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October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I would like to hear your AWS outage story. Call and drop us a lil voicemail and we will put it on the air! ‪(240) 847-4915‬
October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This week's sale is the Red Falcon trilogy in the Starship's Mage universe

In a wide galaxy, can one ship stay ahead of debtors and crime lords alike - even with Mage's aboard?

Interstellar Mage is free until Friday mybook.to/SMRF1

Mage-Provocateur is $0.99 in the UK and US: mybook.to/MageProvo
October 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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WELL IN FACT if you are a member of @sfwa.bsky.social, they have some health insurance options available, based on the same concept of pooling groups together (in this case other lit-focused orgs). This itself is a compelling reason for qualified writers to join SFWA.

www.sfwa.org/2020/06/10/h...
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Today is the day my Kickstarter novel sees the real world!

Void Spheres is the second of my Aether Spheres space fantasy novels.

Our trio of mages are entering spheres dead for centuries.
Their mission means they must pass - but there are no good reasons for a sphere to die.

mybook.to/voidsphere
October 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This week's discount is the urban fantasy series ONSET!

To Serve and Protect is free!
mybook.to/onsettsp

My Enemy's Enemy is $0.99 in the UK and the US
mybook.to/onsetmee
October 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A few years ago I was delighted as the federal government invested in CISA - centralizing cybersecurity efforts that were often disjointed and boosting our national capabilities.

Now we're taking an axe to them. www.metacurity.com/the-white-ho.... CISA is running with under 900 staff vs. over 2500.
The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs feared
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform...
www.metacurity.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Spotted at work - I feel like there's some sort of metrics and measures joke just waiting to happen here...
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reposting for my author friends. A decent number of my books are on the list as expected.
October 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I am advertising a postdoctoral position in my new lab at Duke, to start as early as August 2026. If you are interested in how plant communities respond to climate change, please consider applying!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30614
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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New weekly sale: Peacekeepers of Sol

The war is over. The Kenmiri Empire has been defeated, liberating thousands of systems to anarchy.

What happens now?

Book 1, Raven's Peace, is free!
mybook.to/RavensPeace

Book 2, The Peacekeeper Initiative, is 0.99 in the US and UK.
mybook.to/peacekeeperi...
Raven's Peace (Peacekeepers of Sol Book 1)
Raven's Peace (Peacekeepers of Sol Book 1) - Kindle edition by Stewart, Glynn. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Raven's Peace (Peacekeepers of Sol Book 1).
mybook.to
September 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Sale continues!
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you're posting to social media and find alt text challenging, try using AI to write the description - it's quite good. A prompt like "Write a brief alt-text description of this image appropriate for social media" or "Write a 144 character or less description of this image" tends to work well.
September 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Starship's Mage book 1 is free until Friday!

A young Mage has some unusual talents, and, in the way of unusual things, they get him in a great deal of trouble as he starts his career on an interstellar merchant ship!

mybook.to/StarshipsMag...
Starship's Mage Book 1: 10th Anniversary Edition
Starship's Mage Book 1: 10th Anniversary Edition - Kindle edition by Stewart, Glynn. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Starship's Mage Book 1: 10th Anniversary Edition.
mybook.to
August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
An email I got to day included a typo that's cracking me up...

"Clod computing"

C'mon y'all. We're moving to the clod!
August 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Think about this for a second. It’s grotesque and dangerous.

White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...
White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you like broadly imagined science fiction novels written by a talented author, I hope you're already familiar with Glynn Stewart.

If you are, you'll be celebrating another new release to keep your reading habits fed. If you aren't try it - mages & tech in space with a big bad out in the dark!
Book Day!

The Lies Arcana

mybook.to/SM17LiesArcana

Driven from Chimera's friendly star, the Protectorate of Mars needs new friends if they are to challenge the ancient Reezh Ida.

But when Ambassador Connor O'Hannagain reaches their enemy's enemy, he walks into a newborn civil war...
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Cherie Priest has been a consistent treasure as a writer and a human for decades now, and she's getting very real about the life of a writer in 2025 in this post. Read it and also go buy her book(s).
July 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
As I think many Window 10 users hoped, there's now a free path for extended security support for a bit longer. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

But...they want you to sync your configuration data to the cloud. Sigh.
Free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates are now yours to claim — but there's a catch
A temporary lifeline for Windows 10 users is now available for free.
www.windowscentral.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Federal funding for public broadcasting has now been eliminated.

We are now in uncharted territory, but our commitment to you is not in doubt. We will continue to bring you the kind of reporting that our democracy depends on.

Stand with us: michiganpublic.org/donate.
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Public broadcasting plays a crucial role in keeping Americans informed, especially in rural America. Without funding, small towns could see their only access to local news and emergency coverage vanish entirely. [1/3]
What will happen to PBS and NPR stations if the Senate votes to claw back funding? | CNN Business
Public media stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here’s what that would look like.
www.cnn.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:23 AM
It's always fun to get into my shop and to make something - in this case, a wand for a staff member's daughter who is a big Harry Potter fan.

The wand is Bocote, with a rare earth magnet hidden under the tip so the wielder can work minor magic...if objects near the tip are magnetic.
July 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM