Monthly Archives: March 2025

From Reddit, r/todayilearned TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in Disney’s Pocahontas, died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he … Continue reading →

A good case study on how the right schools and the right friends helps to unite a technologically proficient (perhaps “feudal technocratic”?) Ruling Class against all comers. In Traveller, this would include the right family names. Perhaps the right military … Continue reading →

If you can twiddle the Drake equation so at least one in ten star systems have a decent planet in them, good enough to para-terraform, then you might be able to get that sprawling star empire up and running. Traveller … Continue reading →

From Woke Watch Canada Newsletter Did BC Supreme Court Justice Douglas Aird Hogarth say what the First Nations Leadership Council claims he said? —<Quote begins>— Woke Watch Canada is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time … Continue reading →

From Songbird: The Dystopian Film that Became Real by Jeffrey A. Tucker    —<Quote begins>– Watching Songbird (2020) was a delight.  Wait, wrong word.  It was chilling, remarkable, stunning, revealing, and terrifying in strange ways. It features a dystopian society that is fully … Continue reading →

The Imperium is big on honour and loyalty. Willpower? Not so much: the Vilani prefer efficiency, and the Solomani like creative solutions rather than just pounding harder for longer. Strategy? Imperial strategy isn’t too bad: the Vilani remember what always … Continue reading →

A good, detailed look at what would be a common spaceship type, pre-artificial gravity. For a given level of gravity, the radius, diameter, and circumference of a rotating habitat are all inversely proportional to the square of the rotational rate. This means … Continue reading →

This is what would be called “a bad ticket” in Traveller mercenary speak. Not so much because of atrocities – this merc rarely even sees an enemy to shoot at, honestly – but due to bad treatment due to race, … Continue reading →

Yeah, there are plenty of them. I suppose it’s due to that patriarchy => homosexuality pipeline so beloved of Greeks and Romans and Japanese and Arabs and those men-only Catholic institutions. Toss in the love and the will of Power … Continue reading →