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Steen Comer

@mediapathic.bsky.social

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Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist. "Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear #sf

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 25m

Right?! I didn't want to say anything till I checked to see if it was disappointing, and it's not!

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 28m

And they do what I think is now the canonical version of "Their Law".

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 29m

Pop Will Eat Itself just released a new album, "Delete Everything". It's still very PWEI, unlike most "wait 10 years" albums in the electronic/industrial world it doesn't feel phoned in at all so far, It's not This Is The Day, but it's a solid PWEI album. pwei.bandcamp.com

Pop Will Eat Itself

10 years since their last release, PWEI are back with this electro punk banger, a firm live favourite and the first track from their new project. “Bruiser was inspired by a classic Aussie rock track,...

pwei.bandcamp.com

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 12h

Beautiful thing. Almost wish it was actually a movie.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 12h

A numbered list of events around the event? I’m doing that now, and it’s not going well, but you’re better at that sort of thing.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 12h

I was introduced to papaya by a friend who fed me some and then said “it digests you back!”

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 12h

An important clarification

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 12h

Fab publisher, pls help if you can.

Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 13h

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 16h

I’m reading Unknown Language “by Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey” and it’s as strange and delightful as that byline makes it sound.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Stet as its written”

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“Stet as its written”

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 1d

(I love “smells and bells” as a descriptor here)

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Huh! Well that… raises some interesting questions I can’t talk about due to not being able to talk about the project in public. But I suspect they’re ones that should have been fixed before proofreading, if they matter.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Funnily enough, “Joes” was the exact thing I was looking for (checking capitalization for a proofread)

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that Fallout has a DLC or something called "Tradecraft"? Neither did I, but I am nonconsensually learning a lot about it while researching slang terminology among spies.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

Every time a new media property names itself after an english word and gets popular, search results become that much more poisoned with mediocrity, now that we can't usefully exclude words from searches.

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cabl | comms open @cabl.rodeo · 7d

this discord coulda been an rss feed

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 3d

An additional complication is the gamer communities who have just kept using pepe the entire time, ignoring the fascists trying to take them over till the bigots just gave up, so in some places now it’s just a politically neutral “gamer” signifier.

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 3d

Literally nearly body checked a Berkeley kid 10 minutes ago

Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 3d

A tiny tragedy of the age: young guy so busy watching anime sword fights on his phone he didn’t even notice the guy who sat next to him was carrying an actual sword.

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 3d

Demons are best banished with laughter.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4d

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4d

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 4d

"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by Negativland + SUE-C

Friday, Oct 31, 2025 | 7:30–9:30 PM 
Yale University
CCAM Sound Art Series 
149 York St. New Haven, CT 
Free + open to the public 
(limited capacity, first come first serve)

ccam.yale.edu/event/ccam-s...

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