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· Sep 16
I paid £16.75 for #Silksong, and it took me one step closer to Nirvana.
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
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Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
brologue.net/2025/09/16/p...
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
Ah yes, Factor Fexcectorn, my favourite boss from Kirby and the Forgotten Land
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Ah yes, Factor Fexcectorn, my favourite boss from Kirby and the Forgotten Land
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I think there's been a concerted to effort to portray people who make art of all sorts as basically dilettante's who only make art because they don't have anything else to do. Which is not even remotely the reality. It's actually a rather Victorian throwback.
There’s something in here about why people feel so entitled to use ChatGPT to “write novels” and “make art”, because they clearly view these honed skills as the domain of the elite and not something people spend a fuckton of time and energy to get good at.
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think there's been a concerted to effort to portray people who make art of all sorts as basically dilettante's who only make art because they don't have anything else to do. Which is not even remotely the reality. It's actually a rather Victorian throwback.
MFA supervisor fairly chuffed by some of my writing workshop plans. very cool. pic unrelated
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
MFA supervisor fairly chuffed by some of my writing workshop plans. very cool. pic unrelated
> "When even book publishing CEOs are championing the merits of AI at the expense of their own writers..."
So many folks bang on about plagiarism and copyright, but forget this second, VERY interesting bit: Publishers aren't your friend & AI is a stick they won't think twice about beating us with.
So many folks bang on about plagiarism and copyright, but forget this second, VERY interesting bit: Publishers aren't your friend & AI is a stick they won't think twice about beating us with.
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
> "When even book publishing CEOs are championing the merits of AI at the expense of their own writers..."
So many folks bang on about plagiarism and copyright, but forget this second, VERY interesting bit: Publishers aren't your friend & AI is a stick they won't think twice about beating us with.
So many folks bang on about plagiarism and copyright, but forget this second, VERY interesting bit: Publishers aren't your friend & AI is a stick they won't think twice about beating us with.
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Breaking: The Darkness Returns
Breaking: The Darkness Returns
WASHINGTON—With deep unease and outright horror haunting millions of Americans as a great shroud enveloped the land, late-breaking reports confirmed Monday that the darkness had returned. Bystanders f...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Breaking: The Darkness Returns
Brologue turns two. Two too many.
Two Years of Brologueing
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Two Years of Brologueing
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November 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Brologue turns two. Two too many.
Two Years of Brologueing
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Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
Two Years of Brologueing
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Deleting English literature degrees would actually be a really interesting case study in whether the UK can destroy its own understanding of its own culture on an almost micro level. Worry not, sceptred isle, heir to Shakespeare, Byron, the Shelleys and Tolkien, you dont need to know who those are.
Badenoch wants to eliminate ‘rip off degrees’ like English. The usual philistine crap that a degree is just about work. The mission to create the stupidest nation on earth. And counterproductive. Young people will work for years. They’ll retrain endlessly. A degree can help them learn how to learn
October 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Deleting English literature degrees would actually be a really interesting case study in whether the UK can destroy its own understanding of its own culture on an almost micro level. Worry not, sceptred isle, heir to Shakespeare, Byron, the Shelleys and Tolkien, you dont need to know who those are.
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Summary of comments:
(1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults
(2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc.
(3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes
It’s a labor issue.
(1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults
(2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc.
(3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes
It’s a labor issue.
October 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Summary of comments:
(1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults
(2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc.
(3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes
It’s a labor issue.
(1) Last study I saw showed USA reading rates *increasing* in kid & retired groups, declining only in working age adults
(2) France also has smart phones, video games, COVID etc.
(3) Agreed audiobooks are great for commutes, but labor causes the commutes
It’s a labor issue.
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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"You're a promptophile, you're a slop badger, you're a parrot perv, you're a small LLM regarder, you're a bot botherer, you're the Crazy World of Sam Altman, you're a ChatGPT bottler, you're a grok rocketeer..."
"...Yes, well, it's just another form of racism"
"...Yes, well, it's just another form of racism"
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"You're a promptophile, you're a slop badger, you're a parrot perv, you're a small LLM regarder, you're a bot botherer, you're the Crazy World of Sam Altman, you're a ChatGPT bottler, you're a grok rocketeer..."
