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#WordWeavers Jan 24: Your MC has to start a new business with their current skills. What do they do? (Current WIP): Tabitha: it's obvious, she has to start up a new crime syndicate. Or a hotel chain.
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Jan 24, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop H. H. Holmes style hotels, or more legit?
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#WritersCoffeeClub January 20th Figuratively speaking, do you travel with the caravan or solo over the hills? I'm breaking a trail through the wabe, trying not to run over any slithy toves in my Amphi
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Jan 20, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Caravans/wagon trains are how you get the Donner Party. How they start, at least.
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Dear everybody: Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods. The letter to the .no PM
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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org What's worse is that he's a movie parody of a real mafia don. *Successful* real world mafiosi all cashed out generations ago and bought casinos and real estate companies, where i
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Jan 19, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop @bsdphk@fosstodon.org Pretty sure I once said on your blog, during the 1st term, that Donnie’s a wannabe mob boss. You couldn’t be in the NY building business without dealing with the mafia. I think it’s part of why he prefers being called Don, or as he used to go by The Donald.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115921256848039524 How to live your best life:
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Jan 19, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Assuming their TV is like most, they must be half deaf to keep the volume that high. I have mine around 10.
Reading is certainly the better choice.
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Found elsenet:
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Jan 19, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop I thought that was a Klan hood over ICE at first.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 18 Are you comfortable making a reader uncomfortable? How far will you go? See "Equoid" (a novella about unicorns which, I am told, ruined "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
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Jan 18, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Nothing cosy about Quantum of Nightmares, or a certain maternity ward.
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A real shame if this photo went viral again today. #uspol #ukpol
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Jan 18, 2026
@eco-g Not what I was looking for, but maybe this one could use some sharing?
Appears to be at Mar-a-Lago, judging by the dreadful portrait of Donnie behind them.
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RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115891885954410747 Also: you give someone free rein (as in, what you use to control horses), not free reign (that's what Donald Trump wants for himself).
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Jan 14, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop People ‘wrecking havoc’ rather than wreaking it.
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Why Brits mostly hate Trump: "If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." https://londondaily.com/british-writer-pens-the-best-description-of-trump-i-ve-read
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Jan 11, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop It was called The Apprentice.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 11/1: Name a poet who has influenced you. I am violently allergic to poetry and generally ignore it—nuanced exception: song lyrics. So … Gary Numan? Trevor Horn? Alanis Morisette?
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Jan 11, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Most poetry doesn’t do much for me.
Emily Dickinson was nearly ruined by someone pointing out that all her poems can be sung to The Yellow Rose of Texas.
This be the Verse by Philip Larkin is worth a read.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
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I think we need a better name for J. D. Vance than Couchfucker, and after due conideration I'd like to submit, for your consideration, "Beelzebubba"
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Jan 11, 2026
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I’ve always called him JD Shvantz. It’s one of many Yiddish terms for ‘dick’, with the benefit of sounding like his name.
Also Beelzebubba was taken by punk-parody band The Dead Millmen. A fairly classic album.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shvantz
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Meanwhile, the media in the UK—and the USA—are TOTALLY IGNORING the ongoing revolutionary turmoil in Iran, with running street battles, a general strike, dozens of cities in open rebellion against the
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Jan 09, 2026
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Trump’s been threatening to bomb Iran if they kill any protestors, meanwhile he’s all in favor of ICE killing protestors, or people caught in the wrong place.
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Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "guilt-free slaves" already, your target audience already know exactly that you mean https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484
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Jan 08, 2026
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Kapo Stephen Miller will want to deport them.
It’s not the jobs don’t want to do, it’s the jobs the business owners don’t want to pay people to do.
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"There are no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark …" Well, if you're in the UK you should delete X from all your devices because you are ONE received tweet or DM away from committ
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Jan 06, 2026
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Different subject, but with a slight change the last line works for other current events.
(Fucking American Republican morons think their local laws apply everywhere.)
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CONTEXT: This was in the context of a hilarious explosion of singularitarianism on BlueSky, and is NOTHING to do with Trump declaring war on Venezuela. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/1158281579044138
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Jan 03, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Trump wants his Noriega moment.
I expect he’ll claim how great ot is that he “captured that very bad man, Maduro. Not like when Biden* had Osama killed, instead of captured, and brought to American Justice.” And other non-sensical blatherings.
*Yes, I know. He’ll also probably mispronounce Osama as Obama.
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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int
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Additions: make the billionaire a thinly-disguised Peter Thiel/Elon Musk hybrid, complete with transphobia. Make the "secretary" angry and resentful but needed the job (to cover a relative's medical i
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Jan 02, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Sounds kind of like Eve getting Rupert actually stuck in her head. Except he followed a rather different god.
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Fully-articulated suits of plate armour—for mice! https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622020/mouse-armor-artist-jeff-de-boer
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Dec 31, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Reminds me of this Japanese sculptor I posted about a few months ago.
https://mastodon.social/@JamesPadraicR/114956910941274132
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Underlying insight: youth culture stopped being something you aged out of some time around the late 1950s. Rock'n'roll became an all-ages-thing over the next few decades, and so did fashions. https://
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Dec 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Yesterday I saw a video from an autistic therapist on how we seem to age reversed, being called mature in youth, and feeling immature later in life (something like that).
It struck a chord, physically I feel my 54 years, but mentally I’ve always felt myself to be around 30.
Fashion-wise? I could be mistaken for someone into grunge, except that I can’t stand that. In 90s I was into Industrial and Manchester bands.
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I *WANT* to believe, but … (Vernor called it "the net of a million lies" for good reason; he was WAY ahead of his times in that particular respect.) https://mindly.social/@DamonCrowley/115759992381257
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Dec 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I suspect it may be a photo of Donnie and his daughter Tiffany, born in ‘93, the one he ignores (and does’t want to shtup). The ages look about right. Now, why they’d be on Epstein’s jet…?
What bother’s me about that thread is people instantly saying it’s AI, and essentially poisoning the well. It’s the current version of claiming a picture’s photoshopped. It’s going to get even harder to tell.
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RESEARCH QUESTION (for work): I know what an instar is
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Option 4: I do now.
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Begs the question of who's going to milk the camel! https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/115722809667152789
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Dec 15, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Hopefully they’ll have more than one camel.
Milking camels is hardly a new thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_milk
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@Ponygirl@mastodon.social @Simpike@mastodon.social @acb@mastodon.social @JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org Nope. Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse
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Dec 13, 2025
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The American equivalent?
I thought she’d died years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant
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"We should do this to Americans all the time," opined $SPOUSE https://beige.party/@mothninja/115711167653690063
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@cstross@wandering.shop Looks almost like an outtake from A Clockwork Orange —the book, not the movie. You get used to it eventually.
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So, it looks like Russia finally won the cold war.
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Dec 08, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I’ve always said that China won it.
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@jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Well, low infant mortality *does* mean that women aren't so ground down from popping out babies and burying them all the time that they can compete with t
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Isn’t that the opposite of the Quiverfull thing? Have as many children as possible so We outnumber Them. Anyhow, Those are ‘the go
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@JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social @jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Oh, these are social darwinists, white supremacists, and plain old male chauvanists. God-fearing white women should be take
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Unfortunately there are too many people who actually think that, including some “God-fearing white women”.
An obscure Bowie lyric comes to mind “Gotta, gotta get me out of here.”
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@jered@metasocial.com @kottke@mastodon.social Well, low infant mortality *does* mean that women aren't so ground down from popping out babies and burying them all the time that they can compete with t
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Isn’t that the opposite of the Quiverfull thing? Have as many children as possible so We outnumber Them.
Anyhow, Those are ‘the good ol’ days’ conservatives are always yearning for.
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FUCK OFF MUSE, I AM ON VACATION IN GERMANY DRINKING THE BEER I DO NOT NEED YET ANOTHER COMPLETE REWRITE OF GHOST ENGINEER, THIS TIME AS A CAPER COMEDY MODELLED ON INDIANA JONES VS. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD
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Dec 06, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop “Book 3 of the Ghost Engine Universe!”
Just what you need, another series.
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@JDzed@clacks.link Confession: I have never seen a "Die Hard" movie. Any of them. (Don't tell me I'm missing out: it's a movie, and I Don't Do Movies.)
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Dec 02, 2025
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Also voted Die Krupps.
Per my comment on the poll:
https://mastodon.social/@JamesPadraicR/115650940703036996
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New Dalek Invasion strategy just leaked: this time, use camouflage! https://cupoftea.social/@Erased_Citizen/115626778004821440
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Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Chibi Daleks?
Could easily conquer the US, seeing how popular those ugly labubu dolls are.
Was gonna make a comment about some book called Rule 34…
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Found on /r/Edinburgh; apparently North Korea is hatching a new cunning plan to infiltrate Scotland: (Spoiler: it's on Teviot and it used to be the Central Chippie. Quite the rebranding!)
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@cstross@wandering.shop Apparently Korean fried chicken is a thing. Saw this last Sunday:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/korean-fried-chicken-the-other-kfc/
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CAUTION TALL VEHICLE https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/115621493585985589
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Nov 27, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Nice that were given something to snack on. Better than some airlines.
I assume that’s what the branches on the sides were for.
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Current listening: "I Love the Eighties" by Men Without Hats—undiluted nostalgia for my late teens/early 20s, inject straight into the vein
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@cstross@wandering.shop I generally can’t stand nostalgia , but do listen to plenty of music from my youth, and before.
Wasn’t particularly into MWH, a former friend back when was, so I’m familiar with them. And now I have Safety Dance stuck in my head.
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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:
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Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop No, we didn’t burn them with fire. We used frickin’ LASER beams!
Though, really I’m the mixtape generation, CDs came a few years later.
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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture. Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with sp
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@cstross@wandering.shop Yes, it is eerie how many of these PROFESSIONS are predominantly represented by women. Although engineering is a bit of an outlier (not that there aren’t lots of women engineer
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social If Trump was involved in that aspect of it at all (which I doubt) he'd be enthusiastic for decertifying engineering as a profession because it would exert downward pressur
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social I seem to remember hearing during Trump’s first term that he made most of his money from renting his name to actual builders, who thought having it over the entrance added prestige.
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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture. Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with sp
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@cstross@wandering.shop See also hapw the current administration has been trying to get rid of the Dept. of Ed., along with the CDC, and likely the Food & Drug Administration. They’d be happy to end any kind of regulations, and don’t care if it kills people as long as they make a profit.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 17 Nov. What role does race play in your work? The concept of "race" is a vile 19th century shibboleth invented to support colonialism and to justify so-called "scientific racism".
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Footnote to #WritersCoffeeClub 17/11: my current two WIPs are space operas set 700,000 years hence. Our subspecies of hominin is long-extinct: humanity has speciated. There are references to "elves" a
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@cstross@wandering.shop Reminds me of an A.C. Clarke story, where it turns out humanity was seeded by aliens, and ends with the aliens offering to cure us of our unfortunate paleness. Or something like that. Don’t remember the title.
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Carol Cadwalladr on the Great AI Bubble ... and, buried lede, the way the same faces in the Epstein Files keep popping up in the AI Bubble. Odd, that. https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115560021315037492
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@cstross@wandering.shop Probably shouldn’t be surprising, considering how Epstein wanted to be seen as supporting tech and science. I think M.I.T. gave up a large donation from him.
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Can't park there, mate https://dresden.network/@longiflorum/115560279958319155
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@cstross@wandering.shop That’s what you think.
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Speaking of this (see below), here's a guided tour of the interior (from 2003 or thereabouts): https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html https://mastodon.s
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@cstross@wandering.shop Here’s a short video tour of the SM-1, the first in a playlist showing its decommissioning.
My mother got her Army Health Physics training there 45+ years ago. She gave me a tour of it when I was 8–a day off from school, gotta do something with the kid.
Unfortunately the videos don’t show how they removed the containment dome, but do show them making a hole in the top to remove everything inside it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROX42QbljA&list=PLveDuli2fBnMWQvKDG0lxfnVqSXMDDoWb&index=25
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Found on Bsky, but feels truthy to me:
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@cstross@wandering.shop From what I’ve seen of Libertarians they’re pretty authoritarian, at least when it comes to other people. Don’t you dare infringe on their right to boss others around.
Maybe the bottom should ne Amarchist?
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The current Pope in 1982. He's even from Chicago: obviously a Blues Brother. As someone elsenet remarked, "He looks like he spent the 80s hunting undead gangsters and complaining about the wind."
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@cstross@wandering.shop …dog collar? doesn’t anyone read these descriptions before posting anymore?
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@whangdoodler@piipitin.fi Clerical collars are colloquially called dog collars here in the UK.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @whangdoodler@piipitin.fi In the US too, but maybe a generational thing.
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@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca @vivtek@indieweb.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @augieray@mastodon.social You think that's bad? I crashed in Curtis Yarvin's student house basement one weekend in 1993 in B
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@cstross@wandering.shop @michaelgemar@mstdn.ca @vivtek@indieweb.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @augieray@mastodon.social
I was reminded of what you’d written about him on your blog years ago when listening to an NPR segment a few months ago about Vance’s influences. They were talking about someone named Yarvin, it was vaguely familiar, then they mentioned his screen name, and I said “Oh, That Guy!”
Gives a feeling of playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with the Vice President of the United States.
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