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stephenmartin.io
reducible to the absurd acts of chemicals and therefore of no intrinsic value in this material universe. he/him, fka screevo, in a past life.
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ok going to bed now.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

100% thought this was about @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social when i first saw it.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

this vonnegut fella, turns out he was quite good with words.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

2025 reading log as of today. i'm on pace for 60 books this year, which not bad considering I don't think i'd read more than 1 or 2 in a year since 2007, and most of those years I didn't read any actual books.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

@coxsportsohio.bsky.social question for ya: how do you organize your books at home? I originally shelved everything alphabetically but then you have to slide everything around when you get new stuff. do you have a system or is it just vibes?

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

started dungeon crawler carl, plowed through 140 pages this evening. and i get the feeling i’ll be buying all 7 books. @mattdinniman.bsky.social has something special here, i get the feeling this man spent as much time in the dungeons of diablo games as i did.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

never gave a jason isbell record a full listen because i'm an idiot, but holy hell is 'foxes in the snow' a fireball. it should be illegal for 'good while it lasted' and 'true believer' to be back to back without a warning. this man can write a song.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

it's beautiful.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

“He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one.” yeah. get this book. read it. it's good.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

On the home stretch of The Bright Sword by @levgrossman.bsky.social, never read anything by him, but i will be reading more. definitely a unique take on the tales of king arthur, worthy of a read.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

just caught the latest @techconnectify.bsky.social video about algorithm complacency, and it SHOULD be required viewing before being allowed to use the internet in 2024. also, i cannot imagine NOT using the subscription feed on youtube. the front page is useless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

just finished “dr. no” by percival everett. it was good. not my favorite book of all time. took some effort to get through parts of it because of how it was written, a lot of theoretical math jargon because of the main character being a mathematician of sorts, but was still good.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Wanted to make a concerted effort to read more books, and really started in earnest this year. Here's where I am so far, and here's my backlog.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 73 days ago • 20 comments

i need to build more bookshelves but i have no clue how to arrange everything in a way that doesn’t get thrown completely askew when we buy new books! this doesn’t even include the other 100+ books in the kids rooms that they bought themselves, or all the science books below in cabinets.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

no read. only pet.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

next up, grabbed this off the cover blurbs. so far, 240 pages in, it’s pretty neat! hell of a way to hype up an upcoming video game, which i will surely be buying.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

this is the sort of conclusion that human history should make obvious to everyone. when a tool does a job for you, the ability to perform the job manually atrophies. could you navigate with a road atlas?

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

finishing up “the frugal wizard’s guide to surviving medieval england” by brandon sanderson today, bought it off the cover and title alone, and it went places i did not expect at all. very very engaging, strong recommend.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments