Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Real: a flammenwerfer that werfs flammen.

Plausible: a nebelwerfer that werfs nebel.

Too much: a panzerwerfer that werfs panzers.

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.

#eldraeverse #writing

(Sadly, unlike many state constitutions, the US Constitution does not include a clause banning madmen and idiots from public office. Perhaps it was less clear at the time just how often that would come up.)

Now, maybe I'm just being terribly elitist, but I do think that if you are in favor of either price controls or tariffs at this point in human history, you probably shouldn't be allowed to hold office or even vote on the grounds that you have demonstrated a complete and utter lack of capacity to learn a goddamn thing from the roll of history.

Today in #drwho universe concepts:

The particularly extravagant greatcoat that is a _wearable_ TARDIS.

It is the cloak beneath which literally everything can be hidden.

And is.

Seen headline: _Trump Falsely Claims That 'Homicides Are Skyrocketing,' an Imaginary Trend He Blames on Kamala Harris_

...I have to admit, the image of Harris going around shivving people personally to make this particular trend sparked a moment of joy.

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."

#eldraeverse

According to the last poll I saw, over 50% of Republicans and over 60% of Democrats believe that the First Amendment guarantees us too many rights; i.e., that when it comes to civil liberties, we need less of them.

Anyway, tell me again how voting for your major party will protect us all from the scourge of fascism?

🎶Lenny Bruce is not afraid 🎶

Red for dead, Egrorian!

While I'm at it, it also angers me a great deal that deploring the library-burning in the UK puts me on the same side as people who were conspicuously silent when people they liked occupied and severely damaged a library over here.

Some of us have a consistent position that _any_ people who so much as breathe hostile intent near a collection of books should be literally set on fire, thank you so very much.

(But at a distance, obviously, so they don't disturb the readers.)

Seeing a lot of "no-one holds a principled anti-riot position" and "everybody's in favor of riots under the right circumstances" going around recently.

Gentles all, let me assure you that should you manage to throw a riot in favor of everything I love and against everything I despise, I will _still_ demand that you all be bayoneted.

As, indeed, a matter of principle.

(I am so _very_ done with "we must destroy civilization in order to save it"-shaped ideas.)