Tom
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SF, mil-tech, RPG.net, OSINT, trying to avoid doom politics
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Such a fun blend of incredible prescience (video phone calling, wireless phones, etc.) and oddly static bits (the bell-shaped telephone microphones). Perfect fodder for a pulp rocketship adventure.
From the Wing Leader page on Facepalm
Detail in ALT
Detail in ALT
January 1, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Such a fun blend of incredible prescience (video phone calling, wireless phones, etc.) and oddly static bits (the bell-shaped telephone microphones). Perfect fodder for a pulp rocketship adventure.
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Because of the music playlist I worked up for Kingkiller the algorithm still kicks me some great stuff.
youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dk...
youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dk...
Te Maurea Whiritoi | Whakaeke | 2025 | Pōtaea
YouTube video by Te Maurea Whiritoi
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December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Because of the music playlist I worked up for Kingkiller the algorithm still kicks me some great stuff.
youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dk...
youtube.com/watch?v=A0Dk...
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons
December 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Asher Perlman. #NewYorkerCartoons
Periodic reminder that just because the prostate cancer was treated, that doesn't mean your done with the complications. It all depends...
December 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Periodic reminder that just because the prostate cancer was treated, that doesn't mean your done with the complications. It all depends...
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I don't know who made this, but I love you
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I don't know who made this, but I love you
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TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
I'd probably end up paying it back in taxes, because my regular income is high enough.
No complaints, though. It would make lots of people around me more secure, both friends and strangers.
No complaints, though. It would make lots of people around me more secure, both friends and strangers.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd probably end up paying it back in taxes, because my regular income is high enough.
No complaints, though. It would make lots of people around me more secure, both friends and strangers.
No complaints, though. It would make lots of people around me more secure, both friends and strangers.
I've always liked Moholo-Nagy. I would love to find a contemporary (affordable) Ariat in the same vein.
László Moholy-Nagy, Z II, 1925
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134598
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134598
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I've always liked Moholo-Nagy. I would love to find a contemporary (affordable) Ariat in the same vein.
Now this is surprising to me.
I must sit in some weird crossover territory. I've read almost all of Cherryh's SF and am somehow also medium deep into Brit SF (Banks, Ken Macleod, Stross, etc.) I thought this was more common, but I guess not?
I must sit in some weird crossover territory. I've read almost all of Cherryh's SF and am somehow also medium deep into Brit SF (Banks, Ken Macleod, Stross, etc.) I thought this was more common, but I guess not?
By that point, though, the heavy lifting of the Radch was already done. And to date, I have only read CP and the Hydrogen Sonata.
By the same token, people who were immersed in Banks' work almost never read CJ Cherryh, because her work wasn't widely available in the UK.
By the same token, people who were immersed in Banks' work almost never read CJ Cherryh, because her work wasn't widely available in the UK.
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Now this is surprising to me.
I must sit in some weird crossover territory. I've read almost all of Cherryh's SF and am somehow also medium deep into Brit SF (Banks, Ken Macleod, Stross, etc.) I thought this was more common, but I guess not?
I must sit in some weird crossover territory. I've read almost all of Cherryh's SF and am somehow also medium deep into Brit SF (Banks, Ken Macleod, Stross, etc.) I thought this was more common, but I guess not?
Watching Slow Horses, season 5, finally.
Favorite line so far: "I'm sure the forest animals who found him did their best."
Favorite line so far: "I'm sure the forest animals who found him did their best."
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Watching Slow Horses, season 5, finally.
Favorite line so far: "I'm sure the forest animals who found him did their best."
Favorite line so far: "I'm sure the forest animals who found him did their best."
I thought they were opposed to floridation.
The Floridization of the White House under Trump continues.
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I thought they were opposed to floridation.
It hurts because it's true.
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It hurts because it's true.
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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There's a 2.99 ebook sale on the Emilie omnibus on online retailers today only, including Bookshop.org, kobo, Amazon, etc.
Kobo too! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Emilie Adventures ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Emilie Adventures Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World" by Martha Wells available from Rakuten Kobo. Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly suc...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's a 2.99 ebook sale on the Emilie omnibus on online retailers today only, including Bookshop.org, kobo, Amazon, etc.
Must be something in the air...
September 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Must be something in the air...
So we're getting "TikTok with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So we're getting "TikTok with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
So, this is quite the useful reminder, not just as we approach books but in other parts of our lives as well.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
To that, I did not reply.
Anyway, I can't help thinking that going through life burdened with Complete Knowledge of Correctness, with an added Duty to Enforce Correctness must be kind of stressful and not conducive to joy.
Anyway, I can't help thinking that going through life burdened with Complete Knowledge of Correctness, with an added Duty to Enforce Correctness must be kind of stressful and not conducive to joy.
August 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So, this is quite the useful reminder, not just as we approach books but in other parts of our lives as well.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Darwin would like to celebrate #nationaldogday and #terriertuesday
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Darwin would like to celebrate #nationaldogday and #terriertuesday
I just finished watching the most recent episode of Foundation. I get the sense that someone in the writers room has read A Memory Called Empire. The character names Songbird-17 and Oceanglass-49 seem like definite nods to Teixcalaan names like Three Seagrass.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
@byzantienne.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just finished watching the most recent episode of Foundation. I get the sense that someone in the writers room has read A Memory Called Empire. The character names Songbird-17 and Oceanglass-49 seem like definite nods to Teixcalaan names like Three Seagrass.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
@byzantienne.bsky.social
Jason Isbell's "If We Were Vampires" hit me hard after my cancer diagnosis. I'm fine now, but damn...
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Jason Isbell's "If We Were Vampires" hit me hard after my cancer diagnosis. I'm fine now, but damn...
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
Is 88 weeks late for this development?
August 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is 88 weeks late for this development?
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There's a lot of angry that Maria Dahvana Headley's starts with "Bro!" which I think absolutely brilliant.
August 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There's a lot of angry that Maria Dahvana Headley's starts with "Bro!" which I think absolutely brilliant.