Stefan Raets
@thatguystefan.bsky.social
Production Editor @ Reactormag.com. Obsessive about books (mostly SF/F) and music (mostly everything). Lost. So lost.
This. I switched to Apple Music a few years ago and never looked back. There’s a free tool to transfer all your playlists etc to Apple Music. Pricing/quality/library are all similar. It is SO EASY to stop using Spotify. I’m always surprised when people I like still use it. (Tidal is great too.)
"but but getting rid of Spotify is so hard 😭"
Man it literally took me 5 euros and 10 minutes to switch to Tidal importing 99% of my 12k songs via TunemyMusic.
Spotify can go fu*k itself into the Sun.
Man it literally took me 5 euros and 10 minutes to switch to Tidal importing 99% of my 12k songs via TunemyMusic.
Spotify can go fu*k itself into the Sun.
a picture of a nuclear explosion with the words gifbin at the bottom
Alt: a picture of a nuclear explosion with the words gifbin at the bottom
media.tenor.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This. I switched to Apple Music a few years ago and never looked back. There’s a free tool to transfer all your playlists etc to Apple Music. Pricing/quality/library are all similar. It is SO EASY to stop using Spotify. I’m always surprised when people I like still use it. (Tidal is great too.)
I am pleased to report that I can now, after a few dozen times, listen to the song “Los Angeles” by Big Thief without choking up.
September 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am pleased to report that I can now, after a few dozen times, listen to the song “Los Angeles” by Big Thief without choking up.
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🎶 Schrodinger
He's the man
The man whose cat may be dead
Or alive instead
Such a humdinger
Forces you to enter a quantum flux
of what the fux 🎶
(new lyrics to the Goldfinger theme just dropped)
He's the man
The man whose cat may be dead
Or alive instead
Such a humdinger
Forces you to enter a quantum flux
of what the fux 🎶
(new lyrics to the Goldfinger theme just dropped)
September 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🎶 Schrodinger
He's the man
The man whose cat may be dead
Or alive instead
Such a humdinger
Forces you to enter a quantum flux
of what the fux 🎶
(new lyrics to the Goldfinger theme just dropped)
He's the man
The man whose cat may be dead
Or alive instead
Such a humdinger
Forces you to enter a quantum flux
of what the fux 🎶
(new lyrics to the Goldfinger theme just dropped)
Seconded. Simply excellent story, got me sort of emotional for its unexpected hopefulness. You should read it.
My shelf talker for Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social here at Main Street Books in Lafayette. This is my one of my favorite reads of the year. Go find a copy and maybe some good noodles.
September 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Seconded. Simply excellent story, got me sort of emotional for its unexpected hopefulness. You should read it.
Still so annoyed Dorfromantik recently released versions for every single console on Earth but didn’t bother with a Mac version.
September 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Still so annoyed Dorfromantik recently released versions for every single console on Earth but didn’t bother with a Mac version.
Half a World Away.
September 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Half a World Away.
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This seems important:
September 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This seems important:
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I cannot even begin to tell you how good this novel is.
Hey hey hey! My new novel Everybody's Perfect is available to preorder with a release date of June 30th 2026! (I'm linking to Amazon but you can preorder it from anywhere good books are sold) www.amazon.com/Everybodys-P...
Everybody's Perfect
Everybody's Perfect - Kindle edition by Walton, Jo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Everybody's Perfect.
www.amazon.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I cannot even begin to tell you how good this novel is.
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DAY 41 of photoshopping Chucky into another move until I forget...
August 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
DAY 41 of photoshopping Chucky into another move until I forget...
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
I'll start: John Gardner's Grendel.
August 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.
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Gosh, if only some world builders were, in fact, paying limited or more expansive attention to agriculture, material culture, ordinary life & how magic and the larger social structure helps or harms the ordinary people of the world, or how difficult & deadly much of the past was for so many.
August 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Gosh, if only some world builders were, in fact, paying limited or more expansive attention to agriculture, material culture, ordinary life & how magic and the larger social structure helps or harms the ordinary people of the world, or how difficult & deadly much of the past was for so many.
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Oh very well: 5 UK/IE Kindle copies of @wiswell.bsky.social's SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, which I have but need to move up higher in the Want To Read list. You MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!
#KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
Hey UK readers! Kindle UK has selected Someone You Can Build A Nest In as one of their monthly picks for August. It's won a Nebula and a Locus award, and it's a finalist for the Hugo, and for a limited time you can get it for just 99p. Feel like meeting a queer monster today?
Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night eBook : Wiswell, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Someone You Can Build A Nest In: A cosy fantasy as sweet as love and as dark as night eBook : Wiswell, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
August 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Oh very well: 5 UK/IE Kindle copies of @wiswell.bsky.social's SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN, which I have but need to move up higher in the Want To Read list. You MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one!
#KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
#KindleBookGiveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway
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logging onto Bluesky
August 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
logging onto Bluesky
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I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...
Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!
Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!
August 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...
Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!
Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!
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Holy fuck.
Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic.
It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe.
YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.
IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC.
archiveofourown.org/works/66992527
Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic.
It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe.
YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.
IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC.
archiveofourown.org/works/66992527
Closed Loop System - One_of_Them (greenbean_paste) - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Holy fuck.
Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic.
It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe.
YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.
IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC.
archiveofourown.org/works/66992527
Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic.
It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe.
YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.
IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC.
archiveofourown.org/works/66992527
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Aftir the success of *Severance,* waytinge for more showes named for songes by Dead Can Daunse. *Saltarello*: 14th centurye spyes. *Anywhere Out of the Worlde*: French poets solve 19th centurye murder cases. *Enigma of the Absolute*: Slapsticke comedye about dinosaurs.
July 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Aftir the success of *Severance,* waytinge for more showes named for songes by Dead Can Daunse. *Saltarello*: 14th centurye spyes. *Anywhere Out of the Worlde*: French poets solve 19th centurye murder cases. *Enigma of the Absolute*: Slapsticke comedye about dinosaurs.
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Today only: AMMONITE on sale for $1.99, all US ebook platforms. Curious about why it's #25 on Esquire's best SF of all time? Why I was recently inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame? It all began here...
Ammonite on sale $1.99—one day only!
Today only: AMMONITE on sale for $1.99, all US ebook platforms. Curious about why it's #25 on Esquire's best SF of all time? Why I was recently inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame? It all began here...
nicolagriffith.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Today only: AMMONITE on sale for $1.99, all US ebook platforms. Curious about why it's #25 on Esquire's best SF of all time? Why I was recently inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame? It all began here...
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Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...
reactormag.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
"Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" by @marthawells.com is a new #Murderbot story free to read at Reactor now!
reactormag.com/rapport-mart...
Listening to Self Titled by Kae Tempest for the first time and honestly just blown away. It’s urgent and driven and it packs a punch that hits even harder because of the moment we’re in.
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Listening to Self Titled by Kae Tempest for the first time and honestly just blown away. It’s urgent and driven and it packs a punch that hits even harder because of the moment we’re in.
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10
June 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Congratulations, the universe sent you this dog because you have been chosen. Joy awaits. 13/10