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Steen Comer

@mediapathic.bsky.social

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Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist. "Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear #sf

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 5h

I would like to learn more about this please

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 6h

Woah, that… makes perfect sense, actually.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 6h

This pleases me immensely

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 6h

Following for the Republic of Letters mention.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 9h

It was in fact the walk in music! Good call.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 12h

“We got caught”

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 1d

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth

Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

strangehorizons.com

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Well maybe it should be (this is a terrible mistake)

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

(Is this a real thing? I hope this is a real thing)

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Ok fine NOW I’ll subscribe to your podcast

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

I personally am currently writing a novella that is a short story that is far too long.

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1d

I rewatched They Live (1988) last night

*mild spoilers*

It's been a while since I've watched it and I'd forgotten that 2025 was the year mentioned by the alien as the year they'd have full control over Earth

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TT @silenttt.bsky.social · 1d

The size of the snake god puppet will double every two years until Promethea ends everything.

Moore's Law.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Here, I did the hard part and googled it for you; here's the first reasonable result for "free rss readers". I've tried about half of these and they were all reasonable. Look at what features you need to pay for, they're all slightly different, and choose one. bloggingwizard.com/free-rss-fee...

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bloggingwizard.com

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

A moral failure, is what.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

It really is the old internet, only without the comments section. To do that, you have to start your own blog, which is also relatively simple, but outside the scope of this thread.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Or, easily share a list of feeds to other people.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Also, most RSS software will let you export a list of your feeds in the industry standard OPML format (I wouldn’t pay for a service that doesn’t do this) so if you don’t like one you can just move somewhere else.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Services like Feedbin cost a nominal amount. What you are paying for there mostly is the convenience that your phone will know what you’ve already read on your computer. If you don’t care about that, you can set up free software on one machine.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Also you will often be surprised what will work in an RSS reader. Medium and Substack generally do, and you’re not giving money to either platform for that unless you want to.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

The hardest part is also the most useful part: you have to choose what you receive. For most of these tools, that means 1) find a blog you want to follow 2) copy the url 3) paste it into the tool. The rest is generally automatic

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

RSS is, and I say this without hyperbole, an incredibly useful tool for psychological independence in the current environment. Newsblur, as Vajra suggests, is good, I use Feedbin, there are others. Most remarkably easy to set up.

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 1d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh, my old nemesis, "Something Cool Happens Here", in disguise.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me, the Truffle Shuffle also required skill.