Tom Doyle
@tomdoyle.bsky.social
science fiction and fantasy writer, author of the American Craftsmen trilogy, Border Crosser, and the Agent of Exiles audio adventure series.
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
VERY VAGUE PLURIBUS SPOILER BELOW:
A lot of stuff is going on in #Pluribus, but I'll add one thing--a structure like Asimov's 3 Laws (with considerable differences in those laws) has been set up, and the tensions and contradictions of that will drive some of the action.
A lot of stuff is going on in #Pluribus, but I'll add one thing--a structure like Asimov's 3 Laws (with considerable differences in those laws) has been set up, and the tensions and contradictions of that will drive some of the action.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
VERY VAGUE PLURIBUS SPOILER BELOW:
A lot of stuff is going on in #Pluribus, but I'll add one thing--a structure like Asimov's 3 Laws (with considerable differences in those laws) has been set up, and the tensions and contradictions of that will drive some of the action.
A lot of stuff is going on in #Pluribus, but I'll add one thing--a structure like Asimov's 3 Laws (with considerable differences in those laws) has been set up, and the tensions and contradictions of that will drive some of the action.
Some of the current splitting on the right may be connected to apocalyptic disappointment. They've done what they should for the kingdom of heaven to come to earth (e.g. elect the last good emperor, etc.), but it doesn't appear to be happening as planned. This disappointment is always dangerous.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Some of the current splitting on the right may be connected to apocalyptic disappointment. They've done what they should for the kingdom of heaven to come to earth (e.g. elect the last good emperor, etc.), but it doesn't appear to be happening as planned. This disappointment is always dangerous.
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This week's newsletter! One week away from DIE: LOADED! Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best trade is out! A general check in with where we are with the Power Fantasy! Stuff! Things!
347: let’s not be actively masochistic for a change
HulloLoadingRageNovemberClubLinksBye **** A huge week next week. In fact, it may end up being a big week, every month, as DIE: Loaded and The Power Fantasy...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This week's newsletter! One week away from DIE: LOADED! Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best trade is out! A general check in with where we are with the Power Fantasy! Stuff! Things!
It's the 5th of November, and unfortunately the Valerie sequence of V for Vendetta has never been more relevant. So here it is (and here we are) again. Of these, hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Gb...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's the 5th of November, and unfortunately the Valerie sequence of V for Vendetta has never been more relevant. So here it is (and here we are) again. Of these, hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Gb...
@aiannucci.bsky.social Just saw your last post on the bad place, so following you here.
November 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
@aiannucci.bsky.social Just saw your last post on the bad place, so following you here.
Everyone focuses on the Gatsby party, but that's just a front for the once and future Salò party.
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Everyone focuses on the Gatsby party, but that's just a front for the once and future Salò party.
Halloween on U St., and the occupiers seemed a bit nervous with an occasion where everyone is in disguise and acting out. Other cultures have maybe one day a year as a social steamvalve of misrule--we contain multitudes. I wonder which ones they'll try to contain.
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Halloween on U St., and the occupiers seemed a bit nervous with an occasion where everyone is in disguise and acting out. Other cultures have maybe one day a year as a social steamvalve of misrule--we contain multitudes. I wonder which ones they'll try to contain.
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Free, no-strings archived version of my Post story on the proposed national-security ban of top-selling #TP-Link routers. archive.ph/PhA3w
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October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Free, no-strings archived version of my Post story on the proposed national-security ban of top-selling #TP-Link routers. archive.ph/PhA3w
A kickstarter for an anthology of stories by cancer survivors (but not about cancer), including yours truly!
On November 1st, the Kickstarter campaign for the 𝑨𝑫𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑰𝑻𝒀 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑨𝑼𝑫𝑨𝑪𝑰𝑻𝒀 anthology will open. The funding goal is fairly modest, but to ensure success I'm asking folks to help spread the word. Use the link below to get notified/reminded when we go live.
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Coming soon: ADVERSITY AND AUDACITY
Tales by Cancer Survivors
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November 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A kickstarter for an anthology of stories by cancer survivors (but not about cancer), including yours truly!
I've assumed this was either designed by Morgoth or that Sauron was able to tap his former master's power somehow in this region (which also explains the strange characteristics of Mt. Doom). Sauron might even be sentimental about how the region feels close to his banished boss.
only huge dorks complain about tolkein's unrealistic plate tectonics. yes mordor is shaped like a bigass square but maybe thats because mordor's mountains were not formed the way mountain ranges in our world are
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I've assumed this was either designed by Morgoth or that Sauron was able to tap his former master's power somehow in this region (which also explains the strange characteristics of Mt. Doom). Sauron might even be sentimental about how the region feels close to his banished boss.
