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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 4h

That story should have the opposite title of Everfair.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 8h

The need of trickster gods for an audience is an underdeveloped aspect of world mythology.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 11h

The reason to vote blue now is to slow the digging of our national hole, and make a comeback easier. So long as fascists control the executive branch and SCOTUS, they will continue to act with impunity. We shouldn't raise expectations of an instant reversal, because that will cause disappointment

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

DC-area friends: today is the beginning of the Capclave science fiction/fantasy convention at the Rockville Hilton. Guests of Honor are award-winning authors Rebecca Roanhorse and Nino Cipri. This isn't a comic con type event--it's focused on books and great writers. Check it out! www.capclave.org

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Any other Tor authors get a notice of disagreement in the Anthropic settlement allocation, with it now reading as the "default" amount instead of a specific percentage?

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Ser Darth 🔜 Capclave @capclave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Capclave programming has been updated. Remember to check early and often. capclave.org/capclave26/k...

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Capclave 2026 Program Guide

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Alan Smale @alansmale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Off to Capclave tmrw! My panel schedule: Sat 11:30am. Are we truly facing "The End of Reading"? Sat 2:30pm. Panel: Research Rabbit Holes Sat 8:30pm. Mass Autograph Session Sun 10:00am. Author Reading Sun 11:30am: Holy Trilogy Sun 1:00pm: Alternate Apollos: The Space Programs That Might Have Been

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On my run this morning, small yellow leaves drifted down on me in crazy numbers from no clear tree, so yes, it's October. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykB...

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RENAISSANCE - Ashes Are Burning [LIVE IN STUDIO] 1974 RARE

YouTube video by Apostolos Annis

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reviews from last weekend pt. 4: the Morgan Library has a tarot exhibit that's mind blowing but ends this weekend. Bonus: a video clip from Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. 2nd bonus--see the library's Gutenberg Bible, then walk over to NY Public Library & see theirs too www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weekend reviews pt. 3: the Museum of the Moving Image is off the beaten path (Astoria Queens), but it has an ongoing Jim Henson exhibition. Even if you're not a huge Muppet fan, it's fascinating (and often bizarre) what he achieved in his work. And if you are a huge Muppet fan, it's the place to be

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weekend reviews pt. 2: it's good that I waited until now to see the Frick collection, because I would've had no clue earlier in life how amazing it is--all greats with very little filler. The paired Holbeins of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell were a particular highlight for me.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reviews from weekend, part 1. #OperationMincemeat: The Musical is awesome--a madcap mostly comedic stage show where five actors play over 100 characters without regard to gender and with a few gut punching emotional moments. And all based on a real, macabre WWII deception operation that saved lives

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My @capclave.bsky.social schedule this weekend! Saturday 10 AM Academia in Speculative Fiction 1 PM Beyond the European Castle - new locales/new cultures 4 PM My Reading 8:30 PM Mass Autograph Session Sunday 10 AM Morally Gray Characters 1 PM Alternate Apollos www.capclave.org

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

3/3...the amount of casual day-to-day brutality of what people were willing/eager to do to each other is stunning, even with the prior intellectual awareness of broad details and statistics of such. And yet our current age seems to threaten a return to that historical mean.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2/3 ...1 chapter concerns the supposedly real-life based articles that were transformed into the plot of La Boheme. The articles were considerably less romantic than the opera. Another describes the supposedly non-fictional events that provided Dumas with the kernel for The Count Monte Cristo...

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ha, you were a big part of making the 19th century (particularly post-old regime France) seem somewhat sensible to me during college. But the beginning of Graham Robb's book Parisians has accounts that (though hyperbolic) made me question how much understanding I could possibly ever have...

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I did indeed--but didn't even realize I had switched sites to do it.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No worries on that! Just didn't know where the page numbers were coming from.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reminds me how W.E.B. DuBois (and diverse others) wouldn't cede Wagner's music to the ideologically heinous (even though that included Wagner himself).

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This guy coached football? A sport involving repeated collisions with quarter ton armored persons at sprinting velocities or high acceleration, typically leading to mental and physical degenerative conditions? And this is what he's afraid of? Guy has seriously messed up priorities.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Already taken by some Scandinavian death metal band with a penchant for Viking saga inspired lyrics.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had a passionate affair with her mother in France. It was a doomed romance, but we'll always have Paris.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYC-area friends: author @adrianmckinty.bsky.social (Adrian McKinty) will be at the @mysteriousbookshop.com tonight at 6pm. Should be a good evening!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just finished reading Kyle Harper's new book, "The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction," and folks, it's a banger. He really did the dang thing. Beautifully written, extraordinarily well-researched and thoughtful, paradigm-defining.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ugh, that's a shame about Rylance. It's more the realm of cranks than it was in Twain's time.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Side note that doesn't alter the point: Twain was an Anti-Stratfordian, and I think it was partly because a Shakespeare who came from an obscure background subconsciously diminished Twain's own achievement.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Funny that there's temporal overlap between the two categories.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, should've put this in the past tense for when he was a teenage mutant ninja actor.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One law professor said plainly "Only *ssholes go to court." Meaning that even if the dispute is serious and litigation commences, rational parties should and most often do reach a settlement before trial.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a very important thing that a lawyer learns and should convey to a client! Civil legal remedies are mostly economic and their probable amounts v. costs to obtain have some rational calculus. But what clients actually want is often things for which the law is a poor or counterproductive tool

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for this! I hadn't made the link before, but yes, with some definite shared themes about nature and the consequences of human excess.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you for persisting--we know how close a thing it was.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why was this week's #TedLasso so much better than the all the previous episodes this season?

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very sorry to hear that and all the other stuff that's been happening with you.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And there have been issues for at least some who filled it out.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I now read everything Nayler writes. Oddly, after finishing this one, a river of crows flew over my house, with hundreds settling on my house and the nearby buildings and trees. Never seen anything like it here before.

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It a double Eating the Fantastic birthday for past guests @tomdoyle.bsky.social and @stevetem.bsky.social! Celebrate their latest spins around the sun by taking your seat at the tables as we chat and chew on Episodes 4 and 80 of the podcast. pod.link/1083737796

Photos of the two across the table from me during their meals. Tom's photo is food-free, but Steve is holding up a piece of his fish and chips in each hand.

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Whitmer proclaimed last month as "Transgender and Non-Binary Pride and History Month"

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Tom Doyle (SF/F author of the American Craftsmen series) @tomdoyle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jack White's 7 Nation Army came from him mishearing the words "Salvation Army." So, the main riff is appropriately akin to a brass band as played by guitars. The song is then adopted by sports events--in part because college bands could play it so easily on brass instruments, thus coming full circle

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