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rax ‘levon honkers’ king

@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

i wrote about the windowless casino that is social media
www.patreon.com/posts/120399...

Because I've spent so much time on social media, you guys. I've sold so much of myself to various algorithms. I've exhausted my attention span and my ability to just be fucking bored once in awhile. These days, if I want to read a book, I have to put my phone in the other room and resign myself to the fact that I'll be thinking about it for the first twenty minutes I'm reading—longer, if the book is a demanding read. When I was a little kid, you couldn't part me from my books! And the same is true of so many little pleasures. As much as I love reading, cooking, playing music, I now have to reckon with the part of myself that would always, always prefer to be fucking around on my phone. If I want to have fun doing something real and meaningful, I have to take this additional step in my head of forgetting about my phone. I can't always do it. Can you? How many things can you honestly say are as absorbing as that endless scroll of delicious terrible news?
There have certainly been times in my life when, for one reason or another, social media was sort of all I had—I was too sick to spend much time out in the world, or too friendless, or too anxious. But I wish that…

January 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM

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Matt Colville?

@mattcolville.bsky.social

That's what financialization means. It means consumers are no longer customers. Because there's simply no way for them to sell us enough product to get the return they're looking for. Investors are the customers. Making the stock price go up is how they get that return.

January 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM

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Oliver Brackenbury

@obrackenbury.bsky.social

WHAT IS A WEIRD TALE? A "ZONE STORY"?
In this penultimate tale, this final story outline episode (for a long while), Voe and I both seek a way to free her from cosmic debt slavery in an "S&S Annihilation/Stalker" story.

soimwritinganovel.com/2025/01/06/e...

Ep82 – The Eyrie

THE PENULTIMATE STORY OUTLINETHE LAST STORY OUTLINE EPISODE FOR…PROBABLY QUITE A WHILEVoe and Oliver dive into The Weird by way of a “Zone Story”, as both seek a way for Voe to escape c…

soimwritinganovel.com

January 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM

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Logan / Tachyon

@tachyonart.bsky.social

Beneath Devonian Waves

September 3, 2023 at 1:21 PM

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mtsw

@mtsw.bsky.social

so, like, a 3 bedroom house or condo in the only neighborhoods in my city where you can walk to a school or supermarket costs $1.5M

wsj headline about the falling us birthrate. "why are american women having fewer children than they say they want"

August 3, 2023 at 5:42 PM

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Blank Check with Griffin & David

@blankcheck.bsky.social

DA MOVIESH ARE BACK, BABY!!! We've stopped worrying about the state of cinema and are now LOVING the bomb, with the arrival of Christopher Nolan's massive OPPENHEIMER in cinemas.

Our Oppy episode is available now:

https://audioboom.com/posts/8341843-oppenheimer-with-marie-bardi

July 31, 2023 at 4:12 PM

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine

@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social

We're an all-new Sword & Sorcery magazine, made with love for the classics and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling! issue #0 is free for download and coming this fall our two crowd-funded issues featuring Michael Moorcock and more! newedgeswordandsorcery.com