R. Bridger

they make a list of all the known bones and then circle the ones that aren’t on the list

Lem is my favorite author and the unknowableness of his aliens is what I love most about his work. I’m moved by his depictions of how difficult it can be to communicate with, understand, and relate to others. I especially like the ending of Solaris, where the main character eventually realizes that it will never be possible for him to understand the planet, and then chooses to stay with it anyway

The idea that Asimov’s laws of robotics are an actual set of guidelines for building robots is laughable

Starring this post to remind myself to read the book discussed in the article

To be pedantic, octopi comes from the misconception that octopus is a second-declension noun in Latin when it’s actually a third-declension noun. If you were writing Latin, you’d still want octopodes

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. A psychologist is sent to a station in orbit around a planet covered by a sentient ocean to determine if research on it should continue. Lem’s work consistently blows my mind, actually–other favorites are His Master’s Voice (memoirs of a mathematician working on a project to decipher what might be a message from extraterrestrials) and Peace on Earth (an adventurer returns from a trip to the moon with his brain bisected, and the half that remembers what happened is both unable and unwilling to communicate it).

frog and cranberries it must be fall

The main cast of Eternal Punishment is adults, and although it suffers from making Maya a silent protagonist when she was such a dynamic character in Innocent Sin, the themes of self-discovery remain very much intact. As a follow-up to Innocent Sin, where high schoolers make heavy sacrifices for the sake of the world, Eternal Punishment shifts the perspective to adults who think, “those are just kids, they shouldn’t have to deal with this.” (i like persona 2)

“Hamas-run health ministry” gets me every time

“Name the two most famous myths of civil defense.”

“Uhh, we can win a nuclear war, and the survivors are the lucky ones!”

I think it’s probably okay

sorry, that was me

yep, its fins are big ✅

My brother was involved in conservation efforts and as part of that he researched hellbenders. He wasn’t allowed to say specifically where he went to look for them for fear that people would go bother them if they found out

I can’t tell how many Americans have tried marijuana