reason!

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 3d

And of course in my haste I forgot to mention this is at Taipei 101.

Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 3d

Mass Damper or “Gravity Ball” to reduce swaying due to wind. It’s 66 metric tons and on the 88-89th floors, and is the only one in the world open to the public.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 3d

Mass Damper or “Gravity Ball” to reduce swaying due to wind. It’s 66 metric tons and on the 88-89th floors, and is the only one in the world open to the public.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 3d

Party of Christian values supports shooting pastors as they pray and cackling about it.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly the biggest tip I have for international travel with young kids is this:

AirTag your children.

Seriously.

Put. AirTags. On. Your. Kids.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 5d

Explaining to my Hong Kong-born children that, please, for the love of God, people are not this loud in Taiwan.

Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 5d

I actually saw the National Guard in DC late at night a couple weeks back.

Blocks of no soldiers, then eight standing around Farragut West station in teams of two, doing nothing and looking bored.

Blurry picture of two National Guard in DC.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 5d

Also, @amayor.bsky.social points out that this may be a mythologizing of inventions from Ptolemy II's court being sent as diplomatic gifts to India: theconversation.com/robots-guard... If true, that would make this a wonderful Reverse Mechanical Clock/Abul-Abbas the Elephant to Charlemagne story.

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