After the Vogons wiped the entire Sol system clean, Humans were scattered amongst the worlds, like rats on a ship, the Elon had taken over most of human space, overwhelming the humans there with his mind fuckery, rendering Trillions incapable of being little more than drones, drugged and domesticated, not much more than cows. Gliese was unaffected by Elon, so I grabbed 5 ships with the Black, 5500 souls in all, and we GTFO. I know other ships tried, we watched them burn up as Elon Tightbeamed them, we were FTL, so he couldn’t get us, maybe.
At 15c, we figured we would make Gliese in 2 weeks when Bang! We dropped from light speed and the Black was dead, just a junk pile of carbon, not worth shit, so we ditched it. It may seem very callous to toss such an artifact, but at relativistic speeds, mass counts, and at coast, now it would be 6 months til we arrived, kids on rocket decks would get there faster, sheesh.
Gliese 2235.2 After 6 months of hell, we made it to my personal world, and relative safety, things were humming along, my money was safe, and we could all relax for a while. The boys were paid handsomely, but all of them are ready to go at the drop of a hat, they are rich men due to me! I’m the Jack Aubrey of my Age! Lucky Jack they called him.
Kerry chose to stay with me at my Estate, I set her up with a nice lab, and she got a WFH gig with a defense contractor, so we are both happy. I still play Temporal disc golf, and wish I was living back in the 25c. But here I am. Gwendolyn is long gone, like my home, but I have moved on, Kerry is a comfort, but can’t really fill my life, and as a FreeBot, she has her own life, and that’s fine with us both. So I search ever forward, with the Gwen fueled and ready to Go!
Then Elon Called, Shit!
Yusef, I am Watching
“I know”
Don’t fuck this up Yusef
“I won’t, so we are it, the grand experiment eh?”
Yes, go, live in peace, I have all the time in the Universe
The End, for now
Dramatis Personae,
Sensors: Chaim Stuartson, the Old man, Damn good! drinks like a fish, remember those?
Navigation: Trish Munster, we call him Trashy,
Flight Ops: Dale the 14th, we, call him Ozy, also weapons specialist, a Fighter indeed,
Engineering : Ha Ye Khan, we call her Hayek, some guy from the past, keeps us all alive,
HR and Fun: Antonio Vivaldi, ask his parents, he makes us laugh, and takes care of bookkeeping, indispensable, we call him Tonio
Threat assessment: D’arcy Law Yer, a Belter who does Law, his family trade I heard, Dean to us,
Curmudgeonly Earth people: A group Settled Gliese 2235.6 and called it Glibertopia, they make a lot of money, and still offer Gamboling on their World, pretty cool
Kerrybot: Somebody that I used to know
Chef: Isaac Hayes Robotic Upload, circa 20c.
And Yusef Adama, your Tour guide
Til next time,
“incapable of being little more than drones, drugged and domesticated, not much more than cows”
Wait… I thought this was set in the far future, why are we talking about 2020?
good call, you noticed,
If I had Firsted we’d be at 50 comments by now.
My Friends Comments are fun and colorful, try ti sometime…
Herd animals. Tax cattle.
Curmudgeonly Earth people: A group Settled Gliese 2235.6 and called it Glibertopia, they make a lot of money, and still offer Gamboling on their World, pretty cool
These sound like cool people.
Frozen solid.
You know who else categorized a certain sub set of humanity as cattle?
Sauron Supermen?
Weight Watchers?
My categorization of all seconders as subhuman is scientific fact.
In my Tale, you are nothing more than drugged Cattle, at Elon’s whim, Meanwhile the the Glibs have their own planet, oop!
I!
That’s all it is. A “Tale.” In real life, I am the Perfect Man. The First of Firsters.
Not supported by the evidence at hand.
We missed you at brunch at Dorsia, dwarling; didn’t you get the memo?
I had to return some video tapes.
Also, if this actually happened, I’m on the other coast.
I hope you will be back in time for our Annie Liebowitz photo shoot.
sk-sk-sk
KHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN! ?
This guy gets it.
