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microsff_feed) wrote2025-07-27 09:22 pm
The alien fleet appeared suddenly and entered Earth’s orbit. A message was broadcast, in thousands of languages
“Greetings! We are the Interstellar Mobile Library. We have 4096 ships, please suggest landing sites for all.”
“Yes, of course it is free, and for all people.”
“Why? We are a library.”
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wychwood) wrote2025-07-24 09:58 pmmicrosff_feed) wrote2025-07-24 07:53 pm“Why have you come to me?” the sword master asked.
“To learn how to be a man,” the new student said.
The sword master looked at the class, and the wide selection of genders present.
“You don’t need a sword to be a man.”
“I know that. But what I see here tells me I have much to learn.”
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sousaphonemicrosff_feed) wrote2025-07-23 05:51 pmThe full moon shone brightly over the park.
“What are you going to do with that?” the werewolf asked.
Her date, squatting to pick up a stick, paused. “Er⦔
“Were you going to throw it? Ew!”
“I’m so sorry, I-”
The werewolf opened her bag. “Hang onβ¦ Here!”
“A frisbee?”
“It’s moon-shaped.”
microsff_feed) wrote2025-07-22 11:52 am“I want the world to be simple,” I said to the genie.
“How do you mean?”
“Good guys and bad guys, clear answers to all questions, everything is just one thing or another.”
“I don’t think a world like that would work… No, wait, I know how to do that.”
And then he turned me back into a child.
microsff_feed) wrote2025-07-22 12:04 am“You know that creature, je ne sais pas, what is it called?”
“Which creature?”
“You know, it is really clever, and then it’s stupid, and you can tell it what to do and sometimes it does it but you can’t be sure, and some find it fascinating…”
“Heh, sounds almost like ChatGP-”
“Oui! Le chat!”
microsff_feed) wrote2025-07-16 12:38 amThe specific railway isn't important, though British Rail really was closed down in 1997 after the railways in Britain were privatised.
But current railway operators in Britain generally offer a type of ticket called something like "any time, return". I just wanted to make a joke about that, how it could be taken to mean you could return to any time, like a time machine.
microsff_feed) wrote2025-07-16 12:14 amThe doorbell rang. I checked the peephole, and saw someone who looked almost like me. I let him in.
“I’m your future self. Listen-”
“Wait! How did you even get here?” I asked.
“British Rail, Anytime Return ticket.”
“They killed British Rail in 1997!β
"It’ll be back. But list-”
He disappeared.
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