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Paul Evanby

@evanby.bsky.social
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Bespoke nonsense. Author of DE SCRYPTURIST and EEN RIVIER VAN GODEN (Meulenhoff Boekerij).

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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 15h
Two cis guys & a trans woman encounter someone jogging through the desert.
Describe your favorite movie as boring as possible.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's anti-prime day at Bookshop, so if you wanted to pick up some past/present/future queer stories... why not pair 'Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity' with 'The Woods All Black?' bookshop.org/p/books/ampl...
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Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity
Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures. USA Today Bests...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For me this starts at summer solstice.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Silly me, I had no clue that music needed to be “solved”.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve seen a few. But I feel like he’s performed only on ‘special occasions’ these days. Such as 90th birthdays. Especially a large work like The Desert Music.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Favourite. Going to see it live in The Hague tomorrow.
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Standing in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ people of Turkey against these draconian human rights abuses. 🌈 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Art. #StedelijkMuseum #Grindr
Picture of a small painting in a box frame mounted on a white wall.Close-up of the painting. It resembles a screenshot from a dating app. The conversation is headed by an empty avatar and the handle “trans only”. Blue text balloon 1: “Hey”. Blue text balloon 2: “I’m DL is that ok? let’s play”. Yellow text balloon: “no.”The plaque next to the painting. Dutch & English. “JAY LYNN GOMEZ (1986). A Grindr Conversation, 2024. Acrylic on cardboard medication packaging. Acquired in 2024.”
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still have the soundtrack on CD somewhere. Hard to imagine that was the same guy who scored the LOTR movies.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Caravaggio's birthday again, good excuse to get people to watch Derek Jarman's extravagantly marvellous CARAVAGGIO (1986) (and look at some Caravaggio paintings).
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@museumbums.bsky.social Views of Milano.
DuomoDuomo
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Latest bookshop loot. (There were no unsigned copies 😏)
Book, hardcover. Two thin trees with bare branches against a white, misty background. A sticker says ‘signed copy’. THE ROUSE by China Miéville.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hoe is dit anders dan “OpenAI hackte Amerikaanse overheidswebsites”?
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Quote in question:
Même constat pour Léon XIV, qui a mis en garde contre le risque de perdre « notre humanité au milieu du paradis de machines qui envahissent et conditionnent notre quotidien ». Le pape américain, qui a fait de l’IA un thème majeur du début de son pontificat, a appelé à développer un « discernement éthique » afin que le progrès technologique demeure au service de la personne humaine et de sa dignité.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So Leo warns agains creating a "paradis de machines" thanks to "AI". Given his day job, I'm sure he's intimately familiar with the concept of paradise, so I can only assume it was his sermon writer who misspelled "enfer de machines". www.leparisien.fr/societe/reli...
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh look. Ran into some old acquaintances in Venice.
Part of a bookshop window with two books on display: NOTTE D’OTTOBRE by Roger Zelazny, and BLACK COUNTRY by Joel Lane.Part of a bookshop window with two books on display: IL CORSO DEL CUORE by M. John Harrison, and VENICE AND CINEMA - THE ROOTS OF THE MYTH by Giuseppe Ghigi.Display window and door of a small bookshop.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef...
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a canary resuscitator, which miners would use to revive canaries that had passed out from toxic gas, because ideally not only do you care, you don't even leave the bird behind. just a little mining history and not at all a furious scream
A canary in a sealed box attached to an oxygen tank
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Name an actor/actress who was cast in the wrong film. Martin Freeman in The Hobbit. He’s supposedly the Everyman, but he’s a 21st-century Everyman in a vaguely mediaeval context.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
*Anyone* sigh
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ayone still believing the stereotypical cliché that the Japanese are bad at expressing emotions should watch the final scene of Wim Wenders’ PERFECT DAYS.
