STARBASE ENGINEER: ok, the work order says you need 500 consoles in the ship. Do you want to pay extra for the ones that don't explode?

STARSHIP CAPTAIN: we've evolved beyond the pursuit of money, and live for higher purposes, to--

STARBASE ENGINEER: 500 face exploders it is

#StarTrek #starfleet #FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism

Any #lawyers interested in #FullyAutomatedLuxuryLawyering ? (Yes, I made it up from #FullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism because it sounds cool and who wouldn’t like the luxury of lawyering where everything tedious is fully automated? Bring on #expertise

Briefly decloaking for an #introduction.

Currently enjoying #unworking and recovering after #burnout. I know my way round a computer (see burnout), and have been online for a long time #nerd #webdev #infrastructure #compsci . Heartfelt sympathies to the sysadmins dealing with #twittermigration growing pains. Fuck uptime.

I have a love of #permaculture, #environmentalism, and #bushwalking.

I've read a lot of #scifi; some favourite authors: Kim Stanley Robinson, William Gibson (and the rest of the #cyberpunk s, Charles Stross, Greg Egan, Cory Doctorow (#walkaway might be the straw that breaks this camels back) Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey. Recently read the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Cixin Liu and hope we aren´t in a #darkforest.

See also: #philosophy - flavours of #anarchism, with hint of #anarchoprimitivism and more than a splash of #fullyautomatedluxurygayspacecommunism.

That'll do for now. #stealthmode re-engaged.