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Waiting for the edibles to kick in… 40’s | Denver | Vinyl nerd | Board game geek | 1420 MHz
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
In 1977, the detection of a brief radio signal prompted SETI astronomer Jerry Ehman to write a single word in the margin of a computer printout: "Wow!" Nearly fifty years later, the famous Wow! signal continues to capture our imagination... 🧪 🔭 👩🔬 🐡
"Why don't more people talk about 'Sneakers'?" remains one of the central questions of our era
You expect me to work under these conditions [being awake]?
I’m just assuming that vinyl records spin backwards in the southern hemisphere
That "I believe that children are our future" song is obviously unfamiliar with the children I have met recently.
Stop calling yourself a dog person, you sound ridiculous. You're a werewolf. Or a Lycanthrope if we're in fancy company.
Avg Bluesky day-timers will never understand the insane shit that goes down here between 2 and 2:15am
Noted by accident but xylophone definitely vibes better after midnight
Seeing the post-2am Bluesky skeets before they’re deleted is quite a magical experience