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Author of Starship's Mage and over 80 other science fiction and fantasy novels. www.glynnstewart.com

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 17d

Happy book day to me! Regent's Mate, book 4 in House Adamant, is out today!

mybook.to/HA4Regent

Lorraine Adamant is coming home, but the choices of civil wars have consequences—and not just HER choices.

Cover of the novel Regent's Mate by Glynn Stewart
A fleet of hostile looking red and black warships advance toward the viewer, across a collection of shattered chess pieces.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 25m

This week's discount is the urban fantasy series ONSET!

To Serve and Protect is free!
mybook.to/onsettsp

My Enemy's Enemy is $0.99 in the UK and the US
mybook.to/onsetmee

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 1h

Well, tomorrow is the first stage of going home - roughly five hours on bullet trains.

Japan has been lovely, I do think I will have to come back.

I am also ready to go home.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 13h

Okay, I think we may be in trouble with someone...

Astronomy and Beer @astronomyandbeer.bsky.social · 14h

First narrowband image: The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula.

25 hours of integration in the Hubble SHO palette using 6nm filters.

This one taught me how patient you have to be to see color in hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen — but when it works, it really works.

#Astrophotography #photography #bluesky #beer

A high-resolution astrophotograph of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, a vast column of cosmic gas and dust set against a deep star field in the constellation Cepheus. The central “trunk” curves gracefully upward like a celestial tornado, glowing in intricate shades of gold, green, and blue — the result of mapping sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen emissions into the Hubble SHO color palette. Wisps of illuminated gas stream away from the trunk’s rim, sculpted by intense ultraviolet radiation from massive young stars nearby. Fainter tendrils and filaments of dust fan outward into the surrounding nebula, giving the impression of motion frozen in time. Tiny pinpoints of starlight pepper the background — some crisp and brilliant, others faint and ghostly, scattered across the dark expanse of interstellar space. The entire scene feels alive, like a galactic storm caught mid-creation, revealing both the power and elegance of star formation nearly 2,400 light-years from Earth.

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 13h

Optimism is... Carrying 1 and 5 yen coins.

Not sure what to do with them, since I don't think the vending machines take them.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 1d

Salamanders aren't my personal green chapter (though I hang my DA hat on an older, wiser, Lion who'd agree with them), but they're up there.

Colm does a good job with their themes here!

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WARHAMMER 40K SONG - 'The Hammer' | Original song by @ColmRMcGuinness

YouTube video by Colm R. McGuinness

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 1d

Hiroshima today.

The city has done an extraordinary job of both memorializing the events of 1945 and not allowing it to become the sole defining point.

A lovely town, a bit sad I only got one day here.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

Well, now I have to take photos with the guns...

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

Maybe they work for the companies that overcharge to do easy tax filing?

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

Two more of the Shinkansen Station.

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

I hope he lets you rest soon and that the meds have an immediate and clear positive effect on the boy!

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

Have some random shots of Kobe!

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

Having watched tax preparation software evolve over the last 25 years, frankly, this should be the *default* for anyone with a T-slip only return.

These days, 90%+ of returns are "check your address, hit "download from CRA," hit "submit""

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 2d

I'm not overly impressed with the timeline, but it's a solid, positive, program

My only concern with it is a vague logistical question around making sure the CRA has the right addresses/bank accounts, and I can see that being reasonably offloaded to banks & employers.

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 3d

Have you seen Lorica Clothing yet?

She does reasonably deep dives on historical clothing and armor.

youtube.com/@lorica-clot...

Lorica Clothing

Rants about history, fashion, and art from a girl who makes clothes based on armor.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 3d

The Naval Memorial Museum in Kobe is well, well, well worth the visit

It's a simple thing, really. Just walls of photos. One for each ship lost at sea.

The vast majority are from 1941 to 1945.

The dates alone tell the story.

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 3d

I knew it was Ikea, but I hadn't seen any that deep before. Will have to investigate once we are moved.

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 3d

Given some of the issues I had storing games in the current place...which shelves are those?

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 3d

Here the Kobe Maritime Museum goes, revealing Kawasaki's darkest secrets in their model of the local area... 🖖

A small portion of a large train model set.
It consists of a dug out cavern holding a triangular UFO, currently being inspected by a tiny figure in Starfleet uniform that distinctly resembles a non-copyright Spock.

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 4d

It's royalty day! 💚 Thanks to everyone who keeps buying my books, especially Hail & Co since it means I get a little check twice a year.

Now's a great time for a StarWars-esque story with political intrigue and found family where the bad guys get wrecked in the end. www.amazon.com/Behind-Thron...

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 4d

Apparently all we needed to moderate the weather was to go somewhere where I felt I needed long trousers to be respectful.
Much cooler today!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

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Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social · 4d

Please signal boost, it's for a good cause! 🙏

Hey folks - I'm working with an MS (multiple sclerosis) charity to find streamers to support fundraising in November. It's retro gaming themed, so if you're interested in more info - or you know someone who would be amazing - please chuck me a reply 💚

a young boy covering his face with his hands while a man says please say yes behind him .

Alt: a young boy crossing his fingers and screwing up his eyes, saying please say yes

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 5d

Updating from Japan!

Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 5d

It's not a remotely practical counter historical.

But the image of Admiral Yamamoto on the radio to the BEF doing "On your left" with his elite pilots and an 18" gun super-battleship has a definite charm.

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 5d

Instead of December 7, 1941, being the day the IJN and Kido Butai make history, it's the end of May 1940.

Of course, pulling this off would not only be a logistical miracle but would need to be negotiated months in advance.

The only way the IJN gets to Dunkirk, is using RN bases and the Suez

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Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com · 5d

The idea was that Japan got out of WW2 in better shape by deciding they owed England for guarding their flank in the Russo Japanese war.

I described it as them "pulling the elves at Helms Deep" (yes, I know this wasn't in the books)

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