Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Didn’t get a picture, but as I walked the dog yesterday evening past the sandbox and swings in the park, there was a young Asian man standing there, playing an ukulele, and singing Country Roads to a three- or four-month old baby in a stroller. Made my whole day better. 031
Reposted by Steve Perryklfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I love that everyone knows who "he" is. When you say you've go champagne for when "it" happens, everyone knows. When you say "big beautiful obituary", everyone knows. Even the cult members know. That's the cherry on top. 🤣 011
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Supposedly, a lab tech was infected with Yersinia pestis -- plague -- in Russia. Caught early, antibiotics can treat plague. The bacterium is much larger than the virus that causes Covid-19, and an N95 mask should protect a wearer. If it's the Black Death and it spreads quickly? We'll know. 0114
Reposted by Steve PerryRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. 37158782452
Reposted by Steve PerryRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Some people asked about Sinners and here's my position: Sinners a vampire film but not genre film, which Near Dark certainly is. Sinners uses vampires as a metaphor for the European invasion and oppression & uses all the gothic tropes. Sinners is a great American film, not just a great vampire movie 4547
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/2026/10/seni...themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.comSenile WerewolvesWhen I was in LPN school, we did a rotation through the state mental hospital in Jackson, Louisiana. (Think One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.... 020
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A crackers cracker with crackers … A perfectly good sentence with three different meanings for one word. 151
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.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.medscape.com 020
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026pmc19.com Get your Covid vax yet? Got masks?pmc19.comPandemic Mitigation Collaborative - COVID-19 Data Dashboard 022
Reposted by Steve PerryEssonnianDragon @essonniandragon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Well… 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 011
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It 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? 120
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here'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.compmc19.comPandemic Mitigation Collaborative - COVID-19 Data Dashboard 031
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Since 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/cidrap.umn.eduHomepage | CIDRAP 010
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think if one is depending on any level of government to protect them from disease, food-poisoning, or machine guns, such is a foolish expectation. That said, I believe Oregon is better at all of these compared to any state below the Mason-Dixon Line, and Louisiana/Mississippi are at the bottom ... 000
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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 … ? 041
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would assume, based on how red states like to play this kind of thing down, that you are dealing with bad reporting and/or bad data. 010
Reposted by Steve Perryklfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Weird 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. 211
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I grew up in Louisiana. From 2020, early in the pandemic, a comparison: COVID-19 Oregon (Population 4.3 million) Total cases 44,084 Deaths 676 ____________________________ Louisiana (Population 4.6 million) Total cases 187,000 Deaths 5919 120
Reposted by Steve Perryklfjoat.bsky.social @klfjoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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. 111
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Later, that changed to Kools, because menthol was good for colds and the flu. 150
Reposted by Steve PerryWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My 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? 4029218
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 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. 111
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yeah, ask Bill Gibson about The Cabana Boys ... 020
Reposted by Steve PerryRichard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And the competence of the people who purchase the option. I learned that the hard way. 1191
Reposted by Steve PerryJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/09/2026The 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. 622112
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/2026/09/them...themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.comTheme from MaverickBerenger held his cards close to his vest and slowly spread them into a tight fan. As he looked down to see what he draw had given him, t... 041
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Yeah, they don't monitor much in several other states -- the Dakotas, Mississippi -- which usually gets averaged in with Texas, Louisiana and Alabama. I suspect the mid-west isn't that great at counting stuff, either. 100
Reposted by Steve PerryDaniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Effectively, all COVID monitoring for the Las Vegas region has been terminated. That white region in southern Nevada? Nope. 111
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Covid 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 ... 150
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Funny, I was thinking it was maybe a different part of their collective anatomy they got into ... 000
Reposted by Steve Perryryanfogarty.bsky.social @ryanfogarty.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I 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. 131
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026ST:SNW. It was a cute puppy when it arrived, and now it just lies on the floor and howls like a demented werewolf with a bad case of silver poisoning. 130
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Had 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...themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.comDo 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,... 051
Steve Perry @steveperrywriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have no problem with that. Once upon a time, you had to show a vaccination card to get into a restaurant, bar, or theater. Until they decided that people needs to get back to work and spending money, so they told us it was safe. No, you didn't need a mask; then, yeah, but only a cloth one. Liars. 000