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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

Cool thanks. I assume they’d have detected the signal as well. More sophisticated instruments than Holt and the gang. Maybe they have their own simulation running. I have listened to Memory several times, it’s becoming my favorite in a lot of ways. Looking forward to the new book!

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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 · 08/04/2025

The last two episodes of that season are incredible, enjoy

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

we act like they don’t exist, best we can do

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sounds like how Americans put on shoes

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Alright expert, is it sock, sock, shoe, shoe Or sock, shoe, sock, shoe?

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

“I never see you in the club” “Yeah well I never see you in the Library Arcana,”

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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 · 07/03/2025

If you’re from Pittsburgh, Yintzes

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Make sure you put it aside so you can do a book of cut passages and sell it for $24.99!

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Adding it to the list and will look for “that part”

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I’ve wanted to read the book for awhile, any good? I’m a sucker for ocean tales

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Someone told me once “never wear a hat that has more personality than you do” and I think that was good advice

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Have you considered a fedora? You’d really be nailing smug at that point.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I have no idea what this is about at all, so no, not trying to be funny

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Can you give me the background on this? Sounds like some interesting intrigue.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I think that’s exactly it! The first one had kids but it worked way better, for some reason. Though I still like the set piece where the trex mommy and daddy try to rescue their little one. It’s vivid in my mind.

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

I think I read it in high school so it was amazing at the time

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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 · 12/02/2025

Haha yeah that was a great opener. Good kid maad city is in my top five hip hop albums

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Kendrick has some of the best wordplay out there. The Serena Williams bit was hilarious.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

That’s not a photo, it’s a blue heron

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yeah that’s my problem, I hit a wall with all working out where I start getting injured. I may also splurge on some PT or a trainer, just to get someone to see me in real time

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Holy crap well then I’ve been running with the wrong form for sure. Not at all like that. More leaning forward and gasping haha. I’m going to try this as soon as the world isn’t covered in ice here in PA.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Super interesting, I guess it’s kind of like bro science in the gym! May have been common knowledge at one time but research changes the game.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Haha love it, inspired to do some running now. Blessed to have some trails near me that will be easier on me than pavement.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

That’s really interesting, the “I could walk faster” idea isn’t something I’ve practiced before. Would definitely work better.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’m going to have to try to get into cardio again. My knees like biking better, but biking in PA in the winter months is kind of hellish!

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Nice after watching the phillies fold up like a chair

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

ah okay well then maybe you can just hammer out a mythology book, could get a streaming service to stretch an adapted screenplay to the breaking point. Then you’ll really have made it.

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

You just need a dozen endings to the trilogy ala scouring of the shire

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Mercenary Pen @mercenarypen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Oh yeah 100%. I deal with financials that require an audit trail. I have no idea what our auditor is going to say when someone says, “yes I approved that expense.” To which the auditor replies, “does a thumbs up like/love/winky face/reaction gif constitute approval within your organization?”

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

I was talking with my wife about it because she likes emails on outlook or whatever. She said she wants to acknowledge to people that she read it. But I hate the idea that I now need to be constantly reporting whether I’m reading or not reading an email.

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

I think I was under the influence the first time I saw it and I almost lost my shit

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

That’s a good one. Forest Gump had the nostalgia going for it in a big way. Nobody is nostalgic for getting shot in the face or brought to the bdsm rape dungeon. Or maybe they are but it’s not most of the academy haha

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