Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

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.)

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.