Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

I have few requests for Amazon, save that they give me an option which lets me never have any of my deliveries touched by the USPS, ever; and I have no requests for the DOGE, save that they recommend firing the USPS. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

Let me explain. No, is too much. Let me sum up.

Due to the hordes of invisible feral dogs in this neighborhood, the USPS does not deliver mail to houses any more. They instead deliver mail to a block of post boxes located every 4-block, or so.

So, I've finally got around to going through the spare hard drives the Feds returned to us after their raid last year, only to discover that the first one I picked up isn't actually one of ours.

It's one of theirs, filled with their "crime scene" photos and analyses of our suspicious computers.

Should I have that? Probably not, even now, but hey, free hard drive and they owe me a damn sight more than that.

(Our nation's finest, ladies and gentlemen.)

Sometimes I catch myself thinking how convenient it would be if my ethics had exemptions for dealing with terrible people, before I remember that having those exemptions themselves is _why_ they're terrible people.

One day I will learn that sitting down to write my own version (with blackjack! and hookers!) is not a viable response to _every_ instance of "Christ, I could eat a handful of iron filings and _puke_ a better solution than this!"

I'm kinda hoping it's this day.

It perhaps says something about the declining state of literacy that there are multiple excellent media library apps, while every e-book library app is absurdly horrible in its own unique way.

“It would be terrible if humans ever conquered death, or even lived a few decades longer! Society couldn’t cope!”

“THEN PERISH.”

- me, carefully avoiding political arguments over Thanksgiving

Lots of amateur worldbuilders complain about crystals being used to make the technomagic or sci-fi tech work.

My brothers in creativity, what do you think makes all our modern real-life technology work?

(He said, torturing the cultural translators some more.)

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".

#eldraeverse

Look, just because you're fighting a nightmare _in_ the Solomons doesn't mean that you're fighting the Nightmare _of_ the Solomons.

Today in out of context:

I HOPE YOU LIKE SPACE CORN.

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

The diet of states.

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

A request for MoronMail:

https://open.substack.com/pub/randombytes/p/things-that-should-exist-moronmail

The MTA for tired people and dumb internal applications.