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A. Zalman Brand
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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"That's one hell of an act. What do you call it?"

"The Kleptocrats!"
I've been saying for the better part of a year that Trump is on a mission to decriminalize corruption. To make it the legal equivalent of jaywalking.

I feel that more strongly now than I ever had.
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Starship Timeline cleanser
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Hesitated pressing publish.

Did it anyway.
Suicide: The Not Quites and the Nearly Somethings
I suppose I’ve always wondered: what counts? If we fall in between, where do we land?
medium.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Fuckin awesome
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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May I recommend another piece by an amazing writer stolen from us too soon by cancer: wapo.st/4ihnBck
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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78 Years Ago Today:
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Projecting again.
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you."

Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
(Nonfiction Review) Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film by Orrin Grey
Summary: Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade…
darkintersections.wordpress.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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The two parties are not the same.
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is EXACTLY like Episode 1 of The Terror when Mr. Hickey bolts away from their vomiting crewmate while everyone else tries to help.

Spoiler Alert: Mr. Hickey turns out to be a thief and murderer.
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.

How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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“I don’t know how much I’ve got,” he told Prior through his interpreter, Yoshihiro Sonoda, “but I can give you something. All I need is to be given enough time to warm up.”
Verducci going long on Yamamoto, Rojas, Smith and the Dodgers:
Dodgers Become Baseball’s Modern Dynasty With an Unforgettable World Series Win
Los Angeles won its third World Series in six years with some of the sport’s biggest stars and unlikely heroes—and, perhaps, some divine intervention.
www.si.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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