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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Thanks very much! I'll look them up.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Do you know if this is collected anywhere that can be bought today, please?

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It doesn't seem like empathy to me. It's more that he likes well-designed things, including the entire planet. He has a moral code, but it's intellectual, not emotional.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Cosmologist: quantum fluctuations in the post-Inflation early universe were magnified to voids millions of years across. Or six months.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If they'd called it a "fiction" prize instead of "literature", he might be in with a shout at that one.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That is not my snow leopard! It goes Woof Woof!

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You can maybe have this happen once and it's okay, but you have to apologise and shut your agents down completely while you do a full investigation. Which they aren't going to do.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ha ha, this otherwise completely plausible take falls apart on the observation that Arneson wasn't involved in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. No doubt you're thinking of David "Zeb" Cook.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"It tastes very nice, put up a parking lot."

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's because every time he's in the UK he hangs out with other fascists.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So, are you going to vote for the "Logan's Run" amendment?

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perhaps like Zelazny, who did live long enough to learn better. Nine Princes in Amber, Whoops, Forgot the Princesses could have been a book in the second series.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dear Google Photos: if you're going to put together a cat album for me called "The One and Only", please try to make sure they are all of the same cat. Because there are quite a lot of black and white cats out there, as well as two in this house.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, sorry, I'd love to see New York, but not with the current regime.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I could support a War Against People Stealing Petrol.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What I'm bringing to the job interview

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The picture makes it look more of a magical girl thing than a robot/vehicle crossover.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you see this post a beach photo from your phone.

View from a seafront fortification in Morocco. Between two groynes waves lap into the beach and long way below.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And of course with FPTP quite a lot of those Lib Dem votes will be people who would have preferred a Labour or Green to get in, but voted for the best result achievable.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, that's what I was trying to say.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tenniel illustrated the Alice books: I think that's a fair use of the term. The illustrations are great, but take them away or replace them and you are still reading the same book. That's the dividing line: different artist means different comic.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Or, for the Japanese audience, That Time I Accidentally Picked a Scab On My Nose I Didn't Even Know Was There and Now There's Blood So Much Blood Oh God WHY is There So MUCH Blood: The John Scalzi Story

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bad: drop the Muppets into the Marvel Universe. Good: a Muppet Movie with Marvel characters as the human roles.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's like buying stocks and moaning when they go down. (Except eviller, of course.)

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I bet that was 70% of GPs willing to talk to the Daily Mail.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like a lot of things. There are things I don't like (aesthetically) and I find ignoring them and leaving them to people who do like them works fine.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Would they be petrifying, though? Shouldn't they plasticise their victims?

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poor old Elvis never learnt about Urmahlullu at school.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There are people in the EU who badly want the UK back (e.g. Donald Tusk). It would be another negotiation, the UK could get some of its privileges back. Its size gives it bargaining power. (I may be doing wishful thinking, but I think it's possible.)

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Naga naga naga naga Naga naga naga naga Snakeman!! I woke up with this running through my head, and I don't see why it should be just me. (It's the Adam West Batman theme tune, if you were wondering.)

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think it is very unlikely that an AI tech could get exactly to human level of intelligence and no further: it would be quite a coincidence. But I don't believe any current or prospective tech is going to get anywhere near human level. So it's not worth worrying about.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Her head doesn't move enough. And since they never gave Bugs Bunny an acting Oscar, she's clearly ineligible.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Your friends can't dance and they are NO FRIENDS OF MINE.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

That's a fair position! I think an always-on recording could have ethical uses as long as it's very visible. E.g. I assume cop cameras include audio, and the problem there is when they mysteriously stop working.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's not using Ai, it's a straight recording. I'm wondering how much this is an Ai problem, and how much it's a privacy issue.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Genuine question: would you feel the same if it just recorded thirty seconds (or whatever) of conversation, with a replay later feature?

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Minor frustration: I keep seeing posters for a film called Digger, and every time I have a moment of hope, and have to remind myself that it's not an adaptation of @tkingfisher.com 's wonderful graphic novel. Mind you, given it stars Tom Cruise, maybe the alternative would be worse.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Akkadian/Sumerian poet Enheduanna (2285-2250 BC) is the world’s first named author. #CelebratingWomen

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Kill Plato, he was a nasty piece of work. Then fuck Socrates and marry Aristotle. You could travel and explore with Aristotle, but you'd just be arguing with Socrates all the time if you settled down together.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well now we've got three separate sources saying so, it's confirmed. Hold the front page!

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I find it harder when it's a writer than, say, a scientist. If a scientist is a bad person, well, it's a completely different skill set. But being good at writing needs a kind of empathy, and I don't understand how you can have that insight into people and put it aside to be a monster.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At last, a reliable way to tell you and Morticia Addams apart.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jughead is enlightened. He sees the pile of money and sees the burgers it can become.

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DoubtingMichael @doubtingmichael.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As well as everything else, he seems to think "vulgar" is a comparative.

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