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Childless cat lad. Also opines about music at @acb@linernotes.club
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I have noticed a slew of new accounts with obviously AI generated avatar images, and extremely generic bits of folksy wisdom. I am not going to follow you if you use AI generated images. Also, at the
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @cstross@wandering.shop This is the fediverse. Banal, folksy wisdom here should at least include a reference to guillotining landlords or the fact that craft supplies can be good for stabbing or something.
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Spare a thought for some of the world’s most insufferable people, whose idyllic Dubai lifestyle has been rudely interrupted by a geopolitical unpleasantness they were supposed to be above:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/dubai-private-jet-prices-soar-tourists-stuck-wealthy-leave
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A linguistic look at the question of why so many feminine names end in A, which turns into a deep dive into the history of grammatical gender in the Indo-European languages:
https://dannybate.com/2026/02/19/monica-erica-rita-tina-why-do-so-many-womens-names-end-in-a/
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It is my birthday! I’m now 33.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social You can have a 33⅓ rd birthday party in 4 months
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Polling in Wales show Plaid Cymru on course to form majority coalition without Labour; Greens beating Labour, Tories being wiped out. And the next Senedd election is on May 7th. https://www1.political
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@cstross@wandering.shop For now the kleptofascists would still be the official opposition, though at least they’re on a downward trajectory
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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social For a while he was going to open another theme park, in Blackpool. (It dead-ended around 2014. I used it in one of my novels …)
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social There’s a Giger museum and café in Gruyères:
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Reports that 16-24 British men are radicalizing to the right are over-exaggerated—but 16-24 women *are* radicalizing, to the progressive/left (not Labour!), and they're voting Green in large numbers:
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So Trump has early-stages heart failure *and* is on aspirin, presumably because he's at risk of stroke. (Don't be surprised if he's hospitalized suddenly. At his age he's a lousy candidate for a heart
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@cstross@wandering.shop Would donor hearts for such a case be fairly easy to find through the legitimate channels, or would they need to task ICE with a new covert mission?
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@acb@mastodon.social You missed the obvious joke: they'd obviously have to get his new donor heart on ICE.
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@cstross@wandering.shop He’d also probably object to having a non-Aryan heart, so ICE’s targeting orders would get one very specific addition, and there’d be one very unlucky German-Irish American u unexpectedly not getting waved through what they thought was a routine traffic stop
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So Trump has early-stages heart failure *and* is on aspirin, presumably because he's at risk of stroke. (Don't be surprised if he's hospitalized suddenly. At his age he's a lousy candidate for a heart
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@cstross@wandering.shop Would donor hearts for such a case be fairly easy to find through the legitimate channels, or would they need to task ICE with a new covert mission?
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Random thought: isn't it WEIRD how quiet Richard Branson has gone since Trump came to power and took a shit all over the business practice of slathering your name all over everything under the sun to
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@cstross@wandering.shop I don’t look forward to seeing signage in his cheeky-chappie rock’n’roll capitalist voice on the toilet walls on the new London-Paris advising you to refrain from flushing your ex’s jumper, with translations in French and Dutch
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In my alternate universe we never stopped using Amiga and BeOS beat Windows and macOS. Also, the Smithereens were the biggest band from Jersey and no one has ever heard of Bon Jovi.
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@flargh@mastodon.social is UNIX extinct in this universe? If so, what’s the Linux equivalent based on?
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@cstross@wandering.shop That sounds doable then, certainly on a visit
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@cstross@wandering.shop That sounds tempting, though I’d be concerned if it’s anything like those 9% super-sweet Belgian beers that work like a brick to the brainpan
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 10 Is it ethical to base characters on real people? Little-known fact: if you base a character on two real people—taking some traits from each—they rapidly become almost impossi
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@cstross@wandering.shop So if you have, say, a narcissistic sexual predator with a ghastly orange fake tan who also builds rockets and wants to establish Galt’s Gulch on Mars, you’ve gotten away scott-free, and people will just wonder how you came up with such a unique character?
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Pro-Brexit Majority Of 2016 'Has Literally Died Out', Polling Expert Reveals The founder of YouGov said there is now an 8.1 million majority in favour of rejoining the EU. (Also: National Bureau of Ec
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@cstross@wandering.shop “Sometimes, progress is achieved one obituary at a time”
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Borland TurboVision (the PC text mode windowing UI used in Turbo Pascal/C++) has been open-sourced and updated to work seamlessly on Linux and with Unicode:
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
It’s all in C++, though if someone hasn’t wrapped it in bindings for Python/Rust/&c. yet, surely they will
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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 Though at least theologians are regulated. No risk of heresy spreading…
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Forwarded from Grok by a friend: "Elon could revolutionize piss-drinking through bio-optimized protocols, like neural training via Neuralink for mental fortitude or custom filtration gear to enhance e
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@cstross@wandering.shop Nobody has less gag reflex than Elmo
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I see they're also trolling the (patriarchal, christianist, macho) Russians now ... https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115564629453296108
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If Martin Shkreli joins the board of Apple next January I'm switching to NetBSD on the closest thing to Framework hardware that isn't owned by Nazis ... https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/11556179413568
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@cstross@wandering.shop I was thinking that surely some Trump son would claim a spot, on the basis of “national interest” or something
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SHKRELI'S PIZZA My friends I think we have a contender for the most horrific two word visual of the year, even more so than Moomin Bukkake https://wandering.shop/@hjmiii/115554441291660419
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@cstross@wandering.shop Given that it’s canon that mozzarella is just moomin meat, “moomin pizza” only reminds those already aware of the grim hidden nature of the world
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DYSTOPIAN FIC IDEA: Take the collar bombs from "Battle Royale" and cross them with Alexa. Have them triggered if the wearer utters two or more words from a list of keywords (classified code names? Sup
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@cstross@wandering.shop do you think that marching on keywords would be robust enough against Koalang-style circumlocutions without an unacceptable number of false positives?
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