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Just your average overly tired nerdy Terran from Louisiana. (Note: views and opinions are my own.)

And, in the very room in which he sat, there were books that could take you anywhere, and things to invent, and make, and build, and break, and all the puzzle and excitement of everything he didn't know—music to play, songs to sing, and worlds to imagine and then someday make real.

I read this story long before the pandemic, but it's forever associated with the pandemic for me now because in April 2020, my makeshift home desk was by a window overlooking an elevated train station, and I could see the trains come in, doors open to empty cars, no one get on or off, doors close

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

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.

"Day 167 orbit 2587 — Movies sometimes make it look easy to put on a spacesuit and head outside. In reality, getting two astronauts and their spacesuits ready for the vastly hostile environment just beyond the Station takes a looooong time", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 ESA/NASA

It’s so obvious that people forget it, but the fact the furry fandom integrates every sort of person and gives them a shared means of being playful together despite wildly different human situations / backgrounds is maybe its most important quality