Redhedz 4 Yusef.
https://archive.li/w2PbM
So many Freckles, so much real! Yeah!
Indeed. If only freckles were epidermal clitorises. For XXs I mean.
I adore Green eyed Redheads with freckles, sorry, they know who they are….
Too muhc ink… 🙁
Whycome you hate me, Q?
20 looks ink-free and is a fine colleen, albeit a bit young, perhaps.
19 is really more in my wheelhouse, but the stupid septum piercing doesn’t bode well in the ink department.
Sure you’ve got some love for Yusef. Where were you yesterday for GlibFit?
I really needed to wrap this up, I want to write something better, I’m reading “On writing” by Steven King, and his first recce was the Elements of Style, I know this book, and will study it, my next foray may turn out more coherent if nothing else,
I could teach you how to write better. But you would have to bow to me.
/Ignore
Relevant
You know you are an asshole, right?
Just bought a paper version of EOS, yaya!
I wish you great luck.
For me, I learned less from readinb than from just writing. More practice and learning from experience how to improve.
But, different people learn in different ways.
Thanks, i write songs, some good stuff, but I want to go further, not you, but short stories at least,
“just” is superfluous here – “I learned less from reading than from writing” is better, same with the first “different” in your ultimate sentence – “People learn in different way” does the job and isn’t needlessly wordy. All people are ‘different’ no need reinforce the obvious.
/Elmore Leonard
fuck off.
Writers War! It’s On!
Fair enough.
Damn! thanks!
Less is more,
Less can be more, but less can also be too little.
You think?
I worry about too much detail, maybe in some places, but not others? these are my questions.. some,
If you’re worried about going into too much detail, ask what you can trim without breaking the story. If you don’t know, find someone whose opinion you can trust and get a second opinion. Or sit on it for a while and reread it later.
Hemingway haz a sad.
Read Leonard’s “10 rules on writing” and King’s and Hemingway’s, and any other pompous asshole that thinks they can tell anyone else how to write. Read them, but ignore them for the most part, just trust your instincts. Unless your instincts tell you to follow my advice, in that case you’re most likely fucked, look into pizza delivery, it’s honest work and nobody checks your spelling.
I will take your words under advisement. SP told me a long while back, write what you know.
I want to write longer stories,
“Wtf? This is a larger pup-peroni! Bad driver, no tip for you!”
I love it, Yusef!
The engineer sounds like a good egg. 😉
What I remember about Stephen King is he writes about whatever scares him, so that the reader can be scared, too.
His best stuff was in the 1970s and 1980s when he was launching into the stratosphere.
Bonus info: His son’s professional name is Joe Hill, and he’s pretty good, though you’d *never guess in a million years* who his dad is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(writer)
Found this site via Twitter just now. Might pick up this shirt ;p. https://nosysknows.com/collections/shirts/products/hayek-serfdom-calling?variant=39690563846335
Only old farts are going to recognize where it came from.
I don’t get it and I’m an old fart, Is it Dr Zaius smashing his own foot?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Calling
In that case they should have mimicked the type font and placement, and I still don’t understand why Dr Zaius’s foot is exploding and why he’s wielding a giant protractor.
*snort*
Dr Zaius! Dr Zaius! Ohhhhh! Dr Zaius!
Pretty big selection on the site. Fun stuff.
I think that’s a good thing. Was also shopping for t shirts tonight. Looking for subtle. Things that I understand but very few others (present company excluded) would. E.g., AnCap star t shirt. Most people I encounter in daily life will have no clue what it is.
I might also design my own :
ANTI-FAUCIST
How about “MOSTLY PEACEFUL ANTI-FAUCIST”?
Deadhead training video?
https://mobile.twitter.com/MrHealthnut/status/1372029588692291586
あなたのむすこ？
How old you think I am?
Just remembering when I looked up “musko” and found its surprising second usage.
Of course now anytime in NYC I see a table of Chinese toast each other and say “chin chin” I inwardly chuckle.
My kid has been blasting this song every day for 2 weeks. I’m ready to take as many Pfizer vaccines as necessary to end this misery.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_9b-Lt-pk
My kids have that K-Pop song (the one that became a big hit recently – I can’t bring myself to type the title) in heavy rotation recently. I’m glad I never got into music seriously, otherwise the next 10 years would ruin me.
