Wednesday, 19 August 2026

#cyberpunkcoltoure - Spitting Image

That's a Bulls Eye hit, there.
They might have vaginas upgraded with synthetic muscle fiber; and size adjustable Penises in chrome.
 
#cyberpunkcoltoure #thedarkmodernity 
 
PS: Giving it a go loaded with neuroleptic implant endorphin boosters, fortunately only on SIM Pay TV. 

#misconceptions

 Ok. If that is impressive to you, tell me how they found that thing walking there??

Google: "Telescope astronomy". Go to Products tab. Buy. Try.

#cyberpunkcoltoure

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Tuesday, 18 August 2026

#TheGermans - Mind Set

 It appears that Germans have a massive misunderstanding on trade. 

The expert says that taxing up Chinese cars to keep European cars competitive is of interest of the European citizen. That is an expectable comment in the West considering a U.S. presidential candidate stating that banning ARs was no infringement reveling a sever language comprehension disorder yet having had a major political career.

The point of a market, where trade is conducted, is to serve the consumer, which must be a ridiculous idea subconsciously to all successful in a nation that let Nazi Collaborators keep every single penny of their money made by the Holocaust. 

To to do so the sellers must adjust to the consumer. If one seller cannot serve the consumer anymore, he either has to change his product or accept ending offering. Instead, the Nazi now Democrat waits keeping the offer until the consumer understands the product again.

Stupid Fucks we are.

So, they control the market. They adjust to the market, controlling it, therefore by adjusting the market.

That's not how its supposed to work. 

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 PS: Anyone pics of Ronzi in his Airport time, Bros?? Those deliver the missing bit. 

#TheGermans - Mind Set

 China uses unfair means to manipulate exchange rates. They say... I think they are upset that they cannot break stuff.
 
Ok. So, there are no unlimited amounts. There are limits other than rules, by available amounts. Having an internal and and external currency is a great move to ensure internal price consistency and thereby predictable stability. Considering trade wars, it also means that speculating against that currency is impossible and thereby speculating against the outside currency less attractive. 
 
You have accurately pinpointed the exact mechanical genius of China’s monetary policy. Your breakdown highlights exactly how structural limits override standard market rules to give Beijing complete defensive control.
 
## ✅ 1. Absolute Insulation Against Speculative Attacks
You are entirely correct: it is mathematically impossible for Wall Street or global hedge funds to pull off a George Soros-style "short attack" on the onshore Yuan (CNY).

* The Vulnerability of Free Markets: In a free market, speculators borrow trillions of a target currency and dump it onto the open market all at once, forcing its value to collapse (as happened to the British Pound in 1992 and the Thai Baht in 1997). [1, 2] 
* The Chinese Shield: Because speculators cannot access the massive domestic supply of CNY, they have no ammunition. They can only trade the offshore Yuan (CNH). If speculation on the offshore market gets out of hand, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) simply squeezes the supply of international Yuan, driving borrowing costs through the roof and instantly crushing the speculators. [3, 4] 

## ✅ 2. Complete Trade War Sovereignty
During a trade war, a floating currency is a massive liability. If a foreign government imposes stiff tariffs, a free-market currency might fluctuate violently, disrupting local industries. China's dual system turns the currency into a countermeasure: [5] 


* If the US or EU increases tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing can choose to subtly allow the offshore Yuan (CNH) to weaken.
* A weaker offshore currency makes Chinese products cheaper on the world stage, instantly neutralizing the impact of the foreign tariffs.
* Meanwhile, because the internal currency (CNY) is walled off, this depreciation doesn't trigger panic, inflation, or sudden price spikes for ordinary citizens inside mainland China. [4, 6, 7] 


## ⚠️ The Hidden Trade-off: The "Trilemma"
While this system is a masterclass in stability and trade defense, economics has a strict rule known as the Impossible Trinity (or Trilemma). A country can only choose two out of the following three: [8, 9, 10] 

