Charlie Stross

Hah! It is here…! @cstross.bsky.social

not untill the paperback drops in the UK, in August!

do regicide report before new management, would be my choice?

I hate to say it, but that movie was made up (based on a book by an American who, going by the book, had never visited Scotland or done any research).

Oh, this is the warm, south-east of Scotland! If you want cold, wet, and windy the highlands and islands are your go-to, they have *real* weather there!

WHEN ACME DID A LEVERAGED BUY-OUT OF IKEA USING IKEA AS COLATERAL THEN DROPPED ALL IKEA'S EXISTING PRODUCTS IN ORDER TO SELL MORE ACME STUFF

amirite?

Well, I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night, but absolutely devoured the Regicide Report from @cstross.bsky.social

A wonderful conclusion to my favorite government science fiction and one I'll keep revisiting.

Yer da caws the cunt *Sir* Keir Starmer!

Yer da wanks tae deepfakes ae Nigel Farage!

if you are able to stop shopping at amazon, today's a good day to do it

buy your books your favorite local indie bookstore or from bookshop.org or seriously use your library! all are excellent alternatives to amzn. (Do you know how easy it is to request your library to carry a book??)

How you know AI didn't steal @cstross.bsky.social's Laundry Files novels:

The thing I just took a renewal on is now on its third TV option since 2008. Admittedly it's an ongoing series, but it's not anything I expected when I sold the first book!

Our candidate for the Gorton & Denton by-election is @GoodwinMJ. Matt is coming home to Manchester and will fight for every vote. Let's give him our support

Goodwin was born in St Albans in Hertfordshire.

Farage needs a geography lesson.

Also, forgot to say: congratulations!

It's the author equivalent of being *paid* to take a lottery ticket: it'll never happen, but the money along the way is nice all the same!

(I just got an option on my main series extended for six months. Free money for stuff I wrote over a 25 year period ...)

You do not need to mansplain networking to me.

Outside The American embassy in Copenhagen. 1 flag for each Danish soldier who died along side American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Flags have been removed by the embassy, on danish soil, danish property.
Disgusting and shameful.

No, thanks. How about spending the dosh on some free health screening to catch various conditions early, or going back to teaching creative arts and music in schools, or even financial savviness to kids. Anything but forcing more AI down our gobs.

… Or it might just be I haven't heard of it because I don't use audiobooks!

I was rereading This Is How You Lose The Time War as well as Holy Fire and I just realized that today is the book birthday for @cstross.bsky.social's The Regicide Report. Now to find my tablet...

Last book I read: @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence. Go, Archie! 🐕‍🦺

Similarly, I believe in the personal right to keep and arm bears. Preferably polar bears. I hear they're good at dealing with ICE. 🐻‍❄️🔫

A white-bellied tortoiseshell cat rearing up from a black Eames recliner to slap at an extended human hand that is still some distance away

Memo to self: do not get into a slapfight with Menhit, she will get excited and the claws will come out:

Nonsense, the alternative is NOT the agent being dead, it's the agent you're about to be connected to being live and carrying 415 volts of three-phase AC that should strike fear into your heart!

When companies say "connecting you with a live agent" means that I could also connect with a dead one?
I think I should stop reading @cstross.bsky.social for a few months

Thatcher gutted the Scientific Civil Service—who gave advice on sci/tech—in her first term, 1979-82. This left the Civil Service being run by the same PPE-educated Oxbridge elite that mostly held down the top Tory cabinet posts, so zero insights there. And it's been downhill for 45 years now.

I get that; I prefer the Mac version too. (Dueling versions are not an issue if you use Dropbox for sync, but *not* iCloud Drive, OneDrive, or any other sync software.)

There were a few hours there last night when it felt like the administration was in damage control & they were signaling "It was never meant to go this far."

Then you can really hear the moment Stephen Miller's coffin creaked open and he came out screaming "DOUBLE DOWN" before drinking a child dry.

I have no idea; I don't use audiobooks and the rights are sold separately. I don't even know what libro.fm is.

Well that’s my evening sorted thanks to the new book from @cstross.bsky.social

Not in that particular bar, no.