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Arotrios

@Arotrios@kbin.social

For Amusement Purposes Only.

Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.

Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.

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抱歉 - 這可能是我的錯

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 4th Annual Collection - 1991 - featuring the work of Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, John Crowley, Karl Capek and Ian Fraizer (pdfhost.io)

Opening Statement of Mr. Harold Schoff, attorney for Mr. Coyote: My client, Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona and contiguous states, does hereby bring suit for damages against the Acme Company, manufacturer and retail distributor of assorted merchandise, incorporated in Delaware and doing business in every state,...

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@Virginicus - the Freedom Caucus certainly will. However, the realpolitik of the situation is that any Speaker will need Democratic support to get elected at this point.

There are three possible outcomes here:

  1. The Republicans are able to control their caucus and elect a new speaker entirely with GOP votes (highly unlikely, and if they do, a new leader will be just as vulnerable as McCarthy was until 2024)

  2. The Republicans are able to peel off enough Democratic votes to get a new speaker in by advancing a moderate and granting concessions (possible, but this effort would likely lose as many GOP votes as it would gain Dem ones unless they convince Jeffries to rally his caucus in support of a moderate)

  3. The Democrats are able to peel off enough GOP votes to elect Jeffries (slightly less likely than 2, above) - this is the worst possible scenario for the GOP

Jeffries has them over a barrel as long as he maintains caucus discipline. Thus far he's doing a far better job at it than the GOP, plus he's still got Pelosi's connections in his back pocket (and she's definitely not about concessions to the GOP at this point). This opinion piece is both an olive branch and a subtle threat to those on the GOP side who can still do basic math - it's "work with us, or watch us take the Speakership before 2024".

The Year's Best Science Fiction - Fourth Annual Collection - 1988 - featuring Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Bruce Sterling, and William Gibson (www.mediafire.com)

It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterminate gray. But then there are days when it’s like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sunlit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God’s own movie. It was like that the day her...

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Hilarious that the screed they've typed is only protected under the First Amendment of the country they wish didn't exist. That last bit would get them jailed in Russia, and if they took a similar stance against the Chinese leadership, they'd be vacationing in a re-education camp before Thanksgiving.

[News & Opinion] "Already an embarrassment": Legal experts shred Judge Aileen Cannon for granting Trump "delay" (www.salon.com)

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case on Friday temporarily paused a series of significant pre-trial deadlines pertaining to prosecutors' sharing of sensitive materials that the former president is entitled to while building his defense, The Messenger reports....

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Oh boy. Just stopped by to warn you that linking to the bad place is likely not to be too popular around here. That being said, your profile there does have some cool links and you seem like a chill dude, so I wanted to give you a heads up before the downvotes started. You'd probably be better served by posting this link in your profile description if you're really looking to drive cross-traffic.

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Mom: "You're my changeling child."

Me as a kid: "Cool! Maybe I'm magic!"

Me as an adult after learning what people usually do with changelings: "Wtf Mom???"

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Find your representative by zip code here

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"Fuck it" is the most powerful and subsequently destructive phrase in the English language, allowing one to ignore consequence in favor of pure action, with the tactic acceptance that you've likely released forces far beyond your control.

For a phrase with so much destructive potential, it's interesting to note that the root of the phrase goes back to sex, the act of creation, and even possibly love. Sex is the effort to produce a child, a force which will, whether you like it or not, grow beyond your control.

"Kill it" doesn't have the oomph. Why not, when it essentially speaks to the same destructive dynamic and disregard of consequence?

Because "kill it" invokes death, which is to put to rest. "Fuck it" invokes life, which is to spark chaos.

Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect ‘Democracy’ (nymag.com)

Most Americans who oppose Donald Trump agree the threat to democracy is the major issue of the 2024 election. But what, precisely, constitutes the threat? To most Democrats, the danger is that the election will install into power a president who admires autocratic regimes and wishes to replicate their methods by encouraging...

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Came here to say the same. Lieberman is a snake, and has been using his position as the 2000 VP Dem nominee to undermine progressive policy for more than two decades. I have no doubt he's been bought and paid for by the GOP, I'm guessing right around the time he started rooting for the Iraq war (he was the biggest supporter on the Dem side at the time).

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If I were a marketing manager interested in maintaining my brand's image, I'd pay to keep my ads off of TwitX.

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction - Anne Charters - 2nd Edition - Compact Version (866 pages) (pdfhost.io)

During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction....

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TIL Mozilla has a mastodon server. Have an upvote.

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Stop. My face hurts from all the palming.

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..or that you're a crow, or what lies beneath the ruins of old Newcastle, for that matter...

But you gotta admit, they're always glad you came. Especially the NSFW accounts.

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Very nice, congratulations - you've gotten the closest thus far. I won't say more except to suggest that there is a deeper context woven in the Greek....

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Hmm... It depends on who's asking, how cute they are, and most importantly, their opinion of Eblanian political movements...

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I watch the Watchmen.

See, by posting this, I'm on the watchlist too. So the watchlist is watching the watchmen watching the watchlist watching the watchmen ad infinitum. If you're asking "watch the fuck?", to explain without using the word watch, I've engaged an infinite mobius surveillance loop.

Side note, by making it to the bottom of this comment, you've all done Dr. Seuss proud.

inkican, to scifi

Currently in negotiations with a well-known SF author to do an AMA here on /m/scifi. Any thoughts on what questions you'd like to ask David Brin?

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@inkican Damn - wish I had seen this sooner. I loved the Uplift War and the Postman - if you're still in contact, I be curious if he ever thought about combining the two types of novels.

My particular premise based on this idea (and inspired by both of Brin's works) - AI enhanced neurosurgical nanobots escape into wild species. Following their programming for human cybernetic enhancement, they integrate and enhance the language centers of each infected species' brain, equipping them with wifi to allow them to communicate with each other, and giving them access to the internet.

No one notices at first, but it all goes to hell once the rats learn how to code.

The basic plot is your standard apocalyptic polka, with bits of War with the Newts - the potential for bionic beavers to get busy in this scenario cannot be ignored. Our protagonist is tasked with traveling across America a century after the infection started, in landscape full of new intelligent species now just as technically adept as humans once were at the height of their civilization.

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@inkican Rockin' - I figure I'll never get around to writing out the idea, and certainly not well, so why not toss it back to the guy who inspired it.

Working title: Dr. Doomlittle

ba boom boom tish

And I'm outta here... thanks everyone, and try the fish!

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