Star Tracer
@tracingthestars.bsky.social
I like entomology, cats, sci-fi, synthwave, chiptunes & video games. I may follow you for one of those reasons. Writer, autistic, optimist.
Free books I wrote: https://sites.google.com/view/tracingthestars/free-books
Free books I wrote: https://sites.google.com/view/tracingthestars/free-books
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a woman sitting at a table with a glass of wine and the words yay me
ALT: a woman sitting at a table with a glass of wine and the words yay me
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I did it. I finished all my 2025 publishing goals. Cancelled all Kindle exclusivity contracts, migrated 20 books to wide distribution, new Star Tracers book, new Starstone Prophecies book, & just today, a new Celestial Seasons story in an updated anthology. Brain officially offline till New Years
8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
Ravel's Bolero in Chiptune was not on my 2025 Bingo card, but here it is, and it's glorious. Like Bolero, it's a slow burn, but worth listening to all the way until the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...
Ravel's Bolero in Chiptune was not on my 2025 Bingo card, but here it is, and it's glorious. Like Bolero, it's a slow burn, but worth listening to all the way until the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...
8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
YouTube video by lftkryo
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December 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
Ravel's Bolero in Chiptune was not on my 2025 Bingo card, but here it is, and it's glorious. Like Bolero, it's a slow burn, but worth listening to all the way until the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...
Ravel's Bolero in Chiptune was not on my 2025 Bingo card, but here it is, and it's glorious. Like Bolero, it's a slow burn, but worth listening to all the way until the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb...
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In case you need a laugh today. Max the horse is valiant and noble and afraid of every single thing. Ozzyman voiceover is hilarious, and Max's rider is wonderfully patient and kind.
youtube.com/shorts/HbeqO...
youtube.com/shorts/HbeqO...
Max the Scared Horse - Ozzy Man Reviews
YouTube video by Ozzy Man Reviews
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December 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In case you need a laugh today. Max the horse is valiant and noble and afraid of every single thing. Ozzyman voiceover is hilarious, and Max's rider is wonderfully patient and kind.
youtube.com/shorts/HbeqO...
youtube.com/shorts/HbeqO...
I did it. I finished all my 2025 publishing goals. Cancelled all Kindle exclusivity contracts, migrated 20 books to wide distribution, new Star Tracers book, new Starstone Prophecies book, & just today, a new Celestial Seasons story in an updated anthology. Brain officially offline till New Years
a woman sitting at a table with a glass of wine and the words yay me
ALT: a woman sitting at a table with a glass of wine and the words yay me
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I did it. I finished all my 2025 publishing goals. Cancelled all Kindle exclusivity contracts, migrated 20 books to wide distribution, new Star Tracers book, new Starstone Prophecies book, & just today, a new Celestial Seasons story in an updated anthology. Brain officially offline till New Years
Love the colors on these beetles
Many beetles, one green Christmas beetle that's dead (saved the orange ones though). #entomology
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Love the colors on these beetles
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You can get stick on gold letters at Michaels or from temu and name anything you want after Donald j Trump. Especially shitters. But also dumpsters. Mop buckets. Vape stores. The world is your oyster.
December 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You can get stick on gold letters at Michaels or from temu and name anything you want after Donald j Trump. Especially shitters. But also dumpsters. Mop buckets. Vape stores. The world is your oyster.
You know who else does this exact same sh1t? A toddler with a jumbo crayon that just learned to spell their name. They insist on putting their name on EVERYTHING. The coloring page. Their cup. The wall. The dog. Their tacky new ballroom...
The Kennedy Center is adding 'Trump' to its name, White House says reut.rs/4qhpKaI
The Kennedy Center is adding 'Trump' to its name, White House says
The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which President Donald Trump filled with allies during a broad takeover earlier this year, has decided to rename the institution the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You know who else does this exact same sh1t? A toddler with a jumbo crayon that just learned to spell their name. They insist on putting their name on EVERYTHING. The coloring page. Their cup. The wall. The dog. Their tacky new ballroom...
One of Unbound's many victims, this is the only current way to get Daniel's debut sci-fi time travel novel where he actually gets the $. He's lost so much in this whole process, especially in his attempts to compensate the fans for Unbound's fvckery. Fvck Unbound in any timeline. Go buy the book.
My debut novel, The Paradox Paradox, IS FINALLY AVALIABLE! Get the eBook here RIGHT NOW for just £5!
www.patreon.com/nerdcubed/shop
www.patreon.com/nerdcubed/shop
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One of Unbound's many victims, this is the only current way to get Daniel's debut sci-fi time travel novel where he actually gets the $. He's lost so much in this whole process, especially in his attempts to compensate the fans for Unbound's fvckery. Fvck Unbound in any timeline. Go buy the book.
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All this will do is increase, dramatically, the suicide rate among trans kids.
Societies should be judged by how well they take care of their most vulnerable members. The United States in 2025 continues to fail this test.
Societies should be judged by how well they take care of their most vulnerable members. The United States in 2025 continues to fail this test.
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
All this will do is increase, dramatically, the suicide rate among trans kids.
Societies should be judged by how well they take care of their most vulnerable members. The United States in 2025 continues to fail this test.
Societies should be judged by how well they take care of their most vulnerable members. The United States in 2025 continues to fail this test.
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS is for the ringing to stop. Tinnitus sucks. I'm trying to power through edits so I can publish this free collection of sappy, silly, holiday sci-fi romance stories before Christmas is over. At this point, I'd rather have Mariah in my ear instead of REEEEEEEEE #writerproblems
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS is for the ringing to stop. Tinnitus sucks. I'm trying to power through edits so I can publish this free collection of sappy, silly, holiday sci-fi romance stories before Christmas is over. At this point, I'd rather have Mariah in my ear instead of REEEEEEEEE #writerproblems
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It's all pie in the sky fvckery by something like half a dozen companies...
