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Francesca Pallopides
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preapocalyptic fiction
Reposted by Francesca Pallopides
The DIY Dumbphone Method
In Jan 2024, I gave my smartphone a lobotomy. Here's the how and the results.
dlvr.it
March 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Well he's definitely making America grate again
March 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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yes
March 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Excellent
Why do we call it a dead chicken and not a poultrygeist please don’t unfollow
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
PSA
Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need
March 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Emperor Snewclothes
March 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wanna know something? don't!
STOP doing SPECTROSCOPY
March 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
EXCUSE ME 😂
these turkish delights have turkish ends
March 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Can you stop shortening "Buddhism" to "bdsm" ffs
March 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Thinking about the Spanish Civil War a lot these days
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
the impotence of being earnest
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
On my way to the city today I reminded myself to appreciate the multiplicity, the peaceful chaos formed by so many different people doing their own things, and the unobserved corners and unregimented moments while they're still around
February 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Guess the percentage of Bluesky users who know about Ea-Nasir
May 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM
I can recommend writing near-future science fiction. Deadlines have never felt more real & substantial

*goes back to grind on the book she started with the words THE YEAR 2024*
April 24, 2023 at 5:13 AM
This just triggered a memory.

A cybernetics exhibition somewhere in Europe - Gordon Pask, oldschool cybernetics -

in a corner : a metal tree with plastic birdfish hanging from the branches, dancing.

The birdfish could do 2 things: rotate (left/right) & turn the LED in their tails on or off...
April 23, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Party like you're the first 🎉
Among many other things, we're aiming for "third party is first party," idea being people make services that integrate cleanly into the app ux as if they're native. Kind of like how search engines integrate into browser location bars.
April 23, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Market niche I personally can't fill: Really Good Pirate Comics.

Pirates stories have perennial widespread appeal, lend themselves well to visual storytelling, and are anything but played out - Exquemelin's "Buccaneers of America" alone has fresh material enough for a multi-year series.
April 23, 2023 at 3:52 PM
(me pottering through the kitchen trying to make coffee but constantly getting sidetracked): "move things and breakfast"
April 23, 2023 at 7:43 AM
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I think this one may get me into trouble.
April 22, 2023 at 8:18 PM
Ooh a new item for my "things that will hit humanity from way out of left field" bingo card!
April 22, 2023 at 6:24 PM
I'm a fictional character who also writes books. My main genre is preapocalyptic fiction - stories happening just before everything ends or changes beyond recognition.

Out now: "The Year the World Ends" on Kindle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWKDB5JV
April 22, 2023 at 12:58 PM