Over in the bad place there's this thing where right wing dipshits are expressing concern about all the Nazis that they are noticing. Apologies for the screenshot but this a decent example:

Mainwaring: Pepare Phaser-Drill, Wilson Wilson: If you could be so kind as to form up neatly for phaser drill red shirts, that would be appreciated. Mainwaring: Walker, where is your phaser? Walker: Lost it in a card game on the holodeck. Mainwaring: How did you lose to a hologram?

Theremins! Saucers! Shakespeare! Monsters From the Id! camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/r...

It's almost 100 years old but it has contemporary relevance. Watch it. Metropolis (1927) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...

Slopopedia is a slow-o-pedia Famously, the "wiki" part in the name "wikipedia" came from a Hawaiian term for "quick", with roots in a 1995 user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb. While Wikipedia's collaborative approach can seem bureaucratic, articles can change quickly and obvious errors on…

This may interest some of you: The first space opera by a Black Author, John P. Moore's THE MARTIAN TRILOGY, is now available, thanks to the work of Dr. Lisa P. Yaszek and others. Originally published in THE ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION in 1930. www.amazon.com/Martian-Tril...

Trek Tuesday: Enterprise Season 4 Enterprise season 4 takes an interesting turn to tell us that fascism comes in many varieties and they are all bad. That was a surprise and it wasn't until close to the end of the series that the recurring theme is circled and underlined and made overt. I've…

Susan’s Salon 2025: 02-03 November Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knitting patterns or anything else including vermin wax poetry. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges please.

RF:Ph02:Ch39: Frank We are still in the 1950s but this robot wouldn't get a name until the 1970s. As a child I was both alarmed by and fascinated by the cover art of the 1977 Queen album News of the World. The cover features a large robot with a stylised body but an expressive (and yet…

Vibes not facts I wasn't the only one looking at the Slopopedia, sorry, GROKipedia page on the Sad Puppies yesterday. Both Larry Correia and Vox Day had positive things to say about it. Here is Day: "Elon Musk is correct. Even version 0.1 of Grokipedia is better than Wikipedia. It also points to…

Yet another terrible encyclopedia The basic problem Vox Day's vanity version of Wikipedia had was a lack of an editing community. It still exists but compromises two people, one of whom copies articles from Wikipedia. The real-deal Wikipedia has its faults but it is now one of the few solid pieces…

Trek Tuesday: Enterprise Season 3 The first two seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise were uninspiring. The final episode of Season 2 appears to be a recognition by the writers that the show needed something to get it unstuck. The choice was a terrible idea: have a 9-11 like attack on Earth by a set of…

Susan’s Salon 2025: 26-27 October 🐙🎃👻 Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knitting patterns or anything else including veritable woven pottery. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges…

On the one hand maybe* he has a history of Nazi sympathies BUT on the other hand maybe he is just an ordinary guy with really, really bad judgement. Both a very good reasons not to have him as a candidate.

what's it like inside your head?

RF:Ph02:Ch38: Gort An alien spaceship lands in America. It is quickly surrounded by the US military. Two figures emerge from the strange craft. The first is a human sized figure but the second is larger, a metallic humanoid robot. Suddenly, a shot rings out! The alien is hit! We have three…

Our long national nightmare of shapes passing through themselves willy-nilly is over.

my boy has been on the picket line for *months*, while dealing with some big-deal real life stuff. if you have a sense of solidarity and a little change to spare, helping him out would be super rad: www.paypal.com/paypalme/aid...

Trump knocking down the right wing of the Whitehouse to build a far-right wing of the Whitehouse

Trek Tuesday: Enterprise Season 2 I watched most of the second season of Star Trek: Enterprise. When I say "most", I did see every episode but I skipped bits of some of the more dull episodes. I don't want to sound prudish and it isn't like every episode has T'Pol in a decontamination chamber and…

Katabasis and the unexpected hanging I decided against a lengthy footnote on this in my review of R.F.Kuang's Katabasis and intended to write a post about it instead. Then I forgot. Then I remembered again. Some spoilers ahead. In Chapter 23 of the book, Alice and Peter are caught in a magical…

Susan’s Salon 2025: 19-20 October 🐙🎃 Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knitting patterns or anything else including vole wastrel poetry. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges please.…

