Charlie StrossI has a sad now.
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114134062940887550
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114134062940887550
Moz@cstross start The Berd Riting Awerd Too, or BRAT for short?
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@cstross
That is sad. The archives apparently shall continue, which is good.
Perhaps someone else will pick up the metaphorical torch?
Keith Ivey@cstross I'm just glad it wasn't shut down by DOGE.
@kcivey DOGE *is* something out of the Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction competition! I mean, you couldn't make it up, could you?
"The richest man in the world's 22 year old pocket protector wearing nerd marched into the control tower slightly before rush hour nd addressed the air traffic controllers: "you're all fired, losers!" he sneered. On the apron outside the windows, the 737s were piling up …"
Colin@cstross “This novel is dedicated to the Bulwer-Lyton Fiction Contest, in whose honour the opening sentence, and indeed much of the other prose, is crafted.”
If anyone can have the BLFC as an actual anthropomorphised character…
B70Greg@cstross It is a dark and stormy night for all of us
Cadbury Moose@cstross Well, Dang! 40-odd years is a good run, but can't someone else take it on?
Laukidh
Michael Vilain@cstross With so much fanfic on-line these days, I must quote Dorothy Parker's comment when she heard Calvin Coolidge was dead.
How could you tell?
David Lee Holcomb@cstross -- Well, hell. There goes my last shot at one day winning a writing contest.