J. Steven York RESISTS

Angry liberal. Genre writer. Teller of tales. Collector of relics. Ally. Maker. Man of action. Man of action figures. Really tall guy.
Call me "Steve" or "J. Steven."
Don't mess with my peeps. I have a LOT of peeps. Hopefully you.

#resistance #makers #space #science #sciencefiction #fantasy #writing #gamedevelopment #neurodivergent #creativity #toys #publishing #indieauthor #books #genre #mystery

Website (shared with wife Christina F. York): http://www.yorkwriters.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jstevenyork/
LinkTree (updated links on publications and other stuff): http://linktr.ee/jstevenyork

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2026-07-08 17:49:34 CEST

Notty is making real progress differentiating her talking buttons. We've been working especially on her favorite buttons, water, play, and training. I assumed that "treat" would be the favorite, but she hardly uses it so far. "Pets" and "wants" are also popular.
#cats #catsOfMastodon #talkingpets #notmycat #nottycat
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2026-06-06 01:29:17 CEST

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"Put those over by the boxes marked 'ANVILS.'"

2026-05-11 02:17:40 CEST

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Also Midsomer...

2026-02-27 06:25:49 CET

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I was amazed at the improvements in mine when I had it done late in the shutdown. Even now hardly a day goes by when I'm not specifically grateful for my improved vision. Hope your results are just as good.

2026-02-11 01:57:44 CET

|She likens the wave of AI commercials to the 2000 Super Bowl, which happened at the height of the dot-com bubble. Eleven dot-com companies bought ads. “Before the end of the year,” Yelkur says, “Nine out of the 11 companies went out of business.”|
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/super-bowl-ai-ads-critics-experts-1235514369/
#AI #stockmarket #economy #tech #superbowl

2025-10-29 01:04:49 CET

And the award for 2025's iconic Christmas ornament goes to...
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2025-10-19 05:34:24 CEST

Please alert the media. THERE IS A MOTH ON THE CEILING!
(Not shown: The trail of destruction as Notty Cat tried to catch it. I've never seen CDs with claw marks on them before.)
#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #notmtcat #dangermoth
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2025-10-17 00:22:22 CEST

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off 550 workers, a response to the ripples running through NASA and science funding thanks to the Trump administration's war on science. JPL is a key part of our space program, from pure research to probes and rovers to the moon, Mars, and outer planets. Science in turn is what REALLY drives our economy, not CEOs and Billionaires.
#science #jpl #sciencefunding #space
https://abc7.com/post/jpl-layoffs-affect-550-employees-including-already-reeling-eaton-fire/18014233/

2025-07-08 05:35:01 CEST

Our newish tabby Notty Cat gets most of my Mastodon attention lately, but part of that is our established rescue cat, Suzi the floof, is no less photogenic. Trouble is, she's skittish and camera shy. She came in tonight wanting brushing, but it took a lot of coaxing to get her to look at the camera.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #catstocon
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2025-06-30 01:23:37 CEST

Some time back I posted a link to this article about a Northrup Grumman study of a lunar train. I used a lot of the same reasoning about dust when I came up with a lunar train concept in 1979, and I just found this concept model I built of a freight boxcar. I did a lot of drawings and made notes, but the model is (amazingly) all that survives.
#space #nasa #DARPA #trains #lunarbase #moon #spaceflight #astronauts #trains #moonbase #spaceexploration
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2025-06-19 21:04:06 CEST

Six minutes and twenty-theee seconds of Elon's rocket blowing up in spectacular fashion.
https://youtu.be/71AwkBt3_ts?si=yPFazAvNMVGoO-xs
#space #spacex #boom #explosion #science #elonmusk

2025-06-14 09:57:19 CEST

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Also this guy:
#classicTv #irwinallen #TheTimeTunnel #sciencefiction
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2025-05-15 03:44:23 CEST

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When you care enough to give the very worst.
(And god but that is an ugly looking watch. I think even Barbie would be embarrassed to wear it.)

