@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-07-03 06:06:18
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: So?
TARRANT: So what do we do before they blow us out of the galaxy?
AVON: We attack.
TARRANT: Attack? We have nothing to attack with.
AVON: Then bluff it. Tell them to surrender.
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-05-31 21:16:48
It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-07-02 09:15:48
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: [V.O.] I hear you.
BLAKE: Bring us back. [Pause. V.O.] Bring us back.
[Interior. Liberator teleport area. Avon is at the console. Gan is there]
AVON: I can't. The teleport control is burnt out.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/130…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org2025-06-28 23:48:27
Today I've been fighting again with this absolutely stupid :nixos: #NixOS bug that dates back nearly 20 years now, which prevents you from naming an executable 'log'. Yes, it is NOT possible on NixOS. 🤦 🤦 🤦 And working around it is beyond frustrating. Fixing it requires a mass rebuild, so it's not that simple. 😩 😂 It's so terrible but also hilarious...
Issue:
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-06-24 07:48:31
Die #Marzipanfabrik ist ein Parkplatz mit Bürointegration. All das Geld für schicke Fassaden und die städtische Lage können nicht die Hässlichkeit kompensieren, die so ein Konzept aus dem hinterländlichen Raum erzeugt.
An den Rand gequetschte Fußwege, getrennt durch Wände aus senkrechtem Parken und überbreite Fahrbahnen, versiegelte Flächen, die zur Flucht einladen. Hippe Büros umgebe…
@weddingweiser@berlin.social2025-06-13 05:35:47
Was den Rebel Room seit 2013 so erfolgreich im Wedding macht https://weddingweiser.de/was-den-rebel-room-seit-2013-so-erfolgreich-im-wedding-macht/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-28 13:30:10
In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-30 18:14:47
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
ORAC: Seventy kilos, Avon.
AVON: Only seventy kilos... Vila, strip off the insulation material in the cargo hold. [Vila turns.] Vila! [Avon takes some small object from a panel and hands it to him.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/462 B7B5
@weddingweiser@berlin.social2025-06-13 05:30:40
Was den Rebel Room seit 2013 so erfolgreich im Wedding macht https://weddingweiser.de/was-den-rebel-room-seit-2013-so-erfolgreich-im-wedding-macht/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-29 12:17:12
Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
AVON: Yes.
BLAKE: [V.O.] I need you on the flight deck.
AVON: I'm busy
BLAKE: [V.O.] Now, Avon.
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
BLAKE: Zen, how are the repairs going?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/20 B7B3