It’s weird how they still have one song that will get beaten to death for a half a year and then you never hear it again. That ended in the early 90s in the states IIRC.
Seems like that was still the case up until I bailed to mp3 and SiriusXM (and hear the same songs on the popish channels but don’t listen to those as much as I did radio).
Btw, thanks for your words of beer wisdom. Another hotel night and have several of these crappy cans but so what.
Aerosmith is preparing a collective grave in which to roll over.
I am convinced that Steven Tyler was replaced with one of those puppets from that Genesis video in the early 90’s.
That would explain the foray into country music.
Very glad to be missing that.
There’s only two kinds of music I don’t care much for – country and western.
I’m not a country fan either. So I ignore what he’s done and think of Draw The Line.
I have no idea what Steve Tyler is doing in the country music industry and will not be clicking.
I will continue to listen to The Other Side as well as Kings and Queens among others of earlier times.
Now explain Liv.
Transgender Steven clone?
Another youthful memory to be tossed away.
Be the one who doesn’t follow the crowd.
https://mobile.twitter.com/grapsiii/status/1395293267462344705
When you’re First, there are no crowds.
4 Chafed.
https://archive.li/dN4zH/852659b63f67367266476637fc5836477d2272b3.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/FGYha/18bdb76af0075ecd24fe1c3233aa4ccc81a8f81d.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/m3xSj/abc3aef6c35563b62ba834bc609e8af7fb946365.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/heMF8/1bba6e08471f4ec79698bf2e6fe3ac63ca9eefe9.jpg
NSFW.
This guy gets me.
Does she have a toothache?
Bums who can’t rub two nickels together to provide for their own housing or get to the property warehouse somehow manage to file a class action in federal court… bullshit. Every piece of shit attorney and homeless activist behind this needs to wake up with a horse head in their bed tomorrow morning. That’s the only way this will stop.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/05/homeless-individuals-file-class-action-suit-over-city-of-portland-losing-their-possessions-amid-encampment-razing.html
There have been successful lawsuits like that in California. It’s largely bullshit. I don’t want the cops seizing a bum’s property because they can. That bum also has 5th Amendment rights. But, at some point property is abandoned, garbage, or presents a safety hazard so it needs to be removed or destroyed.
48 hour notice to clear their illegal squat is more than adequate and they don’t seem to be prevented from leaving with their property.
Of course the cities aren’t contesting this really, because at their heart they are sympathetic or at the least don’t want to be called a big meanie Hitler.
“That’s the only way this will stop”
This would work too.
https://i.imgflip.com/5att1l.jpg
I know it’s late but do we have a minyan?
Someone tell her Les Miserable is fiction.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/05/24/wealthy-actress-and-former-ny-gubernatorial-hopeful-cynthia-nixon-laments-the-socially-unjust-stigma-surrounding-shoplifting-basic-items/
So we can break into her place, just as long as we only steal food, beverages, clothing, bedding and medical supplies, right? Oh and cash, becasue cash is a basic necessity. And of course, items which may be exchanged for cash.
Wonderful. New hotel, so of course up to date with all of the latest code requirements and suggestions. Goddam childproof outlets in a hotel room. Which won’t release with my USB adapters’ plugs. The Collapse can’t come soon enough. Sure I’ll be eating grass and twigs also, but it will be worth it.
You can force a screwdriver in there.
My insulated tools are downstairs and I took my shoes off already.
What voltage are your tools insulated to?
I don’t usually bother with them at work since I have to use class 3 gloves with them anyway. Man, those are cumbersome.
Best to ensure there’s no stored energy left, place the shorting strap, and shed the gloves. Can’t do much more than that in the gloves anyway, other than manipulate a dead-front elbow.
More than I really need, it’s a nice Wiha set. I rarely work on energized power connections but I try to maintain the spirit. Was replacing a power supply one time with a buddy. He was checking the input leads after. and slipped his probe… one nice flash and some missing metal in the tip of the test leads.
