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Body sensation anxiety is shit

Which mode are you using? That looks pretty great

The thing is if you do it enough you forget what normal feels like

You mean formatmyjson dot com is malware?!?!?! Call this Pikachu shocked

There is not enough popcorn available for the day this episode happens

J2EE LOL

I think one of the sneaky things is that people tend to not notice it outside the areas they have a keen interest in. It's ruining everything creative, slowly but surely, and in some cases has already reached "and then all at once"

Have a gander across Wikipedia at how publishing houses have consolidated over the past 50 years. It's a good way to get book lovers on board with the whole "capitalism has gone too far and can now please fuck right off" thing. Mergers and acquisitions do terrible things for the consumer.

There's a bunch of excellent YouTube channels of people binding books by hand - Four Keys did a fantastic rebind of Dune. It gave me a little bit of hope that this era of slop will not last forever

Every friend started as a stranger, and they got away with being friendly too 😁 I get the same uncertainty, but compassion is free, so I try to detach from how a person receives it. I think overall the fact that you've paused to ponder this weirdness means you're probably behaving just fine!

Same here. I have a vague idea that it's people who specifically reply looking for a disingenuous debate, or are reflexively negative, but I feel like some people might find any reply of mine to be tedious or annoying too. Also hi, I'm one of your reply guys!

Mandatory roll call + blanks/donkey vote allowed + Saturday + secret/anonymous ballot + paper based + instant run-off (ranked choice) + vaguely prop-rep Senate + independent electoral commission. I feel so lucky to be Australian when I think about these things. I hope you get them some day too.

Banning corporate VPNs would be hilarious

I think it's normal to have rules in a book club? Surely a good chunk of your audience are normal sane people who enjoy books 😁

Antitrust... That's a name I haven't heard in a long time... A long time... We had Macromedia posters in my school's multimedia classroom back in the day, I loved the icons

Macromedia.. now that's a name I've not heard in a long time..

This video fucking slaps

As long as you're not besmirching Jeff Buckley's cover, take at whichever temperature most pleases you

Does _anyone_ use client-side encryption for email?

It appears you are correct.

#49 being ... an abuser of ellipses

TotK is a better game IMO, but is also a different thing all over again. Gives me Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts vibes

How long did you spend pouring those pots into bottles?

Dixit and Codenames seem very well suited to a writer's retreat

There's hardcovers and then there's hardcovers. Visual style and binding process are no longer indicative of each other in the eyes of the average punter

Sometimes I think these internet arguments are just bots, but I suppose it could be some weird process of brain rot teaching people to argue about everything.

Been enjoying a lot of bookbinding content on YouTube, and lamenting the difficulty of finding decent copies of Steven Erikson's books

Hi Jay! I listened to Vampire & Damned audiobooks this year and enjoyed the hell out of them, looking forward to Dawn when my current one is finished. I want to get a physical set that are all the same size - do you know when this will be possible? I'm late to the Series In Trade Paperback Party :(

Existential horror was a dire companion, here in his head, in his swirling cauldron of thoughts, feelings, dreads and fears. In resisting the constraints of civility, people spoke of freedom and so stoked their anger, making it a thing of indignation and outrage. But the failure did not belong outside such people. It was wholly inside, wholly within Freedom to do what? What laws and rules imbede you? Or is 'freedom' a bullshit word masking a selfshness so profoundly anti-life that its expression demands a disguise? Obfuscation inside a concept the meaning of which no two people can agree? Freedom? What the fuck is it? And to use that word to mask your resentment at the world, which in turn arose from your disappointment in yourself is where it all begins to go wrong

in which Steven Erikson lays bare the lie of the Gamer concept of Freedom