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@gwalli Yes, my answer is now “and also all the jalapeño”

@gwalli The answer is always “all the cheese”

RT @MaxCCurtis: For #DoctorWhoDay's 56th, I want to celebrate one woman in particular. Delia Derbyshire literally began Dr Who: the very f…

@collision This is a scene from a Taika Waititi film, and this character will be played by the director.

RT @LackadaisyCats: Does your cat ever just... https://t.co/ce9bnjMwuj

@mrgan Same with food, here. Power-move that.

@jephjacques thanks for the vacuum decay comic, @AstroKatie now wins the biggest downer of all time 😭✨💫🌟

https://t.co/g1bQemCMZf

RT @markimbriaco: I like YAML, comments in my configuration files, and long walks on the beach.

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

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

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

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

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

None#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. :-)