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Futures adjacent
Mostly talking about:
Art
Books
Movies
TV
Politics
No bio, no follow back
#BookSky
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
⭐⭐
I really liked Babel, but Katabasis was trope-y, and unexciting. Why would two students go chasing after their exploded prof in Hell when he's basically a thieving, misogynist asshole? Try-hards are boring.
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
⭐⭐
I really liked Babel, but Katabasis was trope-y, and unexciting. Why would two students go chasing after their exploded prof in Hell when he's basically a thieving, misogynist asshole? Try-hards are boring.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
#BookSky
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
⭐⭐
I really liked Babel, but Katabasis was trope-y, and unexciting. Why would two students go chasing after their exploded prof in Hell when he's basically a thieving, misogynist asshole? Try-hards are boring.
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
⭐⭐
I really liked Babel, but Katabasis was trope-y, and unexciting. Why would two students go chasing after their exploded prof in Hell when he's basically a thieving, misogynist asshole? Try-hards are boring.
No new pictures. Where are you now mentally
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
No new pictures. Where are you now mentally
If you see a dog, post dog
February 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
If you see a dog, post dog
This is the response I got from my Congressional Rep Addison McDowell (R-NC6) after I messaged his office about CBP and ICE funding. They literally blame Good and Pretti for their own deaths. Despicable! (He's also the one who brought a bill to rename Dulles airport for Trump)
Vote them all out!
Vote them all out!
January 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM
This is the response I got from my Congressional Rep Addison McDowell (R-NC6) after I messaged his office about CBP and ICE funding. They literally blame Good and Pretti for their own deaths. Despicable! (He's also the one who brought a bill to rename Dulles airport for Trump)
Vote them all out!
Vote them all out!
Quote post with a clue of where you're from.
January 23, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Quote post with a clue of where you're from.
Shit. But also probably accurate.
January 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Shit. But also probably accurate.
No cheating, reskeet with your most recent pic of your pet
January 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
No cheating, reskeet with your most recent pic of your pet
She got a brand new Thundershirt for the NYE fireworks 🎇 and shook out the most adorable Elizabethan “ruff” once it was on.
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
She got a brand new Thundershirt for the NYE fireworks 🎇 and shook out the most adorable Elizabethan “ruff” once it was on.
If it's the book I started last night, I'm a dimension-hopping graduate student of magick at Cambridge.
If it's the last book I completed, I'm a private investigator of the natural with a little supernatural on the side, as a treat.
All good.
If it's the last book I completed, I'm a private investigator of the natural with a little supernatural on the side, as a treat.
All good.
December 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If it's the book I started last night, I'm a dimension-hopping graduate student of magick at Cambridge.
If it's the last book I completed, I'm a private investigator of the natural with a little supernatural on the side, as a treat.
All good.
If it's the last book I completed, I'm a private investigator of the natural with a little supernatural on the side, as a treat.
All good.
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Finally back to writing something other than book and film reviews: I've been compiling this piece about risk & Gen Z from collected research for a few months. The super-observant @kyla.bsky.social shot first, but I'm posting anyway, tilted toward politics. www.collisiondetector.com/riskmaxxing-...
Riskmaxxing and the Death of the Middle Path
For older generations, risk is a choice. For Gen Z, it's a trap.
www.collisiondetector.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Finally back to writing something other than book and film reviews: I've been compiling this piece about risk & Gen Z from collected research for a few months. The super-observant @kyla.bsky.social shot first, but I'm posting anyway, tilted toward politics. www.collisiondetector.com/riskmaxxing-...
#BookSky
If It Bleeds
Stephen King
⭐⭐⭐
Last review of the year. I liked the Holly Gibney story (If It Bleeds) about another kind of Outsider, Life of Chuck was as expected, since I watched the movie on a flight a few months ago and Rat was ok. Good for winding down the end of the year in reading.
