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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I keep looking on goodreads for considered and earnest negative reviews of books I'm still processing and thinking about but instead finding reviews that were apparently written by people outclassed by anything more complex than Green Eggs and Ham but who blame that on the author

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very funny of the Lanterns show to have Hal Jordan, the first human Green Lantern who has been succeeded by...6? 7? more characters as "the" Green Lantern but who nevertheless is still slingin that ring, spit out "you'll never replace me" and be so bitter about it

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Star Wars Zero Company is a fantastic game and I hope Bit Reactor goes on to make more fantastic games

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why is the Mr Rogers youtube channel suddenly gone without a trace

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hooooly SHIT, Zero Company just did something EXTREMELY nasty and clever

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

He pictured Ginger, back on the beach. I want to be the most famous person in the whole world. Perhaps that was something new, come to think of it. Not ambition for gold, or power, or land or all the things that were familiar parts of the human world. Just ambition to be yourself, as big as possible. Not ambition for, but to be.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh God, Tim Curry too? God. That really stings.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

whoaaaa we did a shelved by genre bonus episode "halfway through tolkien" q&a session!!! michael did not make a video promo because he got food poisoning but if this gets one hundred reposts he will post a picture of the bloody eye he got from throwing up so much www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/08/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“You’ll accept the food?”
“We are a proud country.”
“What are you proud of?”
It came swiftly, like a blow, and Polly realized how wars happened. You took that shock that had run through her, and let it boil.
. . . it may be corrupt, benighted, and stupid, but it’s ours . . .

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/08/2026

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The worst thing about owning every Discworld book is when you run out of books on vacation you can't go and buy a new Discworld book

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Terry Pratchett coming up with the character of Granny Weatherwax is one of the all time triumphs of writing, a nearly untouchable success. And then he did it AGAIN with Tiffany Aching

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I tried reading those 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' books people seem keen on and now I'm in favor of AI replacing at least *some* authors.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman is the worst book I've read in years.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Oh fuck, Genndy Tartakovsky is making a Conan? That fucking ruuuuules

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I've hit some shaky books in the last couple weeks and I've decided not to mention their names when I complain about them here but Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, you gotta hide what you're stealing from better than this

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sometimes books are hundreds and hundreds of pages because the author didn't know what to cut and sometimes books are 80% too short because the author couldn't wait to get to "the good stuff"

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

You ever read a book that isn't very good and then look at the reviews and wonder whether everyone else got a different copy than you

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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

There was a time in which saying "I pay my taxes" was synonymous with "I generally believe in the social contract"

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Terry and Rhianna Pratchett dressed up for the launch of Dodger in 2012.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If I could wish one single book into existence, it would be a post-covid Tiffany Aching novel. Community and responsibility are so important in those books and I would have dearly loved seeing the pandemic experience processed through Tiffany.

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

there is going to be years of your life in the future where you dont hear or read a post of someone doing a donald trump impression. you are never going to see a political cartoon where he is a squat little orange guy with the long red tie again. green grass and blue sky stretching on forever

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Eat shit and fuck off you wizened ghoul, you croaking pestilential toad

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Man, the Twilight Zone is good

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 04/02/2026

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

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A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

He was just a regular person, and that’s fine! So am I. So are you. So are most people. We do not deserve to be murdered by the state and our reputations slandered by fucking idiots, and that’s something most of us can agree on

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A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

living sainthood, in a real way, is walking out to do the ordinary, dangerous thing of insisting on your neighbor's dignity in a world that will kill you for it. holy holy holy

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Rizmy (リズミー) @r1zmy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Begging leftists not to dismiss the crucial role of radical clergy in mass protest movements as happened so often during his first term. At every one of my most formative experiences, they’ve been there. The most brutal violence I’ve experienced at a protest was side by side with radical clergy.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The real Christmas miracle is the speed at which I moved to take the knife away from my wife before she lost a limb trying to open a package

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I would love to watch a trailer for an animated adaptation of Hyperion. Doesn't even need to be a full film, just a trailer of some old 1970s Metal Hurlant-style sci-fi art. Don't even need to see the Shrike.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Pillars of Eternity Deadfire is a phenomenal game with a deep flaw running through its heart. Hugely wish there were more games like it, both in that series and completely separate from it.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

M. Night Shyamalan's film Lady in the Water is the first of his movies that made me think he doesn't know how to tell a story.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I wish Pillars of Eternity I and II had a greater influence. I wish Baldur's Gate 3 had tried to bite their style.

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ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @ellenteapot.ca · 26/11/2025

this is pretty solid spiritual advice tbh “Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Every now and again I think about how I should branch out from my normal book choices but my wife just gave me the summary of the Pulitzer winning literary novel she just finished and I am just going to burrow happily deeper into my genre hole.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

@rangedtouch.bsky.social Listening to the new Shelved by Genre and I know it's been a while since he's read the books but has anyone pointed out to Austin that even if he only wears the Ring while recording, one episode will be more than Frodo's entire lifetime total?

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

In particular Aneesh Bhoopathy, from the design coop Forge, who designed the identity. A brilliant reminder to *employ human creatives!* www.curbed.com/article/zohr...

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Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo

The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

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Connor @connorrooke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I've had two (2) alcoholic drinks and now I'm sitting alone in my kitchen eating grilled cheese and getting emotional thinking about Sam Vimes

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

fuck me!! that horse is big!!

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