Matt Weber

The cover of BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, by Matt Weber. A woman with bright red hair and goggles riding on the back of a dragon with orange, pink, and blue feathers.

Fun fact: In between shitposts, I write fantasy! BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM is THE FAST & THE FURIOUS with dragons, a story of a family who came up from nothing on the underground dragon-racing circuit and find themselves having to fight their city to survive. Free to read! books2read.com/brimstone-sl...

Change one letter, ruin a candy:

SHARTIES

Jesus, I shouldn't be here, much less talking, but:

Left-leaning folks caping for the man from Maine should have a look at what they said about l'affaire "Roman salute."

Maine will make its choice, and it'll be him or it won't. The rest of us need to not get in the habit of making excuses.

*softly sings "tell me how the anti-fay made you run like hell away" in his head for the literal rest of his life*

Yes but the character limit on bean names means I can’t have Beannan Lee Mulligan and that’s just very hard to grapple with right now

… anyway time for Beanu Reeves to lock in, thank you for your service

I can’t believe all the people who said I need to “get güd!” at video games want me to be ok with using A.I. to make “art”

me and the boys heard you was talking shit

Exhibit A: The number of men gruesomely murdered in the video for "Feather."

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has "laid the groundwork" for future research.

Roses are red,
Violets for the win,
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fantasy High: Junior Year. Seven grown-ass humans sitting around a table playing pretend, and they're so good at it, and they have so much fun.

STATION IDENTIFICATION: This is the Bluesky of Matt Weber, whose persona on here is “author of fantasy & science fiction.” Works include BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM and THE DANDELION KNIGHT. Web presence including newsletter & blog at cobblerandbard.com. By day: Data science, govtech, dad stuff.

BRIMSTONE SLIPSTREAM, a free-to-read novella-length introduction to the fantastical city of Yemareir and its illegal underground dragon-racing scene through the relatable medium of uh long-form magazine journalism, it's a good book though, I'm better at books than social media I PROMISE 💙📚

Giant yellow steel ball — the tune mass damper — and a tiny version of it with a face and eyes, like a little silver mascot

A sign explaining the mascot's name is 'Rich Gold'

Another one of the mascot's — the damper baby — in yellow and black

Near the top of Taipei 101 (the 11th tallest building in the world) sits its tuned mass damper, a 660-ton steel ball designed to help the building sway in typhoon-force winds without breaking in half.

It is surrounded by a team of damper babies. So very cool.

Roses are red,
Violets are good luck,

A Google search result. Question is “What famous athletes have Marfans?” Answer is “In more recent times, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, basketball prospect Isaiah Austin and, perhaps, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had Marfan syndrome.”

Text from hartfordhealthcare.org. “Abraham Lincoln is the most famous American who had Marfan syndrome. So did Julius Caesar and Tutankhamen. In more recent times, Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, basketball prospect Isaiah Austin and, perhaps, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had Marfan syndrome.”

AI is going great, exhibit N:

Roses are red,
Violets like the rain,

🎶 You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask from the ol’ Lone Ranger
And you don’t chungle down with Bim 🎵

hashtag dimension 20, hashtag is this anything

Do you publish #ttrpgs (or really really want to) and identify as a person under any diversity umbrella? This is for YOU!

These are all lovely, but I especially like Gwen.

yes

🎶 When the moon breaks to bits
Like a crumbled-up Ritz
Seveneves 🎵

“… people… have wrestled with how to bring their analytical skills to bear on a man and a movement that so defy analysis. Not in the sense that anything about him or it is unknowable, but in the sense that it is all instantly identifiable as precisely what it is.”

(And that’s without trying to use any of the AI tools embedded in them. Just the compromises inherent in using a Lego-brick approach to data engineering rather than writing code adapted to the use case.)

Slightly askew of the topic, but I’m seeing something similar with graphical data engineering tools like Microsoft Dynamics and Tableau Prep. So easy to throw together a pipeline that works beautifully on toy data, but performs horribly and is nearly undebuggable on realistic data sets.

A pink flower, maybe a hyacinth?

Purple trumpet-shaped flowers.

Closeup of a blooming forsythia.

Closeup of red leaves.

Some spring for the skyline.

ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY and THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT by @charliejane.bsky.social
The Hexarchate books (starting with NINEFOX GAMBIT) by @deuceofgears.bsky.social

Hi Team,

If you're a trans author, could you drop a link to your novel, short story collection, etc in our replies? Also, suggestions of your favourite reads by trans authors are very welcome too!

We want to boost more authors for #transrightsreadathon and find some new reads 🌟

A pink flower, maybe a hyacinth?

Purple trumpet-shaped flowers.

Closeup of a blooming forsythia.

Closeup of red leaves.

Some spring for the skyline.

U.S. officials can’t find any Greenlanders who want to talk to Usha Vance A local travel company in Greenland’s capital also cancelled a planned visit by Usha Vance

Roses are red,
Violets are plants,