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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!)

@gusharrisreid.bsky.social

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Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng MIMechE), Author, Nerd, Libra, He/Him, Sailing the Starless Sea 🐝🗝️🗡️ https://www.gusharrisreid.com/

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · Aug 7

Are you a fan of BattleTech? Gundam? Pacific Rim?

Then you'll probably like my military sci-fi EngineMasters Trilogy, a story of comradeship, perseverance, and plenty of relentless mech-vs-mech combat 🤖⚙️💥⚔️

Book 1 only $0.99/£0.99: a.co/d/baVoACq

#mech #mecha #robot #scifi

Novel cover display for the EngineMasters trilogy, featuring fighting mechs

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 1d

I blame the fools who added in July & August without correcting the very explicit numbering/naming convention already in place 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

By embracing Brexit for party advantage, the Conservative and Unionist party both destroyed itself and, in time, dismantled the union.

A political morality tale, a fable of hard folly.

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 3d

Forrest Gump. The Little Mermaid. Stranger Things. The Sopranos. Downton Abbey.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 4d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 3d

I can't unsee it now - it could either be a sticky toffee pudding in a bowl or an ice cube in a glass of coke! 😆

It's like the blue-black/white-gold dress photo all over again...

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 3d

I'm only 3 (4?) chapters in so far 😁

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 4d

Morning Womble! I've just started A Song of Legends Lost by @mhayinde.bsky.social!

You know it's going to be epic when it starts with a map and a 4-page Dramatis Personae 🤩❤️

Novel cover of A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde, featuring a man standing in front of a giant orange warrior made of fire/smoke and armed with swords, echoing the man's pose

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 5d

a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant .

ALT: a man is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a restaurant .

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 7d

My wee one (9yo) went around *closing* all the curtains yesterday afternoon as he was complaining it was too bright 😅☀️

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 10d

That doesn't matter. Its readers believe it

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 10d

This is why Starmer's strategy is so baffling. Being pro-Brexit, anti-immigration and generally reactionary is NOT going to win over the Daily Mail or its readers, so why do it? All it's doing is repelling those who DID vote for him... 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔🙄😡

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 10d

a woman with a veil on her face is talking to a man in a dark room and says `` pain '' .

ALT: a woman with a veil on her face is talking to a man in a dark room and says `` pain '' .

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 11d

Four frames from Lord of the Rings films showing a) Gandalf hitting his head on a doorframe, b) Aragorn hitting a flying dagger with his sword, c) a Bree inhabitant staring at the hobbits and d) Aragorn kicking an orc helmet, with the line "the four horsemen of pausing the movie and explaining pointless facts to some poor new viewer"

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 11d

How many do you end up enjoying? I think it would only work for me if I wasn't allergic to DNFing 😅

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 11d

*first* page

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 11d

One thing I need to get better at when experimenting with new books is having the willpower/courage to DNF. The Sunk Cost Fallacy seems to kick in right after the page 😭🙃

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11d

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 13d

Almost every frame from Arcane could be framed, but this particular one from Season 1 lives in my head rent-free 😍⚡💥

Scene from Arcane showing the character Vi (armed with magical, mechanical gauntlets) leaping and punching a man with a purple-visored helmet and glowing green blades in place of hands

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 13d

I have a Waterstones preorder - how do I send it? 😁

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 14d

Post a (Star Wars) duo

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 14d

👀🪶❤️

Chart showing different bird wing shapes for different types of fight

Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 14d

4 years since the release of Martirio by The Warning, one of their most epic songs (along with an incredible video) 🤩❤️🔥🎵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRA3...

The Warning - MARTIRIO (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TheWarningVEVO

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 16d

Happy Autumn 🍂

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes with it's jaws open wide showing long teeth ready to snatch a large falling Autumn leaf.

ink and watercolor illustration with digital color by Abigail Larson depicting a black dog with red eyes holding an Autumn leaf in its mouth. Many other dead leaves litter the ground around the dog.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17d

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

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Gus Harris-Reid (EngineMasters trilogy out now!) @gusharrisreid.bsky.social · 16d

The same goes for anyone who unironically accuses someone/something of being 'woke' 🤪