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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 6h

...with maybe some section break, like what you guys do with "segments" on Just King Things.

sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 6h

I guess I just haven't really noticed many podcasts seeming to telegraph "how to listen" other than this one specific thing, this "interlude/break," which, as a result (and b/c of my listening habits) always seems quite odd to me. Most seem like a continuous and vaguely structured convo...

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 6h

fair enough! you know ten million times more about this than I do!

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 7h

I *only* like yours b/c you got the best podcast song around

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 7h

radically different imo

sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 8h

Yeahi assumed that was the rationale but it's a weird expectation that any break point a podcast chooses will have anything to do with a listener's life or their listening habits...

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 12h

“It’s a crisis that there are liberals on campuses that don’t want to be friends with conservatives.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 15h

so pumped at the suggestion here that If Books Could Kill is doing Sapiens soon

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 16h

He's one of those writers who sounds good until he hits a subject you know anything about and then you're like "oh, he's just full of shit."

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 15h

it's gotta be the Boston accent saying "we don't have that, what are you asking for?" when you first move to Boston from Seattle, go into your first Dunkin', and ask for a "drip coffee."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

Reading "bad" books is good for you if you're trying to be a better storyteller

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 1d

PKD is mid af.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Rick @crystalpepsi.bsky.social · 1d

White Noise is an apt title for that DeLillo novel

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 1d

They truly suck.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Paul Auster is the litfic Stephen King (derogatory)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Karen Mulreid @beatingblog.bsky.social · 1d

No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 1d

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said

Eurovision organisers push back Israel decision

Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union sa...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

"The people in Gaza, including me, lost everything."

As Israel and Hamas exchange captives amid a U.S.-backed ceasefire, writer Ahmed Abu Artema slams Western double standards that privilege Israeli lives over those of Palestinians.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 2d

It always reads like a bit of a neg when publishers include a blurb from someone *really* famous that says something vague and pithy, like, "A fun book" or "Well-written."

The first line on this blurb page I just looked at:
"Good read." - Anne McCaffrey

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 3d

In this new essay, I take a look at Thomas Burnett Swann's second novel, 1967's THE WEIRWOODS, a novel set in ancient Etruria about slavery, freedom, violence, justice, belonging -- and also love, grief, and how we find the strength to move on after tragedy.

Reading “The Weirwoods” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Weirwoods (1967) is his second novel, a story of slavery and freedom, of love and grief, set at the waning of Etruscan power in ancient Italy. Come for the ancient histor…

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 3d

In this new essay, I take a look at Thomas Burnett Swann's second novel, 1967's THE WEIRWOODS, a novel set in ancient Etruria about slavery, freedom, violence, justice, belonging -- and also love, grief, and how we find the strength to move on after tragedy.

Reading “The Weirwoods” by Thomas Burnett Swann

Thomas Burnett Swann’s The Weirwoods (1967) is his second novel, a story of slavery and freedom, of love and grief, set at the waning of Etruscan power in ancient Italy. Come for the ancient histor…

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for all these!

sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 4d

Any good writings on David Lindsay and A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS?

Just getting to this in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reread series and I try to always bring some good critical work to the conversation when I do these, especially since this is the only time I'll be touching on Lindsay.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 6d

The wild thing about this is: it doesn’t even require a spine! you can ask him where in Portland you’d like to point the cameras. That’s how fake it all is!

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 6d

bewildering and downright irresponsible to not have news outlets just…pointing cameras at Portland rn

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 6d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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