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holoz0r (77)in Rant, Complain, Talk • 3 months ago
The little things that break
In seven days, the electricity companies will collude to bring down the usage rates of power. They see this as an absolute win for consumers. The rhetoric is excellent news for…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 4 months ago
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Media exists not in isolation, but a primordial soup of influence. We can devour the same text, listen to the same tune, but the chain link fence of causality bars us from the…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 4 months ago
Book review: To be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Environment is like a vase. Histeris and entropy will come for it. Not only for the Earth and all the beauty we observe here, but for the local star, our sun,, the galaxy, and…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 4 months ago
Book Review: Flow my Tears, The Police Man Said, by Philip K Dick
Fractured realities. Lost identities. Handsome show business figures. A man who doesn't exist. Confusion. What would it be like to wake up and have nobody know who you are? To…
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holoz0r (77)in Photography Lovers • 5 months ago
Shuttered Speed - Photographic Portraits presented as a median result
Blue light unsettles. It is something phone manufacturers try to reduce so that when you're doom scrolling a feed of insignificant things, searching for meaning and connection…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Gaming • 5 months ago
holoz0r's A-Z of Steam - Gyromancer
If you've followed me for years, I am so sorry for all the words you've read, and even more sorry for the words that you may ignore. For a long time, an insurmountable task has…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 5 months ago
Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin
This is a novel that took me far too long to get through. Three months. A slow, meandering burn through the start of one season and the end of another. Summer to winter, and…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Gaming • 6 months ago
Reivew: Soul Hackers 2 (PS5)
Soulhackers 2 sits on my entertainment console. The disc was purchased second hand from somewhere , and spins quietly in the PlayStation 5. For the last few days, I've had…
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holoz0r (77)in Freewriters • 6 months ago
Trails of Trash
Uneven terrain rumbled the chasis of the automated truck. Once, a diesel electric powertrain. Now the sounds hydraualics only. The sound of screeching, eager to be replaced…
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consciouscat (72)in Silver Bloggers • 6 months ago
6000 km later: The first long story about our recent epic, Australian road trip
Our housesitting, parkrunning adventure
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holoz0r (77)in Music • 6 months ago
Battle Beast, live at The Lion Arts Factory in Adelaide, South Australia
Major chords sound happy. Minor chords sound sad. Power metal tends to be filled with major chords, driving riffs, a bass drum that sounds like a horse galloping joyfully, and a…
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holoz0r (77)in South Australia • 7 months ago
The weight of chains
@consciouscat and @new.things know how to Hive. At the risk of writing a burdensome, lengthy rambling post about human connection, I will try, defiantly, against my natural…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • 7 months ago
Lacuna Coil and Future Static - Live at the Gov, 17 February 2026
Lacuna Coil , a band from Milan, Italy, made the trek across the planet to arrive at Adelaide's dearly loved live music venue, The Governor Hindmarsh hotel, known simply to…
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holoz0r (77)in The Pub • 8 months ago
Plain Words
I started my new job November 10. I've not met a person there that I don't like. The work itself is easy , but very demanding mentally. I have been getting up at between…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 8 months ago
BooK Review: Ursula K LeGuin's City of Illusions is more than just a tale of a place
Titles are interesting things that can tell much, or perhaps very little of a story. In City of Illusions , Ursula K LeGuin tells the tale of an Earth under the dominion of…
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holoz0r (77)in The Pub • 8 months ago
A reunion with wine
She is a siren in a bottle. A liquid, syrup with layers of flavour, touches of fruit, the vessel of grape, and the chilled bottle conducts the heat from my hand. I am surrounded…
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holoz0r (77)in Music • 9 months ago
Review: The Last Dinner Party, Live at The AEC Theatre, January 13 2026
In October, when I reviewed The Last Dinner Party's sophomore effort, From the Pyre , I was looking forward to the 13th of January. Between those dates, Australia's…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 9 months ago
Planet of Exile by LeGuin is a sad torture to read, but totally worh it
Few books make me sigh and despair at the tightening grip of age and the decay of hope as this one did. Ursula K LeGuin's tale, Planet of Exile, tells the story of two races…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Book Club • 9 months ago
Rocannon's World - my first Ursula K LeGuin read, and certainly not the last
Since my father's funeral, I've owned an Ursula K LeGuin collection. Until recently, I learned it was not the collection I've wanted to read. That book was The Earthsea…
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holoz0r (77)in Hive Gaming • 9 months ago
holoz0r's A-Z of Steam: Breachway
When I purchased Breachway , it looked like everything that I wanted from a Slay The Spire - like game. Replayability, a new setting, science-fiction, space battles, and…
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