Jason Fuesting

Husband, physicist, author, gamer, marksman, former Navy tech, owned by cats (who think this item should be first on the list)

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

For any future followers that find their way to following this account, if you have questions about my books, be it about a character, scene, event, or really any part of the world building, feel free to ask about it. I like the engagement; just be forewarned you might get spoilers.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

@VikingRobVWO Probably eats snickers bars upside down because he enjoys the texture.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

This. Takes a special brand of stupid to not recognize natural results of poor decisionmaking.

[Just Loki @LokiJulianus]

“We don't want to sell our most advanced capabilities to the U.S. military, but we will continue to ship them to foreigners.”

What did people think was going to happen.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

Man, it's been 13 years. You know, getting old sucks, because until I looked at the posted date on the video, I would've guessed it was 5-10, tops. Man, what a disaster KSP2 turned out to be. Would be nice if someone with sense ended up with the IP, but that's not likely to happen.

That said, it'd be cool as hell if @elonmusk and
@SpaceX could put together an homage from new and archival footage once they get Starship up and running. Extra points for external video for the ship-to-ship refueling when they pull it off :D

KSP is why I went for a physics degree, and why I stuck with it even after I realized my age and the break in employment would basically be the kiss of death in the age of HR pretending ChatGPT can usefully sort resumes.

Sometimes, the joy of learning is enough of a reward in and of itself, even if that means half your department squints at you when you acknowledge you're basically doing one of the harder STEM paths for the fun of it. Just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean it can't be a fun time.

For some reason this isn't embedding but other youtube videos are... *shrug* It's the old school KSP Build Fly Dream video.

https://t.co/XSo89zTsh7

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

CIA: Cat Investigation Agency..🐈🐾😅

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

People who have never seen just how much of a shithole the rest of the world is have zero appreciation for how good they have it...

... and simply cannot understand what lengths some of us are willing to go to to keep it this way without trying to frame it as "evil" or some other trite, deliberately inaccurate label designed to protect their fragile, ignorant egos.

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

How can America be this awesome???

Someone pinch me I think I’m dreaming!!!

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

SOUTHCOM really should run a footage reel of all the drone strikes against the cartels and Iranian assets... and set it to this:
https://t.co/MU7IlmLZV8

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Gavin Newsom tweete sa rage. Le FT le compare à un méchant de James Bond. Le Globe and Mail publie un guide pour le détester. Tout ça le même jour.

Vous voulez comprendre pourquoi la fourmilière s'agite à ce point ? Suivez-moi, c'est fascinant.

Ce matin, Elon Musk est devenu le premier trillionnaire de l'histoire. Pas en héritant. Pas en taxant. Pas en régulant. En construisant des fusées réutilisables, des voitures électriques et un réseau de satellites qui connecte la planète.

Et regardez bien qui panique : ce ne sont jamais les ingénieurs, les artisans, les entrepreneurs, les soignants, les agriculteurs. Ce sont les politiciens, les éditorialistes, les bureaucrates, les activistes professionnels.

Bref, tous ceux dont le métier consiste à commenter, taxer ou redistribuer la valeur créée par les autres.

Leur terreur n'est pas morale. Elle est existentielle. Consciemment ou inconsciemment, ils savent une chose qu'ils ne peuvent avouer à personne, pas même à eux-mêmes : leur action publique ne crée strictement aucune valeur nette.

Tout leur statut repose sur un mensonge confortable, celui du socialiste bureaucrate : "la richesse existe par magie, le problème c'est juste de la répartir, et il faut des gens comme nous pour le faire."

Ce mensonge tenait tant que la création de richesse restait abstraite. Mais Elon est un contre-exemple vivant à l'échelle planétaire. Mille milliards de dollars créés à partir de rien, sous les yeux de tout le monde, en temps réel.

Chaque lancement de Starship est une réfutation publique de leur vision du monde. C'est insupportable. D'où la rage.

"Le système est truqué", dit Newsom. Non Gavin. Le système truqué, c'est celui où l'on devient puissant en distribuant l'argent des autres. Le système d'Elon, c'est celui où l'on devient riche en rendant le lancement spatial 100 fois moins cher.

Et voilà ce qui les terrifie vraiment : dans le monde qu'Elon est en train de construire, le statut ne s'obtient plus par la posture, le diplôme ou la tribune. Il s'obtient en créant quelque chose. Ils vont devoir apprendre un métier. Développer des compétences. Produire.

