Mike

Mike

@snowcrash.ca

Just some boring guy on the Internet. Touches computers to make money, plays video games and reads a lot.

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Replying to @jamieloftus.bsky.social

hi everyone! here is the cover of The Tower, designed by akiko stehrenberger. i cannot believe how beautiful it is. i can't wait to hold it.

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I have to pick up a pumpkin soon! 🎃 Here are some of the jack-o'-lanterns I've done for the cats in the past. 1. The vet 2. Vacuum cleaner 3. Spray bottle 4. Nail clippers 5. The cone 6. Fleas

One of the many reasons I'm disenchanted with the NHL is the young stars like Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews not just taking gambling cash, but when the occasional ad about "here's some controls we have on our gambling app" came out they were like that's what we wanted to do all along.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

I wonder why wealthy celebrities who promote gambling think they'll live richer lives by making a lot of people poorer.

Yeah, nah, you said that after the fact when you got the blowback and realized just being really disgustingly good at sports doesn't make you revered everywhere, even in Canada. Faster heel-turn than Gretzky somehow.

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People who get over-excited about flying cars are always picturing just themselves & maybe a few other philosopher-kings zooming freely through the clear blue. Instead, traffic is now weather You’d never see the sky again—until someone’s jank-ass engine block Donnie Darkos itself through your roof

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Whenever someone is talking to me I always make the correct amount of eye contact and blink a normal number of times and nod every 3.52 seconds to demonstrate that I am listening while the actual content of their words washes over me like a summer rain

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new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel

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Replying to @judedoyle.bsky.social

It's this and Jesse Singal getting yelled once over the Kenneth Zucker article and turning his whole life into a crusade against the Tran. I cannot stand that so much suffering and bigotry is driven by personal vendettas from deeply, utterly mediocre dudes.

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I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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me: i am fundementally opposed to mel gibson as employable celebrity/auteur. history is a record of his atrocious views my therapist: that's fair me: but i love it when max rockatansky flips on the blower on his v8 interceptor and vanquishes marauders in glorious battle my therapist: who doesn't

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one thing i understand more and more as i get older is that i do not have to post every half-baked inane thought that blows through my weary, addled brain. i do it by choice. i can stop anytime i want.

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Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

I'll read many things Scalzi publishes anyway, but the cover art moved this from "I'll get it" to "I'll buy it at release pricing" and I did not regret.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com

I will be forever grateful to @tristanelwell.bsky.social for his Starter Villain cover art. The moment we all saw it we were all, "Oh, we're gonna sell a LOT of this one." And we were right! Authors, please use Tristan for all your cover art needs.

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Her son carefully lifted his ochre-stained hand from the cave wall and studied the outline. "That's me. My hand." He looked at the other hands. "Do you know all?" "Some are older than me." "That old?" "Hush you," she laughed. "We don't make these to be seen tomorrow, but because today, we live."

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"who is this fool" "thats mr bean, roland. he is a tv character from a nation over seas" "he has forgotten the face of his father"

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Jensen Huang doesn't know his own zip code not because of AI, but because he's so absurdly rich, he's outsourced virtually every daily activity where an address is required (i.e. paperwork, bills, mundane purchases) to administrative staff who barely get paid enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.

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lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow