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cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected] Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Good morning and welcome to Pride Month 2025, when "straight" white Christians get on social media, TV, and their pulpits and demonstrate how they think about gay sex way, way more and in far greater detail than than gay people do.

submitted 41 minutes ago • 11 comments

Thread. (Reads like technothriller fodder, if it wasn't for real and didn't involve people dying.)

submitted 36 minutes ago • 1 comment

"It's not enough to just win an election..." The crux of right-wing grievance: A tantrum at the fact that being elevated to leader (in LT's case by a few party members) does not automatically sweep away every political disagreement and practical obstacle to the latest idiocy they deem a good idea.

submitted 3 hours ago • 27 comments

Now reading: Iron Sunrise, by @cstross.bsky.social. The space Nazis feel very relevant for today

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

why employ actual black people when you can use AI blackface

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The conservative panic over dropping birthrates and, by implication, the destruction of "western civilisation", generally blames digital distractions. The answer is invariably regulating tech companies (no-one thinks this will work) or somehow asking/forcing people into religious communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

REMINDER that the NYTimes is in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers. Outrage gets attention. Also, this is 100% in line with the values of the ideology behind Project2025. Totally in character for the NYT editors to kiss the whip.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Republican officials have now asked us to disregard material things, sacrifice for the nation, and contemplate that death is inevitable. We have been taken over by a secret cadre of militant Buddhists.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

Most people wouldn’t have waited to be asked.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Welp, I began writing this novel-shaped object on April 1st and I just passed the 60,000 word mark, despite interruptions for hospital procedures and blurred vision caused by cataracts in both eyes … 40-50,000 words to go! And I shall have a new book, I hope.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The alt text is really worth checking out.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the only use of AI that I will somewhat condone is the voicebots pretending to be old people on the phone to waste scammers' time. like that's the one place I can see a use for it that's a societal net benefit

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Duolingo right now: youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments