And so many important stories come from paying someone to attend every boring city council meeting, every zoning subcommittee meeting, every public works oversight board meeting for years so they catch when something is actually happening.

I followed you from Twitter, but I liked your commentary then read the books.

I feel like Patreon / Discord have filled this niche nowadays, and make it so you don’t have to maintain all the infrastructure

Extremely niche AU, 100,000 words

lol you just blew my mind and I had to go look. My first Kindle book purchase was in Feb 2011.

Is this maybe a sign of how The Matrix got co-opted?

Amos always felt to me like a refugee from a different, broader, more heightened dystopian space show. But Dutch could kick his ass no question

I’m a lucky girl!

Dragons!?!? 👀🐉

Hard agree.

Have you tried Altered Carbon? Dystopian Sci-fi that’s right on the edge of what I’d recommend to you - it’s a little dudebro and a little streamer-edgy, but it does fun things with transferring consciousness and does have a couple cool female characters.

1. How we got there in the conversation REALLY matters for something like that. Out of nowhere, it’s pretty threatening. However, if we are talking about the future and we talk like that, it’s pretty comforting.
2. Not diagnosed neurodivergent but most people around me are.

We have an Eufy, so ours is Corporal D’Eaufy (pronounced doofy) whenever he manages to fall down the stairs.

There would probably be 18 different validation scripts on Git in 5 different programming languages, 3 of them dead.