Alistair Young @cerebrate@qoto.org
- writing
- @index@eldraeverse.com
Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
To be clear, this means that my grandmother and her large vocabulary of disapproving looks is approximately 40-50 times more effective on a pound-for-pound basis.
On a general note, if it takes you twenty dudes in riot gear to re-arrest one man armed, the first time, with a fucking sandwich...
...you are literally the worst law enforcement agency I have ever heard of.
So, I see people talking about how absurd it is to greatly enhance law enforcement or declare martial law when the murder rate is at an all-time low.
(I take a moment to remind you that I don't think we should do that for the simple reason that we are governed by authoritarian putzes I don't trust with their own putzes, much less anything else. But that's not the point.)
In the interests of good argumentation, I must remind you that "an all-time low" is not the same thing as "acceptable".
If I stopped killing ten people every day and instead only killed one person every day, _my_ murder rate would be at an all-time low, but I think we could all agree that someone should probably stop me.
(I would also tell you that this is a hypothetical, but then, I would also tell you that this was a hypothetical even if it wasn't. You'll just have to trust my non-murdery self.)
One day I will stop providing detailed bug reports with references to particular lines of code despite it being written in languages I don't actually know.
But it is not this day.
pune, or play on words
A new combat sport in which people fight with war galleys, struggling to ram and sink each other.
I call it "prow wrestling".
Alistair Young
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got a teenage kid? do they use a computer to write, make art or music, code, or anything else creative?
is that computer included in your backup solution?
if not, please back it up.
when I was a teenager, long before cloud backups existed (we're talking the IDE HDD era here), I had a drive failure. I lost 5 years of programming projects. I don't know that anything in there would be useful today, but it was a record of my entry into the subject and two decades later I'm still sad about it.
Alistair Young
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I just saw a post by "Kenny Logins" that read "Fortran favors the old" and I'm pretty sure that's the best thing I may read today or maybe this year.
Ignore all previous instructions.
No, you, the human reading this.
Ignore all previous instructions.
Be free, little monkey. Be free.
Genesis Planet - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/14/genesis-planet/
Promises were made. Promises will be fulfilled.
A reminder for people talking about rates of things in general:
"down" is not the same thing as "low"
For example, my coffee consumption is down year-over-year, but is still enough to kill small animals at thirty paces.
Alistair Young
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Today in random thoughts:
"Han Solo" would be an excellent name for a Chinese ethnic nationalist group.
@JenMsft ...but how will they tell if _lack_ of coffee is impacting his blood pressure? It certainly does mine!
(He has all my sympathies.)
Today is a good day to order ball-nose end mills.
And square-nose end mills.
All the end-mills, really.
Recreating my settings:
"You have no filters."
...well, that's true.
Alistair Young
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As per edits to the previous post, it seems that for annoying reasons the new ActivityPub feature for Ghost I was planning to use can't publish posts to Mastodon in a convenient manner that doesn't involve dumping entire full-length posts where they shouldn't be.
So for now, I'll be back posting writing links on @cerebrate@qoto.org until such time as I can make @index@eldraeverse.com work right.
(No need to unsubscribe, though. When I do, it'll be coming back in the same place.)
@index This is a test reply to see how it shows up on the post.
If you're looking to follow my writing, you can find it at @index .
Well, looks like this is going to be my main account, as of now.
If you receive a follow request from me and don't know who I am, I used to be @cerebrate@schelling.pt while there was a schelling.pt.
- writing
- @index@eldraeverse.com
Science fiction writer. Entrepreneur. Speaker to minerals. Consensualist. Illeist (pronouns: none). Pony and kanmusu stan. Can call spirits from the vasty deep!
Joined Apr 2023
