The raven Aristide spoke into Blasted's mind: "It's okay to doubt and be unsure, when the template seems easy but wrong." Sven's voice added: "We are not items on a takeout menu!"

Blasted thanked the raven Aristide and replied: "How do we become what we are? Environment, genetics, some magpie process within? May I ask your story, Aristide? Is love possible?"

I was reading he latest analysis reports when I sensed a change in the magnetic field. A quick glance around the room didn't show anything amiss. The din's frequency dropped lower.

The next morning I awoke with the realization that I had been to open with my research. Last night had shown an unanticipated danger. One that could be weaponized. Mindbending.

The Mindbent lined up in relative silence into orderly cohorts of 40 with hardly a hiccup. The stadium's open side diverted the brisk breeze around in the bowl shaped arena. Flags

Mundane tasks were carried out around the bend but never on the side you were on. Logic screamed impossible. But shit got done somehow. That was the power of the mindbend.

The mindbend as a dance involved tentacles. Which is why the mindbend as a dance was illegal in most jurisdictions that hadn't yet been mindbent. Tentacle grafts are a generational

300 years later she died. To most of the galaxy she was remembered for her great achievements in space exploration, world peace, and sound governance. A few remembered the murders.

I'm a rock. This isn't about the stone consensus. I am a rock. I prefer to not move. I wish I was an immovable object. But I am not. I am a rock. Not a pet rock either. A rock.

He didn't think that was confusion. It was weird and not exactly not unpleasant with a flash of clearly unpleasant. Dizzy? No. He could feel that something turned on in his mind.

The bonds had been ripped from their roots in the mind. They wouldn't be needed anymore. The question still hung for the mind.

I was watching myself do things and only later realized I didn't want to do those things. I had plans for that astral plane. Now it was too late. I'd missed my chance. Coming in at

Did I hear that evil is a feature and not a bug? No wonder all my bug reports never got a fix.

I just realized that I most likely heard the first Led Zeppelin album when it was hot off the first printing. I would have been 7 & my uncle would have definitely had it. Vietnam

Uranus, because of it's name maybe, does not get much mention in Galactic news. It's more erratic orbit made it a bit harder to keep colonized. Uranusens were used to the isolation

As he walked by Smdliii called out, "Go clean Uranus." His whole clique broke out laughing. The Uranusen stopped, looked at Smdliii. "At least I grew up on a planet Jovian." Burn.

It turns out that living in space does change human reproductive cycles and the libido. Without the cues of solar or lunar events to guide them adjustments evolved. Spaceborn tend

I wonder if Trump already has the letter requesting Putin's intervention over disputed elections. Did Putin whisper the idea into Trumps ear while they were spooning?

Move over Mrs. Kelly's cow there is a new Gender Reveal in town.

"Time is collapsing, Sanjay. If your life lacks meaning it's only because we are approaching the Singularity by way of ads, propaganda, and marketing." "Dad, I'm a cat. My friends