The reason you don't see shag carpet anymore is that they were hunted to extinction in the 70s and the trade for their valuable hide collapsed overnight.
09.08.2025 06:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Good name for a tech group/collective/project from a phrase by @alexglow.bsky.social at #Teardown2025: Overlapping Nerds.
21.06.2025 19:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Was talking to a guy yesterday at #Teardown2025 about cyberpunk since he saw my author's copy of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. He said he gets depressed reading dystopian stories. I said I feel the same way when I read the news.
21.06.2025 18:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Grim Dawn is a good Diablo-like with no micro transactions and allows you to be a chaos witch fighting in the Victorian apocalypse against the colonizing extradimensional beings that use the feudalistic patriarchy to bring about their corruption and genocide.
26.01.2025 00:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sustainable electronics, robots, PCBs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, open-source DIY hardware... + music, languages, art β’ Masto: @alexglow@chaos.social β’ Was @glowascii on bird site β’ she/her β’ thoughts & feels my own.
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
electronics queerdo, explorer, endless maker of things and strange PCBs
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Sporklogic.com (electronic kits)
Dynamandala.com (more art)
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from βKill Switchβ, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
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U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senateβs resident privacy hawk.
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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own.
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