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It looks so dated now, but I loved Prisoner of Ice.

*While carrying 64 1m x 1m x 1m cubic blocks of stone in your hand.

I want to invent, like, the opposite of a water balloon. A cheap container that will hold a vacuum, or at least very low pressure air. I could sell them on eBay as your own personal void to scream into.

Man, I haven't been to a sci-fi con since before Covid. I know there's no 2025 committee - I hope someone volunteers to run one in 2026.

(I know all about being the change you want to see in the world, but we're talking about organising an event space for a hundred people and I failed to organise dinner for two last night.)

There's a theory that we were able to evolve our big problem-solving brains because we got access to higher-quality protein after teaming up with dogs as hunting partners. So did we breed them to be pets or did they breed us to be caretakers?

We've already got goats with spider silk proteins in their milk.

Schrödinger was responsible for so much good work in science, but all we remember him for is his cruelty to animals. :(

Just a few minutes ago. It was a thread about someone losing a beloved pet rat to old age. I want to say something comforting, but can't think of anything that doesn't seem trite or cliched.

Not to be confused with philatelist, a stamp collector. The word means to enjoy receiving something without the necessity of payment.

~~Staple gun~~

Band-aids

I charge a husband tax too. 10% of her snacks are mine.

Pretty much every day I get an update or two about how the James Webb telescope has kicked the legs out from under another one of cosmology's sacred cows.

Great to know how wrong we've been, but now I'm waiting for updates saying we've figured out why.