Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Pretty sure I am on every watchlist ever now, though. And quite glad that I'd already decided not to try and fly anywhere for unrelated reasons.

Just saw:

#PennedPossibilities 390 — If the FBI were to look through your computer, would you be concerned about your search history? What’s the worst / weirdest thing you’ve ever had to research for a story?

Well, you know, they did - https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened - and I'm still here. 😂

One of my few regrets in demanding my lawyer up front is not getting to learn what they thought of my several gigabytes of notes on interesting chemistry, SFnal weapons, alternate government forms, etc., etc.

Insofar as there are troll farms out there trying to convince people not to vote, I most vigorously despise them for ruining the reputation of those of us merely rich and redolent with righteous contempt.

Can't a man just despise some motherfuckers any more?

Evidently the recruitment bots have stumbled onto my fiction, since I'm now getting solicitations for aerospace jobs.

The laws of physics? What are you, a narc?

(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.