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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 22h

Another Wednesday, another post. Some excellent books in this round of reviews, including Ada Palmer's 'Inventing the Renaissance' and Vajra Chandrasekera's 'Rakesfall', both well worth reading.

Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2025, part 7 — Broken Hands Media

Ough…time wears on, and we get more exhausted. But, on the other hand, there are books. At least there are books.

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 3d

and when you just can't get enough Public Access (it's so good!) you can check out Volume 4 of Sprigs & Kindling for even more Analog Horror! Two whole issues of it! sprigsandkindling.com

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South Dakota Department of Propaganda @southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

A simple four panel comic with a round character. Top caption reads Before you leave the house, check you have. Panel 1 shows keys with a banana keychain, labeled Keys. Panel 2 shows a green wallet, labeled Wallet. Panel 3 shows a blue phone, labeled Phone. Panel 4 shows the character holding a colorful tangled scribble, labeled The vague sense that you have forgotten something. A playful take on the keys wallet phone routine.

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Radio Saturday @radiosaturday.bsky.social · 7d

Got a big ol' book round up here, featuring a bunch of trans horror novels that I got from the library: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Edgar's Book Round-Up, September 2025 — Broken Hands Media

In a state that loves to attack its public libraries, it felt very meaningful to be able to have access to these books.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 8d

Not to make unreasonable demands, but I must ask my colleagues at the high school level: please teach what quotes are before they get to me. I hate filling out academic dishonesty paperwork, but I will fill it out each and every time.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 8d

So, I'm grading papers, and I'm getting students who are shocked that I open up the document that they're citing and search for the original context of the quote -- often finding that it simply doesn't exist.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 14d

I went vegetarian at the start of the year, and it's honestly been much easier than I anticipated, despite living in a city renowned for barbecue and being allergic to one of the main components of "Beyond" meat. This led me to a question: why do we want what we want?

On Desire and Eating Flesh — Broken Hands Media

I don’t want to tell you why I stopped eating meat — I don’t think any of you should care — I want to think through why I stopped wanting to eat meat, even though no one is making me stop.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 21d

I've been reading James Maffie's book on Aztec Philosophy, and something that came up in that was the phenomenon of the Inamic relation between two ideas -- I think it has a broader applicability, so I wrote a piece about it.

The Inamic Relationship: A Tool from Nahuatl Epistemology — Broken Hands Media

This relationship, according to the research Maffie presents is called inamic , and it is distinct from dichotomy and dialectic. The closest English equivalent, he says, is the word “match” – as an ...

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 23d

We are adults. We are responsible.

A plastic skeleton in a natural grocers bag. This image was not taken in a natural grocers location.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · 28d

I'm tired of talking about the news. Have a slate of book round-ups: including some theory-fiction from Reza Negarestani, Rosewater from @tadethompson.bsky.social, and Cuckoo by @scumbelievable.bsky.social, among others.

Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2025, part 6 — Broken Hands Media

Well, the past couple of weeks have been…a lot. I can’t help but think that it’s probably not healthy to stay plugged into the news all the time, so let’s talk about some books. We’ll talk about eve...

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Sep 13

Have any of the known perpetrators of political violence this year completed a four year degree at a university

collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · Sep 12

Beyond parody

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm stoked that this is out, and I feel very proud to be included in this collection!

Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · Sep 13

Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4 is now available! Issue 1 is themed around Public Access & Other Analog Oddities, and Issue 2 is Lost Transmissions! Download it for FREE from sprigsandkindling.com and shout out all the amazing contributors, editors and layout ppl for 250 pages of amazing creative works!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Sep 12

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

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Radio Saturday @radiosaturday.bsky.social · Sep 10

Got another book round-up over at Broken Hands: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/9/...

Edgar's Book Round-Up, August 2025 — Broken Hands Media

As Ezra Furman has it, “What can you do but rock and roll?” If you cannot, in fact, rock and roll, you can support some good causes, or bother elected officials, or read a bunch of books.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Sep 6

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either.

This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem

This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now
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Missouri House Democrats plan to continue sit-in over weekend

Missouri Democrats have surpassed 24 hours of their sit-in on the House floor protesting a special session.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Sep 3

We've only had "creativity" as an ideal for two hundred or so years -- the idea that someone can create something new without reference to what came before. This can be a major stumbling block, so maybe we should just try to imitate better.

Homo Imitans — Broken Hands Media

In the arts, imitation is unavoidable: what the ideology of novelty gives is not fire stolen from on high, but permission to diverge and to imitate what your audience doesn’t know . The danger com...

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Sep 1

Cyclonopedia, a horror story masquerading we a book of theory, qualifies for me. It's full of bizarre diagrams.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Aug 27

I don't have the brainpower to pick where my attention goes right now, so I've written a couple thousand words on Twin Peaks, reception, and tragedy.

Twin Peaks as Postmodern Tragedy — Broken Hands Media

If what is being communicated could be boiled down to an utterance then perhaps a two hour movie, or a thirty-episode television show, or a novel, would not be necessary. It cannot be said.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is a lot of it, but i think that there's a metrical quality to it, too.

Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Aug 24

I learned to touch type through practice -- some of that was chatting and writing, but some was through typing games, most of which are now abandonware (so, still accessible if you know where to look.)

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is wildly inspirational. I honestly find today’s writers are … completely boring and anesthetized. It’s not just that we’re flattening culture and writing, but people’s personalities too.

Since AI is making everyone sound more generic and boring, I recommend becoming the most unhinged version of you, to counterbalance. Write like a crazy person who hasn’t interacted with humanity in years. Break any and all of the rules. Live like a mad, drunk poet. Now is your time to channel the weirdest version of you.

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm getting to really hate "lore" as a thing that people obsess over. Usually it's just a distraction, but it's getting to the point in some quarters that it's actually antithetical to good writing.

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Explanations are Unnecessary: Against Lore — Broken Hands Media

The problem is that “lore” has stopped being a fannish thing and has become something else entirely: it’s now manufactured by the creative team of a given work, collected in a very expensive book wit...

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Cameron L. Summers @cameronlsummers.bsky.social · Aug 18

This post was brought to you by my attempt to use my school's "simple syllabus" plug-in for Canvas and the approximately 80 assignments I have to prune as a result.