Stephen Raab
onetruestephen.bsky.social
Stephen Raab
@onetruestephen.bsky.social
Author of “Battle Buddy” in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine. Opinions my own. Same handle on the old place.
I’m open to a Damnatio Memoriae by which we all agree that Spectre and NTTD never happened.

“And nothing of value was lost”
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Why are we pretending James Bond has canon?

There is no way you’re supposed to actually believe that Sean Connery and Daniel Craig are playing the same person, or they would have cast someone 90 years old for Casino Royale
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Zohran Mamdani is a liberal
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
GUNTHER is just incapable of having a bad match
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Likely it was a beachhead (like Gibraltar) for the English Crown on the continent, but eventually had a bloody pre-Enlightenment separatist movement that led to Renaldi dynasty consolidating power
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The duality of Alex Pettyfer

Stormbreaker sucks because it’s a bad adaptation of a good YA novel

Beastly sucks because it’s a good adaptation of a bad YA novel
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reposted by Stephen Raab
"Ultra-processed foods" is an ill-defined category and people should stop using it. Any grouping that puts baby food, wholegrain bread, or granola bar made of four raw grains/nuts and whey protein in the same category as spam and deep-fried Mars bars is nonsensical.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-p...
Ultra-processed food - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In retrospect Avenatti was so close
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Deuterocanon was officially repudiated more than a decade ago. It carries no magisterial weight, whatever the fervor of its adherents
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“Socially distanced bonfires”
What Year Is It GIF
ALT: What Year Is It GIF
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In fairness the Russians may also have been unclear about what side they were fighting for
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM