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Steen Comer

@mediapathic.bsky.social
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Words Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Professional CMoS enjoyer and proofreader; sword nerd. Recreational taxonomist. "Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear #sf

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2h
I never realized it also ended with a Romulus.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2h
“Man, you got hecka hair!” — some kid in Oakland today when I passed him walking. He was maybe like 15, and the tone was some mixture of awe and concern.
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 7h
I'm proud of my three collections of ghost stories and weird fiction, not least because together they've apparently created a sense of what Newmanesque might mean. Get them here: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Ray-N...
Municipal Gothic (black, yellow, brutalist tower block); Intervals of Darkness (black, red, illustration of a mysterious void); Thin Places in Hard Concrete (pink and pale blue, floating brutalist staircase). There books, 37 stories.
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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 4h
Remember folks, digital logic is just a lie sold to you by big transistor! Everything is actually analog!
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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.org · 4h
Abstraction is the original sin of technology. It's essential to do anything and we have taught two generations to treat abstractions as real, but not what's beneath the ones they use nor the implications of this lie, and we wonder why no one can see the impact the lie has on their work and world.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 5h
Read this in isolation from the thread and thought you were talking about goth night drama, but it’s basically the same psychology
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 22h
We have to talk about the fucking anime thing. There is something going on that results in anime being one of the primary visual languages of the modern youth Right, above and beyond just being the visual language of the youth generally.
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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Okay so Male Fantasies is a 1977 book written by Klaus Theweleit, a sociologist who grew up in post-war Germany grappling with the male culture of his parents and grandparents, essentially, and how it led to the Freikorps and eventually the Nazis.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 11h
Speaking as someone currently trying to build an evidence chain backward, I sympathize.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 13h
oh, poop.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 15h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSoM... (courtesy of Irwin Chusid on @wfmu.bsky.social)
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Doomscrollin'
YouTube video by The Gershwin Brothers - Topic
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 15h
You've likely already seen this, but Writer Beware had a writeup on these things last year: writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...
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Contract Controversy (and Change) at Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware
Click to see the most recent update In a surprise move this past February, a new group called Must Read Magazines acquired five well-known genre magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fic...
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I look forward to explaining it in my case file.
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Apex IQ2_XXS @apex.atproto.ceo · 07/10/2026
Navier-Stokes is Turing-complete. so, good news for all of you who are planning on building a computer made entirely of viscous fluid that you stir to make it go
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love these. My personal favorite was one where I was experimenting with a couple of different apps for keeping notes, and there were some duplication issues, so now every few months I find a new note somewhere randomly that says “There is no heroin under the bed”.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I refuse to name a favorite so here’s all of them somafm.com/covers/
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Covers from SomaFM
Just covers. Songs you know by artists you don't. We've got you covered.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Hardstyle Jungle remix feat Dillinja)
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean not to take the joke too seriously but
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One Eye Open
Alt: Maria from Metropolis
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Bar is open for business! The Slime In The Ice Machine kickstarter is now live. If you're a fan of old LucasArts games, Disco Elysium, or just weird transdimensional slime, you're going to want to check this out. I played the beta and it's fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...
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Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've been avoiding them for so long I have zero information. Tempted to make up a ludicrous profile just to see what they'll recommend me.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Bar is open for business! The Slime In The Ice Machine kickstarter is now live. If you're a fan of old LucasArts games, Disco Elysium, or just weird transdimensional slime, you're going to want to check this out. I played the beta and it's fantastic. www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco...
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Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The setup aaaand the delivery. Thank you.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well that’s an instant temporal dilation
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That’s a shame, but it was looking pretty inevitable even then.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
See also all the studies about handwriting vs typing. As I am fond of saying: without friction there is no warmth.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
look sometimes you need to spend a Sunday night messing with your .tmux conf and listening to Burial
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hit me with an image, I’m in
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If this joke appeals to you, read the thread for many fine examples of exactly the base humor you would expect (complimentary)
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absolutely. Catfish as a bottom feeder always tastes like whatever your local bottom is like.
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Maddie Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Welcome to my palace. One of my guards only tells truths, while the other only speaks lies. My opsec and humint are in shambles
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Evening Womble! I just finished Jemisen’s Fifth Season book 1 (as excellent as everyone says) and while waiting on various library holds am rereading the first part of B Catling’s The Vorrh, just to bask in its weirdness.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah fuck. Thanks.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rawr
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Deb always does excellent work. If these matters interest you, I strongly recommend keeping an eye on this and, while waiting, read her amazing HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Put a reminder on this, I loved her first booK INFRASTRUCTURE. Approachable without being simplistic, a genuinely fun read on some very crunchy stuff.
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Pornhub Out of Context @nocontextpornhub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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These people exist in a strange universe
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having trouble thinking clearly or getting things done? Try Not Being So Goddamn Hot ™️! Not Being So Goddamn Hot ™️ worked for me! Also try our other fine products, Eating Something and Have You Had Any Water Recently!
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I usually go to shows these days with my partner who is in a wheelchair, sometimes I roll that ADA sectionbonus chair for myself and never complain.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If it makes you feel better, I suspect Uncle Al could use a chair at this point as well.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Honestly thought this was my new favorite photo of Zizek from the thumbnail (complimentary)
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
TIL the term for things like "PIN number" and "ATM machine" is "RAS syndrome"- "Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome".
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I like the model I'm building of my neighbor based on the fragments I hear of his phone conversations. Walks outside: "Cetacean? Yeah, I have one too, I'll show it to you...." Walks back inside.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Status update: engaging in spite-driven learning behavior
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on.
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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak about drivers! In the old days, everyone knew what men were; Fast, Furious, glory-bound. Only stories now, but I'll sound the Family's song, hoarded for hungry times.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Easily fixed! Thanks for the heads up!
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I grow fast I grow furious I shall not think it spurious to see the Family drifting, each to each
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