I recently finished "The Raven Scholar" by Antonia Hodgson. There were some neologisms that irked me a bit, and the book probably could have been at least two hundred pages shorter, but it was enjoyable enough. It's difficult to find modern fantasy these days that ISN'T romantasy, so I appreciate it for that alone.

I've now moved on to "Slow Horses" by Mick Herron. I'm a big fan of the TV series, so I'm looking forward to finally reading the novels.

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タコ研究の第一人者に『Darwin's Paradox!』をプレイしながらタコのすごい生態を聞いてみた https://youtu.be/mFO2E3GGkhA?si=lY9ReZl5HQqnMB46

イカやタコについてめっちゃ面白い本を書いている池田さんがゲームさんぽに登場🐙🦑 #nowreading

【海の賢者】タコ研究の第一人者に『Darwin's Paradox!』をプレイしながらタコのすごい生態を聞いてみた

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A zine I read recently. I would say it describes shocking brutality but honestly I've read about Indonesian prisons before and to be shocked one must be at least a bit surprised.

This is a more recent account of prisons than what I had read before and describes basically what anarchists, activists and other radical prisoners in Indonesia will be going through now.

Including: savage beatings from the police, betrayals, filth, deplorable conditions, inedible food, inhumane treatment that leads to the death and suffering of prisoners, drugs, addiction, bribery, and the totally apathetic indifference of guards, doctors, policemen and other representatives of the law and government that prisoners interact with.

#zine #anarchy #Indonesia #anarchism #nowreading #reading

Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2

[2021]

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RO、テイルズウィーバー、パンヤあたりかねぇ。
後ボンバーマンオンライン。これは「溶かした」の意味が少し違ってきそうだけど。
今は亡きWindows Messengerがお供でした。

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「あなたがいちばん時間を溶かしたゲーム」アンケート回答紹介
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/kikakuthetower/2604032b

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「いちばん時間を溶かしたゲーム」回答をまとめてご紹介!『ラグナロクオンライン』を16万1280時間(約18年)、『ファイナルファンタジー14』を11万6850時間(約13年)プレイする、もはや「ゲームの中で生活している」猛者が出現

『ラグナロクオンライン』を16万1280時間(約18年)、『ファイナルファンタジー14』を11万6850時間(約13年)遊んだプレイヤー現る。すごい……!

電ファミニコゲーマー – ゲームの面白い記事読んでみない?

"If you’re reading this book, it’s because you want to join the elite.
You want to count amongst the Navy SEALS of information technology."

I went and bought the book "Ed Mastery" from @mwl today. I am now reading it. There is no excuse, I should have done this a long time ago:

"ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor"

https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=ed

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Ed Mastery

For 1 April 2018! Let me be perfectly clear: ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a sysadmin. You're a mere dabbler. A dilettante. Deficient. Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the myste

Tilted Windmill Press

Books finished in 2026:

16. The Red and The Black by Stendhal (1830)
15. The Book of Sand (1975) and Shakespeare’s Memory (1983) by Jorge Luis Borges
14. Anarchist Feminists In The Philippines From Etniko Bandido (~2016)
13. The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini (1989)
12. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah (1968)
11. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)
10. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
9. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911)
8. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
7. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991)
6. The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C Anderson (2023)
5. baedan - journal of queer nihilism - issue one (2012)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
3. They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements by Peter Gelderloos (2024)
2. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
1. Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2006)

So much intensity in the thoughts and words of this libertine son of a peasant carpenter. He causes scandal everywhere he goes, getting aristocratic women to fall in love with him. Having a pretty face and memorizing the New Testament in Latin was all it took back then it seems.

Lots of teenage boys today are also obsessed with Napoleon, military history and are likewise emotionally unbalanced and likely to shoot someone.

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