mastodon 4.3.431, he/him, 🇵🇱 Usually a big cat, by day a software developer in telco/testing; also a DIYer, coffee and cocktail enthusiast. Some flavour of scary leftist.
A SFW space mostly just for writing down whatever's echoing in my head at the moment, comes with no guarantees of quality or cohesion.
Big weekend cycle trip done!
33 kms on Caturday afternoon, 33kms on the way back Sunday morning, plus camping in the wild.
Lessons learned:
- sleeping on your own in a forest is terryfying, oh no,
- went well overall beside me not taking enough carbs and just bonking out hard on day 1,
- did not take ground coffee, my Sunday morning was ruined :(
- good lord, my bike needs some solid maintenance
Did a 5.5k race today, managed to get my time under 34:00 :ablobfoxbongo:
Gonna be resting for the next week, lmao
next goal: improve 5k time... or start preparing for 10k 👀
chomped down the Teixcalaan series; A Memory Called Empire was great - lots of good space politics, the Teixcalaani are a fun culture to explore, interesting, likeable characters
A Desolation Called Peace was _even_ better; with the point of view of different characters, look into the Ministry of War and a first-contact main plot-line.
found the series by looking for recommendations of authors who write to similar themes as Ursula K. Le Guin, and they delivered.
Plus, got my space-politics fix without all the problematic parts of Frank "Dune" Herbert.
Read through the Earthsea series again. Completely worth it, hits a bit differently after 10+ years with the later books.
The Hainish cycle (if we can call it that?) was great too - Five Ways To Forgiveness will stick with me for a while.
Now getting my space politics fix with "A Memory Called Empire" - great characters, amazing political intrigue and interesting setting.
Nice change from the space-politics of Frank Herbert and uh *gestures vaguely* all his frank-herbertism.
duneposting sponsored by: it's late and I should be asleep
leto ii: would you still love me if i were a worm
hwi noree: yeah
thanks, hetzner
"darius, how are you?"
*I slowly open my mouth, as I do a static noise fills the air, growing in intensity, until everything is subsumed in the white noise, reality fading away in glorious dissolution*
oh heck yeah, new release from Seeming
