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Steen Comer@mediapathic.bsky.social |
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Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017 graduate. Tabletop RPG writer, mostly for Iron Kingdoms. I own a physical copy of Chicago Manual of Style and am willing to use it. Opinions do not reflect those of my employers. Self employed.
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Steen Comer
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It varies from day to day. The one that triggered this post was the fact that several Shriekback albums are just gone from the internet sometime in the past month. No longer on streaming, and can’t buy them from the band as far as I know.
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Steen Comer
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naughty naughty
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Sometimes the main thing that keeps me from going on a destructive spree fueled by incandescent rage is the knowledge that no one will ever be able to connect it to the actual cause, a thing that no one cares about that I think is a load bearing element of civilization.
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Steen Comer
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I know better than to ask, having been, I believe, on that exact path.
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Steen Comer
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Their classic for me, the one that still makes me giggle when I think of it, is "I brought the rukus. And this coleslaw."
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Steen Comer
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9:30 pm and my neighborhood is a constant rumble
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Steen Comer
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I find your mixed metaphor here a delightful story seed.
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Steen Comer
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Or you could go to the source and just watch Street of Crocodiles. (This comment is unfair to Phil Tippet and I mean it in only a very precisely directed way of course)
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Steen Comer
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Carol Kaye vs Lee Sklar numbers battle (and bass battle! I would watch that!)
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Brosephine Wires
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YES. You don’t have to give people your phone number anymore, you can change your (secondary ephemeral) name/link/QR as often as you like, and if subpoenaed, signal can only turn over chats under one individual name bc they don’t know who you are either — The Intercept published a good explainer.
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Steen Comer
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I'm not saying we started the meeting with "what if ghostbusters but much weirder" but I'm not not saying that either. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ste...
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ok, did any of my fellow industrial/drone people also get really into Over Valence (1993) by The Hair and Skin Trading Company? It was in an Influential Friend's library long ago, and I have listened to it at least once every few months since then www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLZ...
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Steen Comer
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I will not be releasing the “3 martinis and strong opinions about Le Corbusier” papers at this time.
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Steen Comer
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Me, and my turtle, are with you.
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Steen Comer
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Is this just a right place / right time anomaly? Or did others hit this as well?
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Steen Comer
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ok, did any of my fellow industrial/drone people also get really into Over Valence (1993) by The Hair and Skin Trading Company? It was in an Influential Friend's library long ago, and I have listened to it at least once every few months since then www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydLZ...
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Steen Comer
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I seem to have found a kindred soul, by which I mean, I think I’ll be using imagined future reviews by you as a navigational aid in my writing.
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Steen Comer
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(Insofar as genre labels are meaningful) I think you may be really on to something here.
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Zach
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What if some brave person were to argue that what we call "weird fiction" today is a result of horror incorporating SF's New Wave into itself (or... vice versa?) and has little to do with HP Lovecraft, Cthulhu, or tentacles
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Steen Comer
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This is really interesting to me. I like to think my own stuff is angling towards “weird”, but it’s definitely waaay more New Worlds than Lovecraft. And I find the “horror” parts of horror the least interesting. Like the scary is the vegetables I have to eat to get the bit I like.
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Steen Comer
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I appreciate this account bringing to my attention how hard early 20th century Belgian artists go.
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“Doing Gunfire” sounds like one of the skills from HOL.
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This thread is worth a read.
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Steen Comer
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Enjoying the respectful genteel sexism of old camping dudes on youtube. "If you're like me and can't sew worth a dang, you get you some of that fabric glue. You talk to them ladies at the sewing counter, they know."
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Steen Comer
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speaking as some random white dude I have nothing useful to contribute to the important parts of this, but I do want to say that “can’t code from a cell” has some serious Getting The Real Shit Done in 2024 energy, thank you for that.
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Steen Comer
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Currently debating a similar maneuver, you give me strength.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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time machine technician: oh hey you're back early time traveler: vibes are off. time machine technician: what? time traveler: *loading a pistol, grabbing a stack of howard zinn angela davis ursula le guin franz fanon and bruno latour books and getting back in the time machine* vibes are off.
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Steen Comer
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Thank you, I was concerned for a moment there.
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Steen Comer
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Morning Womble! I’m tearing my way through Saint of Bright Doors, and can say the praise is all well-earned.
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Steen Comer
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Speaking as someone who aims for Evil Bastard Lit, I study comedy closely and respect it immensely.
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Steen Comer
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Thank you!
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Steen Comer
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ok but why does your pub have a scene from the most epic D&D 3rd ed campaign painted on the wall?
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
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Yes, but I think you're hearing tonal variation at higher pitch rather than a true gender-based pronunciation difference. (women tend to have more tonal variation; it is easier to hear tonal variation at higher pitches.)
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Steen Comer
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Aha! That makes sense. Thank you.
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Steen Comer
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Let’s ask an expert!
Hey @gretchenmcc.bsky.social , is gendered pronunciation a thing? Or is my young memory deceiving me?
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Steen Comer
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Anecdotally, though, I realize that my memories of these pronunciations are all from women. Is there such a thing as gendered pronunciation?
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Steen Comer
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I’m a small semistrapping feller from North Carolina, and I said it to you politely, does that count?
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Steen Comer
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Southeast, notably North Carolina. “HAY-at” and “NAY-ale”
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Steen Comer
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Among the other ill effects of the current AI glut, I do not envy anyone trying to do programming right now.
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Steen Comer
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My comment when my partner showed this to me was “ok but there’s a fine line between courtyard and amphitheater.”
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Richard Kadrey
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The project to being my lost novel, KAMIKAZE L’AMOUR, back into print is doing well, but with 2 weeks to go, it could use some help to push it over the top. Please take a look at the project and consider backing it. Thanks!
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Steen Comer
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yeah, that’s oneathem signs from on high, right there.
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Steen Comer
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I wish I could afford to join your cult.
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Dennis Detwiller
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All that and we've managed to raise $20k for Covenant House!
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Steen Comer
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I pass along what @darylwriterguy.bsky.social said to me that is so important I’ve written custom software to make it show up various places on my computer so I always see it:
Lean into the weird.
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Dan Hon
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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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Steen Comer
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I pass along what @darylwriterguy.bsky.social said to me that is so important I’ve written custom software to make it show up various places on my computer so I always see it:
Lean into the weird.
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Steen Comer
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Ballard might want a word with you about this.
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It took a long time for us to notice the geological activity of the moon followed unusual repeated patterns. As a xenolinguist I wasn’t even supposed to be stationed here. But it’s a good thing I was. Because now we know it’s language.
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Steen Comer
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sidebar, but I would read “The Shy, The Rowdy, and The Fat” as either a western or a heist story.
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