If It Bleeds
Stephen King
⭐⭐⭐
Last review of the year. I liked the Holly Gibney story (If It Bleeds) about another kind of Outsider, Life of Chuck was as expected, since I watched the movie on a flight a few months ago and Rat was ok. Good for winding down the end of the year in reading.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#BookSky
If It Bleeds
Stephen King
⭐⭐⭐
Last review of the year. I liked the Holly Gibney story (If It Bleeds) about another kind of Outsider, Life of Chuck was as expected, since I watched the movie on a flight a few months ago and Rat was ok. Good for winding down the end of the year in reading.
If It Bleeds
Stephen King
⭐⭐⭐
Last review of the year. I liked the Holly Gibney story (If It Bleeds) about another kind of Outsider, Life of Chuck was as expected, since I watched the movie on a flight a few months ago and Rat was ok. Good for winding down the end of the year in reading.
Ten years with this beautiful girl. She arrived from Bulgaria about this time a decade ago.
December 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Ten years with this beautiful girl. She arrived from Bulgaria about this time a decade ago.
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
#BookSky
Nobody's Girl
Virginia Roberts Guiffre
😔😔😔
I did not enjoy reading this book and to be honest several times I had to put it down and walk away for a bit. It is worth your time despite the sadness it invokes, though be aware that she was abused from childhood and does not shy away from it.
Nobody's Girl
Virginia Roberts Guiffre
😔😔😔
I did not enjoy reading this book and to be honest several times I had to put it down and walk away for a bit. It is worth your time despite the sadness it invokes, though be aware that she was abused from childhood and does not shy away from it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#BookSky
Nobody's Girl
Virginia Roberts Guiffre
😔😔😔
I did not enjoy reading this book and to be honest several times I had to put it down and walk away for a bit. It is worth your time despite the sadness it invokes, though be aware that she was abused from childhood and does not shy away from it.
Nobody's Girl
Virginia Roberts Guiffre
😔😔😔
I did not enjoy reading this book and to be honest several times I had to put it down and walk away for a bit. It is worth your time despite the sadness it invokes, though be aware that she was abused from childhood and does not shy away from it.
How far down did they have to dig to find, not one, but two women for this cover? Which one of whom is almost completely cropped out of the picture.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
How far down did they have to dig to find, not one, but two women for this cover? Which one of whom is almost completely cropped out of the picture.
#BookSky
The Bewitching
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Every Moreno-Garcia book becomes my new fave and The Bewitching is no different. Three stories intertwined from 1900s Mexico to a Massachusetts uni in the 1930s and 1990s at the same school. There are witches everywhere and they're up to no good.
The Bewitching
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Every Moreno-Garcia book becomes my new fave and The Bewitching is no different. Three stories intertwined from 1900s Mexico to a Massachusetts uni in the 1930s and 1990s at the same school. There are witches everywhere and they're up to no good.
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#BookSky
The Bewitching
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Every Moreno-Garcia book becomes my new fave and The Bewitching is no different. Three stories intertwined from 1900s Mexico to a Massachusetts uni in the 1930s and 1990s at the same school. There are witches everywhere and they're up to no good.
The Bewitching
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Every Moreno-Garcia book becomes my new fave and The Bewitching is no different. Three stories intertwined from 1900s Mexico to a Massachusetts uni in the 1930s and 1990s at the same school. There are witches everywhere and they're up to no good.
Is anyone else as disturbed by the image in this article as I am? Like what part(s) of a baby is this?
US health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concerns raised by vaccine skeptics, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
US FDA launches fresh safety scrutiny of approved RSV therapies for infants | CNN
U.S. health regulators informed senior executives at Merck, Sanofi and AstraZeneca last week that their approved protective RSV treatments for infants would face fresh safety scrutiny following concer...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Is anyone else as disturbed by the image in this article as I am? Like what part(s) of a baby is this?
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Show me a picture on your phone which has your energy but isn’t a selfie.
#BookSky
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
⭐⭐⭐
Another YA-leaning vampire saga. I liked it, though it got very repetitive with the descriptions of blood sucking and victims dying. Would have been better with a better editor. There are two characters called Sabine, so that helped.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
⭐⭐⭐
Another YA-leaning vampire saga. I liked it, though it got very repetitive with the descriptions of blood sucking and victims dying. Would have been better with a better editor. There are two characters called Sabine, so that helped.
