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Stephen Graham King @stephengrahamking.com · 4h

"AI accidentally made me believe in the concept of a human soul by showing me what art looks like without it."

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 8h

It's kind of a *perfect example* of a Farscape episode, isn't it?

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, Rygel loses his mind when he realizes that we just let anyone who wants to buy the addictive drug called "sugar" and goes on a massive candy bender. That's such a great episode.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 8h

This is a good and correct take. One reason I loved the mass-market paperback is that all but the most lengthy ones could fit in a coat pocket!

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 8h

the physical dimensions a book is published in is a limiting factor in people's ability to read it while commuting. I'm surprised more people don't admit this. I got a kindle so i could read longer/larger books.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 8h

Using the online form to unsubscribe from Paramount Plus, I selected the "Other" reason, and included the feedback, "I'm disgusted that in a blatant display of currying favor with Trump and his fascist cabal, your parent company has installed Bari Weiss - a racist, far-right propagandist with zero experience in anything to do with real journalism - as the head of CBS news. You're fascists or cowards and you don't get my money for that."

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 8h

I cancelled my Paramount+ subscription, and made it clear that it's because of the company currying favor with Trump and installing Weiss as head of CBS news. I'll miss streaming Star Trek shows, but the values Star Trek taught me means I can't support a company that enables fascism.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Lois is so put out by the whole thing - like, "I'm a serious investigative journalist, Perry, and you assign me this Hollywood fluff piece?!" - while Clark is obviously hurt that he's not the one getting the fun acting lessons.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

AMAZING.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

I *never knew about this*!

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 1d

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Since I see posts talking about the Garlic book again, the stunt is doing its job, a reminder: Countess does not smell like Trinidadian food but it will make you want to eat Trinidadian food.

Which SFFH books make you hungry?

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, that's a common impression of method acting, and that's my point. Hollywood jerks have turned an entire school of acting with a rich intellectual tradition into ego-driven macho posturing about being an asshole at all times on set. I read enough Stanislavsky to know that's nonsense.

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing directly, it's just that Jared Leto has a lot of allegations of really unpleasant behavior, including on-set behavior partly due to his take on method acting. So a lot of people feel a touch of schadenfreude when a movie he's in fails. And it brings up method acting in the Discourse.

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 1d

The box office failure of the new TRON has people talking about Jared Leto and his abusive "Method" acting again, and it always makes me sad when their understanding of the Method is based on that sad, macho-posturing caricature of Stanislavsky, Adler, and Strasburg's techniques and teaching.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like you write one, two, maybe even three kinky nurse novels for the money. But four? That's not a gig anymore, it's a vocation.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

To be clear, this is bad! But it's bad because Trump's coziness with an authoritarian petrostate will foster more corruption, bad foreign policy decisions, and human rights abuses in the Gulf. Not because they're going to use Qatari jets as proxies to attack Canada or domestic political opponents.

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

My friend, please don't rely on the AI summary, it's so often wrong! There are Canadian, British, German, Dutch, miscellaneous NATO member, and Singaporean military personnel stationed at US bases right now. Some in dedicated facilities they operate themselves. This is not a secret Qatari invasion.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

I believe some do. The training programs vary in how they're organized but my understanding is that some countries do have their own dedicated facilities on existing US bases - mostly NATO countries but Singapore has one on the same US air base Qatar will be using.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

Since WW2 to one degree or another, but the deeper integration you're probably thinking of since NORAD was established in the 50s!

Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

And honestly, if the Americans really want to attack us, they're not going to outsource the job to the Qataris.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

Respectfully, you're overthinking this. It sounds like this is a training facility so Qatari pilots can get trained on US-bought planes. The US trains all kinds of foreign militaries and paramilitaries at bases on their soil all the time. This is just Trump's corrupt coziness with Qatar again.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

A slice of processed cheese between the two halves of a freshly-toasted, margarine-slathered English muffin.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. Have I ever received one? Have you? No. Seems sus.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like Kermit is the frog I aspire to be and Fozzie is the bear I actually am.

Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 4d

Who is your favorite muppet? Personally, I would kill if anyone so much as thought about harming a hair on Janice's head, while Joelle is a big fan of Sweetums.

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 5d

He's going to be so frickin' mad when he doesn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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