Why read the link when you can just make something up and put it on the internet?
What would be the point of making up such a story? There isn't one. I live in the same neck of the woods as Charles Stross and see him around occasionally, as well as a few folk that know him. I'm not sure what the big deal with that is? I used to run into Ken MacLeod too sometimes, who is/was a friend of Stross', and in my view a more enjoyable writer. (I've never got into Stross' novels.)
I don’t get it. You’re suggesting that the article is untruthful?
Not exactly.
You know you could just read the linked page and it'll tell you exactly why it's called that, right?
You know that I used to know one of his close friends and she had Antipope in her email address? Kind of worth mentioning. I never got on with her particularly and her email caused an incident I remember VERY well.
I didn't know that but I think we know the same person, and I remember the incident.
All I'll say is it's a good job they didn't live in South Lanarkshire.