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Slovej Balle fans: don’t we need a t-shirt or sticker that says “I BELIEVE in the 19th of November”?
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2026/03/24/the-smug-expression-of-the.html","date_published":"2026-03-24T21:20:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 21:20","date_timestamp":1774387223,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"67112520","content_html":"The Risk of Serialized Reality\n\n“For me, the word literary is only useful as a way to denote books that are meant to be read on their own, with focus and deliberateness, where the experience of each word and sentence is foregrounded. I don’t want “genre” books to not exist, I just don’t think that anyone b... stevenpate.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/06/18/the-risk-of-serialized-reality.html","date_published":"2025-06-19T04:52:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-19 04:52","date_timestamp":1750308748,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3lrwq3wpiwn26"]}},{"id":"66616246","content_html":"Worldbuilding: How Speculative Fiction Broke Out of the Genre Ghetto
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/06/12/worldbuilding-how-speculative-fiction-broke.html","date_published":"2025-06-12T17:22:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-06-12 17:22","date_timestamp":1749748974,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3lrggrf5yyt24"]}},{"id":"65753726","content_html":"One week after planting this golden chain tree, the resident doe and fawns have put lie to its supposed deer resistence. Here’s hoping they were merely drawn to its novelty.
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Toolmen (Mandy Brown)
\n\n“I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an ideology, and it must be engaged with as such.”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/62708495","date_published":"2025-04-22T06:03:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-04-22 06:03","date_timestamp":1745301818,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"60882114","content_html":"Sometimes I get to walk to work. This is my favorite relay to go.
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Musings on an inefficient life\nby Sylvia Keesmaat
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/03/14/204843.html","date_published":"2025-03-18T04:53:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-03-18 04:53","date_timestamp":1742273592,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"60060458","content_html":"Search is an invisible platform that shaped the entire web. And it’s changing.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/03/14/search-is-an-invisible-platform.html","date_published":"2025-03-15T03:46:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-03-15 03:46","date_timestamp":1742010413,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"59832665","content_html":"Fascinating read from Counter Craft about writers writing less led me to wonder: what are we losing when our best writers are writing things other than novels? My first reaction is something akin to despair. But is is it really all that much?
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Finished reading: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad 📚
\n\nEl Akkad has found the words for what has been happening in Gaza, and describe its effect on all of us. Essential and heart-wrenching, like prime James Baldwin but right off the stove and no time to cool down.
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Finished reading: The Traveling Feast by Rick Bass 📚
\n\nA lovely idea: a writer makes the occasion of a dinner an excuse to speak with and write about his favorite living writers. Many of his favorites overlap with mine, and I really enjoyed this.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/02/19/finished-reading-the-traveling-feast.html","date_published":"2025-02-19T18:17:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-19 18:17","date_timestamp":1739989043,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3likf4o737f2d"]}},{"id":"57966996","content_html":"@ayjay Gosh that is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/57966996","date_published":"2025-02-19T18:14:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-19 18:14","date_timestamp":1739988889,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"57459722","content_html":"Finished reading: The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig 📚\n\nThe Sea Runners a stupefyingly relentless account of four indentured servants escaping from a Russian trading post in what is today Sitka, Alaska. In their harrowing journey by canoe (in winter) through a brutal stretch of Pacific coastline down to Astoria,... stevenpate.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/02/12/finished-reading-the-sea-runners.html","date_published":"2025-02-13T07:03:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-13 07:03","date_timestamp":1739430200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3li24ns33wx2o"]}},{"id":"57370833","content_html":"\nWhat an intense and unique book, one I’ll not soon forget.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/57370833","date_published":"2025-02-12T06:15:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-12 06:15","date_timestamp":1739340945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"57027668","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781938912917/cover.jpg\")
Finished reading: In the Pockets of Small Gods by Anis Mojgani 📚
\n\nOpened this with no knowledge of book or author. It hooked me immediately and never let go. This is a readable, genuinely moving and at times profound collection of poetry with a through line of processing grief. Wonderful.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/02/07/finished-reading-in-the-pockets.html","date_published":"2025-02-07T19:35:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-07 19:35","date_timestamp":1738956911,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3lhmduwvsci22"]}},{"id":"57022406","content_html":"Snow beginning to recede on the skylight of my office.
