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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fredric Jameson on Gene Wolfe:
"The work of Gene Wolfe, richly developing in the spaces between fantasy and SF, can perhaps serve as a central exhibit in these debates: for myself, I acknowledge its quality but feel a deep reluctance to abandon these generic distinctions."

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · May 21

I just saw Wormrot at northwest terror fest earlier this month and they were outrageously good! Really blew me away

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · May 16

the empty string is invisible to the naked eye

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · May 7

Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.

A shelf full of many books written by Gene Wolfe

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Feb 16

Best book I’ve read so far this year

The cover of Russell Hoban’s novel “Riddley Walker,” showing a puppet against a white background. A cat looks at the camera from behind the book.

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Feb 13

Drinking an outrageous amount of Taiwanese oolong lately

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Feb 5

Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did

A black cat with very long white whiskers and green eyes looks toward the camera

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Feb 2

I thought it was worth it and I'm glad I did! But it doesn't really "pick up," exactly, I just got better at reading it by the time I got to the end

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Feb 1

yes! I loved it but it was very slow going, I kind of chipped away at it for a couple months until I got to the end

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Dec 12

Last night I read an explanation of Jameson’s “ideologeme” as being like a phoneme for class discourse and it felt like a light bulb coming on

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Dec 5

daydreaming about a multi year sabbatical to work on my emacs config and catch up on reading

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Nov 26

Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much

A memorial clay paw print from a cat, with text reading “Sylvia”

A grey and brown tabby cat looking at the camera and lounging happily on a bedspread.

A beautiful grey and brown tabby cat with green eyes

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Nov 9

Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later

Two books side by side: “Titus Groan” by Mervyn Peake, and “The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act” by Fredric Jameson

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Nov 6

My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever

On the left, a man wearing headphones and glasses smiles at the camera sitting on a couch. On the right, above his shoulder, a beautiful gray tabby cat sleeps facing the camera on the back of three couch.

On the right, a man sitting in front of a couch smiles at the camera. In the center, a happy tabby cat rubs her head on the corner of his glasses.

A beautiful gray tabby cat rests on a blanket. In front of her is a rainbow catnip toy. She seems to be bathed in a halo of light.

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 17

My beautiful Sylvia

A gray and brown tabby cat asleep on the back of a sofa. Her paws are folded and she looks so cozy

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Love All Day @loveallday.bsky.social · Oct 30

Two new Norm Chambers releases on the anniversary of his passing 🙏 panabrite.bandcamp.com/album/seasid...

Seaside Variations, by N Chambers

5 track album

panabrite.bandcamp.com

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 26

This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase

A listing for a ten-minute conference talk titled "Why Nabokov would use Org-Mode if he were writing today"

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 25

I really like their “Colours of Air” album

Colours Of Air, by loscil // lawrence english

8 track album

loscil.bandcamp.com

David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 25

Loscil and Lawrence English last night

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a deep orange screen

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a cloudy purple screen

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of blue, pink, and orange

Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of grey, pink, and white

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 18

My sweetheart Sylvia

A brown tabby cat lying on a blanket by a window, in a sunbeam

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · Oct 4

hi everyone. please sign this petition encouraging songtradr to recognize bandcamp united: actionnetwork.org/petitions/so...

Demand a fair and timely union election for Bandcamp United

Workers at Bandcamp, an online record store and music community that prioritizes support to artists, are unionizing with OPEIU Local 1010. Workers filed for an election with the National Labor Relatio...

actionnetwork.org

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 3

drafting a post: the "rules based international order" was when all the linguists implemented their models in prolog. okay never mind, bear with me please i'm still working on it

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Oct 3

had one of those one hour "technical phone screen" job interviews early this morning and my beloved cat jumped up on the table right behind me and threw up on camera 20 minutes in, i completely lost track of what i was talking about

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Sep 27

I heard a good sentence the other day with "the ways in which that," double complementizer style. Really wish I'd written it down

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David Ellison @davidellison.bsky.social · Sep 21

Kai Ashante Wilson's novellas "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" and "A Taste of Honey"

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