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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
@aesonique.itch.io
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Author of #litrpg series The Age of Steam and Sorcery, snowboarder, coffee lover.

https://linktr.ee/patrickcharltonoshea

Book One: Death Becomes Him out now!
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Patrick Charlton-O'Shea @aesonique.itch.io · Aug 15
Good morning Bluesky!
I'm Patrick, the author of the series The Age of Steam and Sorcery. My first book is published here:
aesonique.itch.io/death-become...

ko-fi.com/s/dedefa2e72

amzn.asia/d/eYGjxG4

www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/...

And pre-release versions of my books are on Royal Road for free.
Death Becomes Him by Patrick Charlton-O'Shea
What do you do when your life is falling apart? Play games of course!
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stringerseven.bsky.social
Legend RIP
letterboxd.social Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 13h
Tatsuya Nakadai (1932–2025)
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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kiraofthewind.com
What started as Dani posting a silly joke about sentient swords who are dumb and annoying was the first domino in me just now buying two volumes of Soul Eater Perfect Edition. Damn, I never thought I'd collect this manga, but I forgot how awesome the aesthetics are. Ohkubo is a vibes master fr
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
Wikipedia's featured article today, "1975 Australian constitutional crisis", concerns the Dismissal, the infamous Anglo-American coup d'état of the Australian government. Go read it!
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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laikalgagarin.bsky.social
radical take here but i think that running out of money shouldnt put you in absolute misery actually.

Running out of money at worst should make you unable to buy luxuries. You cant buy a TV, gaming PC, whatever.

Running out of money should never make you homeless, starving, or unable to see
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
aesonique.itch.io
I know it's cheating to screenshot and put the text in the alt just to get around character limits, but I'm tired and, well, see below.
My legs are killing me. Due to the nature of my day job, we have exclusion zones to keep the general public away from the antennae and sat dishes. Radhaz is serious business. Enter the Determined Crabber. Dude inherited his movement skills from Jesus, hoofing it across the beach and mud flats without sinking, straight into the red zone. As the Responsible Adult™ on site I had to chase him down, through waist deep mangrove mud, and tell him that unless he wants his family jewels microwaved, he needs to leave post haste. I'm closer to a Shetland pony than a thoroughbred, so I have muddy sand in places that don't bear talking about and every muscle from the sternum down complaining. Why are people so... people-y?
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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blackjackgabbiani.bsky.social
If games companies don't want to pay voice actors what they could do is just not have spoken dialogue. Games did that for decades. It's fine. Just DON'T USE THE PLAGIARISM SLOP MACHINE OH MY GOD IT IS NOT HARD TO NOT USE IT YOU JUST DON'T USE IT THAT IS ALL. GAMES DO NOT ALL NEED VOICES.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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hackadayofficial.bsky.social
We don't talk enough about the challenges caused by ever-larger SD card sizes.

Older equipment that can only use 2GB or 4GB cards? Difficult to use when the lowest capacities start at 32GB.

Want to backup an image of your single-board computer's OS? The file grows ever larger...
hackkitten.bsky.social Maya Posch @hackkitten.bsky.social · 21h
Got various nefarious project purposes for which SD cards would be used, but I have no need for larger than 16 GB cards. Even <8 GB cards are plenty, yet it doesn't seem so easy to find those.

Guess I can scour EBay for hoarders selling stashes or so...
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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eliseswritings.bsky.social
Head's up indie authors wanting to participate in the Anthropic class action.

WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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laikalgagarin.bsky.social
"You setting your themostat to a temp that makes you not freeze yourself to death is actually whats costing you so much money, not the new AI data center or electric companies gouging your bill."
article about thermostat temps
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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mxfee.bsky.social
Bindi, my mortal enemy
robertarnol.bsky.social Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 16h
Nope, no, no,, no, no!
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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understatesmen.bsky.social
there is a curse in the posters' tongue: Joyce Carol Oates be upon ye
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
aesonique.itch.io
Nobody needs that kind of negativity in their life.
#LitRPG
Crabmeat(@crabme.at) saying "Anyone who willingly reads the litrpg "genre" needs to forfeit their literacy, they're making even less use of it than Elon is" The same idiot, with the natural consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
aesonique.itch.io
"COS I'M MR BRIGHTSIDE!"
A mouse wearing a blue cape secured by a large red brooch. He is holding a stringed instrument and opening his mouth widely, as if belting out a tune.
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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marlo.ooo
watching a man go slightly mad making an apple pie with only apples
100% Apple. This Apple Pie Contains Only Apples
YouTube video by Atomic Shrimp
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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bubbleybrain.bsky.social
And bonus points, I now have confirmation that some writing people now know this obscure music genre exists thanks to said character and the power of social media.
bubbleybrain.bsky.social Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 2d
Follow up from yesterday...

My MC "Fatality" has her very own eurobeat song. And if you'd like to hear it and some other amazing songs from an amazing artist, you can find the latest album over here

daverodgersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/i-show...

#writer #music
I Show Speed Bandcamp Edition Album, by Kaioh
11 track album
daverodgersmusic.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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laikalgagarin.bsky.social
Quislings. They're fucking Quislings. Fascist Collaborators.
drdevonojeda.bsky.social Dr. Devon Ojeda @drdevonojeda.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe we need to stop pretending that these are centrists and just call them what they truly are: fascist enablers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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beedokfern.bsky.social
Puts my book cover art commission prices over.
It's Canadian dollars.
Commercial art pricing: $100+ for a flat illustrative style $125+ for a shaded and outlined graphic/anime style $200+ for a painterly style
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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ddwardiswriting.bsky.social
Do you like Claymore, Berserk, or Fate?
Then you'll like Plight of the Last Paladin in a Heartbroken World!

It's free on my patreon with no sign up required (but all sign ups deeply appreciated).

www.patreon.com/ddwardiswrit...
The plight of the last paladin in a heartbroken world. A woman in armor flies on wings of fire
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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cmonmaque.bsky.social
Proud of myself? You bet I am.
Return of the Cmonma... @cmon... ・54m Don't cry, Mos Eisley Cantinaaaaaa The truth is that Greeeeeedo shot first 1 11 •• • larissa "absolutely hara... @larissaf... • 4m i'm calling the police 1 1 ... Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social LEEEEEEIA YOU DONT HAVE TO STAY IN THE SENATE THOSE DAYS ARE OVER YOU CAN JOIN THE REBELS IN THE FIGHT
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
aesonique.itch.io
Guys, you can just go to therapy instead of asking ChatGPT.
faithfalkner.com Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 2d
You can just go draw down the moon instead of asking ChatGPT.
annijyn.com Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 5d
you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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samtasticbooks.com
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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cara.city
I met this cat in West Oakland; his name is Elia Kazan and he is 11 years old, he belongs to a machinist who builds replica pre-WW1 race cars and he named him that because, and I quote: it would be funny to name a cat after a rat
A cat with one eye open and another closed and a human arm petting him
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
@hels.bsky.social undefeated. one of the greatest food writers in the business.
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
New day, new poorly made preorder promo. This one is based on personal experience. 📚💙💕 #bsnm 🌈🚀💫 #BookSky 🌈📚

Signed copy: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
Amazon & get me a pretty banner: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Everywhere else: books2read.com/opus
A white square with scribbles of blue, red, orange, purple, and black on it. Text on top of the scribbles reads "This is how it feels when I'm overstimulated by life and yet still trying to make marketing. Please preorder my books <3". In the bottom right is the cover of Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina. It is a beige/off-white cover with the book's title in gray-blue text. At the top is the text "A novella in three movements" and at the bottom is the author's name, S. Morgan Burbank.
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM