In The Shape of A Person

ngl it's been incredibly wild to me watching the Martian blow up and then Project Hail Mary blow up even bigger when I previously knew Andy Weir from a webcomic where he dates Satan, who had previously secretly been Frances Folsom

"Vertical Societies" (2023) by Richard Nadler

aurochsgirl isn’t sure if she’s supposed to be extinct or not, and she can’t go on wikipedia to check (wifi down (modem broken (impact-related damage (chucked off the top of the roof (her catgirl wife’s devastating comeuppance in the world champions of online catgirl poker tournament-related))))). usually, you’d hope that you weren’t extinct, but there’s always an edge case or weird exception out there (counter-ontological sword (no thing real may wield it (only weapon that can wound the isn’tgirl who won the world champions of online catgirl poker tournament))).

I think there should be a microblogging platform where the complete text of each post is also its primary database key. Want to make a post with the exact same text that anyone else has ever made? Key integrity violation, try again. This would not benefit anyone in any way.

If multiple identical posts are made via different nodes before the reconciliation process can catch the duplication, which one is canonised is determined entirely at random. The others simply vanish. This would be good for the community, I think.

At last, the Melancholy Elephants Social Media Platform from Spider Robinson's classic "Don't Make the Melancholy Elephants Social Media Platform"