Jake Casella Brookins
Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
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- Great/haunting insights in this thread.
- Jo unfazed by the snow; Tip fazed but tolerating
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- after a few weeks of intense and troubling dreams, last night dreamt I was a journalist inteviewing Tupac about his skincare routine, but then we stopped to watch a really cool frog in a nearby stream. it was on top of a big turtle!
- Reposted by Jake Casella BrookinsI'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.
- With the obvious caveat that it should all be left in the ground: who else from bituminous country still working through some feelings about those hifalutin anthracite types
- this rules (and dates me like the most specific radioactive element)
- Reposted by Jake Casella Brookinsworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by Jake Casella BrookinsSeconding this, with perhaps adding in some room for arts/books coverage.
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- a spiritual sequel to Ecco the Dolphin based on a passerine bird would rule
- Reposted by Jake Casella BrookinsJoss Whedon weeping when he hears "ni howdy" like Salieri listening to Mozart
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- Think I need to log off for a while, but a thought, as I struggle with how much anger I'm having: undergrad philsophy prof of mine had a great bit about "better for Hitler, too." As in, you primarily fight evil to protect people, but if you find the hate wearying—
- Reposted by Jake Casella Brookinssorry to burst everyone's bubble but these are either entirely gen ai or at the very least ai upscaled or altered. these are taken from a page called @squirrel_boxes on instagram. quick 🧵 to explain why they're ai generated:
- Sorry to be a mega-downer, the science is cool here, but we all see that this tech will likely be used to utterly destroy huge ecosystems, right?
- Deep-sea robots hunting for "dark oxygen," large amounts of the gas from a region in the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to power photosynthesis. The team have developed a suite of instruments that they’ll use to probe the sea floor. www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled) #deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
- Insightful line of @strangelibrary.com's about weird parsimony in a Jeffrey Ford story would not leave me alone until I made this
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- just to be clear here: take away their pay, take away their guns, impeach their superiors, dissolve/restructure DHS, prosecute every murder & assault & kidnapping & theft & property damage & trafficking & endangerment & conspiracy for above like it was anybody else doing those crimes. Start there.
- "We should make some more rules" as a response to "these psychos constantly ignore all the rules" is the kind of stupid idea that I personally would be embarassed to suggest in public
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- man imagine getting paid to write "Why is this kids book from 30 years ago, written by a rabid terf, that sucks ass, successful only because marketed to children who don't and arguably still can't read, less popular now?" for the paper of record
- Experts recommend coping with stress by grimacing horribly at your desk. "Really engage the sternocleidomastoid," they recommend. "Imagine you're modeling for a sōmen mask in the Sengoku period."
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- It's a small comfort, but I have sometimes been mildly consoled by the fact that there's a fundamental difference between bigotry spouted by a family member & bigotry spouted by someone with a platform. It'd be cool if you could change Racist Uncle, but mostly just for him; you can let it go.
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- Reposted by Jake Casella BrookinsI know I’m always Culturepoasting (just started reading SURFACE DETAIL, no spoilers) but I will never forget the bit in PLAYER OF GAMES where the Azad are like: there’s only one thing a dystopia can offer the citizen of a utopia: the libidinal pleasure of domination
- "the great filter is Stooky Bill" theory confirmed
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- rude of @danhartland.bsky.social et al. to drop the SH criticism special when I have too much work to do/snow to shovel strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
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- getting tetchy about the short chapter trend again
- Reposted by Jake Casella BrookinsBeing a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
- Thinking this morning about really striking books that didn't seem to get the attention they should have; one of the things I keep "joking" about at ARB is an award or shortlist for books from more than a year ago that weren't widely recognized. Great but stealthy books of the last ~5 years?
