Tony Beans
@lukefitzpatrick.bsky.social
I like long songs, long books, and short baseball games.
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Which cover do you prefer? Now that I have author copies of both US and UK editions of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, I am giving away 1 of each, signed, to 2 random people who like/reskeet this. US addresses only. Will announce winners on Friday, Oct 24, 2025, before official release (Nov 4). 🐅🌍 #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Which cover do you prefer? Now that I have author copies of both US and UK editions of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, I am giving away 1 of each, signed, to 2 random people who like/reskeet this. US addresses only. Will announce winners on Friday, Oct 24, 2025, before official release (Nov 4). 🐅🌍 #booksky
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***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Love to work at Schrödinger’s Univeristy, which is simultaneously so woke it must be defunded and so generative of useful intellectual property that its revenue must be captured
Mobster government: Lutnick says US should get a taste of universities' patent revenue
Exclusive: U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says
The administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.
www.axios.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Love to work at Schrödinger’s Univeristy, which is simultaneously so woke it must be defunded and so generative of useful intellectual property that its revenue must be captured
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Cal Ripken Jr has missed 3,765 consecutive games
September 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Cal Ripken Jr has missed 3,765 consecutive games
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People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks
September 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People need to calm down with the conspiracy theories, here’s Trump today at his Virginia golf club with MAGA radio host John Fredericks
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Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
August 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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“The First Lady encourages children of all ages to embrace the virtues that drive her and the president: laziness, ignorance, abject bullshit, and stolen material. AKA the same virtues taught by artificial intelligence!”
"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."
Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.
nypost.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“The First Lady encourages children of all ages to embrace the virtues that drive her and the president: laziness, ignorance, abject bullshit, and stolen material. AKA the same virtues taught by artificial intelligence!”
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Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
August 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
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Open tryouts for the Women's Professional Baseball League have begun at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy.
Mo'ne Davis and women from around the world chase pro baseball dreams at WPBL tryouts
Open tryouts for the Women’s Professional Baseball League have begun at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy.
bit.ly
August 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Are there any serial killers we're still looking for
"He had that weird thing about roadkill, always,” Radziwill said on Swisher’s podcast.
“He would pick it up from the road all the time and leave it in his minivan, and sometimes he’d forget. There’d be like a skunk under the seat. His minivan always smelled of death.”
“He would pick it up from the road all the time and leave it in his minivan, and sometimes he’d forget. There’d be like a skunk under the seat. His minivan always smelled of death.”
Former Kennedy In-Law Says RFK Jr.’s Car ‘Always’ Had 1 Distinct Smell, And It’s Gross
“Real Housewives of New York City” alum Carole Radziwill says she spent “a lot” of time with the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
www.huffpost.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Are there any serial killers we're still looking for
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Read a book.
Read another book.
And then read some more.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Read another book.
And then read some more.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
August 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Read a book.
Read another book.
And then read some more.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Read another book.
And then read some more.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
A little too on the nose
August 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A little too on the nose
bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri
🔸 your current read: Via Ápia -
Geovani Martins with Julia Sanches (Translator)
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 next read: Flashlight - Susan Choi
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
🔸 last book you read: The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri
🔸 your current read: Via Ápia -
Geovani Martins with Julia Sanches (Translator)
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 next read: Flashlight - Susan Choi
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins- P Djeli Clark
🔸 your current read: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 last book added to your tbr: The Library Book- Susan Orlean
🔸 next read: Angel Down- Daniel Kraus
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
🔸 last book you read: The Dead Cat Tail Assassins- P Djeli Clark
🔸 your current read: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 last book added to your tbr: The Library Book- Susan Orlean
🔸 next read: Angel Down- Daniel Kraus
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: The Will of the Many
🔸 your current read:
Audio - Wool
Physical- The Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook
🔸 last book added to your tbr: A History of the World in 6 Plagues
🔸 next read: 🤷♀️
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
🔸 last book you read: The Will of the Many
🔸 your current read:
Audio - Wool
Physical- The Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook
🔸 last book added to your tbr: A History of the World in 6 Plagues
🔸 next read: 🤷♀️
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
August 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
bookish checkpoint 🕯️
🔸 last book you read: The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri
🔸 your current read: Via Ápia -
Geovani Martins with Julia Sanches (Translator)
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 next read: Flashlight - Susan Choi
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
🔸 last book you read: The Sisters - Jonas Hassen Khemiri
🔸 your current read: Via Ápia -
Geovani Martins with Julia Sanches (Translator)
🔸 last book added to your tbr: Death Of The Author - Nnedi Okorafor
🔸 next read: Flashlight - Susan Choi
quote with yours! #booksky 📚💙
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Total Dipshit Fans Think Pop-Up Fly Ball Going To Be Home Run
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Total Dipshit Fans Think Pop-Up Fly Ball Going To Be Home Run
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Sorry Superman ain't flying around, randomly putting brown people in swamp prisons. That must be hard for you. Thoughts and prayers and whatnot.
July 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sorry Superman ain't flying around, randomly putting brown people in swamp prisons. That must be hard for you. Thoughts and prayers and whatnot.
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They finally made the milk from that hotel
July 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
They finally made the milk from that hotel
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Stop calling them 'tweets' already. You're embarrassing yourself. They're called "bluejaculations" here
July 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Stop calling them 'tweets' already. You're embarrassing yourself. They're called "bluejaculations" here
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We were told digital media would replace books and we were told video games would replace books and we were told streaming video would replace books and people are still buying and reading books.
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We were told digital media would replace books and we were told video games would replace books and we were told streaming video would replace books and people are still buying and reading books.
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We're not necessarily saying that if you are about 40 and your national election voting record is Kerry/Obama/Obama/Clinton/Biden/Harris that you're better than everyone else... but ... -OS
June 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We're not necessarily saying that if you are about 40 and your national election voting record is Kerry/Obama/Obama/Clinton/Biden/Harris that you're better than everyone else... but ... -OS
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When I have to do even one single thing
December 30, 2024 at 6:17 AM
When I have to do even one single thing