Peter Ehm - Writer
@peterehm.bsky.social
Writing original #scifi, I love helping other #writingcommunity #writers @ #amwriting. Also a #poet #G33k #optimist #punster #Humanist #INFJ and #Babylon5 fan. Twitter refugee in 2024. Currently finishing up my first book of an original scifi trilogy.
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Reposted by Peter Ehm - Writer
Fables really had me out here believing people would be learning lessons and stuff
May 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Fables really had me out here believing people would be learning lessons and stuff
"Human hate can adapt to ANYTHING."
And a slippery slope makes it all too easy to slip DOWN, away from ethics, morality, compassion and empathy.
That's #fascism: familiar, friendly and comforting, until YOU fit the ever-looser definition of those who are hated.
And a slippery slope makes it all too easy to slip DOWN, away from ethics, morality, compassion and empathy.
That's #fascism: familiar, friendly and comforting, until YOU fit the ever-looser definition of those who are hated.
Reading Marvel's "Years of Future Past," from 2015. I'd seen this on social media back then -- it hits harder coming across it in the story, where mutants have been hunted to near extinction ...
![IT ALWAYS BEGINS AS A JOKE. LISTEN TO ME, BOTH OF YOU.
ONE SEES A FATHER OR MOTHER OF WHOM THEY DO NOT APPROVE--
AND THEIR BRATS WON'T SHUT UP, AND THE PARENTS ARE SO EXHAUSTED THAT THEY JUST LET THEIR CHILDREN SCREAM ALL STICKY AND CRYING AND HITTING AND WILD.
AND YOU SAY TO YOUR FRIENDS, "YOU SHOULD HAVE TO PASS A TEST TO BREED." DO YOU UNDERSTAND? "YOU SHOULD HAVE TO GET LICENSED TO HAVE KIDS."
IT STARTS AS A JOKE.
THEN PERHAPS THERE IS TRAGEDY. A POSTPARTUM MOTHER WHO SHOULD'VE GOTTEN HELP. BUT HER INSURANCE DID NOT COVER THE THERAPY.
A FATHER WHO ERRED, BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED BELIEVING MEN ARE PATHETIC IF THEY ARE CAREGIVERS.
THE FIRST TESTS ARE DRAFTED.
AND YOU THINK. "GOOD. THOSE CHILDREN WILL BE SAFE NOW."
THE TEST COMES OUT, AND YES, THERE'RE SOME PROBLEMS, BUT NOTHING THAT CANNOT BE IRONED OUT, YES?
BUT NOW, ANYONE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS, WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD, IS BARRED FROM BECOMING A PARENT. AND YOU THINK, "WELL. THAT IS SENSIBLE, YES?"
BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER KNOWN ANYONE LIKE THAT, SO WHO IS TO TELL YOU THEY ARE NOT LIKE THEY ARE PORTRAYED IN STORIES?
SICK, DANGEROUS CRIMINAL -- THESE WORDS EXPAND.
SUDDENLY IT IS ANYONE WITH DIABETES, ANYONE WITH CANCER, BECAUSE THEY COULD DIE AND LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN ORPHANED SO HOW DARE THEY EVER TRY TO HAVE CHILDREN?
IT IS DEAF COUPLES, DISABLED COUPLES, INTERRACIAL COUPLES, GAY COUPLES--BECAUSE DON'T THEY KNOW HOW HARD THEY'RE MAKING IT FOR THEIR CHILDREN?
THEN IT IS WHOEVER THEY WANT.
YOU THINK YOU ARE WORKING FOR THE GREATER GOOD, YOU CAN'T EVEN FATHOM THE LIFE OF SOMEONE WHO ISN'T EXACTLY LIKE YOU.
THEN ONE DAY--IT IS YOU
SOME GENE, SOME HISTORY. SOME PAST BEHAVIOR-AND SUDDENLY YOU TOO ARE SICK, DANGEROUS, CRIMINAL
BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS THIS--
-- HUMAN HATE CAN ADAPT TO ANYTHING.
YOU THINK YOU ARE SAFE
BUT IF SOMEONE HATES YOU, THEY WILL COME UP WITH THE REASON AFTER THE FACT.
ONLY THEN DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU PUT IN POWER. ONLY THEN DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU STRIPPED AWAY.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"Human hate can adapt to ANYTHING."
And a slippery slope makes it all too easy to slip DOWN, away from ethics, morality, compassion and empathy.
That's #fascism: familiar, friendly and comforting, until YOU fit the ever-looser definition of those who are hated.
And a slippery slope makes it all too easy to slip DOWN, away from ethics, morality, compassion and empathy.
That's #fascism: familiar, friendly and comforting, until YOU fit the ever-looser definition of those who are hated.
Exactly.
Small-minded, petty ignorant men like Trump use punishment as a goad: they CAN'T negotiate, and see strength as bullying others into compying with their crazed demands.
When such men are in positions of powers, they're tyrants.
The world sees Trump as such, and is acting accordingly.🤨
Small-minded, petty ignorant men like Trump use punishment as a goad: they CAN'T negotiate, and see strength as bullying others into compying with their crazed demands.
When such men are in positions of powers, they're tyrants.
The world sees Trump as such, and is acting accordingly.🤨
April 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Exactly.
Small-minded, petty ignorant men like Trump use punishment as a goad: they CAN'T negotiate, and see strength as bullying others into compying with their crazed demands.
When such men are in positions of powers, they're tyrants.
The world sees Trump as such, and is acting accordingly.🤨
Small-minded, petty ignorant men like Trump use punishment as a goad: they CAN'T negotiate, and see strength as bullying others into compying with their crazed demands.
When such men are in positions of powers, they're tyrants.
The world sees Trump as such, and is acting accordingly.🤨
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Dear Canada
Ignore the polls
Vote as though this country’s future is at stake. Because it is
Don’t get complacent. Don’t fall for the lies and misinformation
Focus on the end goal - sovereignty and our continued freedoms
Ignore the polls
Vote as though this country’s future is at stake. Because it is
Don’t get complacent. Don’t fall for the lies and misinformation
Focus on the end goal - sovereignty and our continued freedoms
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Dear Canada
Ignore the polls
Vote as though this country’s future is at stake. Because it is
Don’t get complacent. Don’t fall for the lies and misinformation
Focus on the end goal - sovereignty and our continued freedoms
Ignore the polls
Vote as though this country’s future is at stake. Because it is
Don’t get complacent. Don’t fall for the lies and misinformation
Focus on the end goal - sovereignty and our continued freedoms
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A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.
March 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.
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I DEVOURED the series in my teens. It still has a special place in my heart where fantasy resides forevermore. What a deal!🥰
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March 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
WOW! HumbleBundle has Dragonlance ebooks in a pay-what-you-want bundle right now (to get all 26 you need to spend at least $25.58 CAN):
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I DEVOURED the series in my teens. It still has a special place in my heart where fantasy resides forevermore. What a deal!🥰
www.humblebundle.com/books/world-...?
I DEVOURED the series in my teens. It still has a special place in my heart where fantasy resides forevermore. What a deal!🥰
Not even a decade ago, and where are you now, America?
Progress is made via ACTION, not words. As I writer, believe me, I GET IT: talk is cheap, and apathy has a high cost.
Now that the wolf is IN the door and running things, will American progressives ACT?
Or will they still just keep waiting?
Progress is made via ACTION, not words. As I writer, believe me, I GET IT: talk is cheap, and apathy has a high cost.
Now that the wolf is IN the door and running things, will American progressives ACT?
Or will they still just keep waiting?
March 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Not even a decade ago, and where are you now, America?
Progress is made via ACTION, not words. As I writer, believe me, I GET IT: talk is cheap, and apathy has a high cost.
Now that the wolf is IN the door and running things, will American progressives ACT?
Or will they still just keep waiting?
Progress is made via ACTION, not words. As I writer, believe me, I GET IT: talk is cheap, and apathy has a high cost.
Now that the wolf is IN the door and running things, will American progressives ACT?
Or will they still just keep waiting?
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people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.
![[“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreiexvgjd7znr3dm5pqixs6ovqor5ngwerzgle7p7w73kdqhj5lipja@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.
It's a constant refrain of "Me, me, ME!" - not "We" (ever).
Now that Trump's targeting Canada's for invasion ("anexxing"), will our country's conservatives at LAST realize the consequences of continuous, unchecked far-right propaganda?
We're in this TOGETHER, united as Canadians.❤️
#ElbowsUpCanada
Now that Trump's targeting Canada's for invasion ("anexxing"), will our country's conservatives at LAST realize the consequences of continuous, unchecked far-right propaganda?
We're in this TOGETHER, united as Canadians.❤️
#ElbowsUpCanada
March 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's a constant refrain of "Me, me, ME!" - not "We" (ever).
Now that Trump's targeting Canada's for invasion ("anexxing"), will our country's conservatives at LAST realize the consequences of continuous, unchecked far-right propaganda?
We're in this TOGETHER, united as Canadians.❤️
#ElbowsUpCanada
Now that Trump's targeting Canada's for invasion ("anexxing"), will our country's conservatives at LAST realize the consequences of continuous, unchecked far-right propaganda?
We're in this TOGETHER, united as Canadians.❤️
#ElbowsUpCanada
*chef's kiss* Retro aliens, meet modern N*zis.
'V' (the 1984 TV series) was a glitzy warning about thin-skinned alien fascists taking over America.
Who knew that decades later, Russian-let MAGA would actually attempt it, with a thin-skinned inhuman leader and his oligarch henchman?
#MuskIsAFascist
'V' (the 1984 TV series) was a glitzy warning about thin-skinned alien fascists taking over America.
Who knew that decades later, Russian-let MAGA would actually attempt it, with a thin-skinned inhuman leader and his oligarch henchman?
#MuskIsAFascist
March 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
*chef's kiss* Retro aliens, meet modern N*zis.
'V' (the 1984 TV series) was a glitzy warning about thin-skinned alien fascists taking over America.
Who knew that decades later, Russian-let MAGA would actually attempt it, with a thin-skinned inhuman leader and his oligarch henchman?
#MuskIsAFascist
'V' (the 1984 TV series) was a glitzy warning about thin-skinned alien fascists taking over America.
Who knew that decades later, Russian-let MAGA would actually attempt it, with a thin-skinned inhuman leader and his oligarch henchman?
#MuskIsAFascist
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Pretty much.
To think that this isn't the lowest they've yet to sink.
At least they're not in bikinis.
#FascistAmerica
To think that this isn't the lowest they've yet to sink.
At least they're not in bikinis.
#FascistAmerica
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Pretty much.
To think that this isn't the lowest they've yet to sink.
At least they're not in bikinis.
#FascistAmerica
To think that this isn't the lowest they've yet to sink.
At least they're not in bikinis.
#FascistAmerica
This is something that came to me out of the blue this week.👀
I like to think it's from an alternate Me, somewhere else, where I'm helping others to #Resist against Trump and Musk and other petty tyrants trying to usher in global fascism.
Wherever it came from, it resonates.😊
I like to think it's from an alternate Me, somewhere else, where I'm helping others to #Resist against Trump and Musk and other petty tyrants trying to usher in global fascism.
Wherever it came from, it resonates.😊
March 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
This is something that came to me out of the blue this week.👀
I like to think it's from an alternate Me, somewhere else, where I'm helping others to #Resist against Trump and Musk and other petty tyrants trying to usher in global fascism.
Wherever it came from, it resonates.😊
I like to think it's from an alternate Me, somewhere else, where I'm helping others to #Resist against Trump and Musk and other petty tyrants trying to usher in global fascism.
Wherever it came from, it resonates.😊
I *loved* the library while growing up!
Right up into my teens, I'd drop by the library weekly to get out new books (FOR FREE!) to devour, sometimes five or more at a time. Learning books in my early years, and scifi or fantasy novels in my teens.
I lived in many AMAZING worlds for my early life.
Right up into my teens, I'd drop by the library weekly to get out new books (FOR FREE!) to devour, sometimes five or more at a time. Learning books in my early years, and scifi or fantasy novels in my teens.
I lived in many AMAZING worlds for my early life.
“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)
March 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I *loved* the library while growing up!
Right up into my teens, I'd drop by the library weekly to get out new books (FOR FREE!) to devour, sometimes five or more at a time. Learning books in my early years, and scifi or fantasy novels in my teens.
I lived in many AMAZING worlds for my early life.
Right up into my teens, I'd drop by the library weekly to get out new books (FOR FREE!) to devour, sometimes five or more at a time. Learning books in my early years, and scifi or fantasy novels in my teens.
I lived in many AMAZING worlds for my early life.
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📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)
With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.
• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.
• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
March 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5)
With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.
• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control.
• 3 minute videos!
• A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users
• Mute accounts more quickly
This analogy will go over the heads of most every MAGA.
Good.
I suspect everyone else who loves Tolkien will get it instantly.
We're skating the edge of another world-breaking era, folks.
We can make it one of progress for all of humanity, or for servitude to evil oligarchy as we burn.
Choose.
Good.
I suspect everyone else who loves Tolkien will get it instantly.
We're skating the edge of another world-breaking era, folks.
We can make it one of progress for all of humanity, or for servitude to evil oligarchy as we burn.
Choose.
March 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This analogy will go over the heads of most every MAGA.
Good.
I suspect everyone else who loves Tolkien will get it instantly.
We're skating the edge of another world-breaking era, folks.
We can make it one of progress for all of humanity, or for servitude to evil oligarchy as we burn.
Choose.
Good.
I suspect everyone else who loves Tolkien will get it instantly.
We're skating the edge of another world-breaking era, folks.
We can make it one of progress for all of humanity, or for servitude to evil oligarchy as we burn.
Choose.
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If you are looking to do your part in saving democracy, I highly recommend you buy and read ONE book:
Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.
It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight
READ IT!
Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.
It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight
READ IT!
February 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you are looking to do your part in saving democracy, I highly recommend you buy and read ONE book:
Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.
It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight
READ IT!
Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.
It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight
READ IT!
Ah, @bsky.app , you need to find a way to buckle down on these scammers.
I mean, it's LAUGHABLY obvious that they're trying to scam people ("$2 million FREE!") but it's irritating to KEEP getting these messages from new crime-ring-made accounts.
Reported and Blocked.
#illuminati #scam #warning
I mean, it's LAUGHABLY obvious that they're trying to scam people ("$2 million FREE!") but it's irritating to KEEP getting these messages from new crime-ring-made accounts.
Reported and Blocked.
#illuminati #scam #warning
February 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Ah, @bsky.app , you need to find a way to buckle down on these scammers.
I mean, it's LAUGHABLY obvious that they're trying to scam people ("$2 million FREE!") but it's irritating to KEEP getting these messages from new crime-ring-made accounts.
Reported and Blocked.
#illuminati #scam #warning
I mean, it's LAUGHABLY obvious that they're trying to scam people ("$2 million FREE!") but it's irritating to KEEP getting these messages from new crime-ring-made accounts.
Reported and Blocked.
#illuminati #scam #warning
Okay, which one of you maniacs is button-mashing a Temporal Pad from Loki the Series?
Because THIS timeline is going frikkin' NUTS.
Because THIS timeline is going frikkin' NUTS.
February 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Okay, which one of you maniacs is button-mashing a Temporal Pad from Loki the Series?
Because THIS timeline is going frikkin' NUTS.
Because THIS timeline is going frikkin' NUTS.
Think about this EVERY time you see or hear someone telling you to "relax and don't worry" about the rapid rise of #Fascism today, in America and elsewhere in the world.
Because the final time you'll hear it is while you're being herded into a shower facility that has no soap or water. 🤨
Because the final time you'll hear it is while you're being herded into a shower facility that has no soap or water. 🤨
February 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Think about this EVERY time you see or hear someone telling you to "relax and don't worry" about the rapid rise of #Fascism today, in America and elsewhere in the world.
Because the final time you'll hear it is while you're being herded into a shower facility that has no soap or water. 🤨
Because the final time you'll hear it is while you're being herded into a shower facility that has no soap or water. 🤨
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Reposted by Peter Ehm - Writer
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage."
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
February 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage."
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
Blocking on social networks is an act of kindness and compassion. It enhances free speech. It can improve your life, and make the world a better place.
You should block people without hesitation or guilt, and for a long list of reasons.
Full article from 2012:
www.datamation.com/networks/why...
You should block people without hesitation or guilt, and for a long list of reasons.
Full article from 2012:
www.datamation.com/networks/why...
February 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Blocking on social networks is an act of kindness and compassion. It enhances free speech. It can improve your life, and make the world a better place.
You should block people without hesitation or guilt, and for a long list of reasons.
Full article from 2012:
www.datamation.com/networks/why...
You should block people without hesitation or guilt, and for a long list of reasons.
Full article from 2012:
www.datamation.com/networks/why...