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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 3h

www.strangelibrary.com/post/7970611... New review up on the site!

You Know You Do It To Yourself: A Review of The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

The Twenty Days of Turin is a warning. Giorgio De Maria's novel— which has influenced everything from death metal to Junji Ito (Uzumaki takes heavy influence from Turin, especially the image of the...

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 38m

My thing about Ultraviolet is that if you were twelve, that movie would be the most fucking amazing thing ever and that more people need to evaluate it through that lens

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 1h

wabi-sabi is your comfort vibe?

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 2h

A ceremonious unboxing. The Nga'phandileh Whisperer, a #sauuti # novella @sauutiverse.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

Yeah, it's a comedy

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

You just invented Takopi's Original Sin

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 3h

Yeah, but the only surviving person who could give that award away is Eric Idle.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 3h

www.strangelibrary.com/post/7970611... New review up on the site!

You Know You Do It To Yourself: A Review of The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 3h

oh no shit? I thought Vita emulation was dang near impossible. Good to have another shelf in the ol' digital library

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John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social · 4h

Night 3 of the book tour! I’m in Houston! I’ll be at Murder By The Book signing copies of TNTFUA @ 6:30 talking with @cshumble.bsky.social, who is one of the most lyrical and exciting writers working today. Also, just an amazing and genuine person all around. If you’re in Houston, swing by!

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

This? I get this

An abstract collage of sand against a blue sky, a cutout of a car sitting atop the sand, a row of shells along the bottom of the frame, almost-barren autumn branches laid over the sand, blue sky, and car.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

I don't know if they're backed up anywhere. It's disappointing, I think if nothing else I'd like to know that two years of work I did hasn't vanished up the digital ass of my employer's parent company.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

This is how AI companies and places like ValNet thrive. If you need a paycheck so bad you can't afford to care where you get it, you don't have the option of refusing to participate in a predatory capitalistic system. Same thing with DevilCorp offices. And then you get shit as much as anyone.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

The fact of the matter is, no matter how much someone talks about "the real enemy," if they're in a position where they're visible to that "real enemy," they are used as a pawn against those who are more invisible. Your philosophies and ideas are twisted and used against those less fortunate.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

More to the point, a lot of people when you're struggling will complain that you don't have the right job or that you should just get a better job or pursue a better option and meanwhile you're out here going "I am, but this is what I got and if I tell you that, it's an 'excuse'."

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

This is the problem with all predatory capitalism, everyone can talk a huge game about how awful the situation is, but coming from someone with a 9-5 or steady work who doesn't have to worry about where the money's coming from, it reads as chin-stroking blue-sky thinking, because you still need jobs

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

Apparently!

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

The problem is, to deal with things like AI, you have to be fully aware that those in charge will pit the comfortable against the desperate, and that the desperate need to survive more than the comfortable can help them.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

Or someone getting supremely pissed because I treat life total as a resource instead of a high score, let them waste all their removal and refuse to block incoming damage, destroy the one card that held their combo together, and refuse to resign.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

That seems like a massive oversight and a sign that the game's ruined by capitalism, that I have to watch some idiot destroy me but he has to calculate his position every turn while I'm like "YOU HAVE EIGHT UNHINDERED DAMAGE COMING THROUGH AND I'M TAPPED OUT LET'S GO KILL ME ALREADY"

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

So one thing I've noticed is that I'm a better card player than most of these dopes on Arena, but I don't play optimal decks, so I still get my ass kicked because their cards outrun my win conditions, but when they *don't*, I usually mulch these dumbasses

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

I'm trying not to blame anyone in particular, but it really does seem like people would rather protect their brand over actually engaging in an honest exchange of ideas, especially on the right.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

There's this weird online thing adjacent to the "Narcissist's Prayer" of

- This is the fault of someone I don't like
- If it isn't the fault of someone I don't like it can't be my fault because I'm never wrong
- If I am wrong it's the fault of societal ills and not my own fault
- It's your fault

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

tornightfire.com oh well it's not like I needed those writing samples to pitch to new outlets or anything

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

Well, I just found out about Arthur Dove and his work's fucking brilliant. I don't get Rothko the way other people get Rothko, but I get feeling the genuine emotion of Rothko, even if I get it more from Dove's "Long Island"

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 7h

Hey, someone comes for my elementary school hyperfixation, I try to come correct.