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.)
Which then also puts me in mind of a certain inventory item from the old Hitchhiker's Guide text adventure game.
> INV
You have no king.
The thing that occurs to me, considering the #NoKings protests, is that quotation -
"Any man who must say, 'I am the king,' is no king."
- observing, as one does, that Trump says little else.
I was writing a thing about how smart-matter/nanoweapons are unsuitable for starships because given engagement ranges and prevalent space radiation, you'd basically be hurling blobs of seething necrotic robocancer at each other.
But that just makes it sound cooler than it is.
(Also, "Seething Necrotic Robocancer" is my cyberpunk band name.)
(That's "the gentleman of no significance over there, scraping habitat fungus into a food container for later consumption, is one who causes great offence while doing nothing of any effect, wouldn't you agree?" If you were curious.)
Amusingly for an SFnal Tolkien pastiche, it would work perfectly as the first line of a very different _Lord of the Rings_ .
Lots of rads around Saturn.
It irritates me quite unreasonably that our asshole of a Vice President shares a surname with one of my favorite authors.
I am absolutely on Team The Lives Of People Like This Should Be As Painful And Inconvenient As Possible.
Think of it as "human alignment".
Death, and How We Give It To You - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/05/27/death-and-how-we-give-it-to-you/
Death penalties, of various sorts.
Science fiction writer. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist. Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!