I'm so tired of warmongers

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Harper Kingsley blog The mutterings and musings of science fiction and fantasy author Harper Kingsley. Talks about health, culture, food, movies, TV shows, books, comics, and pop culture. Also posts short stories.

A nice thing is that I thought my site is on Cloudflare, but evidently not. harperkingsley.net/blog

Next time someone starts whining about antifa, remind them of this.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

I do not care what any consenting adult of any gender configuration does sexually with other consenting adults, and also my God, could you sweaty freaks who tragically currently run the world be a little a more goddamned discreet about it?

Me, trying to enjoy my Chinese novels.

Cloudflare: "Baby are you down, down, down, down, d-o-w-n..."

Olivia Nuzzi tweeting “why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?” in 2015

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Watching episode 2 of season 1 of "It's Florida, Man" and... Is that couple stuck cosplaying as witches for the rest of their life because otherwise the stuff they were doing was a crime and not religious freedom? Is that what this episode is about?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I again recommend the book The Gate to Women's Country by Sherri S. Tepper, which is centered on a society that has segregated into a martial men's complex and a women's complex that includes children and a few "weak" men who reject the martial life.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

If every author in the class action filed a claim it would financially ruin the entire industry! 😊

In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!

Cook your red beans appropriately

I saw a thing about how some red beans are toxic. And that doesn't mean they'll kill you. It's the percentage that makes the poison. If your blood is 15% more x than it is supposed to be, you're dead. That's just how the body works. Too much water and the…

Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas

An interesting insult coming from a guy whose vessels are like 99% crisco

Newbie writers, when you make that all-important first sale, and you have the contract in your hands, please copy and paste the following for your response letter:

"No, you cannot have subsidiary rights."

You can thank me later.

One Insta video today came from a woman deeply hesitant to get political.
She showed a stop where agents asked leafblowers at a Chic-fil-A (!) for papers. They had them and were not further hassled.
But the filmer said agents told a nearby cop she was driving erratically, to prompt a local cop stop.

People have accused my macro photos of being AI which is such a bummer. Like yeah man bugs and crabs are weird but they really do act like that. That’s why nature is cool. AI has ruined weird little guy photography.

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

One time I genuinely heard someone say that people were less homophobic in the 2000s and I was like "we had to invent an entire separate word to describe straight men who gave a shit about their appearance to let people know they weren't gay." Not to mention all the, you know, actual hate crimes.

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Excuse me while I catch myself watching "Gal and Dino." Wtf.

The far off future when we will have colonies on Mars and everyone has a flying car.

It's crazy to think that The Jetsons are set in the fantastic future of the 1990s.

It has the vibe that it was made in the same era as The Matrix. If it had come out first, it probably would have done better, rather than being forgotten.

I see The Thirteenth Floor and Dark City as being kind of sister movies. They have the same feel to them as the real world part of The Matrix.

YouTube video by Like Stories of Old Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.

You have to say what you think of it.

Right, if someone asks you this, your response should be to raise your eyebrows as high as possible, blink twice in an exaggerated fashion and then say slowly, "I'm sorry ... are you asking me why we should *care* about a sex trafficking ring of pedophiles that apparently includes the president?"

Holy shit the quarter must be a train wreck.

Tired: let's form a polycule!

Wired:

Good morning Bluesky !