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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.
Mike Kupari ๐๐ฅ
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Mike Kupari ๐๐ฅ
@RocketPulpHack
Former USAF Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tech. Hack writer of rocket pulp and America's okayest speculative fiction author. Twirling towards freedom.
- The guy installing my Internet seems bewildered that Iโd rather have an ethernet cable running from the modem to my computer. Itโs weird to me running a desktop system on WiFi. I came up in a time when that wasnโt really a thing and frankly, I donโt care for it.
- Replying to @RocketPulpHackThe internet is now up and running. Apparently I have to download the companyโs โsmart homeโ app to change the network name and password. FFS. Fuck you people and your dogshit apps. Your apps are stupid and so are you.
- Replying to @RocketPulpHackโYouโre going to drill through the wall?โ
GIF - A DC resident shared this photo. It looks like a scene from Gotham City, but no, itโs Trumpโs America.
A DC resident shared this photo she took at Union Station yesterday. Looks like a scene from the Handmaid's Tale, but no, just another day of Trump's militarization of DC right now. #UnderHisEye - Replying to @RocketPulpHackFortunately, I remembered how to do it the manual way. Take your app and shove it!
- People actually caught the satire. They just didn't think much of it because it was done so ineptly, so hamfistedly that it made the film endearing. (The same is true of Robocop.) -The bugs weren't portrayed as sympathetic or misunderstood. Nothing in the film gave anyStarship Troopers (1997) was widely panned on release because critics didnโt catch the satire. The film isnโt just sci-fi action, itโs a biting commentary on propaganda and militarism, intentionally over-the-top to make the point.
- Replying to @RocketPulpHackSince my last post the view count has gone up by 10x. People are really passionate about CAT5 cable I guess.
- Replying to @RocketPulpHackWhat the fuck how did this tweet get 30K views
- Replying to @bblatt11Iโm not saying theyโre actually some kind of fake organization staffed by federal law enforcement types, but I wouldnโt be surprised if every third dude wasnโt an informant.
- I lived in โrural Americaโ for the last few years. It was a town of 2000 people in a county of 8000 residents and zero stoplights. My town had gigabit internet. I had cell phone connectivity across the prairie. There was AM and FM radio and, of course, television. I grew up inNPR CEO Katherine Maher argues rural America often has no other possible source of news or connection to the outside world EXCEPT through PBS and NPR: "Large rural communities, large tribal communities" don't have "a lot of other options. Broadband service is not universal, and
00:00 - Everyone is talking about Starship Troopers for some reason and boy have I got some opinions on that! Paul Verhoevenโs efforts at satire are on par with the social commentary in a Grand Theft Auto game. Itโs not brilliant, subversive, or insightful; itโs clumsy and dumb. He
- Replying to @JonsLongsBoy sheโs still mad about that peach, huh?
