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Chris Farnell
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I've written the Crew Handbook for Star Trek Lower Decks, the Prospectus for Life is Strange's Caledon University, the joke book for Doctor Who and the continuing misadventures of the deadly starship Fermi.

https://chrisfarnell.com
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · Jun 3
“The Fermi is the fastest ship, and the deadliest weapon in the universe. We only need it to be one of those things.”
At
My homepage: chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
Scarlet Ferret: scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...
The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Progress: Dyson's Fear, Descartesmageddon, Planet of the Apiaries and The Phone Job. The covers of the four novellas that make up Fermi's Wake: D & Deception, For the Trees, Graveyard Orbit and Overview Effect.
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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stevenperkins.bsky.social
love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”
November 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Jokes aside, I'm seeing real consensus building around framing "The government paying for essential journeys by taxi" as some ludicrous wasteful spending.

If you've got a kid in special education who needs transport, you can bet these crosshairs are heading your way *real fucking soon*.
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Asylum seekers banned from buying shoes unless they are half a size too small.

Asylum seekers must pay full price for a sandwich, crisps and a drink after being denied access to the Meal Deal.

Motion smoothing now compulsory on asylum seekers' TVs.
November 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
If Ayn Rand was a wizard.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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exstasisgames.bsky.social
A whole day staring at Nobby Nobbs. People have left Ankh Morpork for less.
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Okay but I can still use them to train my AI without her permission, right?
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
On the one hand, I get this is annoying.
On the other hand, a lot of pop culture commentary outlets have slashed their freelance budgets lately so I'd appreciate it if we could stoke demand with more of these questions.
jroberts.bsky.social That Guy James @jroberts.bsky.social · 2d
When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.
bbolander.bsky.social Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d
"WHY'S SHE DOING THAT?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I'M BORED" well the cool thing about following a narrative is that eventually if you keep watching or reading or listening, magical bits of information are doled out
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
"The majority of voters are conservative" is a great thing for the Labour Party to say.
carlclapham.bsky.social Carl Clapham @carlclapham.bsky.social · 2d
Page 30.
The bigotry towards people who are transgender is not incidental.
It was and is a central plank of the Labour Party to gain and retain power. This is who our government is and every LGBT person should never forget this.
1. Labour must hold its line on social and cultural issues The majority of voters in the UK are socially conservative. This is particularly true of the Patriotic Left, but also of the Disillusioned Suburbans, who are more socially conservative than Labour’s 2019 voters. These voters believe that we should not increase immigration numbers. They believe Britain should be proud of its past. They believe that young people do not respect British values. They believe that certain places should be made safe by restricting entry by biological sex. This is a particularly important lesson for Labour, because the vast majority of the voters that Britain needs to win are more socially conservative than Labour members, politicians, and ...
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
I'm in a bind. On the one hand there are a lot of signs this could be a scam email. But this still all seems plausibly like something Kash Patel might actually do...
An email reading "I’m Mr. Kash patel Director in Charge Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. Washington, DC. United States of America (USA) I am writing to let you know that we received several consignment boxes from Atlanta Georgia Airport with some different peoples names on them. Among the consignment boxes Worth 10.5 million dollars that are still in our custody, your name was included on them. Others are from the Benin Republic Customs Office branch, Several banks in Europe and parts of Asia. They have all been sent to our office here in Washington, D.C. Headquarters to make sure that you received your consignment boxes after securing the airport delivery Yellow Tag which is not placed on the boxes to clear your consignment boxes from the Airport. This morning (Mrs. Susan Williams) sent to us a message stating that she was a family member of you and she also said that you are no more alive and she made us to understood that you handed over your belonging to her when you was still alive, So therefore the lady is demanding for the consignment boxes to be release to her as she is trying to stand as your next of kin but we are still waiting to see if you will respond to this email within 24hours Because, We are very careful that was the reason why we ignored the message from Mrs. Susan Williams but still awaiting to see if you will respond to this alert message for us to be sure that you are still..."
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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alexdecampi.bsky.social
UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Just have a load of stories about a faster-than-light spaceship and the bizarre alien worlds it visits/destroys.

