Matthew Stienberg
@matthewstien.bsky.social
Author, science fiction, fantasy, history nerd. 🇨🇦🚀⚔️⚓️📚
Website: https://matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/
Website: https://matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/
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The Virtue of Battle
The Republic of Patagonia is in trouble. Plagued by pirates without and discord within, the nation teeters on the brink of dissolution. With two equally intractable political parties in power, it will...
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Military science fiction? ✅
Space battles? ✅
Power armoured marines? ✅
Things blowing up? ✅
High and noble ideals? ✅
Good people making the best of bad situations? ✅
Stand alone fiction? ✅
If you like any of the above, please check out THE VIRTUE OF BATTLE in the link!
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Space battles? ✅
Power armoured marines? ✅
Things blowing up? ✅
High and noble ideals? ✅
Good people making the best of bad situations? ✅
Stand alone fiction? ✅
If you like any of the above, please check out THE VIRTUE OF BATTLE in the link!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTFKXZX9
Two edits and one scene away from finishing a novel draft. The struggle is real!
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Two edits and one scene away from finishing a novel draft. The struggle is real!
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The final act of my novel is based around that idea. Just showing up in orbit isn't good enough for a developed world if they can shoot back with any reliability!
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The Virtue of Battle
The Virtue of Battle - Kindle edition by Stienberg, Matthew. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Virtue of Battle.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The final act of my novel is based around that idea. Just showing up in orbit isn't good enough for a developed world if they can shoot back with any reliability!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTFKXZX9
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTFKXZX9
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In science fiction, things like this are why I tend to be bullish on why planets are not defenceless. Space guns are a cruder form of defence, but there's many others than an attacker would have to break to truly have a planet at its mercy for conquest!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
Giant Surface-to-Space Mega Guns
YouTube video by Spacedock
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November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In science fiction, things like this are why I tend to be bullish on why planets are not defenceless. Space guns are a cruder form of defence, but there's many others than an attacker would have to break to truly have a planet at its mercy for conquest!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
Even worse for OpenAI's long term outlook, they do not have an ability to scale their services as they grow. It's an astronomically expensive company.
There is no sustainable business model at OpenAI! Don't trust them with your money or information!!
There is no sustainable business model at OpenAI! Don't trust them with your money or information!!
Anyhow, as many, many people have pointed out, OpenAI loses money on every customer, even the paying ones, and will never stop. There are no economies of scale.
November 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Even worse for OpenAI's long term outlook, they do not have an ability to scale their services as they grow. It's an astronomically expensive company.
There is no sustainable business model at OpenAI! Don't trust them with your money or information!!
There is no sustainable business model at OpenAI! Don't trust them with your money or information!!
I think it's just astounding that OpenAI is both so optimistic about the potential for growth, but has absolutely no clue how to scale that growth and deliver a reliable product.
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I think it's just astounding that OpenAI is both so optimistic about the potential for growth, but has absolutely no clue how to scale that growth and deliver a reliable product.
In science fiction, things like this are why I tend to be bullish on why planets are not defenceless. Space guns are a cruder form of defence, but there's many others than an attacker would have to break to truly have a planet at its mercy for conquest!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
Giant Surface-to-Space Mega Guns
YouTube video by Spacedock
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In science fiction, things like this are why I tend to be bullish on why planets are not defenceless. Space guns are a cruder form of defence, but there's many others than an attacker would have to break to truly have a planet at its mercy for conquest!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCoW...
It's a beautiful morning to discover two of your tires are wrecked!
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It's a beautiful morning to discover two of your tires are wrecked!
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Imagine a world where all the tech companies named their products after Wodehouse characters rather than Tolkien concepts. It would still be just as toxic, but at least it would be funny. Instead of Palantir, you'd have the Empress of Blandings, for instance.
I'm sure if they won the search engine war, they'd have become corrupt and evil too, but I would've preferred Ask Jeeves winning if only to brainwash a whole new generation into reading PG Wodehouse novels to understand just who the hell Jeeves is.
Look kids! It’s Ask Jeeves! Over here Jeeves!
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Imagine a world where all the tech companies named their products after Wodehouse characters rather than Tolkien concepts. It would still be just as toxic, but at least it would be funny. Instead of Palantir, you'd have the Empress of Blandings, for instance.
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you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB
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IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
IMO the weird exception some supposed leftists seem to make for condemning-the-theft-of-labor-except-art-lol-steal-that-shit is just a weird intersection with puritan "if you enjoy yourself, it's not a real job" brainworms.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
"fun" job = member of the leisure class (ROFL) = fair game. Somehow.
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
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This week was a wrap on Hazbin Hotel Season 2! An impressive update in animation, episode length and music! I can only hope for as much from Season 3!
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Hazbin Hotel Season 2
The hit animated musical series Hazbin Hotel came in hot with a second season, filled with more music, longer run times, and more action! Does this sequel hit as hard as the first season? Light spo…
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November 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This week was a wrap on Hazbin Hotel Season 2! An impressive update in animation, episode length and music! I can only hope for as much from Season 3!
matthewstienberg.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/h...