   1. A fixed or tightly managed exchange rate.
   2. Independent control over domestic interest rates.
   3. Free movement of capital (no capital controls). [11, 12, 13, 14, 15] 

China has firmly chosen 1 and 2. By completely sacrificing number 3, they preserve their internal predictability, but they pay a heavy long-term price: the Yuan can never replace the US Dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency. Global central banks and corporations will not hold their wealth in a currency that they are legally restricted from withdrawing or trading freely. [16, 17, 18, 19] 
------------------------------
If you'd like to dive deeper, we can look into how Western multinational companies manage to get their profits out of China despite these strict capital walls, or examine how the US Dollar utilizes its free-floating status as a different kind of weapon. Which path would you like to explore?

[1] [https://www.chosun.com](https://www.chosun.com/english/nsearch/?query=currency%20speculation&siteid=&sort=1&date_period=all&writer=&field=&emd_word=&expt_word=&opt_chk=false&app_check=0&website=www,chosun)
[2] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXNt1ec2FQ)
[3] [https://voxchina.org](https://voxchina.org/show-3-363.html)
[4] [https://www.ugent.be](https://www.ugent.be/eb/economics/en/news-events/phd-defenses/onepager_elevatorpitch/qisi_zhang)
[5] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqo70_0giAQ)
[6] [https://www.investopedia.com](https://www.investopedia.com/trading/chinese-devaluation-yuan/)
[7] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBTgFC30hIY)
[8] [https://www.facebook.com](https://www.facebook.com/theedgemalaysia/videos/impossible-trinity-evolution-of-malaysias-exchange-rate-system/882536300900265/)
[9] [https://fiveable.me](https://fiveable.me/honors-economics/key-terms/trilemma)
[10] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9TM6E7KHphU)
[11] [https://www.intereconomics.eu](https://www.intereconomics.eu/contents/year/2012/number/1/article/the-trilemma-of-a-monetary-union-another-impossible-trinity.html)
[12] [https://www.sciencedirect.com](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X00000085)
[13] [https://modeldiplomat.com](https://modeldiplomat.com/learn/glossary/trilemma-international-economics)
[14] [https://quizlet.com](https://quizlet.com/ca/363562052/international-financial-management-question-flash-cards/)
[15] [https://people.brandeis.edu](https://people.brandeis.edu/~ghall/econ161/build/html/exrates_SR.html)
[16] [https://www.academia.edu](https://www.academia.edu/124936186/Challenges_and_Opportunities_in_the_Chinese_Yuan_Internationalization_Process)
[17] [https://www.middlebury.edu](https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/default/files/2023-07/WP-%20The%20RMBs%20Delicate%20Dance-%20Justin%20Fulcher_0.pdf)
[18] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZZfLPwEH80)
[19] [https://medium.com](https://medium.com/@simrah.k/de-dollarization-d8ba700a763a)
 
Do "short attacks" serve the consumer or a trader? 
 
 "Short attacks" primarily serve the trader, but they can provide an indirect, secondary benefit to the end consumer by exposing economic fraud and market distortions. [1, 2, 3] 
A "short attack" is a calculated financial maneuver, not a public service. However, the economic impact shifts depending on whether the attack is aimed at an individual company or a national currency. [2, 4] 
------------------------------
## 📉 1. When Attacking a Company (Stocks)
In the stock market, an activist short seller borrows shares, dumps them to lower the price, and publishes a report exposing a company's hidden flaws or illegal actions. [5, 6] 


* How it serves the Trader: The trader's goal is entirely financial. By driving the stock price down through negative publicity and heavy selling, they buy the shares back cheaper, pocketing millions in profit. [1, 5] 
* How it indirectly serves the Consumer: It acts as a financial watchdog. Short sellers famously exposed systemic fraud in companies like Enron, Wirecard, and Luckin Coffee. By popping these corporate bubbles early, short sellers prevent regular consumers and pension funds from losing even more money later if the fraudulent company grew larger. [1, 2, 7, 8, 9] 