RF:Ph02:Ch37: Tetsuwan Atomu AKA Astro Boy Osamu Tezuka1 was born in Japan in 1928. As discussed in previous chapters, the country had gone through a period of rapid industrialisation but by the early 1930s had also fallen under authoritarian and militaristic rule. Japan's invasion of China in…

Increasing Nazi rhetoric A recent Politico story exposed the overt Nazi rhetoric used by leaders of a "Young Republicans" group in a Telegram channel: In some ways this is not surprising – I think most people on the left have assumed that MAGA and what used to be known as the Alt-Right was so…

Who's your favorite Jedi? (Wrong answers only)

Has the Castalia House Blog closed? Vox Day's publishing company does still exist in one form or another but the accompanying blog/website appears to have closed its doors. currently leads to a 404 not found message. The Wayback Machine's last archived entry was from August I hadn't looked at it…

My most unhinged opinion is that I like sliding doors

Ooh! Happy THE WORKS OF VERMIN day to those who celebrate, which should be everybody. I got to read this as an ARC *ages* ago and I've been excited to push it one everyone -- it has bugs who love opera and weaponized perfume and just gooey wonderfulness. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

An animated series of The Silmarillion with each episode using different artists & studios

Aside from anything else, given the increase in recruitment, and the inherent low moral standards of recruits, it would be much cheaper for the cartels to just buy ICE agents

Currently Reading: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman The slightly surprising winner of the 2025 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel was This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman – book seven in a series that had recently made the transition from self-published success to trad-publishing…

I think I rarely swear, but I'll see what @profanity.accountant can find

Sometimes, but not always, the protagonist of a story does morally repugnant things precisely because the author is morally repugnant

Alien:Earth sequel takes surprising turn

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade is THE LAST RHEE WITCH by Jenna Lee-Yun

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE psychopomp.com/we-who-will-... [re-posted for alt-text]

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel - Young Adult is HEIR by Sabaa Tahir

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novel-Adult is THE SENTENCE by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Susan’s Salon 2025: 12-13 October 🐙🎃 Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knitting patterns or anything else including vole wastrel poetry. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges please.

RF:Ph02:Ch36: The Imitation Game In Chapter 16 of this project, we looked briefly at the Peterloo Massacre – a historic protest in Manchester in which people demanding democratic reform where brutally attacked by the army. A 130 years after that event, Manchester and Britain was a very different…

Plato versus Democritus

I was vaguely aware that circumcision was more common in the US than UK or AUS but Wikipedia puts it at 80% of US men (UK rate is 15%, Australia 27%). If autism rates were being driven by factors like that, US autism rates would be massively different. OK RFK doesn't need debunking he's a fraud but

Currently Playing: Switch 2 So on Wednesday I got an exciting new present: an Nintendo Switch 2. I got Switch-lite way back in early March 2020, anticipating that I might be spending more time in-doors in the near future. Generally, I've always preferred hand held games consoles for lots of…

Episode 4 of our close reading of The Fellowship of the Rings is now done, which brings us to the end of Book 1. In this episode, a shift into epic, more walking, uses of light, a jingly jangly horse and Tolkien's aesthetics of evil.

Trek Tuesday: Enterprise season 1 I watched most of the first season of Enterprise. I say "most" because I did fast forward parts of some episodes. It did, on average, get better but it always feels a bit underpowered: it thinks it can make warp 5 but not without the whole show having bits fall…

Damn - I’d forgotten Scott Morrison existed and now I’e been reminded.

Average man, average man Median height, weight, and arm span Fits a shirt, medium size Airplane legroom will suffice Is he strong? Bro come on He ordered dumbbells off Amazon He won't drive into town Transit pass gets him around Look out! Here comes the average man

'Sentient' doesn't mean 'intelligent'. LLMs definitely are NOT sentient - they don't experience sensations. A fish is more sentient than an LLM.

Susan’s Salon 2025: 5-6 October 🐙🎃 Susan's Salon is a weekly post for reader comments on any topic they like. This includes personal news, self-promotion, politics, general interest, knitting patterns or anything else including velvet waistcoat patterns. Nothing hateful and no cranky exchanges…