Tom LevensonInevitable soundtrack for this:
would have to be this:
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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureIain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born #OTD, 16 Feb—a🎂🧵
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“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”
—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/
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#Scottish #fiction #sciencefiction #IainBanks #IainMBanks #TheCulture
Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M.) Banks - The Bottle Imp
Iain Banks’ writing can be located within a context of contemporary British fiction, namely the period after 1970. The rationale for the provision of a context wider than Scottish fiction is determined by Banks who, as Thom Nairn explains, has ‘expressed doubts about the place he may or may not occupy in a specifically Scottish […]
So now there's a mass shooting in my town of Half Moon Bay. This country is a mess
Wow Twitter is now selling ads to scammers. You have to use a shared email address to install this license, so anyone else with this shared email will be able to see your uploaded docs, OneDrive, etc. @GossiTheDog
Congrats to Argentina on the win, what an amazing game! Mbappé was amazing and probably the best player in the sport right now.
Erik MoellerA few words on alternative platforms you might be considering:
- Tumblr: still exists, now run by Automattic, the WordPress crew -- decent folks. Not my kind of thing but seems to have found its niche, might even interoperate with Mastodon some day.
- Cohost: good vibe, good people, feels small-scale Tumblr-ish. Run by a "not-for-profit software company".
- Post.news: funded by early Twitter investor Andreessen Horowitz. Nonsense micropayment scheme. Avoid.
- Hive: security nightmare. Avoid.
Brian Beutler
I will say I'm going to miss sports Twitter - not sure it'll be the same experience on Mastodon...
Now that Twitter is really falling apart, if you've downloaded your archive but not converted it to markdown, you really should. The archive has links to twitter and the images there are reduced in size, so if Twitter goes down, good luck accessing your archive.
This github back has a lot of great resources: https://github.com/achisto/twitter-offboarding
GitHub - achisto/twitter-offboarding: Collection of helpful tools for leaving Twitter, enhancing the Twitter archive, deleting your data and moving over to Mastodon.
Collection of helpful tools for leaving Twitter, enhancing the Twitter archive, deleting your data and moving over to Mastodon. - GitHub - achisto/twitter-offboarding: Collection of helpful tools f...