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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 41m

I try to be the bigger man but sometimes I just can't help allowing myself some schadenfreude. Me: "user needs X!" PM: "no way they need X" go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X" STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes I wake up and I physically can't bring myself to open my inbox because I know there's so much stress and work waiting in there. This is healthy, right?

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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 20h

i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 23h

Reading John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time and it's just Shadowrun but written well? Hell yeah

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Following up from @allieinchains.bsky.social's list, here's my list of Midnight Lightning Steel Power Metal And Also A Bunch Of Prog Power

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Banger list. Pure midnight lightning steel.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mortal Shell 2 is a deeply unserious game (complimentary)

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am absolutely insane and stupid to keep Heavy Blog alive but I will continue doing so until my fingers fall off

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the most underrated bands I know. If you ever want to get a kind of exquisite, scintillating sort of sad, with just enough light in there to make it hurt that much more, these are the guys for you. Exceptional. towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...

towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com

Echus Chasma, by Towers Of Jupiter - Echus Chasma

4 track album

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happens to be one of my favorite essays I've written! And since I've written it, I've found more and more examples of works working against the underlying privileging of "center" over "periphery.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not finishing novels you don't enjoy is the sign of a mature, discerning and healthy reader, actually. If you feel even a little bit of guilt over it - do not.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

God I am just LIVING for the M. John Harrison Renaissance, truly. I remember rambling about Light and Viriconium to anyone who would listen and just being incoherently enthused when I first read Nova Swing. And now everyone is singing his praises alongside me, it feels so good.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The faster you learn that philosophical ideas are tools to be combined rather than proof-complete closed systems, you can actually start using philosophy properly.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've heard enough: new Boss Keloid is AOTY.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

20 years since we lost one of the best and most underrated writers of SFF and beyond. Still CRIMINALLY underread. Go read Growing Up Weightless, PLEASE

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I was so skeptical and hesitant coming into this release but The Ocean still have the juice. The lineup change was the best thing they could have done and Lane Shi is such an amazing vocalist.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am really really really tired from crying about Chaucer but I guess my body/brain have not had enough

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Random reminder that I'm part of a (mostly dormant, for now) band and we made a bright-eyed progressive metal album about my own original, UKL inspired, space opera science fiction :) instar1.bandcamp.com/album/the-ex...

instar1.bandcamp.com

The Ex Nihilo Cycle, by Instar

6 track album

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the biggest and most common deficiencies I've seen in my career is people's absolute incapability to properly estimate problems with users. A user reports an issue and they spiral into apologies or talking about how bad the problem is. No one cares. What is the impact, what is the solution.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And The Vanished Birds and Waves Without a Shore and The Winged Histories and The Mulai and Synners and

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you can read this without crying, I don't know what to tell you. Good crying to be clear, that so many people are fighting the good and hard fights to keep our paradise among the stars vibrant and alive.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the major downgrades from moving to Providence is not living in the same city as a major international airport. My Lyft home from Logan is almost two hours because of traffic (I can take the train but it's too unpredictable with planes and all)

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this will get a lot of people to read Light and go "wait what the fuck, SF can do this?"

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is who you are disagreeing with when you disagree with me online btw

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love bands whose latest album always becomes my favorite. Boss Keloid, Dreadnought, ASIWYFA, etc

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello it's once again Skyeden here From the sky Hello

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Maybe you need this video of the evening chorus with light urban noises from Segovia this evening. Maybe you don't. Here it is anyway. Enjoy.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Imagine someone selling knives out of their trenchcoat approaches you in an alley and says "ooohhh these knives are sssoooo sharp, almost TOO sharp one might say!!!!" That's the whole "we need to slow AI development down before it kills us" thing the AI companies are doing.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the best things we got from the 19th century is the re/construction of "folk" dances. They are just Neat, To Me.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey guys does anyone need anything from the backrooms?

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Five Ways to Forgiveness deserves to be as big as The Left of Hand of Darkness but also A Stranger in Olondria, Growing Up Weightless, Memoranda, The Only Harmless Great Thing, Gnomon, OK I'll stop there but wait, there's Stations of the Tide and Web of Angels and Lord Demon and...

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In case me telling you this album is great was not enough, go follow this band.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my favorite things when in Europe is to see people running through formerly royal grounds and gardens and just imagining all of the kings and queens and nobles having a fit at all the commoners using their spaces. Get fucked.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You ever think about how the world has infinite spots for you to take a five minute break? Not talking about gorgeous spots, I'm thinking a bench on a foot path in a suburb or a little trail leading down to an urban beach. Minor places where you can catch your breath. I try to take comfort in that.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Telling a reader that a book is good: 🥹 owo please read this it's real good Telling a fellow reviewer that a book is good: 😈😈😈😈😈

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Went shopping in Madrid and found the perfect jacket

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the most "actually me" post of all time

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone is like "Better Call Saul fans are vindicated because Rhea won" and I'm like...no. I will never forget. Rhea should have won for BCS because it was literally one of the best performances in TV history. Pluribus is great, don't get me wrong, but I will NEVER get over her not winning for Kim

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can't believe I am typing this but there is a guy on this red eye flight with LED equipped headphones that strobe every ten seconds. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hello it is me Sky Eden Speaking to you from the sky Hello down there Also I am reading Wickhills on this plane and it slaps so far

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pray for your boy by the way, I am now starting the first of four work trips in the next two months (Madrid, Nashville, Destin, New Orleans).

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