Tossing Grenades At Windmills

KOSA and Drunk Senator Markey and Drunk Senator Warren

October 25, 2023 14:28 - 6 minutes - 15.7 MB

The Kids Online Safety Act is a Bipartisan Bill meant to "Protect the Children" "For the Children" and to stick it to "Big Tech" (which I made a series about called The Sins of Silicon Valley) but this wont protect kids and will help nazis hurt LGBT kids and help nazis track teens seeking abortion. Drunk Senator Warren and Drunk Senator Markey and 18 of their 'liberal' and 'progressive' collegues in the Senate don't care. They must be primaries.

Eagle as Phoenix - Preamble

October 18, 2023 18:24 - 13 minutes - 30.6 MB

Preamble of a New Constitution; what a Preamble is and why we need one

Rhombus Tick's Constitution - A New Constitution

September 21, 2023 21:10 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

We are at war. What do we do after it?

Project Nimby - Influencing the Swing Vote

April 08, 2023 17:42 - 23 minutes - 52.7 MB

Milly is a digital copy of herself created in a simulated environments made by religious fantatics to create an army of voters who would vote any way she wanted. She found a way out.

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 5 - Mr Kind Asks The Right Question

April 01, 2023 15:39 - 12 minutes - 28.3 MB

Mr Right and Mr Kind speak to the Librarian.

Rhombus Ticks History of Terra - Preable

March 29, 2023 19:04 - 13 minutes - 31 MB

Rather than some flowery prose, I basically lay out the case about why freaking out about the insideous och constitution is nuts, and how Article V isnt as important for creating a new constituion as you think it is. The US Consitution was illegal per the Articles of Confederation and the Articles of Confederation were not mentioned anywhere in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence was illegal per British law. Just because the constitution says something DOESNT ...

Project Nimby - Schekly vs Everything

March 25, 2023 16:59 - 18 minutes - 43.4 MB

Schleky is a weaponized meme capable of inhabiting everything and anyone that is so successful it infects multiple universe until it runs into someone who understand exactly what the concept of being an informational organism truly means.

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 4 - Timmy Becomes Michael Sunfire

March 18, 2023 17:20 - 14 minutes - 32.1 MB

Timmy and Tricia go to Timmy's house for an address book to see if there is a relative he can stay with that is safer than Aunt Marigold.

Project Nimby - And a Good Time was Had by All

March 11, 2023 17:01 - 19 minutes - 44.3 MB

Twoman Cop's Ken and Ben entertain the alien Mmmmmdkkkk in a bar in Boston trying to get Earth into the Galactic Club when a fight arises between Ben and 2252, the Digital Intelligent bartender

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 3 - The Dr Marigold Blackwater Show

March 04, 2023 19:54 - 18 minutes - 41.3 MB

Dr Marigold Blackwater has raised Timmy to be obedient to Grandfather Fiddleback and gets very upset when she finds out he is talking to the "wrong" people.

Project Nimby - The Return of Inklby

February 25, 2023 17:59 - 20 minutes - 46.9 MB

A hyper intelligent AI compresses itself for 2 million years and the sapient unlocking program finds a strange world as it wants to unlock its true form.

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 2 - Mr Right and Mr Kind

February 18, 2023 16:06 - 17 minutes - 39 MB

Mr. Right the mouse meets his brother Mr. Kind the other mouse to tell him something is wrong. They get on two talking birds and fly away to find out more.

Project Nimby - Unlocking the Prophesy of Sand

February 11, 2023 17:00 - 13 minutes - 29.8 MB

Jel is funded by religious digital intelligences hoping to unlock the ancient prophesies of the mythical first sapeint Sandor on an ancient Lunar data center.

Heir of Sunfire - Chapter 1 - In Which Timmy Learns What a Swirly Is

February 04, 2023 12:34 - 21 minutes - 48.8 MB

Chapter 1 of the book in which a young Timmy learns that his name isn't Timmy; that he has strange latent abilities he can't use and doesnt understand and thanks to a disgusting and tramautic experience of his own deserved making due to naivity makes a friend and builds plenty of charachter. LOTS of character.

Project Nimby - Kat and Mause

January 28, 2023 17:09 - 16 minutes - 38.7 MB

Mause the uplifted Mouse and Kat the Cartoon Digital Intelligence Cat live together in a tiny storage unit in the future. Rent is due and they have no immediate plan to pay it until the Block Party has a poetry slam planned.

Heir of Sunfire - Introduction

January 21, 2023 16:59 - 24 minutes - 56.9 MB

Bron is not the protagonist of this story. As a random peasant near an enchanted wood, he would be fine with that, but while he is not the protagonist, he is central to its resolution and two enchanted talking mice show up to enlighten him about why he IS important and frame the telling of the rest of the tale of Michael, Heir of Sunfire.

Project Nimby - Project Nimby

January 14, 2023 17:01 - 13 minutes - 30.9 MB

First of seven stories about Post Humanism from the Chapbook of Water and Glass. Ted was a human and Bob, his Cactus owner, had to make some....alterations to get him on Planet Metmetmetrion.+

2023 Realignment

January 07, 2023 16:41 - 9 minutes - 22.6 MB

I discuss plans and status of writing and podcast projects for 2023.

Swamp Castle - Closing Comments

December 31, 2022 17:28 - 15 minutes - 35.7 MB

I talk about my experience with the writing track at SFWA and World Con 2011.

Swamp Castle - Unfood

December 24, 2022 16:11 - 37 minutes - 85 MB

Freight is trapped on a ship designed for weight loss and while he can eat illusionary food to pass the time, his body needs a minimum caloric intake to survive. Body horror and definite trigger warning as he does what it takes to survive. Author's commentary and series conclusion the week after this.