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Finished reading: Slow Down by Kohei Saito 📚
\n\nI liked his rationale for degrowth and why it is not just another word for “austerity,” and I even followed his rehabilitation of the Marx’s ecological bona fides as far as that goes; but I wanted more detail about how it might be achieved.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/01/31/finished-reading-slow-down-by.html","date_published":"2025-02-01T07:52:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-01 07:52","date_timestamp":1738396364,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vghcwb3fdj76u3fxc4bcwqkr/post/3lh3zsyotr42y"]}},{"id":"56305937","content_html":"@apoorplayer I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Fedarko communicated so much about the Grand Canyon (both the park and the place at large) while telling a grand yarn. Not that easy to do. He certainly got a lot of mileage out of owning up to his bravado and poor judgment along the way.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/56305937","date_published":"2025-01-30T04:36:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-30 04:36","date_timestamp":1738211785,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"56008690","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9798988670056/cover.jpg\")
Currently reading: And the Roots of Rhythm Remain by Joe Boyd 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2025/01/26/currently-reading-and-the-roots.html","date_published":"2025-01-26T18:26:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-26 18:26","date_timestamp":1737916001,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56008003","content_html":"I didn’t plan on diving into an 850 book about music, but I flipped to a the chapter called “Tezeta”, learned like seven fun things about Tony Allen in two pages, and knew I was installing myself inside these covers for a few weeks. This is so great.
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One great list I got from the always-wonderful Phinney Books Newsletter (#379, Oct. 5, 2024): Reactor Mag’s Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2024/10/31/one-great-list.html","date_published":"2024-11-01T03:53:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-11-01 03:53","date_timestamp":1730433210,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"48507930","content_html":"“How long do crows hold a grudge? Marzluff believes he has now answered the question: around 17 years.” (Seattle Times).
\n\nI’m guessing that time frame can be extended indefinitely if the crow is bound in the chest cavity of a human zombie.…
\n","summary":"","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/2024/10/29/how-long-do.html","date_published":"2024-10-29T16:14:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-10-29 16:14","date_timestamp":1730218455,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"13538177","content_html":"@warner It could be that compared to Amazon/Goodreads, Bookshop.org and WorldCat, there is a higher likelihood of a submitted book’s ISBN not returning a result on Open Library, but I dunno. It’s a worthwhile project, and including it would benefit both endeavors. IIRC, M.b book search uses Open Library. @manton
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/13538177","date_published":"2022-10-21T19:47:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-10-21 19:47","date_timestamp":1666381654,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"13532786","content_html":"@slamet Hey I’m new here too. Trying to find and interact with some folks, and it’s been fun so far. Welcome!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/13532786","date_published":"2022-10-20T17:07:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-10-20 17:07","date_timestamp":1666285639,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"13530091","content_html":"@agilelisa I totally agree about this book, and I felt the same way about trying to read all of the books. I’ve been keeping track of that intermittent progress (https://bookshelves.dev/the-landmarks-of-landmarks/), but I have to say that Waterlog is soooo good. I don’t have any good reason not to have finished it, just got caught up in something else.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/stevenpate/13530091","date_published":"2022-10-20T04:41:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Steven Pate","url":"https://stevenpate.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc3428dd835ac9b085e200222c69c8cfb%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"stevenpate"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2022-10-20 04:41","date_timestamp":1666240883,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"13530006","content_html":"@jean What a great photo, and what a cool place!
\nMy first trip to the PNW coast featured a morning hike at Cape Lookout, which ended with a rope climb up and over to a beach literally covered with enormous driftwood logs, and a crashing surf disappearing into mist. A truly magical experience, especially for someone coming from the Midwest. One day I’ll go back…
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