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Patrick S. Tomlinson
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Sci-fi author. Stealthygeek on Blue Sky. pstomlinson on Threads and IG. Get to the escape pods. This place has a warp core breach in progress.
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Mar 3 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
To all the accelerationists trying to engineer a Biden loss so they get a "better" Dem after we "get through" a 2nd Trump term.

If Trump takes office again, there won't be another Democrat, because there won't be another election, you vacuous imbeciles.

J6th was 3 YEARS AGO. 1/ It's not some obscure historical event confined to the sands of time, fallen from living memory. It JUST FUCKING HAPPENED. We all just lived through it.

How did you forget already? The man has said he will be a dictator on Day 1 and argues the right to murder his rivals. 2/
Jan 24 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
What the hell happened in New Hampshire last night? A thread.

The New Hampshire primary yesterday is a tale of two very different 54s.

Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump received 54% of their state party primary votes. But how they got there couldn't be more different. 1/
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Image Indeed, both results were historic in very different ways, revealing a great deal about the state of the race.

Let's start with Biden. This election cycle, the DNC ditched Iowa as the 1st in the Nation state it had traditionally been. Instead, the party wanted SC to go 1st. 2/
Jan 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Spoke with a younger friend today who thought Danny DeVito got his big break with "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and it made me realize just how much fucking work we have to do to get Gen Z caught up on Israel/Palestine and, well, literally every other goddamned thing. This is not a stupid friend, btw. He's a studied poet. It just opened my eyes to how much of what we perceive as "common knowledge" is a moving window.

That window leaves the people who come after us blind to the past just as much as it leaves us behind in the present.
Jan 4 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Another day, another round of politically charged SWATTings and bomb threats against politicians and gov buildings.

And another round of incredulous folks asking "Why can't they catch these people?"

Well, after 46 times, we might be the most SWATTed house in the country. 1/ We've therefore had to learn more about SWATTing as a tactic, how it's executed, and the types of people behind it than we ever cared to know.

But for concerned citizens, journalists, and politicos put there with questions about SWATTing, here's a primer, an FAQ. 2/
Dec 27, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This bold attack on the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea by Ukraine says several important things about the state of the war.

The missiles that carried this out were most likely Anglo/French Storm Shadow cruise missile air launched by, most likely, Ukranian Su-24 strike bombers. 1/ There was a Russian S-400 AAA battery on the other side of the bay from this landing ship, their most advanced anti-air system. The Storm Shadows were launched from near their max operational range and still penetrated with ease. 2/
Oct 25, 2023 • 37 tweets • 6 min read
A lot of ink has been spilled over the rise of a new alliance of Authoritarian states including Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea. Let's call it CRINK. This new Axis of Assholes is being portrayed as ascendant and emboldened to challenge the West.

I have a different take. 1/ Authoritarianism, fascism, it doesn't emerge from prosperity and stability, but from a demand for it. A population turning to strongmen to solve their domestic political problems is already unstable. That doesn't have to mean economic instability. Look at 2016 here. 2/
Sep 8, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I feel like I need to expand a bit on the true scope of the operational impact the unilateral decision by Elon Musk to protect the Russian Black Sea fleet from attack has had on the war.

First, you need to understand the role of modern naval warships. Thread 1/ A modern naval frigate, destroyer, or cruiser isn't just optimized to fight other ships or submarines on the water as they were in WW:II. They are multi-role vessels that can wage war on the ground, in the air, or on the seas.

Long gone are the days of big gun battleships. 2/
Aug 26, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This is a big damned deal. The Ukranian counteroffensive has broken through the primary line of Russian defenses and are approaching Robotyne. This whole green and blue area represents a strategic breakthrough. Reports are the RU units on defense have no reserves. 1/ Ukraine's counterpunch has been bogged down chiefly by lack of air support and minefields which need to be cleared while under artillery fire before they can advance. RU forces had all winter and spring to build these defenses, but the first line is breached now. 2/
Aug 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here's what I think is happening in GA right now.

Trump spent the weekend attacking the DA, witnesses, judges, everyone. They expected grand jury testimony to take two days, but now with Trump intimidating witnesses they decided to run a hurry up offense and knock it out. 1/ They don't want it to bleed into tomorrow and give him more time to witness tamper and whip up his crazies who might turn up in the morning in response to anything he says tonight. Too much risk. So they're staying in session and will vote out a true bill today. 2/
Aug 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This man was killed in a shoot out today as the FBI tried to arrest him for threatening President Biden hours before he visited UT.

He's already being labeled a "lone wolf" by media.

