Recently I was reminded of one of Leslie Charteris’ Saint novellas, collected in The Ace of Knaves (occasionally AKA The […]
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Dear WordPress, your “recommended tags” are garbage
I went a while without posting, so I don’t remember when WordPress.com added this alleged feature, but now when I […]
“Voter fraud” scumbaggery in Pennsylvania
Jarrett Coleman used to be a commercial pilot. I could call into question how he went through three employers between […]
Oh, hi there, winter: the unpleasantness of Daylight Saving Time
So I woke up this morning feeling better rested than I expected, started on my morning routine, and eventually noticed […]
Keeping an eye on the WordPress situation
I still scan the socials occasionally, both Mastodon and what’s left of Twitter (it’s been nearly two years since I […]
Drill Core (demo) – they mostly come out at night
I wrote the first draft of this one before Drill Core’s early-access version came out, a few weeks ago. The […]
Alice in Terrorland (2023) review
The movie opens with a teenage1 girl, Alice, sitting by the side of the road in modern-day Britain. (Maybe in […]
And goodbye to Reddit, too, I guess
So I was browsing Reddit one day, minding my own business, when I saw a post on (I think) r/Deusex […]

The stupidest “explicit content” moderation I’ve ever seen personally
While I was writing about an old sci-fi book that probably wasn’t deliberately removed from Google’s search results, the theory […]

Load time, server hiccup, or conspiracy?
So I had a stray thought about a story – yes, I still occasionally at least think about writing fiction […]