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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i have seen and reviewed digger (2026) #plemonspromise boxd.it/gFsnbp

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why not.. i've earned a little albumposting

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tfw the elderly german manager of the squash court is stingy with the a/c

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

looking fantastic ladies. keep it up

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

first edition faithful ruslan for $80aud... "that's what it's all about"

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

genuinely life changing haul at the used book store yesterday. crazy finds. check out roseyravelston in lawson nsw

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

draft 3 done... prayers up for max

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

insane to put this level of effort into painting the windows xp desktop and then depict it on an apple monitor

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

great writing advice from robert walser

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s official! The live-action film of YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, currently in production, will be titled YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE. #YouMustUnderstandThisIfYouWantToLiveMovie

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

found the lake king's sceptre... hmu if you need any wishes granted rn

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

love book of the new sun love perusing r/genewolfe for fan theories and discussion. however many of its contributors are this way inclined

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

a lot of you are not posting good enough to receive 80g free chestnuts

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

finally posted these new stickers to my web store. $10 each come get maxlavergne.square.site

6cm x 24cm bumper sticker reading "DON'T REAR END ME!! I HAVE 250 FRESHLY BAKED ECLAIRS IN THE BACK. I borrowed this car from my boss AND HE'S ALLERGIC TO PASTRY".

6cm x 24cm bumper sticker reading "MY OTHER CAR IS THE ONE YOU'RE DRIVING. GET IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. IT'S MY TURN. AND JUST DO YOU KNOW - I GET CAR SICK".

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

is he, you know... known at the office

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I SYNTHESISED A NEW ELEMENT. up now on Infinite Gossip infinitegossip.ghost.io/i-synthesise...

An image which purports to be of a novel element.

I SYNTHESISED A NEW ELEMENT by Max Lavergne, from Infinite Gossip https://infinitegossip.ghost.io/i-synthesised-a-new-element/

I synthesised a new element. To scientists it may be an unthinkable task – yet to me, a beginner, with a beginner's disregard for tradition, and a child's sense of wonder, and an entrepreneur's willingness to bend rules in pursuit of great benefit, and a jazz musician's intuitive feel for structure, and a chef's knowledge of acid and heat, and an artist's ability to see fully formed in their mind's eye the finished work and labour tirelessly to hew it from raw materials, it was actually really easy, and with a pinch of a few substances I had close to hand and a method that seemed, as I was using it, to be both classically elegant and powered by simple commonsense, I was able to easily create the new element—which has now been, if this is even in question, verified as new, totally new, by the kinds of experts whom one approaches for this kind of verification, and whom also, having taken a look at it, at its various shapes - at the atoms, and so on—quarks, and such

things – have already come up with a list of potential uses, or ideas for potential uses, or potential ideas for potential uses, many of which stand to yield great benefit to humanity at large, so long as their user executes them with a heart which is open and unhardened by cynicism and the daily erosion of tiredness and illness and stress, etc. and instead accepts the gift of my new element with a spirit of collaboration, true collaboration, which builds gratefully on the corpus of knowledge that has preceded it—and if not then at least recognises the thing within them which is imperfect, or just sucks, and has the humility to hand the gift of my new element off to someone better, more talented, with a clearer point of view and a lighter touch who can forge it, mould it, inject it, cast it, reproduce it, add it to existing products and distribute it worldwide until everyone has a piece, including all the losers and non-believers and those who'd previously tried and failed to make something important of the wondrous scientific accomplishment that I alone created, and the scale of my genius, at long last, can no longer be questioned.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i have watched and reviewed "the odyssey" (2026) boxd.it/fwBCKN

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

shut up dude. i'm searching my desktop for files

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

got a table at other worlds in sydney next weekend where i'll be selling zines, books and bumper stickers including a new zine about zinemaking (slide #3) which includes a disproportionately long digression on the ancient city of ugarit. hope to see you there 👍

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

selling these bad boys at the other worlds zine fair in sydney on july 11 ✅

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

new piece on INFINITE GOSSIP. I HAVE LEFT YOU FOREVER. check it out infinitegossip.ghost.io/i-have-left-...

I HAVE LEFT YOU FOREVER
By Max Lavergne
I slipped away while you were distracted—
it's too late to catch me now. The space
between us, formerly just huge, has become
totally insane, although you probably
haven't even noticed that yet. You probably
haven't noticed that I'm a long way off
from you already—with every second further—
and that with each step I accelerate. You and I are
separated by an infinitely unspooling gulf, although
I doubt you've noticed that. I doubt you're aware
that the distance between us, laid end to end,
would stretch to the moon and back, again and again—
that I'm scrambling over sand dunes, leaping
through treetops, slapping my feet on the tiled
floor of the bazaar, as I escape from you forever—
or that in the time it's taken to read these sixteen lines
I have crossed the only bridge over the river and
detonated the charges at the bases of the pylons. And
you're still creeping around the house. Not
telling anyone shit. Whispering
your theories like
the world's loneliest
scientist. Not noticing
how everything's changed.
I knew you wouldn't.
That's what made it so easy

