#beaches' speeches

[b3aches]

Red Team Blues

A very novel novel, reviewed

tl;dr - it's a good book and if detective stories or thrillers are of interest to you, I would recommend checking it out.

Warning: possible minor spoilers below. If you want to go in blind, stop reading.

A mixture of a noir detective story and a cyber dystopian alternate reality nearly indistinguishable from our own, Red Team Blues is a roller coaster ride. The story follows our hero, Martin "Marty" Hench, a 67-year-old bachelor forensic accountant for hire on his last job before retirement. A prodigious sleuth at finding assets that some people would rather stay hidden, he has had a long and storied career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. When Marty's old friend Danny Lazer calls in a favor to discreetly retrieve some stolen cryptographic keys that allow for control over Danny's revolutionary new blockchain system, Marty diligently works to find the keys. Fortunately, Marty is good at his job. He returns the keys and receives his payment for finding the assets: a cool 300 million dollars. Unfortunately, he also happens to find some dead bodies along with said assets. Consequently, he finds himself in a race against time to solve the mystery of what really happened and to clear his name before either the family of the dead or the people they double-crossed take him out.

The story is not just a gumshoe thriller taken on the road, but also a commentary about Silicon Valley, the impacts that technology has on our world and the people in it, and the differences between the haves and have-nots. It touches on the difficulties of playing defense (the blue team), the ease of playing the offense (the red team), and the benefits of playing to your strengths. 

The characters are well written and feel like real, actualized people. They have their own lives, their own experiences, and their own voices. And Marty has to rely on them. He can't keep himself safe without the help of friends and strangers, and he does what he can to help keep them safe in return.

Ultimately, it's a masterfully written book (and well narrated by Wil Wheaton) that is hard to put down. I listened to the audiobook nearly non-stop. When it was done, I had to fight the urge from starting it back from the beginning. I'm truly excited that this is the beginning of a series, and especially one that has the interesting twist where it is, chronologically, the end of the story.  As stated previously, Red Team Blues is a good book and if detective stories or thrillers are of interest to you, I would highly recommend checking it out.

You can get a copy of the ebook or audiobook directly from the author here. You can also buy the audiobook from libro.fm or get a physical copy from bookshop.org

#red team blues #Cory Doctorow #book review #beaches' speeches #noir detective #mystery novels #recommendations #book #book recommendations

[panda-eggs]

fanart of my fav celebrity

#my art #digital #doodle #zoobe #rabbit #digital drawing #ive listened to her speech over 100 times and i will keep listening #i like it when she sasys bitch #beach

[elliot-olivia]

Thoughts on SVU25? It's been touch and go for me and now I'm losing hope there's going to be any payoff for sticking it out.

imo there have been some hits and some (frankly astonishing) misses but the liv character work does occasionally go crazy so, like. i’m not a hater. i will continue to be seated.

also idk what “payoff” means for you but (& i’ve said this on main) it does kind of feel like dgraz is building up to a potentially incredibly cathartic endgame with all these lewis parallels. i know some people really hated that they didn’t do anything with the courthouse stuff last episode but i’m not mad about it? at least not yet. graz seems to enjoy a long game (see: the velasco storyline) & there are just…. too many signs something is coming? of course if it all goes to shit and they trudge all this up for nothing i might just lose my mind and hunt the writers room for sport, but rn i am still very much 👀👀👀👀👀

#it’s just. after noah’s name drop everything else i previously considered coincidental feels planned #esp. in light of the velasco pay off #maddie and her bracelet vs. liv and her necklace #bruno’s third man syndrome speech vs. imaginary friend elliot stabler being in that beach house with her….. #(my old partner. he’d know what to do.) #see it’s not even ABOUT eo to me really. i just think elliot’s absence at that time is a wound olivia still carries with her #and if graz gives her closure…… #(and by her i mean do also mean ME) #if he does it WELL……… #well. s25 i have not written you off yet.

[invisibleicewands]

From Home for Christmas with Katherine Jenkins - 25/11/2023

#Michael Sheen #Home for Christmas #Katherine Jenkins #concert #a decent suit finally #now I understand why someone saw him two weeks ago on the beach of Port Talbot #he read out a speech about Wales at the start of the Katherine Jenkins concert

[duusheen]

Leif planned a little beach getaway with Daphne for the weekend, but their alone time was interrupted by the paparazzi! Luckily there was one of those beach conservationists willing to distract them with an environmental speech so that Leif could escape with Daphne 😤

#ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy challenge #ts4 challenge #ts4 screenshots #leif didn't even stay to listen to poor bryce's speech #so disrespectful of you leif #pollock legacy #gen3 #leif pollock #daphne diamandis by aurorangen #bryce reichmann by aurorangen #they ran away to another part of the beach 😂👌🏽

[brother-emperors]

wh- what show is that 👀

the Heirs (2013)

#im warning you right off the bat that this show will give you second lead syndrome like nothing else #its also deeply frustrating the way many romance dramas at the time were. HOWEVER. the scenes that are good. rattle around in my head #there arent enough good scenes for me to recommend it to anyone ever tho. #i think so much about the beach scene where young do asks her to run away with him #i have never been more frustrated with the end game romance than i have with this show. like it's been ten years and im still >:( #HOWEVER choi young do's 'lets pretend we dont know each other' speech? EARTH SHATTERING. JAW DROPPING. UNPARALLELED #character of ALL TIME #ask tag

[steamclouds]

might've caved in and bought the Plastic Beach vinyl last night... not immune to pretty cover art...

