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Fiction/quest/short story writer, prolific shitposter. My stories (Google Drive:) s*bst*ck: @aerogreekactual

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@RoombaChan @Tiny_Dic @trumblonie at this point the only way to surprise anyone is to actually deliver

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@IAPonomarenko Are those ERAMs putting in work yet?

[Habitual Linecrosser @HLC_actual]

Did you know you can get a bag of foam clown noses in Amazon for like 20$. It’s also not illegal to tape them to the door of a house for sale with a note that says “I saw your listing price and figured you lost this”

Do with this what you please.

[Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs]

Both Tehran and Moscow have the will and ability to launch cyberattacks against these dated refrigeration systems.

[Norami Yuuki @NoramiYuuki]

ya'll it finally happened. after multiple failed attempts

someone finally accepted my commission for a triangle

I couldn't have been happier with the results. 10/10

[Solzhenixon @sardonic_greek]

There’s no hope. Just go back to bed

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@BradRTorgersen Missing the joke here

[planefag @planefag]

And I thought I was retarded.

[Bells𓍯 @prettygirl3749]

My thing is why would you make a move if u dont want a relationship. Why would u, mid cuddle, while ur caressing my hair, tell me that u struggle with commitment. And then when i say well we can just be friends u insist on being friends who hold hands and cuddle. And then

[Vox Day @Vox_Day]

CORRECTION: Rabid Puppies was never "an explicitly self-avowed Misogynistic movement".

I know because I created it and led it. Our entire purpose was to encourage Worldcon to burn the whole thing down themselves and publicly destroy their own credibility. Which they did.

[emily @north0fnorth]

one thing i think is super unique and interesting about shipping on the great lakes is how the lack of corrosive saltwater means lakers can have extremely long lifespans relative to their oceangoing counterparts. seeing 80+ year old ships still in service is not uncommon!

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@Appetittiez @euroangel0 So she was perfect then

[Upstate Federalist @upstatefederlst]

These are always very funny posts because they're always like "work in this backbreaking somewhat dangerous job for less than you make at Target."

[Brain Leakage @BrainLeakage03]

A good friend had her dog put down today. I went to her house to dig the grave.

Before they took him to the vet, the little guy did something he’s never done. He walked over to me, put his head against my leg, and just sat there for a while.

Like he was saying thanks…

Dogs, man. We don’t deserve them.

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

TL;DR warning. One of the most fascinating things about the past ten years has been watching different people who weren't part of Sad Puppies speak authoritatively on Sad Puppies.

I have my own thoughts, of course.

Understand that everything I am about to say, I say as a guy with several authorial accolades under his belt, including the DragonCon Dragon for Best SF novel in 2019, and three readers' choice awards from Analog magazine in 2010, 2012, and 2014. I was also the rare triple-nominee for Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards in 2012.

So . . . did Sad Puppies fail?

For my part I wanted the Hugos to have broad cultural relevance within literary SF again. Versus continuing their long slide into activism-induced irrelevance. In this regard Sad Puppies 3 failed spectacularly. The net dividend of 2015 was the power brokers of Worldcon declaring, "We're gonna Feminist and Queer the Hugos even HARDER!" and that's precisely how it went.

The Hugos are now ignored by the great majority of spec fic and fantasy readers because they know beyond a shadow of a doubt the award has been made into an explicitly political activist totem.

As of 2026 only a fraction of spec fic and fantasy readers even know who the Hugo winners are year to year, and most who remember the Hugos think of the Hugos as they think of almost all entertainment awards: that legacy thing we used to care about but we've stopped caring about because people on stages giving each other trophies doesn't matter to the consumer like it did a few decades ago.

It was already becoming true by 2010. Much moreso, now. Grammys, Emmys, Oscars, yadda. Just don't have the cultural heft of the 1970s-1990s. And the same for both the Hugo and Nebula. Which are not signposts of quality (on a book cover) like they once were. In fact, for many readers they are a, "Stay away, this is a Modern Audience (said in Drinker voice) book!"

And that's precisely what I wanted reversed. Because I remember when the words HUGO WINNER and NEBULA WINNER on a dust jacket actually described what was between the covers. Like with Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead.

But the opposite occurred. Because the Nielsen-Haydens and George R. R. Martin and many other people with media reach and influence decreed that no dirty normal Hugo voters would have a say in their sainted backroom politicized log-rolling process. The Hugos would be perma-Woke.

And so they are. And that's a damned shame, because most readers don't give the Hugos any regard anymore—as they don't give most lit awards any regard.

