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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...

Batman’s aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lmao sometimes feels like tech people are in kindergarten tier English class!!!! We are currently paying *crazy money* for these people to realise something humanities grads understand and can wield expertly for less than the price of this bad software

resonated with me. As someone still experimenting and learning with Al filmmaking, I'm finding that generating something visually impressive is becoming easier, but creating something that actually makes people feel something is the real challenge.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I submitted the final manuscript for Beast Mode: Adventures in the Heart of the Gaming Industry. Writing nonfiction is *terrifying*.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Going through final comments on my manuscript. Rocking back and forth like a child in a movie who will later turn out to have psychic powers.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The elevator in my therapist’s building looks like I dreamed it.

Old elevator panel has extra buttons labeled YES and NO.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It took me this long to find out that Duke Nukem isn't a duke. He's just a guy whose first name is Duke.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

snatcher, screenshot, sega cd (1994) www.mobygames.com/game/7524/sn...

green caps text on a black background:
this story is dedicated
to all those cyberpunks
who fight against injustice
and corruption every day
of their lives.

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Brian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Once again, I must point to the official statement from Toyota. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/a...

A clip from the NYT that reads: “Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. 'It is not our proudest product placement,' he said. 'But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability.'”

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Used bookstore haul. Dogtown Bookstore, Gloucester MA.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I can't believe somebody in this film won Best Supporting Actress and it wasn't Elaine Stewart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjS...

youtube.com

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) . I saw the picture. Thought you were swell.

YouTube video by Eddieshoes77

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm reposting this because Ezra Pound and his wife didn't feel like having a daughter so they gave the baby to Tyrolean peasants, and she lived a hundred years and died owning a castle in Italy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

nytimes.com

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

maybe the wrong people are doing the Neuromancer adaptation

Menswear atalogue model pretends to be a computer hacker

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Q: Is J. D. Vance the first person in the White House since Nixon to face the supernatural threat to our nation's security? A: No. The Clintons were far too curious about what Nixon had buried beneath the Oval Office. The situation quickly got out of control. SOMEBODY PLEASE PAY ME TO WRITE THIS

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

gamers were a mistake

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Subway tale: As I read the latest @lrb.co.uk, I observe the man seated across from me is reading the very same issue. Neither of us acknowledges the other. Fin.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I stumbled on Heather O’Neill’s novel Lullabies for a little criminals and it’s stunningly good. I tried The Lonely Hearts Hotel but it’s so drenched in whimsy I can’t deal. But it still has great sentences.

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the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trump gives them spectacle. Musk gives them infrastructure. ICE gives them force. Data centers give them extraction. The fight moves local because that’s where the machine touches land, water, housing, and bodies.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Why are video games so goddamn hard nowadays?

Video game requires me to live an a honest life.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Well for some of us that's EVERY fucking summer.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Guy on the NY subway absolutely gripped by the D&D manual he’s reading.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The lineup will still be amazing, though. We promise. The slot formerly occupied by a performance from the Commodores will now be filled with the sound of a lone Gadsden flag flapping on its pole. The slot formerly occupied by Milli Vanilli will be taken by a dog whistle, being blown into the microphone very loudly so that everyone winces and covers their ears. The slot formerly occupied by Bret Michaels will be taken by Stephen Miller standing silently and staring until the hairs stand up on the back of your neck and the very air around you curdles. You were holding a flower in your hand, but when you look down at the flower, it has withered. So has the hand holding it.
Your youth! Your youth! What has become of your youth? In your arms, your baby begins to cry and cry and will not be soothed.
Sometimes, at night, the baby startles awake and you know whose visage has come to cast its shadow on his dream. (Stephen is also available for birthday parties.)

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@merriam-webster.com Your entry for SCRIPS includes an erroneous example. "During the four-and-a-half-month program, filmmakers develop their scrips and network with industry professionals." —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026 Sorry to bother you. My insomnia is bad enough as it is.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I found a dollar at the bodega and handed it in to the guy at the cashier like he was a lost and found. He said "Do you want it?" I said "Yeah, I kind of do."

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I had to install Microsoft Authenticator on my Apple phone to get Meta Workplace working so I could use Microsoft Teams. This Future Sucks.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Kafka - The Trial Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding Thackeray - Vanity Fair

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

book haul from PEN American Lit Gala

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Yes, I am porting my book into Scrivener on a Saturday night.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Scrivener makes a lot of things easier but I will never like it.

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Maybe they should have stopped calling him Little Father Time.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I posted the third installment of my journal of taking BEAST MODE from manuscript to publication. A process I am making up as I go along. austingrossman.substack.com/p/publishing...

austingrossman.substack.com

Publishing a Book, Part 3: The Twilight Realm

When a Book is Done and Not Done

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spooky lilli @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

this feels like a good place to recommend Ennuigi, a free game where you play as a depressed Luigi and wander through a ruined mushroom kingdom landscape smoking and making forlorn observations about his and his brother's lives

lexaloffle.com

Ennuigi

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

apnews.com

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open

Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Rooms with no purpose, just a chair and a plant and a couple of shelves.

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 02/04/2026

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 03/04/2026

lmao @ this week's popbitch

excerpt from popbitch saying that the reason for gta vi's delay is that they haven't figured out how to implement saving games yet

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Origins of Beast Mode, part 2. Pitching it, writing it. open.substack.com/pub/austingr...

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My view from a train passing through New London, CT. I couldn’t see where the crowd ends. #nokings

No Kings protest, New London CT seen from passing train.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I grew up in Massachusetts, and I only just learned our state motto is Ense Petit Placidam, Sub Libertate Quietem: "By the Sword We Seek Peace, But Peace Only Under Liberty." Explains a lot.

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Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I posted about the new book, and how it came about. open.substack.com/pub/austingr...

open.substack.com

Man in Flight Returns

with News

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Fantasy Lisbon, ND

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 23/03/2026

This is such a stupid time to be writing a book

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