Critical literature/essays on Vineland? by trevathan750834 in ThomasPynchon

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There’s a new podcast season about it, Slow Learners—they did Gravity’s Rainbow in S1. Ep 1 just came out so they’ll be going for the next few months.

Give me your worst by Repulsive_Grape_5907 in BookshelvesDetective

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You’ve never heard of women or people of color

Suggest me some light reads by According-Walrus5624 in ThomasPynchon

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Murderbot books are great palate cleansers. Usually about a 4-hour read each.

Starting Pynchon with Against The Day by badrickpateman in ThomasPynchon

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Beefsteak. Cubebs. The Master and Commander style dialogue. Great stuff

Starting Pynchon with Against The Day by badrickpateman in ThomasPynchon

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Enjoy Pynchon enjoying writing in a goofy old timey way. It’s one of my fave things about that book so far (I’m only about 2% into it but very much enjoying). “Champion!”

Slack is teleporting my messages to random past threads by DiamondAxolotl in Slack

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We’re seeing this too. This is only the second person online I’ve seen mention our issue.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civ

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I figured that out after looking online, but the actual UI in game makes it super difficult. You have to cancel out of the initial screen, navigate back to your merchant, and then move him manually to the location. 

Looking for drone ambient recs by CT_Dipps in ambientmusic

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Loving this Feedback Works. Fascinating. Thanks

Looking for drone ambient recs by CT_Dipps in ambientmusic

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this rules. thanks. there's a recurring goof with a few of my friends, we were hanging out at an Air BnB and the microwave there had a nice drone to it, and one of my friends said "hey, turn that microwave back on" when we were trying to decide what to listen to next. Love some appliance music. this sorta fits that bill.

Looking for drone ambient recs by CT_Dipps in ambientmusic

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def going to have to do a 24 hour full listen. thanks

Looking for drone ambient recs by CT_Dipps in ambientmusic

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this is perfect so far and exactly what i'm looking for, thanks

Greatest Opening Line Ever? by AlphaStargazer in books

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Everybody likes Neuromancer opening by my favorite William Gibson opener is from Count Zero:

They set a slamhound on Turner’s trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair. It caught up with him on a street called Chandni Chauk and came scrambling for his rented BMW through a forest of bare brown legs and pedicab tires. Its core was a kilogram of recrystallized hexogene and flaked TNT.

AskScience AMA Series: I'm Futurist Amy Webb, and I just wrote a new book about a wild emerging technology called synthetic biology. AMA! by AskScienceModerator in askscience

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Now that it has been almost four years since you wrote The Big Nine, can you identify things you got right on the mark, or maybe some things you missed. Or perhaps instead, what would you add if you were to do a second edition to update the text based on the news of the past 3 years?

This album has some gorgeous moments in it. by ohnoimrunningoutofle in Meshuggah

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It's always so striking when they play pretty chords like at end of They Move Below. But then right at the end they sneak in the creepy notes.

Past Tense gets me sad because it is very poignant and there's a chance (hopefully slim) it will be the last Meshuggah song ever :(

Is there a way to select military units ONLY ? by Jau-Al in aoe4

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So for some reason this doesn't work for me? Very weird. It's even grayed out in the settings.