Dexter Palmer
@dexterpalmer.bsky.social
Author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion (St. Martin's, 2010), Version Control (Pantheon, 2016), Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (Pantheon, 2019), and a work in progress (Pantheon, when it's done).
Going to take a social media sabbatical for a bit to get some thinking/writing done (not that anyone's livelihood hinges on whether I'm on here or not, but posting this in public makes me hold myself accountable)
November 11, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Going to take a social media sabbatical for a bit to get some thinking/writing done (not that anyone's livelihood hinges on whether I'm on here or not, but posting this in public makes me hold myself accountable)
I know $125 sounds like a lot for a two-volume set, but if you have any interest in film, the red volume here is one of the very best making-of books you'll ever read, and the brown scrapbook is an amazing bonus. (I read this in the previous limited edition and still feel I got my money's worth)
www.taschen.com
November 11, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I know $125 sounds like a lot for a two-volume set, but if you have any interest in film, the red volume here is one of the very best making-of books you'll ever read, and the brown scrapbook is an amazing bonus. (I read this in the previous limited edition and still feel I got my money's worth)
For reasons I don't even know, but that surely aren't good, I followed this up tonight with Freddy Got Fingered, and (a) it's as bad as I'd heard; (b) it has nearly the same plot (or lack thereof) as The Comedy (an obnoxious manchild makes an ass of himself in public with no consequences)
Watched The Comedy (2012) last night—deliberately unfunny and alienating; didn't like it while I was watching it but afterward I got what it was going for (I've crossed paths with trust-fund failsons like the protagonist who were hollow in that way). A well-made film I'll never watch again
November 11, 2024 at 4:02 AM
For reasons I don't even know, but that surely aren't good, I followed this up tonight with Freddy Got Fingered, and (a) it's as bad as I'd heard; (b) it has nearly the same plot (or lack thereof) as The Comedy (an obnoxious manchild makes an ass of himself in public with no consequences)
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focus on your fake numbers and miss out on the real vibe
Asked a famous writer why he is still on Twitter, and the reply was "90 thousand people are still here, following me. When my numbers near 90K on Threads or Bluesky, I'll shut this down."
November 11, 2024 at 1:11 AM
focus on your fake numbers and miss out on the real vibe
I tried this today ("cooking oil solidifier," see the QT)—I did not have the experience of slipping a single yellow pancake into the trash as described below, but it still made cleanup easier
Did not know this existed--game-changing
A niche cleaning product I totally forgot about: cooking oil solidifier. After you deep fry something you sprinkle this in and it turns the oil into a solid waste.
November 11, 2024 at 12:45 AM
I tried this today ("cooking oil solidifier," see the QT)—I did not have the experience of slipping a single yellow pancake into the trash as described below, but it still made cleanup easier
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And this data cuts off at September 2024. I can only imagine what the hemorrhage has been like over the last week.
Twitter has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active user base in the U.S. and a whopping one-third in the UK. mashable.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.
The former Twitter continues its decline under Musk.
mashable.com
November 11, 2024 at 12:37 AM
And this data cuts off at September 2024. I can only imagine what the hemorrhage has been like over the last week.
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going to try to move forward with the confidence of the democratic party sending a fundraising email on november 9th, 2024
November 10, 2024 at 1:40 AM
going to try to move forward with the confidence of the democratic party sending a fundraising email on november 9th, 2024
Interesting interview with Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, and how he's dealt with a long career that really only had one winner, early on (but what a winner it was)
After the Triumph of Tetris, an Unsolved Puzzle
Alexey Pajitnov, who created the ubiquitous game in 1984, opens up about his failed projects and his desire to design another hit.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Interesting interview with Alexey Pajitnov, creator of Tetris, and how he's dealt with a long career that really only had one winner, early on (but what a winner it was)
Site has been feeling a little more Twitter-ish these past few days—every time there's an influx from there the social norms get challenged
November 10, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Site has been feeling a little more Twitter-ish these past few days—every time there's an influx from there the social norms get challenged
Looks like rain in New Jersey, the first time I've thought that in over a month
November 10, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Looks like rain in New Jersey, the first time I've thought that in over a month
Watched The Comedy (2012) last night—deliberately unfunny and alienating; didn't like it while I was watching it but afterward I got what it was going for (I've crossed paths with trust-fund failsons like the protagonist who were hollow in that way). A well-made film I'll never watch again
November 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Watched The Comedy (2012) last night—deliberately unfunny and alienating; didn't like it while I was watching it but afterward I got what it was going for (I've crossed paths with trust-fund failsons like the protagonist who were hollow in that way). A well-made film I'll never watch again
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Hello BlueSky! Will This Be A Problem? is a Kenyan literary journal dedicated to publishing the best in African speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as insightful essays and book reviews. Check out our website & follow us for more Afro-SFFH! willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
Will This Be A Problem?
Will This Be A Problem is a literary journal that publishes speculative fiction, sci-fi, fantasy and horror, by writers from Africa and the diaspora.
willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
November 8, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Hello BlueSky! Will This Be A Problem? is a Kenyan literary journal dedicated to publishing the best in African speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as insightful essays and book reviews. Check out our website & follow us for more Afro-SFFH! willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
Did not know this existed--game-changing
A niche cleaning product I totally forgot about: cooking oil solidifier. After you deep fry something you sprinkle this in and it turns the oil into a solid waste.