L'agitation que vous observez, ce n'est pas de l'indignation. C'est le bruit d'une classe sociale entière qui réalise que sa rente touche à sa fin.

Mais je vais finir sur un truc rassurant, parce qu'au fond je les aime bien.

Ne vous inquiétez pas. Dans le monde d'Elon, le gâteau grossit. C'est toute la différence avec votre monde à somme nulle : il y aura de la place pour tout le monde, y compris pour vous.

Vous êtes l'enfant qui pleure parce qu'il a peur de ne pas avoir de Kinder Bueno.

Respirez. Il y aura des Kinder Bueno pour tout le monde.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

The left is not furious over @elonmusk’s wealth.

They are furious that he is able to accomplish so much with money voluntarily given, while leftist politicians take it by force and make things worse.

Elon is hated because he is evidence of their incompetence and corruption.

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

> be Police in Scotland
> declare you are institutionally racist
> put entire force put through unconscious bias training and “lived experience” workshops
> have 12 year old white girl claim a migrant made sexual comments & violently attacked her friends
> side with the Bulgarian couple and say they were approached by youths because who’s more violent than a group of 12 year old white girls?
> charge the 12 year old
> announce “misinformation” because the word is bullshit
> get ex-First Minister Yousaf, who hates Native whites with the fiery passion of a thousand suns, to mock the claim that migrants tried to sexually assault the girls, because when has such a thing happened in the UK!
> be sad when the CCTV comes back to show the girls told the truth
> be forced to quietly charge the man & his sister
> watch both get convicted and look like the Stasi shitheads that you are

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A hibachi restaurant. My American friends brought me here to enjoy the cuisine of my homeland, and I witnessed a ritual I have never seen in eight hundred years of being Japanese.

The chef stacked onion rings into a tower. He filled it with oil. And he set it on fire.

"THE VOLCANO!" my friends cheered. They knew the ritual. They had seen it many times. In Japan, I have eaten ten thousand meals. No one has ever built me a volcano.

I said nothing. A guest does not question the ceremony.

"Is this how they do it back home?" my friend asked, glowing with joy.

"...The technique is flawless," I said. A samurai may retreat. He may not lie. He may, however, aim the truth very carefully.

Then the chef flicked a shrimp through the air at my face.

"Catch it!" the table roared.

In my land, food is set before you with two hands and an apology for the wait. Here, the shrimp attacks. I caught it. With my mouth. The table erupted. The chef saluted me with his spatula.

I have received medals with less pride.

"You're a natural," the chef said.

"My family has trained for this for generations," I said. It was not technically a lie. We trained. Just not for this.

My friends drove me home, full and happy, honored to have shown me my own country.

A man does not question the volcano. He catches the shrimp.

Whatever this cuisine is, wherever it was truly born — the fire is real, the joy is real, and I caught what was thrown at me.

That is Japanese enough.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

@SandyofCthulhu I was taught to own up to my mistakes when I make them. Hiding/ignoring mistakes is remarkably counterproductive in the long term.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

Most of the firearms that show up in my writing are either purely fictional (ie. my sci-fi) or are guns I either personally own, was trained to use by the military, or I've fired at some point. I'm not going to say that I'm a gun nut, but I will say I'm very ballistics friendly. ;) In the case of the Thompson, it was a memory slip. Beta reader pointed out the mistake, which makes me happy I recruit most of my beta readers from places that are veteran-heavy.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

There are times when my thoughts steer to unpleasant places, and today's unpleasant thought is that life, at a fundamental level and from a certain perspective, is little more than the slow accumulation of regrets and things you can't change.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

@CynicalPublius Why are they so stupid? That's like asking why the sun is bright, sir. If they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be Marxists.

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

The struggle is real.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

@japan_nobunaga @RayMartin79059 It's easy to understand once you recognize it as what happens when evil takes root.

[Jason Fuesting @FuestingJason]

@ShamashAran Some people just seem flat determined to frame things in the most retarded way possible so they can then turn around and justify being extra retarded over literally nothing.

It's like a picture perfect example of "*YOU* are why you can't have nice things."

[📸 @infographx]

There are More H-1Bs than There Are Computer Jobs

The good news is that between May 2024 and May 2025 the U.S. gained 41,060 computer jobs.

The bad news is that in 2025 the U.S. imported 52,938 workers for computer jobs on H-1B visas alone.

Even more foreign computer workers come under an alphabet soup of other work programs (e.g., OPT, L, E, TN).

https://t.co/3aTC5wkwSv