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The cover of The Flight of the Aphrodite by Simon Morden. A spaceship is passing over to the surface of Io, with Jupiter in the distant background.

Haunted house in space, except the crew are the ghosts.

Have you considered Feliway?

It was Danen's fault, sir. He's the one who *checks notes* fed old copies of SF novels into a scanner.

"the wrong bin"

Ah yes, Clint Flick.

@darrenanash.com would certainly believe that.

🚨 NEW: The rapid spread of Active Clubs, a network of fascist martial arts groups, is among the most concerning trends on the British extreme right.

We can now expose the figures behind AC Midlands - one of the best established chapters in the country.

This is not the way to convince people that the police aren't fascist-adjacent.

Shitrag.

This is the same paper that in an otherwise glowing review of _Down Station_ called the non-white cast of characters (who all worked in manual jobs on the *London* Underground) "dutifully multicultural".

The next Bishop of Durham.

For most of the last 1000 years, the Prince Bishops (Let the record show I'm not adverse to a Princess Bishop) have held sway over the land north of the Humber, independent of the English monarch and levying their own taxes.

The see is currently vacant.

The whole point of robots, real or virtual, is to remove the reliance of Capital on Labour.

Karel Cepek knew this when he coined the word 'robot', which has its roots in the Old Slavonic word for slave.

When you use ChatGPT, you are opting for slave labour over waged labour. For shame.

The dice must flow

Schindler's List.

Cosplaying Amon Göth

Headline from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle - 'Doctor who headbutted Newcastle waiter and 'ruined his life' escapes being struck off'

I'm honestly surprised the show's been renewed with behaviour like this.

What the hell is wrong with white people?*

(yes, it's a rhetorical question. I know what's wrong with white people.)

All this talk of crumpets meant that I had crumpets for lunch.

This is, of course, on top of one of her Oxford lecturers telling their class that if they wanted a proper SF book set on Mars, they should be reading One Way.

My niece is an English teacher in the south - she spotted one of her less-academic pupils engrossed in a copy of The Red Planet, which is honestly lovely, even without her leaning in and saying "My uncle wrote that".

Farage: epic grifter

I mean, I'd be wearing that as a badge of honour.

If it was me, I'd change my name so that my papers were by James T Kirk.

Just had an email from George Lucas.

No, not that George Lucas, another George Lucas, which got me thinking about all the other George Lucases in the world and how they must feel introducing themselves as 'George Lucas. No, not that George Lucas'.

If by astonishing you mean depressingly predictable...

"I'm doing my part!"

It's not just yourself you're letting down, it's the whole school...

Report to the head's office at break, the pair of you.

I was working with cryogenic liquids in a research lab, still pronouncing dewar as dee-warr.