I tried to think of all the possible nonsense that could come out of the State of the Union address tonight and then realized there was enough possible nonsense I could just make Bingo cards.

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Workplace Scenes: Address My Concerns ed. Me: You'll need to free up DHCP IP addresses for the new lab PCs. Subnets are maxed out. IT: PCs will get IPs from DHCP. Me:*Grits teeth at correct but unhelpful answer.* Right. Any idea why they don't? *5 min later* IT: The lab is out of IP addresses.

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#bookreview 📚💙 📚🤳 Fan of: - Forensics! - Memoirs - Patients that can't get worse - Grossing out Try: @drjudymelinek.bsky.social and @workingstiff.bsky.social's Working Stiff drworkingstiff.com/product/work... Judy Melinek recounts what she learned about humans and the human body as a coroner in NYC.

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#bookreview 📚🪐 💙📚 Fan of: - Homer & Shakespeare - Eloi & Morlocks - Greek god-things - Chonky SF Try Dan Simmons' Illium bookshop.org/p/books/iliu... The Trojan War is re-enacted on Mars, robots from Jupiter take note, & the remaining humans learn disturbing truths. Yes, there's A Lot Going On here

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#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 Fan of: - The Usual Suspects 🎬 - UK crime with a SF twist - Exceptionally competent detectives - Spare corpses - Rich bastards Try @bingewriting.bsky.social's Extremity www.nicholasbinge.com/extremity Three cops being debriefed explain a murder investigation gone quite sideways.

It has been my professional experience that a box full of parts in a building full of engineers illicits exactly the same lusty response as one would get from a carload of teenage boys going by a bikini car wash: *Slams brakes* "Woah! What's going on over here?"

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🩸 Fan of: - Vampires - 70's pulps - Grim & Dark - Revenge! - Trauma - Giving blood - Bad men doing worse things Try @keithrosson.bsky.social's Coffin Moon www.keithrosson.com/books A Vietnam vet's encounter with a vampire sets off a series of unpleasant events for everyone involved.

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#bookreview 📚💙 📚🩸 Fan of: - Walkin' dudes - Crows - Epidemics - Feelin' fine Try: Editors Christopher Golden & Brian Keene's The End of the World As We Know it bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Authors you've heard of contributed stories set at different times in the world of Stephen King's The Stand.

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A #booksky PSA: Include likes/dislikes when asking for book recommendations: 📚❓ ...lest you "let the Internet decide" Or put another way: "We put cookies in front of a Cookie Monster. What did we _think_ was going to happen?" -Gordon Robinson (TBF 📚💙 readers I've seen have been quite helpful)

#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 Fan of: - Cyberpunk! - Satire - Linguistics - Google Earth - Cartoon style executions - Genre defining classics Try @nealstephenson.bsky.social's Snow Crash www.nealstephenson.com/snow-crash.h... A hacker hunts a virus that has leveled up from wiping hard drives to wiping brains.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡 Fan of: - Getting clever - Careers in tech - Sticking it to the man Try @stevenlevy.bsky.social's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution www.stevenlevy.com/hackers-hero... Anecdotes and interviews trace the history and characteristics of hackers from model trains to 1980's PCs.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡 Fan of: - Tactics AND strategy - Obvious-but-you-didn't-think-of-it-did-you? advice - Handling conflict Try: Thomas Cleary's translation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War www.shambhala.com/the-art-of-w... A great translation of the classic guide to solving all kinds of people problems

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ 📚🌃 Fan of: - Russian folklore - Layabouts - Demons, inner and outer. Try @buehlmeister.bsky.social's The Necromancer's House christopherbuehlmanauthor.com/book/the-nec... An alcoholic wizard's hot mess of a life gets worse when Russians he thought he'd ditched catch up with him.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🩸 Fan of: - Scream 🎬 - Tropes - Smartass commentary - Shouting _good_ advice at the screen Try: Seth Grahame-Smith's How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills bookshop.org/p/books/how-... Survival tips for whatever genre of horror movie you find yourself in.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡📚 Fan of: - Pulitzer winners - Office Space 🎬 - History of technology Try: Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine bookshop.org/p/books/the-... TK embeds with engineers in the late 1970's working to build a 32 bit computer, and engineering life then looks a lot like it does today.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚💡📚🎶 Fan of: - Music - Innovative video - Gen X backstory Try @robt.bsky.social & @craigmarks.bsky.social's I Want My MTV The Uncensored Story Of The Music Video Revolution. bookshop.org/p/books/i-wa... A fascinating oral history of MTV's first 10 years. You know: when it was cool.

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Wife & I got yogurt drinks to go at our favorite Indian restaurant. Limited car cup holder space had me combining what was left, but I had to get rid of some of the drink to fit it in to 1 cup. The lesson? One cannot expect to get back everything one started with when using lassi compression.

Super happy to finally be playing my copy of Aliens Vs. Predator 2 for the first time in about 20 years again on #bazzite Linux. The ability of to support Windows games in a user friendly manner with none of the Microsoft enshittification has been... *chef's kiss*. Well done, @bazzite.gg.

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#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚⚔️ Fan of: - Making trouble - Aesop's Fables - Sticking it to the man - Internships Try Martin Cahill's Audition For The Fox www.martincahillwrites.com/books A young woman of divine descent finds that passing her job interview with a trickster god requires starting a revolution.

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#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 Fan of: - The Dirty Dozen AND The Martian - Sentencing to transportation Try: @comrademorden.bsky.social's One Way bookofmorden.co.uk/books/one-way/ A series of fatal accidents on Mars make a stranded prison laborer wonder if the company _was_ cutting costs, or _is_ cutting costs.

#bookreview 🪐📚 💙📚 Fan of: - Fresh ideas in time travel - Road trips - US history - NH seacoast? Try @peterclines.bsky.social's Paradox Bound www.peterclines.com/book/paradox... The MC has to join a time traveler to find an artifact while they are hunted by men(?) that are killing to find it first.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 📚🌃 Fan of: - Urban Fantasy - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 📺 - Meddling Kids 📖 - Being too old for this s*** - Growing up Try: @jimchines.com's Slayers Of Old www.jimchines.com/bookstore/#S... The MC's saving the world days were long since over...until trouble came looking for them.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🩸 Fan of: - Gremlins 1&2 - Plot twists - Gifts that keep on giving - Publishing Try Andrew Shaffer's Secret Santa www.andrewshaffer.com/secret-santa A horror editor hired after the founder’s sudden death is gifted an antique doll from German folklore, so we all know what that means.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🤳 Fan of: - SCIENCE! - 80's New Wave - 90's Silicon Valley - Nokia ring tones - Contracts - Telling record execs things they don't want to hear Try @thomasdolby.bsky.social's The Speed of Sound bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Dolby's memoir of being a musician and startup founder.

📚💙 📚🪐 📚🤏 Fan of? - Haunted house as MC - Feel good horror #shortstories - Quick reads you won't regret. Try: @wiswell.bsky.social's Open House on Haunted Hill www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-6... "All 133 Poisonwood has is a light touch, but it knows how to use it. Haunting is an art."

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of: - Virtual Reality TV - Pop culture references - Twain's The Innocents Abroad - Compilers Try @darylwriterguy.bsky.social's When We Were Real darylgregory.com A bus tour takes a turn when a fugitive joins a group going to places that break physics as only a video game could