Jonathan M.

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• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Congratulations! I was very fond of the 1e RPG, and I'll be looking out for this one, too!...
• Commented on Not dead but dreaming
  Some extra fun: It turns out that some of the money they paid to smuggle those artefacts ended up going to Da'esh. So, way to go radical Christianist jacknozzles!...
• Commented on Bread and Circuses (circumlunar version)
  From that URL: donald-trump... con-man... huckster... scumbag And that's just in the address!...
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Aaaaand that'll learn me to try to rely on twenty-year-old college courses. ^_^ In my defense, the oscillations are apparently getting... anomalous... across the board. This is my shocked face, really....
• Commented on Playtime is over
  Wow, this would normally TOTALLY be my baliwick because I actually have a Meteorology & Oceanography degree, with a study area concentration on environmental science! In practice all I used for it was synoptic weather observations and two months as...
• Commented on Don't blow your top!
  Oh, blast it! I knew you were coming to the bay area at some point, but I missed just when! The SF appearances would have been bearable to get into the city to meet you, but Petaluma is madness given...
• Commented on FAQ: The Laundry Files--series timeline
  !!! Oh, wonderful! I'll definitely be braving the Peninsula traffic to get there. This just made my day much brighter!...
• Commented on Ia, Ia, Google Fthagn
  Welp, I didn't need to sleep tonight, anyway. But seriously, this is extremely unsettling. And inspires some writing....
• Commented on Second childhood?
  Sinfest has gotten much more interesting and coherent in the past few years. It went from random fart jokes and fanservice to something a lot deeper. My Life At War is a mil-SF comic that has a very dinstinctive art...
• Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #1 I'll read what I like
  My concern with this POV is that it encourages tribalism of the sort we see with GG. Once upon a time, there was indeed a lot of trashing of geeks. We comforted ourselves with Slan and (much) later Ender's Game....
• Commented on The Evil Business Plan of Evil (and misery for all)
  Mr. Stross, considering your record for coming up with ideas for stories that seem to come about right when said stories get published, are you SURE you want to go this route?!...
• Commented on Thoughtcrime
  I've seen that breathtaking comment by Cameron several (many) times now and it seems to be completely tone-deaf. What is the context of it? That is, what is he saying before and after?...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Moderator Alan @768: You just made me think of Fluffy Star-Mouthed Bunnies and that is frankly terrifying....
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Nathan, Catina, et al, thank you for your forebearance, you made it somewhat more clear. Thank you for taking the time to explain it!...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  Sorry if this is a derail, and I'll accept a yellow card from OGH if it is. Seriously, might someone please explain to me just what last night's surrealism was about of which apparently I'm one of the world's "innocents?"...
• Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
  ... Er, what kind of surrealist/Robert Anton Wilson precis did I just find myself falling into?...
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  This is fascinating to watch, and I admit it's rather more life-and-death for those who are actually involved in it. But I'm seeing a considerable overlap with those in the USA who seriously want secession or abolishment of the Union....