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Serdar Güneş @serdarguenes.bsky.social · 4h

Interstellar is a religious experience... for atheists

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Interstellar is a religious experience...for atheists

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Serdar Güneş @serdarguenes.bsky.social · 20h

The 7 mystical science fiction books you should read

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The 7 mystical science fiction books you should read

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 2d

Jesus and Buddha were both 33 before saving all mankind.

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 2d

I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.

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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 3d

🪐 Science fiction has been gaming out fascist futures since its inception. Can it help us get out of our fascistic present?
🪐 I talk it out with @damiengwalter.com who runs THE best SF community on the internet
🪐 Listen on your ansible: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 3d

Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

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Are Labour unlucky (or are they just rubbish)?

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 3d

I think you should start preparing emotionally for President Hegseth

It's the most likely outcome from where we are

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 3d

This

D.P. Mendes-Kelly @dpmendeskelly.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t know how Great A’Tuin would carry a sphere. Think people!

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 4d

It's stunning to me that we still need to debunk Round Earthers in this day and age

I love it when they ask dumb questions like "well if the world is flat how does the water stay on?"

It doesn't you loons, the edge-falls keep the elephants cool!

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 4d

Don't these fools get taught Einsteinian Shell-time? Or Quantum Turtle uncertainty? Or the double flipper experiment?

It's TATWD!!!

🤡🤦‍♂️😆

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 4d

Can you imagine how massive the Sun would have to be if WE were going around IT? 😆😆🤦‍♂️🤡

One even asked me to explain, if the elephants are standing on a turtle, what does the turtle stand on?

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 4d

It's stunning to me that we still need to debunk Round Earthers in this day and age

I love it when they ask dumb questions like "well if the world is flat how does the water stay on?"

It doesn't you loons, the edge-falls keep the elephants cool!

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Tufty McTavish @tuftymctavish.com · 4d

🔊 The one in which, as it is for @nndroid.bsky.social, @damiengwalter.com is “talking my language” 🚀🤓 and suggests, “our dystopias are always about our fear of some other political system that might become all powerful in our place.”

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🌍 #PoliticsAndAllThat 🗳️ #Podcasts 📻

[Andrew Harrison at 🕰️ 19:27]
“There’s even the slogan ‘Make Britain Great Again’. I see that now and it kind of looked out-of-date 15 years ago and now it looks bang up-to-date. Is the comic ‘V For Vendetta’ maybe perhaps a bit more timely now than it has been in the intervening years?”

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 4d

Timothee Chalamet's hair has its own character arc in Dune.

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Mark Gannon @markgannon.bsky.social · 5d

Really enjoyable episode of @bunkerpod.bsky.social with @nndroid.bsky.social and @damiengwalter.com talking about lessons from sci-fi for our current moment. pca.st/episode/0b30...

Space-suit vs Jackboot – Can science fiction save us from fascism?

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 5d

This is the second attempt at this video. I failed to scratch the itch I was getting at in the first version, so am entirely remaking it.

Mid-week. Maybe.

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 5d

In fact I don't have entire control over this. Each video on the channel is a chapter in what will be a final book, some years from

And a major theme in the book is how scifi imitates and simulates religious mythologies

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 5d

So after the algorithmic disaster of "theological" scifi we're doubling down in the next video with

RELIGION

I strongly suspect this will not be the video to pull the Science Fiction channel out of its doom loop death spiral 😆

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 5d

This was a fun interview, thanks for having me on

The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 5d

🚨OUT NOW🚨
Space-suit vs Jackboot – Can science fiction save us from fascism? Writer, critic and host of a fascinating online science fiction community @damiengwalter.com discusses the lessons of future oligarchs, space tyrants and cosmic populism with @nndroid.bsky.social 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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Fuzz Litebeer @badgerwthumbs.bsky.social · 5d

This takedown from @damiengwalter.com about Hegseth is 👌🏻😂

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Adeptus Astartes Impassive as Puny Human Pete Hegseth Lectures on Standards CADIA PRIME—In a scene equal parts surreal and absurd, former Fox News host Pete ...

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 5d

Those would be pretty significant. But I think they are ways of talking about the Vampiric part of the left. But it's true this may just be a self defeating discussion.

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eastmad @eastmad.bsky.social · 6d

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 6d

Most people recognise the Vampire Castle and detest it, like the poor peasants of the village, we're the ones it wants blood from

The only people who don't see the Vampire Castle are the people in the Vampire Castle

Or the poor fools trying to get in

Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 6d

The Vampire Castle is basically a grift. It's a strategy for taking social causes and converting them into social capital

So of course the Vampire Castle is always present in online left discussions

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Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 6d

So the reason Mark Fisher gave it the name, is because the Vampire Castle sucks the life out of "the left"

@michaelburns.bsky.social hosted an interview about the Vampire Castle, and the Vamps of course showed up in the comments

But it wasn't the Vampires who got deleted 🤦‍♂️

Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com · 7d

oh noes the Woke audience for @michaelburns.bsky.social were *not* ready for the Post-Woke discussion 😆😰

youtu.be/Eb0gyG6VMIE?...

is the left becoming "post-woke?" (with @1Dimee)

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Chepetico (He/Him)🇺🇲🇨🇷 @chepetico.bsky.social · 7d

Man, @damiengwalter.com , the news sucks. Sometimes it helps just to have a podcast to listen too.

Lord of the Rings and fascist fantasy

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