Alan Pennie
telston.bsky.social
Alan Pennie
@telston.bsky.social
Historical dilettante
It's like the objection to the neo - Gorn in SNW.
No intelligent species would use members of another intelligent species as breeding hosts because it's an obviously bad survival strategy.
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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do you fucking think that the point of No Kings is that we should have a queen
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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You gotta treat me nice
I have a 20 - sided dice...
October 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Neophilia is a thing.
Come back in a fortnight.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Like most people I enjoyed the first season of *Westworld* but it was curious that it was both stupid, exploitative fun and a critique of stupid, exploitative fun.
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
Congress has not authorised the use of military force.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
October 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
October 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Repugnant. An ant that gives you another small dog.
September 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Public speakers of the world unite!
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It'll be a better show without Cassian.
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Moderate Expectations
The Malazan Book of the Highly Inconvenienced.
Slightly diminish a book

Middle Aged Man's War

@scalzi.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The Malazan Book of the Highly Inconvenienced.
Slightly diminish a book

Middle Aged Man's War

@scalzi.com
Slightly diminish a book

A Large Quantity of Jest
September 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Good old Perth!
August 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
For those posting that Raymond Chandler had forgotten *who* had killed General Sternwood's chauffeur in *The Big Sleep*,
no that's not right.
What he'd forgotten was whether the death was accident, murder, or suicide.
Answer: bit of a. bit of b.
July 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Saddened to learn today that Langdon Jones, musician, writer, and famous Mervyn Peake fan, died back back in 2021.
July 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tbf there's no evidence that *Snape* was transphobic.
Sadly, Alan Rickman isn't here to give us his opinion.
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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My theory of the Zealots of Thessaloniki, which is mine and belongs to me.
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This pic of Kemi Badenoch, taken by PA during a visit to a barracks in Essex, looks like she is taking an army officer hostage at the start of a coup attempt.
June 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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It's useful when people signal so strongly that you should block them.
June 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
That sounds like what Chinese would call "rectification of names".
January 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Just found out that Ash Wednesday coincides with Valentine's Day this year.
January 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM