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.

do you fucking think that the point of No Kings is that we should have a queen

You gotta treat me nice I have a 20 - sided dice...

Neophilia is a thing. Come back in a fortnight.

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.

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.

Repugnant. An ant that gives you another small dog.

Public speakers of the world unite!

It'll be a better show without Cassian.

Moderate Expectations

The Malazan Book of the Highly Inconvenienced.

Good old Perth!

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.

Saddened to learn today that Langdon Jones, musician, writer, and famous Mervyn Peake fan, died back back in 2021.

Tbf there's no evidence that *Snape* was transphobic. Sadly, Alan Rickman isn't here to give us his opinion.

My theory of the Zealots of Thessaloniki, which is mine and belongs to me.

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.

It's useful when people signal so strongly that you should block them.

That sounds like what Chinese would call "rectification of names".

Just found out that Ash Wednesday coincides with Valentine's Day this year.