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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I would agree! Fortunately, the next book in publication order is The Player of Games, which is one of my favorites. If that one doesn't grab you, he may not be your cup of tea.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I adore Banks and the Culture novels, but Phlebas is not my favorite by a pretty wide margin.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'd missed that you bought a house. Congrats!

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The really annoying thing about it is that the best way to do that would be to *not do a fascism*.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cats, games, music, concerts, stand-up comedy, solving problems, making things other people enjoy, puzzles, helping other people, fanfic, YouTube, learning stuff, friends & family, art, nature, colors, whatever this week's hyperfixation is

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The little nod and half-blink at the end when you say "hi" -- I am dying. She knows what love is.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This whole aging thing is *very* dumb.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Battersea Power Station is the one on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Animals. Tower Bridge isn't a rock landmark, it's just cool.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tower Bridge! Do the tour and go inside it. Then take a boat up the Thames to Battersea Power Station, which is impressively ginormous. It's also a nice way to appreciate lots of architecture. (Tho maybe less so if the weather is awful...)

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Write down the steps in alphabetical order, then start with the second-biggest one in the first third of the alphabet. That's not based on anything, just offering a random suggestion in case it's one of those where you need some external direction to get going.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yup! Look up "executive dysfunction".

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You seem to have named her very correctly.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It prevents people from posting something innocuous, racking up a bunch of likes, then editing it to say something very different.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don't think he's done a lot of standup, which is a shame, because it's great.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have you ever seen his standup special, Quadrophobia? Highly recommended.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

More details! Cranberry in what form, and with what other toppings?

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not unrelatedly, Coyote vs Acme is great; go see it.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dear movie theater: Why are you showing me *four ads in a row* trying to convince me that going to the movies in person is great? I. Am. Already. In. The theater!

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Sounds like an illuminating experience.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An interesting form of augury, much like bibliomancy. The question is, do you get to pick the channel as part of the query, or is it fixed? And if fixed, would it only work with TCM, or is it based on the querent? Or is it whatever channel comes up?

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You know it's love when they'll help you deal with gross biology in places you can't reach.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Raccoon. I have all their albums. I'm also a fan of The Raccoons.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I do the same. Is it *logical* that hitting 88 feels like significantly less effort than hitting 1-3-0 or even 9-0? No. Nevertheless, it feels like a lot less effort.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thumbs up! I am down with that. (Gosh it's refreshing to see someone online willing to course-correct rather than double down on a misstep. You're a mensch, Mr. Nome.)

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Our projections aren't perfect, but people need to make decisions NOW, and in the absence of our imperfect data, they won't not make the decisions, they'll just make them without any data at all. Sometimes you have to go with a harm reduction stance, and not let perfect be the enemy of good.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I make data about climate change usable by non-scientists for impacts and adaptation. We thought long and hard about the problem of misuse and concluded there's no way for us to prevent people from doing stupid things with our data. We can only make it easier to for them to do smart things.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"CANNOT be used incorrectly" is overreaching. "Think about and try to prevent misuse" is a moral obligation, but "impossible to misuse" is frequently impossible to design. Can you design a car that's impossible to crash? A medication that cannot be overdosed? An oven that never burns?

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Did I introduce you to both, or just Banks?

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It *is* a nice hat, though. And you look good in it.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Normally I like the way my neurodivergence works and don't experience it as a disability, but earlier today there was Too Much All At Once and my brain did a meltdown/shutdown thing. Not the first time it's happened, but the first time I've known what it was as it was happening. Whee.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Can it not be both? I am perplexed.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

4-6. 1-3 swords is an interest. 7+ is a special interest. 4-6 is an unwillingness to commit. (The exception is if you can make it clear that it's only 4-6 *so far*, but even then I think it's more tasteful to display the best 2 or 3 of your 4-6.)

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hapy brithday! It looks good on ya.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I know some folks in polucules who've been together for decades. Just because she's not going to leave him doesn't mean she won't also stick with you, if you're up for it.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Not mine, but friends worked on a game where the entire premise was based around the punny name ("Kart Attack" -- you're racing a go-kart, but if you go too fast your heart stops), so when management changed the name (to "Pulse Racer"), it went from wacky fun to making no sense at all.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Still one of my absolute favorites.

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you're aware that it's not healthy long-term but are making a pragmatic choice based on the judgment that the consequences of melting down are worse, I think compartmentalization is a sane and rational response the state of the world. The only question is would therapy give additional options...

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, with twenty-eight, And Quadrember, which hath none

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Beemer Tectonic @dr-tectonic.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Wow, you must have spent a lot on getting nitrous oxide piped into the room to make everyone laugh like that without actually being funny... 🙄 Sven Kirsten is a mannerless boor who can't distinguish taste from quality.

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