Magenta Rocks
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Yes, I'm that one. Just a former evil banker with a twisted sense of humor who has a secret identity as a normal person. Lots of swearing. Un-babied. #Movies #TV #Books #Science #NASA #SciFi #F1 #Surfing #LGR #Soccer #Music #Murderbot #LGM #Tennis
🎾 #Tennis @magentarocks.bsky.social You asked for this (Leylah Fernandez Fist Pump) a while back. Hope it's what you were expecting! 😄
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I was one of the voters; I think about half of my choices made it. Some great/good books here, a few bad ones, and a few that I would disqualify on genre grounds (sorry, Donna Tartt, Mick Herron, and John Le Carre). But overall, this will prompt a lot of fun reading! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century (Gift Article)
Hundreds of novelists, librarians, editors and other book lovers voted. See how their ballots stack up.
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Why can't people just take #TedLasso for what it is and enjoy it - a silly, funny, feel good show. I'm glad it is back. #Believe !!
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I can't believe it is 1pm already. I can't believe it is only 1pm. These are two thoughts I am currently holding in my head simultaneously.
The world needed few things less than more Ted Lasso. But if the revival, with Ted coaching Richmond's new women's team, is thoroughly unnecessary, it's also pretty good.
The New Season of Ted Lasso Is Actually … Good?
The previous season was a disaster. The surprise new one might actually make you “believe” again.
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I would very much love a bed that does this cooling thing.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 21h agoThe Do Hiemon Box, which keeps the temperature at a brisk 15C and blows jets of 5C air once someone sits inside, is designed to offer quick relief from potential heat exhaustion or heatstroke, rather than serve as a lounge to sit back and relax
JFC @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social get that jesus preaching bullshit advert off the air. When did you become Fox News with this nonsense?
Will the new #TedLasso episode be available tonight at 9pm EDT like Apple's other shows that are released the evening before?
The Ray Bradbury short story everyone is reading today got me curious if there was a list of fiction we should make note of when the 'future' date eventually arrives. I found this, which is very very cool... data.post45.org/posts/futuri...
Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.
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Is there a tennis journalist brave enough to ask Taylor Townsend WTF was she thinking when she agreed to put her name on the mixed doubles entry list along with the vermin? #Tennis #USOpen #MixedDoubles
My favorite version of this story is the one read by Leonard Nimoy, which I found out today was published the year I was born. archive.org/details/brad...
Ray Bradbury read by Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy reads two of Ray Bradbury's classic stories from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. USHER IIThese recordings were originally released on Caedmon Records (TC 1466).
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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · yesterday"Today is August 4, 2026". Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day!
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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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, 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.
LOL #Believe! www.macrumors.com/2026/08/03/a...
Apple Will Judge Your Mustache Authenticity at Its Ted Lasso Look-Alike Contest
Ted Lasso season four is set to premiere Wednesday, and to celebrate the debut, Apple is hosting a Ted Lasso look-alike contest in New York. "Think you have the stache to make fans believe? Join the f...
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'Seething' and all its accompanying synonyms is what I am hoping a certain felon to be experiencing this evening.