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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Who shall blame him?" -- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf #reading

Book cover of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't get pets at the same time. Stagger them by at least a few years. I'm at the vet with my dog Bolaño and it doesn't look like good news. He's 14 and it looks like he has a mass near vital organs. This has been a tough year for losing pets.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My wrists were starting to get increasingly sore after typing sessions so I decided train myself on one of those fancy modern keyboard layouts. Very humbling. I went from about 70wpm (I'm not a touch type wizard) to about 6wpm in my first sessions.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finished all my summer reads just in time to start on Autumn's more contemplative stuff. I don't plan seasonal reading but it always works out that way. Dying leaves... winter death... my own mortality. I think that's how it goes.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Also the sea tosses itself and breaks itself, and should any sleeper fancying that he might find on the beach an answer to his doubts, a sharer of his solitude, throw off his bedclothes and go down by himself to walk on the sand, no image with..." -- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mentally preparing for October. I haven't had time to watch very many movies this year but all that changes as soon as Spooky Season hits and I review on avg. 3 horror films per day. Last year I focused on 1981. This year???

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My love for Emacs only deeps by the day. Every writer should know about this! Today I set up a key bind that automatically adds Roman numeral counted section breaks exactly the way I want them to look within a chapter. C-c s. Or as I like to say C-se puede!

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Lily Briscoe watched her drifting into that strange no-man’s land where to follow people is impossible and yet their going inflicts such a chill on those who watch them that they always try at least to follow them with their eyes as one follows..." -- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The idea of the super hero has never been more problematic than it is in this issue. Was it ever a good idea to assert the individual's agency over the collective? -- Absolute Wonder Woman #5, Kelly Thompson/Hayden Sherman #comics

Comic panel from Absolute Wonder Woman #5, art by Kelly Thompson/Hayden Sherman

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And on again we query. When we're mad, we query. When we're sad, we query. When we feel a little hungry... we query! Query! Query!

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don't know the history but I'm thinking San Mateo must be the patron saint of bad timing.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm out walking Bolaño and it's like, hey man, I also want to be a lyrical gangster but I have to go back and read Ivy + Bean to my kid after this fella gives up his business THERE'S NO TIME, SAN MATEO

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The beginning of the school year is madness in Oviedo. Nevermind the chaos of organizing extracurricular schedules and getting into a new routine, we also have a citywide week-long raging party called San Mateo in parallel. People wo kids seem to love it...

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Zarathustra would make a great name for a cat.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Noticing the exaltation of strong will everywhere now that I'm paying attention to it. I never read Nietzsche but didn't he have something to say about it?

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"For several hundred years now, the ideal self of the West has been striving to secure its freedom by rendering the external world fully pliable to its will." -- The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford, Matthew B. #reading

Book cover of The World Beyond Your Head by Crawford, Matthew B.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"To continue to insist that preferences express the sovereign self and are for that reason sacred—unavailable for rational scrutiny—is to put one’s head in the sand." -- The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford, Matthew B. #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am fully ready to leave Summer behind and get back to work. Fall weather can't come fast enough for me. I can't wait for sweaters and hot drinks and rusty leaves and rain. Lots and lots of rain.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I just hooked up Emacs to be my exclusive text editor in webforms and I feel like a genius.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"There is another way to think about these things. What if the coherence of a life is in some significant way a function of culture" -- The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford, Matthew B. #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"When some people treat the minds of other people as a resource, this is not “creating wealth,” it is a transfer.5" -- The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford, Matthew B. #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Chainsmoker Cat perplexes me. It dares you to dismiss it but you just... can't! The opening credits reference everything from Dumb and Dumber to Trainspotting to Lotr, Ready or Not, Fallen Angels, and Farewell, Friend?? And the animation is irrationally good. Still deciding on this one.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"It was necessary now to carry everything a step further." -- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Over the last month I've been working with Ai on a set of design documents that would make my desktop customized in way that supported a calmer environment. The world is... a lot and I need a little more space and quiet.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"It was all too possible." -- The Killing Machine, Jack Vance #reading

Book cover of The Killing Machine by Jack Vance

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Nearing the end of summer and my pies are getting better. Roasted pineapple tossed in rum sugar in a brown butter crust.

Roasted pineapple in rum sugar and a brown butter crust.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"What if, by some fantastic set of circumstances, he succeeded in avenging the Mount Pleasant cataclysm upon all five of the Demon Princes – what then? Would he be able to retire, to buy country land, to woo and wed, to breed children?" -- The Killing Machine, Jack Vance #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, It’s a miracle, it’s an ecstasy." -- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A hot, grey cloud rolled over Asturias after the eclipse. Everything this August is dripping wet. I hate it and I'm sorry it's almost over.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"‘But did he love me when he was begetting me,’ he asks, wondering more and more. ‘Did he beget me for my own sake?" -- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky #reading

Book cover of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"What is intelligence?Why, responded the EMINENCE, it is no more than a human occupation; an activity which men put their brains to, as a frog kicks his legs to swim; it is a standard which men in their egotism use to measure other and perhaps nobler..." -- The Star King, Jack Vance #reading

Book cover of The Star King by Jack Vance

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"In the opposite case, if the father can give no proof— the family is finished then and there: he is not a father to his son, and the son is free and has the right henceforth to look upon his father as a stranger and even as his enemy." -- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Ivan says that a man ‘with good inclinations’ can be of more use in America than under the ground. Well, and where will our underground hymn take place? Forget America, America means vanity again!" -- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"But was young Boasthard's fear vanquished by Calmer's words? No, for he had in his bosom a spike named Bitterness which could not by words be done away." -- Ulysses, James Joyce #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life." -- The Star King, Jack Vance #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm always interested in following debut novelists and here are some of my fav who have been published by some of my fav publishers recently.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My best pie yet. Blueberry lemon with toasted merengue and a vanilla nutmeg crust.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitable by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by..." -- Ulysses, James Joyce #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I'm suffering through the "Oxen of the sun" section of Ulysses. I think I admire this novel more than I like it.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Perhaps he longed to see his father after so many years of separation; perhaps a thousand times before then, recalling his childhood as if in sleep, he had driven away the loathsome ghosts of his childhood dreams, and longed with all..." -- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky #reading

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"With grace of alacrity towards the mirror gilt Cantrell and Cochrane's she turned herself. With grace she tapped a measure of gold whisky from her crystal keg. Fourth from the skirt of his coat Mr Dedalus brought pouch and pipe. Alacrity she served." -- Ulysses, James Joyce #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Pitching a movie to Pixar about the "whees!" born from every popped cork of champagne. Kids are gonna love it.

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Her secrets: old feather fans, tasselled dancecards, powdered with musk, a gaud of amber beads in her locked drawer. A birdcage hung in the sunny window of her house when she was a girl." -- Ulysses, James Joyce #reading

Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I want Netflix to start releasing new cuts of movies made for people who actually watch them without looking at their phones. 90 minutes tops. The "I Pay Attention" Cut.

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Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you, like me, want to keep abreast of issues, interests, and creative ideas coming out of a mostly diasporic Latinx community this list is for you. Some of the most interesting content I get in my feed comes from writers here.