Thanks, Eileen! You inspire me too! ๐
@annaleen
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc. pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Thanks, Eileen! You inspire me too! ๐
Eventually wiped out by mogosaurs
Woooo!!!
Keep in mind this is only if they had an "industrial" civilization that used the same fuels and materials that ours do. What if they had tech that could biodegrade? What if they had hydropower?
Yay! I'm going to get more this week. ๐คค
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Would love to see the Busby Berkeley movies made by crocodilians
I miss Sleestaks
I think I saw the same documentary ... one group evolved in the sea, and another on land? They wore sexy mesh tops?
New study: 220 million years ago, small crocodilians learned to walk on two legs, and gathered in large social groups. Whenever I see a story like this, I wonder if there were complex civilizations that came before our monkey times. Maybe ancient crocs left Earth long ago. nautil.us/this-ancient...
Just on the platform. Newsletters have been cool for over 500 years. That shit ain't going away.
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Me too
One day in the near future, saying that you have a popular substack will sound as absurd as saying you're huge on MySpace.
it sure is
I didn't realize that, but it makes complete sense. Damn.
I didn't know about the ice wall belief! Very HP Lovecraft.
The opposite of solarpunk
Glad to hear it! ๐ค๐
Thank you so much!
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"is there some way we can actually prevent these violent monkey people from developing warp?"
I was so excited to introduce two of Vancouver's finest humans
You never know what might happen ...
Perhaps sooner than you might think
Good news is that "hump plumper" is a job that can never be replaced by AI
So say we all
Also one of my all-time favorite movies. Screaming Mad George did the greatest goop effects. Plus the butthead scene is truly the GOAT