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.

No Step On Snek -
https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/19/no-step-on-snek/

When amateurs get creative.

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As a classical liberal, I believe that Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus make some good points, but their proposals really go too far in today's climate. They might even endanger the Republic!

A Knob On The End Is Optional - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/14/a-knob-on-the-end-is-optional/

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As a misogynist, I think women should be made of fermented soybean paste.

Eldraeic Word of the Day: velle - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/12/eldraeic-word-of-the-day-velle/

Today I feel riparian.

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Open Government - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/01/10/open-government/

In which the way everyone does is is Problematic.

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Today in 'verse history, the launch of the inevitable Admiralty Intelligence prowler

CS _'); DROP TABLE contacts; --_

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Yes, Virginia - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/31/yes-virginia/

It's a wonderful time of the year.

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Yearning - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/28/yearning/

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This is my favorite piece of Christmas music, bar none:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0BuxMM3zfgmIOJLbsWAk6V?si=878ac076b14d4484

All I want for Christmas is the power to banish people to universes which *actually* work in the way they *think* they work.

The one silver lining in prominent murders is that they infallibly reveal who among one's acquaintance is an absolute shitclown of a human being, and that they can be banished to howl in the outer darkness without fear of any value being lost.

Me, paging through C# source:

“Down, down, down the code…”

#manylinesoftricksandtrials

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/09/eldraeic-words-of-the-day-3/

For the forests are both dark and light.

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Unproblematic Armor - https://eldraeverse.com/2024/12/07/unproblematic-armor/

Well, hopefully so, anyway.

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I am also entitled to bitching about being surrounded by these incompetent fools, for that matter.

Hence the thread.

(Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night MY ASS.)

- they are taken back to the sorting office where you can, in theory, pick them up the next day.

Thus adding a minimum of one, maximum of three days to the delivery date which you were actually told.

Yes, I do feel entitled to deliveries arriving on schedule, because, goddamn it, I *am* entitled to deliveries arriving on schedule. Don't make promises you can't or have no intention of keeping, fuckers.

These blocks contain parcel lockers for packages, but only small ones. Larger ones do not fit. You would think that they would know which parcels fit in lockers which they supplied, but evidently that would require competence.

In the absence of such, all large parcels are loaded on the truck and carried out to the parcel locker, where it is ritualistically determined that they do not fit and - unless you have the rare mailman with a sense of duty and/or a Ring of Invisible Scary Dog Immunity -

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.