Charlie Stross
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
This is what malicious compliance looks like (sub-editor handed repugnant article: "hmm, I wonder what photo I can pair with this to undermine it …")
You can always depend on the Murdochs to have the worst takes.
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is what malicious compliance looks like (sub-editor handed repugnant article: "hmm, I wonder what photo I can pair with this to undermine it …")
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You can always depend on the Murdochs to have the worst takes.
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
You can always depend on the Murdochs to have the worst takes.
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Also $2.99 on bookshop.org in the US, which supports local book stores.
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bookshop.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Also $2.99 on bookshop.org in the US, which supports local book stores.
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Really enjoyed this one! I adore the laundry series and am very impressed at how the world, the stores and the characters have changed and grown over time. It’s exciting to meet the new characters and refreshing to see how Stross takes the series in unexpected directions. 10/10 recommend.
Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel
Amazon.com: A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel eBook : Stross, Charles: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Really enjoyed this one! I adore the laundry series and am very impressed at how the world, the stores and the characters have changed and grown over time. It’s exciting to meet the new characters and refreshing to see how Stross takes the series in unexpected directions. 10/10 recommend.
BETTER STILL it seems to be on Kobo for $2.99 (at least in Canada; probably the USA also)—a better choice of ebookstore (it doesn't subsidize Jeff Bezo)
Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel
Amazon.com: A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel eBook : Stross, Charles: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
BETTER STILL it seems to be on Kobo for $2.99 (at least in Canada; probably the USA also)—a better choice of ebookstore (it doesn't subsidize Jeff Bezo)
Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel
Amazon.com: A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel eBook : Stross, Charles: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago
/me: crumbles to dust
/me: crumbles to dust
(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
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Hey, foreigners! To celebrate the anniversary of Henry Kissinger's death, why don't you do the thing he loved best, and arrange for a regime change? Your choice of government!
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Hey, foreigners! To celebrate the anniversary of Henry Kissinger's death, why don't you do the thing he loved best, and arrange for a regime change? Your choice of government!
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TIL that Marc Andreessen is (or at least was*, back in 2007) a huge fan of @cstross.bsky.social.
Look, I'm not asking for Charlie to write a cone-headed tech billionaire character that experiences some bad things into his next novel, but I'm not not asking...
pmarchive.com/top_sci-fi_n...
Look, I'm not asking for Charlie to write a cone-headed tech billionaire character that experiences some bad things into his next novel, but I'm not not asking...
pmarchive.com/top_sci-fi_n...
Pmarchive · Top 10 science fiction novelists of the ’00s—so far
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
pmarchive.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
TIL that Marc Andreessen is (or at least was*, back in 2007) a huge fan of @cstross.bsky.social.
Look, I'm not asking for Charlie to write a cone-headed tech billionaire character that experiences some bad things into his next novel, but I'm not not asking...
pmarchive.com/top_sci-fi_n...
Look, I'm not asking for Charlie to write a cone-headed tech billionaire character that experiences some bad things into his next novel, but I'm not not asking...
pmarchive.com/top_sci-fi_n...
Taken at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
November 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Taken at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
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“But Putin will not be around forever. He might not be around for much longer. He’s perched on the top of a powder keg of his own making and he can’t get off.”
The Putin Domino Theory
When one man goes, everything changes
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“But Putin will not be around forever. He might not be around for much longer. He’s perched on the top of a powder keg of his own making and he can’t get off.”
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Rattlesnake
Hyena
Tuatara
Orca
Puerto Rican giant millipede
Rattlesnake
Hyena
Tuatara
Orca
Puerto Rican giant millipede
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Bald eagle
Marmot
Elk
Snapping turtle
Humpback whale
Bald eagle
Marmot
Elk
Snapping turtle
Humpback whale
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
Fox
Puffin
Ibis
Slow Worm
Quokka
The horror, the horror …!
A raytracer has been written in pure cmake.
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
There are lots of things that should not be done.
64.github.io/cmake-raytra...
Ray Tracing in pure CMake
A simple ray tracer written in pure CMake
64.github.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The horror, the horror …!
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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So, uh, asking with no particular reason in mind; what are the coordinates for Billionaire Island?
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
So, uh, asking with no particular reason in mind; what are the coordinates for Billionaire Island?
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Honestly, this looks more and more like the Conservative party has been taken over by something from a @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files book.
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Honestly, this looks more and more like the Conservative party has been taken over by something from a @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files book.
HELLO MY PRETTIES, AND WELCOME TO THE INTERNET FOR ANOTHER DAY OF "EAT SLOP OR DIE OF INFORMATION STARVATION"
—Sam Altman toasting Mark Zuckerberg with a 70 year old single malt, in the panopticon red room in the bunker under the lagoon on Billionaire Island, probably
—Sam Altman toasting Mark Zuckerberg with a 70 year old single malt, in the panopticon red room in the bunker under the lagoon on Billionaire Island, probably
November 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
HELLO MY PRETTIES, AND WELCOME TO THE INTERNET FOR ANOTHER DAY OF "EAT SLOP OR DIE OF INFORMATION STARVATION"
—Sam Altman toasting Mark Zuckerberg with a 70 year old single malt, in the panopticon red room in the bunker under the lagoon on Billionaire Island, probably
—Sam Altman toasting Mark Zuckerberg with a 70 year old single malt, in the panopticon red room in the bunker under the lagoon on Billionaire Island, probably
Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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These lads are going to get in trouble for making all of their journo colleagues look like gormless fucking idiots, quite frankly
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
These lads are going to get in trouble for making all of their journo colleagues look like gormless fucking idiots, quite frankly
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How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
I maintain a few widely used libraries that have optimized code paths based on the specific processor being used. We started supporting Loongson processors in recent years, but I did not have access…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
How good are Chinese CPUs? Benchmarking the Loongson 3A6000
Yep, but it's a bit smaller (and newer!) than the one in Westminster Abbey, or even Phibes' personal Wurlitzer.
This organ at the Kelvingrove gave me Dr. Phibes vibes, especially after reading the forthcoming THE REGICIDE REPORT
#photography
What do you think @cstross.bsky.social ?
#photography
What do you think @cstross.bsky.social ?
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yep, but it's a bit smaller (and newer!) than the one in Westminster Abbey, or even Phibes' personal Wurlitzer.
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Not directly relared, but my spellchecker switched off... because I am on Android Samsung kbd, and it is in predictive text, and I have set a checkbox to process data on the device only, and with the recent update predictive text _requires_ cloud processing.
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
November 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Not directly relared, but my spellchecker switched off... because I am on Android Samsung kbd, and it is in predictive text, and I have set a checkbox to process data on the device only, and with the recent update predictive text _requires_ cloud processing.
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
HOW DID IT FUNCTION FOR DECADES THEN?!!
Because the markets feel like 1999 all over again, lemme pitch my new-old startup that needs funding, bro: Sphinctergram, for sharing photos of your bleached ringpiece. It makes at least as much investment sense as spicy autocomplete LLMs, doesn't it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Because the markets feel like 1999 all over again, lemme pitch my new-old startup that needs funding, bro: Sphinctergram, for sharing photos of your bleached ringpiece. It makes at least as much investment sense as spicy autocomplete LLMs, doesn't it.
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The damage that the terfs have done is so much greater than many realise. Succefully protecting trans rights was no less consequential than protecting rights to not be discriminated against for all people
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The damage that the terfs have done is so much greater than many realise. Succefully protecting trans rights was no less consequential than protecting rights to not be discriminated against for all people