Lex Joy
@aeneas-nin.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
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Bath-fresh and ready for Thanksgiving!
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Bath-fresh and ready for Thanksgiving!
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timeline cleaning
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
timeline cleaning
Score a copy of my book at a discount this weekend!
Our Black Friday deal just dropped! Discount code BFCM25 at bossfightbooks.com for 20% off your order.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Score a copy of my book at a discount this weekend!
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wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
My new word of the day is "operculum," a biological/botanical term for structure that closes or covers an aperture, like the plate certain mollusks use to block the hole of their shells when they retract into it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
My new word of the day is "operculum," a biological/botanical term for structure that closes or covers an aperture, like the plate certain mollusks use to block the hole of their shells when they retract into it.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Finished up a mock-up of an rpg concept, sort of like Redwall meets The Thing. Posted it on Reddit too: www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/c...
Yes! This is my favorite Far Side comic. I had a copy taped to my wall as a kid for ages.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Yes! This is my favorite Far Side comic. I had a copy taped to my wall as a kid for ages.
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Every American should have this in their wallet:
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Every American should have this in their wallet:
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
The best play of this awful game has been that one Panthers defender leaping to the sideline to avoid a twelve-men penalty.
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The best play of this awful game has been that one Panthers defender leaping to the sideline to avoid a twelve-men penalty.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Pulled the trigger on some Gou Tanabe Lovecraft manga. Should make for good reading!
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pulled the trigger on some Gou Tanabe Lovecraft manga. Should make for good reading!
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This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This has been bothering me a lot lately, but on a broader scope. People are afraid to be original. Critiques are all the same, jokes are copy/pasted, opinions use a handful of buzzwords that don't actually describe anything. It's like drowning in a sea of masks that all wear the same face.
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if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
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Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry
Only the Cowboys could recover a fumble inside the 10 and come away with nothing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Only the Cowboys could recover a fumble inside the 10 and come away with nothing.
This one is well worth your time. You can play your protagonist all sorts of ways, and there's incentive for trying everything.
Herald: The Interactive Period Drama - Complete Edition is now 30% OFF in the #AdventureX sale event on #Steam. If you're in for a choices-matter mystery #adventuregame set on a ship in the colonial 19th century, then you're in for a treat! Now only $13.99 until December 2nd. 💜
#AdvX25 #indiedev
#AdvX25 #indiedev
Save 30% on Herald: The Interactive Period Drama – Complete Edition on Steam
Herald is a choice-driven adventure set on the high seas. Board the HLV Herald and uncover its dark secrets in an intriguing tale about tyranny and servitude.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This one is well worth your time. You can play your protagonist all sorts of ways, and there's incentive for trying everything.
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
I enjoyed Train Dreams. It really did feel like an entire life crystallized in film form.
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I enjoyed Train Dreams. It really did feel like an entire life crystallized in film form.
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
Knowing absolutely nothing about this game, I can only conclude it's about skateboarding ghosts.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Knowing absolutely nothing about this game, I can only conclude it's about skateboarding ghosts.