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Steady tiger.

Another Sydney stabbing.

Egan has a new one out atm. Paul J McAuley is also very good. Try "Fairyland" if you haven't already.

I always thought Sterling and Rucker built better worlds, but at the time Gibson's ideas seemed way ahead of the competition. Have you read Frank Miller's Ronin Svarty?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin_%28DC_Comics%29

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Judge Judy has an annoying habit of calling any vehicle a "car," whether it's a car (i.e., automobile) or not. Yesterday, in an episode of Judge Rinder I was watching, it was Judge Rinder's turn. He used the words "van," "truck," and "car" to refer to the same vehicle, as if these three words were ...

^a building next to the embassy, harbouring numerous people responsible for the October 7th atrocity. BBC says it was the consulate. Obviously the BBC is antisemitic. ^ Israel ignoring the fact that bombing an embassy or consulate is against international law, not to mention that as a military acti...

Svartalf wrote:Going thru William Gibson's Count Zero after reading Neuromancer

I read those when they came out. Wondering if they've aged well or are horribly dated now?

Your neck deep in it. Time to head for higher ground?

There's a new season of Judge Rinder available on Amazon. I like Judge Rinder. He's like Judge Judy, except not an asshole. The litigants on Judge Rinder often speak a very peculiar form of English, though. For instance, the words lent and borrow are frequently reversed, as in: "I borrowed him fift...

Give them one day in jail for every dollar fraudulently obtained.

Where's the Jewish space lasers when your really need them?

Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘most severe’ coral bleaching on record Concern that the Great Barrier Reef may be suffering the most severe mass coral bleaching event on record has escalated after a conservation group released footage showing damage up to 18 metres below the surface. Dr Selina Ward, ...

Coz killing people is wrong, unless it's an 11 year old black kid playing bang-bang with a plastic toy gun - then it's just a tragic mistake.

Nicaragua takes Germany to the ICJ for facilitating genocide via military exports to Israel. Are they assuaging national guilt? Seems so. Scholz told the German parliament on 12 October last: “At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side. Our own history, our res...

Nicaragua takes Germany to the ICJ for facilitating genocide via military exports to Israel.