Paul montesanti
@paulmontesanti.bsky.social
All typos are 100% the fault of my phone, on which I type msot of these posts
Dispatch is the best romantasy for guys that I've ever seen.
Obviously its not JUST for guys, but it works as romance for men better than most.
Obviously its not JUST for guys, but it works as romance for men better than most.
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Dispatch is the best romantasy for guys that I've ever seen.
Obviously its not JUST for guys, but it works as romance for men better than most.
Obviously its not JUST for guys, but it works as romance for men better than most.
Completely obsessed with this album. I had to read Neuromancer again.
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Dead Channel Sky, by clipping.
20 track album
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November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Completely obsessed with this album. I had to read Neuromancer again.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey | Scientific Reports share.google/32gVyTpx2mja...
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey | Scientific Reports share.google/32gVyTpx2mja...
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
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November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey | Scientific Reports share.google/32gVyTpx2mja...
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey | Scientific Reports share.google/32gVyTpx2mja...
Incredibly snowcrash-coded
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Incredibly snowcrash-coded
This is a great (and awesomely weird) book.
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This is a great (and awesomely weird) book.
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
(Here's the opening of "Neptune's Brood".)
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Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
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Ah that's why Democrats caved
The Federal Aviation Administration will limit business jets and other private flights to some of the country’s largest airports to ease strains on air-traffic personnel.
FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade group.
on.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ah that's why Democrats caved
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Oh yeah I see now
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Oh yeah I see now
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
I'm almost afraid to ask, but why is everyone posting and making videos about "fandom"?
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm almost afraid to ask, but why is everyone posting and making videos about "fandom"?
Not recommended if you like sleeping with the lights off.
October 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Not recommended if you like sleeping with the lights off.
Weekly writing Roundup:
I'm bringing it back as a way to stay accountable! I'm now working on developmental edits for the book, which is a fantasy spy thriller thing. I would love to do twenty five edited pages a week. Might be optimistic.
So far I'm 13 pages/202.
#books #fantasy #writing
I'm bringing it back as a way to stay accountable! I'm now working on developmental edits for the book, which is a fantasy spy thriller thing. I would love to do twenty five edited pages a week. Might be optimistic.
So far I'm 13 pages/202.
#books #fantasy #writing
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I loved this book.
THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!
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October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I loved this book.
I strongly believe that Chess' enduring appeal is in no small way because it is one of the few musically coherent through-sung (or mostly) Broadway musicals.
The other ones that are actually good are basically just Sondheim and Superstar. The rest of them are all varying levels of bad.
The other ones that are actually good are basically just Sondheim and Superstar. The rest of them are all varying levels of bad.
My best friend stood in line at 7 AM to get us Chess rush tickets and I am delighted to report that the musical remains extremely broken, all attempts to fix it continue to make it worse, and I love it beyond reason regardless.
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I strongly believe that Chess' enduring appeal is in no small way because it is one of the few musically coherent through-sung (or mostly) Broadway musicals.
The other ones that are actually good are basically just Sondheim and Superstar. The rest of them are all varying levels of bad.
The other ones that are actually good are basically just Sondheim and Superstar. The rest of them are all varying levels of bad.
My wife just used the word "elderscrolling" to describe getting older, which is hilarious to me.
October 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My wife just used the word "elderscrolling" to describe getting older, which is hilarious to me.
Recently rewatched this with my kids and was struck by:
1. How good the script was, and
2. How effortlessly it handles a fairly heavy burden of exposition. Instructive for anyone who seems to write speculative fiction.
1. How good the script was, and
2. How effortlessly it handles a fairly heavy burden of exposition. Instructive for anyone who seems to write speculative fiction.
Spoilers for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? which I just watched for the 1st time!
I didn’t realize it was a film about the displacement (and attempted eradication!) of a marginalized group, corporate greed, and the plot to destroy public transit in Los Angeles!
I didn’t realize it was a film about the displacement (and attempted eradication!) of a marginalized group, corporate greed, and the plot to destroy public transit in Los Angeles!
September 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Recently rewatched this with my kids and was struck by:
1. How good the script was, and
2. How effortlessly it handles a fairly heavy burden of exposition. Instructive for anyone who seems to write speculative fiction.
1. How good the script was, and
2. How effortlessly it handles a fairly heavy burden of exposition. Instructive for anyone who seems to write speculative fiction.
Online reality is curated by massive corporations whose only concern is profit via captured attention.
Seems like a pretty dangerous mix.
Seems like a pretty dangerous mix.
September 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Online reality is curated by massive corporations whose only concern is profit via captured attention.
Seems like a pretty dangerous mix.
Seems like a pretty dangerous mix.
It's an unsettling feeling that a twitch streamer is better able to identify the underlying problems with modern American life than the mainstream media, which as a whole seems completely blind to said issues.
September 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It's an unsettling feeling that a twitch streamer is better able to identify the underlying problems with modern American life than the mainstream media, which as a whole seems completely blind to said issues.
This is likely the funniest thing written on this platform up to this point
tom buchanan ass sentence
August 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This is likely the funniest thing written on this platform up to this point
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Counterpoint. George R. R. Martin should purposely not finish these books and have a stipulation in his will that no one else can do so after he dies.
Fans Have a Point — George R.R. Martin Should Let This Acclaimed Fantasy Author Finish 'Winds of Winter' Instead
George R.R. Martin is taking forever to finish Winds of Winter, so why not hand it to fellow fantasy author Brandon Sanderson?
collider.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Counterpoint. George R. R. Martin should purposely not finish these books and have a stipulation in his will that no one else can do so after he dies.
I really love A Song of Ice and Fire and I hope George RR is having a nice day today.
I don't care when or if he finishes the series. What he's written already is great. Finishing/not finishing doesn't change that.
I don't care when or if he finishes the series. What he's written already is great. Finishing/not finishing doesn't change that.
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I really love A Song of Ice and Fire and I hope George RR is having a nice day today.
I don't care when or if he finishes the series. What he's written already is great. Finishing/not finishing doesn't change that.
I don't care when or if he finishes the series. What he's written already is great. Finishing/not finishing doesn't change that.
Weekly writing Roundup:
IT'S DONE!!!!
The number of words written this week is wonderfully irrelevant because it's done!!!!
119,118 words. It's a second draft and there's a long way to go to making this a real book and a decent piece of art but I am very happy...
#booksky #fantasy #writing
IT'S DONE!!!!
The number of words written this week is wonderfully irrelevant because it's done!!!!
119,118 words. It's a second draft and there's a long way to go to making this a real book and a decent piece of art but I am very happy...
#booksky #fantasy #writing
July 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I love working at a job because it gives you the opportunity to say something so magnificently stupid that you can't believe it came out of your mouth and it's in front of your peers and coworkers and then you get to think about that thing all day and the next day and the next day.
July 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love working at a job because it gives you the opportunity to say something so magnificently stupid that you can't believe it came out of your mouth and it's in front of your peers and coworkers and then you get to think about that thing all day and the next day and the next day.