The internet owes you this moment.

It is striking how little media appetite or interest there has been for the Covid inquiry's conclusions

A stopped clock is right twice a day, but a working, but incorrectly set clock is never right, and I think we need to remember that.

I submitted the first short story I have written since the cancer diagnosis yesterday (commissioned for an anthology that hasn't been announced yet, so I can't say anything about the subject matter yet). Such a relief to write again. It feels like glimpsing the end of this awful ten months or so.

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"If a service is free, then you are the product."

like "Polly" being short for "Mary."

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

This (and replies), but also: there's a certain type of fandom that is basically about cataloguing. 🧵

Because people are comparing the wizard books with Lovecraft, it's worth noting not only that Lovecraft is long dead and not using his earnings to actively promote hatred (others have noted that already), but that his world has been open license since day one and has been extensively decolonised.

I'M IN THIS EVERYBODY BUY IT My story is about a young guy in the prairies with a really useless superpower

pick up all your rubbish OR BE EXTERMINATED

@wangleberry.bsky.social to me, a dryad NPC: so I'm curious about bees... me: that's a bit of a personal subject another player: oh, I think he's talking about sex cat: oh, I know how you get new bees, I was going to ask-- me: no, I mean, bees are how you get new trees

me, reffing a demonic bargain at a LRP when part of my real-life job is contract negotiation: well, here and here it should say "shall" rather than "will," here and here it should "or" rather than "and," here it should say "and" rather than "or," this should specify "in good faith" and here it sho--

I had a really lovely evening talking about INTERGALACTIC FEAST with the all-amazing @shrabonti.bsky.social at Atta Galatta, Bangalore.

This is a dance off! Post a dance or you're eliminated.

if you spay a newt it becomes even neuter

Evergreen

Eid mubarak to those who celebrate! May it bring peace and harmony to your heart and home.

a large number of facts I learned about fifteen-to-twenty years ago were all just disproven at once

I wrote a ranty thread a ways back on the inadvisability of just letting AI *summarise* contracts for you - Jesus Christ do not let AI *write* a contract for you. Fresh reminder that A CONTRACT IS LEGALLY BINDING ON YOU.

i'm just sort of marvelling all over that for years zuckerberg sank billions into the absolutely sincere belief that one day all business and social interactions would take place through weird cartoon-rendered versions of ourselves over vr, just next level delusional grandeur

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Actually, talking about the older sense of "quit" reminds me of an old thread I wrote on the other website, which I have just discovered I have not reproduced here...

So the word in fact absolutely means both, and the etymological reason for it is very cool and rather neat.

I have an AI joke that was invented in 1817 by Arthur Joke, a blacksmith in 12th century England most famous for appearing in the California Milk Processor Board's "Got Milk" ads in 1993. Joke was assassinated in 1963 and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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I have an editing joke but the author STETed all the changes.

oh the fallout from this is gonna be FUN

This feeling in my chest...hope? Unfamiliar

Good! I've seen some scornful takes on this, but to be clear: *cold* fusion is bunkum (probably). *Hot* fusion, which is what they're talking about, is eminently possible. It's just *hard*. And the way we solve hard problems is by working at them patiently. www.independent.co.uk/tech/nuclear...

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

"Unbelievable," as though multiple leaders haven't done this as a matter of public record. Trump isn't unusual in starting a war to improve his polling; he's unusual in sucking at it.

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What an event!

roman emperor goes to doctor. says he's depressed. says life seems harsh and cruel. says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. doctor says, 'treatment is simple. great orator marcus junius brutus is at senate tonight. go and see him. that should pick

Forever my favorite Ides take: “Julius Caesar, popular Roman leader and author, dies at the age of 55 surrounded by friends.”

gonna fucken flip a table right fucken now someone buy this and save it! disney, netflix, whoever, I'll take anything right now

I actually looked this up recently! so the roman calendar supposedly used to have ten 30- or 31-day day months - march, april, may, june, quintilis, sextilis, september, october, november and december - followed by a 55- or 75-day intercalary (period without named months) for winter

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

In a study in 2001 (Pickrell and Loftus, University of Washington), about one third of subjects shown a faked print advert for Disneyland featuring a child shaking hands with an actor dressed as Bugs Bunny (a Warner Bros. character) subsequently remembered meeting the character at the park.

[every march 15th right now] all classicists: *check the news headlines, sigh heavily*

Always delightful to see Your book in your local store :-) @waterstones.bsky.social

saw an advert for a film festival of literary adaptations which included a clip from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that's sent me into a logical spiral so, was 2001 an adaptation?

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QP with a GIF that pops up when you type your name

we found him dead, sprawled across the kitchen table, pills in hand, a note next to him saying "two pints and a large pot of greek yoghurt tomorrow, please"

no shade on anyone reading this but he's the best journalist currently working on anything anywhere

Let's kill "comics are a gateway to reading" dead please?