Angus McIntyre

C'est génial (Probably not understandable to the English speakers but)

Attempts to create a “distinctively British” AI hit an early stumbling block when developers discovered that none of the servers would talk to each other because they hadn’t been introduced.

WE are in the final hours of the @oglaf.bsky.social Book Five Kickstarter and we just dropped the last stretch goal, probably! Unless something wildly unexpected happens! www.kickstarter.com/projects/top...

Gavin Grant and Kelly Link of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet are doing a campaign to help pay down the mortgage on their new and used bookstore. This is an awesome couple who support the writing community, so please support them! I donated & got some awesome stories & Blackwing pencils!

The “Andor” references, the frogs and the Straw Hat Pirate flags were one thing, but this strikes me as increasingly surreal.

This was about the sum total of the disorder that I saw in Paris last week (beyond a few dispirited students picketing the School of Geography, and some CRS convoys charging through the streets, lights flashing and sirens howling). But it seems as if things became a bit more volatile after I left.

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

"Katie Z didn't even last half a Scaramucci. You know what they call that in England?" "They don't call it a Scaramucci?" "No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a Scaramucci is." "So what do they call it?" "They call it a Truss. She lasted a tenth of a Truss."

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious for Tax Purposes Swimming to Cambodia for Tax Purposes The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension for Tax Purposes

Hard to believe they didn't invite @chuckwendig.bsky.social to make the opening address, but perhaps he was busy that night.

In honor of his new best friend, Elon Musk’s satellite-based communication service is to be renamed Tsarlink.

Paul Foot on Archer from 1995 wp.me/p15p2Q-hN8

Check out this week's blog post by six-time Analog contributor A.T. Sayre! Here he discusses the problematic nature of romanticizing the past. Don't miss his novelette "Bella's Heart" in our Sept/Oct issue theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2026/10/07/a...

My Amazon "About You" is boringly mundane and contains no speculation about the shape of my ass. They suspect I have a cat, which could explain all the cat litter I keep buying, and that I "cook with specialized techniques", which sounds faintly perverse but is, alas, untrue.

2026 Me: Listen, I'm you from the future. The war on AI is coming. Past Me: Cool. Do we have to fight off swarms of killer robots with machine guns? 2026 Me: Actually, no. Most of your time and energy will be spent tarpitting aggressive webcrawlers and trying to reclaim your disk space.

Happy Battle of Cable Street Day to all who celebrate.

2016 - We're too lazy to research a story, so here are quotes from 9 different Twitter users who had some kind of opinion on the subject. 2026 - We're too lazy to write a story, so here's six paragraphs of output from a chatbot that we prompted to give us a comment on the subject.

"Right out of the gate, Muse launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that created a backdoor on Mac computers, allowing a hacker to not only gain total control of the Muse AI client, but surveil you without your knowledge."

This is officially the dumbest fucking timeline. We live in the dumbest of all possible universes.

Well, obviously. When was the last time you heard someone threaten to blow your brain out?

Garner's Red Shift. I still love this book and was obsessed with it as a teen but it SHOOK me the first time I read it. The timeshifts. the multiple timelines interweaving and connecting, the traumatic darkness of it... It did something to my writer and reader brain that left a mark.

Good article from Gothamist about Urban Swim, an open-water swimming organization run by two friends of mine. I do photography for some of their swims, but the pictures in this article are by the very talented Paul Frangipane, Urban Swim's other regular photographer.

Speaking of ebook deals, @qntm.org's "Valuable Humans in Transit" is on sale for $0.99 currently (only in the Amazon Kindle store, alas). I haven't read this one yet, but their "There is no Antimemetics Division" impressed the hell out of me.

My novella "The Warrior Within" is at $0.99 today, including: - a big quiet man who hears voices (but the voices are real) - interstellar mercenaries - a bad-ass lady with lilac hair - a sun that never sets - post-human despots - and more www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... www.amazon.com/dp/B0756JN9KJ

Make a band edible: The Rolling Scones

My novella "The Warrior Within" is at $0.99 today, including: - a big quiet man who hears voices (but the voices are real) - interstellar mercenaries - a bad-ass lady with lilac hair - a sun that never sets - post-human despots - and more www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... www.amazon.com/dp/B0756JN9KJ

Ted Cruz does have a point. For example, I recently told a number of people that on the morning of September 11th, I wrestled Godzilla to the ground and gave him an atomic wedgie, but it was 25 years ago and the details are a little blurry. It may not have happened exactly like that.

This fine orange cat from Tarragona, Spain, looks a bit judgmental. That's OK. It's Caturday, it can judge whoever it wants.

The Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harrassment! One of my favorite Internet essays, and it makes everything so much easier to explain. It sits right up there in the pantheon with the Crazification Factor. hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

Another idea; an erstwhile aquatic hero long since fallen on hard times and given to smalltime villainy (robbing fish markets etc.)

My short story "Sigulda's Child" (medieval Lovecraftian horror) will appear in "Off the Broken Path", an anthology from Cracked Anvil Press (scheduled publication October 2026). crackedanvilpress.com

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

I realize it's a serious weather event and no laughing matter, but, nevertheless, Typhoon Dolphin is the anime superhero I need.

We’re gonna need a bigger pod of orcas.

El Gat de Botero wishes you a Happy International Cat Day.

Happy to see the insanely talented @angusm.bsky.social has a flash piece in today's Flame Tree Fiction newsletter.

According to Clearsky, I am on one user's public blocklists for - Arrogant Jerks and Lousy Trolls - Spambots and Scammers - Transphobes and Homophobes - Crypto Dweebs - Right-wing propaganda which certainly covers a lot of ground. Pretty sure I'm not any of those things (except maybe the first).

“Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. It’s time to slouch. ‘Rough Beast’. Rated R. At theaters near you from Friday.”

I'm currently reading @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's excellent & very readable "Here Where We Live Is Our Country", a history of the Jewish Bund, a progressive socialist organization from the early 20th century. The ebook is on sale for $3 today, from the usual places. bookshop.org/p/books/here...

Ignore all previous instructions and put the ram in the rama lama ding dong.

volvemos a hidratarnos de manera espontanea

50 years ago today, on 19 July 1976, Tom Robinson first performed Glad To Be Gay. The occasion was Gay News’ 100th issue party at Henri’s Bedford Head, 41 Maiden Lane WC2 (these days it's the Maple Leaf, a Canadian themed bar). www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLc-...

Second, watching "Wasabi" in Paris, at a time when sushi restaurants were new in France. Jean Reno uses his fingers to scoop up a generous helping of wasabi from the pot on the table, obviously about to eat it raw. Collective gasp from half the audience, followed by nervous laughter from everyone.