Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

No Step On Snek -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/19/no-step-on-snek/

When amateurs get creative.

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A Knob On The End Is Optional - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/14/a-knob-on-the-end-is-optional/

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Eldraeic Word of the Day: velle - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/12/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-velle/

Today I feel riparian.

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Open Government - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/10/open-government/

In which the way everyone does is is Problematic.

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Today in 'verse history, the launch of the inevitable Admiralty Intelligence prowler

CS _'); DROP TABLE contacts; --_

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Yes, Virginia - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/31/yes-virginia/

It's a wonderful time of the year.

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Yearning - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/28/yearning/

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https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/09/eldraeic-words-of-the-day-3/

For the forests are both dark and light.

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Unproblematic Armor - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/07/unproblematic-armor/

Well, hopefully so, anyway.

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At one point in the development of organic/biotech computing devices, it was necessary to provide indicators of their internal state for their operators.

The resulting bioluminescent demi-fungus was named, inevitably, "blinkenlichen".

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Nom - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/24/nom/

The diet of states.

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As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

(Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

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My To-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/09/my-to-fu-is-stronger-than-yours/

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Crazy Eddie - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/11/04/crazy-eddie

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My final word on mandatory politics in space, in the form of a very non-canon #eldraeverse outtake.

https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/my-final-word-on-mandatory-politics

"All know, from Core to Rim, that there is no promise, no accord, no solemn contract more inviolable than the Oath of the Least Phalange."

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100. No matter how wearied you are by the incompetent fools surrounding you, you may not spray knowledge-bearing nanites from high-flying aircraft.

No-one will care that they aren't technically chemtrails.

- _145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds_

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As a writer of relatively firm SF, it should be established that even in the magical ignorance of deep history, the spell components for "fireball" can't be bat guano.

They're naphtha and white phosphorus.

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Today, in an attempt to explain the close relationship between muse (internal AI assistant/constant companion) and soph in emotional rather than technical terms, my brain ended up at

"...and this is my internal life-mate, Silent Bob."

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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...

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