2025-04-29 04:49:15 CEST

CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
CANADA!!
#canada #election #YourUSAFriends
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2025-04-27 06:51:29 CEST

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"Kiss me, you big metal fool!"

2025-04-06 19:22:40 CEST

A hundred protesters in Madras Oregon may not seem like much, but my late inlaws used to live there. It's tiny, isolated, and very red. For these people to even show themselves took courage. It's more significant than you know.
#handsoff #oregon #protest
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/05/across-oregon-thousands-join-hands-off-protests-against-trump-musk-and/

2025-03-28 02:26:04 CET

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Frankly, content warnings are SO over-used on Mastodon as to be almost useless, and in my case, often counter productive. I'm not offended by nudity or sex stuff, but hiding it seems common courtesy. I can look-away from bothersome politics. I don't want to see violence or gore or scatology though, and I think that's legit too. But faces? Cats? Things that are pointy? Horrible politicians? Sharp objects? Look, I've got my own triggers to bear. (cont.)

2025-02-03 02:46:34 CET

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Think that could be Kelly Freas art. Not sure.

2025-01-31 01:48:28 CET

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Oregon is unusual in that we have almost no military presence, other than National Guard, the ANG fighters being the most visible. During the post 9/11 grounding, these were pretty much the only planes flying in the state.

2025-01-26 11:48:18 CET

Unsolicited, I'd like to share a Kickstarter campaign for a new book by my friend, queer/genderqueer writer and activist, T. Thorne Coyle, titled, "Resistance Matters: Essays on Love and Action."
Currently 3000% funded with 11 days to go, and two stretch goals unlocked. I believe this is a voice that needs to be amplified in these troubled times.
Please go give it a look, and share this if you'd like. Thanks.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorncoyle/resistance-matters
#kickstarter #resistance #queer #hope #books #bookstodon

2025-01-25 05:56:35 CET

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Looks like I picked a good day to stumble on your profile.
Congrats on the nomination!

2024-12-31 02:28:14 CET

Drones! Sea drones terrify the Oregon coast!
(it's just crab boats, people. It happens every crab season here.)
#drones #notDrones #notUFOs #oregon #oregoncoast
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2024-12-20 03:07:08 CET

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And is there blood on the bat's mouth because it's a vampire bat (which the fangs would support) or because it's being shot in the back by rays from the rocket (not clear)?

2024-12-06 09:33:04 CET

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I-10 maybe? Traveled that freeway a lot of times. A lot of empty out there in the dark. Heck, there's a lot of empty out there in the daytime.

2024-12-04 22:22:25 CET

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This sounds like the premise of a horror movie...

2024-12-02 00:54:52 CET

Look, computer programmers, IT and security folks, it can be EXTREMELY difficult or even impossible for people with dyslexia and other related problems to type passwords (especially strong ones) "blind," that is, where the typed characters are represented by "#" or "."
A clear visibility toggle should be a design REQUIREMENT. WE can decide if someone is looking over our shoulders!
#accessibility #security #IT #dyslexia #software #cybersecurity
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2024-11-12 01:05:49 CET

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But G+ DID have an archive! I downloaded mine, though i never unzipped it, and I'm not even sure i still have it, which is -- sad...

2024-11-08 20:50:23 CET

Susy the Floof waits for me to stop doomscrolling and get out of bed, rolling her eyes at the human condition...
#catsofmastondon #CatsOfFediverse #cativerse
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2024-11-08 00:27:06 CET

Mastodon is notoriously a difficult place for new users to establish themselves and learn their way around. Now, of all times, it is important for us to throw our doors open and welcome newcomers. Bashing them through transgressions of rules they don't yet understand isn't helpful. Friendly reminders to help them understand may be. And most of all help them find their People. Finding some folks have a very incorrect impression of #Mastodon.

