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Paddy K

@spongepaddy.bsky.social

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Irishman morphing into a Swede. Tech writer, fiction writer, poet. Builder of computer games since - oh God - the 1980s. Maker of soap, grower of vegetables. Author page: https://paddyk.wordpress.com/author

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Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · May 28

In my teens - I will be famous!
In my 20s - I will be rich!
In my 30s - I will be happy.
In my 40s - I will get a good night's sleep.
In my 50s - I will grow a carrot.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2h

Idea: Shadow of the Colossus, but the monsters are tech billionaires. Zuckerberg's weak point is his dumb medallion. Bezos, the bald head. I imagine Musk's is his tiny penis.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6h

Indeed! It's a human thing, I think. You see it everywhere. Most people are just unable to remember how it was before they knew something. It's only the annoying nit-pickers like me who can (somewhat) succeed at that.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6h

Are we getting a Qwirkle essay...? Because I'm here for it.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 10h

With the right press, that would double your sales right there.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 10h

Oooooo yes!

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 12h

Thing I've learned as a tech writer - The ones who built a system and know it intimately are often brutally and I mean BRUTALLY unable to explain it to someone else. Everything they say is packed full of assumptions. Their brain just cannot grasp how it might be to not know all those things.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

It's fucking vile.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

I was looking forward to seeing a wedding in BG where they threw lots of triangular confetti. But alas.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

I switched to Deezer. It's great. Could import my playlists and everything.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Switching POV character in chapter 2 does not make me twice as interested, but half as interested.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Bread with added beetroot = pink bread. Win.

Bread on a tray, pink coloured

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 1d

That shower cubby did have a strange (and mouldy) charm...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Also - someone once pissed out the window of that room. Making it, almost, also a toilet.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

Can you pick up Radio Luxembourg...?

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 2d

The Swedish press: "This huge ecological disaster is about to happen due to our sad and puzzling inability to change our ways. Now here's the latest sun holiday special offers!"

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I will attempt to arrange a release shindig at the English Bookshop when it's time.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

Writing update! A novella of mine has been accepted by a fantastically odd Stockholm publisher. Li'l Factory publish books in a single run of 500 numbered copies (500 and no more) and they are so very very pretty. My book "Spellcheckers" will be coming next year. More info to come. lilfac.com/books

Three hardcover books with weird covers

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

I took down last year’s
Christmas curtains
And put up the
Halloween ones

Sure, it's October
And I could have just
Let them hang

But this way
In two months time
I can make it suddenly
Feel like Christmas

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

That doormat ... I must have! Currently I have one that says "Oh shit not you again" but maybe it's time to get a bit more positive...

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 4d

I realised the maker of this music @capgrasman.bsky.social is actually on Bluesky. So I'll repost it. Buy buy buy!

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

For lovers of atmospheric dark ambient I recommended this EP I just bought on Bandcamp. Great stuff!
siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/severe...

Severed Like The Red Moon, by Siavash Amini

siavashamini.bandcamp.com

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

It certainly is eye-catching though.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 5d

Regarding EU sausagegate, I suggest we solve it using an 80s-metal-band trick and just add random umlauts. Anyone for a veggie bürger or a saüsage? Or, in Swedish, a körv...?

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 6d

And now I guess Israel will just put Gaza back how they found it and bring all those dead kids back to life and we'll be grand.

Paddy K @spongepaddy.bsky.social · 7d

I mean your ad worked for me. I wishlisted you. More knowledge than that I sadly do not possess.