Found on Bluesky.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

Found on Bluesky. The perils of machine translation exemplified:

[bicebird@toot.wales]

@cstross this be fair number five seems like reasonably good, general advice...

[peachfiend@mastodon.sdf.org]

@cstross i dunno. "Don't be so careful in time of death" is pretty badass.

[blotosmetek@circumstances.run]

@cstross I'm pretty sure the original was in Russian. "muhym" is misinterpreted "минут", ie. "minutes" (in handwriting Cyrillic и looks exactly like Latin u and н looks like n) etc.

[tclark@mstdn.social]

@cstross "Don't be so careful in time of death" is very 2026 energy.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@blotosmetek According to reddit, yes it was in Russian!

[laird_dave@chaos.social]

@cstross r/Ihadastroke

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@cstross Between two uzmeruyamu? Isn't Uzmeruyamu that anime horse-girl racing game?

[tezoatlipoca@mas.to]

@tclark Its the new #YOLO. YONDO: You Only Not Die Once

[alien@mastodon.green]

@cstross nobody is talking about the come on please, I think it's hilarious

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@alien @cstross It's just asking for us to trust it.

[kaleissin@wandering.shop]

@tezoatlipoca @cstross Urotsukidoji, surely *snigger*

[choomba@social.tchncs.de]

@cstross I think in these trying times we all too often forget that pacclabmech is not mehee yem.

[mdm@mcnamarii.town]

@cstross Uh oh, I did 6 muhym, I hope I'll be okay

[cadbury_moose@wandering.shop]

@cstross

Real "Send three and fourpence we are going to a dance" energy there. Did someone dictate it into something set for the wrong language?

Mayor Snorkum would approve.

[paulk@writing.exchange]

@cstross Being careful in time of death is overrated anyway, but the pacclabmech... really? That's too much.

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@cstross

Sigh....

[eedly@mindly.social]

@cstross Don't be so careful in time of death. Do you want to muhym forever?

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@cstross I think I just had a stroke.

[zieg@twiukraine.com]

@cstross is that OK that I can actually read and understand the whole instruction and the third sentence in particular?