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AS I KEEP REPEATING ENDLESSLY—(no, not "with the Right it's *always* projection, although yes, that too)—*do not trust* an oviparous lagomorph, lagomorphs are universally viviparous, an oviparous one

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Mar 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton--- OH MY GOD IS THAT AN OVIPOSITOR? and Peter.

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Feb 17, 2026

The three Rs.

Reading: Writhing and Rhythmatic.

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I have deeply mixed feelings about # ActivityPub 's adoption of JSON-LD, as someone who's spent way too long dealing with it while building # Fedify . Part of me wishes it had never happened. A lot of

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Feb 08, 2026

@hongminhee You have my deepest sympathies. I've been using Linked Data (correctly, for the most part) since 2002, and I feel your pain.

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I've now already read in the media that Trump has a 'plan' for Greenland, that he has 'a vision for the future' of Greenland, and that he has 'ambitions' with Greenland. Cut the crap. Trump threatens

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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @cstross@wandering.shop His plan for Greenland is to gift it to Peter Thiel’s network state projects.

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@schrotthaufen@mastodon.social @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @cstross@wandering.shop No.. the ancient lost lizard people city is underneath the Greenland ice so he needs Greenland to let his friend

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 17, 2026

@etchedpixels@mastodon.social @schrotthaufen@mastodon.social @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @cstross@wandering.shop The airlock hatch swings open. The lizards start walking out. "Who do we have to thank for our release?" "Donald Trump." "Oh, by the Emperor's right fang, not that arsehole."

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RE: https://wandering.shop/@kithrup/115894324037814786 As a former technical author who used to write and maintain UNIX man pages, all I can say is, APPLE WHAT THE FUCK?!?

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 14, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop My favourite part of this, if I had to pick one, is that comma in the synopsis. So small a thing, and yet so deeply wrong.

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@dubiousblur@social.treehouse.systems @Colman@mastodon.ie Pharmacy and medicine are both regulated by a statutory body (and part of the point of the Law and Ethics exam was to instill a healthy fear o

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 14, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @dubiousblur@social.treehouse.systems @Colman@mastodon.ie Only accidentally? So it was OK if you poisoned them deliberately? (Mutters something about chemotherapy drugs)

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Weirdly, if I just flat out said "my muse is a hungry ghost trapped in a jar: I shake it and she shouts story ideas at me" people might actually think I was serious.

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 13, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop But we all know that your muse is built like a front-row forward, who regularly comes in through the front door with a sledgehammer and ties you to a chair until you write her new idea.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr Microsoft's CEO doesn't want us to talk about AI slop any more, does he? He's quite right: we need to start calling unwanted LLM-generated garbage "Nadella", in honour of Microso

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 05, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @pluralistic@mamot.fr I think... Ewww. On second thoughts, EEEEWWWWWWW.

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@bruces@mastodon.social Gotta note that the "Glorious Revolution" led to a year or so of colonial warfare (mostly in Ireland) and a couple of brushfire uprisings in Scotland in 1715 and 1745 ("Bonnie

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 05, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @bruces@mastodon.social Plus at least one formal battle during the revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Reading_(1688) It wasn't entirely bloodless, even if you don't look at the aftermath.

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Suggested list of titles to AVOID for your first novel: "The Lord of the Rings": or, how to make a fortune from phone ringtones and lose it again in one fell lawsuit. … Untitled: a Remittance Man in I

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop The Lord of the Rings is about a mathematician studying algebraic structures. A (non-Abelian) group of disparate people travel through a complex vector space to throw the ring of the Lord of Lie-algebras into a magma.

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Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Jan 02, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Doesn't seem realistic. They'd never write "Sorry".

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I'm calling this a joke image (whether AI or photoshop) simply because of the last word in the description. No, really. https://meow.social/@frummidge/109769635350464091

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Dec 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop It was a nanoraptor creation, IIRC.

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NEW NIGHTMARE FUEL: Imagine the Tangerine Tyrant's dementia advances so rapidly that he's on a ventilator by this time next year. New POTUS: J. D. Vance, who has all the charisma of a dead squid. POTU

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Dec 18, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop *Elect*? How quaint.

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Just noting I have only ever owned stick shift cars; the most complicated in car electronics was a CD autochanger. Cruise control on my last car just maintained constant speed (with a manual tranny).

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Dec 15, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I learned on a manual in the 1980s, but I've been driving an automatic for about 6-7 years, and I've pretty much lost all the muscle memory for a manual. However, the car's satnav has been unreliable (it's old, and the aerial was mis-placed when they retrofitted it), so I still carry a paper map and make hand-written instructions in large print for long journeys.

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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Nov 20, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Do I have to use a Puck mouse now?

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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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@darkling@mstdn.social · Nov 17, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I hope the text on the side is in Krillic script. (Sorry, that's the best flamingo-related pun I could come up with).

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@jon@gruene.social @jbenjamint@mastodon.scot Edinburgh's New Town (laid out in the 1750s) is on a grid system! Really easy for Americans to get around! As long as they can tell the difference between

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@darkling@mstdn.social · Nov 14, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @jon@gruene.social @jbenjamint@mastodon.scot I don't remember the grade separation in the New Town. Old Town, sure. (Oh, wait, there's one just by Calton Hill as Prince's Street goes east, isn't there? That's the only one I can think of that side of the railway.)

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