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Asperas Bompar

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 5d

As an experiment, I'm sharing my list of books I've read/reading as a WhiteWind long-form blogging post (see: @whtwnd.com)

WhiteWind is a sister site to BlueSky also built on @atproto.com.

You can use it with your Bsky credentials, too.

#BookSky #Philosophy #Fiction #Literature #SciFi #Horror

Book List | Asperas Bompar

This is my reading list starting ca. 2025. This is mainly an experiment with using both BlueSky and WhiteWind together. Starting Soon Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval Tentacles Longer Than Night by Euge...

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1h

The Bible also demands the death penalty for bestiality, but I see a lot of pig-pumpers still breathing in Dixie

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 5h

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 19h

Ever noticed a walrus’s big, curious eyes? 👁️ They can actually bulge out a bit, helping walruses see both forward and upward, perfect for spotting friends (or predators) above the waves. 1/2

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 18h

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (translated by Marjam Idriss; narrated by Brie Jackman): I think I understand why this 2009 novel saw a recent revival: it brilliantly depicts young adulthood in the postindustrial Y2K years without nostalgia or pity. 9 out of 10. Grossout stuff may not be for everyone.

The cover art for the audiobook version of Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 20h

I'm not going to excuse people for not doing their due diligence, but the major story came out this summer and we're talking about a onetime Oscar winner(!)

(Honestly, I always thought he was creepy dating back to My So Called Life, which always struck me as Yet Another White Show of the 90s).

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 20h

I think we know which one that is, too.

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 20h

These guys all want to be the baddies from Star Wars and they end up the baddies from Spaceballs

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 22h

Literally taking candy from a baby, and by candy I mean Plumpy'Nut bars that make sure they don't die

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm honestly waiting for his Covenant Eyes data to leak. There is probably some super freaky stuff in there.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

For most people New Yorkers in the Catskill Moutains and southward, "upstate" is a general direction, "north of here but not in another state or Canada."

The *idea* of the North Country as a place in NY north of Upstate, you might as well start talking about Hyperborea or Ultima Thule to us.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

Not culturally similar but integrated into a larger economic unit, similar to the Boston-to-DC megaregion of the Northeast Corridor + I-95 integrates culturally disparate regions.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

You could make the case for a *Great Lakes* mega region that goes from Montreal to Minneapolis, but not a Midwest with Buffalo —at that point, Toronto would be in the Midwest.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

North Country, Western NY, Central NY, Hudson Valley and Capital District subregions of NY State looking at this map annexing Buffalo to the Midwest (!) and flattening Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, Ithaca and Plattsburgh into a single "Upstate":

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

Time for every New Yorker's favorite game: #WhereIsUpstate? !

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

Seen: a child with her mother.

The child held a beloved toy, broken by rough play, weeping inconsolably.

The mother was left to watch the child's innocence bleed out.

Observed: the human tendency to create, love, destroy, and grieve the same object.

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

An easy rule of thumb: actual agent provocateurs and undercovers will lure people into a crime for which there is a bright red line (i.e. possession of something, acceptance of payment).

Guns, explosives, drugs, money: these are things to be immediately flagged.

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

The images from the invaded cities are already beginning to look too much like Belfast in the Troubles

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

"In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself. No new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing."

Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 1d

I am becoming obsessed with the concept of caring for some bugs in a terrarium. I envy species that picked an ecological niche that doesn't require developing much consciousness.

I fancy that I could being a kind and benevolent god to them will ensure they remain content and never evolve.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 2d

Folks, can we please just block and move on like the norm here just a few months ago?

Quote dunking and ratios are really tiring.

Just because bored power users do it to pump up their engagement and their egos does not mean it's fun.

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Samantha Liebman @samanthaliebman.bsky.social · 2d

Any #mta #bus riders who have been confronted by EAGLE team before the charge for the bus shows up in your Apple wallet? Were you issued a summons? DM or email me (in bio). #transit #buses #trains #OMNY #metrocard

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