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It turns out that one can make a reasonable stab at writing fiction on one's phone. While standing half-cut in a half-full basement half-watching a psych band called 'The Soft-Hearted Scientists'. I guess because the noise from the rest of the universe has been drowned out, so it's just you and Android auto-cucumber ( Read more... )

(It's a cycling joke)

The proximity of a post-Opening-Ceremony tweet from the estimable Ms chiller and reading of this fine book in the Guardian made it mostly obvious that the best reason most right-wingers and all authoritarians have for hating and fearing psychedelics is that they're the cure for their branch of madness, and if there were any sort of ( Read more... )

Following on from the throwaway sentence about what people would really do with time-travel...

... The obvious next question is 'What are the intersections of time-travel and Rule 34?'

(I have no bloody idea, myself. Apart from the relatively obvious RAH short.)

The guttering on the local end of the shed gave way a couple of few weeks ago, and it's been leaning and taunting me drunkenly the while.

When I nerved myself to approach, I discovered that the thin ply facing had delaminated, the wee nails had rusted out and various other bits were starting to rot enthusiastically.

Well, bollocks. Proper fixing ( Read more... )

I wonder if today was the last bright/warm day of the year? I hope not, but if it turns out to be that, at least I was out in it ( Read more... )

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