Close-up of the face of a man driving a car. He appears middle-aged, sporting a neat, greying moustache and whiskers. He wears a blue jacket and a white towel around his neck. A seatbelt crosses his right shoulder. The wrinkles around his eyes may be age-related, but are also emphasized by his clearly emotional state, as is the suggestion of tears in his eyes. Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama in PERFECT DAYS.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
Four people dressed in boring office attire. Two of them are smiling as if their continued employment depends on it, one of them looks like he doesn’t care, and one of them looks like she has no clue why she’s even here, but she’s already quite sure she wants to be elsewhere in a hurry. The Macrodata Refinement group photo from Severance.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After which the writer would thank Him in tears, pull Him inside and lovingly take Him from behind, three times and at length. The subsequent 'blasphemy' trial is still the stuff of Dutch literary legend.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is the house where "God Himself would drop by in the shape of a one-year-old, mouse-grey Donkey, ring the doorbell and say: ‘Gerard, that book of yours--you know I cried at some passages?’"
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Literary fixer-upper of the month. One of the Netherlands' most (in)famous post-war writers lived and worked here in the Sixties. #GerardReve #HuizeHetGras #Greonterp www.funda.nl/detail/koop/...
Wooden front door of a small, 19th-century house, with mossy roof tiles over it. A grey plaque next to the door spells "Huize Het Gras" in capitals, flanked by pictures of an hourglass and an inkwell. Part of a window is also visible.The house from slightly farther off, with the façade largely obscured by shrubs. A green side door is partly visible. A scene clearly designed to evoke rural tranquility.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 04/09/2026
Transphobia is a trip www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Elliot Page says he isn't getting casting calls, despite praise for performance in The Odyssey | CBC News
Canadian actor Elliot Page said Tuesday that hasn't received the flurry of role offers one might expect since winning praise for his role in Christopher's Nolan's 'The Odyssey.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. Loser gets re-hired to terminate employment of some illegal immigrants, bungles most of them, and then elopes with someone else he was supposed to axe.
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The donkey toast run with George and farmily
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
B stands out. But the typography looks like an afterthought - in both cases.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Percussionist: Sounds good to me.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Moby Dick. Get Attenborough out of retirement to narrate the 49 whale documentary episodes.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
And also of course: though John Tyndall published his work on the greenhouse effect only five years later, climate change is still being ignored when inconvenient, to this day.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
TIL that Eunice Foote published empirical evidence of the relationship between greater amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change in 1856. ‘Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays’ (Am. J. Sci. Arts 22, 382–383 (1856)) Of course, being a woman, no one paid attention.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Now at the “radioactive jellyfish” stage of the ongoing apocalypse. www.edf.fr/actualites-d...
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And there we go: over 500 reports of homophobic discrimination during the event. nos.nl/l/2626285
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Ruim 500 meldingen van discriminatie tijdens WorldPride
De meeste meldingen komen van mensen die op straat of in het ov worden uitgescholden of geïntimideerd.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s that time again. “If you see me, weep.” www.msn.com/en-ca/weathe...
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WorldPride March, Amsterdam: nos.nl/l/2626058
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Duizenden mensen liepen de WorldPride March: 'Zonder haters was er geen Pride'
WorldPride werd op zaterdag afgesloten in Amsterdam met de WorldPride March.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I supposed you did it on purpose, and I thought “okay I’ll bite”.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If his crew doesn’t resort to eating the richest.
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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 07/08/2026
Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'." www.theguardian.com/technology/c...
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One of science fiction’s greatest writers warned us about a AI. Does he also hold the remedy? | Alan Finkel
What might a modern day equivalent of Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics look like? Guided by the author, I propose the three laws of AI
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Don't forget to read and vote for the Ignyte Awards! The deadline is August 16th, and "Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity" is nominated alongside so many excellent books and stories.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fuck Harry Potter. Go read A Wizard of Earthsea.
Book cover. Hilly landscape. In the distance: a cloaked figure carrying a staff. A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
All it needs is a Charybdis somewhere.
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Ivor Tymchak @ivor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Be a firefighter. That's a job AI is actually going to help create.
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Paul Evanby @evanby.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
*standing up on the plane* A screaming comes across the sky!
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