The Adventures of Roberta X

The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Lack Of Posting

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     I haven't posted much this week -- current events leave me struggling to keep up with the craziness of it all, from a Russian-inspi...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

The Ipcress File...Again?

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     I found Len Deighton's not-quite-Everyman spy Harry Palmer the long way 'round and in reverse, starting with the book series b...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

There Is Still No Antimemetics Division

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      I read and enjoyed There Is No Antimemetics Division in both text forms, and it turns out there's a short film, as well.      It...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Great Moments In Geography

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     This morning, a BBC World Service news anchor interviewed Mandy Gunasekara about her thoughts on the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Winter Again

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     I think the thing that bugs me most about Daylight Savings Time is that it makes wintertime darkness hit abruptly instead of sneaking u...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Attention, Mike Johnson

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     Yes, Mike, you're Speaker of the House.  Bear in mind that it is not the senior legislative body.      Speaker Johnson had opined ...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

No Shortcuts

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     "Make it didn't happen" is one of our great human weaknesses.  When things occur that make us unhappy, we want to find so...
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Sunday, November 16, 2025

House-To-House Incivility

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     I saw the film "Civil War" last night and...wow. Reviewers got it wrong; they focused on the lack of clarity in who's reb...
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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Inhumanly Talented?

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     I don't think "talent" is the right word for Mixmastering vast amounts of stolen intellectual property, but didja hear t...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Speculative Fictions

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     There are a couple of comments sitting in the "to be screened" stack that I'm probably not going to publish.  Not because...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Keyboard In The Gutter

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     Was it only yesterday that a big tranche -- or perhaps a splatter -- of Jeffrey Epstein's emails were made public?  Politicians are...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Word To The Wise

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    A reminder for anyone who needs it: having voted for a politician does not make you complicit in his (or her) crimes and missteps. You...
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Roberta X
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
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