Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

#SF question of the day: can anyone remember if there were left-handed Moties?

Most absurdist-sounding criminal organization in _Star Wars_:

Life, to coin an expression, is carp.

Insofar as it's an endless-seeming struggle to climb the Dragon Gate and win the prize.

Since we're facing heavenward, all we can see are the few dragons that made it. It's easy to believe everyone's a dragon.

But in reality, most everyone's just another struggling carp.

#koiIsLife

Got my PVC butts.

#conduit

Dear friends, if you should find yourself in a situation similar to mine, when you find yourself needing a means to join one length of PVC pipe end to end with another... don't do what I did, and innocently search for "PVC butt".

#myEyes

So, moments of fun: one of the major as-yet-unrewired circuits in our house (dating, house and circuit both, to the 40s) just blew: breaker won't stay set. Covers half the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room. Yay.

Guess the progressive rewiring plan just became the right-the-fuck-now rewiring plan.

#electricity #entropy #agony

Coming tomorrow: the history of frameslip rings, including the absolute Heath Robinson way of hiding them beneath the armor of capital ships.

#eldraeverse

(Convenience, I suppose, as they provide the least awkward answers as long as you remember to match the right idea to the right question.)

One of the fascinating things the current discourse throws into sharp relief is the way in which the following ideas:

* self-determination: a people have the right to govern themselves as they please (even when the result is *not* a democracy)

and

* a people are not their government and should not be held responsible for its actions (even when it *is* a democracy)

manage to coexist in the same heads.

Randomly rewatching _You Only Live Twice_, and, space friends, I’ve got to confess that I’ve a real soft spot for SPECTRE’s _Nom_-class capsule-eating capsule.

And it’s a proper tail-lander, too.

interrobang (n.):

(a) ‽

(b) the successful outcome of a honey trap

There are many things that I would do, were I adequately rich, but right now I would buy a month of time on the Las Vegas Sphere to play a looped video of someone banging frantically on the inside, screaming to be let out.

So, you “believe in science”, huh? Name even one hypothesis you’ve tested.