Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

The Day We Were Raided By The Feds -

https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened?sd=pf

(I wrote this up to attach to the yard sign mentioned in previous toots with a QR code, and have something to pin to avoid telling the story over again.)

Before following me, you should be aware that if you have a political ideology, I probably despise it, even if it's mine.

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No, actually - especially if it's mine.

Opens up a check valve.

"Hello, poppet."

So, looks like iOS 18.4.1/iOS 18.5 has broken Pi-hole and other DNS filtering mechanisms.

Damn their sleek and shiny hides.

Details:

https://open.substack.com/pub/randombytes/p/pi-hole-and-ios-1841185?r=8byfa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

If Amazon won't do it, how's about someone writes a nice little browser extension to display the cost of tariffs on every product page?

This would of course be "hostile" and "political", but if you didn't want people to know about all the "good" you're doing, you shouldn't have become a polit-fucker in the first place.

"I don't know how things are where you come from, but around here you're going to find that all the laboratories come with a shrine to the God of Science."

(Whose traditional invocation is "Let me have the clarity to see things as they are.")

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

Bearing Ancient Scars

Sometimes they're necessary.

https://eldraeverse.com/2025/04/26/bearing-ancient-scars/

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

There is the greatest monster-hunting crossover fanfic out there titled "Toss A Coin To Your Watcher", and I can only beg someone to write it.

...I really wish I'd had this thought during the whole New Jersey thing.

"What's that?"

"Nothing, it's just a wisp of cloud."

"It's moving fast... and against the wind."

"DRONES! FROM CHINA!"

Floating Acorn - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/04/24/floating-acorn/

One city, FAS!

#eldraeverse #sciencefiction #writing

Extended thoughts here:

https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/if-i-may-be-a-little-gauche/3438

"One day, you must explain to me exactly how closing to meleé is 'brutish and uncouth', while raining enough razor-sharp shards of cubic gauche nitrogen from the sky to blot out the sun is the quintessence of military elegance."

#eldraeverse

“Have you ever been to Blaviken? The Cakemaker of Blaviken would whoop all our asses. This is the Butcher.”

Antimemetics? The very idea!

Not To Carp or Criticize - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/31/not-to-carp-or-criticize/

A fish story, with audiobooks.

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

Y'know, without due process, there's no legal reason not to round up everyone who thinks there shouldn't be due process and put them in mandatory civics camps.

Just sayin'.

*sniff* *sniff*

A PETG by any other name does not smell sweet.

Hypothesis confirmed.

Today in #3dprinting experiences:

Having endless trouble with this particular spool of PLA.

Experiment with the extruder temperature.

Discover it prints much better when you get it up to 240 C, well outside the usual PLA range.

This is bloody mislabeled PETG, isn't it?