Charlie Stross
cstross
Compulsory mourning for a stranger sucks.Especially when it’s performative Victorian-style royal mourning, and the past century has seen a huge cultural flip-flop so that death and mourning are as inadmissible/peripheralized
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So, the Magic Keyboard for my iPad Pro just arrived. First thought: this combo feels like my much-loved 12” Powerbook from 2006. Second thought: the OS hasn’t caught up, but
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OK, about to tweet EVERY NOVEL I'VE WRITTEN, one tweet per book? First batch, starting in 3 … 2 … 1 … /1 Singularity Sky: Ruritanian space empire tries to
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Good morning world. Am now trying to work out how to deal with the existence of COVID-19 in the Laundry Files, because this is *total* turd-in-the-punchbowl time for alternate-present fictional
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Reminder to those praising Bill Gates: you’re missing the point.IT SHOULD NOT TAKE UNILATERAL ACTION BY ONE MULTIBILLIONAIRE to take this step towards solving the problem.Government action is either absent
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