Ilya Oleg Popov
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Ilya Oleg Popov
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The perfect human squirrel.
"I wouldn't mind being a cockroach."

#QuotesFromDnD
February 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
"The deer is twerking?!"

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February 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
"I assure you, her massive kaboose is doing god's work!"

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February 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"Don't ram into the building! That's not very nice!"

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February 3, 2026 at 9:34 AM
"Shit's fucky. Shit's really fucky."

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January 27, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Oof.

We lost a local legend, and one of the founding members of one of my favorite bands (The Whitlams) 30 years ago today.

www.instagram.com/reel/DT6tuEU...
thewhitlams.official on Instagram: "Stevie left on a Friday 30 years ago today. What a talent. It's pleasure to still sing his songs - and I'm glad I found a copy of h…"
Stevie left on a Friday 30 years ago today. What a talent. It's pleasure to still sing his songs - and I'm glad I found a copy of his laugh, Tim
www.instagram.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Hot damn. A three and a half hour long look into what happened with Anthem.

Buckle up kids, this is a long one!
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Windows 11 PowerShell script to remove all AI features from Windows: https://github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Life comes at you fast.
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
futurism.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Well, we finally have a title for Stephenson's next book - D: Heavy Water

harpercollins.co.uk/products/d-h...
D: Heavy Water (Bomb Light, Book 2)
The second instalment in the monumental BOMB LIGHT series – a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons...
harpercollins.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Everyone, we did it, we started a war!

#QuotesFromDnD
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Happy Betwixtmas! ❄️

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December 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Having grown up on Bethesda-era Fallout, I was unprepared for just how much Interplay-era Fallout would kick my ass. Repeatedly.
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Words to live by: "You must gather your party before venturing forth."
December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2.
www.sfwa.org/complete-neb...
This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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It's been my personal anecdotal experience that people who have gone no contact with a parent usually have done so for good reason, and that re-establishing contact on the parent's terms would do both parties more harm than good.

defector.com/who-can-imag...
Who Can Imagine Why Anyone Would Want To Cut This Lovely Mom Out Of Her Life? | Defector
Laura Wellington is estranged from one of her adult daughters. The Connecticut 59-year-old is somewhat famous for this, in fact, or anyway famous for her response to it. Across Tiktok and Instagram, u...
defector.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Well this explains why I've been seeing less paperback novels in the last few years.
All my recent books went from hardcover to trade paperback and almost all of my backlist in mass market has now migrated to trade. The role of mass market paperbacks is now handled almost entirely by ebooks. I'm okay with this but it is the end of an era.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"Bring me the head of Santa!"

#QuotesFromDnD
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"How are we dying today?"
"Pleasantly?"
"Pleasantly my ass!"

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December 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"Let's do something we haven't done in a while!"
"Concede! Concede!"

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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"You met a weretiger named....Le Tigre?!"

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December 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"That was a beautiful sentence that you almost made there."

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December 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"Your cockiness dooms your peoples!"
"My explosives doom you!"

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December 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"You sacrificed your whole people for some....angry silverwear?!"

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December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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‘It’s poetry we’re doing,’ he whispers. ‘It wouldn’t mean a thing if it were easy.’

— Ferdia Lennon *Glorious Exploits*
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM