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Avram Grumer
@avramg.bsky.social
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Brooklynite, early blogger, general-purpose nerd, ttRPG noodle-arounder, once and future cartoonist, typeface addict, doggerelist, one-time Hugo finalist, occasional crank. He/him.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hwæt! Aid for the free-trader, from all in hearing,
foemen besiege us, our fusion-oars failing,
gun-spool gone feeble, ship-breath escaping…
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 10h
Black and white screencap of Bill Mumy, as a child, in the classic Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life." He's looking angry and pointing at someone. There's a comic-book-style word balloon coming from him, containing the quoted post.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 10h
🎶 East bound and down, maybe forty fathoms
We gonna go to places they can’t drive
We’ve got a big tank of air and a whole bunch o’ missiles
I’m east bound, just watch ol’ Bandit dive 🎶
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 16h
This is why we old dudes like Urasawa!
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 17h
New vampire movie just dropped
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 18h
Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying
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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d
Sisyphus, but for obscenely wealthy people - every day they generate untold wealth and then it all gets distributed to the population and they have to get up and do it again tomorrow.😈
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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 1d
The obscenely wealthy tell us they have unique wealth-generating powers, so let them prove it every day
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 20h
Just got a closer look.
Yup, “משיה.„
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 20h
Walking up Flatbush, I see some folks with a yellow flag with a crown on it. Can't see it clearly, but I figure it's probably a “No Kings” flag, and they're going to a protest.

Then I see that they look like Hasidim, and realize that the text under the crown probably says “Moshiach.”

#Brooklyn
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21h
It’s easier to find 8-sided dice than 7-sided
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21h
BUT WILL SHE SAVE THE GABLES — OR DESTROY THEM?!
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21h
Is that Anchorage as in the city in Alaska?
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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d
People talk a lot about bubbles/polarization while ignoring that when it comes to I/P you have two camps who are *literally speaking different languages*, where things like "Free Palestine" or "Zionist" or "globalize the intifada" can have completely opposite meanings depending on the speaker
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 21h
But Magneto as Xavier’s former buddy is better than Magneto as a nameless guy with no past.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 23h
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old neon could dim and fade at close of day…
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning
a building with a sign that's only partially lit so that is reads "Rage"
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
Did they run a metal detector around your head first, just to be sure?
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
Are you sure it wasn't “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
I've never actually played RuneQuest, despite owning it in two different editions.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
FALL has the actual ending to the story that started with CRYPTONOMICON and continued in THE BAROQUE CYCLE.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
Now I'm imagining E.E. Smith's Arisians teaming up with the cupids from Love Bullet to really super-charge their breeding program.
Love Bullet - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
Played by Statler & Waldorf.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
I noped out of Seveneves when I hit the part where one of the characters wants to breed people for high IQs.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
Got a sudden craving for a toasted cinnamon-raisin bagel with salted butter.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
I like a lot of his books, but ZODIAC is the only one with a decent ending. (Unless maybe some of his recent ones I haven’t read have good endings.)
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
That line went stale pretty quickly.

NEUROMANCER was published in 1984. Just twelve years later, in 1996, Neal Gaiman was poking fun at that line in NEVERWHERE.
Twenty The world went dark, and a low roar filled Richard’s head, like the maddened growling of a thousand enraged beasts. He blinked at the darkness, held tight to his bag. He wondered if he had been foolish, putting the knife away. Some people brushed past him in the dark. Richard started away from them. There were steps in front of him; Richard began to ascend, and, as he did so, the world began to resolve, to take shape and to re-form. The growling was the roar of traffic, and he was coming out of an underpass in Trafalgar Square. The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
I found most of Heinlein dated when I first encountered his work as a teen, in the early 1980s.

The book of his I liked best was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, partly because the dialect it was written in didn’t sound like something from the 1940s.
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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 1d
So we need to implement Asimov-style AI to protect us from Clarke-style AI.