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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A crackers cracker with crackers … A perfectly good sentence with three different meanings for one word.

Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.medscape.com/.../sunscree.... Takeaway: Sunscreen, good. Collagen, not so much. Vitamin D is reduced with higher SPF sunscreen; this does not offset the advantages in protection from squamous cell and melanoma carcinomas. One can supplement vitamin D; skin cancer needs to be avoided.

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EssonnianDragon @essonniandragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well… they come from separate lists: Polo formed in the East Pacific and Nolo in the Central Pacific So it's quite the coincidence that they are active at the same time

the lists of hurricane names for the 2026 season in the Eastern and Central Pacific

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It it just me, or does it seem like a fail to have named hurricanes "Nolo" and "Polo" when it was likely that they'd be twirling and whirling at the same time?

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's a statistic I found staggering: 100,000 people have died from Covid-19 each of the previous two years. From the wastewater site I follow -- see the link. If you think this disease has gone away? You need to look again. Ignorance here might just take you out. pmc19.com

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since the CDC has largely become a rubber-stamp for the oppressors, finding other sources for one's medical information is a good idea if one wants t keep up with such things. I offer this one: www. cidrap.umn.edu/

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like Ryan Reynolds — he’s been in a buncha of movies I much enjoyed, especially earlier in his career; he seems to play the same character an awful lot since Deadpool. That shoot-from-the-lip snark, the always an offhand one-liner, one-upper? Turning into this generation’s John Wayne, hey … ?

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Weird that BR & NO are this little island of lesser infection, given that we're more urban than the rest of LA. Its either bad estimation, bad data, or a real fluke. Fun fact: Not only do I need a prescription for the COVID vaccine, CVS schedules it at a random time the day my doctor e-scribed it.

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klfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I couldn't go at that time, so I called the pharmacy to cancel. THE SCRIPT VANISHED. (Don't know if that's CVS, normal for vaccines, or shenanigans by LDH for COVID) So now I need to wait until I have a free afternoon to ask my doc to re-submit it and go at CVS's random time.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My mother smoked Camels, nothing but. Today I learned that, starting in 1952, Camels were incessantly marketed as the brand preferred by most American doctors! Was her choice a health decision, ffs?

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the U.S. , if you take the total number of Covid-19 infections and divide that by all the people who have been infected, this works out to an average of 5.4 times each. Saw this graph today, from John Bailey, and it is conservative, but with each infection, your chances of Long Covid rise.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And the competence of the people who purchase the option. I learned that the hard way.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/09/2026

The price of options has absolutely no correlation as to whether things get made for film/TV. Things get made because of luck and/or availability of talent and money for production. Very few options are bought with no intent to be made. But getting everything to line up so they can be made is hard.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Effectively, all COVID monitoring for the Las Vegas region has been terminated. That white region in southern Nevada? Nope.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Covid stick #14, today, Moderna, plus the high-dose flu-vax. Eight people in the small waiting room at the Safeway pharmacy, and I was, as usual, the Lone Ranger -- the only masked man ...

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ryanfogarty.bsky.social @ryanfogarty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I really think the production hiatus did it. They were disciplined, had a vision of what Trek was… and then the show shut down and the writers room had more than a year to overthink things. “You know, I bet we could use the show to…” They got into their own heads.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Had an email discussion with a fellow who runs a site for writers, regarding religion versus spirituality. Here's what I had to say about that fifteen years ago ... themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-y...

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Do You Believe in Magic? The Path.

Following up on the Scientology post just prior: The world is full of seekers, yearning for a path to meaning. If you stand up and say,...

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Want to look ten years younger? It’s easy! Put dimmer light bulbs next to your bathroom mirror. Follow me for more tips on why feeling good is better than looking good …

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Behold the graph: In the U.S., 45,000 died of the flu last year; 42,000 to 78,000 will die of Covid this year. Get your vaccines before infection rates rise. You have to take care of your own health, because this government not only doesn’t care if you die, they are actively helping it happen.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don’t know how many fans my age Billy Strings has, but I’m one for sure, now. Unnerves me that I could have gone this long without having been aware of such a talent.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I thought for years that Mark Twain was quoted as saying that "God is a malign thug." Here's where I got that, probably: Harlan Ellison, in the Los Angeles Free Press, in 1968: “. . . God (so saith Clemens), ‘Is a malign thug.’” Harlan was not a fan of God, either.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry did many memorable movies; one of my favorite turns was The Shadow, a 1994 flop that winked at the audience more than Rocky. Using a Tommygun, he goes foaming insane, and chews more more scenery than everybody else in the movie did combined. And that’s saying something. Adios, Tim.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Went to the market to get beer for visiting company. Self-checkout, needs an employee to approve alcohol sales. Guy, sixty, steps in, works the passkey. Then, "ID, please?" I laughed. Sixty-year-old man and I’m old enough to be his father? All of my grandchildren are old enough to buy alcohol …

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton has passed away. There is a real loss to humanity, for sure. Adios, Dolly.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ordered groceries, including hamburger for my dog’s dinners, and the store is out of what I get, a local product, and also out of its replacement. So what is coming? Argentinian hamburger that the Chinese rejected as unfit. They want to kill us, and contaminated food seems to the way.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

About 78% of ranchers voted for you-know-who. I don’t eat it now, but I do feed it to my dog, and costs has gone up faster than a hot air balloon. I feel sorry for that 22% who didn’t vote for him. You a cattle rancher and you voted for this? You knew it was bullshit when when you picked it up.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Yeah, the laws-don't-work argument is horse-hockey. By that logic, no law should be enacted because criminals won't obey them. But laws give society the right to put criminals in jail when they break 'em.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I could brag more. My last book has a 4.8 on Amazon with ~200 reviews, a 4.64 on Goodreads, which might be better. My youngest? Is a national gold medalist in college archery, the only national gold medal in UC Irvine history. There's a plaque in the gym for it. www.amazon.com/Great-Gods-T...

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Got two mentions today, one from @kithrup.bsky.social, mourning my SF writing career. Shrug. It was more successful than most, and then I married a woman with 3 kids and had to go back to work. Then we had two more.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So, ST:SNW did the Muppet episode, and, the less said about it, the better. I will say it barreled past silly, right on into stupid, was a flat-out cheat, and let it go.

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wonder why Ann Telnaes hasn’t done a cartoon of Cheeto as Marie Antoinette, saying, “Let them eat cake.” yet. Yes, yes, I know, the phrase was first used by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1765, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche,” but even so, I can see the image vividly …

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Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The CDC, which lied about Covid and wearing masks and all, is back at it. Click on the link, and watch the short video on the left of the screen that speaks to ethics and changes in color-coding their heat maps. Am I surprised? Not to put too fine a point on it, but, hell, no. pmc19.com

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