Jon Meltzer

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• Commented on WTF
  I suspect many people in England wish they could vote for the Scottish Nationalists. Have they thought about running for seats in England?...
• Commented on WTF
  "download without paying" Partially true. The NFT is what you have to pay for. The images are right-clickable like usual HTML images....
• Commented on WTF
  Getting back to the original subject of this post: The Trump trading cards. But that's not the WTF. There's a yet unconfirmed-by-me report that one can download them from the Trump site without paying....
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  @1316: "US voters still haven't found the right fascist" is more like it....
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  US election: dead heat, and we won't know who controls both houses of Congress until the Georgia runoff. The big loser: the pollsters. Relieved, sort of. At least Fetterman is in and Boebert is out....
• Commented on I can't even
  The New York Times explains the lettuce joke: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/europe/liz-truss-lettuce-stream.html...
• Commented on I can't even
  The lettuce won. Perhaps it's time for Charlie to write about vegetables?...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  All right, who managed to piss off BLUE HADES enough for them to start cutting pipelines?...
• Commented on London Bridge
  Yes, here saying "we're a republic, not a democracy" is right wing rhetoric....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  No future, no future, no future for you....
• Commented on London Bridge
  When the family is told "you had better come now" one knows it won't be long....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  When the family is being told "you'd better be here now", that's not good news at all. Yesterday I saw some scathing cartoons about the Queen feeling ill just by meeting Truss, and now that she may be actually seriously...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  @1687 - Also missing Mary 2. And arguably Matilda, but she was never crowned. Stephen got there first....
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Labour says "if Boris doesn't go now, we call a vote of no confidence". And then the Conservatives are completely fucked. Either give Boris a reason to tear up the resignation by voting "confidence", or bring down their own government...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  I came over here to find out from the most reliable source I know of if Boris is really gone, and I find out instead that the Seagull is. May the good news keep coming. And maybe Boris is the...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  4th in line for our library's ordered copy :-)...
• Commented on Omicron
  Oh yes. But Time doesn't do that anymore; witness the obvious choice for 2001 (bin Laden) not being picked because his face wouldn't sell magazines....
• Commented on Omicron
  For those of us who don't think we are living in a Charles Stross novel, and for those of us who would rather be living in a Charles Stross novel than the real world: Elon Musk is Time's 2021 Person...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Back to 179 and dosing Nixon: Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane was a classmate of Nixon's daughter Tricia, and so was invited (under her birth name, Grace Wing) to a school reunion at the White House. Slick says she...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  Pfizer and Moderna combine to become Kellis-Amberlee. The New Management invades our reality. They are welcomed. Brexit is revoked. The UK remains in the EU. The rest of the EU members all leave in protest. Disney releases Star Wars 10....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  It now looks like Charlie will be able to go to cons in America again. When we have cons again....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  @644: The Germans will have so much fun subtitling (in German, of course) the corresponding scene from the "Last Days Of Trump" movie - and there will be one....
• Commented on Upcoming Attractions!
  Got it from the library, read it last night, will get for personal collection when finances permit. It was a relief to escape to a universe that actually made sense....
• Commented on Roll the dice
  They'll be playing RPGs about pandemics?...
• Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
  Oh, Nyarlathotep, it's changed its name again. Google Chrome users: this works. "Blog Comment Killfile" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blog-comment-killfile/kpoilnkelonbaapoapibddjaojohnpjf?hl=en-US...
• Commented on A serious question
  Apollo 11 went around the far side of the Moon before the lander was released, right? Collins (after radio blackout ends): "Houston, we have a problem. We had an explosive decompression and Neil and Buzz are dead. Should I go...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  I don't have a show yet, but one of the celebrity contestants needs to be Chuck Tingle....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  Uh? Nyarlathotep? Where are you? Time to read a Charlie Stross novel and escape into a better world, I suppose....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  So it looks like this thread has been hijacked by an entity I have to keep reblocking. Anyone want to talk about Brexit? The Speaker resigning? Boris not being able to get anything through the Commons? The prorogue going into...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Looking at latest news: uh, did the Singularity just happen?...