November 9, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Did not know this existed--game-changing
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lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"
November 9, 2024 at 3:51 PM
lots of "by any means necessary" guys amped up by the possibility that the necessary means might be "risking horrifically violent death at the hands of militias and/or the state" but strangely unwilling to consider that they might be "doing the dishes" or "making common cause with winemoms"
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and you can read it here. was written in the days following trump’s first win. after californian voters failed to outlaw slavery in prisons* it feels like I could have written it this week www.vice.com/en/article/f...
November 9, 2024 at 7:45 AM
and you can read it here. was written in the days following trump’s first win. after californian voters failed to outlaw slavery in prisons* it feels like I could have written it this week www.vice.com/en/article/f...
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Once again, I am begging you to include a url with your screen grab quotes
November 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Once again, I am begging you to include a url with your screen grab quotes
Was saying to a friend that my allergies are the worst they've ever been since moving up north and I've never had them in November, and she pointed out, "It's never been this warm and this dry for this long here in November, either," and I thought, "Yeah, I'm still washing pollen off my car"
November 9, 2024 at 4:30 AM
Was saying to a friend that my allergies are the worst they've ever been since moving up north and I've never had them in November, and she pointed out, "It's never been this warm and this dry for this long here in November, either," and I thought, "Yeah, I'm still washing pollen off my car"
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yes. and the first step toward understanding what happened is actually taking the agency of ordinary people seriously. there are questions to ask about the kind of society we have built and you can’t begin to tackle them if your starting position is the people are mindless hogs
It's the 'they can't help themselves, the poor dears' that's the real condescension to voters. Expecting them to know what they want, to understand their choices, and to vote those choices is what respect means.
November 8, 2024 at 9:27 PM
yes. and the first step toward understanding what happened is actually taking the agency of ordinary people seriously. there are questions to ask about the kind of society we have built and you can’t begin to tackle them if your starting position is the people are mindless hogs
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If you're publishing a book in 2025 or know anyone publishing a book in 2025, lemme know. Still working out the deets, but I'll be helping out w/ a new Toronto reading series & am on the hunt for amazing/surprising/charming authors
November 7, 2024 at 7:39 PM
If you're publishing a book in 2025 or know anyone publishing a book in 2025, lemme know. Still working out the deets, but I'll be helping out w/ a new Toronto reading series & am on the hunt for amazing/surprising/charming authors
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I don't typically single out bad accounts, but this "science girl" was notorious on twitter for never crediting content, often with erroneous caption, and blocking people who point out the errors.
Even if you're not using my block list, please don't let this account take off.
Even if you're not using my block list, please don't let this account take off.
@franzanth.bsky.social Could you please add @gunsnrosesgirl3.bsky.social to Content Scrapers if it’s not already there?
November 6, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I don't typically single out bad accounts, but this "science girl" was notorious on twitter for never crediting content, often with erroneous caption, and blocking people who point out the errors.
Even if you're not using my block list, please don't let this account take off.
Even if you're not using my block list, please don't let this account take off.
I'm going to bed—whatever news is in the paper tomorrow, a hangover won't make it any better. Good luck to us all
November 6, 2024 at 4:23 AM
I'm going to bed—whatever news is in the paper tomorrow, a hangover won't make it any better. Good luck to us all
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I’ve been reading Stephen King’s IT for a month and it really just feels like half of Derry misses Pennywise the Clown.
November 6, 2024 at 4:15 AM
I’ve been reading Stephen King’s IT for a month and it really just feels like half of Derry misses Pennywise the Clown.
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I think this is the key
we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory
and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see
we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory
and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see
There's obviously something so profoundly fucked about the way most people get information.
November 6, 2024 at 3:25 AM
I think this is the key
we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory
and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see
we are all sitting here asking how the fuck THIS campaign - this awful fucking campaign - from a visibly declining Trump results in quite possibly not only an EC victory but a PV victory
and the answer is that most people no longer see what we see
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Folks: Don't Red Wave yourself.
The race so far shows that country is more polarized, w/rural areas swinging to Trump by ~5 and suburban/urban areas swinging to Harris by we don't yet know bc they're not counted, but in some cities turnout is historic.
There are FAR more people in latter areas.
The race so far shows that country is more polarized, w/rural areas swinging to Trump by ~5 and suburban/urban areas swinging to Harris by we don't yet know bc they're not counted, but in some cities turnout is historic.
There are FAR more people in latter areas.
November 6, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Folks: Don't Red Wave yourself.
The race so far shows that country is more polarized, w/rural areas swinging to Trump by ~5 and suburban/urban areas swinging to Harris by we don't yet know bc they're not counted, but in some cities turnout is historic.
There are FAR more people in latter areas.
The race so far shows that country is more polarized, w/rural areas swinging to Trump by ~5 and suburban/urban areas swinging to Harris by we don't yet know bc they're not counted, but in some cities turnout is historic.
There are FAR more people in latter areas.