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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · 5d ago

Always treat your gravediggers well.
They know where the bodies are buried.

#dadjokes #humor #advice

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He/him, white cishet, imperfect ally but trying. 25 years in IT in the aviation, medical/legal, and utility industries. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Extremely introverted. I post and boost US politics, sci-fi, tech, gaming, social commentary, bad jokes, and bad poetry.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Feb 19, 2026

Patricia Whack, a loan officer, speaks to her boss at the bank. "Sir, a frog has come in asking for a loan, but all he has as collateral is this small ivory frog statue. What should we do?"

Her boss replies, "It's a knick-knack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan!"

#jokes #dadjoke

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Maybe I’m out of touch with what “everyday Americans” care about, but I’ve literally never heard anyone say they wanted the US to take over Greenland. Or anything else about Greenland, come to think o

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He/him, white cishet, imperfect ally but trying. 25 years in IT in the aviation, medical/legal, and utility industries. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Extremely introverted. I post and boost US politics, sci-fi, tech, gaming, social commentary, bad jokes, and bad poetry.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Jan 20, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social But it's so huge on the map! Why wouldn't we want all that land for ourselves? They're not using it. Besides, once all the glaciers melt due to global warming, the natural resources will be easier to get to and it'll be a good place for us all to move to. We obviously need it! /s for Poe's Law

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists? What about your antagonists? Current WIP(s) are set 700,000 years in our future (it's wide-scale space opera). Our species of hominin is l

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@cstross@wandering.shop Two things: 1. Should that be "Translator's Note"? 2. If you leave the line about LLM's and hallucinations in there, people will accuse you of using an LLM to write the story a

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social I'm leaving that call up to the (eventual) commissioning editor! My agent liked it, so it's staying for now.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Jan 15, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Fair enough!

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#WritersCoffeeClub – 15 Jan. How human are your protagonists? What about your antagonists? Current WIP(s) are set 700,000 years in our future (it's wide-scale space opera). Our species of hominin is l

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He/him, white cishet, imperfect ally but trying. 25 years in IT in the aviation, medical/legal, and utility industries. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Extremely introverted. I post and boost US politics, sci-fi, tech, gaming, social commentary, bad jokes, and bad poetry.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Jan 15, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Two things: 1. Should that be "Translator's Note"? 2. If you leave the line about LLM's and hallucinations in there, people will accuse you of using an LLM to write the story and won't believe you when you tell them you didn't. Which, eh? Might be fine,. might not be worth the stress. "We apologize in advance for any mistakes that arise due to the extreme time and distance between the events of this story and your era's understanding of the universe."

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A thought: I think Harry Harrison made ONE critical structural mistake with The Stainless Steel Rat, and he made it early in the first book: Jim should have stayed a crook. Having him drafted into the

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Hey, spoilers! 😆

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More yelling from the homeowners association #The #hashtag #mob #can #go #fuck #right #off.

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@mattblaze@federate.social Uh-oh! Now you’re going to have the hashtag police seething 🧐

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@dezz@infosec.exchange These fetishized hashtags always remind me of ransom notes cut from newspapers. #Use #more #hashtags #or #the #hostage #dies.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Dec 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social @dezz@infosec.exchange You finally cracked the code! 🤣

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Dec 29, 2025

The price of RAM is approaching or exceeding the price of rams: "For rams, expect to pay closer to between $400-$500." https://a-z-animals.com/blog/sheep-prices-purchase-price-food-costs-and-more/ #RAM #tech #technology #ai

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Is it just me, or does the old Evil Overlord List look an awful lot like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerburg, Peter Thiel et al are systematically looting it for all the worst of their ideas? https://web.mit.e

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Dec 02, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop 187 sounds suspiciously like a recent Gatsby-themed party I read about...

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DAAAAAD! https://mastodon.online/@skjeggtroll/115582034058755527

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Nov 20, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop That's why I always keep Marty Robbins on my phone, ready to play at a moment's notice.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social I last re-read the first SSR book the day after Harry died, 19 years ago. Not sure I'd dare go back now. But I've done my Heinlein tribute novel, I've got an Iain M. Banks on

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@cstross@wandering.shop Yeah, rereading those older stories is rough at times. Even Asimov - I've read the Foundation and Robots series multiple times - but the characterizations of women could certai

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social Ah, thanks for reminding me! As a non-smoker, I left smoking out of the social drinking scenes entirely! I need to put it back in (along with a hadwavium explanation about wh

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Just have them all vaping with cranberry orange watermelon vape juice. 😆

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social The first is a classic of taut pulp storytelling *except* that Angelina's back story is some fucked-up 1950s tradwife bullshit (and all the characters except Jim DiGriz are t

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@cstross@wandering.shop I've always remembered liking it, but I read it over 30 years ago and don't remember any details. I actually picked the series up a few weeks ago, but I'm rereading Cradle agai

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social I last re-read the first SSR book the day after Harry died, 19 years ago. Not sure I'd dare go back now. But I've done my Heinlein tribute novel, I've got an Iain M. Banks on

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Yeah, rereading those older stories is rough at times. Even Asimov - I've read the Foundation and Robots series multiple times - but the characterizations of women could certainly be problematic and there is *so much smoking*. I'm looking forward to your homage. I hope there a bartender named Jimmy D. somewhere in there.

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PS: this is my "Stainless Steel Rat" homage. #PennedPossibilities

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@cstross@wandering.shop I need to reread those. It's been a long time.

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social The first is a classic of taut pulp storytelling *except* that Angelina's back story is some fucked-up 1950s tradwife bullshit (and all the characters except Jim DiGriz are t

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I've always remembered liking it, but I read it over 30 years ago and don't remember any details. I actually picked the series up a few weeks ago, but I'm rereading Cradle again at the moment.

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844. Tell about your MC’s stress behaviors. ("Starter Pack" has two MCs). Jum: looks for a chinless noble failson to pilfer from. If none are available, robs a bank (stealthily). Tabitha: abducts a co

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@Perrin42@mastodon.social · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I need to reread those. It's been a long time.

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