“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

With gratitude and faith

With gratitude and faith

Today is Turkey Day over in the USA, which is where the bulk of my readership comes from. Now, this day is a bit “odd” from a global perspective. Other cultures have similar festivals and traditions, but at very different times during the year, and for...
Cautionary tales

Cautionary tales

Our friend The Male Brain sent me a link to an interesting Instathot last week. I had thought about including her story in one of the usual Great Mondaydact Browser Busters;. However, upon reflection I realised that this is exactly the kind of woman that young men...
Happy HELLOWEEN 2020

Happy HELLOWEEN 2020

The days are getting shorter and colder, the leaves are falling from the trees, and today is All Hallow’s Eve – also known as Halloween. Today is usually when kids get dressed up in silly outfits and go around knocking on doors and taking candy. This is...
A hole with lots of narratives

A hole with lots of narratives

This year is going to be remembered for a LOT of horrible, terrible, awful, no good, very bad things. The Coof and subsequent lockdowns were the shit-sundae, and there were lots of cherries piled on top of that throughout the year. But, in the fields of Christian...
Runtime error

Runtime error

Our good friend Dawn Pine sent over, via Cappy, an unintentionally hilarious article dating back to 2013 about a woman who tried to create a feminist programming language. See if you can read through this alphabet soup and comprehend the first thing that the soulless...
Prove it

Prove it

Our good friend Dawn Pine and I obviously think very much alike, because we both saw this news story about actress Charlotte Kirk’s PoundMeToo claims and immediately jumped to pretty much the same basic conclusion: British actress Charlotte Kirk has filed a...
Careless Airways dropped a flying piano

Careless Airways dropped a flying piano

Reader furor kek tonicus – he of the awesome and ever-changing handle – posted a video in the comments to yesterday’s article about the God-Emperor’s epic attack raccoons, about the Joint Strike Flying Piano. Apparently, one of Uncle...
Make Raccoons Great Again

Make Raccoons Great Again

Once more, His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, the Lion of Midnight, may the Lord bless him and preserve him, shows us that anything is...
Mr. Softy gets blue-screen balls

Mr. Softy gets blue-screen balls

A reader and podcast listener alerted me this morning to a truly hilarious story about everyone’s favourite corporate whipping boy. Apparently, a huge swathe of Microsoft’s core cloud services went offline, and as far as anyone can figure out, it was...