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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

for a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to kissenger, i'd highly recommend behind the bastards' episodes on him- they do a great job at covering the wide arc of his career for the uninitiated open.spotify.com/episode/4RLm...

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Part One: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards · Episode

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The Good Die Young - Various Authors a good primer on the global footprint of arguably the most deeply evil yet fitting symbol of america's foreign policy. lots of interesting stuff on kissenger's philosophy too. glad i had some cursory knowledge of him- it assumes you know a good bit going in

Cover for The Good Die Young from Verso Press

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville what a chonker of a book in so many ways. the pedestrian-level worldbuilding and beautiful prose paints such a full picture of the setting. even if i had character issues in the back half, the ending knocked me flat- it'll be stuck in my head for a while

Cover of China Mieville's novel Perido Street Station

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Rowan MacColl @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This year's christmas card!

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

actually fucks me up knowing that the hwang donghyuk the creator of squid game lost teeth due to stress while filming s1, did not want to make a s2, and only did it bc he got severely underpaid and earned zero residuals, royalties, or bonuses from netflix for s1.

tweet from @DiscussingFilm squid game creator hwang dong-hyuk says i'm so exhausted. i'm so tired...i'm so sick of squid game. i'm so sick of my life making something, promoting something. so i'm not thinking about my next project right now. i'm just thinking about going to some remote island. attached is a screenshot from squid game season one showing lee jung jae.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/12/2024

literally every reaction I have to "the current culture" I try to gut check against this trend

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

project century looks sick, i hope we can get rgg games from more eras of japan. i would give anything to perform heat actions on nobusuke kishii

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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I did something dumb

A calvin and hobbes meme explaining that all RPGs can be traced back to Ultima and Wizardry in 1981. Every game is either a play on ultima or wizardry. This extends to JRPGs because Dragon's Quest was influenced by Ultima and all dungeon crawlers are based on Wizardyr. Elder Scrolls is a Wizardry and Baldur's Gate is an Ultima. Wizardry was so popular in Japan it persisted for years exclusively in Japan as its own sub franchise before Digital Extremes remastered the series. SMT is a wizardry. Most Atlus and Xseed Dungeon Crawlers are.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...

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Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain

A journey through his online footprint and influences

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 09/12/2024

Anyway the fact it was an underpaid food service worker that turned in the alleged CEO shooter for the reward money says A Whole Lot about America in itself. Billionaires make more than $50k just scratching their behinds but it's life-changing to someone who works at mcdonalds so they sold him out.

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Sam ICE.is.scary.enough🎃 Machkovech @samred.com · 05/12/2024

bait: complete switch: engage (aka what I've told every consulting client about the impending bubble and why they should get the eff off this train)

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

for a more comprehensive nonfiction book- I just started Verso Press' Gwanju Uprising; I haven't gotten far at all but it seems like this is a very well-respected source on gwanju for general readers

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

if you are at all curious as to why the entirety of south korea just said "lol fuck no" to the president declaring martial law this book may be a good place to start- the horrors of gwangju are still very much swimming in the memories of south koreans

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

entangling* -_- please add post editing bluesky

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

also to anyone who played disco elysium and wanted to find similar books- this is the one

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Human Acts - Han Kang devoured this in just a couple sittings. easily my favorite read of the year. kang perfectly captures the lingering scars of the gwangju uprising, and how the wound of one person can splinter and web, both entangled and connecting those left in its wake

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

i can't believe this tweet is only 3 months old because i think about it so much that i feel like it's been in my brain for years

dylan @narrenhut

Steve Harvey: the category is "what you don't want your eunuch doing."
Emperor Qin Shi Huang: After much reflection, Mr.
Harvey, the fortunes point me to "scheming."
Steve Harvey: show me "scheming"!
(Buzzer dings, first tile flips over, Harvey and audience start going crazy)
9:36 PM • 7/2/24

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Read a lot of good books this year, but Human Acts is on a whole other level so far

From Han Kang's novel "Human Acts":

Or no, is it like a kind of glass?

Glass is transparent, right? And fragile. That's the fundamental nature of glass. And that's why objects that are made of glass have to be bandled with care. After all, if they end up smashed or cracked or chipped, then they're good for nothing, right, you just have to chuck them away.

Before, we used to have a kind of glass that couldn't be broken. A truth so hard and clear it might as well have been made of glass. So when you think about it, it was only when we were shattered that we proved we had souls. That what we really were was humans made of glass.

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Maybe projection is less the word, and it's more finding parts of myself in another- which I'd argue is both less work and more fulfilling for the viewer than building a player identity from scratch. Even with a more defined personality, there's less room for friction.

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

For me it's ironically easier to project onto established characters since there's way more opportunities to empathize. There's no dissonance with, say, DE's Harry since every choice is something he would do. If I don't gel with a part of the character I just go "well yeah they're their own person."

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Microplastics Sommelier @eephus.biz · 22/11/2024

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
Replying to @janky_jane
I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir
Replying to @janky jane
I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
Replying to @janky _jane
My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
Replying to @janky_jane
Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright
@dufflest
Replying to @janky jane
I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
@L20_MTN
Replying to @janky_jane
I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

i don't need to upgrade my pc for stalker 2 i don't need to upgrade my pc for stalker 2 i don't need to upgrade my pc for stalker 2 i don't n

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text - Mary Shelly yeah it's still one of the greats. the prose is moody and brooding in all the ways you want from gothic horror. glad I read up on the luddites beforehand, their influence can be felt greatly in the monster's plight. its critiques are all too relevant now

Cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, written by Mary Shelly

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

bluesky book thread (ignore that I failed to main one on twiter twice)

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it really was the right call to make the author read 100 shoujo manga before starting the series, because everytime it transitions from the drama segments into action i actually get a little dissaponted- i always feel like i wanna hang around the characters for a little longer!

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

really glad i gave dandadan a second shot, the show's been a ton of fun. the first alien scene turned me away years ago, but thankfully it hasn't done anything like that again. momo's up there with maka albarn in my favorite shounen female leads, and I love seeing her and okarun being giant doofuses

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 20/11/2024

A group of 51 Japanese novelists, including Akutagawa Prize winner Ri Kotomi, released a statement denouncing discriminating against LGBTQ people to coincide with Transgender Day of Remembrance: "Literature cannot be a party to discrimination, oppression, & exclusion."

Article about the statement from Japanese novelists

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19/11/2024

45,020 reporters across all outlets. For perspective, this is the number of people employed by these companies: • Target: 415,000 • Alphabet (Google): 181,269 • Apple: 164,000 • Tesla: 140,473 • Waffle House: 40,000 So…reporters just edge out WaHo employees. So we’ve got that going for us.

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

if i owned twitter at this point i'd just get a heartbeat monitor set to make all bookmarks public when i die

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

been reading frankenstein and can we go back to writing male friendships like this? love it when guys get emotional for their bros

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dusk @sleepingdusk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

yeah maybe the zelda guys should try working on the story earlier in development- its funny to see the gameplay first strategy treated like it was a good thing when botw's felt like the biggest afterthought

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