Paul Riddell
@kyloboomhauer.bsky.social
Former carnivorous plant gallery owner, custodian and chef to Parker the lynx-point Siamese.
New project: The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College. http://www.stremedius.com
“Riddell, I like your writing, but DAMN you're weird!" - Harlan Ellison
New project: The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College. http://www.stremedius.com
“Riddell, I like your writing, but DAMN you're weird!" - Harlan Ellison
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Paul Riddell
@kyloboomhauer.bsky.social
· Aug 13
New Perennial introduction, now Substack-free:
1989-2002: Angry young essayist for a range of now-forgotten magazines and weekly newspapers.
2008-2023: Owner/operator of Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery.
2024-Present: Trying this writing thing again. www.stremedius.com
1989-2002: Angry young essayist for a range of now-forgotten magazines and weekly newspapers.
2008-2023: Owner/operator of Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery.
2024-Present: Trying this writing thing again. www.stremedius.com
“Pining for the fjords.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
“Pining for the fjords.”
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Hear me out, a remake of Love Actually that ends with multiple sexual harassment suits
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Hear me out, a remake of Love Actually that ends with multiple sexual harassment suits
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
- beaver (in Scotland)
- platypus (in Queensland)
- skunk (in California)
- raccoon (in Massachusetts)
- boar (in Italy)
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
St. Remedius fuel:
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
St. Remedius fuel:
My idea of a great Black Friday celebration: sending off St. Remedius press releases while trying to get back to sleep. Those who observe, take care of yourselves, okay?
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
My idea of a great Black Friday celebration: sending off St. Remedius press releases while trying to get back to sleep. Those who observe, take care of yourselves, okay?
The biggest problem with this? Not enough drop bears.
they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The biggest problem with this? Not enough drop bears.
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Peer review but your peers are also bullshit artists
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Peer review but your peers are also bullshit artists
My cat, designed by Salvador Dali.
November 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
My cat, designed by Salvador Dali.
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Doing this in my head after a big meal and too much beer, so I could be off, but I think Voyager 1 will reach one (1) light day from Earth in October or November of next year, and one light day from the Sun in January 2027. 🧪 🔭
Where Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now? - NASA Science
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.
science.nasa.gov
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Doing this in my head after a big meal and too much beer, so I could be off, but I think Voyager 1 will reach one (1) light day from Earth in October or November of next year, and one light day from the Sun in January 2027. 🧪 🔭
“Bob Heinlein, you ASSHOLE!”
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“Bob Heinlein, you ASSHOLE!”
Today, you generally only hear end credits music to TV shows when they go to DVD or streaming. This was just as bad in the 1970s: I spent YEARS watching the end credits to WKRP in the hopes of listening to this uninterrupted song, with no success, and would curse the announcer yammering over it.
And let us not forget the music that accompanies the closing credits, the lyrics of which were a prophetic statement for our times. youtu.be/FhAfXTzR2rQ?...
WKRP End Theme
YouTube video by 11db11
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November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Today, you generally only hear end credits music to TV shows when they go to DVD or streaming. This was just as bad in the 1970s: I spent YEARS watching the end credits to WKRP in the hopes of listening to this uninterrupted song, with no success, and would curse the announcer yammering over it.
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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A surprise about the early history of the Moon.
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...
Scientists Cracked Open a Lunar Rock And Found a Huge Surprise
A tiny sample of the Moon locked away for more than 50 years turns out to have been hiding an astronomical secret.
www.sciencealert.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A surprise about the early history of the Moon.
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...
www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
No grief given to those who enjoy, but it’s time for my annual reminder about my feelings on Texas’s official state religion.
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
No grief given to those who enjoy, but it’s time for my annual reminder about my feelings on Texas’s official state religion.
I’m running this monkey farm now, Charlie Brown, and I wanna know what the fuck you’re doing with my time!
We have such sights to show you, Charlie Brown.
You’re not wrong, Charlie Brown, you’re just an asshole.
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I’m running this monkey farm now, Charlie Brown, and I wanna know what the fuck you’re doing with my time!
Bluesky needs to stop giving my cat Parker Ideas.
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Bluesky needs to stop giving my cat Parker Ideas.
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people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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We can all have this.
Go to a shelter.
Go to a shelter.
how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We can all have this.
Go to a shelter.
Go to a shelter.
I have achieved relationship goals: Sarah and I are pretty much a teamup of Ambush Bug and Johnni DC.
Before Harley, before Deadpool, there was...Irwin Schwab!
In this new era of Marvel/DC xovers, someone should do Ambush Bug and Byrne era She-Hulk.
In this new era of Marvel/DC xovers, someone should do Ambush Bug and Byrne era She-Hulk.
Fourth Walls Are For Losers: The History Of Ambush Bug
YouTube video by Strange Brain Parts
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November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I have achieved relationship goals: Sarah and I are pretty much a teamup of Ambush Bug and Johnni DC.
Okay: who’s going to spend tonight watching the Thanksgiving episode of “WGON In Philadelphia”? stremedius.com/2025/10/27/s...
St. Remedius Medical College: “The Dream of the 1970s”
The Enduring Universality of WGON in Philadelphia (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Photo by Alexander Mills on Unsplash Because of a quirk in evolutionary devel…
stremedius.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Okay: who’s going to spend tonight watching the Thanksgiving episode of “WGON In Philadelphia”? stremedius.com/2025/10/27/s...