@scalzi And that's exactly our Gen-Xer reaction :shrugs in despair:

And I finally broke and yelled SHUUUUT UUUUP!

He glared at me and went into another room and had a meltdown tantrum, slamming a door repeatedly until it was hanging off its hinges. 2/3

Had the weirdest actual Trump dream last night. He was in the next room loudly repeating nonsense phases that included "chocolate" (something about drowning out a "real" chocolate-related scandal) 1/3

And I ended up being chased around by reporters. End dream.

I'm telling you, it was SO REAL and so believable 3/3

me too! https://t.co/jZatYjJ4i9

DAMMIT @scalzi - the end of The Consuming Fire is so good I wanted to punch myself in the face

Which reminds me: The Wrong Stars by @timpratt has a great own-face punching scene that also calls back to Alien

@danbenjamin Now I want to play Minecraft again. I'd play the hell out of that pack

RT @mat_johnson: MY DAUGHTER: OK, GenX.

[I pull the car over to the curb]

ME: Listen Zoomer, as long as the Millennials and the Boomers a…

RT @manicsocratic: it's in my head now and it'll be in yours too https://t.co/GkVNaXz7ma

#eveonline explorers and relic hunters: if you are sci-fi fans, check out Alistair Reynolds Revenger - it’s not brilliant (his first YA book) but has some fun bits that are very reminiscent explorer culture

Terminator, but I go back in time to kill whoever invented the word “webinar”

@obfuscurity This is why engineers hate change and reuse old stuff all the time: we never want to go back to the anxiety and self-recrimination we feel when we have to solve a problem the first time. :-)

It's 5:00am and there's a 46-message outage thread in your inbox https://t.co/IxX1Iauabf

RT @davewiner: RSS is the bomb. https://t.co/7wb1RDPh4O

@BadAstronomer Made me think of NASCAR sponsors:

https://t.co/ewPfX95k5V

RT @drschweitzer: I don't think I've identified with a generational meme so much in my whole life. https://t.co/F5oPxHEu8M

RT @StormXF3: https://t.co/X7Cqn1mryM

@peter_ravn @jephjacques #wearethedatabase

@jephjacques Set up a few mechanical turk or google jobs for fans to tag the comics, you'll have a massive searchable db in no time :P

@bethcodes @obfuscurity @bryanl I was about to reply that I can’t even say it that way in my head, but I actually do! But to me it’s more like jay-sahn (having grown up partly in the south, “sawn” has a much drawlier connotation)