Vortex: Random question -- what is the difference between a novella and a novelette?
megan walker: It's only a novelette if it comes from the novel region of France, otherwise it's a sparkling short story.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Coffee On My Monitor Again
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Jessica - Aug 18, 2025 6:27:03 am PDT #1331 of 1334
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jessica - Jan 05, 2026 10:11:31 am PST #1332 of 1334
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
lisah: I have a stupid cold and suddenly have barely any sense of smell and it’s FREAKING ME OUT. Smell is one of my superpowers.
-t: Oh no! Kryptonite sucks
Tom Scola: Did you get tested for COVID?
Steph L. :Kryptonite doesn't cause Covid.
Tom Scola: Green kryptonite doesn’t cause Covid.
Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2026 7:45:17 am PST #1333 of 1334
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
erkiaj: But I'm also fifty-two, and kind of fresh out of "little lady" energy--it's always been an awkward fit, on its best day. which probably peaked at the same time as, say Tears for Fears.
erikaj - Mar 21, 2026 1:09:29 pm PDT #1334 of 1334
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
More wit and wisdom from Shir: Oh, nothing felt normal here in years. So it is not normalcy I'm trying to maintain, it's the sense that I am a human being with a free will and choice in this world, and that another world is possible. War and fascism tend to shrink your sense of the world and being in the world, and what other perspectives look and feel like. You can very easily become a stranger to yourself and drown in doom scrolling and getting in your own head. I'm actively trying to fight it and I've been asking myself repeatedly how can I stay humane in this madness. A singer I love wrote that we are surrounded with so much death, and we must actively seek beauty and art. He's not wrong. It's a human necessity.