frankly it's a disgrace that nobody has yet come up with 'the CIA invented furries' as a conspiracy theory

('Cordwainer Smith' was actually Paul Linebarger, one of the founders of modern psychological warfare. Also Sun Yat-sen's godson and the writer of the first Cold War technothriller!)

This is DEFINITELY a better version of England/Wales (no Home Counties! no London!!), but I have Concerns.

Ticket get! Fi-fucking-nally, too! (I had tickets to 2020, then ... 2020 happened, then 2023 was the day before a friend's wedding in the Greek countryside so *that* was unlikely.)

Really looking forward to coming back to Ljubljana, it's one of my favourite cities.

Not a bad place to sit it out.

I'm sure the US has enough cigarettes, blindfolds, earthen berms, and bullets to deal with this.

Y'all think "as a running joke, we are referencing the name of a song we like!" is "brainrot"? Please. You are baby. Exposure to 60 seconds of Dada would kill you instantly. Y'all're the motherfuckers who started fistfights in the audience of Victory Over the Sun (1913) because you "didn't get it"

Amidst accumulating governmental rot in Western society, the slow but steady spoolup of fascism, and a culture of indifference to mass death, people in the 1920s invented "absurdism" (the flip-face of existentialism) as an artistic weapon and way of describing reality in a world that resisted truth.

I have never, not once, encountered the "Gen Z Stare". And do you know why? It is because I am incapable of making eye contact

Ye gads, this brings me a ton of sadness as someone who've only briefly interacted with you both over the years, I can't imagine how it feels to be on the inside. My greatest condolences.

Yeah, given road quality it's like an hour to the nearest hospital by car.

Post a warning.

I basically gave up on life in the first five minutes of Black Widow when they did the plaintive breathy version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

I just reviewed a paper I hated, and now I'm gonna make insanely spicy stirfry to take back control of who is allowed to hurt me in my life

I've enjoyed the rest of that pair of trilogies so the priors are looking good!

Oh shit, I'd entirely missed that book three came out (and I've been very out of the loop on new genre fiction in general). Time to shop, I guess.

It's going to be a wild few years of an absolutely unusable internet while the CEOs realize that trying to mug every user at every level while also having AI generate all their content isn't 100% feasible.

for redundancy, every cargo container should be simultaneously delivered on two boats and opportunistically retried. then the recipient can simply ignore duplicate deliveries.