Altered_Reach

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Altered_Reach

Altered_Reach

@AlteredReach

Thank you very much and long live freedom, damn it.

Planet Earth شامل ہوئے Aralık 2020
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BGimpl
BGimpl@b_gimpl1234·
@LeeAllen0337 It is flat, im not used to it being from up north
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BGimpl@b_gimpl1234·
This is crazy. Almost the entire country is 40 degrees or less. Only a tiny portion of the west reaching 60. Even much of Mexico is cold. Ive never seen this many "arctic blasts" or whatever were calling it. Especially in Florida.
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Altered_Reach
Altered_Reach@AlteredReach·
@MissBrneyes @ChrisMartzWX We have had a pretty chill summer. Now in August it feels like the summer temps are rolling in, but a month late. It has been nice.
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Holly ✝️🇺🇲@MissBrneyes·
@ChrisMartzWX I have a guy at work trying to say it's the hottest ever here in AZ. No dude, it's called getting a late summer.
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Chris Martz
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX·
Everyone is fixated on the heat in Arizona this week, but temperatures across the U.S. have been running about 1.3°F below average this month.
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Gregory Michael
Gregory Michael@_GregoryMichael·
Removal of @Devon_Eriksen_ over politics is upsetting. Theft of Fire was likely the best book in the competition … I don’t agree with everything Devon tweets, but free speech is crucial. Please remove Chloe’s Kingdom @theSPSFC Heist novels need to stick together 🚀💰
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition@theSPSFC

We apologize for the extended delay and radio silence. Devon Eriksen has been removed from the SPSFC effective immediately for violation of our code of conduct.

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Heel vs Babyface
Heel vs Babyface@heelvsbabyface·
Jan 19th, 2023 vs Jan 19th 2024. 100lbs down. A lot more to come this year. You can make changes if you want to.
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Altered_Reach
Altered_Reach@AlteredReach·
@Devon_Eriksen_ I don't know if I just fell for one of the slickest marketing ads ever, and I don't really care. If your book is nearly as insightful and well written as this firebombing of Shear, I am already glad I went and bought it off the basis of this post alone.
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Devon Eriksen
Devon Eriksen@Devon_Eriksen_·
Emmett, Emmett, Emmett. I'm not "accusing you of socialism". I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German intellectual, living off das kapital gains, wrote a book demanding that all investors should be murdered during a mass armed robbery. This your idea: Every family farm, seized by the state. Every family business, seized by the state. Every family home, seized by the state. Serving the greater XXXX County area since 19XX? Not anymore, seized by the state. Dad's rifle collection, seized by the state. Grandma's wedding ring, seized by the state. Every single person's life work and legacy, seized by the state. You just seriously suggested that all society's wealth, every last scrap of it, flow not from generation to generation, but to the almighty state. You have NO idea what would happen if this was tried or even suggested in the halls of legislature with any seriousness. Nah, you just said to yourself, "Hey, I built a video game streaming website, how difficult could restructuring of all human society to run counter to its most basic biological drives be?", and you actually opened your mouth and seriously suggested giving the state 100% of everything, and making it everyone's parent. Just another function for them to handle while they're not busy bombing the third world to pad Raytheon's bottom line, surreptitiously dosing Americans with LSD, or setting fire to churches full of children. What could possibly go wrong? Look, since those of us who didn't max out charisma and use wisdom as a dump stat are a little bit tired of playing Statist Whack-A-Mole, where you come with insane apocalyptic suggestions for implementing totalitarianism at a faster rate than we can point out their downside potential, I'm going to put the burden of proof where it belongs... on you. Prove this wouldn't end in disaster. Prove you can make this work as a voluntary program, before we allow you to even suggest it as the law of the land. The internet estimates your net worth at $100 million. That should be enough get started. Buy a huge chunk of land somewhere and build a city. Allow people to voluntarily come and live in it, and to voluntarily leave at any time, under the condition, that if they die there, you will inherit everything they own and redistribute it to a bunch of strangers' kids. Run this city for five generations, not only without going broke or turning into a bloodbath or a ghost town, but with a clear history of outperforming free markets in the arenas of wealth building and technological growth. Go for it. Put some skin in the game, instead of just sitting on the sidelines and using your wealth and fame to promote insane and terrifying ideas for destroying the lives of us ordinary people who are just trying to scrape together enough to play the bills and get by. I tried to tell myself to be nice. I really tried. But you are sitting there casually suggesting dystopian nightmare scenarios with the puppyish enthusiasm of an out-of-touch elitist who truly thinks he can move the peasants around like chess pieces and they won't, you know, get mad or anything. This is people's lives you are talking about. Their legacy. Their entire life's work. Literally. And you have just proposed taking it away from them at gunpoint, and are now wondering why the response was so mean. You are completely unprepared for the hell you would unleash if this idea were taken seriously by the political class. Does it seem to you like I am speaking dramatically? I hope so. Because I am trying to impress upon you that this is not a game. These people you are proposing to rob are actual people. They have hopes, dreams, ambitions, inner lives, friends, families. They are not here for your amusement. Or to run little experiments with. I hope you are just an autism-adjacent smart guy who lived in life in a wealth bubble and used wisdom as a dump stat, rather than an actual sociopath. But, for your own sake, I am asking you to try to imagine how you sound when you casually suggest destroying millions of people's lives, then play the victim when the response is a slightly mean tweet. If being called clueless and out of touch hurts your feelings, imagine how other people feel when they've worked all their lives to create something for their kids, and you propose to take that away from them, to take it away from their children? At gunpoint? What do you seriously think Middle America would DO if that actually happened?
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Heel vs Babyface
Heel vs Babyface@heelvsbabyface·
No energy drinks: ONE YEAR No soda pop: Day 355 No alcohol: Day 343 No fast food: Day 291 Thank for your words of encouragement and belief.
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Heel vs Babyface@heelvsbabyface·
No energy drinks: Day 356 No soda pop: Day 346 No alcohol: Day 334 No fast food: Day 282 Long road ahead. But we're getting there slowly but surely. Left Dec 2022 Right Nov 2023
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Altered_Reach
Altered_Reach@AlteredReach·
@EricDJuly A, I like Cover D the most, but as that will be a reprint, I went with one of the limited runs for the first pickup.
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Eric July
Eric July@EricDJuly·
Which cover did you grab?
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Altered_Reach
Altered_Reach@AlteredReach·
@MAJTOURE Something that I couldn't fully appreciate until I was older was the profound impact both of my grandmothers had on me as a young child and teen. They were dropping wisdom and shaping me in ways I didn't realize.
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