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Bradley C. Denton

@bradleycdenton.bsky.social

I've written books (BLACKBURN, LUNATICS, etc.) and recorded music (Bland Lemon Denton, AT THE EARTH'S CORE). I love my spouse (freedomisachoice.bsky.social) and am devoted to my dogs (Chester & Millie) and friends (you know who you are).

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Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · 7h ago

It could be that AI is the reason, or at least part of the reason, for the Fermi paradox. Perhaps by the time a biological civilization develops the technology to explore the galaxy, it has also developed AI -- which destroys it before it can go anywhere.

Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · last mo.

Some of you may remember my 1993 novel 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯. But you may not remember Jimmy Blackburn's penultimate words (page 294): "𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 isn't what it used to be."

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Millie with her stuffed hedgehog, Lucille. This is Millie's sixth or seventh hedgehog, since she tends to destroy them. It makes me think of B.B. King, who had many guitars over the years, but called each one "Lucille." So I call Millie's hedgehogs "Lucille," too. No one else does, though.

A floppy-eared reddish-brown black-mouthed cur named Millie lies on her bed and looks at the camera, her stuffed hedgehog toy on the carpeted floor in front of her.
Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · 12mo ago

14 October 1774: The First Continental Congress adopted its "Declaration and Resolves" that the Colonies were "entitled to life, liberty, and property" and that "they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever a right to dispose of either without their consent." NO KINGS was on the horizon.

Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · last yr.

I've lived in Texas long enough that I can remember back when we had a goddamn -great- governor who refused to kowtow to bullies. I mean, a fair, fierce, truth-and-justice, no-voter-left-behind badass. Man, those were the days. Don't believe me? Look her up. Her name was Ann Richards.

A photographic portrait of Ann Richards, Texas governor from 1991 to 1995, in front of the Texas state flag.
Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · last yr.

On 9 May 1800, the abolitionist John Brown was born. He would be convicted of treason against Virginia for his October 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, and hanged on 2 December. His final words asserted that "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

This is the Thomas Hart Benton mural in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka depicting the abolitionist John Brown along with images of the American Civil War and "Bleeding Kansas." Brown, his hair and beard windblown and wild, stands in the center of the mural, a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other. He is flanked by Union fighters with a U.S. flag on the left, and Confederate fighters with a Confederate battle flag on the right. Brown stands over the dead bodies of a Union soldier and a Confederate soldier. In the near background are covered wagons drawn by oxen, with weary armed men trudging beside them. In the far background, a tornado and a prairie fire threaten destruction. Dark clouds and smoke tinged with flame cover the sky.
Bradley C. Denton@bradleycdenton.bsky.social · 2y ago

8 April 1945, noon: A secret transmitter sends -- To the army of General Patton. This is the Buchenwald concentration camp. SOS . . . The SS wants to destroy us. The reply: KZ Bu. Hold out. Rushing to your aid. Staff of Third Army. 11 April 1945, 3:15 PM: The Third Army liberates Buchenwald.

A contemporary color photo of the red brick, concrete, and steel entrance to the former Buchenwald concentration camp. The hands of the clock at the top of the entrance are permanently set to 3:15, because it was 3:15 PM on 11 April 1945 when elements of the U.S. 9th Armored Infantry Battalion from the 6th Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army arrived to liberate the camp.