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First Novel "Broken Interstellar" Available now! An epic length Union Worker's Space Opera, $2.99 USD, links to stores here:
http://www.liambegley.ca
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ldbegley.bsky.social
My first novel "Broken Interstellar" is out!

It's a union worker's space odyssey and available as a free ebook this weekend!

If you'd enjoy a sci fi story that
centres workers and cooperation instead of rulers and empires, dm me with your email!

There's also ancap space spiders!
A book cover for a novel called "Broken Interstellar" by Liam Begley. It shows a man falling from a space made of star charts rather than stars into an ocean of a planet.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
I'll just sit.
A google search for "is it good to walk barefoot on a hardwood floor?" Results in contradictory answers, maplesandbirch.co.uk says yes. Neufoot.com says no. I am left without a satisfying answer.
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
ldbegley.bsky.social
Happy Hitler Death Day Everyone!
A black and white picture of Adolf Hitler shooting himself, captioned "Follow your Leader".
April 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
This is conservatism in a nutshell.

You are told that your policy is cruel, expensive, unconstitutional and ineffective.

And you want to do it anyway.

The purpose of government for the conservative party is to find someone to dehumanize so they can crush them.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Text: It's also unclear that sending more people to prison for longer will drive down crime over time, Perrin said. "Our prisons are cruel, they're harsh, they're costly and don't work. They increase reoffending," he said. Still, Poilievre said it's worth trying.
April 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
If your travelling near lightspeed, time passes slowly for you. History keeps going though, and before you know it you can barely understand another human, separated from them by centuries.

What I'm saying is, stay away from home too long and you become the otherworldly being.
Text: “The Postal Service is able to fulfill all of Earth’s needs for space based commerce and defense,” Factor answered primly. “We do not use union spacers, we do not subscribe to the union’s belief system, we do not extract and exploit earth or other humans and for the galactic economy.” “Exploit and extract? As in sell? The union protects spacers from exploitation.” Factor’s eyes rolled up, Temper guessed that still meant exasperation. “And the union isn’t a belief system, it is a necessary outgrowth of free skilled spacers and interstellar trade economies. My skill can’t be extracted from me.” “We the,” she paused to think of the verb tense, “working group of the Postal Service have been, continue to be, are in process of contacting human colonies, rebuilding our species’ connection to Earth and extending the influence of Gaia across biospheres.” “It sounds like your leader Gaia, whoever they are, is imposing a trade monopoly through violence. An empire.” “Gaia is not our leader, she is our ecosystem and society and selves.” Temper still had no idea what the word ‘Gaia’ meant but the more he spoke to Factor the more interstellar shook loose in his mind. “Like, a religion?” he dug back as far as he could. “A cultural practice or set of ideas that seeks to grasp at things beyond material reality.” “No, its not like the Interstellar union’s concepts of solidarity and spacer cooperation, Gaia is exactly as real as you and I. Gaia is you and I.” Temper was insulted but also thrilled to have apparently comprehended enough interstellar to catch the insult to the union. “Solidarity and spacer cooperation is real. If you have free skilled spacers and a desire to trade interstellar eventually those spacers are going to realize that they have more in common with each other than their bosses planetside. The next helping hands you meet coming from Earth will likely be telling you about your Postal Service unionizing.” Factor grinned in a way that brought to Temper’s mind images of predators. “Every union member I’ve ever met or encountered has communicated that to me. You, the being I am addressing, admit you know nothing of your life but are still certain of the superiority and permanence and inevitability of your union belief system. You, and your union, cannot comprehend working for any larger cause than your own enrichment. You impose the relationship of boss and worker on to everything. You instrumentalize, turn to machines, your own brain matter so you can accomplish work shifts measured in decades. So you can participate in heat death economics.”
April 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
ldbegley.bsky.social
One of those impolite interactions between asexual and sexual species I mentioned before.
Text: “If he doesn’t make it I have some dried blue leaf tree bark and a little bit of powdered Earth garlic. He’d make a great coming home meal for Blue!” The tree kissed yelled at the medic’s backs before turning around. “Temper! How’s my favourite helping hands terrorist? Where’s Blue and the cop?” “I think Blue’s in the cargo hold, my spiky gamete,” Factor said to Steep as she walked in from the cockpit. Steep harumphed. “Congratulations, you finally learned something about my species. And immediately tried to use it to insult me. You never change cop.” Factor’s mouth fell open.
March 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The first dedicated mental health unit will be set up at Surrey Pretrial Centre, according to the province. The first regional mental health facility will be built on the grounds of the Alouette Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge.
March 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
ldbegley.bsky.social
I worry Coppola has not learned his lesson, but I'm glad so many of the filmgoing public have.
A screenshot of Francis Ford Coppola's instagram where he accepts a Razzie award for Megalopolis, citing it as brave outsider art and not self-indulgent trash.
March 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
ldbegley.bsky.social
Here's context a few paras down:

He wasn't disciplined for 'playing british bulldog' he was disciplined for creeping out multiple students.

But we get a headline that more easily runs toward "kids today are too sensitive" than "is this guy a sex pest?"
Text: Students were given participation marks for the activity, and felt pressured to play despite their discomfort, according to the document. Two specific incidents were noted in the agreement – both involving female students who were upset over Rhodes’ role in the game. In one, the student shouted “don’t touch me” before leaving class. In the second, the student left class after “Rhodes came up behind her, wrapped his arms around her stomach area and, holding her back against his torso and her buttocks against his lower abdomen, lifted the student into the air for a couple seconds, then set her down.”
February 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
CTV clickbait headline laundering a teacher allegedly sexually harassing students

Here's the boomer-bait headline:
Headline with text: BC High School teacher disciplined for playing British Bulldog with students
February 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics where are you mentally
February 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
ldbegley.bsky.social
Resistance was a long time ago, at great cost, and left deep and bitter scars.

But they did win, so there's that.

(They may have gone on to recreate that same struggle in perpetuity, looking for more enemies to fight to prop up a militant cult, but that's a matter of opinion.)
Text: “No living member of the interstellar union would even be aware of this.” An angry look flickered across Factor’s face. “We are very aware of it. We grow up in the ruins from a war that your weapons sales made possible. You can still see the scars orbital platforms burned across continents when you fly over. I’ve seen photos of forests and jungles overgrown in Earth’s history; all our trees grow in rows where we planted them. It’ll be eons before the planet will be able to support life without human energy and effort propping it up. That’s what we spend the first 100 years of our lives doing. Paying back the debt left us to Gaia by our ancestors.” She stared at him, looking for a reaction.
January 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
Far and away, my favourite space fighter simulator.
Screenshot of Steam Entry for PC Game "House of the Dying Sun"
January 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
ldbegley.bsky.social
We all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you.
A photo of Revolutionary Nestor Makhno in 1921.
December 25, 2024 at 5:27 AM