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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · Jun 12

ICYMI my book of SF stories, ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE, was published two weeks ago. 18 years of my life in there, fuckin yikes bookshop.org/p/books/anot...

Another World Isn't Possible

Check out Another World Isn't Possible - <p>The stories of Brendan C. Byrne are spinning vortices of uncertainty where the past ceases to exist, the present is a slow burn, and the future is a vision ...

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 41m

Keaton also read scripts for Pacino. She convinced him to do SEA OF LOVE, which resuscitated his career

Christine Kelley @ballardiangorse.bsky.social · 1h

Al Pacino says in his memoir that after he went bankrupt, Diane Keaton gloriously went off on his entertainment lawyer. “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”

“Arthur began to explain that I was insolvent, due to mismanagement of my assets. He didn’t play a part in it, I know that. But the words just washed right over me.
Diane, however, was furious. She got up from her seat, and she started to question him: “How could this happen?” He was hemming and hawing, well, you know, this and that.
She just exploded. She went up to Arthur and was now face-to-face with him. She backed him into a corner of his office, pointed at me, and said, “Do you know who he is?”
He said, “Well, you know.”
She was practically grabbing him by the lapels: “No, tell me who he is.” He started to speak, but Diane jumped in again: “Yeah, you’re going to tell me, ‘Oh, he’s an artist.’ No. He. Is. An idiot.”
I just stood there. What could I say?
Diane went on: “He’s an ignoramus. When it comes to this, you’ve got to take care of him.”

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 2h

i'll never not be a little in love with Diane Keaton

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 5h

good shit, buy shit

Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 4d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 5h

thanks man

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 5h

i thought i was losing my mind throughout this entire movie and this was a big reason why

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 6h

As the public health infrastructure is decimated, certain people are protecting themselves

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 20h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 7h

Peter Thiel may or may not be the actual antichrist, but he *is* the detourned reincarnation of Palmer Eldritch www.bigecho.org/the-three-st...

The Three Stigmata of Peter Thiel — Big Echo

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 8h

as a friend once said on twitter, long ago, it's leather jacket season

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 23h

PEACE ABROAD WAR AT HOME

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

if you want to go deeper on the SI, @mckenziewark.bsky.social's The Beach Beneath the Street is a good start

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

sorry i haven't had my coffee yet

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

the only way not to be wrong is to be right in the same way everybody else is but too late to do any good about anything

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

Lololololol

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Hamilton responds, with anger in his voice, “This is no Carrie Underwood song.”

Perry then asks for more specifics about the agent who “had his beard ripped off” and the discovery of an alleged “improvised explosive device” at Broadview.

DOJ has nothing more to add.

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 1d

Score one for Dickhead Diplomacy i guess

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6d

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6d

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6d

And this all starts right out of the academies or ROTC, are the top of the class going into arty or armor or logistics, no they’re all going to the 173rd airborne or ranger school, so you can see how the army has become so light infantry/SOF centric

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 6d

Thinking about what wild understatement of the facts we're going to use for this time period since "The Troubles" is taken

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 6d

which is currently radicalizing the side out of power. the next step is a massacre perpetrated by the national government, which only locks in the cycle of escalating political violence.

Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 6d

would lead to a very different flow of political violence. i'm not seeing that right now. i'm seeing a very similar upslope towards civil war. currently we're at non-violent resistance from one side being met by sporadic outbursts of violence from the other, mediated and backed by the national gov't

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 6d

when @lifewinning.com & i wrote THE TRAINING COMMISSION, we named our period of civil-by-any-other-name The Shitstorm, attempting to differentiate it from the Troubles of Northern Ireland. i assumed the national character, and the vastly different political situations, of our separate countries

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · May 25

(walks over to where you are looking at this hanging fifteen feet up the wall of my barely furnished den) ha, yes. the exact view I had through the drone before I fired

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 9d

sorry for your loss/ that's beautiful

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 9d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Nicky Flowers @nickyflowers.com · 9d

"eyy, i'm Walden here!!!" - henry david thoreau

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Brendan C. Byrne @brendancbyrne.bsky.social · 9d

this is legitimately bewildering. the commissary was a huge part of my grandparents' lives

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 9d

Ok my dad was a 23-year vet and weekly trips to the commissary after his retirement was just part of life. We liked the low prices! Shutting these things down will enrage every vet in the country.

Chicken Puppet @chickenpuppet.online · 9d

I know these guys are all dumber than a sack of hammers, but it is fascinating to see the military decide “logistics are gay” in real time

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