Dearest readers, I have been dealing with a family emergency here on top of a plate that was already full before the family emergency. I am trying to be somewhat kind to myself and acknowledge that I have very real physical and mental limits. Which is a way of getting to my point that I might be doing some short posts for a little while. I would rather do short frequent posts than long, infrequent ones.

I am not as smart or entertaining and awesome a writer as Charlie Stross, obviously, but here is Charlie Stross acknowledging that he is somewhat overwhelmed by events and might be doing some short posts for awhile.

it’s really hard to write a good carpet-chewing rant by an evil wannabe galactic overlord against a background of an actual international Neo-Nazi conspiracy to destroy democracy globally, and another international conspiracy of billionaires trying to immanetize the AI eschaton and enslave everyone else, and … and … fuck, even Space Opera isn’t safe from the maniacs these days!

You can make fun of people who are serious but somewhat bumbling (think of George Bush or, gulp, Joe Biden) but it is hard to make fun of evil clowns. Clowns can be funny, but only when they are not evil.

Okay, put an evil clown in a diaper and it’s at least a little bit funny…until they come for you or someone you care about.