Best posts made by Olo

@mrgoblinging7 Get him, @SmolChlo !

@tiny-ivy I lost my job three months into COVID, and I’ve been temping and interviewing ever since. Eerily like contracting a shrinking plague.

@smolchlo This is turning into a Dr. Suess story.

@sloppy_amy Get in line.

@smolchlo It means I’m OLD.

@size_master I can attest it was much easier to collect shrunken pets back then when there weren’t cameras everywhere.

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@kisupure I remain deeply impressed by your ability to make the environment so compelling, rising above and rendering trivial the human-nak conflict. I also really enjoy how the hardship afflicts Gray and Rice differently.

Rice, and all the sons of the Algorithm, were an attempt at something new, and it was that newness that drew her to him.

This reminds me of a path-not-taken by the recent iteration of Battlestar Galactica. The Cylons are a very young civilization, and they look at humans with a weird mix of arrogance and deep insecurity. This story’s tropes encourage Rice to (seem to) have boundless confidence, and his knowledge of how the corpsmen are being farmed by the Naks keeps him from speaking freely around Gray, but he has to be aware of how precarious the whole setup is, and you have deftly hinted at that.

Of course, now I want to know how the new sentinel also knows the corpsmen by name. Has Rice been gossiping?

@smolchlo That’s all I meant: it sounded like The Snootches and Other Stories.

@kisupure It wouldn’t have played well with the corpsmen, but Gray deserved to take Wesson out.

@smolchlo Jacek Chmielnik was born in 1953 (d. 2007). I’m not as old as that, but I am older than he was in the photo I use for my avatar.

@kisupure So, you gonna draw Keith in his boxers?

It’s probably apocryphal, but back in the 90s I heard about female lawyers putting their testosterone levels on their resumes.

@bigcuddlygiant I presume the different sizes connote different denominations. Do they stack, I wonder?

@kisupure Those are some cuddly-looking calves.

@mrgoblinging7 This is a bit too on the nose…