USPS Proposes Hiking Stamp Prices To 82 Cents As Agency's Cash Dries Up USPS Proposes Hiking Stamp Prices To 82 Cents As Agency's Cash Dries Up

The request follows the head of the USPS warning lawmakers that it will run out of money in less than a year.

This week we welcome @noproscenium.com contributor @antoniusrex.bsky.social to:

🪓 Play off ANDOR S01E05 “The Axe Forgets”

🛳️ Provide a report from the Galactic Starcruiser

👶 Ponder why kids love the First Order

👀 Peruse Syril’s collection of Funko Pops

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“When the world is on fire, all we can do is be the rain, so eventually, we become the flood.” —Lynae Vanee

I don’t think I (or anyone else) was built to be living through the simultaneous Fall of Empire, the grip of an Authoritarian Regime, the whispers of both World and Civil War, the Rise of Monstrous AI—AND still having to work and pay bills, and manage life as “normal.”

Straw Hats
Friends everywhere

Because Orientalism. I mean, she could be Greek and granted the same powers by Zeus’s, right? Or Norse or.

Either way, we get Estelle Getty making thinly veiled cuck jokes so…win?

*twitch twitch*

I don’t appreciate that we’re in the middle of dystopian science fiction stories right now. Like we’re in the worst parts of the Star Trek universe past, right in the start of Parable of The Sewer, 1984 AND Animal Farm, Escape from New York, The Purge prequels…Metropolis. Videodrome; Snowcrash…

A snippet of 2 year old post on Reddit by user Prodiuss. It says: “The Churn is some event that changes the rule for the way you live without giving you a choice to participate. Old norms are uplifted, old habits are forcibly broken, and your current way of life no longer can sustain itself. Think the great depression, the dust bowl, being a member of a gold rush town when it gets annexed into the country proper, the 2008 housing collapse. It is in these times that you have to be nimble, smart, and decisive because if you can not find a new niche to occupy and thrive, then you will get paved over by the new paradigm and forgotten.”

Who’s here that’s read The Expanse and accompanying novellas?

I sometimes fear that we are at the start of The Churn.

Precedented times I clearly asked for *PRECEDENTED* times…

Brown…I’m so sorry yall.

“I’ll take “Things Derek won’t miss about living in So CA for $600, Alex…”

At least this time it was when we were all awake…ish.

Thank you city of Pasadena for scaring the shit out of us NOT IN PASADENA.

Didn’t we do this before? You don’t need to test your he emergency alert system COUNTY WIDE

Damn it @erictrueheart.bsky.social , I’m thinking about Supertramp now…thanks, man.

“I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable…”

I think my playlist is trolling me with a sad little mini-arc:
I Crush Everything—Jonathan Coulton

The Perils—Old Man Saxon

Hasn’t Happened—Old Man Saxon

Songs about Loneliness, struggling to survive and grinding.

Ugh.

I’d prefer “Just Got Paid” but I’m just glad to end this workweek.

It’s Friday.

That’s it. Friday.

Just so we’re clear: that joke was aimed squarely at the President.

South Park has been way more incendiary. SNL has been way worse.

BTW, 2 young Black men were lynched in MS the other day.

Gaza.

Russia attacked Poland.

Greenland has been arming against possible US invasion.

I’m tired y’all.

The Navel Academy what what?? I mean, Murica…I know you ain’t ok but are you OK? WTF?!?

Slow news day…

I just added it to my queue but I don’t know if I wanna…

Chicago!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Episode 500: Ten Years of The NoPro Podcast A MegaSode In Many, Many Parts

Ten Years.

500 Episodes.

One incredible journey.

It all leads here.

The weekend long celebration of the end of the No Proscenium Podcast’s first season has begun.

Parts I & II are live NOW.

noproscenium.com/episode-500-...

I hope you and Mark can get some solid rest and recover quickly. Sickness is The Trash. May your sneezes return to kitten sizes.

Earthquake?!?

#losangeles

WATCH…Tsunami WATCH

Source: Public Tsunami Message Number 3, 627 PM PDT Tue Jul 29 2025 www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Hey, LA and So-Cal—Check your weather app—no push alert, but TSUNAMI WARNING for the coastals…there was an 8.7 in Russia that might be making waves our way…

Why do I feel like this is a critique from our days in Fictionados?

Connie, Malcom, Ozzie, that one former white hat wrestler that turned into a heel and then turned into an actual heel and Chuck.

Damn.