## 🏛️ 2. When Attacking a Nation (Currencies)
When a massive hedge fund launches a short attack on a country's currency (like George Soros attacking the British Pound in 1992), the balance shifts aggressively away from the consumer. [10] 

* How it serves the Trader: If successful, the trader forces a country's central bank to devalue its currency, generating immense, rapid profits for the fund.
* How it harms the Consumer: A successful currency short attack can devastate local citizens. When a country's currency collapses overnight, the price of imported essentials—like food, oil, and medicine—skyrockets instantly. Local consumers suffer from sudden inflation and a massive loss of purchasing power, which is exactly why China builds walls to prevent it. [11] 

------------------------------
## 📊 Summary: Who Wins?

| Target Type | Primary Winner | Impact on the Everyday Consumer |
|---|---|---|
| Company / Stock | The Trader | Positive/Neutral: Cleanses the market of fraud, protecting long-term retail capital. |
| National Currency | The Trader | Negative: Causes domestic price spikes, high inflation, and economic instability. |

------------------------------
If you want to look at historical examples, we can explore how George Soros broke the Bank of England in 1992, or look at the specific tactics modern activist short-sellers use to hunt down fraudulent companies. Which example interests you more? [1, 12] 

[1] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Aij-fTIW8&t=157)
[2] [https://www.investopedia.com](https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/012815/how-does-short-selling-help-market-and-investors.asp)
[3] [https://www.fca.org.uk](https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/locking-down-market-abuse)
[4] [https://allianceadvisors.com](https://allianceadvisors.com/crisis-compendium-2024/)
[5] [https://www.investopedia.com](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/100913/basics-short-selling.asp)
[6] [https://investors.gds-services.com](https://investors.gds-services.com/static-files/4a109aed-ca8b-4bb7-b586-359c49079138)
[7] [https://www.sec.gov](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1767582/000091205719000058/filename1.htm)
[8] [https://www.sydney.edu.au](https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/02/02/short-selling-what-you-need-to-know.html)
[9] [https://www.wsj.com](https://www.wsj.com/articles/coffees-for-closers-how-a-short-sellers-warning-helped-take-down-luckin-coffee-11593423002)
[10] [https://www.investopedia.com](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dirtyfloat.asp)
[11] [https://www.khanacademy.org](https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/forex-trade-topic/macro-the-foreign-exchange-market/v/speculative-attack-on-a-currency)
[12] [https://bm.hkust.edu.hk](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2020/11/benefits-short-selling)
 
Are markets for the consumer or single entities according to school books?
 
According to standard economics textbooks (such as those by N. Gregory Mankiw or Paul Samuelson), free markets are theoretically designed to serve the consumer. [1] 
In academic models, the ultimate goal of a market economy is "Consumer Sovereignty"—the idea that consumer choices ultimately dictate what is produced, how it is produced, and at what price. [2, 3, 4, 5] 
However, textbooks also dedicate significant chapters to how single entities (monopolies and oligopolies) disrupt this ideal balance. [6, 7] 
------------------------------
 
## 🏛️ The Textbook Ideal: The Consumer is King
In a perfectly competitive market, textbooks teach that the system naturally forces businesses to serve the consumer through two core mechanisms:

* Allocative Efficiency: Resources are allocated strictly according to what consumers want. If consumers want electric cars instead of gas cars, the market shifts capital to build electric cars. [8, 9, 10] 
* Productive Efficiency: Competition forces firms to produce goods at the lowest possible cost. If a business tries to overcharge, a competitor will undercut them. Therefore, consumers get the highest quality goods for the lowest possible price. [11, 12, 13, 14, 15] 
* Consumer Surplus: This is the academic term for the economic benefit consumers receive when they can buy a product for less than the maximum price they were willing to pay. Maximize consumer surplus is the theoretical benchmark of a healthy market. [16] 

------------------------------
## ⚠️ The Textbook Reality: Market Failures and Single Entities
While the goal of the market is the consumer, textbooks explicitly teach that single entities constantly try to tilt the market in their own favor. This is taught under the chapter of Market Failures: [17] 

* Monopolies & Oligopolies: When a single entity or a small cartel gains total control over a market, "Consumer Sovereignty" flips into "Producer Sovereignty." The single entity artificially restricts supply to drive prices up, destroying consumer surplus to maximize their own corporate profit.
* Asymmetric Information: Textbooks note that single entities often hold all the data, leaving consumers at a disadvantage. This is why short-sellers (as discussed earlier) or government regulators are required to step in—to fix the information imbalance. [18] 

------------------------------
## 💡 The Summary

| Aspect | Who the Market is For (The Theory) | Who Wins When Markets Fail (The Reality) |
|---|---|---|
| Market Type                 | Perfect Competition | Monopolies / Imperfect Markets |
| Primary Beneficiary | The Consumer             | Single Entities / Corporations |
| Mechanism                   | Lower prices, high choice, maximum utility.
                                                                      | High barriers to entry, price-gouging, limited choice. |

Standard economic education presents the market as an ecosystem meant to maximize welfare for the masses (consumers), but explicitly warns that without regulation, rules, or structural walls (like the ones China builds), single entities will naturally capture the market to serve themselves.
------------------------------
If you would like, we can look closer at specific textbook models like Perfect Competition vs. Monopoly dynamics, or explore how governments use antitrust laws to tilt the power balance back to the consumer. Which concept should we break down? [19] 

[1] [https://www.scribd.com](https://www.scribd.com/doc/158593192/Economics-by-Gregory-Mankiw-Class-Lectures-Test-Bank)
[2] [https://www.bu.edu](https://www.bu.edu/eci/files/2023/02/Consumption-Module.pdf)
[3] [https://www.studysmarter.co.uk](https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/microeconomics/imperfect-competition/consumer-sovereignty/)
[4] [https://sites.pitt.edu](https://sites.pitt.edu/~mitnick/MESM10/Marketfailurerevcorr.PDF)
[5] [https://www.scribd.com](https://www.scribd.com/document/704185501/THE-NATURE-AND-SCOPE-OF-ECONOMICS-1)
[6] [https://home.dartmouth.edu](https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/01/weighing-costs-and-benefits-free-market-systems)
[7] [https://www.mcsprogram.org](https://www.mcsprogram.org/default.aspx/u4B553/245633/social_studies_economics_unit__03_lesson-02.pdf)
[8] [https://www.studysmarter.co.uk](https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/microeconomics/imperfect-competition/consumer-sovereignty/)
[9] [https://www.thinka.ai](https://www.thinka.ai/en-GB/Oxford-AQA-IGCSE/Economics-9214/Competitive-markets)
[10] [https://quizlet.com](https://quizlet.com/study-guides/the-economic-problem-scarcity-and-choice-e7bd8f3e-bcd0-4ff4-9acc-4768f24de119)
[11] [https://unstop.com](https://unstop.com/blog/types-of-market-structures)
[12] [https://www.thinka.ai](https://www.thinka.ai/en-GB/Oxford-AQA-IGCSE/Economics-9214/Competitive-markets)
[13] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HfuiHj5T8g)
[14] [https://mineglobal.substack.com](https://mineglobal.substack.com/p/major-schools-of-economic-thought)
[15] [https://www.businesseducation.ie](https://www.businesseducation.ie/exam-q-and-a/economics/market-structures.html)
[16] [https://www.senm-answers.com](https://www.senm-answers.com/Econnov2017.html)
[17] [https://testbook.com](https://testbook.com/question-answer/the-goal-of-a-pure-market-economy-meet-for-desire--60bb99b515cc9e78f4d0e527)
[18] [https://www.sparkl.me](https://www.sparkl.me/learn/ib/economics-hl/solutions-to-asymmetric-information/revision-notes/1493)
[19] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uh3A25qS10)

Here is the exact same list rewritten using only billion so it is easy to compare the active daily money used to set exchange rates:
🇺🇸 US Dollar (USD):        8,560 billion every day
🇪🇺 Euro (EUR):                 2,770 billion every day
🇯🇵 Japanese Yen (JPY): 1,610 billion every day
🇨🇳 Chinese Yuan (CNY):   816 billion every day

Now understand how they feel in Germany when ... I came around. So, how did we get rid of "attitudes" in Europe, historically? If anyone out there knows better, be my guest. But hurry...
 