He was not. He was part of an extensive network of people radicalized by rightwing propaganda. Image These people don't exist in a vacuum, and they don't act without orders. A vast rightwing political machine fills their blank heads with disinformation, makes it as easy as possible to acquire massive arsenals of weapons, and spins them up to attack their perceived enemies.
Aug 3, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Periodic reminder Hyperloop and The Boring Company were deliberate scams to derail the construction of California's High Speed Rail so people would keep buying more Teslas in one of his biggest markets. He's not trying to save the planet. Anyone with that as an actual goal wouldn't torpedo large-scale public transport that would cut down on short hop domestic flights (or promote crypto but that's another story).

He's selling electric cars and collecting user data. That's it.
Jul 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
As much as we hate each other's sports teams, Milwaukee and Chicago have a lot in common. Chief among them is our placement on Lake Michigan.

And I'm not exaggerating when I say in the net 30-50 years, this could be among the best places on Earth to live.

That's a problem. 1/ Lake Michigan, and the Great Lakes region in general, sit hundreds of feet above sea level, far beyond the reach of rising oceans. Our winters seemingly grow milder by the year. We have the largest reserves of freshwater anywhere on the planet, and fertile farmland. 2/
Jun 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
So much of what "conservatives" label as liberal, isn't. It's just, contemporary.

Climate change isn't liberal, or even political. It's just a scientific fact. It's something we know now we didn't before.

Solutions to it can be liberal or conservative, but not its existence. The epidemic of gun violence in the US isn't political. It's a statistical fact.

The existence of Trans people isn't political. It's a psychological fact.

Wealth inequality.
Healthcare.
Failing infrastructure.

Solutions to these problems are political, not their existence.
Jun 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
To remind everyone, January 6th wasn't Trump's Plan A. It wasn't even Plan B.

Plan A was to steal the 2020 election with Putin's help, just as he'd done in 2016. Blackmailing Ukraine for dirt on Biden was part of that effort.

But it didn't work twice. 1/ As soon as Plan A failed on Nov 3rd, Trump and Co moved into Plan B; create slates of fake electors from half a dozen swing states to try to simply steal the Electoral College vote on Dec 14th.

Except that didn't work, either. The fake electors weren't seated on the 14th. 2/
Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
So we're all clear. Trump appointed a US Attorney who then spent 5 years investigating Hunter Biden for literally anything. Once President, Joe Biden didn't fire or interfere with Trump's hand-picked Hunter hunter.

5 years later, all Trump has to show is a pair of misdemeanors. Trump's investigator had a free hand to pursue any lines of inquiry into any of the dozens of alleged corruption scandals of the "Biden Crime Family" and found two minor tax evasion charges and failing to disclose drug use on a firearms background check.

Lamest crime family ever
Jun 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Continuing my Mandalorian S3 rewatch, sporadically, and I'm still not seeing enough love for The Armorer who deliberately bent Night Watch orthodoxy in a way that would reintroduce Starbuck... sorry, Bo Katan Thrace. Fuck. Bo Katan Kryze back into their religion. The Armorer knew what she was doing roping Bo Katan in with Din's redemption by proxy.

Cautious, calculated, and considered are where her hammer blows fall.
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Give me a noir game where you start as a down on their luck private investigator in a tiny, dirty, ramshackle apartment and you play five, six hours trying to get your bearings before you even realize it's Coruscant.

And it's an open underworld.

Or better yet, let me write it. Coruscant, where the city is a mile deep at the shallow bits and the daylight never gets in the spaces between building blocks for more than a few seconds.

If you're more than a few dozen floors below the "surface," you live in perpetual night. Not even the rain reaches you.
Jun 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We've come to expect this kind of psychotic behavior from the criminals harassing and stalking our family.

We don't expect, and have never before seen it from another member of our industry.

Agents have enormous sway over the careers of the authors they represent. 1/ To see a literary agent, and indeed co-founder of an entire agency, so recklessly and enthusiastically throw their lot in with criminals and white supremacists literally terrorizing other authors with physical stalking, SWATTings, death and bomb threats is beyond alarming. 2/
Jun 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
M'kay. To get everyone caught up on today's complete bullshit, this person spent the last few days cozying up to the criminal cult SWATTing my family, adopting their fake narrative, boosting their lies, until today they falsely accused me of being a sexual predator. Image No, for real. They just outright falsely accused me of being a sexual predator. Then, after being challenged, they said they knew the accusation was a lie but said it anyway.

This is someone who works as a literary agent, representing other authors just like me. ImageImage
Jun 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
So you publicly accused me of sexual assault and perversion knowing you were lying, and knowing it could damage my reputation.

There's a legal term for that, Leslie. Image Also, that's absolutely not how karma works.
May 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Friend of ours just posted this.

They're not banned from these states because they pulled a string of bank robberies. Or shot the sheriff, but not the deputy.

They're banned from these states in the "Freest Country on Earth," because the GOP made their existence illegal. Image Made wearing their favorite clothes illegal.

Made using the public bathroom where they're least likely to be raped illegal.

Made them playing sports illegal.

Made books about people like them illegal.

Made it legal to kidnap children like them from their loving parents.