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Hey @barloq.bsky.social looks like what we talked about could become real movie reality!
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
The long read: Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals
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November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Hey @barloq.bsky.social looks like what we talked about could become real movie reality!
- Anything set in the Boshin War (steam punk samurai)
- a pro-Canadian epic about the Battle of Queenston Heights
- The Mistborn Trilogy as written
- a film adaptation of the Dispossessed
- a page to screen adaptation of Starship Troopers with the elements other adaptations leave out and every rant
- a pro-Canadian epic about the Battle of Queenston Heights
- The Mistborn Trilogy as written
- a film adaptation of the Dispossessed
- a page to screen adaptation of Starship Troopers with the elements other adaptations leave out and every rant
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
- Anything set in the Boshin War (steam punk samurai)
- a pro-Canadian epic about the Battle of Queenston Heights
- The Mistborn Trilogy as written
- a film adaptation of the Dispossessed
- a page to screen adaptation of Starship Troopers with the elements other adaptations leave out and every rant
- a pro-Canadian epic about the Battle of Queenston Heights
- The Mistborn Trilogy as written
- a film adaptation of the Dispossessed
- a page to screen adaptation of Starship Troopers with the elements other adaptations leave out and every rant
I don't know why there's a subset of AI users who pretend to be artists who cling to the delusion that they're "making something" by using a prompt. Whether they're using images or words they don't know or care that they're just stealing other artists hard work. Or maybe they do 🤷♂️
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I don't know why there's a subset of AI users who pretend to be artists who cling to the delusion that they're "making something" by using a prompt. Whether they're using images or words they don't know or care that they're just stealing other artists hard work. Or maybe they do 🤷♂️
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This is a tough time of year for me financially, so I’ve decided to see if there’s any #WritingCommunity interest in my premade ebook covers. They’re $35 apiece, and I’ve done my utmost to avoid using any AI-generated resources in making them. Find them all here:
ko-fi.com/kilagreene/s...
ko-fi.com/kilagreene/s...
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
This is a tough time of year for me financially, so I’ve decided to see if there’s any #WritingCommunity interest in my premade ebook covers. They’re $35 apiece, and I’ve done my utmost to avoid using any AI-generated resources in making them. Find them all here:
ko-fi.com/kilagreene/s...
ko-fi.com/kilagreene/s...
There's an awful piece of AI "writing" that lives rent free in my head:
"It will be a long shot. The longest shot I ever shot."
"It will be a long shot. The longest shot I ever shot."
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There's an awful piece of AI "writing" that lives rent free in my head:
"It will be a long shot. The longest shot I ever shot."
"It will be a long shot. The longest shot I ever shot."
This war brought to you by Apple is a self writing dystopia.
The amount of palantir and other crap military industrial complex advertising around DC right now is outta control
We’re like one minor financial crisis away from us wearing their patches and branding like gd nascar
We’re like one minor financial crisis away from us wearing their patches and branding like gd nascar
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This war brought to you by Apple is a self writing dystopia.
Science fiction author brain:
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Science fiction author brain:
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa
What do you mean “too many books”
I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement
What do you mean “too many books”
I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
What do you mean “too many books”
I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement
What do you mean “too many books”
I’m not familiar with this unit of measurement
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i find it pathetic how many people on the right are subservient to this guy who is basically a tyrant out of the classics
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
i find it pathetic how many people on the right are subservient to this guy who is basically a tyrant out of the classics
Yeah her "mastery of politics, finance, and science" is so apparent she uses brute force for literally everything. She was spectacularly unsubtle about it too.
Her character became so insufferable in the show because of this and it have Lena Headley next to nothing to do on screen other than drink.
Her character became so insufferable in the show because of this and it have Lena Headley next to nothing to do on screen other than drink.
oh my god he was rooting for Cersei?!
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Yeah her "mastery of politics, finance, and science" is so apparent she uses brute force for literally everything. She was spectacularly unsubtle about it too.
Her character became so insufferable in the show because of this and it have Lena Headley next to nothing to do on screen other than drink.
Her character became so insufferable in the show because of this and it have Lena Headley next to nothing to do on screen other than drink.
To be clear, every business program is a hotbed of academic cheating by students and delusions of grandeur which translates to fraud in the real world on a massive scale.
At some point schools would benefit by labelling the programs as "white collar crime for dummies" and it would be accurate.
At some point schools would benefit by labelling the programs as "white collar crime for dummies" and it would be accurate.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
To be clear, every business program is a hotbed of academic cheating by students and delusions of grandeur which translates to fraud in the real world on a massive scale.
At some point schools would benefit by labelling the programs as "white collar crime for dummies" and it would be accurate.
At some point schools would benefit by labelling the programs as "white collar crime for dummies" and it would be accurate.