Lyn Perry, Writer

I write words. I drink coffee. I herd cats.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

Contrarian opinion: you can learn to write a clean first draft (and edit as you go). Read through it once for mistakes, send it off for publication, then move on to your next project.

The trap is endlessly editing or thinking the first draft will necessarily be a mess.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

https://t.co/VQlxOqEMRw

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

I know this isn't a train station but for some online acquaintances who might see if I'm still on this platform, well, I'm probably not. Deleting the app on my phone but may occasionally check messages on my desktop. My feed is all AI crap & fake *breaking* news. That's my PSA.

[DMK @slantedk]

This 👇

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

@brivael Reminds me of a publisher I know that got too big for his britches.

[Rick Partlow @RickPartlow66]

Accidental Astronaut 4 is out today!
https://t.co/02ykOUTpnP

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

Pfft.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.

After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!”

Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness.

Follow: @AFpost

[Parallel Universe Publications @DavidARiley1]

I have a fondness for including my sword and sorcery characters in more than one story, even minor ones. An example is the mercenary Gundrol Ghonardial, the main character in my story in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 12, who also appears in one other tale: "Mask of a Mad God" in my collection from Tule Fog Press Welgar the Cursed. #fantasy #darkfantasy #heroicfantasy #swordandsorcery #paralleluniversepublications #tulefogpress

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

The concept of the Trinity may be 'other' but it's not incomprehensible. Humans are one nature in one person. God is one nature in three persons. Beyond our natural senses? Sure. But for science fiction writers this is almost kid stuff.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

@brivael @objectif_libre We're also created to work. God placed Man in the garden to tend it and care for it. We need to labor as that is part of our meaning as human beings.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

Sweet.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Dear Senator Sanders,

Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment.

The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything.

Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register.

Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing."

Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it.

And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth.

When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?"

Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed.

Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont.

You named. Two. Post offices.

You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem.

Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle.

You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning.

I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise.

The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else?

IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this.

COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me.

And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube.

But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us.

@JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

Just plain weird.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Imagine tutorial made with Grok Imagine.

These is all AI-generated!

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

South Detroit? Hmm.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I refuse to accept that the “midnight train going anywhere,” referenced in Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” does not exist.

That train, like the proverbial “singer in a smoky room,” must exist.

It must deliver that young lady to the “city boy born and raised in South Detroit.”

[Parallel Universe Publications @DavidARiley1]

The kindle eBook version of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 12 is now available. The print version should be available soon. #fantasy #darkfantasy #heroicfantasy #swordandsorcery https://t.co/jJzSzkrDYw

[Eric July @EricDJuly]

Tomorrow morning, I'll be streaming talking a lil bit about the deal. https://t.co/z2xkeg9YUD

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 Pete Hegseth is ON FIRE today

“The mantra you would hear dripping from the lips of generals, with a serious look on their face was, 'our diversity is our strength.’

Which is the SINGLE DUMBEST phrase in military HISTORY.

Of course, our diversity is NOT our strength. Our UNITY is our strength.”

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

@SDDonovan I'm doubling down on em dashes! ;)

[Eric July @EricDJuly]

Today is the biggest announcement in @TheRippaverse’s history.
We’ve signed a worldwide sales and distribution deal with @HachetteUS, of the largest publishers in the world.

Rippaverse Books will now be accessible through major wholesale/retail channels.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

@MarkMittelberg @HeidiMitt Looking great you guys!

[Tom Cotton @TomCottonAR]

Obama has supported and campaigned for every outrageous Democratic gerrymander, including in Illinois.

But now he puts out a sanctimonious statement when the Supreme Court rightfully blocks racial discrimination in redistricting.

What a fraud.

[Lyn Perry, Writer @LynPerryWriter]

Boom. And the one party rule is what one party here in the States want as well, but without the free market.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Ça fait la dixième fois que je débunke ce mythe et les gens continuent à répéter que la Chine est communiste économiquement. On va le faire proprement avec des chiffres.

