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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 14h

also incredible pull fuck

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 14h

the chopper shots ruled but the way the movie just stops for like 2 minutes while police barricades get set up or Major explains existentialism out loud and then quotes the gospel of luke? (through a glass darkly) fucking rips, which i shouldve known at minimum two decades ago

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 15h

youtube has turned on the "ad every 8 seconds" algorithm for me after years of not serving me any so it is unwatchable, but my biggest question was whether he continues his love of drawing bassett hounds after the film or was that just a moment in time

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 15h

its been 30 years since it came out and roughly 27 since i meant to watch it but it turns out: Ghost in the Shell is a Good Movie, holy shit

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...

Initiating Tech Week

Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 1d

This is of niche industry interest, but here goes:

The digital catalog platform most independent bookstores use to peruse and order new books for their stores (called Edelweiss) has jacked up their prices on publishers to catalog new titles 200-300%.

Why does this matter?

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 2d

last time i bump this but i have now had multiple people say that they've read this and that they've had Thoughts about Cooking because of it which makes me happy. happy 🐝day past, til next time.

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

today i am 37 years old, which means its the fifteenth time i have made a birthday gift for you, the internet

this year: A Decadent Year, a zine with 3 recipes developed for an 8-inch cast iron skillet

download the pdfs (to read online or print) here: beegabberel.itch.io/a-decadent-day

a picture of the physical copy of A Decadent Year, a zine

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 3d

thanks aaron :)

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

gonna wander off to a park and maybe think about this more and maybe start reading It, which im sure i will find immensely frustrating

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

lmao Decadent Day, i guess in some way the year has been but (negative)

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

a year or so back i read Rebecca May Johnson's Small Fires, a book I blurbed as being In Defence Of Recipes, and it's really stuck with me. I am doing something much different but I think that & Monique Truong's Book of Salt are kind of burbling in the background of that phrase.

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

happy 🐝 day to me and you alike, today marks the fifteenth time ive made art for you to do with as you please.

This time around: a printable or screen readable zine with three recipes for an 8-inch cast iron, which i started thinking of as an intervention in Recipes as Literature

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

today i am 37 years old, which means its the fifteenth time i have made a birthday gift for you, the internet

this year: A Decadent Year, a zine with 3 recipes developed for an 8-inch cast iron skillet

download the pdfs (to read online or print) here: beegabberel.itch.io/a-decadent-day

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

im still around and so are you, regardless of all of it. thanks for still being around with me no matter for however long its been. enjoy my attempt at recipes as literature?

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

for a history of my poems, songs, albums, dances, games (twine, 3D, tabletop), podcasts, and all the other shit ive done on this day since 2011, see uninterpretative.blogspot.com/2021/10/bees...

Bee's Birthday Gifts: A History, with Links

In 2011, I started a number of things. Very few of them are still ongoing. Here's one thing that is: Every year, for my birthday, I make a g...

uninterpretative.blogspot.com

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 4d

today i am 37 years old, which means its the fifteenth time i have made a birthday gift for you, the internet

this year: A Decadent Year, a zine with 3 recipes developed for an 8-inch cast iron skillet

download the pdfs (to read online or print) here: beegabberel.itch.io/a-decadent-day

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 6d

happy october, here are my silly halloween stories about a scarecrow apocalypse on a dying webforum and its companion story about a corn maze apocalypse on a platform for reviewing corn mazes

michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · Sep 30

Halloween is here early: after a disastrous website crash a few months ago I have reconstructed my seasonal stories about provincial goofballs posting themselves into oblivion on autumnal hobbyist websites
1) 'scrow correlatedcontents.com/scrow/
2) unWindr correlatedcontents.com/unwindr/

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correlatedcontents.com

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 7d

all the stories mentioned here that ive read are good but Rib is my favorite

Yukimi Ogawa @fluoritewitch.bsky.social · 7d

My story, "Rib," is mentioned here as one of the gems from SH!!!😭

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 8d

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

strangehorizons.com

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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 12d

Rivers is an incredible writer and generous soul. Please consider lending them a hand at this awful time, if you're able.

rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 13d

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

Pay Rivers Solomon using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/riversandfam and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

paypal.me

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 13d

taking precisely one shift during my birthday week off to be around while these cool people are talking. come for the exciting conversation, stay for the exciting conversation; say hi to yr local trans bookseller whose going through it for idk 9 seconds o:)

Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 14d

East Bay peeps! Come see me and FOUR other incredible speculative fiction authors talking about our books at Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Ave. Weds. Oct 1 @ 7 PM.

Featuring @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @annaleen.bsky.social, Susanna Kwan and Lio Min.

Deets: pegasusbookstore.com/bay-area-sci...

Photos of Sarah Gailey, Susanna Kwan, Lio Min, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, plus the same info as in the skeet about this event

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15d

"The Oakland Review of Books is coming!" it says on our website, and if you haven't noticed, we've started publishing ever-so-slightly-more ambitious things as we ramp up towards really cutting loose.

If you'd like to follow along, for the low price of $0 (American), you can get it in your inbox:

ORB ⧹O⧸

The Oakland Review of Books is coming!

www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 14d

always felt like stolen valor to me from the real world-moving pmcs

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Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 18d

"Rows of poplar trees run along canals that are invisible, obscured as they are by dusty reeds from which an occasional heron takes off, trailing its long mosquito legs." Anita Desai has the juice i guess goddamn

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 18d

living is hard and living is hard and living is important as long as its with others and you can only live by living and you can only live with others and you can only live by living with others

Bee @beegabberel.bsky.social · 18d

anyway books keep me alive and i resent them for that. i think its cool to string together sentences in formal ways that spark. i miss my capacity to engage with them in writing sometimes but i am also glad of the work i do supporting my community, sometimes haltingly, that has kinda taken that.

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