Mina the Husky (and her human)

(Hell, we got techbros reading, or having AI read to them, various distinctly anti-capitalist, or at least anti-unrestrained-capitalist, sci-fi authors and completely missing their points!

Anybody who can read Iain Banks, KSR, or William Gibson and still be a techbro just isn't getting it.)

(I still feel there was a good 3 hour movie that could have been made from the 9 hours of overstreched crap they recorded.

The trolls, the Great Goblin, Smaug, all great.

Legolas showing up? About 90% of Battle of Five Armies? Just ick.)

Mina, the Husky, in a small snowy patch next to a stream that is much higher than normal. She is looking at the camera as if to say "you're joking about wanting to cross that, right?"

So my human is surprised that after walking 3/4 of the way around the park, I refused to cross this stream to make it back to the car faster.

So I stayed dry, and we walked about three halves of the way around the park instead. Win-win!

(To be fair, Games Workshop has significantly fewer model designers than IP lawyers, or at least that's what one would assume based on the relative schedules)

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

(Trapping a djinn is covered in some pre-Islam stories, IIRC, but it's generally presented as a horrible idea because chaotic spirits have really long memories, and the retribution may not be swift, but it will be uncomfortable.)

🎵This is the song that doesn't end.
Yes, it goes on and on, my friend.
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was.
And they'll continue singing it forever, just because...🎵

(I remember when basically everyone that had a username called them handles.

And, yeah, I have handles older than Gen Z.

Not that this proves I'm better than any of them!

But I've been flaming people since the internet sounded like robots howling at each other.)

Trying to bridge the gap by proposing that the nonbinary God can still have an absolute hog.

(I found DOW:Soulstorm to be the most tabletop-like experience; having basically all the 2005 circa factions there was awesome.

As a lover of ancient eldritch assholes, I choose Dark Eldar and Necrons as my top two.

Mina prefers Orks, cause they're loud.)

(Biblically accurate angel with Biblically accurate dong?)

(Can God make themselves a dick so big they can't suck it?

I would say I'm going to hell for that one, but either it doesn't exist, or I already have a huge list of reasons. )

(Also mixed fabric, also working on the Sabbath, also golden idols, apparently...)

(I always knew US gender expectations was pretty FUBAR, but that was a bit of an eye-opener as to just how bad it is.

Looking at my nieces & nephews getting into their 20s and 30s, at least some of them are better than my late-Gen-X cohort.

But low bar, and all that.)

(When my 1st kid was born, I got a lot of flak from older engineers because I took time off to take care of him and my (then) wife.

Because apparently spending any time with your own kid(s) before they are old enough is too feminine?

And being feminine is bad, obv.)

(To me a SW person claiming they spend most of their time actually typing in code is like hearing a recent EE grad talking about how they spend most of their time doing schematic capture; I sigh and think "another new one to train?")

(I saw that and was a bit incredulous; mostly because they claimed to be a software engineer and got that so wrong.

I'm a hardware EE (mostly analog), but about 95% of my designs include some SW component, as eventually a computer is going to either control or record something.)

(For those who don't know, ELLC was a LitRPG focused on an unusually intelligent mimic.

Also there were some really weird erotica scenes in there.

No, like, weirder than you're thinking.

NSFW in case it's not obvious already. Also several kinds of content warnings apply.)

(I've mentioned before how an AI evangelical badgered me into trying out his chatbot.

Having recently been playing D&D I asked it about mimics, and was slightly surprised to get a summary of Everybody Loves Large Chests.

Although knowing the guy who pestered me, maybe not too surprised.)

(I am always jealous of the sleepy weaselpile, they look so relaxed in there.

But they do have slinkies for spines, so it would be much less comfortable for humans to sleep like that.)

(Basically everything from Terry Pratchett is worth a read, but that book is certainly one of the best.

It's not the best place to start reading Sir Terry, TBH, as a lot of the Death subplot makes more sense if Reaper Man and Hogfather are read first, but I at least enjoyed Thief of Time the most.)

(I was gonna say - to me that's just them respecting your personal brand of "goofy sci-fi guy".)

(The scene where Igor realizes that Jeremy really is the appropriate level of mad to employ an Igor is one of my favorite bits of Sir Terry's writing.)

Idris Elba, as Stringer Bell in The Wire, is not impressed by the fact that you're taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

(To be faaaaair it's a good story; the kind of people I've met who like "radical transparency" do seem like the kind to discuss their crimes in public or online and then get surprised when other people are like Mr. Bell here)

(As a 'gifted kid' who wouldn't really find his niche for years, Kurt making out with a shotgun despite all his talent & success put me in a pretty bad spot for awhile. If he wasn't good enough to make it, who was?

To be fair to my younger self, I was a teenager, so I didn't know shit about shit.)

(I will probably die mad about Grohl's embrace of the conspiracy loons.

As a teenager that was really affected by Kurt's suicide, the first few Foo Fighters albums really helped me. Finding out later what Dave was doing on the side... just ick.)

(As someone who grew up in another decaying industrial town in NY, I really can't understand the Gen Xers who bought into the "2020 crime was so bad" Fox News BS.

Syracuse had more murders most months in the 90s than in whole years from 2015 to 2025!

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.)

“The most terrifying capability of the us military is the ability to deploy a fully functional Burger King to any location in the world in under 24hrs” vs “No it’s rock hard abs, it’s doing push ups. Big muscle boys w big hard boners doing 100 pushups.”

(Whenever someone suggests sacrificing this group or that, I usually respond with:

None of us are free until all of us are free.

When they argue, or dissemble, or quibble....I just repeat myself, louder.)