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@lispi314 I suspect the on-device video-based age mechanism is broken because they'd like to drive people towards the upload-your-government-ID-documents option.

Not going to happen.

Discord age verification last night happily told me that I appear to be a teenager.

(Me: with an increasingly grey beard.)

This morning I learn that Discord age verification is broken for *everyone*.

(Golf clap.)

@jwz There's probably some linguistic uncertainty in there, too! But the article itself highlights a bunch of worrying trends.

Why is global uncertainty at an all-time high in 2026? World Uncertainty Index surges to 106,862 in February - worse than COVID, 2008 crash, and 9/11 combined:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/why-is-global-uncertainty-at-an-all-time-high-in-2026-world-uncertainty-index-surges-to-106862-in-february-worse-than-covid-2008-crash-and-9/11-combined/articleshow/128482783.cms

#PennedPossibilities 934 — Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

No.

I'm 100% trad published and cover design/art is the publisher's job. That would currently be Tor in the USA and Orbit in the UK. (They sometimes remember to ask me if I like it before it's frozen …!)

@lilithsaintcrow @ColesStreetPothole

"It is a sick, sick world when the confidence and investment of an astute firm of publishers is justified by a work of unparalleled depravity."

From The Irish Times' review of "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks. (Their literary reviewer got pride of place on the cover of the paperback for that one! The while review is worth a look.)

https://iainbanks.co.uk/the-works/the-wasp-factory/the-wasp-factory-reviews/

@n1xnx @keith_lawson @GossiTheDog @quixoticgeek Similarly, clanker stans don't seem to realize that when they're asking their spicy autocomplete pal for advice they're communing with every shitpost and ironic negation ever posted on reddit and twitter. "No, you CAN shave more efficiently by setting your beard on fire!"

AI image slop vs physiotherapy!

@gbargoud @feorag @iFixit We don't. (Also, the TV was new in 2012. Really, we're only still using it because I'm on the lookout for a 4K display for the Apple TV that isn't going to force-feed us ads and internet crap.)

The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go (like: out of Europe), and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.

@poetaster remember, with the authoritarian right, it's ALWAYS projection

@rbanffy Then he's got to be a specimen of Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi, the hippo ass leech!

Is Peter Thiel a vampire? A deep dive into the evidence ... https://machielreyneke.com/blog/vampires-longevity/

@freiksenet I got a few of them circa 2008-2014, but nothing recently. (Laundry Files and Merchant Princes didn't need them by that point; also publisher marketing spend per author dropped significantly.) They still happen but they're expensive so they're only really a thing for guaranteed bestsellers.

Also, I'm not visiting the USA under MAGA rule. And nowhere else has the potential sales to justify one.

@pndc RPG rule books on paper aren't light and the pile I have to sign probably weighs more than I do. It's cheaper to ship me around—and besides, they've got a warehouse and mail order fulfillment facilities there. Whereas I do not (and I'm up four flights of steps from ground level on a no-stopping main road.)

@Argonel @AlisonW I think there's a visit to the games co's offices scheduled for the next day, before I head home ...

@bodhipaksa I don't! Worst signing *ever* came to my front door—a crate of 1000 frontispieces to sign so they could be bound into a limited edition. Took a couple of days. The only way I could get through it was to mutter "one pound … one pound … one pound …" every time I picked up a new sheet (that's about what it paid above the basic royalty on SRP for a hardcover).

Writing lines used to be a punishment at school. Now it's part of the day job.

@bodhipaksa I won't be staying in Dublin.

The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)

It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.

(Why are you looking at me funny?)

@Steveg58 @pheedbackPhil Pay phones in the UK didn't have buttons until well into the 1980s. They ran on pulse dialing and if you needed long distance you could either dial the area code *or* talk to the operator.