Kevin Phyland
@captainzero.bsky.social
Wycheproof, Australia
Meteorologist/Physicist/Teacher
SFH writer/reviewer
Born at 318 ppm CO2
Some of my fiction: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?255227
All reviews on Goodreads
Meteorologist/Physicist/Teacher
SFH writer/reviewer
Born at 318 ppm CO2
Some of my fiction: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?255227
All reviews on Goodreads
Victorian thunderstorm forecast for tomorrow (Sunday)
February 7, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Victorian thunderstorm forecast for tomorrow (Sunday)
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG Jun 1977
AMAZING Aug 1974
F&SF May/Jun 2012
EXTREMES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2003)
HELLSTROM’S HIVE - Frank Herbert (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Calvin Demmon @kristinerusch.bsky.social
ANALOG Jun 1977
AMAZING Aug 1974
F&SF May/Jun 2012
EXTREMES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2003)
HELLSTROM’S HIVE - Frank Herbert (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Calvin Demmon @kristinerusch.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG Jun 1977
AMAZING Aug 1974
F&SF May/Jun 2012
EXTREMES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2003)
HELLSTROM’S HIVE - Frank Herbert (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Calvin Demmon @kristinerusch.bsky.social
ANALOG Jun 1977
AMAZING Aug 1974
F&SF May/Jun 2012
EXTREMES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2003)
HELLSTROM’S HIVE - Frank Herbert (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Calvin Demmon @kristinerusch.bsky.social
Reposted by Kevin Phyland
“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.
RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet
WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...
theonion.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:30 AM
“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.
My cousin Zak doing reproductive things with skinks… 😉
Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria
Eleven guthega skinks could soon become 13 thanks to a captive breeding program in the Alpine national park
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:12 PM
My cousin Zak doing reproductive things with skinks… 😉
Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable
Understanding the genetic controls of ageing could lead to more therapies that forestall it.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This! So much this! Spent a good deal of my teaching life trying to get this idea across. I used ice cream sales and drownings…
Spurious Correlations kottke.org/26/01/spurio...
Spurious Correlations kottke.org/26/01/spurio...
Spurious Correlations
For his Spurious Correlations project, Tyler Vigen compares data sets that are the very definition of “correlation is not ca
kottke.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
This! So much this! Spent a good deal of my teaching life trying to get this idea across. I used ice cream sales and drownings…
Spurious Correlations kottke.org/26/01/spurio...
Spurious Correlations kottke.org/26/01/spurio...
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG May 1977
WORLDS OF IF Nov/Dec 1972
ASIMOV’S Apr 2003
FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA - C. J. Cherryh (1983)
THE GRAY PRINCE - Jack Vance (1975)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Piers Anthony Larry Eisenberg Doris Piserchia Mike Resnick
ANALOG May 1977
WORLDS OF IF Nov/Dec 1972
ASIMOV’S Apr 2003
FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA - C. J. Cherryh (1983)
THE GRAY PRINCE - Jack Vance (1975)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Piers Anthony Larry Eisenberg Doris Piserchia Mike Resnick
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG May 1977
WORLDS OF IF Nov/Dec 1972
ASIMOV’S Apr 2003
FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA - C. J. Cherryh (1983)
THE GRAY PRINCE - Jack Vance (1975)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Piers Anthony Larry Eisenberg Doris Piserchia Mike Resnick
ANALOG May 1977
WORLDS OF IF Nov/Dec 1972
ASIMOV’S Apr 2003
FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA - C. J. Cherryh (1983)
THE GRAY PRINCE - Jack Vance (1975)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Piers Anthony Larry Eisenberg Doris Piserchia Mike Resnick
Reposted by Kevin Phyland
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Reposted by Kevin Phyland
BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Reposted by Kevin Phyland
(rushes to be the first to make the THERE'S ALREADY A STARBUCKS THERE joke)
New planet just dropped and it
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
1) is almost exactly Earth-sized
2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.
3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡
Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪
Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit
Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
(rushes to be the first to make the THERE'S ALREADY A STARBUCKS THERE joke)
Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube kottke.org/26/01/watch-...
Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube
Sesame Street has uploaded a bunch of classic episodes to YouTube that are free to watch, including the very first episode fro
kottke.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube kottke.org/26/01/watch-...
Great. Power out on west side of Wycheproof.
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Great. Power out on west side of Wycheproof.
47.3C here in Wycheproof at 4.30 pm
January 27, 2026 at 5:56 AM
47.3C here in Wycheproof at 4.30 pm
Walpeup just broke the Victorian record for highest ever maximum temperature with 48.9°C at 3.36 pm. Plenty of time left to get even hotter!
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Walpeup just broke the Victorian record for highest ever maximum temperature with 48.9°C at 3.36 pm. Plenty of time left to get even hotter!
This should be interesting... updated about midnight tonight in AUS.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 89 seconds to midnight.
thebulletin.org
January 26, 2026 at 11:50 PM
This should be interesting... updated about midnight tonight in AUS.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
Progrediscovery - an occasional series.
This time we head back to 1995 and artist Kevin Gilbert’s song ‘Goodness Gracious’ from the album Thud. With echoes of World Party and acerbic lyrics that could have been penned yesterday, it is great funk rock.
youtu.be/KSVetAleJLw?...
This time we head back to 1995 and artist Kevin Gilbert’s song ‘Goodness Gracious’ from the album Thud. With echoes of World Party and acerbic lyrics that could have been penned yesterday, it is great funk rock.
youtu.be/KSVetAleJLw?...
Goodness Gracious
YouTube video by Kevin Gilbert - Topic
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Progrediscovery - an occasional series.
This time we head back to 1995 and artist Kevin Gilbert’s song ‘Goodness Gracious’ from the album Thud. With echoes of World Party and acerbic lyrics that could have been penned yesterday, it is great funk rock.
youtu.be/KSVetAleJLw?...
This time we head back to 1995 and artist Kevin Gilbert’s song ‘Goodness Gracious’ from the album Thud. With echoes of World Party and acerbic lyrics that could have been penned yesterday, it is great funk rock.
youtu.be/KSVetAleJLw?...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG Apr 1977
INTERZONE #28 Mar/Apr 1989
F&SF Mar/Apr 2012
THE DARK FOREST - Cixin Liu (2015)
THE WIZARD OF ANHARITTE - Colin Kapp (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf @CixinLiu Albert E. Cowdrey Robert Walton Barry Malzberg Peter Beagle
ANALOG Apr 1977
INTERZONE #28 Mar/Apr 1989
F&SF Mar/Apr 2012
THE DARK FOREST - Cixin Liu (2015)
THE WIZARD OF ANHARITTE - Colin Kapp (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf @CixinLiu Albert E. Cowdrey Robert Walton Barry Malzberg Peter Beagle
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
What I’ve read in the last week:
ANALOG Apr 1977
INTERZONE #28 Mar/Apr 1989
F&SF Mar/Apr 2012
THE DARK FOREST - Cixin Liu (2015)
THE WIZARD OF ANHARITTE - Colin Kapp (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf @CixinLiu Albert E. Cowdrey Robert Walton Barry Malzberg Peter Beagle
ANALOG Apr 1977
INTERZONE #28 Mar/Apr 1989
F&SF Mar/Apr 2012
THE DARK FOREST - Cixin Liu (2015)
THE WIZARD OF ANHARITTE - Colin Kapp (1973)
@analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf @CixinLiu Albert E. Cowdrey Robert Walton Barry Malzberg Peter Beagle
Not to put too fine a point on it… but Wycheproof’s 7 day forecast is just nuts!
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it… but Wycheproof’s 7 day forecast is just nuts!
What looks like a wall of dust ahead of a storm NW of Wycheproof
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 AM
What looks like a wall of dust ahead of a storm NW of Wycheproof
What I’ve read in the last week:
ASIMOV’S Jan/Feb 2026
WORLDS OF IF Oct 1972
ANALOG Mar 1977
THE LAST PRESIDENT - John Barnes (2013)
THE WINDS OF GATH - E. C. Tubb (1967)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Christopher Anvil Henry Melton Hayford Peirce Gordon Eklund Zach Hughes
ASIMOV’S Jan/Feb 2026
WORLDS OF IF Oct 1972
ANALOG Mar 1977
THE LAST PRESIDENT - John Barnes (2013)
THE WINDS OF GATH - E. C. Tubb (1967)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Christopher Anvil Henry Melton Hayford Peirce Gordon Eklund Zach Hughes
January 15, 2026 at 8:18 PM
What I’ve read in the last week:
ASIMOV’S Jan/Feb 2026
WORLDS OF IF Oct 1972
ANALOG Mar 1977
THE LAST PRESIDENT - John Barnes (2013)
THE WINDS OF GATH - E. C. Tubb (1967)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Christopher Anvil Henry Melton Hayford Peirce Gordon Eklund Zach Hughes
ASIMOV’S Jan/Feb 2026
WORLDS OF IF Oct 1972
ANALOG Mar 1977
THE LAST PRESIDENT - John Barnes (2013)
THE WINDS OF GATH - E. C. Tubb (1967)
@analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Christopher Anvil Henry Melton Hayford Peirce Gordon Eklund Zach Hughes
Progrediscovery - an occasional series.
Kingston Wall’s 1994 album Tri-logy contains this track: Time.
With echoes of 1960s psychedelia and smooth, almost Santana-like guitar solos, it is a lost piece of crossover prog. Give it a listen.
youtu.be/pMaa7r0R9K8?...
Kingston Wall’s 1994 album Tri-logy contains this track: Time.
With echoes of 1960s psychedelia and smooth, almost Santana-like guitar solos, it is a lost piece of crossover prog. Give it a listen.
youtu.be/pMaa7r0R9K8?...
Time
YouTube video by Kingston Wall - Topic
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Progrediscovery - an occasional series.
Kingston Wall’s 1994 album Tri-logy contains this track: Time.
With echoes of 1960s psychedelia and smooth, almost Santana-like guitar solos, it is a lost piece of crossover prog. Give it a listen.
youtu.be/pMaa7r0R9K8?...
Kingston Wall’s 1994 album Tri-logy contains this track: Time.
With echoes of 1960s psychedelia and smooth, almost Santana-like guitar solos, it is a lost piece of crossover prog. Give it a listen.
youtu.be/pMaa7r0R9K8?...