La Chine n'a pas une économie planifiée. La Chine a une économie de marché avec un Parti unique au-dessus. Ce n'est pas la même chose. Pas du tout.

Quelques chiffres officiels, sources Banque mondiale, FMI, NBS chinois :

Secteur privé en Chine aujourd'hui :
- 60% du PIB
- 70% de l'innovation technologique
- 80% de l'emploi urbain
- 90% des nouveaux emplois créés
- 50% des recettes fiscales

C'est la formule "60/70/80/90" enseignée à Harvard. Une économie où le privé fait 60% du PIB et 90% des nouveaux emplois n'est pas planifiée. Point.

Maintenant la trajectoire historique, parce que c'est là que le mythe s'effondre vraiment.

1949-1976, période réellement communiste sous Mao. Résultat : Grand Bond en Avant qui fait 30 à 45 millions de morts par famine entre 1958 et 1962, Révolution culturelle qui détruit le tissu économique et intellectuel du pays, PIB par habitant en 1976 inférieur à celui de l'Inde. La Chine est l'un des pays les plus pauvres du monde après 27 ans de planification communiste pure.

1978, Deng Xiaoping arrive au pouvoir et fait une chose simple : il introduit le marché. Décollectivisation agricole dès 1979, autorisation des entreprises privées à partir de 1980 (première licence à Wenzhou), zones économiques spéciales, ouverture aux investissements étrangers, privatisation massive des entreprises d'État dans les années 90.

En 1978, les entreprises d'État dominent l'économie. En 2013, leur part dans les exportations est tombée à 11%. Le PIB chinois est multiplié par 80 entre 1978 et 2024. C'est le plus grand miracle économique de l'histoire de l'humanité.

Ce miracle n'est pas le résultat de la planification. C'est le résultat de l'abandon de la planification. C'est exactement le contraire de ce que tu prétends.

Maintenant le comparatif que personne n'ose faire : France vs Chine sur la part de l'État dans le PIB.

France : 57% de dépense publique sur PIB. Le record absolu de l'OCDE.
Chine : 33% de dépense publique sur PIB.

Relis bien.

L'État français pèse PRESQUE DEUX FOIS PLUS dans son économie que l'État chinois. La France est plus interventionniste économiquement que la Chine communiste. Ce n'est pas une boutade, c'est la réalité statistique.

Quand tu dis "la Chine a une économie planifiée qui fonctionne mieux que l'Occident", tu décris en réalité une économie deux fois moins planifiée que la France. Tu confonds le drapeau rouge sur le bâtiment du Parti avec la réalité économique du pays.

Sur les véhicules électriques spécifiquement. BYD, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Geely, ce sont tous des entreprises privées ou à capitaux mixtes en concurrence féroce les unes contre les autres sur un marché ultra-compétitif. BYD est cotée à Hong Kong et Shenzhen, fondée par un entrepreneur privé, Wang Chuanfu. Ce n'est pas une fabrique d'État soviétique.

La différence avec l'Europe n'est pas que la Chine planifie mieux. C'est qu'elle laisse la concurrence privée s'exprimer plus brutalement, avec moins de protections, moins de normes paralysantes, moins de subventions à la rente installée. Le marché chinois du VE compte plus de 100 constructeurs en concurrence darwinienne. La moitié va disparaître dans les cinq ans. C'est de la destruction créatrice schumpétérienne pure, pas du Gosplan.

La Chine n'est pas un modèle de planification économique réussie. C'est un modèle de capitalisme autoritaire, ce qui est très différent. L'autoritarisme politique cohabite avec une économie largement privée et concurrentielle. Tu peux discuter le modèle politique. Mais l'attribuer à la planification économique, c'est se tromper de 180 degrés sur ce qui marche réellement là-bas.

Le communisme économique a fait 30 millions de morts en Chine. Le marché a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en 40 ans. Ce sont les chiffres. Le reste, c'est de l'enfumage idéologique.