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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 07/09/2026
It's fake. The real USSF service uniform is iconic:
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 07/09/2026
It's also fake. I interviewed the ladies who led the effort to create the real USSF service uniform, the first ever designed to fit women (because then fitting men in easy) and is iconic. Not that Trump would know that.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 19/07/2026
Trump declassified and publicized intelligence documents arguing they showed Chinese efforts related to the 2020 election. They include intel assessments that reiterate that Russia conducted influence operations to help Trump and harm Biden in the 2020 election.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 12/07/2026
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 10/07/2026
Accurate, if oversimplified. Eliminating the Social Security wage cap without increasing benefits for the additional taxed earnings would eliminate two-thirds of the program's 75-year funding shortfall under current assumptions
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 29/06/2026
Shared by my friend, @aahabershaw.bsky.social
Someone said that the World Cup is just the US having a giant sleepover with the cousins we never get to see because ou parents hate each other. BEST SLEEPOVER EVER
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 14/06/2026
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 10/06/2026
The POTUS's economics professor has said he's the dumbest student he ever had. Here's proof:
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 31/05/2026
Just say'in.
C. Stuart Hardwick is in the current issue of Analog Science Fiction * Fact
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 23/05/2026
See you at @comicpalooza.bsky.social
Author C Stuart Hardwick at Comicpalooza
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 10/05/2026
This should surprise no one. We already knew an early DOD study found that when asked to model nuclear war, essentially all AI modeled Armageddon -- simply because so little of their training data is writing about deescalation, but is instead the doomsday scenerios we loose sleep over.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 03/05/2026
May/June Analog TOC
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 26/04/2026
If your babies keep falling 10' to the floor, maybe rethink your denning location? This is the second time:
Raccoon kit on garage floor.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 13/04/2026
Mamma raccoon does not like tonight's storms and is moving her kits somewhere else in the garage.
Raccoon carrying kit in her mouth.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 11/04/2026
I may be familiar with one or two of these names.
Cover of the May/June Analog magazine.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 10/04/2026
The moon and Earth from Artemis II. This is not AI.
The moon and Earth from Artemis II. This is not AI.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 10/04/2026
A real (non AI) image of Earth, shot from Artemis II shortly after TLI.
A real (non AI) image of Earth, shot from Artemis II shortly after TLI.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 06/04/2026
To whoever needs to know: Artemis II will pass around the FAR side on the moon. There is no permanently DARK side. That's what the far side was metaphorically called before being extensively studied over the last half century, including by human eyes.
To whoever needs to know: Artemis II will pass around the FAR side on the moon. There is no permanently DARK side. That's what the far side was metaphorically called before being extensively studied over the last half century, including by human eyes.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 06/04/2026
Integrity aimed not for the moon but where it would be in three days. It's elongated Earth orbit is now deflecting toward the moon and will flip around it on closest approach.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 06/04/2026
This morning, NASA sent up a message recorded by Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell before his death:
This morning, NASA sent up a message recorded by Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell before his death: “Hello, Artemis II! This is Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. Welcome to my old neighborhood! When Frank Borman, Bill Anders, and I orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, we got humanity’s first up-close look at the Moon and got a view of the home planet that inspired and united people around the world. I’m proud to pass that torch on to you — as you swing around the Moon and lay the groundwork for missions to Mars … for the benefit of all. It’s a historic day, and I know how busy you’ll be. But don’t forget to enjoy the view. So, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, and all the great teams supporting you  – good luck and Godspeed from all of us here on the good Earth.”
Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell

Gemini VII, Gemini XII, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13 Astronaut
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 05/04/2026
Seen on Quora today:
One of the key differences between American conservatives and American liberals is that conservatives look for allies while liberals look for traitors. There is nothing American liberals despise more than someone who agrees with them on 99.5% of everything.

If you look at who votes Republican in national elections, it’s weird. Really, really weird. Trump supporters are a bizarre mix of actual literal Nazis, Evangelical Christian Dominionists, techbros, homophobes, uber-rich oligarchs, dirt-poor meth-addicted ex-coal-miners, White Nationalists, and suburban tradwives.

These people don’t even like each other. Some of them despise each other. None of them looks at Donald Trump and sees someone who will give them everything they want.

But conservatives look for allies. Conservatives will say “this candidate will give me 10% of what I want. The other candidates will give me 2% of what I want. I’ll vote for the guy who gives me 10% of what I want.”
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 05/04/2026
Cribbed from my friend, @aahabershaw.bsky.social:
Common fallacies in action.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 05/04/2026
Momma raccoon running an erand.
Momma raccoon running an erand.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 01/04/2026
Artemis II at 10 minutes is go for launch. Thoughts?
Artemis II at 10 minutes is go for launch.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 17/03/2026
Looks like Ohiowans were visited by a bolide this morning. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/03...
Ohio bolide seen from security camera.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 16/03/2026
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 03/03/2026
If you don't vote, you are voting for the other guy.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 09/02/2026
George Orwell was right.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 08/02/2026
We loved dine-in theaters when the kids were little. But maintenance was never good, attendance never recovered from COVID due to lifestyle & tech shifts, and frankly, few U.S. movies seem worth watching. We watch mostly K Dramas now.
Alamo drafthouse closed last Houston location.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 05/02/2026
C. Stuart Hardwick is the sort of writer who spoils a perfectly good cynicism. Where many smuggle a good story or two out of their private disappointments and call it a career, Hardwick returns from the interior with maps, footnotes, and receipts. His stories display the unfashionable virtues: curiosity uninfected by moral exhibitionism, skepticism without despair, and a refusal to confuse cleverness with wisdom. One suspects he writes not because he must, but because history, physics, and human fallibility simply will not leave him alone.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 04/02/2026
Seen on @Quora today:
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 02/02/2026
Less deliberate ignorance, please.
My aunt was one of those children who recovered from it.

She was paralyzed for months, and when she “recovered” her paralyzed leg never grew again. She lived to be 73, hobbling on a platform shoe, in constant pain even though the leg was so numb that she once dumped a pot of boiling water on it without realizing she’d scalded it.

She died after a series of blood clots thrown by the leg.

Polio was a horrible, debilitating disease, even for those who “recovered.”
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 30/01/2026
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 25/01/2026
The end is nigh. Contest remains open only through January. www.baen.com/contest-jbmssa
The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 21/01/2026
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 16/01/2026
Here is actual, reality-based nutritional guidance for those who don't want to die on the cross of stupidity: Eat mostly a diversity of vegetables and fruits, especially soluble fiber. Get protein in moderation from fish, poultry and nuts. Keep dairy and red meat to a minimum.
Evidence based nutrition: Eat mostly a diversity of vegetables and fruits, especially lots of soluble fiber. Get protein in moderation from fish, poultry and nuts. Keep dairy and red meat to a minimum.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 15/01/2026
I’ll never forgive Mitch McConnell for kneecapping Barack Obama, stealing 2 Supreme Court seats, packing the lower courts with right wing fanatics & voting not to impeach Trump twice - so no, he doesn’t get a cookie for criticizing Trump’s lust for Greenland. He’s why we’re here.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 24/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
Sci-fi Santa
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 20/12/2025
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 19/12/2025
Be so busy, so focused, that you have no time for gossip
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 18/12/2025
Dropping your support for Trump doesn't make you a liberal, it makes you a decent human being. Potentially.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 17/12/2025
The ghost of Christmas future imperfect conditional.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 15/12/2025
Cat looking out window becomes mythical Christmas creature.
Cat looking out window becomes mythical Christmas creature as face is superimposed inside reflected evergreen tree.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 14/12/2025
The Wreath of Khan
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 14/12/2025
A reader once told me my Novelette "For All Mankind" made her proud to be a woman. As a guy, it's doubtful I'll ever top that.
Analog magazine artwork for the Novelette, "For all Mankind"
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 07/12/2025
Even in the cold of deep space, light finds a way. May your season be bright in all the ways that matter.
Light From UFO in space.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 05/12/2025
Chart from Scientific American, 2017, showing the many, many factors that affect gender.
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 02/12/2025
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but you’re right on time. Today, make something that tomorrow will thank you for.
Holiday sci-fi
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 28/11/2025
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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸 @cstuarthardwick.com · 24/11/2025
Happy thanksgiving. I hope yours offers respite and familial warmth.
Happy thanksgiving. I hope yours offers respite and familial warmth.
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