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@hjmiii.com
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Writer, Civic technologist, other things

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Harry @hjmiii.com · 21/09/2026
Last chance to pre-order Sonido's new book! It's always a fun rush of vicarious emotion when a local friend's book launches. Like Man, I remember you brainstorming that thing.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 13/09/2026
Dear past me who thought it was a good idea to get ALL THE SHOTS at once "just to get it all out of the way":
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Princess Bride: Classic Blunders!
Alt: Princess Bride Scene: You fell victim to one of the Classic Blunders!
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 04/09/2026
Jumping on this trend, I guess. Whadda yous mean, I don't get a soda with that hoagie?
My dialect map showing red swaths concentrated in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Northern CA, and Miami. It has me solidly pegged as coming from PA.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With alt text.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957 a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India. 

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, “You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.”

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death: 

I’ve done the best I could with my life. 

This book is for you.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When there are multiple stories about data centers simply building gas turbines without permits, PROVING they can’t be trusted, you’d be a fool to trust them. This is not paranoia, it’s pragmatism.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 02/09/2026
Well, that appears to be WorldCon '26 sorted and in the books. #LAconV #WorldCon26
A table full of memorabilia from WorldCon LACon V, including a badge with a trail of ribbons such as Spaceballs the Ribbon, I am Out of Excuses, Hoopy Frood, Protect Trans Kids, and more. The programs from the Hugo Awards and LAcon V sit alongside, as well as a 1st Visit pin from Disneyland. It's been a week, y'all
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
It would be great if everyone went into Google maps and reported the "Missing Place" of Lake Ontario.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/08/2026
Happy Mary Shelley's birthday!
Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley in The Bride of Frankenstein.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 22/08/2026
Maybe we get the oligarchy to abandon AI by telling them it's all based on the "Trans former" algorithm that changed its pronouns from RNN to LLM
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 24/07/2026
I need new glasses. A writing friend just messaged "I should be there by 10 if I can stop trying to set my smoke detectors off" Which I first read "Get my smoke detectors off" and was like, "Well the only ones annoyed by beeping smoke detectors when you're gone will be the cats." But then... 1/3
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 20/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
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Cartoon Beavers React
Alt: Angry Beavers cartoon Norbert and Daggett
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 04/07/2026
Wild sci-fi writer moment today when I casually thought, as one does, about what kind of stone a statue (on the moon) would be made of. Me: I wonder if lunar granite is a thing Searches: ... Not only is it a thing, but it was discovered in the exact spot where the event takes place in my book.
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Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme
Alt: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 25/05/2026
Little murdery friend found her way into my curtain. I let her loose onto a shrubbery more suited to her camouflage...and murderous ways
Praying Mantis crawling up a curtain in search of something to murder... Probably
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited
I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
New hot chicken place opened around the corner, and now I have regerts
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 18/03/2026
Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid
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a man in a futuristic outfit with the letter t on the chest
Alt: The character Tron from the 80s movie, holding up his light disc
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 12/03/2026
Interesting. I thought I'd be worse. JND 0.0085 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
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What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 10/03/2026
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
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a man with horns and a beard has the words there are some who call me
Alt: Scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a man with horns and a beard says, "There are some who call me... Tim?"
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 15/02/2026
Too many independent clauses in your sentences and your editor will order a semicolonoscopy. (I regret nothing.)
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/02/2026
I would never argue all self-publishing is bad, but I realized years ago that Amazon designed KDP for exactly this purpose: to incentivize people to adopt new tech to churn out more slop titles in a clear attack on the publishing industry with little regard for readers or even the writers themselves
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The greatest story you’ll read today 😂😂🫡 Forward it on for the betterment of mankind & also to get me into heaven
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 20/12/2025
The #1 movie when you were ten years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Honestly, how the last 12 months have felt, so...
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a man is standing in a robotic suit with a ladder attached to his back
Alt: Scene from the movie Aliens when Ripley emerges in the loader exosuit, ready to fight
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/12/2025
“When it comes to putting together a crew with the skills needed for a bank job or a jewel heist, a majority of Americans reported knowing just one or two guys, tops,” said lead researcher Jane Iannitello
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Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist
NEW HAVEN, CT—Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80% of Americans lack the social connections necessar...
