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erik @praxisandalli.es · 04/10/2026

It legit rocks that I can keep tabs on stuff like eBooks read vs physical books and fiction vs non-fiction

erik @praxisandalli.es · 30/09/2026

I won't be finishing another book tomorrow so here's an early #storygraph wrap-up. My favorite this month was Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the short stories in Gaza Writes Back were another big highlight #booksky

A collage of book covers including:
Making the Liberal Media by A.J. Bauer
A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us by Peter Gelderloos
Doppelganger by Dasa Drndic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere
Gaza Writes Back (edited) by Refaat Alareer
Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance
I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Bargouhti (translated by Ahdaf Soueif)

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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For my new followers: I run the website Speculative Fiction in Translation www.sfintranslation.com, which tracks the latest SFT and posts reviews, news, interviews, lists, and a giant spreadsheet.

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Speculative Fiction in Translation – Your guide to speculative fiction from around the world

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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

America has always had oligarchs. McNamara, Getty, Hunt, the Mellons, the Kennedys, the DuPonts, Ford. Rockefeller, Carnegie & Vanderbilt. Astor, Renssalaer & Girard. Hancock, Franklin & Washington. Grossman's historical erasure condemns us to repeat all the same mistakes...

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/09/2026

A heist movie but it's about gutterpunks stealing 16GB USB sticks from gift bags in a Hyatt hosting the Midwestern Home Insurance Agents convention in downtown Cincinnati

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/09/2026

Maybe they'll find the time to do that after publishing literally hundreds of pieces on a twitch streamer

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 20/09/2026

And while I wouldn't say that the award winning One Battle After Another has articulate politics, it is about vaguely left wing revolutionaries running from the white supremacist cabal that runs big business and the government

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 20/09/2026

Bong Joon-Ho movies are almost entirely about class war and they get wide distribution. Boots Riley's "I Love Boosters" has a scene that explains Marxism in the same way that "Trading Places" explained commodity brokerages.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 20/09/2026

There are many history and sociology books that contend the US has been a white supremacist and Christian fundamentalist project since its inception which suggests that Trump is a reversion to the mean rather than an aberration

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 18/09/2026

Sir the numpad is for numbers not orthogonal movement in text documents and fantastical tile based rpgs

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 17/09/2026

Learning to use terminal emulators significantly changed my life for the better, though! For instance, the first settings I changed in Caves of Qud was movement keybinds to be vi-like and I'm sorry but numpad movement is for savages

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 17/09/2026

I really like them, I'm on my second Boox device. I had a long list of wants (b&w screen, unpowered stylus, backlight, Libby, etc). The Note Air 3 ticked a lot of those boxes but it's on the heavy side because of the larger size and aluminum chassis but whatever I use it almost daily

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 17/09/2026

I have a Boox Note Air 3. Boox runs a modified Android so you can use a ton of apps directly on the device like Libby/Kindle and even Hoopla. Their official site sells refurbished devices and if you keep an eye on that section you can pick up your preferred model for comparatively cheap

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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

[0006531] Crash when greeting God

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 14/09/2026

Before the logical part of my brain took over I thought you were making a reference to the band This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 09/09/2026

The day that I see techbros and AI boosters quit their jobs for carpentry and plumbing apprenticeships is the day I'll take them at face value

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 01/09/2026

August's #storygraph wrap-up. Crowley's Little, Big might be the single best book I've ever read in my entire life. RIP to an absolute master. On the other side of things, Reamde is the worst Stephenson book I've ever read and as it stands it's in the running for worst book this year #booksky

A collage of book covers including:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The People of the Abyss by Jack London
Sand by Hugh Howey
Across the Sand by Hugh Howey
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet
Little, Big by John Crowley
Leila Khaled - Icon of Palestinian Liberation by Sarah Irving
Reamde by Neal Stephenson

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 30/08/2026

A fascinating facet of conservative culture war nonsense is that all the old "traditional" stuff they love was incredibly divisive in its own contemporary time. Those Rodin sculptures they use in their pfps were from a series on Dante's Inferno and were hated by conservatives of the era!

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 30/08/2026

One trillion USD to buy a computer that can sometimes detect a lie is a very good investment and ought to be a central pillar of the stock market imo

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 30/08/2026

They look corny now but when we were kids Lethal Enforcers and Mortal Kombat were hella realistic

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 29/08/2026

1. This Bike is a Pipe Bomb 2. Defiance Ohio 3. AJJ 4. Ghost Mice 5. Leftöver Crack 6. The Ruiners 7. Billy Strings 8. They Might Be Giants 9. Alice Cooper 10. Bob Seger Ditto on the fun fact

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 29/08/2026

Some professor is mad that his post doctoral students are unionizing so he compares himself to Michaelangelo

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 28/08/2026

Wonderful essay! As complimentary reading I always recommend This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb Jr. There's a type of white liberal that lionizes SNCC/SCLC who needs better insight into the complex dynamics of the civil rights movement. www.dukeupress.edu/this-nonviol...

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This Nonviolent Stuff′ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 27/08/2026

The successful conflation of LLMs with all ML discourse is a coup and a tragedy

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 27/08/2026

So all of those references to "unleavened bread" in Exodus should be changed to "cracker"? That participants at Seder share the "cracker of affliction"?

... He talked about, right after he won the primary, he talked about breaking bread with Jews at Passover. And I was like, "Okay, that sentence alone" —and, for people who are listeners that don't know, we don't eat bread on Passover, very intentionally so. It's actually a big part of our ceremony.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 26/08/2026

France: we're fancy France: you could enjoy a luxurious stay at "the large hotel"

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 23/08/2026

Beheading is the singular skill that's ever gotten me past Bethesda Susa

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 23/08/2026

There are so many books where a major character is either an established or aspiring writer. Just in the last couple months of my own reading I saw it in Crowley's "Little, Big", Hosseini's "Kite Runner" and Krasznahorkai's "War & War".

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/08/2026

My preferences for fiction include beloved characters dying, catastrophic failures, and high concept sci-fi. Automatic Noodle has none of that and I loved it anyways so that's why you should read it

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/08/2026

For $1.99 this one is a no-brainer. Sublime prose in a welcome reprieve from the more whimsical "dark" fantasy that's currently filling every bookshelf

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/08/2026

Is the AI bubble a repeat of the three card monte machinations from 2007 Wall Street bankers who were bailed out instead of prosecuted? None of the unique horrors of the Trump administrations arose uncalled from the ether

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 21/08/2026

Did the deporter in chief pave the way for the current immigration enforcement regime? Did the expansion of the drone assassination program provide precedent for the extralegal killings in the Caribbean? Who's to say!

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 18/08/2026

Way back in 2014 I think, chamber of commerce types organized to get TWO poisonous measures on the ballot just to defeat the collective bargaining amendment. This just demonstrates how little 'big business' cares about errant right wing nativism

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 18/08/2026

The problem isn't Zionism, it's Ben-Gvir. Oh, and also Smotrich. Oh, and also Gallant. Oh, and also Netanyahu. Oh, and also ...

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 16/08/2026

The whole thread goes hard but this post right here is a chef's kiss

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 15/08/2026

Thank you to those we have loved and to those we will love: soon!

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 14/08/2026

There is a lot of liberal cope and seethe in the comments 10/10 read

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Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our Women In Translation Month sale is on now, which means it’s time for some CUSTOM BOOK RECS! Let us know what you’re into and we’ll find the WiT title for you, all at 25% off

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 12/08/2026

Post thief! bsky.app/profile/prax...

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 12/08/2026

Read the NYT's contemporaneous review of Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, a film that very obviously is intended to skewer right wing Western jingoism and exceptionalism. The cultural critic of America's paper of record: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

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Review: 'Starship Troopers': No Bugs Too Large for This Swat Team

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 09/08/2026

Oh it must have been the Republicans who sent me that Haley Stevens flyer accusing AES of being a misogynist

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 09/08/2026

@aselrod.bsky.social is less in the trash can and more in one of those rollaway dumpsters here

A picture of Slavoj Zizek with the quote:

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 09/08/2026

The QTs and replies in this thread about the overwhelming advantages of incumbency are, incredibly, Democrat dead enders insisting it proves that the slate of current electeds is "good actually". That the 63% disapproval rating just emerges from the ether

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 08/08/2026

Relatedly I read To the Lighthouse last month and really enjoyed the melancholic, metaphoric prose. Woolf seems like the sort of writing that's meant to be enjoyed for the beauty of craft

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 08/08/2026

It's also worth pointing out that the executive just shifted a lot of the CIAs worst programs into JSOC as documented in The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 07/08/2026

Of course the vague other is Biden who we can only assume is at the same upstate farm where they sent Commander

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 07/08/2026

This headline really has it all: 1. Netanyahu as the sin eater for the Zionist project 2. The helpless NGO-like status of the Biden administration 3. The shifting of guilt to a vague "other"

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erik @praxisandalli.es · 06/08/2026

I am ebike curious but have no ground knowledge - what kinds of specs should I be looking for? The more illegal the better

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