overview for afb

What Did William Burrito Mean by This? in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] afb 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Barl Burrx

Do you still host your own personal website? If so, what do you post/use it for? in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have a couple of websites, a personal blog (rarely updated) on an Ubuntu VPS and a site for my horror fiction on an OpenBSD VPS. Wouldn't host anything web-facing on my home network for security reasons.

Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turns out "tell me about yourself" doesn't mean tell them where you were born and what your hobbies are 😅

Well, fuck me I guess.

Remember when the Sky+ box looked like a sideways vagina in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 10 points 1 month ago

Book a gynaecologist appointment if yours looks like that.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books

[–] afb 2 points 1 month ago

These are all new to me. I'll check them out, thanks!

Neurodiverse people on benefits to be helped into work in bid to cut welfare bill in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Interviews are such a big problem. I'm autistic, mid-30s, I've been working full time since I was 17, but I've almost never succeeded at a job interview. I've always gotten new jobs by either knowing someone or starting as an agency temp and then getting made full time, with the one exception being an interview where I'm pretty confident that the hiring manager was also autistic.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books

[–] afb 1 points 1 month ago

Cheers! I'll take a look.

Looking for lit fic suggestions in c/books

[–] afb 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks

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Looking for lit fic suggestions (self.books)

submitted 1 month ago by afb to c/books

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Hi all. I'm looking to explore contemporary lit fic but I really don't know where to start.

Currently I mainly read horror (usually slower literary horror and weird or Gothic stuff more than gore/extreme/slashers), New Weird, a fair few literary classics, and some SSF and mystery now and then. Some of my favourite books are Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Laird Barron's The Imago Sequence, and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.

So stuff with a dark edge and some speculative elements is welcome, but I'm staying open minded and I'll try basically anything as long as it's interesting.

Also, if anyone can recommend some magazines or other sorts of regular publications, I'd like to hear about those too. Both for short fiction and recommendations/reviews.

Cheers, A.

Posthaste Manor by Jolie Toomajan and Carson Winter in c/horrorlit

[–] afb 2 points 1 month ago

Carson's involved in CHM as well. He handles the social media.

OpenBSD Super-Easy install in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 4 points 1 month ago

I've been using it as my daily driver for almost a year now. I keep Linux installs around for stuff OpenBSD isn't ideal for, but for most things I do day to day it's fantastic and easy to understand.

Putting the die in diet in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] afb 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty sure I'd be dead by 11:30

Fired IT worker partly shuts down British Museum in c/[email protected]

[–] afb 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Matey's gonna be the centre piece of the 'Fuck Around And Find Out' exhibit

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Posthaste Manor by Jolie Toomajan and Carson Winter (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by afb to c/horrorlit

2 comments fedilink

This is sort of a mosaic novel written by two weird horror authors (that I know personally, hope it's okay to promote my friend's work here) with different styles and outlooks.

It's a fun take on a haunted house, with a mix of Gothic elements and weird fiction vibes.

It's published by Tenebrous Press, currently my favourite small press. They focus on 'New Weird Horror,' valuing new approaches and experimentation within the genre.

https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/posthaste-manor-ebook