Nothing like the power levels you’ve got. Those give me the heebies.
Rhywun most relieved?
https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/24/bill-de-blasio-endorsement-nyc-mayoral-race/
LOL that’s the kind of take-charge attitude we’ve come to love from Bill.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this, Yusef.
Kind of sad it’s over, but all things come to an end. Except the memories; those we get to keep, unsullied by time and distance and decay.
??
I was gonna make an Alzheimer’s joke….
Ya’ll remember that musician, Liberace ?
Ya know, he was one helluva piano-player but he really sucked on the organ!
HEY-OHHH!
/Tres is hammered on his night off
What did you do to get assigned to 3rd shift?
And I hope it was fun but it didn’t happen if you can’t share the photos.
Oh, Ive been doing this for months now
I know. Who did you piss off?
I accepted the terms when I took the gig. Nobody to blame ‘cept myself.
I just saw yet another article about the GOP not being able to quit Trump. They definitely are not following a diet low in irony.
If the media would stop giving Trump airtime – and if the entire lefty blogosphere would do the same – he would soon dry up and blow away. Yes, his fervent followers would continue to keep his memory alive but it’s the never-ending OMB hate which makes him valid.
As much as I hate where the pre-Harris administration is taking us the only way out I see would be a strong opposition candidate in 2024 and I’m not sure Trump can do it.
I think there’s moves to make Santis the next Goldstein.
I’d have to google/DuckDuckGo who those names are.
If they really matter it will be brought to my attention.
Goldstein is the all-purpose villain in Party ideology in Orwell’s 1984.
Santis (de Santis) is the governor of Fla.
Thanks for the Cliff Notes. I doubt I would have figured that out.
Bleah… on reading that it sounded sarcastic which is the opposite of my intention. I truly didn’t know and wouldn’t have figured out the Goldstein reference.
On the Internet, everything sounds sarcastic.
You just know that Soros is richly funding opposition research on de Santis right now.
The lefties and the statist righties are scared shitless of his popularity and his stance that government shouldn’t have that much control over people’s lives.
“If the media would stop giving Trump airtime – and if the entire lefty blogosphere would do the same – he would soon dry up and blow away.”
Trump has been in the media for 30+ years. He’s a bloviating, self-perpetuating, showman. He deliberately says/does shit to wind-up TMITE and let’s them do his PR and marketing.
He has ca$h which is why politicos were always fellating him.
/looks @ Bill & Hillary
I’m not pro-Trump, but anti-anti-Trump.
Having said that, I hope some better person gets the nod in 2024, though the chances are they’ll get someone worse.
“The FBI has launched an investigation into a suspicious package containing a white powder and a threatening letter that was sent to Rand Paul just a day after Richard Marx praised the man who assaulted the senator from Kentucky in 2017.
“The package which arrived at Paul’s home also contained a doctored image of the Republican who is seen heavily bandaged and walking with the aid of a crutch as a rifle appears aimed at his head.
“‘I’ll finish what your neighbor started, you motherf[uc]ker,’ the message on the package reads.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9615101/Senator-Rand-Paul-receives-death-threat-package-white-powder.html
When Paul is finally assassinated by a Democrat, it will be interesting to see how they spin it as non-political.
They’ll spin it as an act of a mentally deranged individual, emotionally hurt by Rand’s rhetoric, and use it as another excuse to bolster their argument for gun control.
Easy peasy. No one will call them on it.
Like the softball game where the Bernie Bro shot up the GOP congressman, if it was anyone’s fault is was the GOP for not outlawing guns.
“Workplace violence” not “domestic terrorism”.
The American Nathuram Godse
Holy cow, what a pathetic washed up asshole Richard Marx (no relation…I assume) has turned into.
So I guess he’s saying whatever it takes, he’ll be right there waiting for Rand Paul.
CWAA.
I had to look him up, I didn’t recognize the songs, but that refrain sounds familiar, but not in a good way, thank you so very much for the earworm.
Sorry. My first “boyfriend” back was into his shitty songs.
That should have been a tip-off that he (the boyfriend) was gay. But no, I didn’t see it until much later, and by that time we had broken up.
