Orion Ussner kidder / is on Nostr

English prof at FDU Vancouver, specialize in composition and comics scholarship, dad, nerd, writer of SF/F fiction (see me on writing.exchange).

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2024-06-01 06:44:01

I realized today that over the course of my life, I've switched OS's once every 15 years or so. Ha!
#DOS / #Windows, #OSX, #Linux

2024-03-23 22:55:34

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@npub1wpj…7m4z Yeah, good point. Jesus.

2024-03-23 19:04:01

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@npub1wpj…7m4z I hear you, and I don't disagree with the general idea. I will say, though, that we'll have civilization, just potentially smaller scale. Fascism is extremely unstable, and so is the climate now, so we maybe won't have gigantic centralized states for a while. And maybe that would be better on its own, but obviously there'a nothing "good" about climate destruction and fascism.

2024-03-13 06:01:24

I don't think I'm going to live long enough to see the end of the #Polycrisis. It seems like I'm going to die right in the middle of it, probably a lot earlier than my parents or even my grandparents.
#poli #climate #fascism

2023-10-03 00:09:38

I just got back from #StopMakingSense. Two takeaways. First, it's filmed not like you're at the concert—although there are lots of shots of the whole stage from the audience's POV—but instead shot like you're one of the band/crew, with the camera walking around on stage and putting focus on the performers' relationships with each other, how they're *playing* with each other.

2023-09-28 15:36:28

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1l89…6nlg True! Low-magic Star Wars is some of the best. The force and light sabre fights should be special.

2023-09-28 15:22:54

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1l89…6nlg I hear ya. They manage to tell a "very Star Wars" story without Jedi, and in a style that's entirely "late 70s." It's not I divergence. It's an embrace of early Lucas' style, like in THX 1138.

2023-09-28 15:13:08

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 @npub1l89…6nlg I thought that too, but it's entirely its own thing, and it's so good it makes most other Star Wars look like shit.
It's designed as a series of three-episode arcs, so it really is made for television. It's so good, you won't mind that there's no Jedi/Sith.
It's an actually honest depiction of an extractive empire and how brutal and inhumane that is.
100% recommend. Must watch.

2023-09-02 22:36:59

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@npub1463…00qn Give 'em hell.