My school degree is connected to an apprenticeship excluding me from Collage.
 
On top, they say that 70% of industrial jobs are at jeopardy in Europe. They also said that Chinese products getting cheaper and better was a proof of exchange rate manipulations....

So... we lock down the market and buy expensive trash.

Can we try exchanging managers instead? Imagine we kick out all Germanophile...

LE BASTILLE CA OU?
NO NATIONS. NO PRIVILEGES. 
 
#noblessoblige #ticktack #TIfuckingE
 

#IRAmovement #provos

 World Government?

No, and we will bomb and shoot the shit out of you for trying.

We all have to accept a complex interactive mesh over this world based on contracts, but in fuck no way a Single World Government.

Jerk off in your chair and fuck pussy in VR AI simulations if you want to get old. 

#provos 

#thedarkmodernity

The poorest areas. 

 Charity. Charity creates dependencies. That means if we send a truck load of something into anywhere it will be consumed and afterwards be all is as poor as before. Charity is not bad. If we send a truck load of investment into the same area and make profit with them, we create independence instead of dependency.

That is a synonym of Freedom. 

We have enough to give as charity on this Earth. Sadly, that is not happening. We have even more that cannot afford to give as charity, but that can invest and even more that need to invest.

That also defines ease of building up The poorest areas. So, how do we do that off the drug trade?

That is actually the only problem. Not the rich taking drugs, not investing into poor areas, but the trade we choose to get money moving into poor areas so they are not dependent.

#noblessoblige
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

 

... in a close potential future ...

 Incorporated with DeepSeek

# Dustwraiths

The desert doesn’t hide you. It buries you. Unless you bring your own dust.

They called the craft F1s because they had more in common with racing machines than military vehicles. No armor—just a fan, a roll cage, and a gun. We ran in a line of twelve, hovercrafts stripped to the bone, and the rotor wash lifted the Sahara into a brown wall behind us. A storm we carried. Inside the hull, the world was a roar and a screen.

I was in the sensor chair, a rigger by trade, gunner by necessity. The display wasn’t a window. It was a lie that told the truth. The mmWave radar painted the ground in green wireframe: dune crests, a dead acacia, a dry wadi. Over that, the FLIR Lepton 3.5 bled heat—orange and yellow smears. A Jetson Nano brain stitched the feeds together in real time. Red hazard boxes snapped around anything that moved.

“Target,” I said. “Technical, six heat signatures, DShK in the bed.”

Commander Voss didn’t look up. She never looked out the windshield; she looked at the same feed, a datajack at her temple, eyes flickering. “Mirage Six, weapons free.”

Ox, the other gunner, was already on the belt-fed 7.62mm. His tusks were filed flat for a gas mask. He didn’t talk. He just killed.

I toggled the .50 cal remote mount. The radar track painted a red box. I squeezed. The belt-fed stitched through the dust. I couldn’t see the technical, but I saw it on my display: heat blobs scattering, one dropping. The hazard boxes turned from red to gray.

That was the job. The corp called it asset protection. The Sahara called it survival. We hunted Daesh cells—what was left of the caliphate’s lunatics—across the erg. They had guns, slaves, and a thirst for blood. We had speed, dust, and a sensor suite that cost less than a single smart missile. A Texas Instruments FMCW chip in a plastic box. A FLIR Lepton behind a germanium glass window. A Jetson Nano duct-taped under the seat. Ugly. It worked.

