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‘Not another accident,’ thought Belbor as he crawled out of his hovercraft. He approached the driver of the red car.
“Can we settle this without insurance? I can’t afford another point on my license.”
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You're busy, doing your things like you do every day. Then, just as you're on your way to get your regulatory 3rd triple espresso of the day, a thing the size of a bus crashes right in front of your favorite StellarBox. The manager's car is destroyed. By sheer luck he wasn't in. Then, just like that, a bunch of alien kids get out of the bus, laughing, cheering the "driver". Those idiot alien kids stole one of their school's transports to go to the beach. In our planet! #WritingPrompt
@authortoburnett when I was working, CAD stuff too. Staring out the window, smoke break, whatever...
trust me, I'm working. Just the problem can't be solved by staring at the screen
Rod Serling was so cool. Aside from even just his Twilight Zone stuff, he was a great mind and an all-around excellent writer. And he always had insightful things to say about humanity. This article is from a few years ago-- it's a great read. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/72894/10-thought-provoking-rod-serling-quotes
“Red Dwarf is so great. Just a white guy, a black guy and a mixed-race guy insulting each other relentlessly for 35 years without skin colour ever being mentioned once. Another character has an off-screen sex change and no-one even acknowledges it.”
#Movie: The Final Programme (1973). This #film version of a Michael Moorcock novel deals with the events set in motion by an old scientist's death and the culmination of his project to create a new better mankind. It's The Man Who Fell To Earth plus Austin Powers plus The Rocky Horror Picture Show plus Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Grade: OK.
Hey all! Here for my #introduction, I'm new to this instance, but not to Fedi.
I'm Ashkenazi, my parents and I belonged to a Reform temple growing up. I currently am a member of a non-denominational synagogue near me that has conservative roots. Most of social media online is antisemitic and exhausting. Happy to see a Jewish server on here and have been meaning to join for a while.
Still seeking decent sources of bagels near me as a New York-to-Boston transplant, have been ordering bagels as gifts for my equally transplanted parents straight from NYC. Goldbelly has saved us all. I did manage to find a very good Jewish deli near me whose bagels are pretty tasty, although not quite the same.
I have two adorable kitties, enjoy playing #DnD, and am a scifi/fantasy writer. I'm actually in the process of trying to figure out how to handle self publishing after two of my publishers shut down and orphaned a bunch of my works.
I mostly thrive on memes, tea, coffee, and fandoms. Also kitty cuddles.
@susankayequinn@bookstadon I’m glad we agree on the origins of Luddite, which is what the anti-AI protests feel aligned with (to me). I don’t agree that tech is mostly one-way good. The majority of ancient story & myth teach nothing can be wholly one edge & there’s wisdom in that. I think this is a problem with a lot of idealists who can’t accept the limits. Canute couldn’t turn back the tides. Midas turned everything to gold. We want robot workers - we also get AI art.
@SophieMcKeand@bookstadon I'd argue we don't actually want (most) robot workers or AI art. Tech has (rightly) taken a black eye for 10yrs for enabling anti-democratic forces & bigotry; automation was (rightly) protested re:anti-human aspect, putting people out of work. Tech is not a force of nature (tides)—it's created by people. We've believed the story that we're powerless for far too long. Tech moguls have promoted that story so they could be unrestrained. It worked for a long time.
In case you missed it, I shared a link to the latest #webcomic update over at @cosmicdash , so consider following there to know when my #sciFi comic updates.
@whknott The last known photo of the human race that they will never see. An accidental touch of a shutter button recorded it just before the world was vaporized into space. Poof! Gone.
No more fidget spinners and tamagotchi's. No more delectable laundry detergent pods. Not even Crocs survived.
The universe shrugged at the news and went back to doing important universe things.
There is no amount of caps lock or combination of words that express my absolute excitement. I'm literally shaking and teared up. It looks so promising.
@inkican If you'll pardon the self-promotion, all of the fiction on my website is free to read online, and also available under a #CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA license.