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A. K. Blue

A. K. Blue

@akblue.bsky.social

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A.K. Blue writes science fiction and fantasy. See Resilience and 99% Chance of Magic. https://goodreads.com/en/book/show/50125100-99-chance-of-magic She/Her.

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A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 1d

The National Institute of Standards and Technology should have an official rooster who determines when "morning" starts regardless of the time.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 1d

They should change the time every day so that sunset is always at 7:00 pm. We have the technology to do this.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

I've only ever seen the first Matrix movie. In general, I miss a lot of movies I wanted to see, and that includes most by the Wachowski sisters. I especially want to see that TV series where a bunch of people are mentally linked. Fuck Netflix or whoever cancelled that. (I saw part of one episode.)

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

That's enough! Like the Starbucks cup in Game of Thrones. Though I don't know how Japanese the movie was supposed to be.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

The only anime series I've seen that really gets into Shinto is Noragami.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

There's a surprising amount of Christianity in anime.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

The Japanese one is different, of course, but not as different as one would expect.

I just realized, that bit at the end where Speed leaps out of the Mach 5 and they freeze and rotate ninety degrees, is used many times in The Matrix.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTq...

Speed Racer Opening! (Original Japanese)

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A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 2d

I've never seen it. Are they using the anime theme song?

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 8d

Aw man, the two free web games I like to play have been hoovered up by an AI startup and now I have to use their "AI-powered browser" to play them (which isn't going to happen).

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 15d

There's something endearing about a dinosaur craving Taco Bell.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 15d

Reminds me of the city from Just Imagine.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 18d

Now every time there's a post from Mondo Mascots I think "new anti-ICE demonstrator just dropped."

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 19d

I'm halfway through. My impressions: It's surprisingly radical, in its complicated way, especially coming after the rather quietist The Lathe of Heaven. The prose is denser, maybe more self-conscious, as if this is when Le Guin's fame caught up with her (given the long manuscript to book pipeline).

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 19d

I notice that it has been shorn of its famous subtitle, "an ambiguous utopia," famous enough that Samuel R. Delany was able to play off it by subtitling his novel Triton (later Trouble on Triton) "an ambiguous heterotopia." Now it is only subtitled "a novel."

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 19d

It's a library copy, the Harper Perennial trade paperback. I would have preferred the Avon rack-sized paperback from the '70s but any of those that were library copies would have fallen apart years ago.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 19d

I'm reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed for the first time. It's odd that I haven't read it before. I have read The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Wind's Twelve Quarters, most of Le Guin's amazing run in the early '70s.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 20d

Yes, this is a subtweet, but only because comments and quote-posting are disabled.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 20d

I'll always associate semi-colons with Philip K. Dick; they're the grammatical sparkplug of those nervous two-stroke sentences he uses to sketch in a scene or idea.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 20d

This was in Beacon, New York. Everyone there seemed fifty or older, usually older, except for a few kids who seemed to be with their parents. This was in Veterans Plaza, which juts off Main Street, and Main Street (art galleries, restaurants) was packed with people not being at the demonstration.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 20d

I think the No Kings demonstrations are great but I'm not sure I'm going to go. I went last time and I didn't know anyone, there wasn't anything to do, and my legs got tired from standing, so I left after half an hour. It's not as if someone was there with a clicker doing an official count.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · 25d

I just realized today that the creator of Peanuts is Charles M. Shulz, not Charles M. Shultz, and I feel like I'm losing my mind.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · Sep 28

Heathcliff only puts meat on his cereal.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · Sep 21

You could, and would probably have to, move it from television to the internet, especially the dark web.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · Sep 21

The villains are very MAGA.

A. K. Blue @akblue.bsky.social · Sep 20

My birthday's coming up in a couple of days and I want to get myself a laptop. Is Amazon a good place to buy one, or should I go somewhere else? I'm just using it to write and maybe play movies on an external DVD drive. I don't need a lot of features, but I do want a real keyboard. And that's it?