Laurence Raphael Brothers

Some games that are important to me, from my9games.com. Could easily swap out 4 or 5 of them for others, however.

I wonder if anyone but me has ever heard of Sundog? Amazing quality for such a low tech era.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Strongly recommended!

All of that and also contradictory as Christianity is an Eastern religion.

Oh yeah, I bet Jan Švankmajer would have done something amazing with it.

The Tempest - Prospera relinquishes her magic - Helen Mirren YouTube video by KULP11

I like the comedies, too. I'd add The Tempest, mainly for bits like this one, (even without FX):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrX...

“Many persons have inquired: Where is the goal of mankind? [...] Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars. [...] A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”

— Albert Einstein

My late father taught me many things but this was one:

It's good to eat ice cream in the summer because it cools you off.
It's good to eat ice cream in the winter because it doesn't melt so fast.
It's good to eat ice cream in the spring and fall because the lines are shorter.

The worst part is when civilians just don't understand phase (2) and start offering advice.

Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

It seems that Meta staff may review any and all smart glasses videos. It's hard to imagine anyone buying one who knew this.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Absolutely. In one case I stopped submitting to a magazine I liked and had been published in because of their egregiously pro-AI policy.

Ha. Just wrote a flash story involving a rogue vicuña involved with someone's Utah alpaca herd.

Definitely a lovely color!

So long as Fox agrees, does it really matter what's true and what's not? Certainly your GOP colleagues couldn't care less about the truth.

My silly regency-period story, "The Notorious Debut of Lord Cerunincos", is read brilliantly by Jamie Baird of Liars' League of London.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8YG...

4/4

...& then if incited by a gentle heat actuates & enlivens it but so tender & subtile is it withall as to vanish at the least excess and (having once begun to act) to cease acting for ever.

3/

...this is Natures universall agent, her secret fire, , the onely ferment & principle of all vegetation. The material soule of all matter which being constantly inspired from above pervades & concretes with it into one form...

2/

This is the subtil spirit which searches the most hiden recesses of all grosser matter which enters their smallest pores & divides them more subtly then any other materiall power what ever. (not after the way of common menstruums by rending them violently assunder etc)....

From Newton's MS 1031 B SCDIRB (1/):

Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations....

Imagine if, as you were nominating for awards, you considered possibly making just a little space for Kaleidotrope?

I'm not a fan of egg salad, but I tried some of their other sandwiches when I was in Soma a few years ago and they were excellent.

Soldier skully sticks out his tongue to catch falling snow, surrounded by an army of allies

Catching Snowflakes

#Art by Stefan Koidl

Ha. I suppose he means to say that the arts and sciences are all satanic.

Oh but I should say Pâtissier et Étranger just came out in January so it's not eligible for awards that require a 2025 publication.

Thanks so much for your kind words and amplification!

I loved in 2025 (for your awards consideration):

NOVELS

The War Beyond @andreagstewart.bsky.social
The Tower of the Tyrant @jeremyteg.bsky.social
Unworthy @lmariewood.bsky.social
Sea Swept @leahcypess.bsky.social
The Shadow Minister @lrb.bsky.social

Ha! I love that first edit, because I am aware I sometimes use too many commas, often due to pausing to think while drafting, and because, both Google and Microsoft grammar checkers used to be good at catching this problem, but have enshittified and are no longer capable of finding them.

Ha! Poor old bot.

The rhymes are unfortunate and the overall achievement is terribly clumsy, but the final line is really quite nice even if it doesn't follow from valiantly hunting ants. I wonder if it's copied verbatim from someone else's poem.

Not sure, but benzine is weird either way 😁

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?