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There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
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Saturday 13th's 2025 advent book is There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org: a brilliant, chilling, mind-bending alien scifi/horror that should definitely be on your TBR.

How do you fight a war against something that can stop you remembering it even exists?

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December 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Probably a large number of international airline crew and quite a few major politicians...
December 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I think mine is two, because I've done the Halifax-London-Hong Kong-Melbourne-Hawaii-Vancouver-Halifax route twice (company trips to Melbourne, where the "all the way around" route was cheapest).

The time I did Halifax-London-Singapore-Melbourne-and-back-the-same-way cancels itself out.
Your planetary winding number is the number of times you have circled the North Pole in total since being born. It's tracked by longitude. It can be fractional. For most people the number is 0 or close to it. If you fly east from the US to Europe to Japan and then back to the US, that adds 1
December 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
You're a long way from home, I see
December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It doesn't cancel out. It counts the full number of loops. If you stay home forever it stays at 0, but if you go all the way east around the world once and come back to where you were born, it's now 1. Do that again and it's now 2. Go *west* for a full turn of the world and it comes back down to 1
December 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Would be interesting to know what, for example, any recent Pope's winding number is/was
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Leader of the first expedition to gain a winding number of -1
Ferdinand Magellan - Wikipedia
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Absolutely, just go west instead of east

bsky.app/profile/hamd...
Can it go negative
December 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
What's yours?
Winding number - Wikipedia
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December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you travel to either pole you can make some pretty rapid modifications to your winding number by walking around the pole a few times. If you have ever travelled directly across a pole your winding number is no longer well defined
December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Okay I can't take a screenshot but John Carter (2012) is "Dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs, an inspiration to us all"
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Y outtimeflanks X
December 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I talked about this at length in the article. I think the game is actually beautiful but it's not a pleasant space to inhabit for long periods
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
From my Control writeup, my wishlist for Control 2 was:

* More radically inventive Altered Items
* More music
* More colour
* More closure
Control, from an SCP contributor's perspective
Control is a 2019 third-person action shooter developed by Remedy Entertainment. The game takes inspiration from a variety of sources, but its most prominent and notable influence is the SCP project, ...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We need to be able to simply say "X <verb>s Y". I'm taking suggestions as to what that verb should be. Make something up if you like. Up to three syllables
December 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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also this lovely thing from @qntm.org (I’ve read it ahead but I couldn’t resist the shiny pretty hardcover 😍)
December 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM