The books did get longer

Does the complete corpus of DIGITIZABLE TEXT encompass a coherent theory of how to simply *dispose of* the social world of humans? I’M QUITE SURE IT DOES

I’m just sitting here with my face in my hands like I’m in a photo of the Great Depression thinking, “they think DIGITIZABLE TEXT somehow equates to A THING THAT MEANINGFULLY REFLECTS THE WORLD”

Yes! That was a key point, now that you mention it

I’d like to never lay another dollar for computers, I feel like I’ve spent plenty

I seem to remember a discourse back in the day about whether/how much the adoption of the word processor hurt Stephen King’s work

Long way since then

leg day skippin chump

😂

"Soon we shall think only when we are sheathed in latex."
- The Perfect Crime

headed for some bad shit - the entire economy is wagered on these new computers that *can't do math* and *get less efficient* with the passage of time

just incredible

Yeah not sure I can stay in this industry much longer, they’re starting to require the developers to first draft from chatbots

CREATIVES: The world needs more bits where the dry cow skull in the desert says stuff:

all female whalepunk band called Bikini Krill

Raise a glass of warm wolf milk today...

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Wish just once I had kissed a girl who pronounces it “aluminium”

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

This shopping mall is full of the kind of people who hove into view

Shellac was basically a Zeni Geva tribute band

What they did to San Francisco is one of the greatest man made tragedies to happen to a city. A hive of the most unfuckable losers wearing a beacon of culture like the skin suit from men in black.

Dirda is so great. He takes weird fiction seriously and knows it really well, down to some of the most obscure of small presses

Laissez-passer YouTube video by Diblo Dibala - Topic

Diblo > Diplo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxIj...

Air travel should be more expensive and infrequent, [ducks]

Aaron Lange on Instagram: "I spoke with Adam S. Cantwell, author of Urx-Quonox, about astral projection, metal, barbarians, sword & sorcery, and more. Substack link in bio. #fantasy #swordandsorcery... 7 likes, 0 comments - aaronlangecomix on April 15, 2026: "I spoke with Adam S. Cantwell, author of Urx-Quonox, about astral projection, metal, barbarians, sword & sorcery, and more. Substack link in ...

I did this interview to promote the distro Church Ghost now stocking my S&S novel URX-QUONOX, shipping conveniently from the USA www.instagram.com/p/DXKEQ1eFht...

cool but also oh no it's a short walk from there to GADGETS

I got an e-reader that's the size of a playing card!

spooky melania revenant with the royals

there must be a cosmic counterpart to The Presence:

a failure of literacy - criticism is another genre (a special one but still), not some oracle or permission structure

It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City (Demo Version - 1972) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen - Topic

tell me this doesn't obliterate: It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City 1972 demo www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Ao...

U.S. on 45 piece 1 by DJ Forbidden Woodcut: Listen on Audiomack U.S. on 45 piece 1 song from DJ Forbidden Woodcut. Release Date: February 16, 2026.

I made this dumb mix of American early r&b rock soul and pop from 45rpm vinyl, enjwah: audiomack.com/forbidden-wo... #lloydprice #bewgiewewgie

[Angelo Torres was born April 14, 1932, in Puerto Rico. His "An Eye for an Eye," drawn for Incredible Science Fiction in 1956, was rejected by the Comics Code. After the death of Tatjana Wood in February, he is perhaps the last living artist to have drawn for EC comics. Happy 94th birthday!]