Ponderings Of Pete

Happy New Year, wonderful people! While there may be uncertainty in the world, we can make tomorrow a better day all on our own, in our own good way. And if enough people do that, then the uncertainty won’t matter as much. Build your community. Build your friendships. A bulwark against the craziness

Beautiful plans. 10/10 would do it too if I wasn’t watching Amazing Spiderman 2 right now

Community is the place where you don’t Other yourself.
From this thread, it sounds like within your demographic, you Other yourself with you internal thoughts/mindset, but within the group that shares your mindset, you’re internally Othering yourself with your demographic characteristics.

Aw, drat. Now you *have* to develop Hybrid Helix for the bug screen. And get it made so that we can all enjoy it. Thems the rules

Cue “can we do this in February?”
An oldie but a goodie

Over the top? We talking graphic audio for the *BIible?*

Appropriate. Thorpe is the worst

There’d be some more interesting differences if you looked at the NLT and ESV translations, which are more modern to my knowledge and both have different translation philosophies.

Had a fantastic chat with @ponderingsofpete.bsky.social and Johanna last night about a couple of my favorite @ursulakleguin.bsky.social books! 🥰
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Arcane is finished and now I have to move on with my life. Why, cruel world!

They claim they don’t want to replace human creativity, but they really do. And there’s a bunch of places doing this according to the article. Blergh

Finally getting round to finishing the Final Architecture series by @aptshadow.bsky.social now that a friend of mine has unshackled me. It’ll be a melancholy feeling to leave these character behind for the last time, but I’m excited to see how it concludes and who Ollie cusses out the most

A real Stoic keeps his philosophy close to his “burned hole in the text”

Getting it tattooed right about my tailbone tomorrow

I love the next ten minutes of “oh crap I forgot this author. And this author. And this author
Ken Liu
Stephen Erikson
James SA Corey
Timothy Zahn (though that’s all Star Wars books rn)
Agatha Christie

Did he have a diary? Modern day Meditations right there. He can reinvent Stoicism for the working masses

Might as well start letting people what I read too

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by:

-K.J. Parker
-Brandon Sanderson
-Adrian Tchaikovsky
-Robin Hobb
-Daniel Abraham

The book writing machine, @aptshadow.bsky.social will be joining us in the Sunday Pub this Sunday! 🍻😀 Bring your questions, and Anitha, @readbykyle.bsky.social, @ponderingsofpete.bsky.social and I will endeavour to ask them.
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OK, I'm bringing out the big guns to test Bluesky engagement😀

Repost & follow to be in the draw!

One randomly selected person will get this signed (& dedicated) copy of the Locked Library special edition of THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.

Working on it, working on it 🤣

Yup I’m confused as to how mine is

Time to dive into this with @toritalks2.bsky.social
Been a while since Dark Age, but it’s finally time.

Dude it’s so awesome! And the scope of the city itself is breathtaking to me

A friend of mine, K.E. Andrews, just revealed the cover for her upcoming dragon rider fantasy western, and it’s looking great! Wild Skies is set to come out late next month, and if you're interested in being an ARC reader, be sure to check out the link below:

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Do I smell the Guns at Lunchtime?