2024-11-01 08:24:08 CET

I keep reading about how Mastodon is dying, or at least on the decline. But while it's had some growing pains, and has some inherent (though fixable) flaws that discourage many new users and drive some away, the COMMUNITY here just feels to me like it grows stronger every day!
I don't know if it's real, or if it's just my own experience, but things are feeling vibrant, alive, and interactive in a way that was pretty rare my first year or so here. So thank you all! #mastodon #fediverse
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2024-10-31 22:17:36 CET

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I'm losing all hope for humanity.

2024-10-29 05:42:19 CET

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BTW, I just half glanced at the picture without reading anything and thought, "Oh, that's a Daphne costume." I think that speaks volumes.

2024-10-29 05:37:12 CET

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And maybe see if Starliner can be bought out of Boeing's chaos and maybe brought in-house at NASA to see if their engineers can do anything better with it. I'm skeptical that anybody left there has the knowledge and experience needed, but who knows?

2024-10-29 05:35:22 CET

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So, we have Orion, which is absurdly expensive and currently flies on probably the most expensive rocket in history (which still isn't really done yet). We have Starliner which isn't considered safe, isn't done, and at this rate, may NEVER be done. And we have Dragon, which works great, but is brought to us by an unhinged space-Nazi. We need to fund the crewed version of Dream Chaser, and we need to do it yesterday, to provide SOME balance to SpaceX.

2024-10-28 05:43:13 CET

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My wife and I (and a lot of our writer friends) have never put DRM on our books. Early on I realized it was a pointless exercise. I would WISH that people pay for our content, and if you don't and can afford it, I hope you feel at least a LITTLE bad about it, but at least people are reading. Just try not to read your authors into the poor-house.

2024-10-27 08:11:14 CET

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Be aware too, that ebooks can (and often are) available through many alternate outlets (sometimes directly from the author's store), if authors/publishers choose to do so. I have always criticized the idea that indies should make books exclusive to Amazon (or any single platform).

2024-10-26 01:21:36 CEST

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Extended microgravity is known to create heart issues, including arrhythmia. If nothing else went wrong, odds are it's something cardiac related. Best wishes to the affected astronaut astronaut. I've been there (cardiac problems, not microgravity).

2024-10-23 08:29:25 CEST

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(Accidently saved that last before completing thought.) Especially would have liked trying to do something with character and story. In my limited work with the game industry, I never got to do a first person game. Mostly spent my time adding story elements to strategy games (!).

2024-10-23 03:37:09 CEST

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It's fortunate that the mission succeeded, and shows the robustness of the core design, but solid rockets have always been iffy, and I'm very bothered that this will eventually be used for crewed spacecraft. Solid rockets+people always seems to me to be a safety mistake (Challenger, anyone?) I'll take a liquid system with an "off" switch over a solid motor any day.

2024-10-23 01:56:25 CEST

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I'll just point out that with this statement, Elon Musk has just admitted in public that he has for sure seen the movie he allegedly stole from, and guilty or not, his lawyers are bashing their heads in from frustration. Just from a business, standpoint, somebody needs to put a leash and a muzzle on that guy.

2024-10-20 02:49:06 CEST

Picked up our Oregon ballots from the PO Box today. I'm convinced we have one of the best, if not THE best, voting systems in the country. It's safe, proven, flexible for the individual, and allows individual voters to actually research and take time to understand what they're voting on. Informed and considered voters are GOOD voters.
#vote2024 #vote #voting #maiInBallot #harrisWalz #harriswalz2024 #Oregon
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2024-10-19 08:41:45 CEST

Godzilla didn't win an Oscar until he was 70 years old, but he's STILL eight years younger than Donald Trump...
#Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024
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2024-10-17 23:31:33 CEST

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It infuriates me that we're still pushing this bloated, obsolete, bungled shit-ton of pork slowly towards the launch pad using a giant bulldozer that burns money, while the best, and only reasonable, up-to-date and cost-effective launch systems on Earth are privately owned by a drug-addled space-nazi who is actively trying to overthrow democracy and turn women back into breed cows. The failure here isn't primarily NASA, it's in the corrupt US congress.