I enjoyed #OneBattleAfterAnother --it's odd in the way I like but far from trite. In fact, its relevance is a bit unnerving, like some message from a slightly different timeline. And strangely hopeful. The window is closing on seeing it in theaters, but see it when you can.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I enjoyed #OneBattleAfterAnother --it's odd in the way I like but far from trite. In fact, its relevance is a bit unnerving, like some message from a slightly different timeline. And strangely hopeful. The window is closing on seeing it in theaters, but see it when you can.
Happy Halloween! 270 years ago tomorrow, an earthquake destroyed much of Lisbon. It was All Saints' Day, so many were at mass at the time. This leads in a fairly straight line to Hannibal Lecter's interest in churches collapsing on worshippers. "Watch the papers. God always stays ahead."
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy Halloween! 270 years ago tomorrow, an earthquake destroyed much of Lisbon. It was All Saints' Day, so many were at mass at the time. This leads in a fairly straight line to Hannibal Lecter's interest in churches collapsing on worshippers. "Watch the papers. God always stays ahead."
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If the British Royal Family has more accountability than your own leaders, you have a serious problem.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If the British Royal Family has more accountability than your own leaders, you have a serious problem.
Hot Halloween take--Blue Oyster Cult's "E.T.I." is a scarier song than "Reaper," but the music is so peppy that no one can tell.
October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Hot Halloween take--Blue Oyster Cult's "E.T.I." is a scarier song than "Reaper," but the music is so peppy that no one can tell.
It's Halloween Eve--unleash the cowbell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4H...
Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Official Audio)
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October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It's Halloween Eve--unleash the cowbell! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4H...
If you want to read a current comic that gives you that Alan Moore and the Vertigo gang feeling again, try @kierongillen.bsky.social's The Power Fantasy.
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
If you want to read a current comic that gives you that Alan Moore and the Vertigo gang feeling again, try @kierongillen.bsky.social's The Power Fantasy.
In my 2017 essays about the current regime through lenses of classical social thinkers, this one re: Freud & the regime still comes to mind frequently. TL;DR If you can see no reasons, well there are no rational reasons for Thanatos drive. www.tomdoyleauthor.com/2017/07/25/a... H/t @delong.social
American Greatness in Classical Social Theory Part 7 (of 7): Sigmund Freud and Conclusion | Tom Doyle, Writer
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October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In my 2017 essays about the current regime through lenses of classical social thinkers, this one re: Freud & the regime still comes to mind frequently. TL;DR If you can see no reasons, well there are no rational reasons for Thanatos drive. www.tomdoyleauthor.com/2017/07/25/a... H/t @delong.social
@gavia.bsky.social I was in a market in Porto yesterday and heard a piano playing Zimmer’s Interstellar. Went up a level to see a young guy in jeans playing it from memory. Really beautiful rendition.
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
@gavia.bsky.social I was in a market in Porto yesterday and heard a piano playing Zimmer’s Interstellar. Went up a level to see a young guy in jeans playing it from memory. Really beautiful rendition.
Saw the remains of a historic synagogue in Tomar— which continues my pattern of having seen a high percentage of such in Iberia without much exertion.
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Saw the remains of a historic synagogue in Tomar— which continues my pattern of having seen a high percentage of such in Iberia without much exertion.
Hey allies and friends, sorry I won't be able to join in person on the 18th--I'm on the road that day. But please know that I support whatever you're able to do.
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Hey allies and friends, sorry I won't be able to join in person on the 18th--I'm on the road that day. But please know that I support whatever you're able to do.
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Let’s play a silly game
October 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Let’s play a silly game
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm not the Tom Doyle who wrote the Cosmic Thread collection of stories.
October 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'm not the Tom Doyle who wrote the Cosmic Thread collection of stories.
@delong.social Hey Brad, I've been reminded a lot lately of of our reading of Neumann's Behemoth in Soc.St. 10, and how he was so very wrong in some respects about how nonrational things were getting in Germany (at least in the 1st edition of his book).
October 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
@delong.social Hey Brad, I've been reminded a lot lately of of our reading of Neumann's Behemoth in Soc.St. 10, and how he was so very wrong in some respects about how nonrational things were getting in Germany (at least in the 1st edition of his book).
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For more about "Force 10 From Navarone"s applicability to the USA today, please read my latest free newsletter, Synthesizing Sense, Vol. 38. substack.com/home/post/p-...
September 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For more about "Force 10 From Navarone"s applicability to the USA today, please read my latest free newsletter, Synthesizing Sense, Vol. 38. substack.com/home/post/p-...