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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 10m

recommended further reading rushkoff.com/books/surviv...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 4h

Ron Padgett

When I was around ten
someone said that if
I put some horse hairs
in a jar of water
and left it in full sunlight
the hairs would turn
into snakes, and so
I did, and when
I went back a week later
there was the jar,
full of small snakes,
which I heaved
into the shrubbery
and never said a word
to anybody
it was so horrible.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 12h

FISKADORO

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 15h

Bally’s House of the Seven Gables let’s go

Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 15h

Dumb question: Have any BOOKS ever had a licensed pinball? Not movie or tv adaptations of books- an actual prose novel licensed as a theme for a pinball game.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 15h

I sprinted like a teenager for a bus that didn’t stop. When I bent over to catch my breath: #hotdogcode

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 15h

The kind of guy who says thank you driver when getting off a skytrain.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe we need a pilot project to study the feasibility of mandatory housing supply from people who own housing but pose a danger to themselves and others by refusing to use that housing for its intended purposes. Just the hard cases. The thousands of empty condos, Shaughnessy, that kind of thing.

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 19h

is this what they call a market-driven solution?

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 19h

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

@christineboyle.bsky.social
@gregorrobertson.bsky.social

vancouversun.com/business/rea...

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 19h

is this what they call a market-driven solution?

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 19h

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

@christineboyle.bsky.social
@gregorrobertson.bsky.social

vancouversun.com/business/rea...

Metro Vancouver's glut of empty condos: What's unsold and why?

No amount of incentives seems to be able to reverse the glut. How did we get here? And how bad could it get? Read more.

vancouversun.com

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21h

I buy books to own them (and exert some kind of minor cosmic power over them) and I get books from the library to read them.

Rabbit @lochinvar.bsky.social · 21h

Book reading and book buying/collecting are different hobbies.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 22h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21h

some of these aren't even blogs, they're just websites

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21h

I'm looking at a bunch of "newsletters" that are just blogs that email you.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 21h

I'm looking at a bunch of "newsletters" that are just blogs that email you.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 23h

maybe i just haven't read the right essays, but I'm thinking about the presence of "Tijuana Bibles" in Watchmen and how Watchmen itself is a kind of "Tijuana Bible" and basically all IP is just TB now and "recent tech developments" are going to make it even moreso.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

(is "Alberta Next" an obsequious response to "America First?")

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

"Recently, X posts claiming" ah, well there it is.

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Did they stop reading The Veldt in middle grades?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.theverge.com/news/798174/...

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

See also: bsky.app/profile/word...

Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry isn't there to "mean" something, it's there to get you high.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

A bird in silhouette along traffic infrastructure. The sky is yellow and blue.

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Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social · 1d

Poetry isn't there to "mean" something, it's there to get you high.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

The sun, through a communications tower with power lines and mountaintop trees and a gravel road.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Price talks about when Clockers came out and all his cop friends were acting off. He thought they didn’t like his book, but eventually found out they were being weird because they didn’t read it.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Statistically, almost no one will read novel. Relax.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

A famous editor used to say the secret to writing is you only have to make the first 100 really good because most editors/reviewers/readers form their opinion by then and will let the rest be slack. Not exactly sure how that relates except your probably literally skipping the best part

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

you can skip like the first quarter of any book, it'll be fine. just catch up as you go

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

this album sure did a number on me at 15 youtu.be/Yf1Ko2FqVqU?...

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

The pageantry of violently violating people’s Charter Rights to soothe a few people’s imaginary “compassion fatigue.”

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

Again, we could save lots of money and lives by simply funding VOLUNTARY treatment, by simply providing people with the healthcare they’re entitled to under the Charter, but instead we’re doing this for the pageantry.

karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

wow the comments from the advocate and academic expressing “concern“ are just garbage and you don't mention the charter and nobody has a political analysis yet, that's just fucken awful

but CONCERNED

FFS this is your job

seriously
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mixed reaction to B.C. premier's announcement of new involuntary care facilities | CBC News

Councillors in two B.C. communities are welcoming the premier's announcement of involuntary care facilities amid public safety concerns, even as a drug policy academic says forcing people into drug tr...

www.cbc.ca

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 1d

SHOULD it? that's nice and also useless, let's address reality rather than SHOULDland

in reality, the decision made by politicians about policy was, in fact, political

there's lots to critique there

but

DJ Larkin, executive director of the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition, questioned the government's focus on involuntary care, saying that involuntary care should be a clinical decision and not a political one.

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