Notices by Andrew Hickey (andrewhickeywriter@mstdn.social)

@goatsarah (In that book, incidentally, the hydrogen-fuel system is deliberately kept down by a shady conspiracy of evil oil-company people, because Ben Elton gets things very wrong)

@goatsarah The thing is, I figured this out literally when I was twelve. I read Ben Elton's Gridlock, with a character who invents a hydrogen-fuel system for cars, thought about it for *two seconds* and said "that's fucking stupid"

@goatsarah I mean, the people in question clearly have never encountered the human concept known as "friends", so are clearly just reaching for the closest word in their vocabulary...

@goatsarah If you go to https://wolfgang.raios.xyz/top_blocked you can see the most-blocked accounts on Bluesky n the last forty-eight hours (by their IDs rather than usernames, but you can click through). Currently Mensch is at number one and Ditum is number three. (Number two is a LLM spam account)