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I think earth might be uninhabitable like in a year or two so let’s hurry and have all the fun we can! Here’s my cat just to double down on the cats.

Before the heat death of the universe, we have cats.

That was devastating and I’m going to go throw up

"Compensatory Cats" sounds like a good band name.

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A can't fail post.😊

I want to pet the cat so bad

NEVER

Cats are always acceptable compensation, according to Bob...

Same. But we obviously need a nice home. What if we’re tossed outside by yayhoos? Yikes!

😁😁👌🏽

Well, I mean, you coulda led with the cat. 😉

Best inspirational pic of our cat #Leelu! 😅😸

i follow you for your cats, tbh

It is indeed a magnificent snooter.

Do you have a cat that looks very much like Wil Wheaton's cat? Because this cat looks very much like Watson Wheaton.

KEEP THAT BACON TO YOURSELF, JACK

I liked the above post but I still appreciate the cat photo.

Post AND compensation taken 😌

The cat removed all my lingering doubts!

Good save. Thought I’d be depressed the rest of the day for a second

I mean it's a cat

You'll get cat pictures anyway, I have three cats and a camera

ADORBS

Cool cat

I see your adorable feline and I will send you Max and Powers being judgmental after I sneezed.

I'll take both! *runs away cackling*

I’ll take the original. I’m offended by that pee you fifty five why!

And on that note: Moar scamperbeasts!

Live in the moment. What a little tiger in that pic btw.

We've had one cat picture, yes, but what about a second cat picture?

Thank you 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I needed this cat post more than ever today!

‪Ok, I'll bite. Will take the cuddly dog who wants us to admire his soft toy offered by Henry Gee‬ ‪@endofthepier.bsky.social‬ and raise you two (2) adorable snoozing kitty "sisters"....at least that's that they told us at the shelter when the deal was take both or take neither!

Now I know why I buy all your books😹😹😹

Thanks for the cat. It helped me stop hyperventilating from your previous post 🙂

Pippi & #powerpommy say "Hello" from Amsterdam, the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Well, now I can’t be mad. You win again

Received as intended, but still appreciate the cat—always. (If next cat photo is in a suit—even better!)

Then we must respond in kind. Here ya go 😄

Works 🤪

I'm more of a dog person.

this is good

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I choose to believe that Bluesky will, like cat pictures, become one with the background cosmic radiation and outlive not just our species, but the stars.

recent transplant - I'd forgotten the joy of the regular Scalzi cat post. Woot!

I accept your offer of cat

What I miss the most about the old Twitter is that it used to be a platform where we could engage in meaningful conversations and debates. And still have a great time with it. I'm genuinely glad to see that @bsky.app is trying to bring that back in some way, shape and form.

Fun, and kind

I'll be honest, I hadn't previously used twitter before coming here. I guess you can't be part of an Xodus if you were never there to begin with. But it seems nice here, and I hope it continues to grow, if anything just to prove it's not the marxist echo chamber it's being labelled as.

I think you need to revise your "uninhabitable" timeline.

I mean, I can be an asshole too, but I’ll just do that somewhere else lol.

Enjoy some interim holiday cheer . . .

Okay, but Protondecaysky is gonna be lit.

I’m personally looking forward to the heat death of the universe. But that’s just me

Whew why did this give me heavy existential dread?

Listen to @scalzi.com, folks.........

Bad things can happen much sooner with say a crypto company investing in Bluesky.

Well, so much for the future of science fiction. Moving on . . .

That gets you a follow 😊

FYI this account is stealing your posts word for word bsky.app/profile/unit...

I like the way you think 😂

Anxiety, that asshole, always tells us we can’t keep nice things for long. We need to reply “nice things don’t last forever, but new nice things can and do replace them and eventually we won’t even care about losing the last nice thing.

No Internet home is forever. That’s just how it works.

Meanwhile, "Proton Decay" is a wicked name for a prog metal band.

I think we are in the process of death I mean decay look on the process of the world many things changes yet we don’t know love you all

🙁I’m going back to bed

BTW I really enjoy your books. Thank you for the work you do.

Our existence as individuals was only ever meant to be a blip.

Completely agree. Twitter used to be fun. Then Elon Musk ruined it. X is a piece of shit.

UNTIL THEN

Perfect analogy

My thought exactly. I know it's going to change, and not for the better — I learned just moments ago that Andrew Tate jumped aboard, only to get himself banned in less than 24 hrs — but I'm gratified that, like you, I was here at the beginning, building from the ground up. Glad to meet you. 🥂

I have no idea, but assuming it is a closed system, the last holdouts of civilization could possible do so around a black hole.

correction: entropy will always increase in a closed system. The only Get-Out-Of-Heat-Death card that can be played here is if the universe is *not* a closed system.

Yep. The jury's still out on that one! Depends on if you are Penrose, I guess.

When I was younger the thought that nothing matters was so defeating and depressing, like what is it all for But then I grew older a bit and looked around and nothing mattering (nuanced) def has been liberating, all these before me felt the same things and yet they just did, as will I

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I thought Musk was moving us all to Mars before then?

When I was a kid, I actually cried when I understood entropy properly and the thought that everything I observed would be gone someday. (My Physics professor was playing "Dust in the Wind" after a particularly difficult exam - I just read about the heat death of the universe in Scientific American)

That said, what you say is true 💯%. But maybe advances in science will help humanity survive and our descendants will find a habitable planet before the earth is destroyed - after we're all dead, of course. But hey - at least maybe our great-great-great-great-great-great-whatever might have a life 🫠

I’m 66 , I don’t give a flying fuck what happens in 50 years time I already know the planet is fucked. I also know this is a totally selfish idea. But after 50 years of marching and protesting , I’m done. This is a totally mad world and I’m just gonna sit back and watch the carnage. 🤓

Right

True, but when precisely does the murderbot uprising occur on that particular timeline? I mean, I have a wager going that they show up before global warming gets me waterfront property.

Great, now I get to worry about that, thanks loads.

No one has ever observed a proton decaying. We don't know if protons can decay.

What a thoroughly depressing thought.

Earth will be uninhabitable MUCH sooner if we fail to change course! We are repeating the Permian Mass Extinction pattern of destroying the phytoplankton that makes 70% of Earth's oxygen by Ocean Acidification. Tropical oceans have lost 40% O² production in the last 50 years! Bluesky may help shift.

This will not last if contrarianism, insults, bad manners and bigotry will not be quickly introduced.

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And have cake. We can have cake too right?

Sounds like a plan.

I mean, it only seems right.

If my current body is failing, I don't really see as I'm going to be in a position to be super fussy, really.

That’s literally what happens when you die and someone else is born.

It's like pulling out weeds.

" Another one bites the dust" used to be a moderator theme song when we would ban bots.

This is how we keep the vibes up. bsky.app/profile/illy...

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup. 😑😑😑😑😑 😑😑😑😑😑 😑😑😑😑😑 😑😑😑😑😑 😑😑😑😑😑 bsky.app/profile/brok...

Agreed

Bee in the moment.

let's make this place fun even after that!

It’s awesome until they sell out to corporate. That is inevitable.

It will meet the same fate that America has met. Bought by billionaires and ruined.

I've heard a fair amount of "They take money from tech bros! It's sure to break bad!!!" Often from people posting on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

It’s estimated to be anywhere between around 5 million years up to 7 billion.

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