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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:05:47 JST Charlie Stross

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   • Ailantd Sikowsky ??
   • Gary Parker :party_porg:

   @WiteWulf @Ailantd Novelist brain: the TV depiction of all successful authors as languidly dictating their next bestseller to their secretary on a poolside lounger by their chateau in the south of France always gets me. (Average novelist earnings: about £8000/year).

   Software dev brain: … they NEVER get programming right. Never.

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     Gary Parker :party_porg: (witewulf@cyberplace.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:05:48 JST Gary Parker :party_porg:

     • Ailantd Sikowsky ??

     @Ailantd @cstross there was a fantastic thread on Twitter, back in the day, inviting people to post/rant about what they found most annoying/inaccurate in portrayals of their profession in TV and movies. It was hilarious and informative at the same time

     The one that stuck in my mind was an anaesthetist railing against the movie practice of knocking people out with an ether soaked rag, and them surviving