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#BookSky
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
⭐⭐⭐
Another YA-leaning vampire saga. I liked it, though it got very repetitive with the descriptions of blood sucking and victims dying. Would have been better with a better editor. There are two characters called Sabine, so that helped.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V.E. Schwab
⭐⭐⭐
Another YA-leaning vampire saga. I liked it, though it got very repetitive with the descriptions of blood sucking and victims dying. Would have been better with a better editor. There are two characters called Sabine, so that helped.
#BookSky
Martyr
Kaveh Akbar
⭐⭐
The story of Cyrus Shams just never clicked with me. Akbar writes in an intriguing voice but the beautiful prose just didn't help me connect. I'm pretty sure this is a me problem and maybe my state of mind at the time I was reading Martyr wasn't optimal.
Martyr
Kaveh Akbar
⭐⭐
The story of Cyrus Shams just never clicked with me. Akbar writes in an intriguing voice but the beautiful prose just didn't help me connect. I'm pretty sure this is a me problem and maybe my state of mind at the time I was reading Martyr wasn't optimal.
December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#BookSky
Martyr
Kaveh Akbar
⭐⭐
The story of Cyrus Shams just never clicked with me. Akbar writes in an intriguing voice but the beautiful prose just didn't help me connect. I'm pretty sure this is a me problem and maybe my state of mind at the time I was reading Martyr wasn't optimal.
Martyr
Kaveh Akbar
⭐⭐
The story of Cyrus Shams just never clicked with me. Akbar writes in an intriguing voice but the beautiful prose just didn't help me connect. I'm pretty sure this is a me problem and maybe my state of mind at the time I was reading Martyr wasn't optimal.
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Muntjack
Emu
Iberian Wild Boar
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eastern Shingleback Lizard
Muntjack
Emu
Iberian Wild Boar
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eastern Shingleback Lizard
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
Muntjack
Emu
Iberian Wild Boar
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eastern Shingleback Lizard
Muntjack
Emu
Iberian Wild Boar
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eastern Shingleback Lizard
#BookSky
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loved this book and it's one of my favorites this year! Come for the serial killer crime drama, stay for the Hungry Ghosts from the gates of Hell, all during the depths of the Covid pandemic. A fun ride from beginning to end.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loved this book and it's one of my favorites this year! Come for the serial killer crime drama, stay for the Hungry Ghosts from the gates of Hell, all during the depths of the Covid pandemic. A fun ride from beginning to end.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
#BookSky
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loved this book and it's one of my favorites this year! Come for the serial killer crime drama, stay for the Hungry Ghosts from the gates of Hell, all during the depths of the Covid pandemic. A fun ride from beginning to end.
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loved this book and it's one of my favorites this year! Come for the serial killer crime drama, stay for the Hungry Ghosts from the gates of Hell, all during the depths of the Covid pandemic. A fun ride from beginning to end.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
° X
° Blur (first date with @changeist.bsky.social 🥰)
° Daft Punk
° Pretenders
° Stereolab
° X
° Blur (first date with @changeist.bsky.social 🥰)
° Daft Punk
° Pretenders
° Stereolab
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
- Elvis (last tour - 1977)
- The Police (last tour - 1986)
- DEVO (88?)
- Blur (1st date w/ @scoxsmith.bsky.social - 1992)
- The Fall (with Michael Clark Co - London mid 90s)
- Elvis (last tour - 1977)
- The Police (last tour - 1986)
- DEVO (88?)
- Blur (1st date w/ @scoxsmith.bsky.social - 1992)
- The Fall (with Michael Clark Co - London mid 90s)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen:
• X
• Sting
• Crowded House
• Oingo Boingo
• Los Lobos
• X
• Sting
• Crowded House
• Oingo Boingo
• Los Lobos
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
° X
° Blur (first date with @changeist.bsky.social 🥰)
° Daft Punk
° Pretenders
° Stereolab
° X
° Blur (first date with @changeist.bsky.social 🥰)
° Daft Punk
° Pretenders
° Stereolab