Alistair Young @cerebrate@schelling.pt

The Day We Were Raided By The Feds -

https://noiseinmysignal.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-happened?sd=pf

(I wrote this up to attach to the yard sign mentioned in previous toots with a QR code, and have something to pin to avoid telling the story over again.)

Before following me, you should be aware that if you have a political ideology, I probably despise it, even if it's mine.

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No, actually - especially if it's mine.

Not To Carp or Criticize - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/31/not-to-carp-or-criticize/

A fish story, with audiobooks.

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

Y'know, without due process, there's no legal reason not to round up everyone who thinks there shouldn't be due process and put them in mandatory civics camps.

Just sayin'.

*sniff* *sniff*

A PETG by any other name does not smell sweet.

Hypothesis confirmed.

Today in #3dprinting experiences:

Having endless trouble with this particular spool of PLA.

Experiment with the extruder temperature.

Discover it prints much better when you get it up to 240 C, well outside the usual PLA range.

This is bloody mislabeled PETG, isn't it?

Contains No Ents -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/20/contains-no-ents/

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

So it's a normal, average day, and things are running along pretty swell, and then you glance at the 'scope, and suddenly it's "What MISCREANT has distorted my BEAUTIFUL SINES?"

Maybe's Daughter -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/16/maybes-daughter/

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

On that same note, should I ever go batshit and pro-deranged-evil, I will be sure to get really into, oh, cheap housing and food abundance first, because the sight of all the polit-brains in the world rendering themselves homeless and starving to pwn me would be hilarious.

Y'know, if I were to become evil. Which is the premise of the whole thing.

Right now it's just sad.

This is your sadly necessary reminder that inexpensive space, Mars, self-driving cars, and electric vehicles are Good Things, and turning against them just because Elon Musk has gone more bugfuck than a swarm of cicadas makes you a stupid, evil, actively world-worsening person.

(Or at least one who has fallen victim to one of the slightly less well-known classic blunders, but I'm all out of understanding these days.)

Electives -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/03/15/electives/

Be careful what you study.

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

Intent -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/02/18/intent/

Because we actually care quite a lot about your motives.

#eldraeverse #writing #scienceFiction

Incursion (3/3) -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/02/08/incursion-3-3/

In which I follow up on a piece from 2016. Better late than never!

My current 3D printer upgrade is now up to two brand new genuine parts returned for “received as defective”.

What, dear world, the shit?

Clem is basically the Buffyverse's Norm.

The more I learn about metal chemistry, the more I realize that the entire modern world is built on fucking voodoo bullshit.

According to a recent news popup, Canada will respond to Trump’s 25% tariff with a tit-for-tat 25% tariff of their own.

We may take comfort, therefore, in these troubled times, in the knowledge that our neighbor to the north is also governed by tapioca-brained imbeciles.

A trade disruption can mean only one thing.

(I should say that since I am a much worse person than that, intend this to be a learning experience, and have a crafty wife, these will not be regular bombs. They will be GLITTER BOMBS.)

I swear to all the chthonic deities below that when I'm done with this project I'm going to start mailing people bombs.

With QR codes linking to the disarming instructional video.

Have fun pausing the couple of frames where my big-ass hands aren't blocking which wire to cut.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THERE ARE LITERALLY ALL THE PLATFORMS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR WIRING DIAGRAMS THAN YOUTUBE.

I WOULD TAKE ASCII ART OVER THIS SHIT.