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matthew beefmaster

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38 and white and queer and bookseller (they/them & he/him... genderqueer) (beefmaster is a type of tomato)


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absolutely not. Gen Z have so many terrible, terrible opinions

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One of my favourite Art Deco pieces, over the door of the Fulton County Dept. of Health and Wellness. Swole spirit of medicine fights off the grim spectre of death, reminding you that medicine is Cool

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i like tyler's first novel but he's written nothing but mid stuff since. and his holier-than-thou attitude about literally everything in the world sticks in my craw. some choice moments in this like "i was shocked." WERE YOU? press x for doubt

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i'm so bored at work i'm contemplating writing a novel at my desk

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can't remember where i saw it, but somebody observed, if you need all these cops to enforce gender, then maybe gender was never natural or organic in the first place

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I'm seeing Longlegs tomorrow. Jealous you're seeing High and Low in 35mm

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Keeping it vague for spoilers but I have guessed a twist on a tv show and I'm annoyed waiting for the show to reveal what I already know

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I agree. But people and their morbid curiosity...

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curious to see how many more copies of Alice Munro we'll sell with people curious to see if there are any clues to her past in her fiction. there's a definite trend in reading culture to diagnose authors via their writing.

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the bermuda triangle of canada

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Someone's probably written a 2-hour long YouTube video about this, but I'm just sitting here thinking about how when Lucas and the team made Star Wars, it was them remixing little bits of everything he was a fan of. But now, when making Star Wars, it's just people remixing Star Wars itself forever.

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~Swinton's avatar ~Swinton @basicchunnel.bsky.social
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A good reader of short stories (~5% of total readers):

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sounds terrific. I can't wait to see Longlegs. I saw Maxxxine on Sunday (I liked it)

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I've only read one Elm Street tie-in and it was Dream Dealers and only because it was written by Jeffrey Thomas of Punktown fame. I remember being impressed it was so good considering its status as tie-in. I also read two Friday the 13th ones and they were not as good

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While listening to a group of Jizz-wailers

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you think he lost all his swimmers?

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No, that one comes out this month. This 2025 one is a stand-alone novel. Not much is known but the BISAC details are "Occult & Supernatural / Ghost / Literary"

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Oh! I didn't hate that one. I liked the attempt at a Gothic horror house. It didn't work but at least it was slightly different?

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idk if i'm generically grumpy or if it's the creeping hands of depression (the black dog), but my head is buzzing like static on a tv channel.

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is that the last one? oh boy was it forgettable. all i can remember is there's a very long subplot about giant cicadas

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Do you think Vader fucks? Like when he's gone full evil? He's got piles of concubines? Do you think there are other Skywalker children out there?

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new Mieville novel in March 2025 by the way!!!!! ~625 pages

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Zach's avatar Zach @megapolisomancy.bsky.social
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I'm hereby calling for a national general strike until someone publishes new work from Kai Ashante Wilson. It can be a collection, a novel, or a new novella, I'm not picky.

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I celebrated 10 years a few months ago so maybe it is time..........

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I really don't like my job anymore. I'm tired of the petty drama, I'm tired of serving ancient rude old people, I'm annoyed by a bunch of my coworkers. But mostly, I'm fucking BORED. All day, I'm just bored doing the same shit over and over again

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Morgan Leigh Davies's avatar Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social
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This story by Alice Munro’s daughter about being abused by her stepfather, and her mother staying with him, is horrifying. CW CSA. archive.is/2024.07.07-1...

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man, how good was Shrill tho. that fat pool party scene was amazing

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Agreed. I thought she was fine in Dune(s) but Challengers impressed the shit out of me

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I want to taste the forbidden blue ooze

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I started The House of Mirth this week and it's not a surprise to literally anybody that Edith Wharton is a master. Everything at the technical level feels so modern, even when the subject matter is carriages and calling cards. House of Mirth is only her second novel too! Outrageously talented

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I need to taste the forbidden green ooze

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Supreme House of Cheese Toluca, IL

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matthew beefmaster's avatar matthew beefmaster @mbeefmaster.bsky.social
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oh noooo. did somebody really say that??? that's so embarrassing

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Ah yes, the classic boys will be boys hijinks of "sexual assault with a weapon, sexual assault and forcible confinement, while one of the teens was arrested for sexual assault and assault, according to an RCMP news release."

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doesn't matter. life will go on without the pedantry of rich people honorifics

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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there's something kind of satisfying that Rishi Sunak's legacy will be that of the final straw, ending 14 years of Tory governance. i mean, he won't suffer any consequences; surely he'll fail upwards into some sort of trillionaire status or whatever

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Knopf reissued some of his novels in the mid 2010s with some understated but effective covers. Never read them, but always meant to. Now it appears they're POD and overpriced (about ten dollars more than the standard trade paper price)

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man i wish this wasn't true but i know it will be

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Nice electoral landslide you got there, Labour. Be a shame if you adopted most of the Conservatives' failed policies while ekeing out some minor incremental gains they'll reverse next time they're in office.

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Gene Wolfe writes a social comedy of manners set in early 20th century. Call it House of Urth

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Steven Millhauser's stories are always so fun and interesting and different. Plus, his sentences are just a delight to read. Hungry Man approves of this book

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