Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Typo of the day: "smuggling drags".

All Charlottes should have younger sisters named Charlittle. I have spoken.

If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.

I should also say that the absence of this essential character is my chief disappointment with Dune (2021).

(In the absence of other evidence, I choose to believe that he lived a long and happy life after growing fat on the blood of Harkonnens.)

So, as you may have gathered from my last toot, I rewatched Dune (1984) last night.

And I have a pressing question: what happened to the Atreides battle pug!?

We just folded space from Ix.

A tornado watch has been issued! Everyone rush outside and watch the tornadoes!

"Might've been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

There are those who say that adhering to principles over pragmatism condemns you to be a loser.

Myself, I say it depends on which game you are playing. You may well lose the game of "wield political power in 2020s America", but if the game you're actually playing is "avoid becoming an integrity-void sack of shit", you're going to come out way ahead of the field.

There's something special about seeing someone defend the Florida ban on cultured meat as "libertarian", on the grounds that it's a defensive move against hypothetical future plans to ban animal meat.

Much like trade wars, fighting bans with bans is another variant on the strategy of defeating your opponent by punching yourself in the face until they give up.

Or, as Nietzche might have said, "if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss crawls right up your asshole and eats your brain".

Meanwhile, if people are going to accuse others of working for the international Jewish conspiracy, could they at least call them "minyan minions"? I mean, come on, conspiracist nutballs. Put the work in!

(Given my particular skillset, "missile bus" is totally the name for my post-apoc madcap technical.)

Why do we call it an "ammunition ship" when we could call it a "missile bus"?

The bear discourse has successfully achieved its goal, if its goal was to make me want to go live in the woods with the bears.

'Cause they're the only group involved that hasn't posted concussively dumb-assed takes on the whole concept.

Donald Trump speaking at the Libertarian Party National Convention will undoubtedly surprise the half-dozen people left in the world unaware that the Libertarian Party is about as libertarian as Chairman Mao's hairpiece.

Vault-Tec did nothing wrong.

Change my mind.

Since it has crossed my eyes once more, let me just take a moment out of my day to reassure you that if there is a stupider and more patently disingenuous meme out there, I have not yet seen it this morning.