"...Yes, well, it's just another form of racism"
"...Yes, well, it's just another form of racism"
We're all actors, asking that nebulous, all-seeing and unseeing mass of eyeballs, known as "The Audience," to PLEASE CLAP
I don’t think ppl understand the whole “who cares if nobody likes it! make content for yourself” is extremely dismissive
Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time
Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We're all actors, asking that nebulous, all-seeing and unseeing mass of eyeballs, known as "The Audience," to PLEASE CLAP
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This is why I was all pro-Mastodon when the X-odus happened. Mastodon felt actually open and Bluesky felt like a Twitter clone. But the onboarding and app experience was better here, so here is where people went.
Looking at the code they have put out, i don’t think this is the case. They have made it as difficult as possible for others to build on that or even to just run other instances of the same infrastructure.
October 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is why I was all pro-Mastodon when the X-odus happened. Mastodon felt actually open and Bluesky felt like a Twitter clone. But the onboarding and app experience was better here, so here is where people went.
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AT Proto has become a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
Delusions of a Protocol
On vaporware as an ideological product.
azhdarchid.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
AT Proto has become a sort of ideological vaporware; a way for Jay Graber et al to run a social media platform while claiming they don't run a social media platform. This is just another iteration of the Silicon Valley monoproduct: power without accountability.
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
Given the choice between centralised social media - colony organisms with arbitrary state-like power - and some guy with a Raspberry Pi in his basement, prepared to spew bile and/or delete his instance over the slightest transgression... as ridiculous as it is to say, I'm going with the guy
if you don't like the mod situation on bluesky boy do I have bad news about mastodon admins literally cutting off entire parts of the network over personal grudges
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Given the choice between centralised social media - colony organisms with arbitrary state-like power - and some guy with a Raspberry Pi in his basement, prepared to spew bile and/or delete his instance over the slightest transgression... as ridiculous as it is to say, I'm going with the guy
insane how MOTHERFUCKING GERSON BOOM showed up with a truth nuke vis-à-vis pre-war lore
September 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
insane how MOTHERFUCKING GERSON BOOM showed up with a truth nuke vis-à-vis pre-war lore
I paid £16.75 for #Silksong, and it took me one step closer to Nirvana.
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
brologue.net/2025/09/16/p...
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
brologue.net/2025/09/16/p...
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
September 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I paid £16.75 for #Silksong, and it took me one step closer to Nirvana.
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
brologue.net/2025/09/16/p...
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
CW: VERY very minor allusion to lategame content that could still be spoilery
I Think I Get Silksong Now
brologue.net/2025/09/16/p...
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
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September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I can look past a lot of Silksong's difficulty, but losing all my shell shards after dying to a boss too many times is perhaps the most detestable gameplay loop I've experienced in a long time.
I *want* to use tools, yet they're bound to a resource obtained only through drudgery and grind. Curious!
I *want* to use tools, yet they're bound to a resource obtained only through drudgery and grind. Curious!
September 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I can look past a lot of Silksong's difficulty, but losing all my shell shards after dying to a boss too many times is perhaps the most detestable gameplay loop I've experienced in a long time.
I *want* to use tools, yet they're bound to a resource obtained only through drudgery and grind. Curious!
I *want* to use tools, yet they're bound to a resource obtained only through drudgery and grind. Curious!
#WritersCoffeeClub 2/9: Describe your aesthetic.
At the moment: fantasy with a slight urban edge and satire; an assortment of preindustrial settings, but the odd contemporary trapping thrown here and there (e.g. the unironic use of "failson").
At the moment: fantasy with a slight urban edge and satire; an assortment of preindustrial settings, but the odd contemporary trapping thrown here and there (e.g. the unironic use of "failson").
September 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
#WritersCoffeeClub 2/9: Describe your aesthetic.
At the moment: fantasy with a slight urban edge and satire; an assortment of preindustrial settings, but the odd contemporary trapping thrown here and there (e.g. the unironic use of "failson").
At the moment: fantasy with a slight urban edge and satire; an assortment of preindustrial settings, but the odd contemporary trapping thrown here and there (e.g. the unironic use of "failson").
Conditional Whisky (And Its Portents)
August 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Conditional Whisky (And Its Portents)
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