Or was it running the world’s weirdest Turing-complete variant Dungeons & Dragons campaign using a rule set isomorphic with first-order transdimensional summoning algebra—
OF COURSE, SPACE travel isn’t only about being stuffed into a claustrophobia-inducing cell, scared witless, trussed up in a restraint harness, and raped through every orifice for years on end. Because...
Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.
Mug of Joe, grunts Johnny. Mocha venti with an extra shot for me, no cream, I add. Anything else? I shake my head and she wanders off. Johnny looks suspicious. Since when do you speak Starbucks? I shr...
IF ONE WISHES to live to a ripe old age, there are certain activities one should avoid. Chief among these is eating anything larger than one’s own head—but not so very far down the list is any activit...
I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess.
Executions are a form of human sacrifice, after all,
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
★★Very strong imagery of conformity versus mold-breaking, concealing conformity disguised as mold-breaking. Ever wondered why Mac users are so glassy-eyed about their boxes?
You young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?
An autonome, a native of this continuum:
They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.
There are two types of people in this world, Pete volunteers helpfully, those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.
The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can’t say no.
Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.
Ras is a big fan of Noam Chomsky; calling it the Propaganda Ministry keeps things honest, he says. Like having a Ministry of War rather than a Department of Defense, or Counting Other People’s Murdere...
Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty
Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.
I’m not mad, you know, although it helps in this line of work.