Alastair
@alastairstephens.bsky.social
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He/him. Podcaster, writer, book-talking guy. Fix your hearts or die.
Very much this. If you like Star Trek and you arenāt a lefty, then you donāt like Star Trek.
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Shire Reckoning
1 day ago
The good news is that youāre safe in Rivendell; the bad news is that you have an all-day meeting scheduled for tomorrow.
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Whatās it like inside your head?
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
1 day ago
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
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G. Willow Wilson
4 days ago
Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
8 days ago
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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michael lutz
almost 2 years ago
and it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the six and seventh eighth, ninth, and tenth and after that are even bigger numbers bigger numbers bigger numbers bigger numbers bigger nuuu~uumbee~eeers...
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Preeti Chhibber
19 days ago
with alt-text
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So happy that Taylor Swiftās new album has given so many people the opportunity to be joyless scolds. What a gift. How lucky we are to have nothing important to worry about.
22 days ago
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Merriam-Webster
24 days ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Did everything just get⦠spookier?
25 days ago
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Sean T. Collins
28 days ago
If there's someone doing work out there on the fringes that matters to you, please let them know, because this world is going to tell them the opposite every day.
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Marian Call
about 1 month ago
It's coming on Equinox I've found no balance for to speak of just salt on my shoes just recycled blues
mariancall.bandcamp.com/track/equinox
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Out here watching
#RingsofPower
for basically the first time, and thereās a lot thatās admirable and ambitious, but I fear that it doesnāt escape the trap of being basically incomprehensible at any level beyond what is literally happening on the screen right now.
about 1 month ago
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Shire Reckoning
about 1 month ago
šļø Just published a new episode of Shire Reckoning: In Case Of Emergency, Break World. Have a listen:
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In Case Of Emergency, Break World
This week, we discuss the Great Powers of Arda, the Valar. Who are they?...
https://share.transistor.fm/s/01912be8
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens
about 1 month ago
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
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about 1 month ago
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The problem with writing podcast notes after a glass of wine is that I already know Iām going to have to edit the hell out of them the next morning. Will I really talk about the ā90s video game Doom on a podcast about The War Of The Rohirrim? I mean, I might.
about 2 months ago
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austin_walker
about 2 months ago
Gladwell has always been the quintessential charlatan, using his capacity as a storyteller to worm his way into the hearts (and wallets) of bored audiences eager to hear that there's one cool trick that could unlock the truth of the world. Still, turning on trans ppl in an hour of need is a new low.
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12 months ago
I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and itās both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.
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Martha Wells
2 months ago
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from
@tordotcom.bsky.social
including Murderbot and Witch King!
#booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wellsā The Murderbot Diaries seriesāthe engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptationāand help support World Central Kitchen.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books
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Jared PechaÄek
2 months ago
the line for ethel cain looks like if you turned the saturation down on the line for chappell roan
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Once and Again. And also Ed, for sure.
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2 months ago
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Richard Lawson
3 months ago
The two wolves inside me started fucking and now one is going to grad school for theater
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Lane Mooreš·ļøPDX 10/23, NJ 11/13-16
3 months ago
sitting next to someone in a coffee shop who just told a writer "my best writing advice is to find out what people will pay you for and write about that" and now im gonna spend a full hour thinking about how wrong she is and how much capitalism has broken her whole-ass brain.
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Iām out here asking the tough questions.
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3 months ago
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So excited to start this new project! Follow along!
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3 months ago
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ginger
4 months ago
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The proactive use of profanity to prevent the unwelcome intrusion of generative AI into your research process is going to have serious implications for academia, as I discuss in my upcoming paper, āDisenshittening The Internet: A Policy For Reducing Dumbfuckery.ā
4 months ago
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Iām genuinely curious what the experience of listening back to the first season of Serial would be like.
4 months ago
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Dani Carr
4 months ago
Survive. Make art. Fight. Our existence is protest. Survival and loving and living IS a riot.
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David Lynch's Worlds
4 months ago
8 years ago
#TwinPeaks
Part 8 premiered and once again changed television.
#DavidLynch
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Virtual JaneCon
4 months ago
Dearest Viewer, Our 2025 Program is here. You may find it on our website with the link below. We cannot wait to see you. Virtual JaneCon
virtualjanecon.com/virtualjanec...
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Stellaween?
4 months ago
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michael lutz
4 months ago
Hey there Delilah I ate those plums left in the icebox If you wanted them breakfast You should have purchased a few padlocks For the treat That you were hoping now to eat So cold and sweet
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Ben š³ļøāš
5 months ago
see: the bafflingly large conservative fanbase for star trek
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NPR
5 months ago
Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. He transformed pop music into high art, and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.
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Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82
The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art, and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.
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Charles Richter, in my Crypt Keeper SCAREa!
5 months ago
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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William Shakespeare
5 months ago
What is the city but the people?
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Jess Horror-ssette
5 months ago
Having a "fix your hearts or die" kind of day.
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support š your š local š library š
#thelaststarfighter
#greetingsstarfighter
#youhavebeenrecruited
#bytheStarLeague
#todefendtheFrontier
#againstXurandtheKodanArmada
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depths of wikipedia
5 months ago
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Stars and Swords
5 months ago
This week, we give up the promise of immortality as we reach the end of Chapter XIX and begin Chapter XX of J.R.R. Tolkienās The Silmarillion. Why does the Lay of Leithian end where it does, and why are the sons of FĆ«anor so unkillable?
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Clay Keller
5 months ago
Me as a 10 yr old Stephon Marbury fan š¤ me as a 37 yr old artist āA.I. is for losersā
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A really long, ambitiously-orchestrated single take.
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In addition to everything thatās obviously hilarious about Elonās Plagiarism Machine denying his political talking points in public, this is just a really poor Jar Jar impression.
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5 months ago
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
6 months ago
Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul
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