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
Gonna Void some Non today.
Juffo-Wup fills my fibers and I grow turgid.
The Gay Mer-Gate, a secret portal to a magical land populated by queer fish-people.
Alistair Young
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@aphyr (That is, the necessary accountability and impossibility of challenging a conviction is the first argument; the second argument is basically the same but focuses on how this protects actual perpetrators by making all witnesses who might come forward equally guilty as the perpetrators; the third is that it means that there is no need to 'frame' someone for the crime, a police officer can simply carry offending material with them when they break in to your house and that makes you guilty)
Alistair Young
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@aphyr The first classic argument against strict liability laws for possession or viewing is that they make enforcement completely unaccountable, as possession or viewing of evidence is a crime, and even pointing at the thing or giving a complete enough set of directions to find the thing might be a crime, so the only people who can accuse people of the crime without being found criminally liable are those who laws mysteriously never seem to be applied against (eg the Met Police in the UK).
"And someone tell that guy that a collection of false beards and a willingness to incite punch-ups among his followers does NOT make him three distinct gods!"
Monopolies Commission but for monotheisms.
“I’m sorry, but to maintain a competitive theology, I have an order here requiring you to break up into at least four smaller gods.”
How is plural formed?
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Excuse Me, Constable - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/09/13/excuse-me-constable/
What the well-dressed watchman wears.
I have seen people, in these current days of multiple atrocities, calling upon we merry writers of fiction to say something relevant.
Well, here it is:
Consider the public responses to events in these times as today’s sad and sorry reminder exactly how many of us would be red-flagged by the Guardians of Our Harmony as unfit for participation in a society of sane and reasonable people.
Today I find myself needing to pull data off a DVD, only to discover that quietly, without noticing, I have ended up without a single optical drive in the house.
Hard drives, SSDs, every type of SD card made, even floppies, those I have things tucked away to read should them unexpectedly turn up. Optical disks, though, nothing.
It’s a lovely morning in Sunnydale, and you are a horrible geas.
If it doesn't involve Special Circumstances, or at least Contact, I don't want to hear about your Culture war.
This day I have spoken my will to a cat and had it obeyed.
Kneel before Zod.
"THEY might do bad things in the future so WE must do bad things now" is a common strategy affected by people who should be thrown out of the airlock now just in case they're ever in a position to implement it.
Using the dust shoe on my #cubiko CNC is a little surreal: evidently the sawdust flies through it far too fast for me to actually _see_, but it doesn't turn up anywhere else either. Just vanishes!
I have been firing lasers in my office for almost a full week and have not yet said “No, Meester Bond, I expect you to _die!_ Muahaha!”
I just want y’all to appreciate what a big deal that is, when you’re me.
Alistair Young
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Matt Kirkland: All the best books have a map at the front, right? I also often want to annotate those maps - or in some cases, I want to supply my own. So: I made plotted.io. It’s a simple little web app that lets you add maps from books and annotate them.
https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20250822/plotted.html
All I want for Christmas is people to stop calling things eugenics when they are so obviously dysgenic.
(As a helpful guide, if the dead worm in a politician's brain thought it up, it's dysgenics.)
- 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
