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Science Fiction, Surf Music, Coffee. Interstellar Bookseller on ABE. My other car is an in-progress SF history centering on John W. Campbell's dianetics journals

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RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

and that's why Daffy Duck called them "the nasty & delicious yams."

11.02.2026 00:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

and so, when it comes down to it, in the phrase "Where We Go One, We Go All," turns out the operative word is "All"

25.01.2026 14:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Narrator: "All the cards were from an incomplete Old Maid deck found in his basement."

22.01.2026 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ink floyd

10.01.2026 13:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

by ironic chance, this morning I caught an old Adam-12 ep: Reed shoots a sniper & is later grilled by superiors in a scene designed to illustrate how cops are trained & when necessary retrained to deal with deadly force situations.

if Jack Webb got this right 50+ years ago, what's the issue now?

09.01.2026 15:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

on Star Trek it always seemed unrealistic that a planet could be in danger of destruction because of a problem that a reasonable outside observer could solve in less than 45 minutes, but here we are

08.01.2026 02:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

by contrast, I'm eagerly awaiting Rocky's singing voice in Project Hail Mary

16.12.2025 17:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

just over here wondering how many AI tech bros are as proud of their Funko Pop collections as they were of their NFT collections

13.12.2025 17:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hm. who else got the email this afternoon that the next issue of Analog is stuck at the printer?

10.12.2025 22:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that tenth/final film should probably star Paul Dano at this point

05.12.2025 19:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

distrustful of facts & figures, Admin-47 defunds/dismantles/fires data collectors, then turns around & pledges allegiance to AI, which in turn needs data to thrive...

damn, I'm lacking a punchline here

I'd ask a chatbot for help, but who wants to hear a joke that writes itself?

04.12.2025 21:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

how many of these cats have hot dog fingers?

04.12.2025 21:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bought a bong in the shape of a parrot, got too stoned with one bird

30.11.2025 02:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tom Stoppard, greeted at the gates by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

29.11.2025 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my postman only rings once nowadays

23.11.2025 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

corollary: a tornado no longer exists the day after it levels your town

23.11.2025 15:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

on the plus side, it's only 1:47

19.11.2025 18:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

clearly you are unfamiliar with the b side: "rudolph the red-nosed reggae"

19.11.2025 14:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the real Gulf of America was the friends we lost along the way

15.11.2025 02:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

corollary: every generation thinks it invented weird sex

(and yet, here we all are)

09.11.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

things sure aren't what they used to be...

(except the fact that every generation thinks it's the last generation that lived in a decent time, that's the same)

09.11.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

change one letter, ruin a candy

every bite you take from a Zeno bar must be smaller than the one before

30.10.2025 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

movie quotes [amended for 2025]

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become cringe."

29.10.2025 14:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the lifeblood of SFF is the printed word

21.10.2025 11:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! (And good on them!)

19.10.2025 11:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Has this situation improved? If there's been news, I've missed it. (As much as it pains me, I'm about to let my subscription lapse simply because I can't support a magazine that doesn't support writers.)

19.10.2025 05:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Ick." - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

19.10.2025 05:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I want for you what you want for everyone else" is a nice modern spin on the Golden Rule

11.10.2025 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

now I know this and can't unknow it, dagnabbit

11.10.2025 11:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2025 newspeak refresher:

"woke" = "I don't like it"

"antifa" = "I don't like you"

11.10.2025 11:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0