BT Tran
@btranwrites.com
Speculative fiction writer in Melbourne. 30, he/him.
Gay, leftist, vegan, TTRPG enthusiast, codes, lifts, occultism.
Trans rights matter. Free Palestine. No AI.
https://btranwrites.com
Gay, leftist, vegan, TTRPG enthusiast, codes, lifts, occultism.
Trans rights matter. Free Palestine. No AI.
https://btranwrites.com
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BT Tran
@btranwrites.com
· May 23
May He Know Song
Callen, a space lumberjack, has accepted his place in the universe: hands by which worlds will fall so Empire may grind on. But there may be more to life than just that.
btranwrites.com
Latest entry to #writingbattle didn't make it past round 4, but still feel proud of this little ✨ cosy scifi ✨ piece I put together.
Latest entry to #writingbattle didn't make it past round 4, but still feel proud of this little ✨ cosy scifi ✨ piece I put together.
May He Know Song
Callen, a space lumberjack, has accepted his place in the universe: hands by which worlds will fall so Empire may grind on. But there may be more to life than just that.
btranwrites.com
May 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Latest entry to #writingbattle didn't make it past round 4, but still feel proud of this little ✨ cosy scifi ✨ piece I put together.
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Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more.
Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.
Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.
May 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
screaming crying throwing up
ALL HAIL
If you want a hardback copy of Cthulhu Dark or Stealing Cthulhu, both of which are out of print, they'll be part of the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter too.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
Coming soon: Cosmic Dark
Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.
www.kickstarter.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
ALL HAIL
Freaking love Cthulhu Dark, can't wait for Cosmic Dark!!
And here's the Cosmic Dark Kickstarter. Please follow it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...
Coming soon: Cosmic Dark
Cosmic Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of weird space horror, from the award-winning author of Cthulhu Dark.
www.kickstarter.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Freaking love Cthulhu Dark, can't wait for Cosmic Dark!!
yay we did not get temu trump! v sad for the greens tho :(
manifesting labor minority ✨✨✨
May 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
yay we did not get temu trump! v sad for the greens tho :(
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Someone on TikTok pointed out that Pedro Pascal’s two sentence Instagram comment got more press for trans rights than all trans people combined in the wake of this ruling- which is infuriating but also a reason for more cis people to speak out
If you want an objective lesson in disgustingly reframing and argument, read that in full and see what they do in the last paragraphs.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...
Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling
The actor has long been an activist for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister who often accompanies him on the red carpet
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Someone on TikTok pointed out that Pedro Pascal’s two sentence Instagram comment got more press for trans rights than all trans people combined in the wake of this ruling- which is infuriating but also a reason for more cis people to speak out
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Elon Musk privately DM'ed YouTuber Tiffany Fong and asked her to be inseminated by him.
When she refused he unfollowed her on Twitter and cut off premium ad revenue payments of $42,000 a month
When she refused he unfollowed her on Twitter and cut off premium ad revenue payments of $42,000 a month
April 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Elon Musk privately DM'ed YouTuber Tiffany Fong and asked her to be inseminated by him.
When she refused he unfollowed her on Twitter and cut off premium ad revenue payments of $42,000 a month
When she refused he unfollowed her on Twitter and cut off premium ad revenue payments of $42,000 a month
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"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.
That would be the end of democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.
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Give a man a fishing rod, and he'll eat for a day.
Give a man an overstocked, disease-ridden industrial fish farm, and he'll lobby the Prime Minister to change environmental protection laws to protect the profits of a foreign company.
Top-notch Honest Government Ad from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social
Give a man an overstocked, disease-ridden industrial fish farm, and he'll lobby the Prime Minister to change environmental protection laws to protect the profits of a foreign company.
Top-notch Honest Government Ad from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social
The Australien Government has made a cooking show about it's latest fishfuckery, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! #auspol #Election2025
Honest Government Ad | Anthony Salmonese’s Surprise!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Give a man a fishing rod, and he'll eat for a day.
Give a man an overstocked, disease-ridden industrial fish farm, and he'll lobby the Prime Minister to change environmental protection laws to protect the profits of a foreign company.
Top-notch Honest Government Ad from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social
Give a man an overstocked, disease-ridden industrial fish farm, and he'll lobby the Prime Minister to change environmental protection laws to protect the profits of a foreign company.
Top-notch Honest Government Ad from @thejuicemedia.bsky.social
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This.
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This.
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This is very noticeable among students as well. Especially international students are increasingly reluctant to speak, even inside the classroom, because they are - understandably! rightfully! - frightened they might get punished by the regime.
It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.
It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.
One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
April 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is very noticeable among students as well. Especially international students are increasingly reluctant to speak, even inside the classroom, because they are - understandably! rightfully! - frightened they might get punished by the regime.
It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.
It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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the one silver lining to all of this is seeing this parade of dipshits get their just desserts
April 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the one silver lining to all of this is seeing this parade of dipshits get their just desserts
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OK, non-finance people: crash course in bonds. Bond prices and yields moving opposite directions. Yields on US govt bonds [“treasuries”] are surging (ie the prices are falling). Prices are falling because people are selling treasuries at a massive clip.
April 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
OK, non-finance people: crash course in bonds. Bond prices and yields moving opposite directions. Yields on US govt bonds [“treasuries”] are surging (ie the prices are falling). Prices are falling because people are selling treasuries at a massive clip.
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Wait.
Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI?
I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ.
tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...
Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI?
I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ.
tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...
April 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wait.
Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI?
I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ.
tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...
Just found out that the CEO of Gumroad now works at DOGE? And that he saved up loads of money 'cause he fired everyone and replaced them with AI?
I'm leaving the platform as soon as I get my money. Jesus christ.
tedium.co/2025/04/06/g...
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Seamless transition in one month from “we’re going to become so rich you’re not gonna know where to spend all that money”
to
“Losing money means nothing”
to
“Losing money means nothing”
April 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Seamless transition in one month from “we’re going to become so rich you’re not gonna know where to spend all that money”
to
“Losing money means nothing”
to
“Losing money means nothing”
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I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao
April 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
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The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.