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So the punchline emotional decision in ACoTaR hinges on uhhh a trolley problem more or less and it reminded me of this Peter Watts (of Blindsight fame) short story I read recently about being a cyborg
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/coll...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/coll...
Collateral - Lightspeed Magazine
They got Becker out in eight minutes flat, left the bodies on the sand for whatever scavengers the Sixth Extinction hadn’t yet managed to kill off. Munsin hauled her into the Sikorsky and tried to yan...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
So the punchline emotional decision in ACoTaR hinges on uhhh a trolley problem more or less and it reminded me of this Peter Watts (of Blindsight fame) short story I read recently about being a cyborg
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/coll...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/coll...
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enough stories portraying missingno as an eldritch horror. why not eldritch love.
#art #pokemon #missingno
#art #pokemon #missingno
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
enough stories portraying missingno as an eldritch horror. why not eldritch love.
#art #pokemon #missingno
#art #pokemon #missingno
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To understand AI is to realize that the Pleasure Dome is far, far more horrifying than the Torment Nexus.
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
To understand AI is to realize that the Pleasure Dome is far, far more horrifying than the Torment Nexus.
In personal news, eight days into the Mystery Illness of getting neither better nor worse but rolling 2d6 for my symptoms each day, I'm getting prescribed antibiotics yay!
which is probably going to push back my blood donation AGAIN
I JUST WANNA SPILL THAT GOOD RED STUFF >:(
which is probably going to push back my blood donation AGAIN
I JUST WANNA SPILL THAT GOOD RED STUFF >:(
December 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In personal news, eight days into the Mystery Illness of getting neither better nor worse but rolling 2d6 for my symptoms each day, I'm getting prescribed antibiotics yay!
which is probably going to push back my blood donation AGAIN
I JUST WANNA SPILL THAT GOOD RED STUFF >:(
which is probably going to push back my blood donation AGAIN
I JUST WANNA SPILL THAT GOOD RED STUFF >:(
I don't know why the kindle app shares what other people highlight but I guess somebody eventually is going to see that I made one highlight in ACoTaR and it wasn't one of the sexy bits or the instagram quotable bits but just a completely banal five-word tuple in the middle of a sentence.
December 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I don't know why the kindle app shares what other people highlight but I guess somebody eventually is going to see that I made one highlight in ACoTaR and it wasn't one of the sexy bits or the instagram quotable bits but just a completely banal five-word tuple in the middle of a sentence.
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So legit I was gonna make a comment that ferengi sounds like the farsi word for foreign (farangi) and decided to check and lo and behold
![Screenshot of wikipedia article about the Ferengi in Star Trek. It says the following:
"The name Ferengi was coined based on the originally Persian Farangi, a term used in various languages throughout Asia and Ethiopia meaning "foreigners" or "Europeans", itself descending from the word farang which referred specifically to Franks and gradually expanded in meaning.[1] The variant "firangi" has entered South Asian English through Hindi."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ezzjzodfjlhs34kbfxhr3iqa/bafkreidpwjk3cbuyxb2vcnncn3pwlcqjfcmrqi7mesmgtetlpgu7skk4fy@jpeg)
December 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So legit I was gonna make a comment that ferengi sounds like the farsi word for foreign (farangi) and decided to check and lo and behold
There's basically no way to use the word "female" in fiction that I won't immediately hotswap a Ferengi into whoever is delivering that line. Sorry folks!
December 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There's basically no way to use the word "female" in fiction that I won't immediately hotswap a Ferengi into whoever is delivering that line. Sorry folks!
So the fairies have just provided a cup of hot chocolate, something Feyre is familiar enough with as a basically illiterate peasant to name, and now I'm stuck on if and how long ago the Columbian Exchange happened in this grim fairy setting because I'm a horrible old man
December 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So the fairies have just provided a cup of hot chocolate, something Feyre is familiar enough with as a basically illiterate peasant to name, and now I'm stuck on if and how long ago the Columbian Exchange happened in this grim fairy setting because I'm a horrible old man
"A large wolf with a gray coat" oh right okay cool that clarifies things no doubt if Feyre had paused and thought for a moment she'd have realized that something was off about a WOLF THAT WAS GRAY
A GRAY WOLF, AS IT WERE
A GRAY WOLF, AS IT WERE
December 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"A large wolf with a gray coat" oh right okay cool that clarifies things no doubt if Feyre had paused and thought for a moment she'd have realized that something was off about a WOLF THAT WAS GRAY
A GRAY WOLF, AS IT WERE
A GRAY WOLF, AS IT WERE
okay here is my first thought on A Court of Thorns and Roses; if you're going to enforce the magical death penalty on somebody for killing a fairy there has to be some kind of hunting colors rules or something. "Murking a dude disguised as, and indistinguishable from, a monstrous wolf" is FAIR PLAY
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
okay here is my first thought on A Court of Thorns and Roses; if you're going to enforce the magical death penalty on somebody for killing a fairy there has to be some kind of hunting colors rules or something. "Murking a dude disguised as, and indistinguishable from, a monstrous wolf" is FAIR PLAY
Reading a young adult fantasy and, so, the princess has been betrayed by her lady-in-waiting and is hiding as a peasant, but the problem is that her peasant life appears to rip shit and the first few chapters were about how she hated being a princess, so, I'm fuzzy on the need for conflict.
December 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Reading a young adult fantasy and, so, the princess has been betrayed by her lady-in-waiting and is hiding as a peasant, but the problem is that her peasant life appears to rip shit and the first few chapters were about how she hated being a princess, so, I'm fuzzy on the need for conflict.
impressed by the chutzpah of the decorated van that carried the twin legends TRUMP 2028 and SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
impressed by the chutzpah of the decorated van that carried the twin legends TRUMP 2028 and SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, rolled towards thee, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last, he grappled with thee; from hell's heart he stabbed at thee; for hate's sake, he spat his last breath at thee.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, said he would buy the flowers himself.
And Tiny Tim, who did not die, had the time of his life, no, he never felt like this before, yes I swear, it's the truth, and he owes it all to Scrooge
December 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, rolled towards thee, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last, he grappled with thee; from hell's heart he stabbed at thee; for hate's sake, he spat his last breath at thee.
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Rewatched the first episode of the Pokémon anime and it's kinda funny how there's this genuine intensity to it that you don't really see afterwards. Like Ash and Pikachu go out into the wild and immediately get their shit kicked in by a bunch of birds.
December 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Rewatched the first episode of the Pokémon anime and it's kinda funny how there's this genuine intensity to it that you don't really see afterwards. Like Ash and Pikachu go out into the wild and immediately get their shit kicked in by a bunch of birds.
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CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
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gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
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Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.
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Sometimes my brain throws out ideas for jokes that I can't find a use for in my work, so I post them here on my socials to give you all a small insight into the creative process. On that note:
Q. What kind of ants have two legs?
A. P-ants
Q. What kind of ants have two legs?
A. P-ants
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Sometimes my brain throws out ideas for jokes that I can't find a use for in my work, so I post them here on my socials to give you all a small insight into the creative process. On that note:
Q. What kind of ants have two legs?
A. P-ants
Q. What kind of ants have two legs?
A. P-ants
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TIL that wage garnishing for debt service cannot extract so much that you have a weekly income smaller than thirty hours at federal minimum wage, which suggests minimum wage is (intended to be) about 30% above `minimum survivable income`
December 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
TIL that wage garnishing for debt service cannot extract so much that you have a weekly income smaller than thirty hours at federal minimum wage, which suggests minimum wage is (intended to be) about 30% above `minimum survivable income`
screaming crying throwing up /usr is the abbreviation of "Unix System Resources" it is not a save-one-character form of the word "user" the way that e.g. mv is the save-character form of "move" and not the acronym for "mangle versioning"
December 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
screaming crying throwing up /usr is the abbreviation of "Unix System Resources" it is not a save-one-character form of the word "user" the way that e.g. mv is the save-character form of "move" and not the acronym for "mangle versioning"
When you got pancake dust and a griddle you can make some breakfast pancakes in a dang old jiffy and your partner will think you are the Hero of the Beach that's my "life hack", or shall I say, "wife hack"???
December 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
When you got pancake dust and a griddle you can make some breakfast pancakes in a dang old jiffy and your partner will think you are the Hero of the Beach that's my "life hack", or shall I say, "wife hack"???
TIL Kasane Teto (the vocaloid)'s gender of record is "chimera"
December 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
TIL Kasane Teto (the vocaloid)'s gender of record is "chimera"
Boooo Red Cross says I shouldn't show up to donate blood on account of my sniffles what did I even wake up for today
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Boooo Red Cross says I shouldn't show up to donate blood on account of my sniffles what did I even wake up for today