Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 22/09/2026Next book is Opus by Gareth Gore. When the Pope calls a book a “rigorous piece of work” and you’re a lapsed Catholic that’s married to a Catholic who’s very frustrated with the church and loves your recaps of @clairewillett.bsky.social threads, well, you put your name on the waitlist 3376
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 19/09/2026So it would be weird if it happened twice, right? (Source: www.adweek.com/brand-market...) 120
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 15/09/2026“Anyway Musk’s dad apparently has two kids with his stepdaughter” 0541
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 09/09/2026My wife is good about letting our neighbors take clippings from the garden and has built up quite a little fan club. Today a neighbor dropped off some eggs from their chickens and (I think?) quails. I ask in all seriousness: what should I do with the quail eggs? 000
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 06/09/2026Next up is This Inevitable Ruin, another Dungeon Crawler Carl. Each book is a floor of the dungeon and @mattdinniman.bsky.social makes a bold artistic choice by flashing forward from the third floor to the ninth. It’s definitely that and not that I screwed up which book to reserve at the library 040
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 31/08/2026Next book is @scalzi.com’s Lock In. It takes place after a global pandemic from a flu like illness which can cause long term neurological damage. Also everyone is trying to move on and pretend it never happened. It came out in 2014 so it ruins the “Novel of the near future” tagline for everyone else 001
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 18/08/2026*wonders what’s going on here and starts scrolling back and back and back and… dear God* 1200
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 18/08/2026My next book is Bog Queen by @annanorth.bsky.social. This one was pushed by my wife and kid who couldn’t say enough good things about it 110
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 05/08/2026Here’s that one image that everyone is thinking of right now 060
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 20/07/2026Next up is The Ghosts of Iron Mountain by @philtinline.bsky.social and I’m going in blind. It was recommended by someone here on Bluesky and it just popped up available at my library. Personally I don’t see how a paper shredding company gets a whole book but y’all haven’t steered me wrong yet 261
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 09/07/2026What I imagine your next live read thread will look like 040
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 01/07/2026I’m genuinely wondering if this is legal in California. Everyone in my neighborhood hates this truck because it’s as obnoxiously loud as it is big. The hood clears the top of our CRV 000
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/06/2026Unlike the parrots that hang out in our neighborhood these guys a pretty quiet 000
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/06/2026Two red masked parakeets looking for sunflower seeds in my yard 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 25/06/2026I don’t tend to binge books like this but the library was slow to get Sourcery to me so I put Guards! Guards! on the list and got them both at the same time 200
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 14/06/2026My next read was kind of inevitable. I’ve got a good reading habit going which means I’m always on the lookout for books I haven’t read, I’m on Bluesky and I follow @rincewind.run. “Well? Are you going to read the Discworld books or not?” was bound to come up at some point 200
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 28/05/2026My next book is @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com’s Oathbreakers. Knowing very little about the Carolingian empire and civil war I’m finding it to a good and accessible history so far 2234
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 19/05/2026One weird trick to balance the budget. How much would a “Make SDPD pay settlements and overtime out of their budget” checkbox be worth? 0112
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 26/04/2026My next train read is Grass by Sheri S. Tepper. I know nothing about this book. I just put my name on the waitlist at my library after @scalzi.com’s recommendation of “Dune world building with feminism” and it finally popped up 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 20/04/2026If you see this, post something orange from your gallery. 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 09/04/2026I have a feeling we’re going to be breaking this one out a lot 060
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 08/04/2026He’s not exactly wrong but I don’t think @edzitron.com had to put me on blast like this 000
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 08/04/2026Next book is These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs. I’m still early in but I can say that for a space opera with a lot of moving parts it gets through its setup at a good pace so it impresses early 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 26/03/2026My next train read is the third in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series which is train themed, so that’s neat. It’s as much fun as I’ve come to expect from the series and the hook for this one looks especially interesting 110
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 20/03/2026Your ship is probably stuck on the 5 freeway. They might have missed this sign 060
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 07/03/2026Next train read is Fat Leonard by Craig Whitlock. Living in San Diego I’m familiar with the story since a lot of the flag officers he bribed were based here 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 07/03/2026“Starfleet Academy is just plain fun” is my Star Trek opinion that’ll get this kind of reaction from Bluesky 040
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 05/03/2026If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation. 010
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 25/02/2026Next up is Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove, which is definitely more on the lighter side. So far it reads as scifi-horror with a pretty wide comedic streak 100
Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 17/02/2026Yesterday’s storm wasn’t too bad but the window box possum did come back for shelter 042
