PhilipRJohnson
@HamboneHFY
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Author of The Nested Worlds, Dandelion, The Deathworlders and other speculative fiction
Joined September 2016
Low-res camcorder and cinema camera tech becomes available: >Lots of UFO videos. High-res smartphone cameras become ubiquitous: >Suddenly, hardly any UFO videos. AI image and video generation starts to get good: >Suddenly, lots of UFO videos again. What could it mean?
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https://t.co/1RXHIRkKNu Mouse's hunt for Jared Mab Keeghan carries him across the front line and into enemy territory, beyond the aid of his friends. Meanwhile, Jerl continues up the Mountain in Eärrach's company...and learns things about himself he had never considered before.
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In Antarctica, anything not on rock eventually sinks into the snow. Neumayer Station’s solution? It rests on 16 hydraulic stilts, realigned weekly and lifted of abou 2 meters each summer to stay level above the ice. [📹 bernerthomass] https://t.co/yWv94D0nhi
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TIL the Mortal Kombat theme originally came from a church in Helsinki. That's right, it was a Finnish hymn.
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Catching up with the vault's thief yields an unexpected meeting, followed by an unexpected trial for Jerl, and an unexpected adventure without him for the others... #TheNestedWorlds chapter 29, "Stepping Up" is now free to read over at
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When Jerl Holten inherited the merchant ship Cavalier Queen from his father, he anticipated a quiet life independent of the big airship guilds, flying from earthmote to earthmote and seeing what he...
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While the Cavalier Queen's crew investigate the ruins of Jared Mab Keeghan's workshop, an unexpected attack leaves them scrambling to track a gang of thieves across the city... Chapter 28 of #TheNestedWorlds is now free to read at https://t.co/dHb1FBy306
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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act https://t.co/qWf4KCQpWP Nobody asked for this infantilizing, regressive law, and it doesn't even work. Motivated kids will always find their way around automated systems, and adults shouldn't have to.
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We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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https://t.co/IfmyyuN5UZ I'm very sorry, I don't know why the link broke. Here's one that should work.
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“I saw the Cavalier Queen fighting over Dunstream. Winter’s tits, her captain is something else! It’s like he knew what th’ Guild ships were ‘bout to do afore they even started! Two on one, an’ he...
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After a supply run to Auldenheigh goes disastrously wrong, Jerl and the Cavalier Queen are forced into a long detour...which is exactly as Nils Civorage wanted it. https://t.co/vr5oLMf1uA
#TheNestedWorlds chapter 27: late due to illness (sorry!), but I hope you enjoy!
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Russel T. Davis: *rips bong* "You know what'd be a cool twist nobody would see coming? Bring back Billie Piper, as the Doctor." ChatGPT: "That's a great idea that will definitely have fans talking! Would you like me to help you write a script?"
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Thanks to a timely intervention, Ellaenie is safe. Adrey and her companions, however, are not... But perhaps they can turn their predicament to their advantage. #thenestedworlds chapter 26, "Face to Face" is now free to read on #royalroad at
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Chapter 26: Face to Face “Gunpowder doesn't tolerate fools for long.” —attributed to Shaon Keeghan After the blast Lendwick city, Enerlend, Garanhir Earthmote 09.06.03.13.09 Wullem de Tredleck...
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Civorage's forces wind tight around Auldenheigh, intent on starving the city into submission. As they do, Ellaenie hatches a plan. She just needs the right men for the job... The Nested Worlds 25, "Breaking the Noose" is now free to read on Royal Road! https://t.co/taeuCykZwc
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Interlude: Contact with the Enemy Peniel, the Heighlands, Enerlend 09.06.03.13.07 The first actual combat of Jung-Shu’s career began with the sound of a sharp crack as a bullet missed him by what...
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Now, if they had rocks and sharp sticks? Different story entirely.
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Yeah, the result is, the hundred dudes rush the gorilla; they get in each others' way while punching and kicking it a few times to no great effect; they realize this was a really stupid fucking idea after the first half-dozen are dismembered; they run away.
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You are given a magic wand! A label attached to it states that it will retroactively delete a trope so that it never appeared in any book, movie, game or TV series, and never will again. Which trope do you erase? (I choose "Land Mine Goes 'Click!'")
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@HamboneHFY "I think this is the first perfect-fives review I've given, and this story deserves it."-Guessed https://t.co/v5PRM72Ozr
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Web Novel | Jerl Holten inherits a merchant ship and gets caught up in a dangerous quest after his helmsman's murder over a mysterious puzzle box, leading to a desperate fight for survival across the...
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