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Angus McIntyre

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SF/F author (“The Warrior Within” etc.) Photographer. Programmer. Allegedly sentient mammal. One more pawn for the Muppet Pastor. [he/him] https://angus.pw/ - SF/F writing https://raingod.com/ - Photos & more https://disoriented.net/ - Travel & photo blog

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A conversation starter a part of a long-con "butchering" scam? PUA-style "negging" as a prelude to a sales pitch? Or just some loser who gets a kick out of saying mean things to women, but needs AI to write his texts for him?

07.03.2026 02:44 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Listen, guys, you might just want to sit this one out.”

06.03.2026 21:02 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somewhere, deep down, we still nurse this little secret hope that one day they'll run out of awful people, but currently the supply seems to be inexhaustible.

06.03.2026 14:11 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Trans Caspian Pipeline, standing by!

06.03.2026 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I take it this is a Boston thing?

In New York, the fear is the grate will turn out to be electrified and we'll get blasted out of our socks by forty thousand volts of stray electricity.

Or if it's a manhole cover, that we'll step on it and be blown into orbit by a subterranean steam explosion.

06.03.2026 14:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How on earth did autocorrect manage to turn "for" into "against"? The letters aren't even close to each other on the keyboard.

06.03.2026 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In fiction, whenever some sinister group is trying to "immanentize the Eschaton" by committing human sacrifice on a massive scale, they're always Satanists or Cthulhu cultists or Illuminati or something.

In the real world, it turns out to be the Christians (or one particular sect of them anyway).

06.03.2026 13:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bruh. It is one week from filing deadline. I need your help to maximize our matching funds!!!!

Please 🙏🏼 send us your taco money!

Yuhlineforsenate.com

06.03.2026 02:06 👍 70 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 4

People DO love implausible escapism with no possible grounding in reality.

06.03.2026 01:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which was ironic, because the only terrorists responsible for Bhopal turned out to be the kind who wear suits and have corner offices.

06.03.2026 01:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After all, it's not as if there's anything else going on at the moment to distract us.

06.03.2026 00:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

It doesn't say! They wrote a whole article about it, and left out this essential detail! What a travesty of journalism!

Alas, the Guardian says "fourth digit". I share your disappointment.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

05.03.2026 19:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think you'll be OK so long as your vehicle has an extended warranty.

05.03.2026 14:54 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could only be better if he'd gone on to become the lead singer of The The.

05.03.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The one on the left gives you the clap, the one on the right gives you the stomp.

05.03.2026 13:35 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Still OK to rub the belly though, right?

05.03.2026 13:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Does he only do criminal law?

Because if he takes civil cases, watching him defend Ea-Nasir against accusations of supplying inferior copper would be spellbinding.

05.03.2026 00:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A screen capture of a tweet from Politics US. The text reads "Troops have been told by some superiors that the conflict in Iran is part of a biblical plan to bring about the end of the world One commander said President Trump 'has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran'."

A screen capture of a tweet from Politics US. The text reads "Troops have been told by some superiors that the conflict in Iran is part of a biblical plan to bring about the end of the world One commander said President Trump 'has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran'."

With all due respect, these people sound like "President Trump has been chosen by Dumbledore to find the Golden Snitch & pave the way for the return of Harry Potter!"

It's great you've found a way to include your imaginary friend in all this, but these are real bombs you're dropping on real people.

04.03.2026 15:41 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"All the Beautiful Sinners" and a number of other books by Stephen Graham Jones and other horror writers are also available DRM-free in Humble Bundle's current book bundle.

Some of the proceeds from sales go to support Save the Children.

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04.03.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And if it's not real, it's an absolutely first-class psyop.

04.03.2026 14:21 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

If we ask really nicely, maybe they'll give us back the ones that didn't explode.

04.03.2026 14:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Embrace the inevitable. At the very least, I think you should start billing Duterte for legal services. Or give him hilariously bad legal advice. ("Good news, Mr. ex-President, I've just reincorporated you as a limited liability company in Lesotho, forcing an immediate change of venue to Maputsoe!")

04.03.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is this because they gave themselves an extra half-trillion dollars to spend on the military and now they don't know what to do with it?

04.03.2026 13:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why are the Kuwaitis wasting Patriot missiles on innocent F-15s, when there are better targets available?

04.03.2026 01:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Insufficient tokens remaining to rename this file. Click here to enter a new payment method."

04.03.2026 01:55 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

There's obviously something horrific about the seemingly innocent term "fully modular", because it wouldn't be on-brand for them to deliver an OS that is unacceptable to their entire user base in only two ways. Maybe "modular" is industry code for "intrusive advertising in every corner of the UI?"

04.03.2026 01:33 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It's almost too bad that the US didn't invade Greenland, just so that soldiers could hear the unit zealot explaining how Donald Trump was divinely ordained to seize Nunavut in order to hasten the return of Jesus.

"We will light the fire of faith at the North Pole! Santa Claus himself is with us!"

03.03.2026 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pup and Anti-Pup.

03.03.2026 01:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"I put the 'ass' in Lascaux, baby!"

02.03.2026 23:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The obvious candidate for a vampire in Trump's inner circle would be Steven Miller, but I guess there could be more than one.

02.03.2026 18:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0