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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Mar 02, 2026

Charity Auction for Kansas Trans Folks and/or Minneapolis ICE Relief.

Related to my 1 April Kickstarter.

https://mwl.io/archives/24580

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 27, 2026

The Cards Against Humanity people know how to play the room.

https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 25, 2026

Correct Skeletor is correct.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 22, 2026

I've been using #FreeBSD since 1995. 31 years, more or less.

I was never aware of this most vital community resource.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Dogs

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 21, 2026

When you want a drink on #Raturday, but the floor is lava. #petRats #rats

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 21, 2026

A great takedown of Doctorow's argument in favor of LLMs.

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 18, 2026

If you're in the US: get all of Pratchett's Discworld for $25. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-encore-2026-books US only, but the US needs Sir Pterry right now--either as a reminder, or as remedial education on being human.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 17, 2026

Just finished reading @cstross@wandering.shop's Laundry Files. "The Regicide Report" wraps everything up nicely. It's a dark series but there's a solid sense of "the long struggle was completely worth it and the heroism paid off." You get a sense of the future and know the endings of the major characters. Well, most of the major characters. Is anyone else wondering how Vermintrude wound up?

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 11, 2026

I'd like to introduce you to Quercy. #petRats #rats

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 11, 2026

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere: I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again? The Internet's business model is betrayal. We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe. The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off. How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 10, 2026

Cashel would like to register his concerns about the new downstairs neighbors. They exist, and he's not allowed to go tell them he's in charge. #petRats #rats

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Feb 06, 2026

This article is disturbingly compelling. #doctorWho #sesameStreet https://www.cracked.com/image-pictofact-19146-insane-theory-of-the-day-oscar-the-grouch-is-a-time-lord

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jan 30, 2026

Respect is for discussing "should be build a new school or expand the old one?"

Respect is not for "are Hispanics/LGBT/women human beings?"

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@kp@bsd.network @ninedragons@mastodon.online @jon@gruene.social Get back to me when you are old and slow and have type II diabetes and had That Talk with your diabetes nurse-practitioner.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jan 08, 2026

@kp@bsd.network @ninedragons@mastodon.online @jon@gruene.social @cstross@wandering.shop KP is young. His meatsuit has not yet betrayed him, the way ours have. #indoorShoes4evah

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@mwl@io.mwl.io Just bear in mind that Dead Lies Dreaming/Quantum of Nightmares/Season of Skulls are a separate series that runs from about nine months after the end-point of(forthcoming) The Regicide

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jan 07, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop thanks, I'll be sure to read in proper order. (also: what is it with us that makes us write books out of order? No, don't answer that, we both know why.)

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so street rules now say it's legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

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@mwl@io.mwl.io TBF, this has clearly been the case since Putin tried to have Zelenskyy murdered repeatedly in February 2022, and before then, think Manuel Noriega, or Israel vs. Yasser Arafat. The tra

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop true, true. but some days, one must scream.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jan 03, 2026

so street rules now say it's legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

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Well see, some homes come with a wet bar; this one just comes with a stoner caterpilar bar. (And presumably a humidor for the joints.) https://eigenmagic.net/@weirdestate/115799422279683794

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop The exercise room appears to have a clear glass cylinder large enough for a human to stand in. bacta tank?

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This Quiz was motivated because I'm thinking of using the term "instar" in an SF novel set in a culture that practices serial reincarnation (using technology): is it reasonable to use "instar" to deno

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@cstross@wandering.shop we'll get it by context. Making a handful of readers reach for a dictionary is a perfectly reasonable thing. (I try to put at least 1-2 dictionary words in every book I write,

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@mwl@io.mwl.io Only 1-2 unfamiliar words? If I limited myself like that I'd die!

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 19, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Tech folks are surprisingly fragile, the delicate little flowers. Fiction, I assume everybody's read everything I've read and so they don't need a dictionary.

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This Quiz was motivated because I'm thinking of using the term "instar" in an SF novel set in a culture that practices serial reincarnation (using technology): is it reasonable to use "instar" to deno

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 19, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop we'll get it by context. Making a handful of readers reach for a dictionary is a perfectly reasonable thing. (I try to put at least 1-2 dictionary words in every book I write, but I'm a jerk.)

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@mwl@io.mwl.io @troublewithwords@wandering.shop This seems… exploitable.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 19, 2025

@octothorpe@mastodon.online @troublewithwords@wandering.shop wondering just HOW exploitable...

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 16, 2025

Philip K Dick was born on this date in 1928. I feel I need to plan some sort of centennial recognition of the only man who truly understood that the entire world is fake.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work? TOO MANY CLICHEs! I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of clichés in space o

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@cstross@wandering.shop I've read entire novels where the premise is "oooh, I broke one of the cliches on the list, aren't I cool?" You need enough cliches for the reader to orient, but you gotta brea

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@mwl@io.mwl.io Absolutely true! (Also, I am currently swimming in Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat paddling pool and you *cannot* do that unless you have a high tolerance for heist caper cliches w

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 02, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Fiction or non, cliches are the two-by-fours of our trade. The trick is to know where to use them, and where to put the fancy glass wall and the bizarre steps that look like they shouldn't stay up.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 2: What do you dislike as reader and thus avoid in your own work? TOO MANY CLICHEs! I began work on a space opera in 2015 and as prep I wrote up a taxonomy of clichés in space o

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Dec 02, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I've read entire novels where the premise is "oooh, I broke one of the cliches on the list, aren't I cool?" You need enough cliches for the reader to orient, but you gotta break several to be notable.

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Yeah, that'd help. In my experience dictation software is 100% useless for writing fiction. Can't handle quoted dialog, has a vocabulary limited to the average business or casual phone user, utterly p

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@mwl@io.mwl.io AIUI David Weber uses/used Dragon for all his fiction after about book 10 of the Honor Harrington series. He took a header off his rear deck and broke both wrists a few weeks before a d

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Nov 19, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I absolutely saw the length increase! The second edition of my SSH book required flensing before it went to editing, and in retrospect it was still too wordy. We talk about "dense" prose as requiring careful thought to absorb, but there's a different type of density in dictation vs typing.

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Yeah, that'd help. In my experience dictation software is 100% useless for writing fiction. Can't handle quoted dialog, has a vocabulary limited to the average business or casual phone user, utterly p

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Nov 19, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Oh yeah. I tried dictation-only writing for six months. I spent more time making corrections than I would have typing it. My fiction and nonfiction books use different vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure. Standalone stories use slightly different voices. I had to retrain Dragon for every separate piece.

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Nov 17, 2025

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Michael W Lucas

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Kvetching, not complaining. Writes books. Pet rats. Martial arts. Punch Nazis & terfs. If it wasn't on Industrial Records it's not industrial music, it's just sparkling noise. He/him. Bangpath old. Detroit, MI, US. Gelato!

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Mar 31, 2025

I would like to congratulate France for imprisoning an embezzler who just happens to be a leading political figure.

Other countries should take note of how it's done.

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Michael W Lucas

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@mwl@io.mwl.io · Jun 16, 2023

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

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