Alex Z
@alexzoubine
Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
With the illustrious, fabulous, witty, delightful Chuck Tingle Thanks for giving me that tingling feeling, Chuck 💙 @chucktingle.bsky.social
"Humans have had this way of magical thinking through all of our history. The problem is that today, the technology has reached formidable, maybe even awesome proportions. And so the dangers of thinking this way are larger. Not that this is a new kind of thing" -Carl Sagan on pseudoscience
Woodpecker at the bird feeder! What a delightful and unexpected guest Come back any time, friend
Ray Nayler: not just a wondeful author but also a great speaker & wonderful person Check out his newest book: Palaces of the Crow You can also check out my Goodreads post about it here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... #booksky #writingCommunity #scifi #fiction
Incredible! Rqy Nayler & Sam Miller (@sentencebender.bsky.social) in conversation about Ray's new book: Palaces of the Crow at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn Great chat about a deeply evocative book #bookSky #writingCommunity #art
If you've ever wanted to be murdered in your sleep by a stuffed animal, boy do I have the product for you: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBD1SMD...
This is such an interesting moment in economic history If BTC sinks below $60k (& stays there), many institutional investors will start to exit pushing its value down more From there, unwinding derivatives positions will keep pushing things lower Like I said: interesting times...
Reading about Asimov's and seeing the chart showing such rapid decline in their submissions... just hurts my heart On top of this, I haven't gotten a new print issue in months 😞 #scifi #writingCommunity
The Blue Origin rocket blowing up on its launchpad is a striking metaphor for where billionaires are taking society... www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
I think I just fixed a goddamn washing machine with a goddamn new circuit board Not the excitement I typically get for a Friday night
Review on Goodreads coming soon Anything you want to know or are curious about? I might enjoy including it in my review... #booksky #scifi #science #literature
I think Warhol did a great job of propelling this conversation When is a soup can not just a soup can? When an artist and a spectator have both imbued it with meaning
Heading into the city to watch the premier of Titus Andronicus! Wishing everyone a restful Sunday
"How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday’s noise." - From "The Southern Cross" by Charles Wright Paris Review, 1981
Enjoying this ARC Stay tuned for my thoughts Perhaps as a preview though: i sat down and immediately tore through the first 50 pages, losing track of time... #booksky #read #writingCommunity
Ancient jawless fish Sacabambaspis looks like it just wants to be your friend
" inside the machine we become the image of the machine, the dusk becomes the machine’s dusk, in piercing we are pierced by the machine, we must use a defective good to prove we are defective goods" Zheng Xiaoqiong, Paris Review #poem #booksky #writingCommunity #art #technology
"expertise is no doubt impressive ... but it's only one small part of intelligence ... We consider elephants intelligent because they mourn their dead. What is a PhD in grief?" - from "Don't Call it Intelligence" by Charles Yu
The royal family owns 0.2% of all wealth in the UK Musk owns 0.5% of US wealth (and the US has about 12x more wealth than the UK) Individual robber barons of the US are wealthier than entire monarchies Let that sink in