Tom R. Pike
I write science fiction. You can find it in Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Black Library. Day jobs over the years: climate policy research analyst, wiki administrator, and tweet ghostwriter for a cartoon horse. tomrpike.com
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeMy bull case for the Ballroom is we turn it into some museum about our too close brush with authoritarianism. A warning to future generations Bear case: We drift through another clueless Dem administration and then it becomes the next guy's throne room
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeAOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
- Never been later to a party, but I’m finally watching DS9. The backstories of most of the major characters are ludicrous. God I love Trek.
- Reposted by Tom R. Pikeover the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeJUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
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- Reposted by Tom R. PikeAbsolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeAlex Pretti and Renee Good are who was killed when observers were filming.
- Reposted by Tom R. Pike"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
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- Reposted by Tom R. PikeA big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeLike I'm sorry that these events all read like a didactic feminist novel but that's not my fault
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeI am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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- @gavthorpe.bsky.social Thanks for reposting that! While I’ve got you here - I read “Acceptable Losses” back in 2002. My protagonist in my first published BL story is named Okhotnik (“hunter”) after your Jaeger (“hunter”). 🚀
- Going to enjoy watching this crash and burn 71-29%
- Colorado voters will be deciding this year on a conservative-backed constitutional amendment to require collaboration with ICE. The SOS just announced that this proposal qualified for the ballot, background on it here from @coloradosun.com: coloradosun.com/2025/12/22/w...
- It's award season! I have two novelettes up for awards at @analogsf.bsky.social: "Strange Events at Fletcher and Front!" and "Isolate". Subscribers can vote for both by clicking this link, scrolling to Novelette, and finding them listed by title in the dropdowns. analogsf.com/analog-scien...
- On a wholesome note, the lovely folks over at @goonhammer.com included me in a poll for Best Black Library Debutant. I am not going to win, but it's super cool to see myself included! If you've got a second, head over there and vote for me (or whoever you think deserves it!) bsky.app/profile/theb...
- The 2025 @goonhammer.com Book Awards! Who will win Best Black Library Debutant? Nominees are: > @andiewington.bsky.social > Avalon Irons > @tomrpike.bsky.social > @mikevincent-author.bsky.social > R S Wilt > Rusty Zimmerman VOTE NOW! www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo... #Warhammer
- My "favorite" reviewer is the guy who buys every single Warhammer 40k book (verified purchases!) reads them, leaves them 1 star if they have any women in them, threatens that he will stop buying the books, then buys the next one
- As he included my story as "one of the good" ones in his now-removed Goodreads review, because it had a male protagonist, I would like to be clear that I wish him and anyone who thinks like him nothing but misery in this life. Thanks for the royalty payment though!
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeIf people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeKinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
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- Reposted by Tom R. PikeThe 2025 @goonhammer.com Book Awards! Who will win Best Black Library Debutant? Nominees are: > @andiewington.bsky.social > Avalon Irons > @tomrpike.bsky.social > @mikevincent-author.bsky.social > R S Wilt > Rusty Zimmerman VOTE NOW! www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo... #Warhammer
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeFor non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”
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- A guy just walked past me in downtown Pittsburgh on his phone saying: “Nobody has a monopoly on the pigeons. Nobody is allowed to feed all the pigeons by themselves. It’s not fair.”
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- The assholes in charge hate and seek to punish anyone who displays any virtue
- Reposted by Tom R. Pike"It said the UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year." Reducing inequality is a key part of addressing the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Tom R. PikePosts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open
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- “You speak Russian like you have your dick out.”
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeThis is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
- Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI file770.com/erin-underwo... Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
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- Google Docs autosuggestions are really unhelpful when writing Warhammer. No, Google, I really did mean to write "betwixt".
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- Wikipedia getting rid of their mobile subdomain, m dot wikipedia dot org, has been so long coming I thought they would never do it. It’s the “renaming Nakama” of Wikipedia
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeTIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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- Reposted by Tom R. PikeIf a politician: -Has never cared at all about whales before; -Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy; and -is a well-documented liar, You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.
- Wrote a really messed up scene. You guys are gonna like it. Sorry you’ll probably have to wait until 2027 to see it!
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- This is why there’s moralizing in my fiction. I’m not sorry & it won’t change. It’s there because there are bad people, and when they read my stories, I don’t want it to be possible for them to imagine themselves as my story’s hero. ”I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.“
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- My derelict spaceship boarding action short story, “Dream of the Locust”, is in No Peace Among Stars, a paperback/ebook 40k anthology. Its print run is limited, and there likely will not be reprints. Online print orders are sold out, so B&N is your best bet. www.blacklibrary.com/prod-home/ne...
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- The anthology that includes my Warhammer 40k short story about tankists, "Worm of Valhalla", is finally out - not just for pre-order! The audiobook version is also fun because you get to find out which of the characters are Scottish. www.amazon.com/Death-Duty-A...
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- I have to be honest. I’m deeply disappointed that I have not once seen a Huell meme about this trial. So many missed opportunities.
- I don't love that I live in a society where an issue as important as indoor air quality, and a solution as commonly suggested as houseplants, have seen essentially no high quality research. With indoor CO2, we appear to have completely given up without even trying.
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- Reposted by Tom R. PikeREV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
- Reposted by Tom R. PikeSergeant Aisha Itoh is about to have a total chitin-ightmare in my #warhammer40k Sentinel short story ‘Blood Sands’ - in print for the first time! You also get: 💀Blood 💀Sands 💀Sentinels 💀Astra Militarum Messenger Pigeon cameo ...& 11 other stories from fab folk! www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/p...
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- Black Library also just released another anthology, "No Peace Among Stars", which republishes my story "Dream of the Locust", a run-and-gun spaceship boarding action / philosophical debate between cyborgs and space orks. It'll be out in paperback and ebook. www.amazon.com/Peace-Among-...
- Black Library's new anthology "Death and Duty" closes with my new short story, "Worm of Valhalla", which is about a reluctant tank commander who'd rather be growing tomatoes. You can preorder paperback and ebook, and an audiobook will be out in about a month. www.amazon.com/Death-Duty-W...
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- When I was making Personal Space, I requested footage from the Reagan Library. I explained my intention to misleadingly edit the Reagan footage so it sounded like he said humans had landed on Mars. They had to let me do this. That’s what “public domain” means. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/c...
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- Called my dad today to tell him he was right 30 years ago to not let me rent Temple of Doom
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