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.

(This may also include the words "and once I do this for you, you're gonna need to find a new con[tractor|sultant]".)

For anyone wondering why exactly I implemented the DEAR GOD HOW COULD ANYONE THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA thing despite that?

My professional ethics are very simple. If you ask for a dangerous or illegal thing, that I won't do. But if what you ask for is merely a bloody stupid thing, I will tell you that it is a bloody stupid thing and why, and if you insist on getting it anyway, that your request for a bloody stupid thing against my better judgment is on the record.

Then it's all on you, bro.

I really need to get my brother-in-law on here so that I can confuse people by talking about "Philip of Mastodon".

In the end, you will always kneel.

*cool ass-castle

Be real, people: the cost of aristocratic extravagance that gave us Versailles and Neuchwanstein is as nothing compared to what we spend shampooing the idols of democracy.

And we don't even get a cool-ass castle out of it.

Looking at the breathless fundraising posts, and man, it's quite depressing when you think of all the billions of dollars we spend on holding a rolling popularity contest for vacuous thugs.

I mean, think of all the more socially useful things we could spend that money on, like chroming the moon, building weed-fueled cars, or sewing quilts out of $100 bills.

Having assembled the necessary series of connectors to enable a current computer to talk to a 1980s peripheral...

Well. This is a story about airlocks.

#sf #writing

Among the depressing parts of uspol is that people keep coming up with meme reasons to oppose Kamala Harris, whereas in any halfway civilized society, her record of prolonging sentences to make use of prison labor, hiding exculpatory evidence, and covering up prosecutorial abuse should be more than sufficient to disqualify her from holding any office of public or private trust or authority for the rest of her natural.

TIL that in Korean as it is spoken in North Korea, there are two different honorifics meaning “comrade”, depending on whether the comrade you are addressing is of higher social status.

That’s a fundamental truth about communism right there.

"Doomsmugging", incidentally, is today's neoword for "as long as you idiots are going to burn the world, at least I can still have sarcasm and s'mores".

People are all "but this time you need to vote defensively/strategically/for the lesser evil" as if where we are standing right now isn't the product of literal generations of short-termist dipshits pursuing that exact strategy.

Congratulations.

You chose evil for the dumbest "pragmatic" reasons.

Now you have it.

Enjoy.

I just had a cog slip in my brain and wrote an article for my notes about the Imperial Navy and its "pretty officers".

I mean, not that they don't *have* those, but still...

#eldraeverse #writing

(Well, to be fair, they don't list the Oyashio-class attack submarines as "destroyer, subsurface". But they should.)

On another note, I for one am hoping the JMSDF habit of typing literally every ship as a destroyer variant of one kind or another persists through our expansion into space, just so that _someone_ will be operating "destroyer, comma, star".