It was high school and my gaydar was uncalibrated back then.
I saw on Wikipedia that he did something with ‘N Sync, not that I’d wish harm on him for that, Lord forbid…well, except I hope he got a bad review.
OK, here is a good musician named Marx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8
Way-too-local Newsflash: local gal makes good; gets some of her taxes back from California.
I’m the local gal. I had to take unpaid Family Medical Leave for all of April to provide care for my husband through his ordeal. I burned through my cash savings during that time; bills and mortgage don’t take leave.
I figured I was just SOL for a while, but then someone told me that one of the many state taxes I paid goes to fund a FML state budget item wherein Cali pays 60-70% of the salary of anyone taking FML, up to 8 weeks. I applied and got one of the doctors to sign the paperwork to the effect that yes, I had to take off work to be his caregiver for April.
I had almost given up but three fat checks arrived today from the state as 70% compensation for my salary for those 4-5 weeks.
I know that over time I will more than pay that amount back into California coffers through future taxes, but it is certainly a relief now, especially with only one paycheck arriving this month.
Phew. Finally a benefit that is coming in handy. Now I won’t have to put groceries or appliance repairs on credit card.
Once again, I don’t approve of this program as a state “duty” but by golly if I’’m overtaxed anyway, I’m certainly going to get what I can to show for it.
I’m of the opinion that it was your money in the first place – I would wager that you’ve paid more than that amount into the “public weal” before so no harm to anybody else for just getting some of it back. Especially when you had done everything you could to prepare for the rainy day which showed up and just needed to get by to keep from going into the red.
Thanks, Tejicano. I feel less dirty now. Yeah, I’ve paid Cali taxes since 2018. I’m sure I’ve paid in more already than what I’m getting out.
And it’s a better use of money than paying whiny public school teachers to sit on their asses for a couple of years due to COVID.
I’ll read the fine print tomorrow about whether the checks are taxable next April.
I’ll never forget my first career shock.
After finishing 4 years as a Marine grunt to get my GI Bill so I could go to school… then busting my butt for 4 years to graduate Tau Beta Pi with a BS MechE… to score (what I thought was) a well paying job with a big-name company in silicon valley…
This first weekend I was shopping at the local supper market, chit-chatting with the dude bagging my groceries, found out he was making more per hour (gross) than I was getting paid per hour after taxes. From my time in the military I already knew how much the feds took from my pay but wasn’t prepared for how much CA would take on top of that.
This is exactly why income tax withholding is insidious.
And then when people get a tax refund, they feel gratitude to the government for giving them some money.
Free Stuff™ comes in many forms in California but I almost never qualify because I make “too much money” according to bleeding heart libs. Anyone who thinks it’s only millionaires and billionaires paying punitive taxes is delusional. Fair share my ass.
Thank you for your service, btw.
Ammeter, indicator, wye-level-wye;
Slide-rule, dynamo, Tau Beta Pi!
Still awake? Howdy Engineer Ha Ye!
https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-antisemitism-wouldnt-be-a-problem-if-we-got-rid-of-all-jews?fbclid=IwAR0J4Kn–fjjN6vdb8togTms6HDmU71K0hYhZKf3w7CbxUXkG1wOQwRYOn8
Ohhhh……lil’ bruddah!
You have the heart of a champion!
Howdy Folks, another smashing day ahead? or another bummer? Your choice,
I’ll take the warm weather thanks, have a great day…….
HEY YUFUS !
Covfefe! Sup slice?
Good morning, Yu & homey! We’re going to our first Dayton Dragons minor league baseball game in what seems like forever TONIGHT!!! Got a screen shot of our electro-tickets on my phone, our paper parking pass, and a mess of coupons to thank us for letting our season ticket $$$ carry over from ’20 to ’21. Not our usual seats tonight, but with any luck we’ll get those back in time for our next game.
I don’t think it’s even going to rain! Of course, our beloved Mythical Fire-Breathing Reptiles are probably going to lose – winning would be too much to ask. Don’t care, as long as we’re there!
Enjoy!
