Alan Fisher
@amfisher.bsky.social
Attorney, gamer (computer, RPG, tabletop), GM, husband, father, occasional author. Hatch Act restricted, so don't expect much politics.
Pinned
My country, right or wrong. When right, to be praised. When wrong, to be fixed.
We have officially used our last free COVID test. End of an era. Start of a more expensive era.
(Negative, by the way.)
(Negative, by the way.)
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We have officially used our last free COVID test. End of an era. Start of a more expensive era.
(Negative, by the way.)
(Negative, by the way.)
Book 81: Assyria by Eckart Frahm, an overview history of 'the world's first empire,' one that is largely overshadowed by the successor Chaldeans (Babylon) and Persian. Given the penchant to record their history in clay, there's a surprising amount of first-hand information about kings and commoners.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Book 81: Assyria by Eckart Frahm, an overview history of 'the world's first empire,' one that is largely overshadowed by the successor Chaldeans (Babylon) and Persian. Given the penchant to record their history in clay, there's a surprising amount of first-hand information about kings and commoners.
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Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Stop asking the internet if people still go to the library. Yes, every day, 7 days a week. Still free. Still a safe space. Still no purchase required
This is what they've done to the dark of night.
New images of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS are coming in as it moves out of the Sun's glare and (barely) back into view.
This shot, by Michael Buechner and Frank Niebling, shows an intriguing anti-tail and a "smoking" tail. 🧪🔭
britastro.org/observations...
This shot, by Michael Buechner and Frank Niebling, shows an intriguing anti-tail and a "smoking" tail. 🧪🔭
britastro.org/observations...
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This is what they've done to the dark of night.
I wish I could write as well as this bug report.
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I wish I could write as well as this bug report.
All right, since everyone's giving their James Bond takes, here's mine - there is, and never has been, a James Bond. He's a character invented by British intelligence in the wake of Philby et al. to try to redeem their reputation. Every few years SIS spins a new tale to the appropriators.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
All right, since everyone's giving their James Bond takes, here's mine - there is, and never has been, a James Bond. He's a character invented by British intelligence in the wake of Philby et al. to try to redeem their reputation. Every few years SIS spins a new tale to the appropriators.
It’s always the cables that kill people in this show.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It’s always the cables that kill people in this show.
Saw @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein in the theater today. I do not get how they manage to film real things and make them look like a hyperrealistic fairy tale.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Saw @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein in the theater today. I do not get how they manage to film real things and make them look like a hyperrealistic fairy tale.
Witness the only reason they are left alive after rampaging through the bedroom at 0200.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Witness the only reason they are left alive after rampaging through the bedroom at 0200.
I wasn’t expecting to have to think this much as John Cornyn, well, ever.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I wasn’t expecting to have to think this much as John Cornyn, well, ever.
Ghost storage facilities.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ghost storage facilities.
333 days before I hit 30 years as a Fed and can theoretically retire. I wonder whether the shutdown will end before that.
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
333 days before I hit 30 years as a Fed and can theoretically retire. I wonder whether the shutdown will end before that.
Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Good thing it has a lot less subscriber data to compromise these days.
Washington Post says it is among victims of cyber breach tied to Oracle software reut.rs/3JB5LUQ
Washington Post says it is among victims of cyber breach tied to Oracle software
The Washington Post said it is among victims of a sweeping cyber breach tied to Oracle software.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Good thing it has a lot less subscriber data to compromise these days.
Book 80: Ring of Fire by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social, on the first two months of the First World War, from the initial German successes against France, Russian successes against Germany, and Austrian successes against Russia, which are all reversed in short order.
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Book 80: Ring of Fire by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social, on the first two months of the First World War, from the initial German successes against France, Russian successes against Germany, and Austrian successes against Russia, which are all reversed in short order.
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
Let's see, what hides in small spaces and drips a clear viscous fluid . . . yes, my thought is don't check any further and nuke the plane from orbit.
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Let's see, what hides in small spaces and drips a clear viscous fluid . . . yes, my thought is don't check any further and nuke the plane from orbit.
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My latest short story is out. I have a tale in Cooking Up Death from Camden Park Press. Check it out. books2read.com/CookingUpDea...
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Cooking Up Death by Lyn Worthen, John M. Floyd, Annie Reed, Lauryn Christopher, Alan Orloff, Bethany Maines, Abigail Leigh Reed, Debra Henry, S.B. Watson, Wayland Smith
books2read.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My latest short story is out. I have a tale in Cooking Up Death from Camden Park Press. Check it out. books2read.com/CookingUpDea...
Saudis promise 'more holes' as soon as they get extended magazines.
LIV Golf expanding tournament format to 72 holes in 2026 reut.rs/47oqi83
LIV Golf expanding tournament format to 72 holes in 2026
LIV Golf events will be played over 72 holes starting in 2026, the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit announced on Tuesday.
reut.rs
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Saudis promise 'more holes' as soon as they get extended magazines.
A collision of cats.
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A collision of cats.
Nothing quite like seeing a job that looks perfect for you and then realizing it's - in this case - in India. So long, 'Senior Corporate Counsel, Law Enforcement and National Security.'
November 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nothing quite like seeing a job that looks perfect for you and then realizing it's - in this case - in India. So long, 'Senior Corporate Counsel, Law Enforcement and National Security.'
[Insert Ea-nāṣir joke here.]
November 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
[Insert Ea-nāṣir joke here.]
A level of rest to which I aspire.
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A level of rest to which I aspire.
Book 79: The Pathfinder and the President by John Bicknell, on John Fremont, Lincoln and the Civil War. Fremont was the first Republican to run for President, and spent much of the war as a radical on abolition. He had a few shots to reveal himself as a mediocre general and not a great politician.
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Book 79: The Pathfinder and the President by John Bicknell, on John Fremont, Lincoln and the Civil War. Fremont was the first Republican to run for President, and spent much of the war as a radical on abolition. He had a few shots to reveal himself as a mediocre general and not a great politician.
Despair, the visage
commands. Yet all about it
sands flow endlessly.
commands. Yet all about it
sands flow endlessly.
Higgledy piggledy
Percy Bysshe Shelley so
eloquent, described
a colossal Wreck.
Shattered, a visage lies
Ozymandiasly.
His trunk, did it suffer
a pain in the neck?
Percy Bysshe Shelley so
eloquent, described
a colossal Wreck.
Shattered, a visage lies
Ozymandiasly.
His trunk, did it suffer
a pain in the neck?
There once was a man from the east
Whose legs were not trunked in the least
He said with a sneer
“It is written right here
That my works, just like me, were a beast.”
Whose legs were not trunked in the least
He said with a sneer
“It is written right here
That my works, just like me, were a beast.”
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Despair, the visage
commands. Yet all about it
sands flow endlessly.
commands. Yet all about it
sands flow endlessly.