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Leaders use armed forces judiciously to protect people. Tyrants scoot them around like toys to hide their weakness. Today’s parade has about 30 Abrams tanks. We’ve sent 31 to Ukraine, to date. Brave people will die while trump uses what could save them like he’s splashing in the bathtub. No Kings.
June 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Leaders use armed forces judiciously to protect people. Tyrants scoot them around like toys to hide their weakness. Today’s parade has about 30 Abrams tanks. We’ve sent 31 to Ukraine, to date. Brave people will die while trump uses what could save them like he’s splashing in the bathtub. No Kings.
www.adastrasf.com/steel-echoes/ My first mech story! A blind mechanic comes to the aid of a small dusty town beset by raiders. Kind of a classic western but with giant robots.
Steel Echoes - James Gunn's Ad Astra
As Elton Lye walked home from work, the purple lights in the sky were momentary flashes of white-edged lavender high in the hills, bright enough to leave ghost trails on your vision. A ripple of flash...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
www.adastrasf.com/steel-echoes/ My first mech story! A blind mechanic comes to the aid of a small dusty town beset by raiders. Kind of a classic western but with giant robots.
New story out today! The second adventure of my wandering Swiss mercenary following his debut in issue 2 of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social .
'The Quiet Sisters,' in Swords and Sorcery Magazine - swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-quiet-si...
'The Quiet Sisters,' in Swords and Sorcery Magazine - swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-quiet-si...
The Quiet Sisters – Swords & Sorcery Magazine
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March 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New story out today! The second adventure of my wandering Swiss mercenary following his debut in issue 2 of @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social .
'The Quiet Sisters,' in Swords and Sorcery Magazine - swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-quiet-si...
'The Quiet Sisters,' in Swords and Sorcery Magazine - swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/the-quiet-si...
I did not buy anything today, but I did donate money to Ukraine's defense effort. Slava Ukraini, and fuck the human cancer metastasizing in the white house and the Moron-Ribbentrop Pact he's made with Putin.
February 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I did not buy anything today, but I did donate money to Ukraine's defense effort. Slava Ukraini, and fuck the human cancer metastasizing in the white house and the Moron-Ribbentrop Pact he's made with Putin.
Warhammer 40,000 is larger than life, high drama, full of blood and death, and sometimes has silly sounding fancy language. So naturally I’m turning it into a Shakespeare play.
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If Shakespeare Wrote the Horus Heresy
YouTube video by Warspeare
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February 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Warhammer 40,000 is larger than life, high drama, full of blood and death, and sometimes has silly sounding fancy language. So naturally I’m turning it into a Shakespeare play.
youtu.be/KRMc3BiCabQ?...
youtu.be/KRMc3BiCabQ?...
I was accosted by a philadelphian but I tricked him into saying ‘Bo Girds’ to banish him to his home dimension
February 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I was accosted by a philadelphian but I tricked him into saying ‘Bo Girds’ to banish him to his home dimension
We didn’t tell you so. He told you so, again and again. He told you he was a bottomless greed void disdainful of knowledge, ethics and empathy, a rabid bigot idiot, the least convincing budget costume of a human being. Nobody can say they didn’t know that. It just turns out some people like it.
January 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We didn’t tell you so. He told you so, again and again. He told you he was a bottomless greed void disdainful of knowledge, ethics and empathy, a rabid bigot idiot, the least convincing budget costume of a human being. Nobody can say they didn’t know that. It just turns out some people like it.
Remember that no political function works by handwave. Everything requires actual people to do things at every step. Whenever you are one of those cogs you can refuse to spin, or deliberately spin slowly or badly. Bad Cogs Battalion, form up.
January 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Remember that no political function works by handwave. Everything requires actual people to do things at every step. Whenever you are one of those cogs you can refuse to spin, or deliberately spin slowly or badly. Bad Cogs Battalion, form up.
When improvised jokes in your comedic shakespeare gig demand a proper visual incarnation
January 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
When improvised jokes in your comedic shakespeare gig demand a proper visual incarnation
GET OUT OF MY BEHDFEEDA JON SNOH
January 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
GET OUT OF MY BEHDFEEDA JON SNOH
2024 Metal Albums for Normies 3: Faerie Ring, “Weary Traveler.”
Imagine if Tom Bombadil got really into Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath and then started his own band. Riff out, ye wizards.
Imagine if Tom Bombadil got really into Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath and then started his own band. Riff out, ye wizards.
December 29, 2024 at 3:21 PM
2024 Metal Albums for Normies 3: Faerie Ring, “Weary Traveler.”
Imagine if Tom Bombadil got really into Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath and then started his own band. Riff out, ye wizards.
Imagine if Tom Bombadil got really into Jefferson Airplane and Black Sabbath and then started his own band. Riff out, ye wizards.
