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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:29:31 JST Charlie Stross

   SO FAR my 2020 prediction for this decade is coming true right on schedule!

   To recap, it went like this:

   2021: Woe, misery, why can't we be invaded and occupied by The Culture?

   2022: Tough shit, you're getting the Daleks instead

   2023: Cthulhu wakes up, takes one look at the burning shitshow, and nopes back to His fainting couch in R'lyeh

   2024: Trump re-elected

   …

   What's next:

   2025: Hitler steps out of time machine, looks at US politics/Ukraine war/world on fire, says "steady on, now!"

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     pgcd (pgcd@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:36:32 JST pgcd

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     @cstross no offense meant but yours was, honestly, one of the futures I least wanted to materialize.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:36:32 JST Charlie Stross

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     • pgcd

     @pgcd Same! But it was a really great way of satirizing the Tory party between 2015 and 2024.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:39:49 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Lili Saintcrow

     @lilithsaintcrow DO NOT WANT

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     Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:39:50 JST Lili Saintcrow

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     @cstross How's it feel to have been pasted by Apollo's red ball?

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:54:46 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Lili Saintcrow

     @lilithsaintcrow My go-to for how things might have been worse is encapsulated in a novelette I wrote ages ago, where the world population is downsized by a pandemic of Martian Hyper-Scabies. (Full-body degloving! Death by itching!) Luckily there don't appear to be any mites on Mars …

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     Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:54:48 JST Lili Saintcrow

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     @cstross Dare I say “it could have been worse”, or is that tempting Fate even more?