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 04/12/2025
Likely not the 1st cybersecurity-adjacent person to realize, but it just dawned on me. APT by ROSÉ and Bruno Mars takes on a whole new meaning when you hear the singer as a threat actor endearing herself to the person who points at them yelling APT! APT! in the chorus youtu.be/ekr2nIex040
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ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ROSÉ
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 25/11/2025
i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years
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Fifteen Years
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 23/11/2025
1000x This. This term has demeaned the work of so many artists and reduced their labor to some kind of commodity 'content' whose value they can race to the bottom
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 23/11/2025
Last night's "brilliant" dream invention: Sock Sacks It's a sock, knitted variety, knee high, with a flared top and a strap. You can carry it like a bag, or you can wear it, use the strap as a sock garter, and keep all your things in the new pocket around your calves. Brilliant! Thanks dream...
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025
Yokai night at the Japanese friendship garden. The kiddo imagined herself a spirit of a cat who sabotages factories by stealing gears and keys. The more traditional Yokai paraded and danced through the garden. Magical night #yokai #cosplay
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025
4 days of day-job related conference peopleing. I'm so ready to crawl into my writer's corner because it's the end of the work week already... Right? Right?!
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 19/10/2025
If you know you know this would be amazing
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 06/10/2025
Bighorn sheep out and about in the desert today. Near Canyon Lake, AZ
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 05/10/2025
In honor of pancakes and waffles, I present today's breakfast of French toast pumpkin casserole
A pyrex casserole dish full of an orange concoction covered in pecan crumbles
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025
So, I may have gotten a thing in the mail. #lifeofashowgirl #sqeeee
a spread of Taylor Swift Life of a Showgirl boxed set items laid out across a wooden table. Center is a pendant keychain with a purple glittered eye and a T.S. on a chain in an orange glittered and velvet case. The CD and Taylor's showgirl photos are arranged around it.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 01/10/2025
Same answer, really. Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)
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a man with long hair and a mustache says no there is too much .
Alt: Indigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, played by the indomitable Mandy Patinkin says, "Let me explain... No there is too much. Let me sum up."
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 01/10/2025
Xrime wave #birb
Cockatiel named Xrime (pronounced crime) spreads his tail and wings in a bird bathing motion
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 28/09/2025
Big Top Gun 🎪
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 25/09/2025
The Swiftie struggle is real
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 22/09/2025
I have consumed my first Costco pumpkin pie slice of the season. It won't be the last.
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Harry Meier @hjmiii.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025
Birb update: Xrime (pronounced crime) is doing much better. 1st vet visit came back with a host of antibiotics for digestive and eye troubles he picked up at the rescue. Nightly "drug Xrime" treatments have worked well, and he's on the mend.
Gray cockatiel named Xcrime (pronounced crime, and don't ask; it was my daughter's idea). Xrime sits on a hand, looking to his right toward the camera, as if to say, "I see you there. You're not gonna feed me that pink goop again are you? I'm keeping an eye on you..." A girl stands in the background, holding the birb.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 13/09/2025
Cover Reveal! Bluest Moon Coming Soon Artwork is by Romain Bonnet romainbonnet.net and I can’t express how happy I am with how this turned out. Be sure to sign up for updates at the blog and download 2 sample chapters! hjmiii.com/2025/09/cove... #CoverReveal #Novel #sciFi #writing
Cover image sample for the book Bluest Moon by Harry Meier. A shoulders-up image of a femme-presenting cybernetic person staring off into the distance through haunting blue on blue eyes. The bottom half of her face is the only skin showing through blue and orange cybernetic panels. Red circuitry drips down from her head as she looks out from a dark corner. The background is weathered stone wall of more shades of blue to teal. The line at the top of the cover reads "Take the ship. Take back their home."
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 31/08/2025
New birb from the rescue is so freakin lovey. Still makes baby noises when pet. Needs a bath and a vet checkup, and they're staying quarantined from the old man of the house for a while, but my daughter already named them. Welcome home Xrime #birb #pets
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Apollo 11. Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969. Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 15/07/2025
This is Latte. He does not know how many books you have read. But knows for a fact that he has read more. 12/10 (IG: coton_latte_is)
a Coton de Tulear, or a white, fluffy, maltese-looking dog, stands on a hardwood floor and looks over at you with a skeptical glance through his clear-rimmed glasses. we feel extremely judged.
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 06/07/2025
Post old pics of cool bugs #insects #bugsky
A green mantis crawls along the top of an open EV plug door on an unseen car. In the background, bicycles hang from a wall
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Harry @hjmiii.com · 29/06/2025
Movie you watched more than six times with a gif. "Hard mode" (no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)
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a blue light is coming out of a machine that says ' x-ray ' on it
Alt: Scene from the 1982 movie Tron starring Jeff Bridges as Flynn who gets digitized and disassembled with lasers, to find himself alive in the world of programs.
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