The novels Andrew Skinner described as "Farscape x Community", which you know is the series you've always wanted to see.
scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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stefmowords.bsky.social
I'm not convinced everyone wants to hear about my published books but what the hell

The House on Utopia Way! surreal sci-fi cyberpunk detective action! a "wildly imaginative ride"!

15% off with the code BLACKFRIDAY

or special edition e-book here - scarletferret.com/books/the-ho...
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Holmes is actual an immortal vampire which is a thought so antithetical to his rational mind that it periodically strikes him into a fugue state which is how in the Steven Moffat version he can solve mysteries just like ones he already solved in the 19th century without noticing the similarities
robmanuelyeah.bsky.social Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 2d
No. The correct way to understand this is to stop trying to make things fit together. You can watch different people playing Sherlock Holmes, in entirely different stories, without trying to make it add up. Stories are a dressing up box, not a jigsaw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
So these guys didn't travel across the galaxy, they just got off planet Earth and waited?
The dinosaur descendant aliens in the Star Trek Voyager episode, "Distant Origin".
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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edjefferson.com
beat rachel reeves - devalue your 2 million pound house by spraying PAEDO LIVES HERE on the front of it
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
The key to successful social media book marketing is to hook into the zeitgeist, but in a way that makes it accessible to the widest possible audience.

My site: chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G3...
Scarlet Ferret:
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
A photo of Michael Palin, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese and Terry Jones in white tuxedos performing the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch only their heads have been replaced by, respectively, the cover "Strange Things Are Happening" by Richard Norris, a poster for the Netlix show "Stranger Things", the cover of "Fermi's Progress", and the cover of "Fermi's Wake", thereby implying an ascending scale of "Strange Things", culminating in Fermi's Wake as the strangest thing. Thank you for reading.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
Hi new followers. Don't forget to HYDRATE and REST so you can continue to EXPERIENCE existential DREAD
November 10, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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jolantru.bsky.social
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book! (or books!)

Link here: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

More link: www.amazon.com/Dragon-Physi...

Last one: annorlundaenterprises.com/books/water-...
Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling
www.atthisarts.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
A good thing to do with non-important NPC dialogue is to not include it. Don't have those characters say anything.

Unless you need them to say something for worldbuilding, player immersion, delivering minor but information or some other reason.

What do we call NP dialogue that does that?
ethan8bit.newgrounds.com Ethan - Sculpting Arc @ethan8bit.newgrounds.com · 3d
Buy a solo indie dev's game because I want to support them.

Find out it uses OpenAI to write "non-important NPC dialogue".

🫠
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
thebrainofchris.bsky.social
"This scientist is researching precognition, psychic phenomena and the non-linear nature of time."

Fascinating! I'd love to hear more!

"She works at her university's centre for research into AI."

Well that puts a real dent in her credibility.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a695...
Your Consciousness Can Jump Through Time—Meaning ‘Gut Feelings’ Are Memories From the Future, Scientists Say
Even the CIA has publicly released data on the psychic phenomenon.
www.popularmechanics.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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ursidice.bsky.social
You can kitbash a little Cow Tools. as a treat.
Miniature diorama of a cow in front of a table of odd tools, a la Cow Tools by Gary Larson
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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scarletferret.com
This one's genius!
thebrainofchris.bsky.social Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 3d
Season Pass Holders get immediate access to "Every Which Way is West", a Wild West, Fermi-themed micro-setting for @exstasisgames.bsky.social's upcoming Disposable Bags of Meat RPG!
The cover for Disposable Bags of Meat: The Triumph of the Indomitable Human Spirit. Is shows a guy being attacked by what might be tentacles or tree roots while a toothy many eyed monster eats them.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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scarletferret.com
An even worse Richard Branson!
thebrainofchris.bsky.social Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 3d
Liz Gordon talking you through her favourite reads, because who doesn't love listening to billionaires pretending they are also literary heavyweights?

BUT ALSO
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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scarletferret.com
It's in every author's contract with Scarlet Ferret!
thebrainofchris.bsky.social Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 3d
Fermi's Wake Season Pass holders will also get a set of SPECIAL and EXCLUSIVE extras, including the Fermi short story "The Ones Who Fly Away", because we're all legally obliged to do Omelas takes now, AND...
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM