Doug Merrill 🌻
@bagatsen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net
And that's just the tip of the Speer!
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
And that's just the tip of the Speer!
Mr Justice Robert Jackson had a thing or two to say about "just following orders."
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Mr Justice Robert Jackson had a thing or two to say about "just following orders."
This is the way.
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is the way.
Somebody else on bluesky called the crucifixion a "public-pilate partnership."
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Somebody else on bluesky called the crucifixion a "public-pilate partnership."
Well I certainly hope so. I hope he knows he's losing his mind, too. I don't wish that on hardly anyone, but I think Trump has earned it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Well I certainly hope so. I hope he knows he's losing his mind, too. I don't wish that on hardly anyone, but I think Trump has earned it.
Soon stanning for the Federal Republic of Austria, too?
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Soon stanning for the Federal Republic of Austria, too?
Reposted by Doug Merrill 🌻
She looked at me
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
She looked at me
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
Seriously,
Said, "Scientists have managed
To calculate the weight
Of rainbows."
I frown, and think..
And she says...
"They are pretty light"
And I know I have passed
Into my daughter
To live through another generation
And in any event, they should not have been sent to DC as a partisan stunt.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
And in any event, they should not have been sent to DC as a partisan stunt.
"The Shoe Archive of Puzrish-Dagan" appeared in the October 1968 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; it narrowly missed making the shortlist for Best Novella in the 1969 Hugo Awards.
I mean, the title sure sounds like that should be true, doesn't it?
I mean, the title sure sounds like that should be true, doesn't it?
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"The Shoe Archive of Puzrish-Dagan" appeared in the October 1968 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; it narrowly missed making the shortlist for Best Novella in the 1969 Hugo Awards.
I mean, the title sure sounds like that should be true, doesn't it?
I mean, the title sure sounds like that should be true, doesn't it?
Among many other reasons, yes, some did. At the height of the paranoia, there was also an awful lot of "denounce them before they denounce you." Given that the secret police had arrest quotas to fill and didn't care how they filled them, pre-empting wasn't even completely irrational.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Among many other reasons, yes, some did. At the height of the paranoia, there was also an awful lot of "denounce them before they denounce you." Given that the secret police had arrest quotas to fill and didn't care how they filled them, pre-empting wasn't even completely irrational.
In addition to the racism and the ignorance and the lying? Sure.
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In addition to the racism and the ignorance and the lying? Sure.
Soviet people denounced their neighbors to the KGB so that when the neighbors went to the gulag they could get better apartments.
Pretty much every unaccountable secret police force gets used to settle private scores. The answer, of course, is don't have an unaccountable secret police force.
Pretty much every unaccountable secret police force gets used to settle private scores. The answer, of course, is don't have an unaccountable secret police force.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Soviet people denounced their neighbors to the KGB so that when the neighbors went to the gulag they could get better apartments.
Pretty much every unaccountable secret police force gets used to settle private scores. The answer, of course, is don't have an unaccountable secret police force.
Pretty much every unaccountable secret police force gets used to settle private scores. The answer, of course, is don't have an unaccountable secret police force.
You might have to convince the administrator that she's a real piece of work.
(Semi-seriously, if a "fringe" or a convention can be a Related Work, I don't see why a series of videos showing communication with a non-human life form couldn't be. Elsie's Greatest Hits ftw!)
(Semi-seriously, if a "fringe" or a convention can be a Related Work, I don't see why a series of videos showing communication with a non-human life form couldn't be. Elsie's Greatest Hits ftw!)
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You might have to convince the administrator that she's a real piece of work.
(Semi-seriously, if a "fringe" or a convention can be a Related Work, I don't see why a series of videos showing communication with a non-human life form couldn't be. Elsie's Greatest Hits ftw!)
(Semi-seriously, if a "fringe" or a convention can be a Related Work, I don't see why a series of videos showing communication with a non-human life form couldn't be. Elsie's Greatest Hits ftw!)
If only he held a position of political power and could do something about it!
Maybe he knows someone who holds political office?
Maybe he knows someone who holds political office?
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If only he held a position of political power and could do something about it!
Maybe he knows someone who holds political office?
Maybe he knows someone who holds political office?
He's listed as the author of the original Make.Money.Fast e-mail; I was just imputing that if someone wrote about making money on MySpace, they must be the OG fast-money-maker.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Mo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Mo...
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
He's listed as the author of the original Make.Money.Fast e-mail; I was just imputing that if someone wrote about making money on MySpace, they must be the OG fast-money-maker.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Mo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Mo...
By "David Rhodes"?
Also, the Wikipedia entry for "Make Money Fast" contains the following sentence: "In anti-spammer slang, the name is often abbreviated 'MMF'."
To which I could only say, does it now.
Also, the Wikipedia entry for "Make Money Fast" contains the following sentence: "In anti-spammer slang, the name is often abbreviated 'MMF'."
To which I could only say, does it now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
By "David Rhodes"?
Also, the Wikipedia entry for "Make Money Fast" contains the following sentence: "In anti-spammer slang, the name is often abbreviated 'MMF'."
To which I could only say, does it now.
Also, the Wikipedia entry for "Make Money Fast" contains the following sentence: "In anti-spammer slang, the name is often abbreviated 'MMF'."
To which I could only say, does it now.
I guess she swore a Führereid and thinks that soldiers and sailors should too.
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I guess she swore a Führereid and thinks that soldiers and sailors should too.