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Mathieu Bokestael
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PhD Scholar @ UCD English. Funded by Research Ireland. Community, Immunity, Care in Contemporary Scottish Writing. He/him

https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/people/residentscholars/mathieubokestael/

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@groenbot.bsky.social might be interesting?
September 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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@jordanscarroll.bsky.social is right, technofascists really don't know how to read sci-fi
extract from article: 'Then he brightened: “That’s about the buffer in years that I’m going to need to get to the moon.” He mentioned one more seminal book, Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi collection “The Man Who Sold the Moon.” The man in question, D. D. Harriman, longs to go to the moon, but his vision and salesmanship are so vital to the moon-colonization program that his colleagues maneuver to keep him on Earth. “Anyway,” Diamandis explained, “Harriman finally sneaks up to the moon on an illegal flight and dies there.” He laughed. “I don’t want to die on the moon, exactly. But I’d love to start a city there, a base we could mine asteroids from! The last time something like this happened is when the lungfish crawled out of the ocean onto land.” Diamandis looked off, somewhere between ahead and above. “The equation of humanity moving into the cosmos is complicated,” he admitted. He knew that it might not happen, or be optimal for all of us if it did. “But it still gives me permission to dream.'
August 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM