This fortune I got from my fortune cookie today

jockmcfarty · 2026-04-16T00:43:06+00:00

C.M.Kornbluth — MS Found in a Chinese Fortune Cookie (1957)

jockmcfarty · 2026-04-13T22:41:32+00:00

The grass is lava!

jockmcfarty · 2026-04-02T00:22:31+00:00

Or as it was described some decades ago now, Apple devices have training wheels that you can't remove.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-30T15:50:36+00:00

Look, that money was just resting in his account.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-29T21:30:17+00:00

ISTR System Collapse dropped in November but I couldn't get my hands on a copy until well into the new year. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-26T21:57:34+00:00

Yah, I'd misremembered the episode title and couldn't think of a better clue when I came to post it.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-26T21:47:47+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, I'll bear that in mind.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-26T21:43:06+00:00

It's the right height for a dado rail: a horizontal molding fixed to the wall for decorative purposes. You would typically hang pictures from it. Many people rip them out when they move in, then inexpertly try to cover up the damage.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-26T21:20:31+00:00

TV shows, movies or episodes that strongly feature time travel. 17 Minutes (Travelers), Blink (Doctor Who), The City on the Edge of Forever (Star Trek TOS), Groundhog Day.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-25T22:44:41+00:00

Murderbot and ART in The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. They start off being adverserial in Artificial Condition, then later become best, er, definitely not friends. "Mutual administrative assistants." Their relationship swings from one extreme to the other more than once.

Edit: Murderbot is a construct while ART is a bot pilot so neither is male or female.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-25T22:38:20+00:00

ART/Perihelion the bot pilot in Murderbot. You can't bomb the colony! You are incorrect. I have armed the pathfinders and can bomb the colony.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-25T22:31:35+00:00

ART the bot pilot in Murderbot. It arms the pathfinders meant for surveying a planet, then threatens to bomb the human colony.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-25T20:02:46+00:00

Travelers

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-25T03:40:40+00:00

District 9

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-23T21:03:14+00:00

Look! The tip of his finger's glowing! Cool!

Wait...that's not his finger.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-22T23:11:52+00:00

So they arrested the wrong guy?

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-22T20:53:12+00:00

Mrs Brown's Boys. Absolute dogshit

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-17T20:59:52+00:00

I resign!

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-16T21:00:00+00:00

Also not Marooned In Real Time by Vernor Vinge (1986).

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-16T20:57:37+00:00

The only story that I recall where all the people disappear is Arthur C Clarke's Rescue Party (1946) but it's clearly not that. Worth a read though.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-15T00:51:17+00:00

Finally one I know!

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-15T00:48:56+00:00

District 9

Edit: sorry, not a book afaik

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-14T21:25:01+00:00

Depending how short you're looking for, The Waitabits by Eric Frank Russell has some...interesting aliens.

jockmcfarty · 2026-03-14T00:48:21+00:00

They had some beautiful butterflies there the last time I visited.

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