Devon (Human Circus Podcast)

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Podcasting about medieval history at
https://humancircuspodcast.com/

Writing about Philip K Dick and other SF at
https://androiddreams.substack.com/

Living with cat in Vancouver, BC

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🔟 days left to submit your applications, folks! We are AMPED about growing our epic team of Augurians 😌 Link to submit is now in our Bluesky bio!

Love Augur Society? Time to get on board! 👈 We're looking for enthusiastic, creative, scifi/fantasy-obsessed Augurians for our our programming and marketing projects! Apply now: augurmag.com/join-augur-m... #augurmagazine #canlit

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Murray "Muzski" Groat's covers for imagined Tintin / Lovecraft mashup. I would 100% read these.

My cat is apparently having a very active evening.

Waffles has made the first of his three death saving throws!

There’s a pleasant spring training vibe to recent Blue Jays games. Jimenez, Berroa, Horwitz, and Clement running around out there, relievers I didn’t know at the start of the year, and you can tell yourself it doesn’t really matter who wins.

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Manufactured famine

Saving it for later watching and this all sounds highly promising.

we’re experiencing levels of CONMEBOL previously unimagined

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That reminds me of the time I cowrote an essay on Matt Damon’s mullet. Thief in the front, harlot in the back (actual medieval quote) slate.com/culture/2021...

Please explain the scorers haircut, because it looks medieval to me

How Historically Accurate Is Matt Damon’s Hideous Mullet in The Last Duel?slate.com Certain peevish monks would have strenuously objected to this look.

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YOU MUST DO YOUR STRETCHES TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

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My novel MERU was given to an architecture studio class at U of WA to inspire their final projects. Here’s one student’s interpretation of an alloy, with incredibly detailed drawings of the interior and exterior physiology. I’m amazed and honored by their level of creativity and thoughtfulness!

Some things are not terrible:

Don’t forget to follow my potato feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

I don't know what this is about in particular, but it feels like one of those things you can reasonably say in most contexts.

I hate the Yankees so much

On the day of yet another massacre (guess that's every day), thinking again about how grotesque it is that "If you forget Gaza this poster is designed to make you remember" is labelled "Intolerance." Is that really the "moderation" you want out of this place? Skies not looking very blue over here.

Why/how has this been tagged with "Intolerance"? @support.bsky.team this is ridiculous.

Thinking again about the music in the animated film... Is it time for another chorus of "The Greatest Adventure"?

BLUNT THE KNIVES BEND THE FORKS

#scifi #books This looks incredible!

The Spacefunk! anthology kickstarter just hit 64%. But there’s only 7 days left! This is a once in a lifetime anthology—50 black science fiction writers and poets writing the Black Fantastic. It’s an incredible opportunity to support black writers and publishers. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

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Do you enjoy my newsletter? Do you want to support my ability to make it? The newsletter inches closer to sustainability each month. Paid subscribers make that possible. I am hoping to pick up six new paid subscribers this month. Who can join in?

Organizing My Thoughtsorganizingmythoughts.org Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.

Why/how has this been tagged with "Intolerance"? @support.bsky.team this is ridiculous.

Never forget.

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8 days now. 1K a day to make the angels (or the Dogon) sing. Let's gooooooo!

Only 9 days to go on the kickstarter for this amazing anthology. 50 science fiction writers & poets! Just check out the table of contents. It’s a “Project We Love” and has received “Forward Funds”. It’s 57% funded so far. Grab a perk today. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mvm...

Maintaining extremely low functional levels in this heat. It is a time only for lying on the floor and existing.

I was not made for the summer/future.

I should have known not to look...

this photograph has broken me

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#sci-fi #reading New today on the newsletter, it's The World Jones Made, Philip K Dick's 1956 novel featuring mutants, aliens, and precognition in a world of post-war tensions!

The World Jones Madeopen.substack.com Aliens! Mutants! Post-war precognition! It's Philip K Dick's second novel...

A bunch of very promising reading on here! Some, from @vajra.me and @wtalabi.bsky.social, I already knew were great, and I'm just about to get into @premeemohamed.com's The Butcher of the Forest, but there's also a lot that I hadn't come across.

As always and always a valid answer but hopefully the thread will make you find something else and if not there is also www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/7/...

Halfway Through the Year! — Runalong The Shelveswww.runalongtheshelves.net

I was not made for the summer/future.

#sci-fi #reading New today on the newsletter, it's The World Jones Made, Philip K Dick's 1956 novel featuring mutants, aliens, and precognition in a world of post-war tensions!

The World Jones Madeopen.substack.com Aliens! Mutants! Post-war precognition! It's Philip K Dick's second novel...

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a small thought (I don't post a lot of Content on my patreon, but I do occasionally have small thoughts! I've also been archiving some of my once-published-but-no-longer-available short stories from long-defunct magazines, working forwards from the beginning) www.patreon.com/posts/around...

Around You, Close By | Vajra Chandrasekerawww.patreon.com Get more from Vajra Chandrasekera on Patreon

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

We are all appalled, Murderbot...

What? The other humans all looked at me, appalled. I was also appalled.

Saving this for later reading. It's before my time, but very much my kind of thing.

Guess what guys! They found evidence for trade connections between India and Roman Egypt! A cemetery for pets! A statue of the Buddha!

A Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizationswww.smithsonianmag.com At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world

If you're interested in Philip K Dick or sci-fi / spec-fic in general, my newsletter will soon be pulling up to its next stop at PKD's 1956 novel, The World Jones Made!

Welcome to Other Android Dreams!androiddreams.substack.com The beginning of a chronological reading of Philip K Dick...

#medieval #history #podcast Our 15th-century traveller's journey continues, making stops in Cyprus, where it's mostly complaints about bad air and ill health, as well as Mamluk Egypt, with talk of street food, elephants, and crocodile hunting.

Pedro Tafur 3: From Cyprus to Cairo — Human Circushumancircuspodcast.com As our Castilian traveller makes his roundabout way toward Mt Sinai, he finds ill-health but lots of help on Cyprus, while around Cairo he's struck by the street food and crocodiles.

I see that today will not be one of those days.

But maybe today the baseball will be good.