John C. Catsluck
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Not somebody to follow. Stranger in a strange land. Apologies this is not my first language.
Not somebody to follow. Stranger in a strange land. Apologies this is not my first language.
![Xkcd comic in eight panels.
[Cueball sitting in an armchair in a darkened room, with a bookshelf and an open window. Megan is seen outside reading a book by a glow.]
For a few weeks now, sometime past midnight, a girl has wandered past my apartment reading by flashlight.
[Outside, Megan walking down the street passing under a street lamp.]
I wonder why she's up so late.
Maybe she's restless
Like me.
I wonder what story she's wrapped up in.
I wonder if she lets anyone into that island of light.
[Cueball sitting in a dark room.]
[Cueball has left the room.]
[Cueball standing on his doorstep at the top of a small flight of stairs, near the bottom of which Megan has stopped, no longer reading.]
Cueball: Hi! What are you reading?
Megan: Orson Scott Card's 'Xenocide.' It's my favorite in the series!
Cueball: Wait, you like it more than Speaker for the Dead or Ender's Game?
Megan: Yeah!
[Cueball has gone back in the house, leaving Megan standing alone.]
[Cueball is sitting in the chair again.]
And to think I loved her.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h26ilfipkkjrjccupgjptkgi/bafkreibtv4kj44avoofax433dor6znq4yl4twrmb7nyodbczm7wad4dbay)
![Excerpt from Al Jazeera liveblog on American and Israeli attacks on Iran.
31m ago (12:06 GMT)
BREAKING
[Header] Two students killed in strike on school near Tehran
Iran's Mehr news agency is repoythat at lettwo students have been killed by an attack that hit a school east of the capital, Tehran
Earlier, an Israeli strike hit an elementary girls' school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing 40 people, state media reported.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h26ilfipkkjrjccupgjptkgi/bafkreifvlfrskqjjr4gxcunaaz4ckqroqkpgndig22677xukdaacwd5pda)
![XKCD Comic 37 by Randall Munroe. Two stick figures stand facing a car. Text: My hobby: whenever anyone calls something an [adjective]-ass [noun], I mentally move the hyphen one word to the right.
Man, that's a sweet ass-car.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h26ilfipkkjrjccupgjptkgi/bafkreigjl4ro5xtkybzvaow3bpdf23g5uyqffevenvs5yldgitaqbvycey)
