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Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.

Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected]

Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Like the power element of it is inextricable from any of the rest of it, it’s all part and parcel of the same thing

The natural hierarchy foundation of the logic behind pedocon theory is as much about class as it is about gender and race
January 31, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Good lord imagine being in a photo with the world’s most notorious dead pedophile and being the creepiest looking one.
January 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts”

And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world

But you know what
January 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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January 31, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Artificial Intelligence[*]
2. Pharmacognosy
3. Microbiology
4. Software Engineering
5. Human physiology

[*] State of the art in 1990, deep in the AI Winter
January 31, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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GOES THE WEASELS
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January 31, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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If you are close friends with a notorious trafficker of young victims of abuse and joke that he 'likes them on the young side', it at the very least calls your judgement into question. If you go on to joke about sharing a wonderful secret, it at the very least implies complicity.
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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ah, awesome. very normal stuff.
January 31, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Brexit is a utopian revolutionary project, and like all URPs it can never be achieved so the people can only ever fail it. Juche Britannia! Consign Earth to the Dustbin of History! The People Struggle for Brexit! &c.

Remember, revolutions are *hungry*.
Schrödinger's Brexit...
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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It does tell us all pretty clearly what they think real creativity is worth.
January 31, 2026 at 9:39 AM
If I was an entomologist I would be desperately searching uncharted jungles for a new species of bug to name "[Family name] melania". Ideally one that practices traumatic insemination *or* a variety of ichneumon wasp that lays its eggs in paralysed victims which the larvae then feast on.
January 31, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I am ridiculously over-qualified for this job and also I wouldn't cross the road to piss on Elon Musk if he was on fire, especially not for a pay cut like that (the sort of people they want to hire should be on a lot more than that).
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 31, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.
January 31, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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The only purpose this film serves is as a source of clips for the trump bunker documentary Dumbfall.
January 30, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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@cstross.bsky.social - slowly making my way through The Regicide Report. Got the *hugest* smile on my face when you confirmed my suspicion that you'd merged The Laundry Files and Hot Fuzz...
January 30, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I don't think the reviewer liked the movie …
January 30, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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“I was on a sex island and Donald Trump and Bill Clinton and Bill Gates were all there too” is unfortunately now extremely plausible
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Ranking's a tradition or an old charter'. Overall the combination of action and humour was so cleverly done, that I'm now really looking forward to going back and reading the first 9 volumes! 6/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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carpeted'. Whilst being a fan of "The Abominable Doctor Phibes" I've never seen the sequel, but I'd watch all of this parallel universe ones (the Indiana Jones and "Cabaret" jokes were brilliant). Loved the range of literary (and filmic) references, from '(To say nothing of the dog.) to Robert 5/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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limited to) Jehovah's wife Asherah, Professor Wetterhahn and Lovecraft's Iä, Iä. Expanded my vocabulary to encompass words like cella and scotoma. Smiled more times than I can count at thigs like a Sainsbury's Bordeaux tasting of 'dead grapes' and 'you could hear a pin drop. And this room's 4/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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figures, from the 'bunch of Old Etonians called Cambridge Analytica' and the sword bearing Penny Mordaunt, to calling members of the royal family 'Jug-Ears and the Nonce'. (Some of them are far too good to spoil, like the BBC royal correspondent!) Learnt about many things (including but not 3/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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style of the next few too dissimilar because they were pastiching different authors. This is a long winded way of saying that most of the backstory references were lost on me, but it didn't matter because the novel itself was so enjoyable. Enjoyed the irreverent descriptions of real-world 2/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Read @cstross.bsky.social' "The Regicide Report". That was a lot of fun! Really enjoyed The Tales of the New Management & the Halting State series, but until "A Conventional Boy" I'd previously struggled to get into the Laundry Files. Liked the first one, then initially found the style of the 1/6
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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I'm not sure how Microsoft's "we understand that people don't trust Windows 11" and "We're going to put even more AI into it" are reconcilable.
January 30, 2026 at 7:35 PM