The simulant deployed to impersonate the absconded President was already failing. Guaranteed by its creators to function for three years, within three months it was visibly degrading. Confabulations, freeze-ups, nocturnal free-association ramblegrams—it became necessary to contemplate retrieving […]
No! Rebooting is the LAST thing you do when troubleshooting. You gather data and work through the checklist first, then make sure everything critical is backed up. That universe had nearly fourteen billion years’ uptime!
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition #Title_Shutdown_Now
The tech industry got right behind last year’s hypegrift, many producers selling their entire annual output to the griftbros, leaving the ordinary public scrambling to obtain resources. The vendors didn’t bother increasing capacity, because they—like everyone—understood that a crash was imminent […]
I got nerdsniped by your shitpost into trying to write a Forth interpreter in RNA. It didn’t actually take that long to get it working, at least in a simulator. Then I started looking at how to get my code into a prokaryotic ribosome. Imagine my surprise when I found **very** similar structure […]
Fun fact: eighty-nine percent of people who have the new version of Minicode™ Workplace®—the one that has the unblockable “summarize this document in ①┠┈╂┈┈┈┈┨㊿ words” slider—leave that slider permanently set at ①. If you were wondering why this world is so messed up, I can tell you in (no point […]
They say that before the Thousand Suns, the sky was black, but for the pinpricks of other worlds. No one has seen it, for a dozen generations since the sky was lost to us. We have calculated a path through the debris, our vessel Noxifer will shoot down the sunsats; Nightfall will come.
#Tootfic […]
The *second* alien race we met told us it was VERY irregular for the Tang to grant a race access to the undernet and then later revoke it. They asked us what we did. We sent them RFC129301 (Encapsulation of IPv4 datagrams within the state vector of subspace network gauge solitons). We never […]
Scalpers snapped up over ninety percent of the tickets for the rapture, leaving the faithful doomed to seven years of tribulation, or scrabbling to purchase salvation on the secondary market. Ticketek has denied deliberately facilitating this situation by failing to weigh the souls of purchasers […]
I’m on record as saying I *despise* time travel; nothing good ever comes of it. But I’m making _one_ exception. NoBait is a browser extension that receives the “news of the week” via tachyon backscatter from next week, and filters out any of today’s news articles that turned out in hindsight to […]
I heard that the former USA reset their fighter aircraft numbering system after it got into the low hundreds because of that embarrassing incident where Colonel Alex Travers’ red team in the exercise Operation Pustulant Octopus won the day (despite like all “simulated battle” exercises being […]
Looking at the smoking boots, and then up at the dark and inscrutable visage of the crystalline lion-woman, I can’t help but conclude she judged your vow…inadequate. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
Evening #Inners
It's that time, pull up a stool, order your favorite beverage and stay awhile #Loki #Freya #TheKids #BondedSibs #MomentOfShelby #BonusEdition #Floofballs
It's said that the spreadsheet—VisiCalc this was before Excel Ate Paris—created the "greed is good" 1980s, by enabling the planning of unprecedented financial shenanigans.
Some say AI was responsible in a similar way for what happened in the 'thirties. The 2030s, that is, though the resemblance […]
The only thing we know about the shadowy consortium that killed the inventor of the hoverboard and ruthlessly suppressed any news of the invention is their (believed) codename: 608ZZ
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
I found the bug. The utter *womble* who wrote this code¹ used a floating-point value to represent dimensional alignment instead of bignum. If you shift three universes *thataway*, do some stuff, and then shift back, you might only transition 2.9999999042012 universes *thisaway*. I think I’ve got […]
One asteroid prospector in a singleship makes for a hard living. Bring a couple of border collies flying gravity skimmers and suddenly it’s fun for the whole family. The hard part is getting them to stop. One of mine got into the Jupiter trojans and lined the fuckers up by size. Clever bitch […]
“Hey, void, is there somewhere you go if you need to scream?”
「The Grand Canyon is nice」
“No problems at the border?”
「I don’t go that way」
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
“Pass the bread please”
”Sure. How was your day?”.
“Thanks. Awful. I got a word wrong on a page i was copying and had to redo the whole page”
“Why not just keep going?”
“Don’t you remember what brother Damian said last week. It is our duty to copy the sacred scripture exactly”.
“Uh, I […]
When we finally decoded the alien signal it merely said "you have a first contact notification in your MyGalaxy Inbox".
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
“You want a wakey powder?”
“A what?”
“One of these, I found boxloads of them in an abandoned bunker”
“Uh, that’s what was called an instant coffee sachet, you were supposed to soak them in hot water”
“Yuk, I’m tired, not dirty”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
Good morning I have coffee #tgcci #stayinsidesavelives #bonusedition
