Dirk
@dirkmyers.bsky.social
Technology, cats, books, Seattle Kraken, Seattle Torrent, food, music, miscellaneous nonsense.
Commit the sin of empathy. Read all the books. Due process absolutist.
Commit the sin of empathy. Read all the books. Due process absolutist.
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Matty Beniers wins it for the #SeaKraken -- what a sick move!
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Matty Beniers wins it for the #SeaKraken -- what a sick move!
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
The Gate of Memory, edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
poems by descendants of nikkei wartime incarceration
Like most anthologies, any summary is too simple. Like good poetry, any summary is off the point.
The Gate of Memory, edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
poems by descendants of nikkei wartime incarceration
Like most anthologies, any summary is too simple. Like good poetry, any summary is off the point.
January 1, 2026 at 12:36 AM
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
The Gate of Memory, edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
poems by descendants of nikkei wartime incarceration
Like most anthologies, any summary is too simple. Like good poetry, any summary is off the point.
The Gate of Memory, edited by Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda
poems by descendants of nikkei wartime incarceration
Like most anthologies, any summary is too simple. Like good poetry, any summary is off the point.
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According to @iankennedyck.bsky.social, Aneta Tejralova has received supplemental discipline for her head check to Sarah Fillier during the first period of Seattle's loss to New York.
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
Sources: Aneta Tejralova Suspended For Head Shot To Sarah Fillier
Aneta Tejralova has received supplemental discipline for her head check to Sarah Fillier during the first period of Seattle's loss to New York.
thehockeynews.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
According to @iankennedyck.bsky.social, Aneta Tejralova has received supplemental discipline for her head check to Sarah Fillier during the first period of Seattle's loss to New York.
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Dear Stupid Penpal, Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social
Genre-meddling epistolary fun. Slow reveal done well, engaging characters. Perfect read for a long dark night. On my "gift copies of this" list immediately.
4/?
Dear Stupid Penpal, Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social
Genre-meddling epistolary fun. Slow reveal done well, engaging characters. Perfect read for a long dark night. On my "gift copies of this" list immediately.
4/?
December 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Dear Stupid Penpal, Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social
Genre-meddling epistolary fun. Slow reveal done well, engaging characters. Perfect read for a long dark night. On my "gift copies of this" list immediately.
4/?
Dear Stupid Penpal, Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social
Genre-meddling epistolary fun. Slow reveal done well, engaging characters. Perfect read for a long dark night. On my "gift copies of this" list immediately.
4/?
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin
Late to the party, but what a party. Masterpiece of bringing threads together in a satisfying way without having to directly use narrative. (Though the narrative is as good as the fragments.)
3/?
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin
Late to the party, but what a party. Masterpiece of bringing threads together in a satisfying way without having to directly use narrative. (Though the narrative is as good as the fragments.)
3/?
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin
Late to the party, but what a party. Masterpiece of bringing threads together in a satisfying way without having to directly use narrative. (Though the narrative is as good as the fragments.)
3/?
Always Coming Home, Ursula K. LeGuin
Late to the party, but what a party. Masterpiece of bringing threads together in a satisfying way without having to directly use narrative. (Though the narrative is as good as the fragments.)
3/?
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My first ever PWHL power rankings. youtu.be/PC1BS4daHvQ
My First PWHL Power Rankings
YouTube video by The Hockey Guy
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My first ever PWHL power rankings. youtu.be/PC1BS4daHvQ
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Black Brane, Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Uncozy. Mind-bending, sad, funny, shocking, sometimes all at once. Dense, and earns that density. A diamond of a book that should be carbon nanotube dark but somehow isn't. Quite.
(2/?)
Black Brane, Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Uncozy. Mind-bending, sad, funny, shocking, sometimes all at once. Dense, and earns that density. A diamond of a book that should be carbon nanotube dark but somehow isn't. Quite.
(2/?)
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
2025 Recommended Books (no order, read this year):
Black Brane, Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Uncozy. Mind-bending, sad, funny, shocking, sometimes all at once. Dense, and earns that density. A diamond of a book that should be carbon nanotube dark but somehow isn't. Quite.
(2/?)
Black Brane, Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Uncozy. Mind-bending, sad, funny, shocking, sometimes all at once. Dense, and earns that density. A diamond of a book that should be carbon nanotube dark but somehow isn't. Quite.
(2/?)
End of year book recommendations for 2025 (read in 2025, not necessarily published this year, no ordering):
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social
Cozy post-collapse novel with a bite. Robots, noodles, and SF.
I expected this to be good. I didn't expect *how* good.
1/?
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social
Cozy post-collapse novel with a bite. Robots, noodles, and SF.
I expected this to be good. I didn't expect *how* good.
1/?
December 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
End of year book recommendations for 2025 (read in 2025, not necessarily published this year, no ordering):
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social
Cozy post-collapse novel with a bite. Robots, noodles, and SF.
I expected this to be good. I didn't expect *how* good.
1/?
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social
Cozy post-collapse novel with a bite. Robots, noodles, and SF.
I expected this to be good. I didn't expect *how* good.
1/?
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Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s
December 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Seattle Man Leaves Out Plate of Cheese for When St. Rat Comes Up Through Toilet Tonight: tinyurl.com/nhf8cr8s
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Delivering dubs to Seattle this holiday season 🎁
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Delivering dubs to Seattle this holiday season 🎁
This one is special. Get it. Read it. Recommend it.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Had me in the palm of its hand every step of the way. I don’t know if I’ve been bowled over more by a book this year. Kind of mad at it TBH"
Us too, reader. Us too.
@rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is leaving scars of a different sort on folks; we're here for it🖤☠️
Us too, reader. Us too.
@rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is leaving scars of a different sort on folks; we're here for it🖤☠️
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This one is special. Get it. Read it. Recommend it.
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A POWERFUL DUB. ⚡️
December 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
A POWERFUL DUB. ⚡️
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PG-13 due to language.
Should kids be exposed to language before age 13? On the one hand, it seems essential.
On the other hand... language is kind of rough. Even without getting into ideas...
Should kids be exposed to language before age 13? On the one hand, it seems essential.
On the other hand... language is kind of rough. Even without getting into ideas...
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
PG-13 due to language.
Should kids be exposed to language before age 13? On the one hand, it seems essential.
On the other hand... language is kind of rough. Even without getting into ideas...
Should kids be exposed to language before age 13? On the one hand, it seems essential.
On the other hand... language is kind of rough. Even without getting into ideas...
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Things got so crazy we didn't even get final score up yet 🤣
TORRENT WIN!!
TORRENT WIN!!
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Things got so crazy we didn't even get final score up yet 🤣
TORRENT WIN!!
TORRENT WIN!!
If you know, you know. If you don't... try it and find out!
The Tenebrous 2026 Book Club is open!
💀Get all 9 of our ‘26 fiction titles
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Invest in risk-taking, true independent, Weird publishing.
Here's all the info:
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💀Get all 9 of our ‘26 fiction titles
💀save on shipping
💀exclusive bonus content
💀print+ebook or ebook-only options available
Invest in risk-taking, true independent, Weird publishing.
Here's all the info:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you know, you know. If you don't... try it and find out!
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there's stagecraft and there's whatever gracious gift *this* was
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
there's stagecraft and there's whatever gracious gift *this* was
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Today was all for you, Seattle 🫶
Wasn't the outcome we wanted, but we felt all 16,014 of you all game long. Thank you for making history with us!
Wasn't the outcome we wanted, but we felt all 16,014 of you all game long. Thank you for making history with us!
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Today was all for you, Seattle 🫶
Wasn't the outcome we wanted, but we felt all 16,014 of you all game long. Thank you for making history with us!
Wasn't the outcome we wanted, but we felt all 16,014 of you all game long. Thank you for making history with us!
The squee is real -- can't wait to read this one. (No, I'm just a random reader, I'll get it when it comes out. )
Oh yeah!! I am beyond thrilled to have the honor of an advance copy of Grace Krilanovich's new novel!!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The squee is real -- can't wait to read this one. (No, I'm just a random reader, I'll get it when it comes out. )
Teneberous Press is a gem and the subscription is a great deal. Please don't make me regret this by selling out the subscriptions before I see they're up.
It's fair to take that last sentence as a challenge.
It's fair to take that last sentence as a challenge.
🔥NEXT WEEK🔥
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!
'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!
Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Teneberous Press is a gem and the subscription is a great deal. Please don't make me regret this by selling out the subscriptions before I see they're up.
It's fair to take that last sentence as a challenge.
It's fair to take that last sentence as a challenge.
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"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one."
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Like everyone who loves books, Carson felt at once awed and aggrieved that there was more to read than could ever be read, and that to choose to read one book was to forsake the chance to read a different one."
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
Lovely sentiment about Rachel Carson from Souder's biography—she's clearly my kindred
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This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.
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Flying our colors proudly at 605 ft for all of Seattle to see 🩵
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Flying our colors proudly at 605 ft for all of Seattle to see 🩵
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