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David Ellison
@davidellison.bsky.social
180 followers 480 following 26 posts
Interested in: books, language, computational linguistics & NLP, music, my cat
📍Seattle
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Happy Birthday to the late, great Gene Wolfe! Here’s to many reads, and many rereads.
A shelf full of many books written by Gene Wolfe
May 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Best book I’ve read so far this year
The cover of Russell Hoban’s novel “Riddley Walker,” showing a puppet against a white background. A cat looks at the camera from behind the book.
February 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Shiva came into my life unexpectedly about a month after my beloved Sylvia left it, and I’m so glad she did
A black cat with very long white whiskers and green eyes looks toward the camera
February 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Picked up my dearest Sylvia’s ashes today. I miss her so much
A memorial clay paw print from a cat, with text reading “Sylvia” A grey and brown tabby cat looking at the camera and lounging happily on a bedspread. A beautiful grey and brown tabby cat with green eyes
November 26, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Reading all day long to get in the mood for the death metal show later
Two books side by side: “Titus Groan” by Mervyn Peake, and “The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act” by Fredric Jameson
November 9, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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My beloved Sylvia left the world last night and I will love her forever
A gray tabby cat relaxing on a couch On the left, a man wearing headphones and glasses smiles at the camera sitting on a couch. On the right, above his shoulder, a beautiful gray tabby cat sleeps facing the camera on the back of three couch. On the right, a man sitting in front of a couch smiles at the camera. In the center, a happy tabby cat rubs her head on the corner of his glasses. A beautiful gray tabby cat rests on a blanket. In front of her is a rainbow catnip toy. She seems to be bathed in a halo of light.
November 6, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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My beautiful Sylvia
A gray and brown tabby cat asleep on the back of a sofa. Her paws are folded and she looks so cozy
October 17, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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This talk title from the Emacs conference is my sleeper agent activation phrase
A listing for a ten-minute conference talk titled "Why Nabokov would use Org-Mode if he were writing today"
October 26, 2023 at 11:38 PM
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Loscil and Lawrence English last night
Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a deep orange screen Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a cloudy purple screen Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of blue, pink, and orange Ambient musicians Loscil and Lawrence English performing in front of a screen of grey, pink, and white
October 25, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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My sweetheart Sylvia
A brown tabby cat lying on a blanket by a window, in a sunbeam
October 18, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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One of my crackpot theories is that my cat likes my drone records. Today I put Stuart Dempster on and she lies down on the couch right in the best listening spot where the speakers point
The cover of Stuart Dempster’s album “Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel” A tabby cat relaxing on a couch
September 19, 2023 at 6:42 PM