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N.N. Scott

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Archives and Records. Chicagoland. "Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes." -- Rudyard Kipling, 1905

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N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 9h

Something something, very old joke about the guy who wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 11h

I scrolled its feed and you're right, it does seem very GPT-2 era. IIRC the grift is to build the account's followers and then sell it to someone who uses it for marketing, in this case I suppose to run paid ads for self-pub / small press SFF books.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 11h

It reflects poorly on me that the words "people I've pissed on offline" came to my mind rather quickly

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 12h

My creative writing process

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Cover of an Italian edition of J.G. Ballard's 1973 transgressive novel "Crash" showing the crushed front end of a big steel car. The story fetishizes the car crashes of movie stars.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Thanks for this; good to know I was already following both of the ones you recommend . I nixed a different one of those follow-farmers yesterday.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Befuddled shaking of the broadsheet newspaper at my seat in the Senate chamber, scowling and muttering, "What's all this then?"

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N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

The manifold political significances of this humble animal...

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

I for one find this fascinating. Relevant to my interests. Bookmarking to look up some terms later and think it through.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

"The War of the Worlds" is the greatest science fiction novel ever written, and the greatest that ever will be written.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

First thing Trump tried to do after he took office in 2017: ban Muslims

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Pro: breakfast cereal for dessert as an alternative to ice cream.
Con: breakfast cereal is worse for your health than ice cream.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

"And now introducing our new regular closing segment, titled "Ya Gotta Hand It To Them"

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Let us know if he starts waving a chrome-plated machete

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Yes, the Columbus heroism is a post Civil-War thing. IIRC it crashed into reality during planning for big celebrations of the 500th anniversary in 1992, which kind of fizzled amid negative press. But in Chicago, disparaging CC has long been associated with disparaging Italian-Americans. It's messy.

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N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Joined Dec 2023 and still hasn't uploaded a profile pic 🤔

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Idly wondering what possible "offensive Halloween costume" might be referenced here... ah yes, that one

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

A nostalgic Dilbert from 2015: the before times when Scott Adams could still affect a pretense of sanity

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N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

True. "choose an instance" is a level of abstraction that the vast majority of humans bounce off of. IIRC Eugen Rochko said somewhere that the friction and non-scalability in Mastodon is deliberate. But heck, Truth Social is a Mastodon instance, so they must be dong something right 🤪

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

Mastodon is easy and fun, until you try to do something weird like follow an account, or reply to a post

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N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 1d

The stereotypical "Scolding, Holier-Than-Thou Bluesky Account" is still on brand.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 2d

Awwww

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 2d

Today I saw a bride and groom, with much joy and laughter, having their romantic photo taken coming together through adjacent turnstiles at a CTA station. Unfathomably based, and "Very Chicago"

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 2d

The author & popular historian William Manchester served as a marine in the Battle of Okinawa. I remember reading in his autobiography that he never wanted to have anything to do with the Salvation Army, ever again in his entire life.

N.N. Scott @nnscott.com · 2d

After I got them everything hurt. The underneath side of my tongue hurt