Alistair Young @cerebrate@qoto.org

Good afternoon, my fellow Americans!

(He says, with a citizenship now roughly 2 minutes old…)

#naturalization

Increasingly convinced that Maris from _Frasier_ is, in point of fact, a Deep One.

Increasingly convinced that Maris from _Frasier_ is, in point of fact, a Deep One.

Today's hot take:

Accepting e-mail at the SMTP level and then silently dropping it thereafter, however rationalized, is a dick move, and anyone who designs systems that do so should be drowned in an enormous vat of shredded RFCs.

It is time once again to remind people sending e-mails, admittedly mostly spam, to say "Your Attention Is Requested" rather than "Your Attention Is Required".

Only overlings can require. Underlings may only request.

And my overlings? Those sumbitches ain't been born.

"One of these lives has a future, Mr. Baggins, and one of them does not."

Insecuring Security

Whether or not it exists, it works.

https://eldraeverse.com/2025/10/07/insecuring-security/

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

Insecuring Security

Whether or not it exists, it works.

https://eldraeverse.com/2025/10/07/insecuring-security/

#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

YOU KNOW WHAT THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS? IT'S THE CHAIN I GO GET AND BEAT YOU WITH UNTIL YOU GIVE ME MY RUTTIN' SUPPLIES!

(Of course, I could machine my own damned God-fearing American heatsink, but first, I need a heatsink.)

And it's not just that tariffs are a moronic economic policy in ways that should be pristinely obvious to houseflies and cheap plastic forks, it's that at some point after I place this order, I'm going to get Official Mail as Homeland Security go about collecting their $0.12.

Spending, by the time we're done, probably something like $50 in postage, bank fees, and general overhead to get it, which makes it, let's see, revenue-negative for the government by a factor of approximately 416.

(i.e., exactly what the _de minimis_ exemption was to avoid)

Thanks all to hell for protecting us from approximately a thimbleful of foreign aluminum. You absolute scurfwads.

A $0.12 TARIFF ON A $0.48 PART!!?

...mutter mutter use some dumb fuck's scrotum as a heatsink...

“Crem!”, swore Conan. “I’ve cut my muddy swath!”

#weirdcrossovers

What, I ask you, is the nut-growing equivalent of an orchard?

(Don’t tell me that it’s a nut orchard. That’s a linguistic bastardry like “armored cavalry”.)

Buffalo wings are a clear indication that Iolithae Septimian is back on her bullshit.

So… do you think fish baptisms use air?

Printing to the left of me, milling to the right...

...here I am, stuck in the middle with earplugs.

So, here I am facing some stock with my Cubiko (later to be used as the case for a yarn counter I'm working on), I start the program, and an extremely stunned sawdust-covered housefly comes flapping out of the mechanism and drops to my desk.

I am no expert in housefly expressions, but I'm pretty sure that was "What in the name of Housefly Jaysus just happened!?"

This morning's moment of hilarity.

Also, note to self: dust shoe, not bug shoe.

#hobbycnc

When someone talks about their enthusiasm for political assassinations, it should be legal to say "well, I don't approve of them myself, but since you do...", pull out a gun, and stick it in their earhole.

Not to fire it, of course; we're not animals.

But watching the real-time opinion reversal would be a joy and a grand amusement.

IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUS