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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently at that field on the line is in play (which I think is an outlier among stadiums with a yellow line on outfield walls): www.mlb.com/brewers/ball...

American Family Field Ground Rules | Milwaukee Brewers

American Family Field's unique dimensions are designed to maximize every aspect of watching - and playing - America's Pastime.

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 2d

Looked like it did hit the yellow after bouncing out of the glove

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 6d

Of course now I discover the typo in my initial skeet. Life is a rich tapestry

Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 7d

I was enjoying my digital review copy of @johnhornor.bsky.social ‘s latest novel, the slow-burn nautical horror The Night That Finds Is All, until it disappeared from my device with 50 pages to go, because yesterday was the pub date. To the bookstore at once! #booksky

Cover of the novel The Night That Finds Us All by John Hornor Jacobs

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, if you care about punctuation, there’s more than one

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 12d

Mona Awad takes us back to the Bunny verse … Not as good as the original, unfortunately, but still gets under your pelt (that’s a Bunny joke, haha). Full review coming on the podcast soon. #booksky

The novel We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 12d

Some excellent choices there!

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty relevant in a (heartbreaking) novel about growing up and living with human-like robots

Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 13d

www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

Episode 08: Meta Stole Our Writing to Feed its AI — Third Person Limited

We knew Zuck was a fan of the podcast, but we didn’t know he would go so far as to dig up our old articles and use them, along with a million other books, to train Meta’s AI. Oh, you say he didn’t do ...

www.thirdpersonlimited.com

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 13d

Might be my favorite book of the year #booksky

Third Person Limited @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social · 15d

Mason really liked Silvia Park's 'Luminous'...

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 25d

Looking forward to tackling these next year

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 28d

Is it too basic to say Queen of the Black Coast?

Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 14

I need to check this out!

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 12

At this point they’re just asking ChatGPT to rephrase “both sides do it” with different words

Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 12

Enjoyed @laraehrlich.bsky.social ‘s Bind Me Tighter Still, a tale of mermaid motherhood and the fraught business of discovering and creating one’s own identity in a world that doesn’t seem like it was made for you #booksky

The cover of the novel Bind Me Tighter Still by Lara Ehrlich

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 11

That book is weird and great! He needs to publish a follow-up

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 11

Stephen King turned into a blurb machine a few years ago for sure. Maybe he can blurb my Bluesky?

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 11

Don’t think I can get to this before it’s published in two weeks. But I assume it is fair to say, “Ian McEwan has done it again!” (I’ve only read one of his other novels.) #booksky

The cover of the novel What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 10

First in line, hope you’re not jealous #booksky

Screenshot of a library hold of the book Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 9

And per the article, “employees are not yet salaried.” The future is great!

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 9

Already a lot of good words shared about @barbaratruelove.bsky.social ‘s Of Monsters and Mainframes, so I’ll just say if you ever wanted to see an AI spaceship grapple with vampires, werewolves, eldritch horrors and more, then wow do I have the perfect novel for you! #booksky

Cover image of the novel Of Monsters and Mainframes, showing a spaceship flying through a stylized set of fanged teeth

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Patricia Lockwood’s latest autobiographical novel throws us back into her head, where Long COVID and her husband’s sudden illness spark a rolling boil of emotions disguised as twee tweets and wry observations. It’s good. #booksky

The cover of Patricia Lockwood’s novel Will There Ever Be Another You, featuring a multicolored cat

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Sep 6

You Won’t Believe

Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Aug 31

This my son, Necron Omar Khan

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · Aug 28

I was opposed to the FastPass when they launched it, because it created a system of haves and have-nots. How naive I was back then! At least the pass was free.

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