This was such a special one. Between this, The Bright Sword, and Glorious Exploits it’s been an unusually good reading year for me. @rfkuang.bsky.social ‘s Katabasis is up next!

Quote post with a beach photo from your gallery!

what goofballs think the majesty of nature from the sky is cringe

Someone more clever than me, please, meme the boy

Sometimes one must take a break and simply pierogi

Back in the early 2000s I read an article in Time magazine about the upcoming LOTR adaptation and believing with the earnestness of a lonely middle schooler that this journalist understood me. 20+ years later I am re-convinced, because he wrote this and it astonished me. Thanks, @levgrossman.com !

Finished this game-changer of a book by @karenhao.bsky.social. Wonderful, accessible introduction. An especially important counter to the messaging that the current trajectory of AI development has been inevitable and necessary l, rather than a series of choices built on greed and extraction.

Steady rain and thunderstorms but people still came out in St. Louis! #protest #nokings #handsoff #stl

cheers from granite city, illinois