The way I normally put it is: picture a soldier standing watch at Waterloo, musket in hand. He knows Emperor Napoleon's forces are on the way, and that tomorrow Europe makes its last stand.

That guy? That guy's lived with the figurative "literally" for FIFTY YEARS already.

Get this man on Bluesky, the world needs him.

Boy, that post would sure be embarrassing if it turned out pixelatedboat was one of those people who occasionally say inaccurate, insincere, or untrue things online for the purposes of comedy jokes.

The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours

These silent women are bestowing talking crowns and dunce caps on their spouses and nobody’s talking about it. At. All.

Adam, you are better than the Atlantic and I hope someday you abandon that garbage scow for a place that deserves you.

The great thing about Apple is that they somehow have bespoke artisanal unique bugs for every single user. I’ve never had a problem with migration, but Siri can’t tell the difference between “two” and “three” 25% of the time.

A British sports John Oliver would be a sport John Oliver.

In the town I grew up in, there were ashtrays in every *bank and credit union* for while you’re stuck in the queue.

I thought it was vote blue no matter who, now the moment people try to put it into practice suddenly there’s a problem.

I’m torn, because I genuinely believe you should reward people for abandoning awful beliefs, but on the other hand anyone who couldn’t predict this does not deserve to be called “science fiction” anything.

It’s good to know I no longer need to consider the phrase “Nebula Award winner” a mark of quality. Does SFWA have any suggestions on a different award that will still be meaningful?

You’ll have your Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century and you’ll like it. Watson is a robot. You like robots.

It goes like this, Watson does riffs
Then skeets them all, a poster’s gift
And Bluesky users heart them and repost them

Not-that-hot take:

People really can't handle learning they're doing something wrong these days. It's difficult to present corrective information in this environment where everyone views themselves as attacked rather than mistaken.

It is already the year of Linux on the desktop, but only if you include the people who are using Linux solely as the kernel underpinning a Windows emulator.

Again, sadly: now do the part where we talk about whether the Conservatives picked up seats and increased their popular vote share.

*Many* people in this country want Trump lite. Even the voters in Carleton were 45% Con! That’s a winning number in a normal year; Elizabeth May got 38%.

And yet he’s not *wrong* wrong, sadly. If the Conservative had a 33% vote better-distributed than a Liberal 32% vote, they’d win. But their votes are too concentrated and they lose.

Because that’s *exactly what happened* in 2021: Con 33.7%, Lib 32.6% popular vote. They *won* the irrelevant number.