Happy Yule to all celebrants! Tell jokes by warm firelight and listen for the clip clop of the Wild Hunt. Eat the foods and drink the drinks, you know the deal. ❤️🕯️
December 22, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Happy Yule to all celebrants! Tell jokes by warm firelight and listen for the clip clop of the Wild Hunt. Eat the foods and drink the drinks, you know the deal. ❤️🕯️
Reposted by Matt Castleman
OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on his company’s mass theft of copyrighted work. In late November he was found dead in his home
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Death of an AI Whistleblower
Thank you Suchir Balaji
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December 15, 2024 at 3:56 PM
OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on his company’s mass theft of copyrighted work. In late November he was found dead in his home
mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
2024 Metal Albums for Normies 2: Crypt Sermon, “The Stygian Rose.”
Gothic, operatic tales delivered by mighty twin-lead guitars, smoky baritenor glory and a galloping rhythm section. This is one for the theatrical types who enjoy a little blood in their melodrama.
Gothic, operatic tales delivered by mighty twin-lead guitars, smoky baritenor glory and a galloping rhythm section. This is one for the theatrical types who enjoy a little blood in their melodrama.
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
2024 Metal Albums for Normies 2: Crypt Sermon, “The Stygian Rose.”
Gothic, operatic tales delivered by mighty twin-lead guitars, smoky baritenor glory and a galloping rhythm section. This is one for the theatrical types who enjoy a little blood in their melodrama.
Gothic, operatic tales delivered by mighty twin-lead guitars, smoky baritenor glory and a galloping rhythm section. This is one for the theatrical types who enjoy a little blood in their melodrama.
The way this year is dissolving into madness we’re about three days from “Introducing Bawk Tuah, the Perdue-HTGirl collaboration, chicken made for spit-roasting”
December 5, 2024 at 8:18 PM
The way this year is dissolving into madness we’re about three days from “Introducing Bawk Tuah, the Perdue-HTGirl collaboration, chicken made for spit-roasting”
I don’t use spotify, so in lieu of Wrapped, a miniseries: 2024 Metal Albums for Normies.
Castle Rat: “Enter the Realm.” A rockin doomy-melodic record, production with grit you can feel. Fantasy, but less shining steel than patina’d copper. Singer(pictured on cover) is haunting and powerful.
Castle Rat: “Enter the Realm.” A rockin doomy-melodic record, production with grit you can feel. Fantasy, but less shining steel than patina’d copper. Singer(pictured on cover) is haunting and powerful.
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 AM
I don’t use spotify, so in lieu of Wrapped, a miniseries: 2024 Metal Albums for Normies.
Castle Rat: “Enter the Realm.” A rockin doomy-melodic record, production with grit you can feel. Fantasy, but less shining steel than patina’d copper. Singer(pictured on cover) is haunting and powerful.
Castle Rat: “Enter the Realm.” A rockin doomy-melodic record, production with grit you can feel. Fantasy, but less shining steel than patina’d copper. Singer(pictured on cover) is haunting and powerful.
www.castlemantransmissions.net/fiction A list of all my to-date published fiction, with links! To be updated soon. :)
Transmissions from Somewhen
www.castlemantransmissions.net
November 30, 2024 at 4:42 PM
www.castlemantransmissions.net/fiction A list of all my to-date published fiction, with links! To be updated soon. :)
Thanksgiving Eve, make sure to listen for the clip clop of turkey feet on the roof
November 28, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Thanksgiving Eve, make sure to listen for the clip clop of turkey feet on the roof
Introducing Actual Intelligence. Want prose that feels organic and properly thought out, like a real person wrote it? Turns out you can hire a real fucking person to write it.
November 27, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Introducing Actual Intelligence. Want prose that feels organic and properly thought out, like a real person wrote it? Turns out you can hire a real fucking person to write it.
Congrats to Jackie Chan for being nominated Secretary of Not Stepping in Buckets and Getting Head Stuck in Ladders
November 22, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Congrats to Jackie Chan for being nominated Secretary of Not Stepping in Buckets and Getting Head Stuck in Ladders
Brian McKnight: One, you’re like a dream come true
Two, just wanna be with you
Me: I can’t believe we have to wait through 74 more of these to get to the trombones
Two, just wanna be with you
Me: I can’t believe we have to wait through 74 more of these to get to the trombones
November 18, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Brian McKnight: One, you’re like a dream come true
Two, just wanna be with you
Me: I can’t believe we have to wait through 74 more of these to get to the trombones
Two, just wanna be with you
Me: I can’t believe we have to wait through 74 more of these to get to the trombones
I want to pronounce it like a Polish name i.e. “Yer a loose cannon, Bluesky”
November 17, 2024 at 3:58 AM
I want to pronounce it like a Polish name i.e. “Yer a loose cannon, Bluesky”
I assume these are called bleets? Anyway that’s the first one outta the way. More to follow.
November 17, 2024 at 3:18 AM
I assume these are called bleets? Anyway that’s the first one outta the way. More to follow.