Steve J. Wright

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Shall I show how old I am? I shall show how old I am. First five RPGs played: 1. AD&D 2. Traveller 3. Runequest 4. Champions 5. Call of Cthulhu (3 would have been 1st edition Chivalry & Sorcery, except, well, this was an early FGU game, and we know what FGU stands for, don't we?)

Trending: "4. Zuckerberg weighed leaving California." Has he gained or lost weight since his last visit? Inquiring minds want to know.

Well, if you take empathy too far, you could wind up being horribly executed for everyone else's crimes, and you wouldn't want that, would you?

Today I have a new favorite insult

"WWW 2"? I know Web 2.0 was a competitive sort of environment, but that's taking it a bit far IMHO.

Just to riff on this for just a moment: science fiction is full of really cool images. Lunar colonies, Martian landscapes, big big rockets, sandworms, blasters, vibroknives, chip heads ... but the thing that always held the story together was how human beings interacted with those BDOs.

I was gonna say: straight guys who have Big Feelings about this character and people liking him have been a thing since the game came out and a) someone got hit on BY A DUDE and/or b) someone saw his GF get really into the pretty vampire and became scared that he might have to wash occasionally.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Penthouse Pet Sematary

Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. Let us seek to end this inhumane and immoral practice around the world, especially here in America. It is so deplorable that in the 21st century this is going on in a modern democracy.

It’s a cliche oft quoted that there’s a crucial distinction between wanting to write a novel, and wanting to have written a novel. Generative AI is for people who want to have written a novel.

Live your life so that, when you die, social media isn't flooded with comments about what a nasty vicious lying piece of shit you were. Sound advice, I think. Jeffrey Archer should've taken it.

lotta people out here bragging about "training models" but why do that when you can model trains

FFS "Bluesky meme: Post a vampire" STAKE. It's STAKE. You STAKE a vampire. What are they teaching the kids these days?

What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5. Hell Drivers Chariots of Fire A Bridge Too Far Seven Days to Noon Kind Hearts and Coronets

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia." - Kurt Vonnegut

In addition to some sensible things, the RNLI merch included a replacement for the world's crappest lightsabre, which went missing after an Eleven Month Group meeting more than twenty years ago.

Heh. I just frustrated a postman. Heard the knock, got to the door *before* he'd finished shoving the "sorry we missed you" card through the letterbox. (He was delivering my order of RNLI merch, so I'm happy.)

If you have more empathy for the box of blinky lights than you do for, say, trans people or refugees, you are frankly a bad person

This is writing. If you want money, get into fraud.

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.