Lawful good: capitalize genus, leave species lower-case. Lawful evil: capitalize both genus and species. Neutral evil: write both in all upper-case. Chaotic evil: "tReX". 🦖 🧪 🦕

As in a fervific dream.

"Homes, schools, and a state-of-the-art hospital" ... all owned and run by a single company. Sounds like KOMUNIZM to me!

One of the copy-and-paste #antivax talking points is that #polio was caused by #DDT. For everyone repeating this vile lie:

"You picked up the leash and said 'walkies!' Then you got distracted and I never had my walk. I'm sorry it's come to this, but I really have no choice."

Definitely need some old rubber bands that are so dried out they'll snap the first time you try to use them. Bonus points if they hit you in the eye. Or is that just me?

FB Memories just reminded me that I've been working on The #Silmarillisaurus for over a year. [sigh] #Worldbuilding is fun, but I really want to get back to telling *stories* soon. ✍️ 🚀 🦖 🦕

I'm 95% of the way to running a marathon. The remaining 5% is just training. How hard can it be?

I’ve never liked the name #MtBlueSky. It’s boring and generic, and I wish the various tribes involved had come up with something better. But the more people throw tantrums about it, the better it sounds. 🏔️

Lots of #MAGAts are gleefully commenting about #Polis getting censured. "They're eating their own," "circular firing squad," etc. Yeah, we already know the idea of a political party that punishes bad behavior on the part of its members is difficult for #Republicans to understand.

Those funny tiny arms mean the head will kill you. So try to show a little respect. 🦖 🧪

So I just saw an anti-Trump political cartoon that showed #Trump wearing a #yarmulke. Not waving an #Israeli flag or anything like that, you understand. Just wearing a blue yarmulke, emblazoned with a white Star of David. There are probably millions such caps floating around, all over the world.

From a post on #AI #writing "tells." Both of these can be useful devices, but they're best as seasoning, not main ingredients. AI doesn't get that, of course. Sadly, neither do a number of human writers who have started using a more robotic style.

Oh, they'll comply with the #virus, all right. See, viruses don't ask nicely for compliance. 🧪 ⚕️ #medsky

There are not words. (via @peekamimi.bsky.social) Okay, I have plenty of words. Most of them would get me banned for life, so I won't say them. You can probably guess. I can say this, though: #Polis' political career had better be over forever.

Wake up, babe, new end-Triassic extinction mechanism just dropped. 🧪 🦖

Yes, but also no because the #Reddit "science and logic guys" believe a whole lot of different but equally pernicious #bullshit, but also yes because #antivax may well be the most murderous ideology in history, which is a fucking high bar when you think about it. 🧪 ⚕️

I hope my #stories will never be *quite* as obscure as this. But if anyone ever loves my #writing enough to put that much effort into finding me, I'll feel like I've really accomplished something. 🚀 ✍️

"I am the exiled Prince of America Donald J. Trump Jr. My father KING DONALD J. TRUMP hid a fortune of $1 BILLION US DOLLARS in safety before being deposed by Democrat rebels. You are a good and kind person and I would like you to keep this money in safekeeping ..." Well, *I* thought it was funny.

"Actionable" is a word that should never appear in any report or paper, unless we are working on a project involving analysis of the neurological conditions that cause people to use words like "actionable." I'm rather proud of that one. 🧪 🖥️ ⚕️ ✍️

The manager of the #Spirit #Halloween in #Butler, PA is very sad it's the off-season.

Sure, there are things we don't understand about #LLMs. We know how the underlying #code works, and #tokenization, and all that, but the models are so complicated we can't just take them apart and look at them the way we would, say, a big database. This leads to unexpected emergent behaviors. 🧪 🖥️ 🧵

Congratulations, #Hungary! I hope we can do the same.

Uphill both ways. That part is very important.

"Let's wait and see what the investigation shows! Anyway, the timing is suspicious! Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?" 🧵

Note the name of the group where this was posted. They really think they're scoring some kind of point. Liberals punish our sex offenders. Conservatives idolize theirs.

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

#Artemis II is, as far as I know, still safely on its way to the #Moon. Flyby, not a landing. But you know, Apollo 10 was followed by #Apollo 11. This is a hell of a lot more than baby steps. 🧪 🚀

"Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

When I am dictator, every antivaxer will be on the hook for every death that could have been prevented by vaccines. Civil and/or criminal liability, depending on the extent of their activities. ⚕️ #medsky 🧵

And this is why I may never fly again.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

#Colorado now has the worst #snowpack on record for this date. Buckle up. 🧪 🌡️ 🥵

"And this is why argument from authority is not always (or even usually) fallacious. Neither is ad hominem, and if you disagree with me, it's probably because you're an idiot."

This is good news. Just remember what #antivaxers are. They don't know they're mass murderers—but they still want you dead, and your children, and ultimately themselves after they've done away with everyone else. You have to be lucky all the time. They only have to be lucky once. ⚕️ 🧪 #medsky

A line in a mostly unrelated post by a friend got me thinking about a maxim I've heard a lot lately: "Science fiction is not about predicting the future, but rather commenting on the present." It's become conventional wisdom rapidly approaching the status of a thought-terminating cliche. 🚀 🧵

For the WISP (work in some progress) I'm fiddling with population growth models, and considering rolling my own to justify the numbers I want. I guess that makes me a rather finicky Watsonian. But maybe it's like Tolkien coming up with several complete languages before writing any actual plot!

This is a chance for Bill Cassidy to make up, in some small part, for his cowardly and murderous vote to confirm RFK Jr. I'm not holding my breath. 🧪 ⚕️ #medsky

Like their modern Italian descendants, the ancient #Romans ate a lot of #fish. #Italy is a peninsula, after all, and except for the far northern part, nowhere in the country is far from salt water. Even as the #Empire extended to places far inland, they kept up their #pescavorian habits.

This post was almost a rant about a pet peeve that came up in a comment by someone I don't know and almost surely will never meet. And then I realized there was no point, and there are a million better ways to spend my time and mental energy. Is this what wisdom feels like?

This may be the stupidest thing Kegsbreath has come up with yet, and that's ... impressive, in its way. (via @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social)

Meta meme is meta.

After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional #hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.

I just saw yet another claim that Canadian Conservatives would be considered left-wing by US standards. 🧵

"Well, it is the ‘20s. So I guess we should all meet up in vaxeasies, where we’ll get illegal jabs and dance the night away. Until ICE bursts in and mows us down with Tommy guns, anyhow." I slay me.

I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

This is where my prediction comes true: the insane opposition to mRNA vaccines, without any scientific basis, is going to start killing people. Tip of the iceberg, and we’re all on the boat. 🧪 ⚕️ #medsky