Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

Just the goodest boys
Never meanin’ no harm…

(I see a little silhouetto of a bean.)

Be-el-ze-bub has some caffeine set aside for me, for me, for meeee...

Y'know, I've seen this and the clenched-fist version, and various others, and it seems to me that there's something distinctly ironic about the way that the left, in opposing hypocritical rightist Gadsden-flyers, manage to be about as fascist in their semiotics as you can get without actually putting a _Hakenkreuz_ with axes strapped to it front and center.

Was reading about the Ordovician period and the evolution of jawless fish, except a typo made it read "lawless fish".

I kind of like the notion that Earth circa -500 megayears was dominated by fish swimming around with "Don't Tread On Me" scales, telling each other that they don't need no damn schooling permit. They swim where they like!

Europeans can now be comforted to know that all social scoring will be carried out by the traditional natural intelligences, famed throughout space and time for their complete lack of unfortunate biases and nonexistent error rate.

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.