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@rrhodeswriter.bsky.social

Fantasy author. SFWA. Servant of the Secret Fire. Gen-X and among the last to grow up in the pre-internet age. Author of SHADOW, LIGHT, & STEEL and FURY tales. He/him.

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Post image 08.03.2026 16:28 — 👍 1549    🔁 240    💬 74    📌 38

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

08.03.2026 00:22 — 👍 12183    🔁 2667    💬 228    📌 187
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Congress Is Betraying America's Founders by Ceding Power to Trump The Constitution gives Congress the power to check the president. Lawmakers have punted on their duty since Donald Trump retook office.

The Constitution gives Congress the power to check the president. Lawmakers have punted on their duty since Donald Trump retook office.

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07.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 513    🔁 203    💬 43    📌 14
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 | Official Music Video | #Eurovision2026
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Well. I can't remember the last time I liked a UK Eurovision entry, but this *gets* it in a way I thought we'd lost. Thunderingly British, including oodles of self-deprecation, and yet a love letter to the rest of the world, especially Europe. Brexiters will hate this.... youtu.be/niMKvJ-Itq8?...

06.03.2026 12:03 — 👍 93    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 4
Saint Tibalt’s Night – Swords & Sorcery Magazine

Reminder: my new story "Saint Tibalt's Night" is live at Swords & Sorcery Magazine. It's a heist ... but also more. #amwriting #fiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction

06.03.2026 12:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 — 👍 40360    🔁 9114    💬 1493    📌 307

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

04.03.2026 20:50 — 👍 7203    🔁 2615    💬 20    📌 36

Really poor. Where are the goals supposed to come from? Games like this, you can just see the lack of attacking quality, especially in the central midfield.

I bet there are at least a couple players in the world who can throw as far as Ampadu and also move the ball.

03.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

03.03.2026 21:58 — 👍 7619    🔁 3227    💬 768    📌 333
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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

02.03.2026 18:10 — 👍 7713    🔁 1435    💬 89    📌 62
Saint Tibalt’s Night – Swords & Sorcery Magazine

My new story "Saint Tibalt's Night" is now live at Swords & Sorcery Magazine! I'd like to dedicate its publication to my friend, Howard Andrew Jones. ⚔️

28.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My story “Saint Tibalt’s Night” will appear in an upcoming issue of Swords & Sorcery Magazine! @curtissandsm.bsky.social

#take2 #writing #fantasywriting

24.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Mocks Women's Hockey Team While Congratulating Men on Gold President Donald Trump mocked the U.S. Women's hockey team during a congratulatory call to the men's team after winning the Olympic gold medal.

The president complained to the men's Hockey team that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House

23.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 507    🔁 215    💬 82    📌 58
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a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words more on the bottom right; Kylo Ren yelling more
21.02.2026 17:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a story about knights on a dying earth! Very excited for everyone to read it.

21.02.2026 14:56 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

20.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 19392    🔁 6218    💬 1373    📌 541
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

17.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 21768    🔁 7745    💬 299    📌 637
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Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence | Waterstones Buy Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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17.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Finished drafting a story! What a feeling.

15.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
r/analytics
• IOh
We just found out our AI has been making up
analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna
throw up.
Support
So we've been using an Al agent since November to
answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed
amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations,
everyone loved it.
I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this
entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on
data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a
deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing
plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me
to double check something. I started digging, and
holy shit, it's bad.

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

14.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 20257    🔁 5283    💬 416    📌 1227
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Swords Against! The swords & sorcery fiction magazine Project Update: Day 2: Edging on Valentines Day Greetings my Sword Siblings, This Valentines Day, New Edge Sword & Sorcery is off like a rocket. And we are soooo close. Don't. Stop.  Sorry. That was terrible.  Seriously...

Edging into Valentines...

* We're soooo close...
* Exciting Stretch Goal announcement
* Full inks preview of the Swords Against! cover!

So grateful for everyone's support thus far, but let's add MORE CREATORS.

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

14.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

When I watched the dog-finding commercial during the Super Bowl … bad vibes.

10.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nihilism is easy in life as it is in art.

It excuses one from trying and people tend to think it's more serious and artistic than pushing the boulder up, which is hard and frustrating and incremental.

05.02.2026 18:37 — 👍 75    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 1
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

03.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 10019    🔁 5142    💬 277    📌 489

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

04.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 6018    🔁 1644    💬 89    📌 37
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@PaulBlume_FOX9
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SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep.
@FOX9
3:34 PM • 2/3/26

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 x.com SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9 3:34 PM • 2/3/26

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

03.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 4788    🔁 1104    💬 123    📌 111
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I can't believe Howard Andrew Jones has been gone a year now.

I still weep for the loss.

16.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

"The two most buxom couldn't stop massaging me with their eyes.

"We're having a party in our penthouse tonight," purred the redhead. "Daddy's still skiing in Davos. I'll put your name on the list. The password for the doorman is ALPHA WOLFLORD. I can't wait for you to come ... a lot."

🤢

03.02.2026 13:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

30.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 6083    🔁 2576    💬 80    📌 90

Never used it, never will.

27.01.2026 15:18 — 👍 57    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0