This Is A Drill A geological drill. https://eldraeverse.com/2025/10/26/this-is-a-drill/ #eldraeverse #writing #sciencefiction

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.

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

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.)

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 […]

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 […]

IN TABERNA QUANDO SUMUS

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.

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.”

Excuse Me, Constable - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/09/13/excuse-me-constable/ What the well-dressed watchman wears. #eldraeverse #sciencefiction #writing

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 […]

Cultivation Minds are holographic, you see. https://eldraeverse.com/2025/09/12/cultivation/ #eldraeverse #sciencefiction #writing #relevant

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 […]

It’s a lovely morning in Sunnydale, and you are a horrible geas. #btvs #fanfic #proposedtitle

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.

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.)

Just because a starship is a giant XFEL with a hull wrapped around it doesn't mean it should be named the _Lase-y Boy_.

I am the sort of man who says cyanoacrylate when he means superglue, and you're all going to have to live with that.

Cubiko and the CFL55-33 Laser Module How I made my laser not slip in the spindle clamp. https://open.substack.com/pub/randombytes/p/cubiko-and-the-cfl55-33-laser-module #cnc #laser #cubiko

The fundamental problem with nationalism is that stupid, savage barbarians in in-group are, if anything, even more contemptible than stupid, savage barbarians in out-group. One can always redefine in-group to exclude all members of that class, but then it sure ain't nationalism any more […]

Basically, permitting sideloading, rooting your phone, and unwalling the garden should require a certain degree of technical competence, even if it's only the ability to Google The Magic Incantation.

The arguments over restricting sideloading of apps are fascinating to me. By nature, I am someone who hates the ides of restricting sideloading, because I am guaranteed to want to run whatever I want, including my own handcrafted software, on any device I own. I am exactly who they have in mind […]

Photons are in the eye of the beholder.

God-Poking Tank - https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/24/god-poking-tank/ Have fun down in the phlegm-pit. #eldraeverse #sciencefiction #writing

Unconventional Courtesy https://eldraeverse.com/2025/08/21/unconventional-courtesy/ Allowing for frequent visitors. #writing #eldraeverse #sciencefiction

…you know, while it’s nice to have something in common with J. R. R. Tolkien, I never thought that thing would be spending an irritating amount of time denying that I have written anything that’s an allegory. Applicable, yes. Allegorical, no. #writing

Proper technical term or not, "dimensional lumber" totally sounds like the stuff the Time Lords use to frame TARDISes.

With regard to the various people I have seen about the place trying to ban lab-grown meat to protect the farmers, and various other iterations of protectionism: I am begging businesses to understand that if you skip over the steps of offering a better product and/or convincing me that your […]

Simple tools: a widget to level the bit onto during tool changes to avoid losing your workpiece zero. #cnc

Ah, the soft machine-screaming of manufacturing in progress.

Today, from the "what the deep-fried fuck" files...

People are enthusiastic about high-density living until they hear me CNC milling aluminium in my home office at 3 am.

Nurdle: chaos god of tiny plastic balls