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

i have watched and reviewed akira (1988) boxd.it/eFnPVz

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

putting this on this website

THERE SHOULD BE A GUY, by Max Lavergne. There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to the main street and sets up a small glass case of beautiful cakes he has made. He should sell the cakes at a reasonable price to whoever comes. The cakes should be both beautiful and inspiring. They should be sumptuously iced and decorated with fruits and sugared flowers which are not only lovely to behold but genuinely delicious. He should sit on a low half wall and read a newspaper folded into quarters until the cakes are all sold. As soon as the last one is sold he should tie the glass case to the back of his bike and cycle to the market to buy fresh eggs and flour, chocolate, fruit, all the things he needs to make cakes for tomorrow. And then he should ride his bicycle home, where he should kiss the top of the low door frame leading into his widower's cottage because it will always remind him of her. And then he makes the cakes for the next day. Now that's what should happen. It should be happening already, in towns all over the country. Hell, all over the world. If it's not then fuck it. Let the bombs fall. Let them turn the beaches to glass. Return us to hunter gatherers, cowering in caves. Miserable dirty people dying of cold when it rains for too long. Let us slowly work our way back up if we can't get even that part right when it should be so obvious. See if the next crop are smarter. And if they aren't then try again. As long as it takes. Let our distant descendents hide in the shadows of the brick walls we built. I don't think that's too extreme.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

these guys should change their band name to the nosferatus

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

ah, the book that will complete my collection... hard cover in VG condition, only $15. another great deal for me, the guy who never checks shipping

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

inland from seaworld. please subscribe to my newsletter infinitegossip.ghost.io/inland-from-...

INLAND FROM SEAWORLD by Max Lavergne. We left Seaworld and headed west, out past the dune-swept ruins and rusted towns where worn sandstone flowed into clay ponds and not a single dolphin reminded us of our blossoming. In a bar we met an old hand, a down-on-his-luck roustabout, faded denim and faded glory, and he told us about how his sweetheart had kicked his aquarium glass in when he'd cheated on her. "Tetras thrashing among the shards," he wept, "colours you've never seen before." We've seen 'em, pal. And like that, too. Out further they caught frogs and, not knowing what to do with them, made them into princes and folk heroes. We told them about the seal show and the shark tank and they listened half-interested. By a creek we baited a line for turtles. A long angle away in the dim afternoon. Its ripples marched on ahead of us.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

eating a dubai chocolate ice cream at the tyra banks ice cream shop and thinking about world issues

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

is vcd copy of the matrix revolutions (official) a good investment. need to know asap

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

you could start a song any freaking way in 1971

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i have watched and reviewed "project hail mary" (2026) boxd.it/dYR2an

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

big morning at the tape shop. deals everywhere

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

new story up on INFINITE GOSSIP. it's called THE END OF THE PARTY. the full text is here but please subscribe for more & so i feel good infinitegossip.ghost.io/the-end-of-t...

THE END OF THE PARTY by Max Lavergne.

The party was so good that, by the end, no one was able to leave. Beginning in a blaze of virgin enthusiasm around eight o'clock, gathering speed and excitement at nine, becoming focused and wilful as the clock struck ten; then the crunching router of substances whizzing minds into elegant shapes through eleven, twelve and one; the gilding of each look, each gesture, each implicit sexual invitation at two and three; the sublime regret of four; the anticipation as five ticked over; the day and, it was unanimously felt, all of us, reborn as six gave way to seven and eight. At 9am, as a trembling gratitude for the privilege of the life that we had been given to live and to enjoy passed over us the first nervous partygoer struggled to his feet - it was Alex H - and tried to make his apologies. No more than a sentence in was he when he burst into tears, rested a sweating hand on the coffee table and sank once more to the couch. Hours passed. Initially immobile, we tried to remember the form and rhythm that a normal day followed, to destroy by willpower the new template set by the party, and were unable to. We raged around the patio and the garage. Helplessly, we tried on clean t-shirts and attempted to find the ingredients for toast. We stood in tremulous awe of the bathroom's toothbrush cup. We ordered McDonalds on Uber Eats and sat in an anxious circle eating burgers and trying to remember if it was normal. Surely - surely - burgers must be normal. Then, as the shadows lengthened in the yard we drifted once more to the stereo, and turned the music up, and then we opened some wine, and it was as though a goddess of inspiration had reached an elegant hand into the clearing and created a door for us to step through. The full text is available at https://infinitegossip.ghost.io/the-end-of-the-party/

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

currently reading and enjoying a posthumously released short story collection from my goat gene wolfe. but i'm intrigued by the cover, which features art by shutterstock on a dull beige background