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Simon Tatham
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Free software developer and hobby mathematician. Author and lead developer of # PuTTY , and "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection", a set of one-player puzzle games running on many platforms. Also various smaller or less well known things.
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Simon Tatham
@simontatham@hachyderm.io
Free software developer and hobby mathematician. Author and lead developer of # PuTTY , and "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection", a set of one-player puzzle games running on many platforms. Also various smaller or less well known things.
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Mar 23, 2026
@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online I suppose? But only in a very literal sense.
If someone's in the middle of a long explanation or story or something on a text chat system, there's more than one reason I might look for something else to read. One, yes, is if the thing they're saying is just not interesting to me at all. But another is if it _is_ interesting, but arriving slowly, because their typing speed is the limiting factor.
In scenario #2, you could make a case for the literal truth of the statement 'I am bored', in that I'm repeatedly getting slightly bored (microbored?) waiting for the next fragment of the interesting thing. But shouting 'bored!' at the speaker sounds as if you're accusing them of being case #1, which is not just rude but also untrue!
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