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Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 2h

Star Catcher
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20016

"Star Catcher" by Remedios Varo features a mystical figure clad in an ethereal, flowing gown, holding a net and a small cage, symbolizing a magical pursuit. The artwork reflects Varo's surrealist style, blending fantasy and introspection on a checkered floor that suggests a dimension between reality and dreams.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 2d

You'd think a bank would make it easy to give them money.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 5d

The more I look at this, the weirder it gets. The ISBN on Google books + that title shows up here:
isbnsearch.org/isbn/1911115...
No idea how legit that site is.

Searching for the ISBN by itself finds... another book you haven't written?
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 5d

A: ship it ship it SHIP IIIITTTT

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 6d

Is there actually an Earthdivers hardcover? I don't see it listed anywhere.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 9d

Don't forget crypto "currency" and NFTs.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 9d

The Unclean Force by Avalon Brantley (her last, unfinished novel)

The Dream Archipelago (stories) by Christopher Priest

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 9d

King Sorrow?

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 14d

Been waiting a looong time for this one. That art is amazing though.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 14d

Read in September:

[ @emmaruthrundle.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social ]

A stack of books:

The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet
The Children's Crusade by Marcel Schwob
Ellis Island by Georges Perec
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica
The Bella Vista by Emma Ruth Rundle
Transcensience by Avalon Brantley
The Light Inaccessible by Peter Bell
Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit by T.E.D. Klein
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 17d

Swans @ Bluebird Theater

The seven members of Swans, albeit not easily visible, on stage, lit red and blue.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 18d

He played against the Seahawks by himself?!?

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 22d

Business idea: blue crab pizza.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 25d

No one's even tried to name a company Weyland-Yutani yet.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 26d

On the Pike's Peak cog railway.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 27d

"begrudgingly picked out of the gutter with two fingertips"

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · 28d

That's how we know it's good, right?

I spent hours reading about hurricane impacts in a specific area for a single sentence in a story that's not about hurricanes.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is why I haven't finished anything.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 9

The GOG version ran without issues the last time I tried it.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 8

That looks amazing.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 7

When does autumn start?
I'll have to look it up. I
Love September as
An ecotone, between two
Domains, like a riverbank.

- Quentin S. Crisp.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do they think climate change is localized to where the fossil fuels are burned?

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 5

My worry is that such work becomes mandatory & lack of expertise is not an accepted excuse. Be pressured to do something, code seems ok, tests pass, then a production bug occurs. No expertise gained because AI did the "thinking" so how does one fix it?

Dev is responsible because the AI can't be.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 3

That's all that keeps me from telling people about the cool astronomy/astrophysics I read about as a hobby.

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Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ten was one of my first tapes and I probably gave myself permanent hearing damage listening to it at max volume.

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