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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5h

It was a collection of David Graeber’s essays titled the Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World and it was very good

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5h

Finished my public transport book halfway on my way to work. Oh no I’m going to the bookstore at lunch

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 22h

I think last year was too soon after Praiseworthy came out for her to really make that kind of impact on the readers - but this year I think she’s got a real chance.

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel prize in Lit is getting announced tomorrow night (Australian time) - who are we feeling folks?

Maybe Alexis Wright I reckon

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 3d

I think the reason they don’t is because everyone knows he doesn’t

Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 3d

If any other president was 57 minutes late to an event addressing service members, there would be wall-to-wall coverage on all 3 major cable news networks addressing whether or not the president cares about the military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump is now 57 minutes late for his speech but at least we're getting an emo version of Hulk Hogan's theme song

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 3d

Curious tarot pull for the first day back at the office after a week off

The queen of pentacles, the knight of cups, and death

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5d

Reading a friend's research on neurodiverse people's experience in school, I'm realising that the main reason why I'm a book guy is because a teacher once told me he thought I had a knack for writing, and I made it my whole personality since like 4th grade.

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5d

God damn Matsumoto never misses

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 5d

I fucking love that moment when Columbo reveals to the rich murderer that he was onto them from the beginning and he has already has all the evidence while the murderer is under arrest and has lost everything they so cleverly thought to gain

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

May have just smashed out a short story, or at least a nice first draft, l over breakfast this morning, nice. I guess I can spend the rest of the day watching the Wire

Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I’ll put my cat on a tshirt

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 7d

The guitar I'm rebuilding is 99% done. I can't wait to show everyone

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 7d

Locked myself out of the house was a great opportunity to see just how difficult it would be to break into my place

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

Werner Herzog voice:

“I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: 'They Look Completely Dead'

Herzog spoke with Conan O'Brien about the concept of truth and why AI is a

gizmodo.com

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 8d

I once got Adrian Belew to crowd surf after his encore at a show in Melbourne. Super cool guy, great player, amazing taste in guitars

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 8d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Satantango dir. by Bela Tarr

Charlie Parker

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 8d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma

Wu Tang Clan

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 8d

Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love:

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

Blade Runner

Pink Floyd

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 10d

Doctorow on the impending economic collapse when the AI bubble bursts. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 9d

Dissociating! On a peak hour train

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 9d

Oh shit there's a new Ghosted album orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/ghoste...

Ghosted III, by Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin

7 track album

orenambarchi.bandcamp.com

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 14d

Whoever is responsible for the Collected Works of Kant in English, I just want to talk

A stack of books from the collected works of Kant published by Cambridge University Press, they all have different coloured spines and different logos. Some are slightly taller than others

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 14d

@damonyoung.com.au this is what I was talking about the other day when I saw you

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 14d

Whoever is responsible for the Collected Works of Kant in English, I just want to talk

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 15d

A lot of people at work asking me questions answered in the very thing they’re replying to

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Maks Sipowicz @callmesipo.bsky.social · 20d

The villainy!

(Glad you’re enjoying it! I’ll start mine this evening)

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