Mothematician

the thing about the republic of two systems is that i am a softie and a breq apologist so i do want to believe that she succeeds in improving some things. however i also recognize that a) breq is a former imperial weapon who, in her own words, thinks she's learned to question that but hasn't learned as much as she thinks and b) even under the best circumstances trying to improve society somewhat is extremely complicated and often runs into massive logistical problems. so i feel like my ideal radch sequel would be set in the Ro2S but focused on marginalized citizens dealing with a government that is trying to be better about listening to them but often fails. i want imperfect solutions i want systems that end up hurting the people they're supposed to help i want people falling through the cracks i want it to be messy

#I like to think the shows were more like lockpicking lawyer and MB has most of the keys already#the thing is a walking talking singlesided jiggler

Cherenkov's Gun is a common piece of writing advice: if there's a gun above the mantle in a story, it should fire bullets that move faster than the speed of light and glow a shocking blue color.

Chekov Radiation is a phenomena where small pieces of metal move very fast after being subjected to a small detonation

Cherenkov's first name is Pavel. Pavel Chekov is a guy on Star Trek. It all makes sense.

Paraguay implies the existence of Orthoguay

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

reblog this post to help a child break the law

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

Phm from Adrian's perspective is just what if you were Penelope and Odysseus came home but he also brought a jellyfish and keeps begging you to build a fish tank for the jellyfish and make jellyfish food for the jellyfish and youre an ancient Greek whos never seen a jellyfish and you cant even comprehend how your going to do it but youre going to because if you dont Odysseus may kill himself. And also the jellyfish can do like. Witchcraft.

the phrase "but i didn't mean to!" in the context of causing harm is kind of redundant to me, because almost nobody means to cause harm. most of us just want to do the right thing. and i don't mean that in a wishy-washy "oh, we're all good deep down" way, i mean that even people who regularly do the most heinous shit imaginable will have a way of justifying it to themselves. the world is not populated by hollywood sadists and psychopaths.

the thing about fiber art that nobody tells you about is that every single kind of fiber art is a gateway drug to other kinds of fiber art.

you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogyny, you have to love jews more than you hate antisemitism, you have to love Black people more than you hate white supremacy, you have to love Indigenous people more than you hate colonialism, you have to love the disabled and mentally ill more than you hate ableism, you have to love. you have to love.

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

whenever I see jokes about anarchy chess or chess with nine boards or whatever I think about the manuscript about board games from like the 1300s commissioned by spanish royalty (libro de los juegos) which contains a bunch of chess variations including one with four players where the moves are decided by dice roll and another with extra pieces like "the unicorn." so the conclusion is that chess players have literally always been like this

gender to me is like a car i dont really want one and society would be much better if it was not structured around it. but i got one because it helps me get around and sometimes its fun to make it go fast

and people tell you to move to one of a handful of cities if you want to avoid having one, but when you get there the majority of people have one anyway and jobs expect you to as well

Car dependence has ruined the physical and social infrastructure of this country. If we want any revolution we need Walkable safe human scaled cities

What's a gender?