2024-10-17 03:07:25 CEST

My wife sending a bunch of hand written "get out and vote" postcards to eligible voters in other states over the weekend.
#vote2024 #election2024 #getoutandvote
@npub1ppe…qv2g
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2024-10-14 23:47:21 CEST

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Sadly ironic that replies to this post are giving me several new people to follow.

2024-10-14 23:36:54 CEST

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Very sad. I got into BBSs in Seattle not long after this, and met my future wife on one (we're still together, in what might be on of the oldest surviving online marriages in the country for all I know). BBSs pryed the door open for affordable individual phone modem use (against the Bell system's wishes) and kept it open until easy internet access mostly swept them away.

2024-10-14 23:31:12 CEST

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This is happening. Sigh.

2024-10-05 21:19:48 CEST

It's easier to sell a lie in 500 characters than the truth.
#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia

2024-10-04 22:45:16 CEST

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Stuff like this is why I am VERY negative about using solid rockets on any crewed space system. We should have learned out lessons from the Shuttle.

2024-09-24 00:04:32 CEST

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That looks almost like some of the smaller craters from underground nuclear tests. It certainly looks like it collapsed from underneath rather than exploding outwards.

2024-09-19 23:09:44 CEST

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I loved my original Fitbits. They were life changing for me, and really helped me through some severe health setbacks. But then they got in financial trouble, and Google came along, and it's all been going slowly to hell, on both a hardware and software level. Sounds like it not over, and time to consider other options for my next watch.

2024-09-18 23:04:47 CEST

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The best commute (for the worker and the planet) is no commute...

2024-09-17 00:32:10 CEST

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I really like liverwurst, though I rarely eat it for dietary reasons. But I'm old, and I suspect the market for this stuff is aging out. Lots of once common products and dishes have all but vanished in my lifetime. Sometimes this is a good thing, but I worry that instead of eating healthier, things are trending towards more processed foods as a staple. Give it a couple of generations, and people may be eating nothing except "chicken" nuggets.

2024-08-29 00:16:56 CEST

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I'm guessing this would be a long solved problem but for "genius" Elon and his single-mindedness. Visual self-steering is unnecessary and over-complicated for this application. A "soft" track, perhaps in the form of a coded center-stripe, and some new code would fix this. But proving the imagined "perfection" of self-driving is more important to Musk. This is like his "no flame trench" debacle at Starbase all over again.

2024-08-28 02:18:41 CEST

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I'm convinced at this point "AI" stands for "Artificial Incompetence."
Also, the image for this post evokes the movie poster photo for the infamous horror movie "The Human Centipede," and given the subject matter, this may not be entirely inappropriate.
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2024-08-22 07:31:58 CEST

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I really hate this bullshit, and want no part of it on or near my computer. REALLY starting to wish I wasn't stuck on Windows for my office machine. Pretty much everything they do to it makes it worse.

2024-08-22 07:27:21 CEST

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I stopped eating at Chuk-fool-a at least 20 years ago, when I became aware of their discrimination against LGBTQ+ people (before the term existed I think). I've got queer kids and family members, and I couldn't support that.
As for finding people to fill their streaming service, I hear there may be a lot of out-of-work Trump staff members soon. Seems like their belief systems should be compatible.

2024-08-16 21:58:54 CEST

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Who needs a Tesla when you have a smile like this?

2024-08-16 21:54:17 CEST

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Any product that requires an app to work doesn't belong to you, no matter how much you paid for it.

2024-08-15 01:32:01 CEST

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I fail to see how anything could go wrong here. (Goes back to watching 1968 "Star Trek" episode about computer that starts shutting down important systems to steal power to get its work done, and shortly after starts killing people).

2024-08-07 22:11:36 CEST

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I'm just old enough to recall
Polio and wards full of children in iron lungs (Look it up, kids!). Remember, Republicans are disease carrying vermin. By choice.

2024-07-30 20:08:48 CEST

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Fuck this.