mugatogumato.bsky.social
The last five years aren't my favorite.
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Yeah. I’m 29% into Royal Assassin. Certain characters really ought to be dead by now. One nasty piece of work in particular.
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I get this. I think of Murderbot as cozi, despite it being a fast-paced adventure with plenty of suspense.
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Jim Hines has a similar, but more limited cheat available in his Libriomancer series. Certain people have the power to reach into works of fiction to pull things into the real world.
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I was going to say Goblin Emperor, but I looked it up to check the pub date and it came out in 2014! Man, time really flies.
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Oh! I've got a great one. If you pick Jasper Fforde's Eyre Affair, not only do you get to live in a really cool alternate history, but you get access to all of the worlds contained in every book ever written. Bit of a cheat, I guess.
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Git really becomes useful when you big teams of people working on a project together. It does that really well. I’ll check out notion.
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I started reading A Memory Called Empire after hearing good things about it, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know why. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind. Interested to hear what you think.
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I like the fact that everything is jumbled together, but I'm also sympathetic to the argument that if you're interested in something particular, you may have to scroll for a while to find it. This thread reminds me that I want to tag more.
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I'll bump it up my reading list. It's not an actual reading list, more like a hazy cloud of a couple hundred titles that I keep hearing about again and again.
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I second the Murderbot rec. Surprisingly cozi, and queer- and ND-friendly.
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I haven't read this yet, but I really loved their Odd Jobs series.
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What software do you use to keep track of everything? I've always wondered if Git would useful for version control. The down side to Git is that it has a steep learning curve for those without a technical background.
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🪐📚 (2/2) too spoilery, it's one of those books where the protagonist is made to suffer a lot and some of those who cause the suffering go unpunished, due to political realities. A little bit hard to digest given current rl political realities.
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A little bit dark spiral-ish. Fuck fascists.
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I don’t know where to start. But if I’d been that guy writing the answer, I would have started with something like, “Your friends are right. That’s really fucked up.”
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Thanks for linking that. I hadn’t heard of it before.
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I just realized that you're triggering my ASMR response. I think all it takes is someone whispering.
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I admire and am inspired by your dedication!
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I'm listening to your video in the background and your voice is lulling me to sleep. It's very nice, but not what I was going for at 12:24 on a Saturday, right after a cup of coffee.
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I tried reading the New Jim Crow. Really good, but tough. I abandoned it quickly. My nervous system couldn't handle reading about something so evil. Very dysregulating. I keep thinking about it though. Like, maybe I could finish it in very small sections. A few pages a day.
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Are you a voracious reader or are our tastes just really similar?
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Gonna go simultaneous on this one. Just interleave the pages of each book.
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According to Kobo, I'm 41% into it, and, yes, I'm loving it.
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I wasn't expecting this book to stick with me. I expected horror, but the story is really poignant and thought provoking.
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I really enjoyed this book, and now I'm thinking about revisiting it.
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(2/2)
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4. (currently reading) Katherine Addison's "The Angel of the Crows" (fantasy, alt history)
5. (currently reading) Robyn Hobb's "Assassin's Apprentice" (fantasy)
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Yeah. I enjoyed them at the time, but I'm not sure that reading 30 or so Piers Anthony books in Junior High is something that I would recommend to anyone else.
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“… an inexperienced developer, …, is implementing hidden payment-blocking capabilities in the federal government’s $6 trillion payment system, while the very experts who understand these systems are being pushed out, and the teams responsible for investigating security breaches are being disbanded.”
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American schools are meant to teach compliance & conformity, at least as much as they're meant to educate, & were never meant to teach what might have mattered now - that democracy requires constant work to maintain it & that every oppressed group has had to fight for every scrap of dignity it has
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Great post. Thanks for sharing.
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I wonder if this how you’ll make your millions.
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I'll be happy to read the final short list, if I can manage it.