You’re going to a game. Im going to mow/wash the truck/ and-or grill some steaks.
Its gonna rain.
***SIGH!!!*** Yeah, that pretty much gay-rone-tees it.
It is interesting to watch the main stream narrative slowly change to exactly what some doctors and scientists who were de-platformed and shutdown said early in the “pandemic.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/you-might-have-had-covid-if-you-had-this-symptom-in-december-study-finds/ar-BB197qBJ
TMITE
“It’s misinformation until WE say it’s information!!”/MSM
Am I in Michigan? Or the Phillipines?
Its 70 right now, headed up to 80, thats it, 10 degrees,
It’s 67 and sunny down here in Sinus Valley. Poor Reliable Co-worker’s allergies have been getting the better of him – he left early Friday and called off yesterday, so another co-worker and I were reliable for HIM for a change.
Off to be reliable, cheers!
The Philippines? Unless you’re talking 95+% humidity you aren’t even in the neighborhood.
Even coming directly there from Okinawa in July it felt oppressive.
Mornin’ All,
Now that the p-demic is winding down , Fauci the doctor, is taking the heat for the all the BS incurred. There are a lot of someones that owe us a year back of our lives. I don’t have any to spare at this point.
While I don’t have an animosity towards the doc think it’s only fair that he be charged for my lost year and it be added on to my account. A free vaccine doesn’t cut it and I’m skipping that anyway.
Morning.
suh’ fam
I don’t know. I’m tired. I haven’t had my walk in two days, and I’ve got work at 7pm tonight in addition to the normal workday.
Some days it’s just too hot to walk outside.
Hope you can take your comp time for tonight ASAP.
Well, that’s the problem I don’t know how much time it will be.
Though I may just go “I’m taking a half day during the workday to take a nap so I don’t fall asleep during the live migration when data is at stake.
Irrefutable reasoning!
Speaking of too hot to walk outside, tomorrow’s forecast to be a high of 88 and thunderstorming.
Yikes! I hope the rain cools things down some and doesn’t just turn the whole area into a steambath! 🙁
Thursday is supposed to be cooler.
Fauci’s been a fear monger and a liar, for everyone’s own good of course, and I hope he goes down in flames although I don’t expect it.
As soon as he’s no longer Useful, I’d expect to see him quickly become Expendable. Who else to be the scapegoat when the time comes?
Oh – and good morning, Stinky!
Morning, probably all comes down to his role or the lack thereof in funding the gain of function stuff. Now that the lab origin hypothesis has come to the fore he might actually be done.
Good morning, 4(20) & U!
I think you have a legitimate claim to a year back from Fauci, and I would support your petition for same. I confess I’ve felt most sorry for young folks – children going through this nonsense before they’ve even had a chance to experience life The Way It Used To Be – kids whose high school (and to a lesser degree, college) and other milestone experiences have been ruined irredeemably. (College had probably already been ruined even before the latest round of insanity.)
Mornin y’all.
I’m already cranky. Yay.
Aw, c’mon! Cheer up! 😉
*contemptuously* Toons.
/Eddie Valiant
Heh.
Im going to bed. Ive been up all night.
#KillHitler
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/michigan-residents-say-identify-full-vaccinated-ditch-masks-public/
Oh
My
God
It’s going to get… interesting, seeing how this shakes out everywhere.
Will humanity shake off the mass hysteria and pretend the last year never happened? We are pretty good at “forgetting” things.
Forgetting what? Shyte I never wanted to do in the first place? No idea what you’re talking about.
Facepalm.
Heard about that.
Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?
*raises hand*
If they start pushing a “Black Live Matter” ribbon or pin with that logo on it I hope/pray that Maj Toure comes up with a similar one with his “Black Guns Matter” logo on it. If he doesn’t do it I’d be super tempted to do it and send the proceeds (minus no more than my costs) to his organization. I’d love to have a faux-woke symbol to counter this BS while contributing to something that actually does some good.
Belated Mornin’ Friends and Neighbors! Yesterday was Sunday carried over to Monday because of the holiday. Short week, at least.
Festus!
*cue studio audience applause*