Kit BashirZygon Day of Visibility only comes once a year. It takes nearly that long to get the slime out of the carpets.
"They're headed for that small moon!"
"That's no moon---that's a starworm feeder"
"Ugh, why would anyone want to attract those?"
"The larvae aren't pretty, I'll grant you, but the moth phase is gorgeous; plus, the discarded pupa cases are high in transuranics"
“Check it out, I got a Trinitron for my new retro gaming rig. Just listen to the satisfying clunk it makes when I turn it on.” *BLONG*
“Uh, is your rig connected to the internet?”
“Duh, it’s for strea—ooof.”
“Stay down!”
“Get off me! Why did you do that?”
“The BeamGleam worm is still live, you utter wardrobe handle”
“Wjuh, uh what’s that?”
“A cathode ray tube is just a friendly ion cannon; the Worm makes them…unfriendly”
“Don’t be paranoid tha”—*BZZZT*
“Told you. Unplug it before you get up, Ima crawl to the kitchen and get the fire extinguisher.”
“You build what!?”
“Dyson spheres”
“How?”
“With a crane!”
“Wait, where do you mount the crane?”
“On our dyson sphere”
“Huh?”
“It’s just a little one, my g’grait grandma built it around a class Y brown dwarf. Since a body anywhere from one to a hundred Jupiter masses doesn’t get any bigger, just denser, our one crane can build shells around gas giants, brown dwarfs and even stars from M6 down.”
“How long have you been doing this”
“Thirty year, but the firm’s been in business almost two centuries”
“I uh, don’t see any Dyson spheres around here, do you not get much work?”
“Plenty! You won’t see ‘em cos my cousin does such good insulation!”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_The_Ringworld_Plasterers
When physicists worked out that the speed of light in a vacuum is a fixed limit *UNLESS* a civilisation has completed age verification, a vocal minority complained that there had to be a catch; what—they asked—if verification was some kind of surveillance trap?.
After we verified, the naysayers were briefly smug about having been right.
“Ha, nice tinfoil hat!”
“It’s an umbrella”
“Yawhackinfut?”
“It projects a transverse gravity gradient that deflects raindrops”
“Oooh-kay, let’s presume for the moment you’re sane. It’s sunny out!”
“For now; storm later”
“Did your tinfoil hat tell you that?”
“No, stupid, my weather pixie”
“What can i get you?”
“Guinness Zero, please.”
“A lot of people drinking that now.”
“It’s really good. Uh, so what’s it like working in a documentary bar? Must be quieter than a sports bar and a boxing crowd”
“You’d think. Come back on Friday and watch the Cutting Edge Engineering crowd throw down about the best carbide insert.”
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #HopePunk #Title_Friday_Crowd
NEW YORK (AP): Shares in Manhattan based SPAV “Ethereal Services LLC”—which last year acquired a number of occult-related businesses including pioneering startup Ghostbusters Inc—have been suspended from trading after the District Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that found the capture and imprisonment of spirits to be a violation of the first, fourth and fifth amendments. ESI’s removal of spirits from the GI containment grid for use in so-called Afterlife Intelligence processors was challenged by a class-action brought by the relatives of deceased persons who claim that the personality of their lost loved ones could be observed in the output of AI data centers. Lawyers for the plaintiff class have called for immediate release of illegally imprisoned VEPs (vital essence persons).
#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Class_Action
Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🧙♀️🏏🧩🎭🪁“That’s the same timber you had in the tray yesterday”
“Uh, you must have me mistaken for somebody else”
“I don’t think so. Step out of the vehicle please, I am arresting you on suspicion of operating a double-lane power vehicle without lawful excuse.”