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Larry Clapp is an undead 🦃
@theclapp.bsky.social
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Reader, coder, husband. Maker of Hucksh(ell). @readcodesing on Twitter.
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::chef's kiss::, no notes.
Naomi Kritzer, author of a Hugo winning short story about an AI that loves cats, replying to a Scalzi post about always being up for cat pictures.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Screenshot of creating a Bluesky List of "People I Have A Blood Feud With"
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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That's a lot of Larrys, man.
A spam email to 30 different "larry@..." addresses.
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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I figured I’d screen-shot this while I still could.
Screenshot of Google Maps in “satellite view” mode showing the US White House, with east wing still intact.
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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HTTP Error 512!
Wikipedia showing the nonstandard error code 512, "I'm Ignoring You", with a link to The Murderbot Diaries, and the description "I received your request but decided to ignore you."
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Thor and Mr Rogers on a roof, having a chat.
September 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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For the ignorant (such as moi)
"Sephiroth is a prominent antagonist in the Final Fantasy VII universe, known for his iconic status as a powerful and complex villain. He is a former SOLDIER, a prototype, and the strongest of his kind, but his descent into madness and his desire to become a god make him a formidable foe for Cloud Strife and his allies" With the bit about "his descent into madness" highlighted.
August 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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. @scalzi.com's The Shattering Peace is humorous, is it?
Amazon lists The Shattering Peace as #2 in Humorous SF. (Also pictured: Annalee Newitz's Automatic Noodle (which does seem more appropriate) as #1).
August 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Congrats on being #1!
#1 Best Seller in Humorous Science Fiction at Amazon
August 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Hard to read anything like that without thinking of Young Frankenstein.
A vintage door knocker, showing a man's face, cast in bronze, gripping a large bronze door knocker in his teeth. The man seems angry and has a dramatic mustache.
August 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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They exist!

What’s weird is that when I took it in the ‘80s, they maxed out at 1600 then, too. So things have changed and then changed back, apparently.
July 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Great read!
When people to pressured Guidobaldo to divorce his barren wife, he shocked Europe with an announcement no one thought a prince would dare make: It’s not her, it’s me, I’m impotent, shut up, & if anyone wants to question my manhood over it, my armies are right here, so bring it.
June 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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What's the most controversial question in style or style journalism today, and what's your take on it?
Chewy donation receipt for $42.48
June 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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One of these came from Google Gemini, "Make a picture of a tiger cub". Answer in alt text.
Real tiger cub, from the Adelaide Zoo "AI" tiger cub from Google Gemini
May 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This still won't help people with screen readers, but for people on phones:
"THIS IS THE BODY" with at least thirty diacriticals on each letter, making it look *exceptionally* eldritch and weird. The diacriticals extend above and below the text line, above Ray's name, account name, and profile picture, and well below the "2 reposts 229 likes" line. This is how Terry Pratchett's Death might talk, or how "the voice" from Dune might sound, or how Cthulhu might've sounded, should He (It?) have deigned to speak to us.
May 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Turning this on is half the battle
The iPhone BlueSky Accessability settings panel with "require alt text before posting" checked.
May 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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People like to quote Psalm 109:8 for Trump (and other presidents), but *all* of Psalm 109 goes hard, man.
Palm 109:6-20, KJV 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. 20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Do authors ever read their own words and go "Damn that was good"?
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Icydk: you can do them on iPhone by long-pressing hyphen
iPhone keyboard with hyphen long pressed to show hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash (and dot)
February 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I'll bite: how do I dial

I(888) 85I-I3O4

capital-i, 888, 85, capital-i, capital-i, 3, capital-o, 4?

(Just kidding, I know it's a s[cp]am.)
From a Paypal scam email: However, if you did not send any money, please call immediately at-I(888) 85I-I3O4 to request a refund.
February 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM