Today is release day for TWIN STAR, my latest from @BaenBooks! Available in ebook and trade paperback! Links in the subsequent comments to avoid algorithmic throttling.

Has anybody tagged @damintoell yet?

This is what cats naturally look like if they’re not circumcised as kittens.

I’m watching the first episode of Widow’s Bay with my wife. The mayor of the island is trying to impress a travel reporter from the New York Times. Like that’s so difficult! Just go on a rant about Zionists, Israel, and Gaza.

The weirdest fucking dudes on the planet are trying to pull a Deus Ex Machina and can’t wrap their walnuts around why anyone would be skeptical. Then what you actually get is shitty AI tacked onto things that don’t need AI. You get Copilot.

My favorite line from the 2022 Batman movie was when Batman entered Selina’s apartment. “You got a lot of cats,” he said, in the Batman Voice. Cracks me up every time.

It seems the internet freakshow has finally discovered the Turner Diaries. The novel ends with a nuclear war and global holocaust, depicted as a good thing. To the man consumed by hate, all manner of depravity and destruction can be justified. Another recurring theme that you see in this sort of “literature” is the belief that normal people will eventually side with the murderous psychopaths, once they “wake up” and see what’s REALLY going on. You see this same assumption online, too, where the fringiest of freaks believes his opinions are perfectly reasonable. Or, at least, they pretend to. The thing to remember about online “discourse” is that it’s often buried under layers and layers of irony, attempts to be shocking, and mental health issues.

Happy Flag Day, America 🇺🇸 From sea to shining sea, to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, the great journey continues…

Meep meep ass locale

Karl Urban says he got revenge on Viggo Mortensen 10 years after a prank war began between them, and the prank became so massive that it “made the national news” and was “televised.” “It basically degenerated into this prank war between Viggo and I.” Urban says it all started when his phone rang at “3:00 in the morning” and his panicked agent told him, “Karl, you gotta get on the plane! You cannot not get on the plane. I will buy you another pair of red socks.” Confused, he asked what was going on. After a pause, she simply replied: “Viggo.” Mortensen had apparently called her in the middle of the night claiming, “I can't get on the plane. I can't find my lucky red socks. I'm not gonna go to London. I can't do it,” before hanging up, sending both Urban and his agent into chaos. Urban never forgot it. A decade later, while promoting Dredd in Spain, Urban quietly planted a fake story with journalists. He casually told them Mortensen had bought a farm, owned “a thousand goats,” and was making goat cheese. The next day, every reporter interviewing Mortensen wanted to know about the goat cheese business instead of his movie. As Urban proudly recalled: “It made the national news. Televised.” 😂

US Air Force 24th STS operators in Africa.

Just wait until the Lyftwaffe hear about this

“We’ll have our home again, by God!” *burns down a guy’s house* “Except for Jamie.”

OK... take my money

He doesn’t like sand. Also, LOL, this is the kind of pyrotechnics EOD sets up for air shows.

Two reads to help understand what's happening right now. The version of the Muslim world you have been sold by media (both traditional and social) is only the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave.

why he meeting w those dudes from twilight