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Robert Rath

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Head Writer of EXTRA HISTORY. Author of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, and ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER for Black Library. Freelance word mercenary. Born Hawaii, live HK. All views my own. He/Him

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hey Bluesky!

I’m Robert Rath, author of the Warhammer 40,000 novels THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE, THE FALL OF CADIA, ASSASSINORUM: KINGMAKER, and Head Writer of the YouTube series EXTRA HISTORY.

Follow me for comfortably warm takes, writing news, and photos of Hong Kong.

Book cover of THE INFINITE AND THE DIVINE.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 9h

We have reached a point where you can morally differentiate yourself from Mike “If you want to know what I believe, just read the Bible” Johnson simply by acknowledging that shooting unarmed priests in the head is bad. newrepublic.com/post/201757/...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line

The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.

newrepublic.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 9h

Netanyahu tied his whole country to a party whose future leaders joke casually about gas chambers and say they can’t trust Jews.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22h

The Documentary Cinematic Universe is the most ambitious cinematic experiment ever conceived!

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Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social · 4d

End of the month @ericamarks.bsky.social and I will be at the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social in Brighton signing copies of Bones & Betrayals: Silence of the Dead… pop by and say hello!

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Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's official, I've written Da Red Gobbo novella for this Xmas! Looking forward to unleashing Bodgit's particular brand of mayhem upon the masses!

Yo Ho Ho!

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda was surprised they kept the record player joke in the new Lilo and Stitch since so had to explain that one step by step when showing kids the original.

“Okay so there is this thing called a record player, right? And it has these discs and a needle…”

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2d

The headline news that won't be headline news.

'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse

Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study

www.businessgreen.com

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

“When Charlotte’s web said SOME PIG, Wilbur had tried hard to look like some pig. When Charlotte’s web said TERRIFIC, Wilbur had tried to look terrific. And now that the web said RADIANT, he did everything possible to make himself glow.”

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 2d

Went to the farm earlier. Saw the most coquettish pig you've ever met.

A pig, working the camera like her life depends on it.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

I miss being on vacation in Taipei. I miss waking up and going to the place on the corner for scallion pancakes with sweet chili sauce.

However, now I am able to walk down the street without stopping every thirty feet to pry my daughter away from a crane machine full of knockoff Labubus.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve run into this too, but managed to discover it a couple days before travel and got an emergency passport issued.

Your periodic reminder that a passport within 6 months of expiration is, in actual practice, effectively an expired passport.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

The absolute worst case scenario for my trip to the UK just happened and I need help.

TLDR: Delta has a policy where passports have to be valid for at least 6 months prior to international travel. Unfortunately, my passport is below that threshold and they are refusing to let me board the plane.

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 2d

Also follow up on those lies relentlessly despite the scale of them.

“You haven’t seen the statement, Mr. Speaker? Why have you not seen it? Why are you not aware of basic news stories surrounding what the president has said? Are you telling the truth, and if so, why are are you disconnected?”

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Victoria Hayward 🔜 WFC Brighton @writervh.bsky.social · 5d

Hello Warhammer Tokyo! 🌸

The Darkness Eternal anthology may be sold out online, but you can pick up a signed copy in Akihabara right now along with the biggest selection of Black Library books in Japan :-) 🖤

Thanks to the lovely staff at the store for the welcome!

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 3d

Dropsite Massacre is up for preorder now.

#horusheresy #warhammer

www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/t...

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Robert Rath @robertrath.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah we hit the one at Huashan Creative Park. Kids loved it.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

He's literally speaking out against the idea of representation for the American people and saying we have a corrupt SCOTUS that does what we want. Just saying it all out loud

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

rare earths are an exercise in American inability to govern. the problem of Chinese dominance in the sector has been known for over a decade. there was a broad bipartisan consensus that it was a problem in DC, at least among anyone who knew even a little about it, and constant discussion of ...

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