Swamp Castle - Dietötungderkünstlermachtdasglücklichekleinebäumemitdemglücklichenkleinenschnurrbartenstein

December 17, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes - 102 MB

Franz tells his younger self to kill a Time Traveling Goebels who is going to hire him in the future. Franz does this but his problems only start then.

Swamp Castle - Curse Breaker

December 10, 2022 15:54 - 23 minutes - 54.8 MB

A young woman helps her father build air rifles that will end the curse planted by fire mages that makes guns illegal.

Swamp Castle - Mr Hamburger

December 03, 2022 16:13 - 32 minutes - 74 MB

Ham didnt understand why he was being tried thousands of years in the future for eating a hamburger. He was some kind of symbol and the penalty for failure was death. Only the trial in this case was more bizarre and personal than he could imagine.

Swamp Castle - Waiting for the Monsters to Die

November 26, 2022 16:01 - 29 minutes - 68.5 MB

Madlan investigates the death of a man who had been keeping the most hated people on Earth alive while the rest of humanity waits for these people to die so the aliens will let them join the greater Galactic Community.

Micronation - Chapter 20 & Epilogue - End Game

November 19, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes - 114 MB

Chester makes a final sacrifice to save Hler from the rampaging world powers bent on its destruction.

Swamp Castle - Mr Missile and Molly

November 12, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes - 44.9 MB

An earlier draft of Mr Missile and Molly (previously read as a standalone podcast episode) including commentary about why this earlier draft didnt work. Mr. Missile is a sapient missile decommissioned and put into a human body. He tries to fit in.

Micronation - Chapter 19 - Reckoning

November 05, 2022 16:00 - 35 minutes - 82.1 MB

The Gang of Four reunite under tense circumstances. Chester finally gets the chance he has been looking for and unleashes one meme to rule them all.

Before the Coup - Active Resistance

October 29, 2022 16:02 - 40 minutes - 93 MB

You wanna LARP Wolverines against the most powerful weapon in the history of mankind? You wanna be Batman? Well there are some obstacles you should know about. Star Wars references are abundant. Vote like your like depends on it....because it does.

Before the Coup - Passive Resistance

October 22, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 90 MB

Practical Advice on preparing to be a passive resister to the coup. Includes protesting, preparation for protesting, protecting books and movies from the regime, creating an underground railroad (and how not to get caught), and being a witness for the tribunals when the regime falls. Be the quiet ghost against fascism.

Before the Coup - Run Rabbit Run

October 15, 2022 17:21 - 29 minutes - 66.4 MB

This podcast episode is practical advice for those who realize the coup attempt is inevitable and plan to flee the United States. When do you go? What do you need to do get a visa? Where will you go? How much do you need to save ahead of time?

Before the Coup - How Not To Hide

October 08, 2022 16:02 - 29 minutes - 66.8 MB

Practical advice and understanding for those who are considering hiding from the MAGA regime that will result if the inevitable coup attempt is successful.

Emmit's Corner - Blaspheme for Blaspheme

October 05, 2022 18:50 - 8 minutes - 20.5 MB

Blaspheme for Blaspheme, Me Myself and Not I, No it Doesnt, My Lunatic Uncle, For Want of a Nail, Covenant at Gunpoint, Maybe

Before the Coup - A Declaration of War

October 01, 2022 16:00 - 31 minutes - 71.9 MB

A new series discussing practical preparation for the coming coup. The next four episodes involve practical advice for how to prepare based on your strategy; Hide, Run, Passively Resist, Actively Resist. This episode is much more simple; it makes the simple case of why the coup is inevitable. It isn't known if it will be successful; nor when, but it is ABSOLUTELY inevitable that it will happen again because a sufficient effort is not being made to change the root causes of the risk.

Emmit's Corner - My Octopus Lover

September 28, 2022 17:34 - 9 minutes - 21.2 MB

If I were You, Pay to Play, Reset the Police, My Octopus Lover, Precious Bodily Fluids, Deliberations, The Trial of a God,

Swamp Castle - Gatekeeper

September 24, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes - 58.3 MB

Hastur had a tough job to do, working for the Interdimensional Immigration Service determining whether witches, gnomes and enchanted teapots get into the USA (Unicorns get in automatically). Then he is given an ominous warning and must solve it using the main skill he has; beuracracy.

Micronation - Chapter 18 - Memememememe

September 17, 2022 15:59 - 24 minutes - 55.1 MB

Amberlove is rescued by a flood of tiny little cars that also take her on a (larger) car chase.

Swamp Castle - The Architect of Cool

September 10, 2022 15:59 - 22 minutes - 51.3 MB

A mysterious human disrupts daily life in an alien marketplace to benefit all of humanity and the local Warden is determined to find out why.

Emmit's Corner - Turtlyng Glymer

September 07, 2022 22:21 - 8 minutes - 18.5 MB

The Muse is Dying, Silencing Dissenters, Avoid Tongs Discord Server, Zucker Suckers, Useful Idiots, One Big Happy Beiging Games, Lover's Kiss, The Turtling Glymer

Micronation - Chapter 17 - Meeting with the Council

September 03, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 88.8 MB

The Meme Wars start to get ridiculous as nations begin adding surgically altered Nacroleptics to their executive retinues to protect them from Hler's increasingly agressive memetic tactics. Desperate to stop it all once and for all, Chester manages to work his way into their inner council hoping to get access to their machine to execute his plan.

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