@cstross I think we're about one news cycle away from learning that the fucker had a volcano base with a shark pool.

@cstross Slopocolypse now

(or Spamageddon, if you prefer)

The Washington Post's masthead now reads “Democracy Gets Shivved in the Showers”.

@sundogplanets

The world's most heartbreaking six-word stories:

1906: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

2026: Orbital data centers for artificial intelligence.

@rogerb @cstross "Take back control! (and give it to a few of our rich mates on the other side of the Atlantic)”

@bruce Coming soon to a @cstross novel near you: “Undead cyborg Admiral Nelson commanding Her Majesty's warships Caledonia and Hibernia at the re-taking of Hong Kong and Kowloon: Chinese robot defenders sorely discomfited by brisk volley of grapeshot fired by stout-hearted tars of the Royal Navy.”

@cstross Ah yes, it's “The reason why Brexit didn't work is because it wasn't REAL Brexit." It's the right-wing version of the continually-moving-the-goalposts logic that has a certain class of tankie telling you that the reason the Soviet Union wasn't paradise on Earth is because it wasn't REAL Communism (that part at least is true, but …)

I assume the Real Brexiteers won't be happy until the British Empire is restored. Or not even then, because of course it won't be the REAL British Empire …

I seriously believe that the gray cat is smart enough to wolf down his treat immediately and then pretend that he lost it under the couch, so that we'll give him a second one.

Meanwhile the orange cat is too dumb to realize that supper has been served unless you actually pick him up and put his nose in the bowl.

The spectrum of feline intelligence is wide.

#cats

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