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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@aptshadow.bsky.social “what if everyone was everyone else”, would be my elevator pitch for children of strife

Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@jmingle.bsky.social hey I am really happy about your NYT piece on ticks. Finally people are taking it seriously. I don’t understand why deer culling/hunting wouldn’t help with the issue given how overpopulated they are in suburban areas.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

@aptshadow.bsky.social jus listened to children of memory again. Did the terraformers also fall into the engine? Is that why they’re no longer present?

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Every drawing my kids make is a miracle. I also just trashed fifty of them because you can only hang up so many miracles on the fridge.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

@aptshadow.bsky.social the most impressive thing about the final architecture trilogy is you continuing to find ways to describe Idris’ brain turning into pudding

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Why are we still putting up with toilet paper math? “1 roll = 7 rolls”, a package of 8 rolls is somehow 32 rolls. Paper towels don’t get a free pass on this one either, they’re just as bad.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Sitting at a stoplight in heavy traffic. 3 year old: Daddy keep driving. Me, in a teaching moment: We have to stop to let other people use the road, we are all sharing it together. 3 year old: DRIVE

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. - Jack handey, deep thoughts

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@laborjawn.bsky.social happy to have been featured on the podcast to talk my book. These guys are a class act. open.spotify.com/episode/63od...

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Tinicum & Eastwick - Interview with Will Caverly

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

@aptshadow.bsky.social I just listened to Children of Memory again (love Mel’s Kern) and I think I liked it better the second time around. Because I knew what was going on, it almost read like a comedy or a cozy mystery book, if that makes any sense.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 23/12/2024

no offense to Kendrick Lamar but the best diss track of all time is still “You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch”

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A female Pileated Woodpecker working hard to find some tasty ants.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@aptshadow.bsky.social Hey, I’m loving Shards of Earth. I was wondering if the old Deathworld novels from the 60s were any inspiration for the native life on Jericho. You mention “death worlds” along the way, so I figured it was.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Jenny Cook, Philadelphia “mother of the year”, protested the destruction of her neighborhood as part of a “slum clearing” project. Unlike some 8,000 people, she would be fortunate enough to stay in her home for the rest of her days. Photo courtesy Temple University Library Special Collections.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The Beulah Baptist church in SW Philly was forced to relocate during the Eastwick urban redevelopment project of the 1950s. The church where Patti Labelle learned the gospel would move permanently to West Philly. Find out more in TINICUM & EASTWICK. #history Photo courtesy The Philadelphia Tribune.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Augustus Wesley (center), an emancipated slave and centenarian, was ejected from his home in the Philly neighborhood of Eastwick during the urban redevelopment of the 1950s. This was just one of the many injustices documented in my book TINICUM & EASTWICK. Photo courtesy The Philadelphia Tribune.

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