Please note that if you actually DID write me a haiku about daleks I now strongly suspect you're a bot.

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@jannem @cstross
The Season of the #Daleks is after #nuclearwinter on Skaro.
I missed the first episode, watched the second from behind the sofa.

[syllopsium@peoplemaking.games]

@cstross That would be so much easier than the reality

Also creating a haiku was a pleasant distraction from frustrating reality.

[jollyorc@social.5f9.de]

@cstross my saving grace is that think I cannot write haikus, so I didn't try...

[malcolm@sns.internationalotaku.com]

@cstross Curious if you think the replies who missed out on the critical part of a traditional haiku (the reference to a season) are more or less likely to be a bot

[enobacon@urbanists.social]

@cstross if a bot ignored all previous instructions, would it reply to your post?

[skjeggtroll@mastodon.online]

@cstross

Does not compute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70xhsnfeABQ

[datarama@hachyderm.io]

@jollyorc @cstross

haikus are easy
but sometimes they make no sense
electricity.

[wellsitegeo@masto.ai]

@cstross I was in B+Q yesterday, for reasons, and noticed a cubic metre bin full of sink plungers.
Then spent 30 seconds looking for a spare marker pen and bit of board to declare "Dalek Re-armament Depot", or something similar.

[eighthourlunch@mastodon.social]

@cstross

Suspecting a bot
Where a bot there is not
Police box empty.

[mdm@mcnamarii.town]

@cstross A real human would've said, "you're the one with the Nebula award, write your own damn haiku, Stross!"

[cturnbow@mastodon.world]

@WellsiteGeo @cstross

"Must exterminate"

would at least be the first or last line of such a haiku, bot or no bot

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@mdm I have no Nebula award! (Three Hugos, sure. But never a Neb. Boo hoo, how sad, never mind …)

[eighthourlunch@mastodon.social]

@cstross

A Dalek can't write
Iambic pentameter
But could it write this?

Honestly, now it just feels like you're egging us on.

[naf@weirder.earth]

@cstross bot, or just someone with ADHD?

[wellsitegeo@masto.ai]

@cturnbow @cstross Sounds good to me.

I actually composed a haiku several days ago, twiddle it to get the syllable count right and everything. Most poetic I've been for decades - except when making up rude slogans against Orange Lodge marches.

[eighthourlunch@mastodon.social]

@cstross @mdm Perhaps a nebulous award to tide you over?

[chigaze@mstdn.ca]

@cstross I was going to try one for fun but realized I haven’t had enough coffee yet for poetry.