#Clearances

[violeteclipse2002]

i would encourage anyone to research the clearances, both highland and lowland, and the links from them to emigration and imperialism

i really feel like most people really don't know much about semi-recent scotttish history, which stuff like US history being more well known in some cases

so often get the feeling that folk just don't know even fairly basic details about this country's history, which is somewhat concerning as it still significantly impacts so many aspects of life today

[cmweller]

Challenge #03853-J201: The Next Step

Mr Sunshine finds that his usual ... escorts, are around less and less often. And if he looks at his file, he's cleared to interact with kids, at least in public.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03611-i323-a-small-alarming-encounter -- Anon Guest

Some psychopathic, sociopathic murderers have moral standards. It surprises everyone to know this. Most of them have a better moral structure than your average Deregger CEO[1]. Or, for that matter, the people who support them into power.

Mr Sunshine found himself examining his own profile. The history of his life and all the psychological entanglements therein. He knew most of this. He knew he was dangerous. Heartless.

Becoming tutor and guide to Jay altered things. So too did his encounters on their third Deregger world together. He had taken the time to move the youngest children from the CEO's private creche of heirs, and into the more common throng.

[Check the source for the rest of the story]

[cheekinpermission]

Y'all think Malleus ever just kinda...

Them horns gotta get in the way sometimes

[xnodivinity]

pjs

[clowncollegevaledictorian]

hey carla my love how the fuck did you know who the beast is

[jokerlennon]

guy who's only ever seen twin peaks starting the x files voice when will fox mulder come out as transgender already

[oldschoolfrp]

Trust The Computer

(Paranoia: The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues by John M Ford, West End Games, 1985)

[inbabylontheywept]

The Fridges. Oh My God, The Fridges.

This is a continuation of the last piece I wrote on the weird shit that happens in classified facilities. The building I work in has somewhere around 30-35 people in it. It also has around 20 fridges. There's kind of a saga that goes into this, so I'll start with the first part: The Hoarding.

The building has an insane overabundance of space. They just keep adding new rooms every time an old room needs an update, so it just sprawls on forever. There's also an extremely limited ability to get anyone who does not work full time in the building, into the building. This means that while we work on missiles, we also clean our own desks and vacuum the floors and mop and all of those other tasks that most places would consider "non-engineer work." This is fine if it's something anyone with a body can do, but this causes problems when you're looking at the physical limits of engineers. Namely, we are not very muscular people.

Thus, if something needs to get manhandled into a space, it gets manhandled by whatever group of nerds you can bribe, threaten, or guilt into joining you. When a fridge dies, it is a motherfucker to remove it from the building, so they often just...didn't. What they did instead was get the fridges onto dolleys, which isn't too bad, wheel those dolleys to the elevator, and then park them in a relatively empty part of the basement that we shall call The Graveyard of Fridges. This wasn't originally meant to be a permanent solution, but when you have space but lack muscles, it can become permanent really fast. Eventually, someone realized that you can padlock the fronts of the fridges and use them as document storage, which has the added perk of meaning that the people on site don't have to assemble more filing cabinets. Everyone here hates assembling filing cabinets. It's fucking terrible. (It is worth noting that in this era, you would occasionally get directions to a secret file that looked like "1970's model, lime green, left crisper.")

We will call this the peak of the Hoarding Era. It is followed by the Mechanical Engineering Era.

Around 2015, it was realized that the group needed engineers familiar with industrial machinery, and not just standard electronics, so mechanical engineers (MEs) began to get hired. The new ME's made it a sort of rite of passage for proceeding new hires to repair an old fridge. So the site went from having 4 functioning fridges and 15ish being used for document storage to around 15 functioning fridges and 4 used for file storage.

Every time a fridge got fixed, people just put them back on the dolley, wheeled them back in the elevator, and got them wedged in their personal office spaces. If you were a bigwig, you might be able to get dibs on your own personal fridge, and if you were a new guy confined to the cubicle jungle you might have to share one with four or five other guys. But it was still a ludicrous amount of fridge space.

And that is how a base with 35 people on it wound up with 15 fridges.

[shiftythrifting]

[cicada-heart]

block printed cicada patches on sustainable felt 🌿

etsy

[mayakern]

our ash, dusty rose, pumpkin, pine, and scarlet wrap tops have all been marked down to $12!! 🥳

if you've been eyeing one, i suggest snagging it now before they sell out!

[satans-knitwear]

Split me in half??? Yeah, let's go with that.

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

[kirakewpie]

hey don’t be sad… my cute tits, okay?

[wildpiercy-art]

LUGNODE BE UPON YE

[harleysalicent]

Kira Manning stealing a bottle of wine from a work function and running off with a hot scientist just like her auntie cosima did all those years ago. the echoes are echoing

[sonichedgeblog]

'Lylia's Deadline: Clearance' (Original Demo) by Marw High speed 2.5D Gameplay, Low-poly 3D Graphics, Rocking music, and more Heat-based combat mechanics. https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/lylias-deadline-clearance-sage-2024-demo.2263/ Support us on Patreon