And if you doubt it ask yourself if Ann Leckie is bigger than Heinlein? Who has been dead for decades. But he outsells Leckie 20 to 1 on Grandpa Bob's slow days.

They hate Heinlein for that. They want him dustbinned.

They tried their best to make Leckie into a thing. Heaped every award possible on her between 2014 and 2016. And all that resulted were massive stacks of deluxe boxed merchandise at B&N locations. With the words HAS WON EVERY SCIENCE FICTION AWARD KNOWN TO MAN plastered across the slipcases and the special selection signage. But the merchandise didn't move.

I repeat: the merchandise didn't move.

They tried the same thing from '16-'18 with Nora Jemisin, and it was a similar result: triple-Hugo Best Novels that sat on shelves. And kept sitting.

Neither Leckie nor Jemisin are bigger than Heinlein. Both remain midlist activist authors who could not be catapulted over the cultural relevance wall by any means, because that's not how a literary work (nor author) achieves long-standing relevance in both geek culture and the wider English-speaking culture as a whole.

You know who does have relevance?

J.K. Rowling. Or Orson Scott Card. Or any dozen other caps-n Names nobody needs to spotlight trophies about. Because their books gained and kept vast audiences all on their own power. Much like Heinlein's.

The dog of culture cannot be wagged.

You can take over institutions believing you will take over culture, but it doesn't really work like that. The Soviet system dominated the Eastern Bloc for most of a century. It literally owned every institution. But all it did was teach generations of Iron Curtain dwellers to subsist on black humor about how their supposed Socialist paradise was in fact a corrupt hell of bureaucrats, toadies, secret police, and fear.

I believe we're entering something like that, where American pop culture is concerned. The Woke own the big gaming companies, along with gaming media. But who's buying and playing the games?

Similarly, the Woke own the big movie studios and all of the media media, but ticket sales have cratered on huge blockbuster projects over and over, and keep cratering.

More broadly, the Woke own the Ivy League, but all this does is make people question if the Ivy League still matters anymore? Or, does a PhD even matter if the person putting those letters next to their name is a raving loon stuffed with terrible ideas and terrible politics, like a rotten Christmas turkey?

You can corrupt an organization, but you cannot corrupt people if they don't want to be corrupted.

In this regard Sad Puppies was a spectacular success. Because it was the loud, emphatic shout of the normie SF/F reader who used to esteem the Hugo and refused to let the Hugo go quietly into the night. People who could not be convinced that mediocre or even terrible storytelling with Woke wrappings and trappings was in fact brilliant and timeless.

Again, the dog of culture cannot be wagged.

[查百万 @chakmillion]

1957年8月，美军在内华达荒漠搞代号帕斯卡B的地下核武测试，在一口150米深的竖井底部塞进核弹头，打算在密闭空间里验证微量裂变反应。

为了封住放射性烟尘，工程队在井口盖上一块重达900公斤、厚10厘米的实心碳钢圆盖，还用电焊把它和钢制井壁焊成一体。

谁知理论物理学家计算当量时少算了几千倍的威力。核弹在井底起爆，超高温高压气体来不及向岩石扩散，整根一百多米深的钢管瞬间变成巨型超高速炮管；

现场超级摄像机每秒能拍上千张胶片，可那块近一吨重的铁井盖在记录里只闪过一帧模糊残影，就呼啸着消失在荒漠高空，此后再也没人找到残骸。

核物理学家布朗利拿公式一算，钢盖冲出井口时初始速度高达每秒66公里，是地球逃逸速度的足足六倍。许多军迷甚至坚信，它才是人类送进太空的第一件人造航天器，比苏联首颗人造卫星还早一个多月。

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[Innatraea @Kurokojin]

Support Max the Cat, he's been wrongly accused and needs your help.

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Iranians are literally tr00ning out while you're metaphorically tr00ning out. They didn't win the war by any measure.

(Also, selling LIVERS? You literally cannot live without a liver. What in the name of...)

[kenny @kennyistyping]

this guy wins again

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Woke never went away. The faithful did not lose faith. They just briefly became a bit more circumspect. Now that the blue tsunami has revived their self conception as the vanguard of the arc of historical progress, they're emerging from dormancy for another season of terror.

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There's a metaphor here

[George Roush @GeorgeRoush]

For the last 4 hours, they've been trying to sink the SS United States by filling it with water.

It's been seemingly ineffective. The ship was supposed to sink hours ago.

On the left is when they began flooding, and on the right is 5 minutes ago, 4:35pm local time.

At this rate, it won't sink until sometime tomorrow.