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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 1d

Another great read from the Digital/Analog Antiquarian. I’m loving this ongoing series, feels like perfect timing too, given the current discourse around science and truth. Reading Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson right now, it’s a nice pairing

Jimmy Maher @digiantiquarian.bsky.social · 1d

This week on The Analog Antiquarian: "The Theory of Heliocentrism, Chapter 5: The New Star" analog-antiquarian.net/2025/10/10/c...

Chapter 5: The New Star – The Analog Antiquarian

analog-antiquarian.net

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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 3d

Was Rubio stage whispering ? How was audible ?

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Marc Maron @marcmaron.bsky.social · 5d

Today I talk to Matt Groening on the show! Portland psychedelia, cartooning, Zappa, the real Homer Simpson, rescue cats. Great talk! Listen up! wtfpod.com

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

wtfpod.com

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 7d

Great discussion, of interest for anyone in retro games or Text adventures looking forward to checking out more episodes of this podcast

Jimmy Maher @digiantiquarian.bsky.social · 9d

I had a long talk recently with some nice folks at the DOS Game Club podcast. Our subject was the Infocom game Planetfall. My thanks to the hosts for their kind invitation, and to the other guests for their patience with my rambling! (I'm told that this is the longest episode of the podcast ever.)

DOS GAME CLUB Podcast

Monthly online discussion and roundtable podcast featuring one DOS game per episode.

www.dosgameclub.com

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 11d

Happy Nebraska day

MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 11d

“I got to wondering, What the hell am I doing?”

Released on this day in 1982, and the subject of a new biopic starring The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White, MOJO's David Fricke unearths the real story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s stark masterpiece, Nebraska...

The Making Of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska: “What the hell am I doing?”

Ahead of a new biopic charting its creation starring Jeremy Allen White, MOJO unearths the real story behind Springsteen’s stark masterpiece, Nebraska.

www.mojo4music.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12d

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 13d

How can I forget phantasy star online, what a transformative experience

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · 13d

Was magic being able to connect to the Internet, like you were discovering an undiscovered world even if it was just playing a few people in quake or NFL 2K and then there was the web browser which blew my mind being able to use the web on my TV.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13d

Folks, it is not good...

Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 13d

Great writeup by @thelincoln.bsky.social on how major book clubs—Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, George W. Bush's daughter—are warping the publishing industry. I would go further and say this influence is very, very bad!

The Book Club Industrial Complex, Speculative Detectives, Remembering Maxine Clair, and Other Sunday Sundries

A Sunday roundup of writing-related things from the past week.

countercraft.substack.com

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 18d

“Each incidence of *workslop* carries real costs…. For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.”🧪

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MOJO Magazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social · 19d

Wishing a very happy birthday to Nick Cave. Celebrate the dark lord of goth turned towering modern day master of song with MOJO’s pick of Cave’s 30 greatest songs...

Nick Cave’s 30 Greatest Songs Ranked

MOJO's team of experts rank and rate Nick Cave's greatest ever songs. 30. Stranger than Kindness 29. Breathless 28. Leviathan...

www.mojo4music.com

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The Best Show with Tom Scharpling @bestshow4life.bsky.social · 25d

ON THIS DAY IN BEST SHOW HISTORY:
2015: Lil Bub calls the show

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25d

A library is a graveyard where the dead still speak.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · Sep 12

Oh, also -- I would think this would go without saying, but just in case it needs saying, here are two principles of cover design:

1. Don't put anything on a cover that isn't important.

2. If it's important, present it in a way that will best fulfill its purpose.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · Sep 10

That's how it works, even now. Does it feel right on the page?

The numbers are irrelevant to the sense of story rightness.

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · Sep 6

A+ interview with Adam Friedland. Highly recommend immediately listening to the Torres and Steiny interviews right after on the Adam Friedland show

The Best Show with Tom Scharpling @bestshow4life.bsky.social · Sep 2

TODAY on The Best Show:

🏄 @adamfriedlandnyc.bsky.social chats with Tom
🎳 Sara Hennessey chats her new special, Sara For Once with director Clare O'Kane
🎻 Calls on the topic, WHAT WEIRD SONG MAKES YOU SAD?

Watch live here: youtube.com/bestshow4life

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

angela yang @angelayang.bsky.social · Sep 2

The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wouldn’t quite say this, even more nicely. But ideas aren’t the hard part.

Some people don’t have them, or more likely don’t recognize them when they do — realizing that you’ve got an idea you can develop is a skill, and once you develop it you’ll never run short of ideas.

And developing them…

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · Aug 29

As Kurt Busiek once said (in kinder words):

"Ideas are garbage. Everyone has a million ideas a day. The only thing of value is the ability to turn those ideas into something someone is willing to pay for."

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · Aug 29

anyway to all the ideas guys out there: mine are better and I have the chops to bring them to life, too. get good or leave me alone

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lots of good quotes and advice here! (and tagging @spookymeatball.bsky.social)

Mads: I think we live in a bizarre time. Fascism is inherently absurd. We go about our days while our neighbors are kidnapped off the streets and our taxes fund genocide in Gaza. Our technocratic overlords consume too much science fiction and think they own the future. Progressives shake their heads and say “I can’t believe this is happening here.” But belief is a tool we can use to fight. The conditions that make this country ripe for cruel absurdity also make possible utopian or communistic ideals. Not to get on a high horse, but I believe people with imagination have a responsibility to speak other futures into existence. Surreality as a writing technique serves to awaken the reader. I think of it like a Seek-and-Find, where you have to pinpoint the details that differ between two images. The suggestion of change casts familiar surroundings in a new light.

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · Aug 23

I’d like to joke that they secret were running everything through a LLM, but it’s kind of always been that way with windows

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · Aug 11

It was damn near perfect on the electronika 60

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · Aug 10

Yes, but only if diddy racing is also there

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 10

daily meditation practice. do this, then do whatever, but do this first
1. Place finger on blue widget [post opens]
2. say aloud: “…I don’t think I actually have anything to say”
3. close post window

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RadioShaq @radioshaq.bsky.social · Aug 9

KANOPY has it, you might be able to get it through your public or if you have one, your affiliated academic library

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