the magus

well my next guess was gulliver's travels but it doesnt seem structured like a philosophical novel so it might be something i haven't read

@gdcalliope.bsky.social is this book a riff on moby dick? i have never read it but something about the vibe suggests it

ahhh, this is a book about *grad school* : someone out in the universe is WRONG and you will go to any length, subjecting yourself to a mountian of unseen and unlauded effort, simply to prove your superiority over them

this canard keeps getting touted out i suppose its a very old story

"we didn't get any of the cool parts of cyberpunk"

i started the stars my destination for a read through project with @gdcalliope.bsky.social and this novel ...well it certainly is something

ok well i will start in after i finish i who have never known men

sure sex is nice but have you ever tried, like, *thinking* really good?

quintessential bluesky skeet

i have acquired stars

H911
Tasks assigned
at suggestion
of jealous rivals.

couldn't be me

he hasn't even got to your association with notorious bluesky conservatives yet

the gamer council has convened and you can no longer play the cool lesbians like jo and sonya

lies. this is a slippery slope into "reading a book" and "touching grass"

each powerful emotional state is completely real and true until it is immediately superseded by the next one

remeber metametacritic? that was 10 years ago now

president pete about to pardon the trump administration to fulfill his childhood dream of being one term president gerald ford

the whole tl is posting through this one today

enough to fill up a whole office building at least

the answer was "no the cliques were all made up but also all of the officers knew each other socially and conspiracy was more or less endemic"

reminded of that tonight for some reason

there was this period in grad school where i was doing a lot of resarch on army politics in the 30s trying to discover if it really was dominated by clique politics or not. anyways i practically had a red string board in my head with like "baden baden!" and "the thursday club???" written all over it

lord byron is generally considered the first person famous in the modern sense and every educated englishperson of the 19th c would know shakespeare, milton and pope

sholars usually trace the rise of "mass culture" as a phenomenon to the proliferation of mass literacy and cheaply avaliable print material which created the synthetic public sphere. you can go back as far as the 18th century if you want but certainly by 1800 its definitly a thing

6/10 some good quips but crashes constantly

they will call you anything when you earn so much prestige from games journalism

chorus: "she'd never done anything wrong in her life / everything bad they said was nasty folks spite!"

rowan we're just here on earth to give you a hard time

what struck me was how basically no one had a tabletop or larp background but they were far better at improv than most of the people i know from that world. however i never figured out how to integrate my character into what in some ways felt like a cliqish social scene and didnt get deep into it