Tom
@taschoene.bsky.social
SF, mil-tech, RPG.net, OSINT, trying to avoid doom politics
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I thought they were opposed to floridation.
The Floridization of the White House under Trump continues.
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I thought they were opposed to floridation.
It hurts because it's true.
this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It hurts because it's true.
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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There's a 2.99 ebook sale on the Emilie omnibus on online retailers today only, including Bookshop.org, kobo, Amazon, etc.
Kobo too! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
The Emilie Adventures ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Emilie Adventures Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World" by Martha Wells available from Rakuten Kobo. Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly suc...
www.kobo.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There's a 2.99 ebook sale on the Emilie omnibus on online retailers today only, including Bookshop.org, kobo, Amazon, etc.
Must be something in the air...
September 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Must be something in the air...
So we're getting "TikTok with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So we're getting "TikTok with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
It's like this administration is utterly incapable of understanding what words mean to anyone else. For China, "with Chinese characteristics" basically means "the CCP is the final authority," as in "capitalism with Chinese characteristics."
So, this is quite the useful reminder, not just as we approach books but in other parts of our lives as well.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
To that, I did not reply.
Anyway, I can't help thinking that going through life burdened with Complete Knowledge of Correctness, with an added Duty to Enforce Correctness must be kind of stressful and not conducive to joy.
Anyway, I can't help thinking that going through life burdened with Complete Knowledge of Correctness, with an added Duty to Enforce Correctness must be kind of stressful and not conducive to joy.
August 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
So, this is quite the useful reminder, not just as we approach books but in other parts of our lives as well.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Other people can do things differently without being wrong. And even when they actually are wrong, sometimes the right course is just to let it go unless it actually hurts the results.
Darwin would like to celebrate #nationaldogday and #terriertuesday
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Darwin would like to celebrate #nationaldogday and #terriertuesday
I just finished watching the most recent episode of Foundation. I get the sense that someone in the writers room has read A Memory Called Empire. The character names Songbird-17 and Oceanglass-49 seem like definite nods to Teixcalaan names like Three Seagrass.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
@byzantienne.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I just finished watching the most recent episode of Foundation. I get the sense that someone in the writers room has read A Memory Called Empire. The character names Songbird-17 and Oceanglass-49 seem like definite nods to Teixcalaan names like Three Seagrass.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
@byzantienne.bsky.social
Jason Isbell's "If We Were Vampires" hit me hard after my cancer diagnosis. I'm fine now, but damn...
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Jason Isbell's "If We Were Vampires" hit me hard after my cancer diagnosis. I'm fine now, but damn...
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
It′s knowing that this can′t go on forever
Likely, one of us will have to spend some days alone
Maybe we'll get 40 years together
But one day, I′ll be gone or one day, you'll be gone
Is 88 weeks late for this development?
August 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Is 88 weeks late for this development?
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There's a lot of angry that Maria Dahvana Headley's starts with "Bro!" which I think absolutely brilliant.
August 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There's a lot of angry that Maria Dahvana Headley's starts with "Bro!" which I think absolutely brilliant.
Same here! Just getting into Folded Sky, and so identifying with Sunyata Song and her anxiety issues.
I've been working through the White Space novels, and they are *superb*. Elizabeth Bear has gotten onto my list of People I Wish I Wrote As Well As.
You occasional reminder that my new book, THE FOLDED SKY, is available for order from fine bookstores and online retailers everywhere, and also a nominee for the Dragon Award, which anyone can vote for.
awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/
awards.dragoncon.org/2025-ballot/
August 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Same here! Just getting into Folded Sky, and so identifying with Sunyata Song and her anxiety issues.
This is who runs this account.
August 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is who runs this account.
Friday vibe from Darwin.
August 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Friday vibe from Darwin.
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Christmas is so far away... why not give something away now? I wanted to thank everyone for the follows and engagement and support through the past few months, so to anyone following the official RPG.net accounts, I will be gifting this set of Only Crits dice away!
July 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Christmas is so far away... why not give something away now? I wanted to thank everyone for the follows and engagement and support through the past few months, so to anyone following the official RPG.net accounts, I will be gifting this set of Only Crits dice away!
I have never been more confident that "superintelligent AI" will not occur in my lifetime.
www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that his new research lab will focus on building AI models that can learn with minimal human input.
www.wired.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I have never been more confident that "superintelligent AI" will not occur in my lifetime.
www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
www.wired.com/story/meta-e...
No Cheating: post your lock screen
July 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
No Cheating: post your lock screen
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One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
youtu.be
July 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz, 1872
-Carl Schurz, 1872
Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️
Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
July 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
-Carl Schurz, 1872
-Carl Schurz, 1872
As part of my annual physical, I got my MMR titers tested. Measles protection still going strong, but no protection against mumps of all things. So I'm getting new MMR booster this week, before it becomes illegal.
First case of measles in NC…but also the person in question seems to have been on a whirlwind tour of the most efficient places to be a vector in Guilford County.
First Case of Measles Identified in North Carolina
MEDIA ADVISORY — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed a case of measles in a child who was visiting Forsyth and Guilford counties. The child became ill while travel...
www.ncdhhs.gov
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As part of my annual physical, I got my MMR titers tested. Measles protection still going strong, but no protection against mumps of all things. So I'm getting new MMR booster this week, before it becomes illegal.
This timeline keeps getting dumber and dumber.
The exiled son of Iran’s last shah today offered himself up as interim leader to take over running the country as it transitions away from dictatorship.
Iran’s exiled ‘crown prince’ says he is ready to take over from Khamenei
Reza Pahlavi, son of the shah deposed in the 1979 revolution, offers to lead Iran’s transition to democracy after regime change.
ow.ly
June 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This timeline keeps getting dumber and dumber.