Mason
@stockstill.bsky.social
Comms and Marketing guy. Co-host of books podcast Third Person Limited. He/him. www.thirdpersonlimited.com
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🐺Cold🪦Sam@pdfmerchant.bsky.social · last wk.Recent events have a lot of people asking difficult questions like "Is that real?" "What is true?" "How sheer the veil between Being and Seeming?" - Here's 5 🤚 things you can do to address this in your leadership 🧵
Just posted our episode where author Paige Lewis explains how their Simpsons obsession extended to naming their cat Jubjub, and how a single-page poem became an epic novel. A pretty great listen! #booksky www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...
Ed Park’s Three Tenses is a fascinating work that plays with the liminal area between memoir, fiction, both or neither. I wrote a whole page of notes, but unfortunately Ed’s people have not replied to our podcast guest invitation! Thanks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for the ARC anyway
Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of new Theranos backers. They’re all just out of frame
An excellent novel and a great episode of our podcast 😇 #booksky
Typhaneyb 📚aka sourdoughriot@typhaneyb.bsky.social · last mo.Library bookshop find.. can’t have too many books. Part western, part zombie thriller… speculative feminist road trip thriller… cautionary tale… sign me up. But also the cover was really bright and caught my attention. #booksky
Just discovered while posting our podcast interview with @mikevago.bsky.social that there is a Kindle version of Mike’s book, the one that in print includes fold-out pages up to five feet in length. I’m going to need a bigger Kindle #booksky www.sbfprize.org/the-planets-...
The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System — AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books
In The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away, the solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)! This book is the 2024 Middle Grades Science Book Winn...
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Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Blade
16mm Inferno@16mminferno.bsky.social · 2mo ago🎬 28 years ago (that's right) on August 21, 1998 "Blade" premiered in Canada and the US! The action-packed vampire horror film was directed by Stephen Norrington and stars Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Kier, Arly Jover & Traci Lords! #Horror
Fourth Novelist Now Confirmed with Explosive Logorrhea #booksky
Mason@stockstill.bsky.social · 3mo agoNovelist Afflicted With Explosive Logorrhea
NYT article on Catcher in the Rye dovetails with our recent episode on its place in the high school canon #booksky www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...
Holden Caulfield, the Ultimate Adolescent, Is Turning 75
Sure, “Catcher in the Rye” has its detractors. But the influence of its wised-up yet winningly innocent hero keeps it among the Great American Novels.
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Third Person Limited@thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere's Episode 24: "Deals with the Devil (with Ed Simon) and Firing Holden Caulfield". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...
I don’t see why everyone is celebrating Sam Neill when he’s the one who cut out his own eyes, vivisected a crew member, and attempted to drive the ship into a bloody and horrifying hellscape
Transcription raises interesting ideas about reality, memory, and recursive experience, and is also fun to read #booksky 🖋️📚
Yes, what a mystery why the USMNT wants to play in LA and Seattle instead of Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Dallas, etc. (all over 90F + rain this week)
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 3mo agoThe USMNT’s World Cup run won’t leave the West Coast through the quarterfinals. From LA to Seattle to the Bay Area, the path was designed around one goal: minimizing travel and disruption as the tournament moves up the Pacific coast. Free to read: nyti.ms/3T5Rfsk
Couldn’t get an ARC so I picked up @barfridmantell.bsky.social ‘s Honeysuckle at the library. Well worth the wait! A touching and complex take on an unfamiliar (to me) folk legend #booksky
It would strain credulity more if a reality show washout outpolled a sitting city councilmember in the L.A. mayor’s race, not the other way round
This great article on why Claude is not conscious, by author Ted Chiang, raises this point covered by Paul Carr’s novel The Confessions: that when we outsource decision making and even ethical reasoning to chatbots, we atrophy our moral reasoning. #booksky www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Third Person Limited@thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social · last yr.Paul is so quotable, we had a hard time narrowing down the highlights of his episodes. Here's one them.
The statement that Instructure CEO Steve Daly posted about the Canvas hack came back as 100% AI-generated
Posting this just so I can watch it again some time
MyPet Health by Vetcation@vetcation.com · 6mo agoCrying over this video of the grandpa dog going for a walk. Age has passed, but the joy of walking remains! 🥹
Thank you @sohopress.bsky.social for the ARC of the late James Sallis’ upcoming Backwater, which I dared to start reading in a sultry Seoul jazz bar. Looking forward to talking about this one on the podcast #booksky
Ironically, there *is* social commentary in Project Hail Mary and The Martian; both are about technological solutionism and faith in science to solve the most intractable problems. Weir might not have intended it consciously, but in our current times, this is a position that can be debated #booksky
Asher HELLbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 6mo agoAh, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...
You can’t read alone if someone is standing right behind you, or if the broader social context implicates us all in a blah blah blah #booksky
Third Person Limited@thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere's Episode 19 "Rejection is Good! And you never read alone". www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...
Donald Trump and his supporters have spoken specifically about their desire to harm fellow Americans, so feel free to capture them, Congressman
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoRep. Wesley Hunt: "I will do whatever it takes to find every single person who wants to harm my fellow Americans. They need to be captured, they need to die, or go back to their country of origin. That's it. I'm not kidding. And if you die, you earned it. Sometimes bad guys need some good killing."
