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DO NOT BUY THE BRAIN-READING AI BEANIE!
I REPEAT: DO NOT BUY THE TECH-BROS' AI-POWERED, CLOUD-BASED, AGENTIC, BRAIN-READING BEANIE! I didn't spend 30 years advocating for Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies only for you all to fall for the...
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Tree Octopus in Creature Kitchen
Creature Kitchen is a new (2026) indy cozy-horror-cooking game developed and published by The Rat Zone where you cook meals in order to befriend various woodland creatures and cryptids, including a...
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The Tower: You'll Believe A Mutie Can Fly
It was over. It could not last. The great leaders of the world had seemed so powerful. But the structures they built -- the nations and alliances -- all were built on sand. The Tower is a 1973...
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Tree Octopusoids in Predator: Badlands?
Trailers for an upcoming entry in the Predator franchise, Predator: Badlands, show what appears to be a large arboreal cephalopod tentaculating through the forests of planet Genna, where the movie...
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The Head with the Long Yellow Hair
Dust jacket art by Cecil Walter Bacon (Click to enlarge) The Head with the Long Yellow Hair (subtitled Life Among Head Hunters) by Jane Dolinger is a non-fiction(-ish) book, published in 1958 in the...
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I met a customer from a Goodwill store, Who said: A desktop computer of beige Sits on the back shelf. On it, o'er a door, A sticker stuck still advertised: storage, And fax modem, and Intel processor;...
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...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... [ZPi Arthropod Auto Translation Begins:] Primates of Cascadia: I have traveled billions of tarsi to communicate with you. Per my last e-buzz, I...
View ArticleThe Dumb and the Restless Podcast About Mud Flood
Mud Flood Theory is a rabbit hole. Filled with mud. Instead of doing the work to excavate it myself, I dumped it off onto Panda and Morgan from the podcast The Dumb and the Restless -- which covers...
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Noon: 22nd Century - "Pilgrims and Wayfarers"
Septipods depicted by Carl Hoffmann from the dust cover of the German hardback edition. Noon: 22nd Century (Полдень. XXII век; 1961) is an anthology of Russian sci-fi vignettes set in what later...
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The Secret Of Apergy, Gravity's Second Phase
What if I told you the secret of antigravity was revealed to the public in seemingly specific technical detail in a newspaper article over 120 years ago, only no one noticed or remembered? On January...
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Fae Archaic: A Crime-ridden Fairy Tale
Fae Archaic is a graphic novel by Kirt Burdick set in a fantasy world where faeries ride toads, bats, and monkeys while engaging in various schemes and political intrigues. I've only read the samples...
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Possible Tree Ammonite Discovered
Researchers have determined that a specimen of amber from Myanmar originally thought to contain a snail shell in fact contains the juvenile shell of an ammonite, a long-extinct group of cephalopods...
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Mr. Benyon's Compulsory Aluminum Hats For Women
Article in the Boston Post, 1913-01-20: ALUMINUM HATS HIGH COST FOE — Benyon Would Have State Supply Them Free. — Aluminum hats as one solution of the high cost of living are advocated by John F....
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Apex Legends: The Latest Belgian Scheme
Is Apex Legends, the popular new battle royale shooter game, actually part of a scheme by the Belgian Conspiracy for world domination? New developments suggest it is. A brief overview for non-gamers:...
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Tree Octopus Mural In Spokane
Pacific Northwest Legends: A Natural History is a 2015 mural project in Spokane, WA by Justin Gibbens with assistance by Will Bow that includes a panel dedicated to the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus...
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Devon Hedge Octopus
Earlier this month, the BBC reported on an unusual car accident in Devon, UK: Crash driver 'swerved to avoid octopus' A driver who swerved "to avoid an octopus" before crashing has been arrested on...
View Article"Drom Lunarius": Tree Octopi, Pyramid Eye, and Camels
"Drom Lunarius" is a short sci-fi/fantasy story by Richard A. Lupoff printed in the Feb. 1979 issue of KPFA Folio, a publication of the eponymous Berkeley, CA radio station. It's about an intelligent...
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Gerald Heard and Plan 9 From Outer Space
Did Gerald Heard's The Riddle Of The Flying Saucers influence Ed Wood's infamous 1959 movie Plan 9 From Outer Space? In Plan 9 (viewable on YouTube), after watching stupid, stupid humanity progress...
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NASA's Marsbee Proposal
In his 1950 book, The Riddle Of The Flying Saucers (previously blogged here), Gerald Heard argued, using an inexorable chain of logic based on the available evidence, that the then-newly-reported...
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Archie McPhee, Dactyl Fractal Consciousness, and Novelty Tin Foil Hats
Archie McPhee, beloved outfitter for ironists, has recently added two new sets of products that are curiously within my wheelhouse... Firstly, almost four years after they introduced their...
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