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Andy Karl-Son of Wolfman @andykarlson.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

This section from Gibson's introduction to Neuromancer is both essential context, and one of the best descriptions of the cheap sci-fi paperback experience I've ever read.

Today’s reader might keep in mind that I wrote Neuromancer with absolutely no expectation that it would be in print twenty years later. I knew that it was to be published, if I could finish it and if the editor accepted the manuscript, both of which seemed constantly unlikely, as a paperback original—that most ephemeral of literary units, a pocket-sized slab of prose meant to fit a standard wire rack, printed on high-acid paper and visibly yearning to return to the crude pulp from which it had been pressed.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Reindeer Games fucking sucks and this podcast fucking rules. www.buzzsprout.com/2237163/1420...

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

I care not for your Christmas.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 11/12/2023

Chess-themed polycule romance called "Mate In Three"

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My god, he thinks. I own a sandwich. I can EAT THAT SANDWICH.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Gherkins Perkins Wears a jerkin Makes his money selling merkins The job is hard But he ain't shirking He gets stressed out When he's not working

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Me: *Puts something off for two months.* *Spends 30 minutes taking care of it.* *Feels so relieved he takes the rest of the day off.*

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Practicing drawing flowers in pen and ink. Worried I might have made the largest orchid blossom too thirsty but nah that's just their vibe.

A pen and ink drawing of a Phalaenopsis orchid.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

I'm gonna start blogging a little on my Patreon -- random stuff whenever there's ideas trapped in my head that need to get out. Today it's a few thoughts on why the third act opening in Basterds fucking rips. www.patreon.com/posts/reveng...

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Doing my own little part to combat the tidal wave of insipid content that has drowned the Internet by making a really dumb podcast about really dumb movies.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

What's your favorite movie about killing Nazis? I watched Inglourious Basterds last night for the first time since it came out and boy, it rips.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

What fucking movie should I watch tonight? I'm craving SPECTACLE!

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

This is the most insanely beautiful thing I've ever seen.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Something I haven't said in at least 20 years: I need to get a couple more Cure CDs.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Me, on my death bed, googling "Where is Boston Legal streaming?"

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I've cut 2000 words out of my fucking manuscript and I'm only 1/4th of the way done. Feeling like a god.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Ugh the first line of the hed got me excited because I thought it was about Doctor Who

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I also like the site. I like it so much I recommended it on my damn podcast.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Here's the deal, you beautiful bastards. @punkgroucho.bsky.social and I have a podcast episode going up about THE HUDSUCKER PROXY tomorrow that is so good it will melt your damn skulls. Subscribe now. illwatchanything.com

illwatchanything.com

I'll Watch Anything

A movie podcast with a sense of optimism.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Sleepy heap. 1903. www.bonhams.com/auction/1874...

Oil painting of a light brown medium haired tabby cat sprawled on a bed with her eyes half closed, looking very, very sleepy. She is surrounded by three fluffy dark brown tabby kittens tucked in around her. Two look like they are snoozing but one looks brightly around with those blue eyes that they have before the true color develops.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

With dogs, you can always be yourself!

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15/11/2023

we absolutely will not skimp on freelancers, we wanna pay good rates. but also we need money for that and the site has only been open for 7 days! please bear with us (and subscribe if you haven't!)

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Peak Gladwell. www.thedailybeast.com/malcolm-glad...

Text from a Daily Beast article reading:

The event took an especially uncomfortable turn, staffers told Confider, when Gladwell was asked for an update on the company’s diversity goals.

“My definition of diversity might be different from other people, but that’s part of diversity—allowing Malcolm to have a different definition of diversity than everyone else,” he said. When asked what diversity meant to him, Gladwell replied: “Here’s a question: If you’re a Republican, raise your hand.” When no one raised their hand, Gladwell remarked, “I would think that a diverse company should have some Republicans in it.”

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

They should write more songs about people who hear stuff coming in the air tonight.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Making a fucking cake today. Never made a genoise sponge before but I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that autocorrect tries to change its name to genocide sponge.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

This paragraph was a hell of a ride

Book text:
My husband plays the trumpet, which is a sort of loud pretzel originally invented to blow down the walls of fucking Jericho and, later, to let Civil War soldiers know it was time to kill each other in a river while you chilled eating pigeon in your officer's tent twenty miles away, yet some-how, in modern times, it has become socially acceptable to toot the bad cone inside your house before 10:00 a.m. because it's "your job" and your wife should "get up." What a world! If one was feeling uncharitable, one might describe the trumpet as a machine where you put in compressed air and divorce comes out, but despite this-despite operating a piece of biblical demolition equipment inside the home every bright, cold morning of his wife's one and only life—the trumpet is not the most annoying thing about my husband.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

my lovely baby website @aftermath.site is worker owned and reader supported, please consider subscribing so i can write about more weird, cool fan games like this one: aftermath.site/products

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

LibreOffice just absolutely wrecked a day's work. Doc with track changes on crashed and when I opened it again—even when I opened restored versions!—random words were deleted from every paragraph. Never thought I'd miss Word but here we go.

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

BlueSky is a perfect replica of the Twitter Classic experience. I can tell because I glanced at it for fifteen seconds and can no longer remember why I opened my computer.

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Based Sonic the Hedgehog @sonic.bsky.social · 19/05/2023

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog! A group called No Labels is aiming to run a "centrist" spoiler candidate for President in 24 - I've got a label for ya: bad news! With the threat fascism poses to millions of lives, pretending this would be anything but a handout to the GOP is dangerous. Not good!

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Let's make some fucking bread!

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WM Akers @ouijum.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Time for some fucking cereal!

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