Wandering Adventure Party

@CactuarJoe Everyone always reacts to a Silver deck like it's T4, so it might as well play like it's T4.

@cstross I’m not sure - it seems to be available on every ebook vendor I’ve checked so far as part of my spiral of disbelief.

My executive dysfunction finally let me get around to preordering the next @cstross novel at 1am, so I guess it’s my own fault for falling for this scam in my sleep deprived state:

Challenged | Kobo.com

(www.kobo.com)

Wrong publisher, a blurb that doesn’t mention past works or reviews, and a weird looking cover. But it shows up in searches for Neal Stephenson’s work, so fuck me I guess?

Oh boy. I think I’ve been bamboozled. Various ebook stores have a new book by Neal Stephenson available. Except it reads like AI slop. Not even good AI slop.

… and it’s not mentioned on Stephenson’s website
… and I can’t find a single review of it anywhere

I am ashamed to admit I read three pages before I realised I’d been scammed.

Now that quote posts are a thing on Mastodon, we need an insufferably cutesy nickname for them that everyone hates but still gets used anyway.

To that end I nominate “Quoots”, a portmanteau of ‘quote’ and ‘toot’. I believe it’s the worst possible option, solidly cementing Mastodon in particular and the Fediverse in general as having the worst slang on the internet.

Please quoot to spread the word.