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Damon Young

@damonyoung.com.au

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Philosopher & author. Fourteen books of nonfiction & children’s fiction. New nonfiction: IMMORTAL GESTURES (Scribe). Agents: Zeitgeist & Alex Adsett. www.damonyoung.com.au

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · Nov 12

Hey, folks. My name's Damon Young, I'm a philosopher & author.

You can see some of my books below.

I also write short fiction: mostly science-fiction, fantasy, horror. My tales have appeared in magazines & newspapers.

I live in Hobart with my wife Ruth (also a writer) & two kids.

Do say hello.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 8h

This is the vibe

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 8h

Some robust competition this year, but maybe ALISS AT THE FIRE by Jon Fosse.

A woman stares out at the fjord from her kitchen and grieves for her lost husband, her mind inhabiting herself, him, and his ancestors.

A screenshot from an Apple photos folder showing a number of book covers, including one blue book circled in red

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 8h

Twitter had its problems and ultimately communities change etc, but fuck that guy for breaking a perfectly useable social medium

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

This seems like a job for somebody on here

Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 17h

Assistant Editor, Manga at Penguin Random House

Full-time | Remote (Anywhere)

comics-jobs.com

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 9h

But no. Il Douche bought the whole site and I nuked my account.

And to where did I download my data? GOOD QUESTION.

On one of three iMacs in boxes somewhere.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 9h

I’ll never stop being annoyed by Musk for buying Twitter.

Putting aside all the more horrific stuff he’s done, he also ruined a perfectly good repository of my life for many years.

e.g. I’m trying to find when I first read Gene Wolfe, and I’m positive I’d have mentioned it on Twitter.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 14h

So, exactly as Horne put it in 1964 then?

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 15h

lol

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 16h

🎶 Westside, when we ride, come equipped with 🎶

A photo of a Tupac Shakur air freshener (pineapple)

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 17h

I was trying to find any posts by me about gene wolfe (for something I’m writing) and thought I might’ve mentioned it at Edinburgh — alas

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 17h

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
Episode 40 - Lalah's Dilemma
19:05.319

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 17h

maybe I’d just done a gig with Shaun Bythell? or perhaps Ian Rankin

anyway, my mind was *empty*

Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 17h

every now and then I remember that these Alamy photos of me exist

taken at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

I’d come straight from a panel and wasn’t sure what day it was

a photo of Damon young, a shaven headed white man, in a Wonder Woman tshirt

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 17h

[in the interrogation room, looking down at you in handcuffs] I see you made a joke on BlueSky

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 18h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 18h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 19h

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 20h

A still from the film blade runner showing the man running the voight-kampff test, he has a speech bubble below him

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

lmao get rekt dork

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Sanjay Sipahimalani @sansip.bsky.social · 6d

László Krasznahorkai in conversation with George Szirtes. (September 2013.)

www.thewhitereview.org/feature/inte...

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Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social · 6d

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 2d

Hey, friends. Here’s another quick reading from my new philosophy book, IMMORTAL GESTURES (Scribe).

This chapter begins with finger horns on the red carpet, then moves through Black Sabbath to the Renaissance and beyond.

There’s also a discussion of cuckolding and prehistoric mythology.🤘

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 1d

"All the while illegal occupation continues, and another chapter of Israel’s violations is furtively closed without accountability not only for Israel, but for its sponsors."

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 1d

Now there’s a slogan