Shiplap

I mostly post things that prove beyond any shadow of doubt, that White Men are the best Artists, Inventors, Philosophers, Builders and Explorers the world has ever known.

This year 2025 must be used to prepare for war. It is THE VERY LAST CHANCE YOU'LL EVER HAVE!

(2024-10-22 Simplified name to just Shiplap)

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2025-01-19 15:00:03 UTC

/*Bradbury Speaks*/
PREDICTING THE PAST, REMEMBERING THE FUTURE (2001)
It was finally Walter Bradbury at Doubleday, no relation, who one night said, “What about all those Martian stories you’ve published in the pulp magazines? Wouldn’t they make a sort of ramshackle novel if you tied them together in a tapestry and called them The Martian Chronicles? Go back to the YMCA, write me an outline, and if I find it’s good enough, I’ll advance you seven hundred fifty dollars.”
I stayed up all night at the YMCA, created Mars on my portable typewriter, and showed it to him the next day.
He said, “Here’s your seven hundred fifty dollars!”
So The Martian Chronicles was born.
Mainly, I might add, influenced by Winesburg, Ohio. I read that book when I was twenty-four and thought how wonderful if someday I could write something as fine but locate it on Mars. I made an outline for my possible book but forgot it. Now Walter Bradbury was suggesting a tapestry of those stories, and I recalled Sherwood Anderson’s influence.
The rest is history. The book was published to few reviews. In the thirties, forties, and fifties, it was rare for a science-fiction or fantasy book to appear. Readers had to wait months or years, subsisting on H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
Then, in the fifties and sixties, more and more novels about the future and outer space appeared. Soon a revolution occurred in American education. For the first time in history, students educated teachers.
They came into the classroom with books by Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and occasionally myself, and gave them to the teacher in place of apples.
The teacher glared at these novels and said, Science fiction—what’s that?
The kids said, Try the first chapter.
The teachers read the first chapter and said, Not bad, then read on and finally began to teach.
Today the novels of these authors and myself are in all the schools and colleges of America.
Much of this was provoked, of course, by our successful Moon landing. When Apollo 11 printed the lunar soil, it imprinted all our lives.
Gateways opened to wider fields. Since that time the most successful Hollywood films have been science fiction or fantasy.
So I’ve come a long way from my encounters with Mr. Electrico, L. Frank Baum, Verne, Burroughs, and, before that, Edgar Allan Poe.
People ask me where my science fiction or fantasy will be taking me in the coming years. I believe that the whole outreach of science-fiction writers in the near future must be in a religious relationship with the universe. It was first indicated in that landmark film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when, in the final scenes, we scan the heavens to see the arrival of the mother ship, which is really an entire city from across the universe.
The scene is reminiscent of the encounter between God and Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, when God reaches down to touch and Adam reaches up to touch, and the spark leaps the gap.
So it is that we fantasy writers must look to the universe and give reasons for revisiting the Moon, heading for Mars, and moving out toward the cosmos.
Space travel to me answers the age-old question: What are we doing here? What is life all about? Where are we going?
George Bernard Shaw, many years ago, believed that the human race was headed in a direction that it could not quite comprehend but would nevertheless hurl ourselves headlong into that unplumbed future.
My own belief is that the universe exists as a miracle and that we have been born here to witness and celebrate. We wonder at our purpose for living. Our purpose is to perceive the fantastic. Why have a universe if there is no audience?
We are that audience.
We are here to see and touch, describe and move. Our job, then, is to occupy ourselves with paying back the gift. This must be at the center of the stories, novels, and films that we fantasy writers create tomorrow.
When we first landed on the Moon on that night in July 1969, I was asked to appear on The David Frost Show.
I eagerly accepted because I wanted to explain that space travel was about mankind’s possible immortality.
David Frost, however, laughed at the whole encounter, and I walked off the show.
At 8:30 P.M., London time, we landed on the Moon. The following dawn Neil Armstrong emerged from the craft to footprint the lunar soil.
Fleeing The David Frost Show at midnight, I crossed London to do a Telstar show with Walter Cronkite, who allowed me to speak the truths I felt were inherent in our escape from Earth.
I stayed up, did a dozen shows, cried all night with joy, because it was the most important night in my life, and for all the people on Earth.
At around nine in the morning, I walked back across London, totally exhausted but totally happy.
In front of my hotel, I saw a small tabloid newspaper with a headline which read NEIL ARMSTRONG WALKS AT SIX A.M.... BRADBURY WALKS AT MIDNIGHT.
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2025-01-17 15:27:25 UTC

/*The Deco Kings*/
Did you ever stop at an unknown restaurant while travelling, back in the day? A family never worried about food poisoning or microplastics or any of the modern-world's nonsense. A White Man just *knew* that within his High-Trust Society things could be trusted.
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2024-09-05 14:17:41 UTC

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I poast about the wonderful inventions, art and progress made by White Men every day. It's pretty much *all* I poast...

2024-09-03 20:56:15 UTC

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Although men may possess similar features, their eyes are not in a position to easily observe such features. Female artist...

2024-09-03 16:07:06 UTC

And there are those who say the Medieval mind could not really understand higher math, nor the idea of the lever. The curve of the handles here say they understood it rather well.
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2024-09-03 14:44:41 UTC

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Like these? Heh...
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2024-09-02 23:11:16 UTC

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Groaning inwardly...

2024-09-02 11:05:08 UTC

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And more importantly, niggers can't count.

2024-09-02 10:41:31 UTC

In case anyone wondered what I was doing up at 4am, or even if you don't give a shit, I'm telling you anyway. I'm starting the 'crock pot ribs'.
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2024-09-01 16:51:10 UTC

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As frogs, we have tiny ears. Where U get xtra-small q-tips?

2024-08-30 18:03:50 UTC

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I'm uh... Logging off now...

2024-08-30 15:03:38 UTC

Wouldn't it be cool if everyone who insulted a person on the internet had to face that person at noon the next day? What a nice broken nose!

2024-08-29 23:22:39 UTC

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Of coffee... I hate water...

2024-08-29 20:35:17 UTC

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Oh what fun would that be? I might even bring in Nigbot and that could fight. Heh...

2024-08-29 20:32:12 UTC

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Sheesh! How does one deactivate the hotdog?

2024-08-29 17:13:36 UTC

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I was gonna list skilled trades that guarantee great incomes but it's almost all of them. Heh...

2024-08-29 17:06:01 UTC

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And the money... Locksmiths don't work all that hard but they make more than half the doctors do.

2024-08-29 13:39:47 UTC

Those White Men who designed and built Western Civilization weren't merely artists who put scrollwork on radiators, they also created specialized radiators for specific rooms, like this one with a built-in plate warmer for the serving area.
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2024-08-28 16:32:23 UTC

>discover the InterWebZ
>then discover emojis
>only communicate with emojis
>refuse to elaborate
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2024-08-28 02:32:20 UTC

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You're late. We've been decorating for Halloween for 2 weeks now.

2024-08-27 16:13:22 UTC

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So Trump is going full tranny?

2024-08-27 13:50:27 UTC

DID YOU KNOW: that Nigbot is like beetlejuice? If you say his name 3 times he shows up.

2024-08-24 02:38:50 UTC

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They have to be real; they're who make the candy pumpkins.

2024-08-24 02:22:46 UTC

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There's a plastic bag of those here that are at least 30 years old.

2024-08-24 02:06:29 UTC

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But... But check the expiration date on your 4 million year old salt before using.

2024-08-24 01:10:38 UTC

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Groan...

2024-08-23 22:33:51 UTC

I always feel like I'm interrupting or something jumping into conversations to make some goofy comment.

2024-08-20 15:23:51 UTC

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Because Quoasting is frowned upon... Remember:
How much Poast cound a Quoast Poast Quoast
If a Poast Quoast could Quoast Poast...

2024-08-20 13:14:01 UTC

/*Breakfast*/
Yeah, in case I miss lunch again today, grab a plate of this. And White Folks take the day off. Yeah...
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2024-08-20 12:53:50 UTC

gm
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2024-08-19 21:41:12 UTC

PSA: Sometimes I type things because I think they're funny. That is all.

2024-08-18 14:11:03 UTC

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I see how it is, showing yer good side to a newcomer. Heh...

2024-08-18 14:04:21 UTC

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This is not allowed saar. DO NOT REDEEM!!!

2024-08-18 12:46:01 UTC

LOL! Somebody 'liked' that poast about Pajeet@india.shit again. Don't know how that keeps going as it's a month old.

2024-08-16 21:46:25 UTC

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Large pipe too. 12" will shoot out like a hose so maybe 24" pipe. Expect rate hikes.

2024-08-16 17:26:42 UTC

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Saved for a later (and quite Epic) copypasta one fine day.

2024-08-16 14:57:21 UTC

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So I scrolled up expecting real disgusting but only found meme disgusting...

2024-08-15 20:33:14 UTC

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Shocked and dismayed that your assistant doesn't know this. You talked about it for the past week on and off.

2024-08-15 16:40:40 UTC

Is 'rock out with your cock out' in the same ballpark as 'jam out with your clam out'? I'm categorizing things...
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2024-08-14 02:17:56 UTC

TWO WORDS THAT DON'T BELONG TOGETHER EVER.
Yogurt and Yeast
Especially in light of recent activity. Stay extra vigilant!

2024-08-13 19:05:59 UTC

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That one moment when you have to hold your aim can feel like hours...

2024-08-13 13:13:05 UTC

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No, no he doesn't. Nor is there time in the busy Fedi day for tales...

2024-08-13 13:09:02 UTC

I just want to avoid yogurt-obsessed humor today.

2024-08-12 21:14:58 UTC

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Yeah I'd tell you the attached garage is around the back after a few months. Heh...

2024-08-12 20:21:19 UTC

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That pose... Perhaps she thought this was the Projectile Diarrhea Distance Finals?

2024-08-12 20:09:08 UTC

Just pleasant little reminders dontcha know...
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2024-08-12 18:43:47 UTC

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I've not gotten nitter to work in a week.

2024-08-12 01:17:34 UTC

Know what's scary? I've not viewed any part of the Fedi except my Home for two weeks. Am I getting used to you fuckers? Am I crazy?
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2024-08-12 00:08:39 UTC

Poast of the day!
#note16qn…h4yq

2024-07-23 13:28:00 UTC

Let's see... Which sidearm should I carry today?
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