#its a casio on a plastic beach its automated computer speech......... #vinyl collection is growing!!! I have so many original depeche mode ones from the 80's as well... #ramblings

[tenorbug]

I may be one of the most anti religion people on the planet, but boy do I love horror that has religious imagery and themes. Re-watching Midnight Mass right now and still it blows me away how beautifully Mike Flanagan weaves religion into this very very sad horror show.

#like the speech about death? fuck #the insane mass on being gods soldiers #ali and his dad on the beach #the church scene...you know the one #john and lesbian doctor and her mum!? #midnight mass #mike Flanagan #the sheriff and the doctor at the police station

[corvianbard]

#6226

Great shell upon a beach, Contain the mariner's speech That waves would beseech.

#my poem #poem #poetry #shell #beach #speech #mariner #wave #6226

[shironezuninja]

Marvel Unlimited app missed some digital pages in its issue.

#layouts #screenshots #collage #ai art exploring #photos #comic book panels #marvel comics #spider man phase #hobby #habit #ai art cutouts #sticker #texts #spider repelling plants #spidey kun #wolverine #todd mcfarlane #speech bubbles #thought bubbles #tigra #gumoko #spider man the animated series #edge of time #peter parker #marvel team up #spiderman vintage comics #black haired girl #spidersona #ocean beach #anime style

[b3aches]

Got on blue sky. Same username as my tumblr.

How will this impact my Tumblr habit? Only time will tell...

#beaches' speeches #text

[apicturewithasmile]

whenever I think I have already heard the best speech of my life and it can’t get any better, Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows up in a foreign parliament once again and absolutely outshines himself

#~aaaanyway~ #can't wait for the victory speech #(held on a Crimean beach with a beer in hand) #Ukraine #Volodymyr Zelenskyy #Володимир Зеленський

[dany36]

ok what i really wanted to yell about before witnessing that beach cutscene.......WAS ABOUT MY BOY GILDUN!!! OH MY GODDDD I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!! 😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ AHHHHH!!! he was my favorite character in the frozen wilds and was obviously my favorite sidequest in the previous DLC!! seeing aloy be so happy to see him and remind him that YES GILDUN, YOU *ARE* ALOY'S FRIEND!!!! was such a joy to see!!! my girl aloy even hooks him up with gaia so that he has someone to talk to as well and thus won't feel like he's all alone!!! AHHHH LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP WILL ALWAYS WIN!!! 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧

#hfw #horizon #horizon forbidden west #hfw spoilers #burning shores #burning shores spoilers #horizon forbidden west spoilers #he was breaking my heart about his speech of never having had a real friend #AND HELLO what was that thing about his mom??? #he always speaks so kindly of his mom (or well anyone really) #but his mom abandoned him?? #was this mentioned in the frozen wilds as well?? #how could anyone hate gildun he's precious and must be protected at all costs!!! :( #junk #this dlc picked up FAST lmao #first my boy gildun :) and then that beach cutscene.... #i think...that's enough for today....

[bumblingbabooshka]

I like Seven being fucked up and weird I think she should be disconcerting and strange and I think everyone should love her for it

#I don't want her to be a normal woman you could find anywhere in Los Angeles #I don't want her to have beach curls and a typical speech pattern #I want her to have big wide eyes and move like a bird got drafted #and speak too bluntly and hold things too tightly because she's never known 'gentle' #I've gotta draw timeskip post-Voyager Seven.....

[heyitslapis]

Lapis and Peri get lost in Pennsylvania/Keystone. First thing that comes to mind?

Gay hi-jinks/gay impromptu vacation ensues....

#at first they freak out but then peri decides to give a gayass speech about making the most of their time here & that they deserve a vacay #they end up spending like 3 weeks in Keystone bc they cant find their way home.....but turns out they were like 3 hours from Beach City #they fine their way home bc they run into onion who just leads em back #what onion is doing in Keystone no one knows.....no one questions it either #lapidot #heyitslapis gets asks #precious anons

[therealadwarren]

#j robert oppenheimer #oppenheimer #liberty #free speech #question #panamacitybeach #bay county florida #i love panama city beach facebook group #pcblife #jazz #books #bobby kennedy #doubt #no propaganda