Petra van Cronenburg<p>I think that <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> watch these days with open mouths and surprise how reality can write the weirdest plots for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a>. (Forget ChatGPT with its biased boring stories!)</p><p>“This isn’t reality TV,” said another former intelligence official. “There are consequences.”</p><p>And this is a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/real" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>real</span></a> quote in a real facts article about a real development in real <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a>. <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/pol</span><span class="invisible">itics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html</span></a><br>Try to sell such a plot to your publisher: 'too irreal', incredible, could never happen!"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RealityCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealityCheck</span></a></p>