*Loss Prevention Guy
@shredosaurus
Posts inconsistently about books (especially experimental lit and SFF), international pro wrestling, 80s and 90s music, video games, cats, police abolition, soccer, comics, and healthcare reform, so no matter who you are you’ll be occasionally lost. He/him
*Loss Prevention Guy
As somebody who works in this particular area, I was reading this so I knew what bullshit to defend myself against from family, and I laughed out loud when they quote Pinker as more or less “a psychology professor” in this. NYT Stop Platforming Transphobes Challenge, difficulty level: impossible
Rare BlueSky post with good replies
A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Oh My Goddess panels. ‘What should I give yo a girl to make her really happy?’ ‘I dunno… a synthesizer?’
Whom among us
I love Falcom’s stuff and as a result it’s all the harder to support them at launch for anything because they are just so aggressively fine with treating the people who know them as pay pigs lol
Definitely this guy for better or worse
And yet hard to express how rare it is to hear anybody say anything even vaguely anti-Big Capital directly on American network news. This would have felt mildly shocking to me if I saw it live lol
It’s the everything app and he still does all of his online banking there
This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
A gently used trade paperback copy of Carlos Casteneda’s Journey to Ixtlán
Got a gently used trade paperback castañeda for peanuts at a weird local used bookstore a couple of weeks back and it springs to mind now that see you posting a haul lol
i love gaming. i will be gaming til the lights go off you best believe it. but if ai genuinely kills The Computer i think we gotta take it in stride. probably a good thing for culture. we can all just get into books instead
TOON TUESDAY
#ToonTuesday
No, you’re right. They don’t make ‘em like they used to.
this is why hominids invented thought
[Guitar Solo] Uh-huh See ZZ Top Live Get tickets as low as $70 You might also like making the bed Olivia Rodrigo the grudge Olivia Rodrigo all-american bitch Olivia Rodrigo [Verse 3] The blue coat and brown hat And I don't worry 'cause my pony's fat Yellow boots, Goldberry Singin' songs, makin' merry [Chorus] They come runnin' just as fast as they will 'Cause every hobbit crazy 'bout Tom Bombadil
From Brian Eno’s published journal
Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".
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I love to Reveal a Vision that just sounds like something a 9-year-old made up on the spot
A parody of a Peanuts cartoon strip in which Lucy says, "I feel torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy..."
Good morning
if a game turns your cursor into a little gauntlet, it automatically gets +1 point
there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up
Remember when the Paris Olympics had gojira with a beheaded marie Antoinette introducing them
episode 021
Definitely one of those accounts that’s like, one shitty bedroom black metal demo, one surprisingly good dungeonsynth record, and one split release with a known problematic guy, and they’re all under different artist names
She’s so real for this
This reminds me of a post I saw a while back that was like, remember that Akira is a somewhat common Japanese name, and it’s sort of like if there was a groundbreaking, violent, political sci fi epic in the English-speaking world called like Bryan