Chris 👈🏻 @offby1@wandering.shop

(You can find it for yourself, here: https://numb-official.bandcamp.com/album/mortal-geometry )

“Guess who! sent you Mortal Geometry by Numb”

I have no idea who… but THANK YOU!

On @scalzi@twitter.com’s blog today, thanks to an interesting commenter, I learned that in order to be a fascist… you have to be catholic!

So, I guess that fixes the USA, right? Most of the white supremacists are probably evangelical anyway.

Ugh.

I feel stupider reading those comments.

Possibly of interest to @TAThorogood@twitter.com and @bitprophet@twitter.com
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RT @offby1@twitter.com
A phone size comparison @TAThorogood@twitter.comn be @bitprophet@twitter.comto match your actual phone, too. Neat! https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Samsung-Galaxy-S10e,Motorola-Moto-X4,Google-Pixel-3,Sony-Xperia-XZ2-Compact/phones/11114,10479,10932,10834
https://twitter.com/offby1/status/1164653639891206144

A phone size comparison tool that can be calibrated to match your actual phone, too. Neat! https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Samsung-Galaxy-S10e,Motorola-Moto-X4,Google-Pixel-3,Sony-Xperia-XZ2-Compact/phones/11114,10479,10932,10834

It was, and it was a strong freakin' category all 'round. Let me just say I loved your videos and it was a pleasure to super-briefly meet you at the pre-show reception signin table (because, what the hell, fanboy's gonna fanboy)
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RT @thelindsayellis@twitter.com
We are up against... *checks notes* ... Ursula K. LeGuin and the very institution of fanfiction itself.

...well, it's an honor just to be nominated!`

https://www.tor.c…
https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1113085355492888577

There are times when I worry my entire role on Twitter is to be a bot retweeting @bitprophet@twitter.com’s RTs

Does anyone else who reads #File770 have the slightest idea how I can get it to *save my email and name*?

Reading the File 770 post on Jeannett Ng’s incredible Campbell acceptance speech and

Aaaand we’re home, with the added bonus of an attempted very-penny-ante uncharge by our taxi driver.

There was a rather alarming crash from behind the scenes a couple of minutes ago.

And now we wait for our luggage.

Much respect for all of this.
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RT @EthanZ@twitter.com
About that @BostonGlobe story... On me, and deciding to leave @MIT @medialab: https://medium.com/@EthanZ/on-me-and-the-media-lab-715bfc707f6f
https://twitter.com/EthanZ/status/1163989963706380288

Back to third-world banking systems… Except generally I’ve had better banking experiences IN the “third world“.

This project I’m working on has such overzealous license hdr checking that I have literally not successfully pushed a candidate merge request that worked on the first try. In one fun case, the merge failed BECAUSE I DIDN’T REMEMBER TO ADD IT TO THE COPYRIGHT CHECK CONFIGURATION.

The US patent system is “like beating your competitor over the head with a piece of science fiction you wrote,” https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/amazon-sony-facebook-strange-patents.html

An acceptable way to fly, and probably the best use of loyalty miles.

Homeward bound from #AnIrishWorldcon … Which was quite a bit different than I expected.

To the attention of @nwbrux@twitter.com
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RT @TerribleMaps@twitter.com
Potential EU leaving@nwbrux@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status/831486149247934464

Got into a @FreeNow_IE@twitter.com cab called for us by @TheSpencerIFSC@twitter.com staff - cab 16782 - and he cancelled the app ride claiming we took another cab and told us to pay through his personal card reader. I have a feeling this isn’t the customer experience either of those businesses want.

I just want to use my tiny twitter pulpit to again say that the speech by @jeannette_ng@twitter.com on her receipt of the John W. Campbell award at this year’s Hugo Awards was excellent, on par with @nkjemisin@twitter.com last year. I’m glad she won, so that she could say what needed saying.