Floyd Elliot

Rapscallion; ne'er-do-well; semi-reliable narrator; award-lacking former HuffPo blogger.
Nazis blocked.
"Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy."-Cixin Liu

[Floyd Elliot @FloydElliot]

I want everyone to know about the launch of my new ride-sharing-with-root-vegetables app. It's called Tuber.

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@AoDespair Definitely 3. Not only would Satan be better company, but all the others report to him.

(Also, even with myself onboard, I'd be praying for that flight to crash.)

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@Grady_Booch Anyone who’s ever ridden the Red Line in Chicago knows the answer to that.

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@JohnCleese Careful! Those things grow into people!

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@Impolitics But with slavery! And syphilis.

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@sfmnemonic ChatGPT can't count lines--a sonnet has 14 lines, not 16, generally an octave and a sestet.

Also, the rhyme scheme is neither Petrarchan, Italian, nor Shakespearean.

Also, as any kind of poem, it sucks.

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@Richard_Kadrey Aren't all Burger King meals despair meals?

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@hooleil 20%, same as taxi drivers.

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@Grady_Booch Ooo! Found a picture.

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@Grady_Booch I (quite vaguely) remember building an analog computer kit from Edmund Scientific in the early '70s. I wonder if the AIM will have as many rheostats. (The rheostats were awesome!)

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@PSLiterary Reading John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night and most everyone is a Soviet spy, so...maybe?

I mean, as long as you can't identify them to MI6.

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@BuffyBlogs I am often involved with large software projects and am still on Twitter, so I certainly am.

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I got locked out of my account by one of the myriad idiotic things this ridiculous and shameful site has done recently, and considered leaving it that way, just never logging in again.

This thread made me glad I didn't do that. For now.

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THE OWNERS OF THE WORLD
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Here’s a little parable for your Sunday morning.

There once was a man who loved rock and roll music. Because he loved rock and roll music, he loved the guitar, one of rock's most prominent instruments.

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@doomedhuh I remember the day that happened to him.

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@Willseanjohn @atrupar That's when you snort some crushed-up Adderall, like a real American.

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@sskylark I do not regret nuking Luxembourg.

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@drhorrorphd I believe the correct answer to "Angel or Spike" is "Neither! Ever! Gah! What? Ew!"

And of course now and forever fuck Riley.

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@LouisPeitzman Stay rock-and-roll, sir.

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@markos Well, she wrote "Hell Is For Children" and maybe Ted is pro-child-abuse?

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@Nnedi I'm trying to decide whether "I'm sorry for your loss" or "Thank you for your service" is more appropriate on this occasion.

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@ask_aubry I have never understood the "Haha, they blocked me, I win!" bullshit.

A) Someone saying, "Your thoughts are so worthless that never hearing them again is no loss" is not a win.

B) They blocked you, so they're not seeing your little celebration chicken dance.