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Husband. Dad. Trekkie. Proud Chicagoan. Professional cat whisperer. AOL OG. 1x Fantasy Football auction league champion. I read encyclopedias for fun when I was a kid.
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My first non-canon Star Trek fanfic is live! Nearly 600 pages of story!

Star Trek: Andromeda – Resonance on #AO3: st-andromeda.short.gy/DVSrfQ

Spotify playlist: st-andromeda.short.gy/EOWOHb

Prologue + Ch. 1–4 are up now. Ch. 5 drops Friday—new chapters every Tue/Fri.

#AO3 #StarTrek #LLAP 🖖
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Stop what you’re doing NOW and watch Shirley Manson of @garbage.com speaking truth to power last night at The Sylvee in Madison, WI!

SO awesome to see Garbage in their hometown AND to hear Shirley articulating what we #trekkies already know!

#shirleymanson #garbageband #loveislove #equality
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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“There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.”

At nine years old, that quote from Jean-Luc Picard didn’t just turn me into a #Trekkie. It nudged me toward the story I’d finally finish decades later: Resonance.

st-andromeda.short.gy/DVSrfQ
September 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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“Our wet tee shirt karaoke nights? Legendary. And definitely not approved by the stiffs at HQ.” -Ambassador Sarah Portner

Chapter 7 of Resonance is LIVE on #AO3! Read what Orin and Adora learn about Pahvo, and their daughter.

st-andromeda.short.gy/DVSrfQ

#StarTrek #StarTrekFanFic #BookSky #Scifi
September 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Star Trek: Andromeda - Resonance is now LIVE on Substack!

startrekandromeda.substack.com

The posting schedule is slightly behind #AO3. If you're new to the book and would rather read it on Substack, feel free to subscribe there!

New chapters every Tuesday and Friday!

#startrek #fanfic #booksky
Star Trek: Andromeda | Substack
Welcome to my Star Trek fanfiction universe! Bold adventures, new worlds, original characters, and classic Trek spirit! Star Trek: Andromeda is an original, non-commercial fan work and unaffiliated ...
startrekandromeda.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
My first non-canon Star Trek fanfic is live! Nearly 600 pages of story!

Star Trek: Andromeda – Resonance on #AO3: st-andromeda.short.gy/DVSrfQ

Spotify playlist: st-andromeda.short.gy/EOWOHb

Prologue + Ch. 1–4 are up now. Ch. 5 drops Friday—new chapters every Tue/Fri.

#AO3 #StarTrek #LLAP 🖖
August 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#nokings in Greenfield, WI. #50501wisconsin
June 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The best costume at the Greenfield, WI #nokings protest belonged to my amazingly creative wife!
June 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
So he should be deported, right? I mean, if we’re being consistent…oh wait! He’s white. Can’t do THAT, can we?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Man charged in fire at Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion voiced Palestine support
Cody Balmer faces terror, arson charges after fire and 911 call voicing pro-Palestinian views
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the architect of the tariff policy, assured the Fox audience that “We just had to wait for the AI technology boom to be here now to let us compete with all the cheap labor all around the world.”

You mean, you needed AI to make up your goofy #tariff plans, right?
April 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is the shit that happens to people who enter Russia…not supposed to be the US. #Resist

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Alright #Bears fans…would you be happy with this draft?

Don’t think Emmanwori or Shough will be where I got them, FWIW.
March 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"Golden Age of America" indeed...

More like a golden shower with higher education, long-standing international alliances, and even facts being pissed on.
February 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The rout is on. Also, that Seal commercial was unsettling. #SBLIX
February 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Getting caught in the crossfire of a trade war pretty much blows...but dammit...I want Canada to win this one...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump to reportedly impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting 1 March – live
Sources tell Reuters they did not have details on a final rate, but noted Trump has said that he plans to impose a 25% tariff on imports from the two countries
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I could live with this if the #Bears draft ended up this way. @profootballfocus.bsky.social @chgo-sports.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Not gonna lie…this piece got me pumped about the idea of @govwesmoore.bsky.social as the Democratic nominee for President in 2028. Assuming we’ll have free and fair elections in 2028.

contrarian.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
“This is not the healing that the country needed in this moment”
Jen Rubin interviews Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on how to build bridges and what compels him to do so
contrarian.substack.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If only #NFLonFox had the balls to play more of “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” going into that spot break. Great jam. #WASvsPHI
January 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Carl Sagan died in 1996. This is a quote from him

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries;
January 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Cheetolini is now saying ACTUAL Native Americans are not American citizens. For real.

This is unconscionable.
Trump's DOJ appears to be arguing that because indigenous folks who are born on tribal land are subject to tribal law jurisdiction, THEY ARE NOT ENTITLED TO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP.

They are arguing that indigenous people are not entitled to birthright citizenship.

www.salon.com/2025/01/23/e...
"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court
The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship.
www.salon.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied chains us all irrevocably." -Judge Aaron Satie-

It's funny how these words, written for a ST:TNG episode that aired in April 1991, mean so much now.

#Resist #LoveTrumpsHate
January 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#Bears fans still don't know if Ben Johnson will be a good HC hire, but at least he's not a half-lobotomized, acronym-spitting, football cliche machine. I was impressed by his intelligence and thoughtful answers at his presser today. Definitely set a tone. I'm optimistic, even if it's cautiously so.
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An interesting list of states that (appropriately) sued to block Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s EO designed to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. Notably absent is Illinois. Seeing Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and North Carolina is interesting too given their swing state status
January 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My first #Bears mock draft post-Ben Johnson hire

LFG!
January 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM