Steen Comer

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Did you know that Fallout has a DLC or something called "Tradecraft"? Neither did I, but I am nonconsensually learning a lot about it while researching slang terminology among spies.

Every time a new media property names itself after an english word and gets popular, search results become that much more poisoned with mediocrity, now that we can't usefully exclude words from searches.

this discord coulda been an rss feed

An additional complication is the gamer communities who have just kept using pepe the entire time, ignoring the fascists trying to take them over till the bigots just gave up, so in some places now it’s just a politically neutral “gamer” signifier.

Literally nearly body checked a Berkeley kid 10 minutes ago

A tiny tragedy of the age: young guy so busy watching anime sword fights on his phone he didn’t even notice the guy who sat next to him was carrying an actual sword.

Demons are best banished with laughter.

"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by Negativland + SUE-C

Friday, Oct 31, 2025 | 7:30–9:30 PM

Yale University
CCAM Sound Art Series

149 York St. New Haven, CT

Free + open to the public

(limited capacity, first come first serve)

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“THE TIME OF THE purchases OF THEIR MEAT”, got it.

If you switch from Audible to @libro.fm you can designate a local bookstore to receive a portion of your sales. Mine are going to @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

Just sayin

That’s a thing you could do. You don’t have to. THEY won’t like emerge from beneath the floorboards if you don’t.

Probably

Ok but also… using an AI interface for that seems harder than just writing down sone words.

David Lynch andIsabella Rossellini 1988 🖤🎬
📷Helmut Newton .

(fyi yes, gift link worked)

aaaaaa why the fuck is it counterclockwise on top of all that bullshit as well wtf

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Wow! Thank you. I have a peripheral “I know they are important to things I love” relationship with Can but don’t really know their history well, this will help.

I would like to learn more about this please

Woah, that… makes perfect sense, actually.

This pleases me immensely

Following for the Republic of Letters mention.

It was in fact the walk in music! Good call.

“We got caught”

Critical Friends Episode 16: Length and Breadth Dan Hartland is joined by Redfern Jon Barrett and Nileena Sunil to discuss those novels that feel too sure or not long enough: what's behind that feeling we have that a text is lacking something, o…

📣 NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS!

In a new ep of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social SFF criticism podcast, I talk with @redfernjon.bsky.social and Nileena Sunil about books that might be longer, and others that could be shorter.

How to read a text that offers too little, or too much, stuff? Some ideas.

Well maybe it should be (this is a terrible mistake)

(Is this a real thing? I hope this is a real thing)

Ok fine NOW I’ll subscribe to your podcast

I personally am currently writing a novella that is a short story that is far too long.

I rewatched They Live (1988) last night

*mild spoilers*

It's been a while since I've watched it and I'd forgotten that 2025 was the year mentioned by the alien as the year they'd have full control over Earth

The size of the snake god puppet will double every two years until Promethea ends everything.

Moore's Law.