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I always liked that the G3 armor was put on normally instead of materializing. The undersuit and propellors make G7 marginally plausible, but it's not the same.
The undersuit reminds me of the Matrix phase armor in my toku-inspired TANGENT KNIGHTS audionovels. www.graphicaudio.net/tangent-knig...
Some progressives & Democrats need to stop justifying refusing to vote or 3rd party voting by saying Biden "didn't do anything."
He did a whole damn lot. Facts matter. And so does a young liberal SCOTUS justice who will protect civil rights for decades.
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I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
My #Robocop rewatch reaches the PRIME DIRECTIVES miniseries, often mistaken for a sequel to ROBOCOP: THE SERIES but unrelated and far worse, prioritizing grittiness over competence. My #Patreon has in-depth TV reviews & exclusive fiction for low prices!
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Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both
Don Sakers of Analog Magazine says of Footprints in the Stars: “A sweet collection [...] with, in my opinion, one of the most striking SF covers I’ve seen in many a year [...] There’s something here to delight any SF reader.” buff.ly/nbdt6kd #scifi #sciencefiction #Books
There's a history of delusional old men tilting at windmills...
"Writing with [insert stylistic quirk] is a giveaway that it's AI."
"You can tell this drawing is AI because [insert stylistic quirk]."
My sweet little children, WE DID THOSE THINGS FIRST. AI didn't invent the Oxford comma or the em dash - we used them correctly, and AI *stole our work*.
On my #Patreon, the STARHUNTER crew is drawn into a fairly effective political-intrigue thriller and murder mystery, with their loyal ship's AI hacked and turned against them. Support the author and get my in-depth reviews & exclusive #sciencefiction for low prices!
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It is well-written, and the animation is probably the best I've seen in one of the 3D Star Wars shows. And Sam Witwer is always amazing as Maul.
"Just as there is a blueprint for destroying democracy, there is also one for rebuilding it."
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
I would guess that his cultists make them and tag his account when they post them.
Linguistic paradox: Why is "savory" the opposite of "sweet?" To savor is to enjoy, which implies that savoriness is more enjoyable than sweetness. But I think most people would consider sweets more enjoyable, or at least as having enjoyment as their main purpose.
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here
he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor
and still, they threw him out
and you know what? they did it by voting
don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter
"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."
This month's #StarTrek eBook sale includes what I think is my best novel, THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, plus stuff by @unamccormack.bsky.social @davidmack.pro @clbennettauthor.bsky.social @andymangels.bsky.social @bobscribe.bsky.social and bunches more!
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If you’ve been moved & inspired by Artemis, NASA needs your help. Literally during A2, the president proposed cutting NASA science 47%, canceling 54 missions, including many already in-flight. To help stop these cuts, check out @planetarysociety.bsky.social www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...
Watching NASA TV this past week has been like a window into an alternate universe where US federal agencies still function with competence, intelligence, and, well, integrity.
Our May/June issue is on sale now! Grab a copy for the latest from Jay Werkheiser, Eric Del Carlo, Thoraiya Dyer, and more. We're also thrilled to publish the fiction debut of frequent fact-article contributor Kevin Walsh. Don't miss it!
On #Patreon, I give an overview of the second #Robocop animated TV series, a clumsy action comedy that bears little resemblance to its source, but occasionally manages to do something worthwhile. Subscribe for my in-depth TV reviews and exclusive #sciencefiction!
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I realized long ago that I've basically outsourced my memory to the Internet, since I constantly have to look things up. That's actually kind of the basis for the Chirrn in my novels ARACHNE'S CRIME/ARACHNE'S EXILE, whose consciousness exists partly in the cloud.
It's not even "beta canon," just apocrypha. Most Trek tie-ins have never tried to represent a single authoritative continuity, just to explore various possibilities. Even the long-running novel continuity coexisted with incompatible comics and gaming continuities, and didn't include every novel.
My father didn't want me to watch THE DAY AFTER for fear it would traumatize me, but I reasoned him into allowing it. It turned out that it showed me nothing I hadn't already learned from Sagan's COSMOS and books like THE FATE OF THE EARTH and HIROSHIMA, so it caused me no particular distress.
Great. Now make the posts longer and let us edit them.
I'd say having them speak English is already incongruous in a fantasy world. Implicitly it's being translated from their actual language for the readers' benefit, so idioms like that can be presumed to be part of the translation.
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Isaac Asimov, FOUNDATION
