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you have submitted your ass

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · 4d ago

@b Do not threaten me with a good time.

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@cstross@wandering.shop True about the price. But I ordered a copy nonetheless.

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@KaylaAllen@wandering.shop Thank you!

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@cstross@wandering.shop Look what arrived this week! Part of a good relaxed weekend breakfast. I’m only just up to the call-out to _Girl Genius_ at the comic shop. Very much enjoying it! Worth the $40

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Mar 07, 2026

@KaylaAllen@wandering.shop A most excellent addition to the Laundry, definitely. Still can't believe @cstross@wandering.shop is name-dropping Dr Phibes (as Royal Physician to Her Majesty, no less) and Dr Mabuse in the first few pages, though. Made me do a double-take... 😉

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Feb 28, 2026

A message for all of us. Enjoy your weekend, you marvelous freaks and weirdoes.

(Stolen from https://sh.itjust.works/post/56020360 )

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Feb 13, 2026

Technically, the truth.

(Stolen from: https://feddit.org/post/25765560 )

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 31, 2026

"OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave. Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined. That’s the electricity of roughly 20 million people." The AI bubble and the US economy https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/the-ai-bubble-and-the-us-economy/

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 28, 2026

@GayDeceiver@mstdn.social Hmmm... Legally speaking, I believe he has to return his gay card and burn all his Barbara Streisand CDs. Because that ain't right.

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 15, 2026

Asking the real question, right here. (From: https://europe.pub/post/8458298 )

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TIRED: AI Slop from MS Copilot WIRED: Nadella Bukkake

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I wrestle penguins and spiky fishes for a living. Very cranky old *nix geek with a beard. You know the type. (now, get off my lawn!). "I support transgender rights. Trans rights = human rights." # nobridge # nobot # noai

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 05, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Ouch. (I love it)

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Just catching up with this and good grief. So you can now use Copilot in Copilot? Why not rename the company Copilot too, so you can run Copilot by Copilot in Copilot?

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 05, 2026

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social Slopilot

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@mwl@io.mwl.io TBF, this has clearly been the case since Putin tried to have Zelenskyy murdered repeatedly in February 2022, and before then, think Manuel Noriega, or Israel vs. Yasser Arafat. The tra

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@cstross@wandering.shop @mwl@io.mwl.io I wonder if an all-out assassination war would be better than actual wars. It'd be mostly oligarchs killing other oligarchs. When 90% of them are gone maybe we c

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@Phosphenes@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io They won't give two hoots about collateral damage (meaning, the rest of us). Once enough is on the line you could expect assassination by cruise missile to b

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop What was it that Tito said to Stalin again? Something something need to be lucky only once... @Phosphenes@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Jan 03, 2026

I don't want to appear negative or anything, but if I was the Prime Minister of Canada or Denmark, I would start worrying right now. For... Reasons. You know.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec 10 Is it ethical to base characters on real people? Little-known fact: if you base a character on two real people—taking some traits from each—they rapidly become almost impossi

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Dec 10, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop TIL I learned about the "small penis rule" and I had a good laugh. This is the kind of quality information I go to Mastodon for - thank you, sir!

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FUCK OFF MUSE, I AM ON VACATION IN GERMANY DRINKING THE BEER I DO NOT NEED YET ANOTHER COMPLETE REWRITE OF GHOST ENGINEER, THIS TIME AS A CAPER COMEDY MODELLED ON INDIANA JONES VS. IT'S A MAD MAD MAD

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Dec 05, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Drink the beer and take notes, I say. Enjoy your vacation!

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I see they're also trolling the (patriarchal, christianist, macho) Russians now ... https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115564629453296108

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Nov 17, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop You have to admire the trolling power of the Ukrainians.

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