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There's only one course of actionLeft for me to takeI've tried every switch...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's frame story and editing.I have a nostalgic fondness...
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The bolt is sliding in its groove; Outside the window is the black...
W.H. Auden actually wrote "The Two" / "The Witnesses" (1932) as lyrics for a bonus track on "The Sky's Gone Out", but sadly he was nearly 50 years too early for Bauhaus to get together, so the project...
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Icarus flew too near the sunInto the blue his red wax did run
Franz Radziwill was not clear on some details of the Icarus mythogem.He was not alone in this. Some Farangist duckspeaker at the Torygraph had a brainfart, and contributed to the gaiety of nations by...
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A glitch in the Matrigel
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No glass eyes? I am disconsolate*
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/04/monster-fatberg-autopsy-reveals-wet-wipes-bones-and-false-teethEverything made so much more sense when I realised that I am trapped inside a Jan...
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F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story. It is a sequel (or...
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A turnip for the books
London police arrest man dressed as broccoliReuters reports, without offering any context, the fact that a man dressed as a giant broccoli was arrested yesterday in London. While being detained, he...
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Twitch of the Death Nerve
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story.This rat is making bad...
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You can't fool me, Nanotech
That is not an Atomic-Force-Microscopy scan measuring the thickness of a fragment of graphene film.That is the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Been occupied. Trying to write a mash-up story of 'The Hobbit' and the Book of Judges, after realising that Samson and Bilbo Baggins are essentially the same character.But it came to pass on the...
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In vitro in vivo The revolution's begun
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story."Spheroid Invasion...
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Always...uh...never...forget to check your references #4
There would be nothing wrong with a survey of all the different grifts that medscammers have presented as surefire cures for autism... such as Boyd Haley, whose snake-oil of choice is industrial...
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Flaw cytometry, FACsimiles and fly-speck thunderclouds
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story. OTOH, it does not have...
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And there upon a rock titanic, I'll cast a giantShadow on the face of the...
What is it about antivaxxers and the weird Rorschach Vindication fantasies?This can't be normal.
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Diagnostic shift
https://twitter.com/KarinRoach/status/1204449043138711552While I agree that we are seeing growing numbers of cases of Dumbass, I am not convinced that this condition is the same as the one previously...
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Life's little aluminiumies
Antivaccine agitators are all about their concern for full informed consent, so it is one of life's little ironies when they enlist people to join their Board of Directors or Scientific Advisory Panels...
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Pet memorials of the Aro Valley
Moridin and Frankie.Moonstar, Waimapihi Reserve.I'm going to feel really bad if it turns out that Moonstar was really some Aro Valley hippie, rather than someone's dog.
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Riddled Book Club
It's probably time to read "Engine Summer" again.Abandoned Clown Train in Umoja Children’s Park, Tanzania, Africa pic.twitter.com/zzMSEYLCcD— 41 Strange (@41Strange) July 5, 2019
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* The French language has 100 terms for different kinds of social-climbing...
The boy who win this kup must be noble, up-right, brave, fearless, intreppid and honnestIt was "Talk like Thorstein Veblen" night at the Old Entomologist. Competition was tough, tension ran high in the...
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Sing this corrosion to me
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing.Anonymous, uncredited outside contractors have finally been...
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