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1. ninja posts would also be nice, when I’m just moving stuff around to make pinned posts

2. Greetings

   Books

   Why: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615

   gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don't know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down. This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088Mastodon

   2023: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083#.

   gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place somewhere?): "Axiomatic," a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992. Great late 80s hard SF shorts I don't do star reviews, but, folks, they're good stories https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I'm sure felt reasonably far out at the time.Mastodon

   2024: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111681527425154217

   gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image First book of 2024: Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions). I don't know how this made it onto my pile but it was a quick read (I started it yesterday). It's so weird to read 90s tech memoirs. People were still sorta building stuff back then, weren't sure where things would end up, and so on. 2023's thread: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083 Why I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615Mastodon

   2025: TBD

   Walks

   https://mastodon.social/@gravely/111433245331859281

   gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 3 images so I walk a few miles every morning looked for an app help me be more intentional about taking streets I've never taken before and was susprised when https://citystrides.com/ pulled in... every walk I've ever recorded in strava. it's neat seeing the stark difference between tight squiggles of political lit drops up and down steps from years ago (usually hanging door cards on every house doorknob on a turf of a few blocks) next to meanderings of normal walks on sidewalksMastodon

3. caught a hot tip that “A People’s History of North American Music" is rad, in Berkeley on the 11th and SF on the 12th https://www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-2024/west-coast-tour-a-peoples-history-of-north-american-music, have plans the 12th I might cancel or not and go the 11th, tbd

4. sf being a small town, it went like this

   “and for this one I got a few days ago, it’s Sun Ra so you know I gotta get something that sparkles”

   "what night did you go?” another customer asks

   “saturday”

   "I went friday”, he says

   “right on”

   “sparkles, what are they like ABBA?" the frame shop worker asks

   “no, kinda the opposite of ABBA" says the other guy

   “more like jazz I guess" I say

   “afro-futurism" he says

   “uh, OK" the frame shop guy says

5. Getting another @paulrickards piece framed at the same time as the @SunRaUniverse poster I got Saturday at the show.

   I wanted to get the plotter piece with ornate yellow cope in the top right corner but it would have been 10x the cost so I lowered my sights a little to the one on the piece. 🖊️☀️

   And the Sun Ra Arkestra poster absolutely had to be sparkles, but again the ones pictured around it are eye-poppingly expensive so I went with a smaller, finer grit, but still sparkle, not pictured. 🪩🤗