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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My son informed me that a giant bucket as tall as outer space is going to rain water down on us and wash away all the trees, buildings, and bugs. So I guess he's discovered the flood myths.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this dog is rad as hell

A dog looking through the viewfinder of a video camera

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spotted lantern flies are (apparently) filled with Elmer’s glue.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb died last year, so now I've got no choice but to imagine that in heaven the world's worse duet of Jolene has just begun.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thinking today about how much Add It Up by Violent Femmes was a proto-incel anthem. It's apparent in the lyrics, of course. But I never really thought about how much the song occupies that space between "sad guy" anthems about heartbreak and loneliness and the violence we're experiencing today.

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Add It Up

YouTube video by Violent Femmes - Topic

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I like how maple syrup comes in little glass fifth bottles like there are syrupaholics going around with them in their ass pockets.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

My short story "Whole" is out today! www.varnishlit.com/online/whole

Excerpt of “Whole”:

“When Brad was eight or nine, he and some older kids tossed a washing machine into the hole. It banged on the cliff face, then faded away.”

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Watching the old Inspector Gadget cartoon with our kid and was struck by this sad idea that so much of the TV shows from our childhoods were engineered to keep us company while our parents fought in the background.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Tom Lehrer invented Jell-O shots. That is all.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Wow, actually hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit in the grocery store right now.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I must look extra stately today because the new girl behind the counter at the bodega pointed to my son and said my grandson was very cute 😆

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Roller skating for the first time in decades, and there was a brief moment of exhilaration there when I realized this might kill me.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My short story "Show of Force" is out now over at @jerseydevilpress.bsky.social! www.jerseydevilpress.com?page_id=9218

The cover of the April 2026 issue 132 of Jersey Devils Press features a woman reclined with a dark, ominous mass swelling out behind her.

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Business 80 @business80.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today the artist-owned music platform @subvert.fm is launching, and our music is on it: www.subvert.fm/business-80 #subvertworld

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

They combined ‘Honey Crisp’ apples and ‘Fuji’ apples and called it 'EverCrisp' when ‘Funny Crisp’ was right there.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Each bubble is networked, so pushing down on one will only push the air into its neighbor. Meaning it won’t pop. They really are trying to take all the joy out of the world...

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Variations on Clarke’s third law, “"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

“The third law has inspired many snowclones and other variations:
Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.[8][9] (Shermer's last law)
Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from malevolence[10] (referring to artificial intelligence)
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice[8] (Grey's law)
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.[11] (Sterling's corollary to Clarke's law) This idea also underlies the setting of the novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, in which human stalkers try to navigate the location of an alien "visitation", trying to make sense of technically advanced items discarded by the aliens.
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.[12]
Any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.[13]”

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’ve long thought high schoolers ought to be taught how stories actually work as a prophylactic against narrative-shifting propaganda. But this probably a tall order.

orionmagazine.org

The Age of Stories - Orion Magazine

In the Age of the Anthropocene, have we lost control of the narrative?

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social)

Cartoon from @twonks on instagram: shows George Jetson vacuuming while Rosie the robot maid paints a canvas

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Billy Corgan, James Carville, Moby, Stanley Tucci, and Mr Clean all show up at mansion wondering why they were all called here today

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I've been having an interesting time lately completing edits and final drafts on stories I wrote and forgot about for years; in some cases, close to eight(!) It's tremendously therapeutic, and probably the closest I've come to feeling like I was reading someone else's writing.

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Addison Smith (Addi) @addi.social · 20/03/2026

SALE ALERT: I'm off work today, which means no pay, so I made some Cover Prompts! Not sure what to write? Use one of these covers to prompt a new story! Short, Novella, whatever! No AI, Fully Licensed, etc. $25. Just reply with which one you want, and I'll do the edits whenever you want! 1/2

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I'm convinced the people who let their clothes sit in the washing machine at a crowded laundromat are the same people who stand in busy doorways and stairwells to look at their phone.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

There is a kind of quiet crazy in the world that is under appreciated, subsumed by the more obvious loud crazy.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I was running through the falling snow when I saw a boy across the street, probably between 5-7 years of age, looking down at everything else on the block from atop the largest pile of machine-driven snow in the neighborhood.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

You what might be way better than soccer the way it is now is a) no teams, and b) one goal with no goalie and a bunch of people on the field trying to steal the ball from each other.

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Business 80 @business80.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Getting ready for the weekend

A pallet of dirty, broken cigarette packs and cartons

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Weird, I just remembered they made a live-action Cowboy Bebop and it just went away.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Long-necked dinosaurs should be renamed reachasaurus.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Finding out your homepage is down on a holiday is a new experience (I forgot to update my billing info)

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Working at a computer for extended periods was easier with coffee and cigarettes.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I’ve had this stuck in my head all morning, which means a David Lynch kind of day. youtu.be/icfq_foa5Mo?...

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BOBBY VINTON-BLUE VELVET

YouTube video by JIM GONSALVES

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I walked out of the subway and was greeted by an onion rolling out from around the corner of a building, which reminded me that the world can still be strange.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

> "As a twist on Arthur C. Clark's famous words, science fiction author Carl Schroeder once wrote, 'Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from nature'," Kipping explained in an accompanying Cool Worlds video.

iflscience.com

The Eschatian Hypothesis: Why Our First Contact From Aliens May Be Particularly Bleak, And Nothing Like The Movies

In this scenario, our first contact with aliens would be tragic. We should look for "loud shouts in the night".

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

On the second floor of the indoor playground with the pneumatic guns that shoot ball pit balls, imagining some kid taking aim at kids below, reciting Barry Pepper's lines from Saving Private Ryan: "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight…”

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Legendary character from Australian mythology, Bluey.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Bluey float, chasing a red balloon.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

What would suck is having huge chunks of your past be unrecallable because of dementia and they come and arrest you because you're apparently the Zodiac Killer. That would be like an inverted Lost Highway.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Our kid shot this picture, which he unintentionally modified by pulling impatiently on the paper while it printed.

Sepia-toned black and white picture of myself with my eyes closed, but with bent vertical lines—printing errors—running down my face.

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H. A. Eugene @autobono.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“This is the averaging out, the displacement of the human being in time and at work, that A.I. tools impose…its derivative ethos seems to have permeated all forms of media. Everything must be easy to follow and to understand, simple enough to recognize and categorize.

newyorker.com

The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies

Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My latest Patreon post is live. It's got some life updates, and for paid supporters, it has a snippet from my upcoming book, Ex Partum (coming soon from @atthisarts.com). www.patreon.com/posts/140919... #scifi #specfic #booksky

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November, novella, new beginnings | Emma Burnett

Get more from Emma Burnett on Patreon

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