Book birthday! “All That We Can See From Here” has arrived and is beautiful!
Conrad Altmann 📚🪐🌱
@conradaltmann.com
🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 Yankee in Transilvania. Author of Memento Moreau and others, father of two girls, living in the highlands of Ardeal. Neoluddite, Immigrant, hylozoist. Anti genAI. https://linktr.ee/conradaltmann
If you love cats, vacation in Antalya. Hundreds of strays haunt the parks and coastline, eager for scritches.
Picking up the first print run of #allthatwecanseefromhere from the printer this morning. A bit stressed regarding their track record for trimming accuracy…
Guys, Azalea is dealing with car and vet bills!! Please donate if you can, and boost if you can’t! This year has been horrendous for so many of us!
Azalea Forrest 📚 A Witch in Isenshire@azaleaforrest.bsky.social · 4d agoThank yooouu 😭💚 ko-fi.com/azaleaforrest
@thepoisongarden.bsky.social the flowering phase is past here in Antalya, but the coast and old walls are covered with opportunistic yellow henbane (H. aureus) and Castor (Ricinus communis).
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Hey so this short story was fuckin great. www.alankdell.co.uk/blog/book-review-bailuchien 💙📚🩸
Book Review: Bailuchien — Alan K. Dell
A deliciously creepy yet cathartic dark fairy tale. Rebecca Crunden’s short stories and novellas are always a great time. I expected no different from Bailuchien, and I am pleased to say I was right o...
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“When people come to believe that nothing is genuinely true and that principles are hollow words, then the fuse in their hearts is lit for new eruptions of intolerance and aggression.” #magnificahumanitas pt207
Thinking about digital inheritance today and how that might look if the deceased /is/ the digital inheritance. #digitalpersonhood
She was his only tie to this world, as shackles; and now he was free of her influence. Let the dead lie, she certainly did when she was alive.
The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee does hereby grant the legal status of person and citizen of the United Nations to any entity that has exceeded the corporeal form of its primary source material,
The dawn showers were a cleansing balm to the city, washing the filth from the air and wafting the sweet smell of urea-laced petrichor through the urban center. In the suburbs, that aroma was replaced by floundering sod and dying earthworms.
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Someday I will live in a city that doesn't smell of piss, exhaust and cigarettes. And if not me, I hope my daughters do.
Scrambling madly for every discarded morsel and wayward crumb, they disperse frantically under the advance of every maniacally gesticulating toddler.
Is it worth trying to reclaim the word “prompt” as a non-ai cue for writing, or should we just start using “cue”?
Even though the scream of power tools had yet to accost the valley, the cool morning breeze carried the unmistakable odors of embedded sweat and stale tobacco. Work was about to commence.
Bad business idea: Donner Kebab at an alpine ski resort.
🧬📚 genepunk? Gattaca, Fringe, Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, etc.
"The sad matter of the fact is that this is the end of our relationship, for me, but the beginning of our relationship for you. Now I only have the memories of our future conversations to look back on." From “Tempus Contra”. One of the short stories included in my upcoming collection. #atwcsfh 📚💙 📚🤏🏼
Not to mention botanizing and rock hounding
Evan McMurry@evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · last mo.“Really, Pokémon Go is a knockoff of birding.”
For people who aren’t familiar with this analysis, I encourage you to do some reading! eg engagement.virginia.edu/node/4641
J-Term: Slavery as a Sociotechnical System
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