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Writer of Fermi's Progress, the Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Handbook, the Doctor Who Jokebook, words for Spire: The City Must Fall, WhyNow Gaming, Den of Geek, the Radio Times and once quoted on Barbenheimer's Wikipedia page. https://chrisfarnell.com
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JK Rowling naming an Italian

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Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

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Reading the comments here it's clear how divisive a figure Luigi is. Is he working those loafers and ankle chains, or does the absence of socks make it too much of a sensory nightmare?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If, like me, you voted for a Labour MP, your job is to be pissed off about being made complicit in the Labour Government's transphobia and making sure the MP you voted for knows it, not telling trans people they need to get with the program.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Muppet Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. The humans are the muppets. Every time someone is replaced by a pod person they are recast with a human actor. Nobody acknowledges that they look any different.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

People are always going on about how great the character creation is in Baldur's Gate III, but it can't do this.

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Until recently, I talked all the time about how weird it was to be the top Google search result for 'ketamine president'. Turns out it's much, much, much weirder to *no longer* be the top Google search result for 'ketamine president'.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

When Trump got in the first time there were all those people saying "Well at least we'll get some first rate satire" but honestly I think The Onion's Adventures of the Trump Boys remains the high watermark.

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Musk's ultimate legacy to space travel could actually be bringing an end to a quarter century of the continuous occupation of space by humans.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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This is how I felt at the height of the pandemic every time I saw someone saying "They should make a zombie movie where the human race gets wiped out by grotesque government mismanagement and people ignoring expert advice!"

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The starting pistol has now been fired on the race for the first science fiction writer to work the phrase "vegetative electron microscopy" into a book in a way that makes scientific and plot sense. For bonus points have your use of the phrase become the accepted scientific meaning within 2 decades.

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Anyone wanting to traverse the area has been warned to use sofas, armchairs, coffee tables, and in extreme circumstances a pair of magazine that you repeatedly place one in front of the other to use as stepping stones.

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