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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 1d

Horse eBooks: "Everything happens so much"

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 1d

RF would be excellent but I feel like JM could be relied upon to absolutely sell that he wants to bang miss piggy

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 2d

I deal with new books professionally and I see an absolute christload come through. I've never seen a self-published book that didn't suffer for lack of design or editing.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 2d

the only acceptable remake at this stage is muppet remakes, with just one singular human actor. Muppet Dune with Jason Momoa. Muppet Wicked with Michelle Yeoh. Muppet Conclave with Stanley Tucci

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 2d

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 2d

"Lyrical" is generally a synonym for "wank".

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3d

Menswear Guy increasingly seems like the only one who really studied the blade, is the thing.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 3d

only when you are in this particular state, the rest of the time its just a chill cloud of locusts

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 3d

it was this - I was like Oh Noes Dave Has The Covid and went to your page to confirm and the rest of your posts were like putting my head in a swarm of locusts

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 3d

i was actively cruising through your page trying to figure out what was wonky and this makes perfect sense

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 4d

Why do people keep putting him in things? No one wants this

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8d

I was thinking the taylor backlash was getting silly - bad album, who cares - but the degree of prerelease marketing/ merchandising is pretty gross

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 8d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 8d

I mean - what the fuck

HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 8d

In a lot of ways I'm still recovering from seeing a duck on top of a bell tower

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 8d

We are bringing back “Sphincter Boy” as an insult. We are growing waynepilled and we are garthmaxxing

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 9d

I know, it was a sincere sentiment!

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HogSandwich @hogsandwich.bsky.social · 9d

Might be a good time to subscribe to Teen Vogue

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · Dec 17

Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."