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Cake day: October 22nd, 2025

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  • The City & The City is really good, read that after Embassytown, planning to read Krakenn as next CM although may go straight to The Scar, book 2 of Perdido Street Station. PSS is quintessential steampunk on overdrive, so well written. I liked Embassytown for many reasons, the original concepts for certain but prose was poetic and specifically intelligent, I needed to refer to my dictionary app on almost every page. And it was clear he wasn’t just trying to use big original words, the verbiage was very specific and many of the words encompassed multiple concepts that could only be expressed through his chosen vocabulary.

    Blindsight is great, really fun and weird. I definitely suggest Shroud by AT, it’s got commonalities to Blindsight and is one of favorite novels by him.












  • Unsure how much better ebay and etsy are but I often use amazon to research products and either find a way to direct order or use ebay instead.

    One of my hobbies is fucking amazon over. Often I’ll order from both amazon and ebay (or direct from manufacturer), the item comes from amazon in two days and start using it, when the same item comes from ebay I’ll return the used one back to amazon and keep the ebay bought one.

    edit: another way to fuck amazon over is to find the item used (cheaper) on ebay, buy it and order same one new from amazon, hold onto for few weeks and send the used one back to amazon. Fuck them entirely.

    I only do these with items shipping from amazon warehouses, not private sellers.