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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Still from the 1983 film "Wargames," in which a general says, when presented with a runaway computer out to start World War III, "Goddammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good!"

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ahhh . . . that feels good. It's the best I can make it. Now to figure out what to do with it. 🤔 #amwriting

Title page of my latest novel, "The Fall," with "FINAL DRAFT" in red letters under my name.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Post your getaway vehicle.

The spaceship Heart of Gold (TV version) from "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

See a ranger, post a ranger.

Marcus Cole, a character from Babylon 5, in the uniform of a Ranger brandishing a Minbari fighting pike.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Kalindi knows her new friend, Ulysses the Unicorn, will wake her up if Norway or England scores.

A caramel colored Chihuahua asleep in grey and white fluff. Behind her, a stuffed unicorn keeps watch.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Name your fav robot or android.

The BBC TV version of Marvin the Paranoid Android from "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

The cast of "Babylon 5", very much not Star Trek.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Filed a reply brief today in which I got to compare the Government's argument to the underpants gnomes from "South Park" (complete with law review citation to make it legit!). #appellatesky

Screenshot from "South Park" episode in which a small gnome (in a pointy green hat) stands in front of a sign laying out their 3-step plan. "Phase 1" now reads "jail call excerpts" and Phase 3 reads "guilty guilty guilty!", but Phase 2 still is just a question mark.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I won a case at the Fourth Circuit yesterday. Also, cute animal pic.

A mocha colored Chihuahua sticks her head partly out of her mountain of fluff. Only one eye, one ear, and part of her snout are visible.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Oh, wait, y'all meant 1970s!

The cover of "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes (released a hundred years later).

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Post something from the 70s.

The cover of the initial 1873 French edition of of "Around the World In 80 Days."

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

With that said, today's Album of the Day is . . . Kublai by Accordo dei Contrari (2011)

The cover of "Kublai," by Italian prog/fusion group Accordo dei Contrari. A blue circle in the middle, streaked with pale circly lines, against a tan background.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

It's a cryptid Christmas! I got these cards at the WV West Virginia Book Festival this fall and the wife took the initiative to get them framed for Xmas. Quite the motley crew. Will have a squonk story coming out next year!

Display of five art cards showing the Loch Ness Monster, the Grafton Monster, the Flatwoods Monster (which I knew about before it was cool), Mothman, and a Squonk.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

That hurts, Spotify. And after a client this afternoon informed me that I wasn't a "spring chicken." 🐣

Screen cap from my Spotify year end wrap up informing me, in big red numbers, that my "listening age" is 67. I turned 52 last month.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

You'll be visited by three spirits. The three spirits:

The cover for Emerson Lake & Palmer's album "Trilogy" with, respectively, Palmer, Lake, and Emerson, from left to right.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year I turned 16? (Not perfect, but very very good)

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kalindi heard there's snow in the forecast. Doesn't approve

From underneath a pile of warm, grey, snuggly fluff, a single paw and just the end of a snoot belonging to a caramel colored Chihuahua stick out.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

The cover of "Autobahn" by Karftwerk, depicting a black Mercedes sedan and a VW Beetle on the titular highway.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

You've heard of ghosts in the machine, you've seen "Ghost in the Shell" (the good one), now brace yourself for Ghost in the Discount Ketchup Section!

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Show us the last 4 albums you listened to.

Cover of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis.

Cover of "The Overview" by Steven Wilson

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

All set up at the Jackson County Public Library in Ravenswood. I'm back in the Young Adult room under the watchful eyes of this schmuck. Come say hi! #booksky

A picture of Lionel Messi, colored in with crayon, looks down from the wall, with judgement.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Kalindi is recuperating with a little help from her friends.

A mocha Chihuahua lays on a fluffy blanket, her chin resting on a small brown stuffed bear, with stuffed dragon and duck nearby.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Zaria trying to bury her Greenie bone in the couch cover. She's cute, but nobody would ever call her bright. 😉

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The #birds feed just passed 14k+ likes, post a celebratory bird!

Harvey Birdman, attorney at law, and his trusty assistant Avenger (a purple raptor of some kind).

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A toast to my colleagues who got a big fat NOT GUILTY verdict today!

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

The cover of "Afraid of Sunlight," by Marillion. Perhaps not perfect, but my favorite album of theirs.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Zaria & Kalindi surfacing for treats on National Dog Day.

Two Chihuahuas, a fluffy white one (front) & a caramel colored one (rear), emerge from under a blanket to see if treats are on offer.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Zaria and I are ready! Kalindi is hiding under the sofa from the roofers. She always does that with the tongue, BTW. It's not a comment on Leeds' chances. #MOT

Yours truly sporting my new Leeds kit, with a fluffy white Chihuahua in my right hand, tongue flapping in the breeze.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Kalindi and Zaria, waiting on the pizza guy the other night.

Two Chihuahuas - one caramel with a reddish collar, the other fluffy white with a blue one - sit on a tan couch eagerly awaiting pizza delivery.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When you're engrossed in an interesting, compelling, and frustrating (in a good, fun way!) fantasy novel and it goes and gets the most basic legal shit wrong.

An infant in a blue-and-white striped shirt slaps his palm to his forehead and then drags it down over his nose. Caption reads "OMG"

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

If you see this, post a vampire!

A puppet version of Angel/Angelus gets angry and bares his fangs.

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JD Byrne @jdbauthor.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Traded in my Hearts jersey (4-1 win to start the League Cup!) for my West Virginia United jersey that arrived today (last day of the season, natch) before I embarked on the second charcoal experiment (turned out nicely). Went with the road jersey because I liked the old Wheelers colors.