December 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's all pie in the sky fvckery by something like half a dozen companies...
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Reasons like THIS are why we donate every cent we bring in to the ACLU. To protect those who are unjustifiably seeing the ground beneath them erode away.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Reasons like THIS are why we donate every cent we bring in to the ACLU. To protect those who are unjustifiably seeing the ground beneath them erode away.
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It was a bad idea to give the nation's biggest narcissist the ability to hijack primetime TV whenever he feels like it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
It was a bad idea to give the nation's biggest narcissist the ability to hijack primetime TV whenever he feels like it.
Reminder that MTG is still a piece of hot garbage.
Gender affirming care is not a crime.
Dems who voted FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
The state of my birth (TX) continues to disappoint me.
Please read the write-up by Erin for full details
Gender affirming care is not a crime.
Dems who voted FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
The state of my birth (TX) continues to disappoint me.
Please read the write-up by Erin for full details
December 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Reminder that MTG is still a piece of hot garbage.
Gender affirming care is not a crime.
Dems who voted FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
The state of my birth (TX) continues to disappoint me.
Please read the write-up by Erin for full details
Gender affirming care is not a crime.
Dems who voted FOR the felony ban were Henry Cueller (TX), Vincente Gonzalez (TX), Don Davis (NC).
The state of my birth (TX) continues to disappoint me.
Please read the write-up by Erin for full details
Huzzah! Kindle KDP is changing its DRM system, & will now allow you to change DRM at any time, and if you don't have DRM enabled, they will let customers download ePubs of your books to enjoy on non-Kindle eReaders! More choices for readers is always a good thing.
December 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Huzzah! Kindle KDP is changing its DRM system, & will now allow you to change DRM at any time, and if you don't have DRM enabled, they will let customers download ePubs of your books to enjoy on non-Kindle eReaders! More choices for readers is always a good thing.
New Spielberg Sci-fi movie?! At least 2026 will have one good thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
Disclosure Day | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Universal Pictures
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December 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
New Spielberg Sci-fi movie?! At least 2026 will have one good thing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFe6...
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Lorien Testard started out 2025 an obscure French musician; thanks to "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," he's an award-winning composer known the world over. We caught up with him earlier this year to discuss the soundtrack, his creative process, and more.
“Clair Obscur” Turned This First-Time Composer Into An Overnight Success
A year ago, Lorien Testard was an obscure French musician; now, he's one of the biggest composers of the year.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Lorien Testard started out 2025 an obscure French musician; thanks to "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33," he's an award-winning composer known the world over. We caught up with him earlier this year to discuss the soundtrack, his creative process, and more.
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HAPPY GLAMOUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
HAPPY GLAMOUR INDEPENDENCE DAY
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One of the many reasons I love Vintage Story is the science you can find in it. This great video evaluates VS from a geologist's PoV.
Vintage Story has been the most requested game for me to talk about. After a few hundred hours of playing and exploring how the game handles geology, I can finally release part 1 of my geologic review.
youtu.be/b4e7mTRB7qg
youtu.be/b4e7mTRB7qg
Geologic Review: Vintage Story, Part 1
YouTube video by Gneiss Name
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
One of the many reasons I love Vintage Story is the science you can find in it. This great video evaluates VS from a geologist's PoV.
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MEET MR. MOSSY WEEVIL! 😍👋
This is the most ADORABLE little beetle strutting its mossy stuff around the Amazon! 🌳
LOOK at those adorable little antennas! 🥹💚
Measuring in at one centimetre long, I believe it is in the genus Ulocerus and it is another little GEM found at Manu Biological Station! 🪲💎
This is the most ADORABLE little beetle strutting its mossy stuff around the Amazon! 🌳
LOOK at those adorable little antennas! 🥹💚
Measuring in at one centimetre long, I believe it is in the genus Ulocerus and it is another little GEM found at Manu Biological Station! 🪲💎
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
MEET MR. MOSSY WEEVIL! 😍👋
This is the most ADORABLE little beetle strutting its mossy stuff around the Amazon! 🌳
LOOK at those adorable little antennas! 🥹💚
Measuring in at one centimetre long, I believe it is in the genus Ulocerus and it is another little GEM found at Manu Biological Station! 🪲💎
This is the most ADORABLE little beetle strutting its mossy stuff around the Amazon! 🌳
LOOK at those adorable little antennas! 🥹💚
Measuring in at one centimetre long, I believe it is in the genus Ulocerus and it is another little GEM found at Manu Biological Station! 🪲💎
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December 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Mass Market paperback became unsustainable at competitive prices. eBooks are the new mass market format, but on-demand and hardcover prints are still going strong. We now need to focus on making ebooks as accessible as possible, which includes fighting to end exclusivity contracts.
Publishers Werekly Announces the End of the Mass Market Paperback
Publishers Werekly Announces the End of the Mass Market Paperback
amazingstories.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The Mass Market paperback became unsustainable at competitive prices. eBooks are the new mass market format, but on-demand and hardcover prints are still going strong. We now need to focus on making ebooks as accessible as possible, which includes fighting to end exclusivity contracts.
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Beautiful pattern on this longhorn beetle
#flyday #natuur #nature #macro #photography #macromonday #elkedageeninsect
Ladderboktor (Saperda scalaris)
Nationaal Park De Kampina nabij Winkelsven.
Ladderboktor (Saperda scalaris)
Nationaal Park De Kampina nabij Winkelsven.
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Beautiful pattern on this longhorn beetle
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork