Genuinely though what in the world is that robot thing in A Grand Day Out

About time `BigInt.abs()` and `BigInt.sign()` were on the roadmap

I have been enjoying Matt Godbolt's Advent of Compiler Optimisations

Vaguely horrifying notion that someone 20 or so years in the future is looking back on 2025 as "the good old days"

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

Lovely review of Antimemetics in Locus magazine!

My proposal is to add an infix tetration operator `***` to JavaScript. For example, `3 *** 3` would evaluate to `7625597484987`; this would be one of about five possible meaningful results the operator was capable of producing (maybe ten if we allow BigInts)

It's 17:00:00 UTC somewhere

There's always a bigger infinity

Reading on a bus, and a man who’d clearly been reading over my shoulder for at least a couple of pages asked as I was getting off what it was, which is a fun way to recommend a book to someone anyway but it did feel particularly appropriate that it was @qntm.org’s “There Is No Antimemetics Division”

Let's get the Twelve Days of Christmas discourse sorted quickly 1. You are too early, the twelfth day of Christmas is 5th January 2. No, the song is not secretly all about birds, it just sucks

Saturday 13th's 2025 advent book is There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org: a brilliant, chilling, mind-bending alien scifi/horror that should definitely be on your TBR. How do you fight a war against something that can stop you remembering it even exists? 💙📚🪐

#libfaves25 entering the top 5 of my favorite #books of 2025! THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION by @qntm.org sure is some high concept #sciencefiction! I’m not 100% sure I understood everything that happened, but I sure as heck enjoyed it! #booksky @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Your planetary winding number is the number of times you have circled the North Pole in total since being born. It's tracked by longitude. It can be fractional. For most people the number is 0 or close to it. If you fly east from the US to Europe to Japan and then back to the US, that adds 1

Incoming! The dog is now picking up some Festive Frequencies! 🐕🌪️🎄 The FESTIVE UPDATE for Dogspinner, an important tool by me and @todepond.com, is here for December only! Play it here: Pigenpalace.com

John Carter (2012) certainly has the more startling closing credits dedication note

<YOU'RE UP>

We need a single, succinct word for "X is closer in time to Y than it is to the present day" because that is just a horribly inconvenient way to explain that

Reminder that Time's Person of the Year is not meant to be an award. For example, in 2006, it was me

also this lovely thing from @qntm.org (I’ve read it ahead but I couldn’t resist the shiny pretty hardcover 😍)

THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION featuring right near the top of this one! Thank you!

Containment Protocol: Sasha Bonkowsky's review for There Is No Anti-Memetics Division is to be kept on Reactor's homepage with as much visibility as possible. Visitors are heavily advised to KEEP EYES on the review AT ANY COST.

A wild @qntm.org sighting at the new bookstore in prospect heights

This one wasn't even a joke

best way to giftwrap a truncated icosahedron

@qntm.org got my copy in 🇦🇷

Embracing the weirdness with There's no antimemetics division by @qntm.org (my old time favorite) and a bunch of curious new stories

They call it "Sea of Thieves" but it's clearly water

At last, a soft drink which tastes like stuffing

#bookreview no.26: There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org The best kind of sci-fi experience. That space of pure ideas, just outside the realm of all you know, becomes visible as you read. The beginning was so gripping I feared the ending wouldn't live up to it. I was happily proven wrong.

Can't recommend @qntm.org's "There Is No Antimemetics Division" enough, and @theguardian.com agrees! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Did you know I have a ROT13 encoder which is better than anybody else's

What are the biggest, most powerful ideas which humans are capable of having What if they're bad ideas

Guest post thingy by me about my cool book!

I swear to God I just pasted a @qntm.org quote into my Word doc and it became haunted. This is not staged

The Z in dragon ball Z stands for the integers

WOO

No, I will not explain

What are the benefits of Bluesky verification

EXPIRED: miles per hour TIRED: kilometres per hour WIRED: metres per second INSPIRED: fraction of 𝑐

How exactly was Hans Gruber going to earn 20% on that stolen money, where was he going to put it, were interest rates seriously like that

Haha look at these idiots from [climate unlike mine] they're having disproportionate difficulty handling [conditions common in my climate]

Ending of A House of Dynamite is unreal. I might call it storytelling malpractice. A magical way to blow so much audience goodwill

@qntm.org bigger in every way :)

When an American says "sub-zero temperatures" do they mean below 0°C or below 0°F

my Winter Fiction edit for Shortlist featuring ~ Olivia Laing, Cynan Jones, Gish Jen, Anika Jade Levy, Salman Rushdie, Solvej Balle, Thomas Pynchon, Claire-Louise Bennett, @qntm.org (Sam Hughes) and @olgaravn.bsky.social www.shortlist.com/books/10-mus...

Isn't it an insane coincidence that (1) there is a very wide, almost totally uninhabited segment of longitude which we can drive an International Date Line through with minimal inconvenience and (2) it's on the exact opposite side of the world from our prime meridian, midnight to Greenwich's midday

Chicago Transit Authority's pension is only 50% funded? Gonna have to keep putting out those self-titled albums for a while longer huh

Exciting and original sci-fi horror by @qntm.org Antimemes cannot be remembered; they are ‘self-keeping secrets’. So how can Marie Quinn, the Head of the Antimemetics Division, protect humanity from this threat? Sometimes confusing but always propulsive and interesting. I enjoyed this. #books 💙📚🪐

Book 47 of 2025: There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org. This was a mindblowing read about an unknowable war that touches on memory and existence in some fascinating ways.