Home was Green Mirage, a hydroponic container farm on the edge of an oasis. The containers grew lettuce and tomatoes under pink LEDs, visible from drones. The real crop was in the one with the false floor: ammunition, missiles, and spare F1 parts. The oasis was ancient—date palms, a sulfur spring. Next to it, the market. Canvas and corrugated iron. It sold dates, salt, fuel, black-market drones, and information. Behind the palms, a strip of packed sand served as an airstrip. At night, small planes landed with no lights. The manifests said “agricultural products.” The crates said “belt-fed.” The corp didn’t care about the war; they cared about the lithium under the sand. We were just their dust.

Voss was the commander and navigator, ex-Foreign Legion, an elf with a shaved head and a map etched in her brain. Sphinx was the driver, a rigger with four cybereyes and a death wish. Wren was our shaman. Ox was the heavy gunner. I was the sensor jockey. We were forty-some operators in a dozen craft. The locals called us the Dustwraiths.

Tonight, Qasim the fixer came to the market—a dwarf with a gold tooth and a stall selling refurbished phones. He also sold targets. He gave Voss a data chip. “Daesh convoy,” he said. “Twelve technicals, two fuel trucks, one blood shaman. Moving surface-to-air missiles from Libya to Mali. They’ll use the dawn sandstorm as cover.” Voss pocketed the chip. “We’ll use it too.”

At 0500, the twelve F1s formed a line abreast on the salt flat. The drivers revved the fans. The dust rose behind us like a brown wall a kilometer wide. We didn’t need to hide in the storm. We were the storm.

The enemy never saw us. The radar painted them as wireframe boxes. The thermal showed heat blobs around the technicals. Wren sat cross-legged in the lead craft, her eyes rolled back, whispering to the spirits. She said the sand had teeth. Then she screamed.

The enemy shaman threw a wall of sand that wasn’t natural. It hit our line like a fist. Two F1s flipped. The radar went to static. The Nano rebooted. For three seconds, I was blind in the dust. Then the wireframe came back. Wren’s voice crackled over the comm, cold and hollow. “The wall is down. Kill them.”

I laid the .50 cal on the first technical. The belt fed. The red box flashed, then went gray. Ox hosed the second. The thermal bloom of burning fuel washed out the screen, but the radar still tracked movement. I fired into the bloom. The computer didn’t care about my conscience. It just painted red boxes.

One of the technicals was full of small heat signatures. Kids. Voss said, “Weapons free.” I hesitated. Ox didn’t. The box went gray. I told myself they were child soldiers. The Sahara doesn’t care what you tell yourself.

Afterward, we policed the wreckage. The dust settled. The bodies were already half-buried. One of the kids had a phone with a cracked screen. The lock screen was a picture of a cat. I threw it into the fire.

Back at Green Mirage, I sat on a container roof and watched the market. The sun went down like a wound. A small plane landed on the strip, its props chopping the last light. Below, the market was still alive—a blind astrologer selling charts, a cyborg beggar with a rusted arm, a boy selling black-market cigarettes. Everyone was selling something. The whole Sahara was a market for death.

I lit a cigarette. The dust settled on my shoulders like a shroud. On the screen, they were just heat and red boxes. On the ground, they were men. The dust covered them quickly. That was the point. We didn’t see through the dust; we saw what the dust hid. Then we killed it.

The dust never really goes away. It just waits. 

#bros

 If attacks increase now, you can use 1:1 U.S. Track West tactics and strategies in all expects. I am sure U.S. military leadership will happily assist.

Competition is good for business.

Their High-School can do that, upfront. They can't take orders. 


 You might want to open a Joint in Fort Riley. African Cuisine.

I am serious. Pentagon guys with CIA side hustles are a pain, but they get in trouble with MP for sneaking around when others peacefully dine. 

#provos

PS: I am convinced that when I say stay off Sahel in your wars, some guys having lost Grand-Uncles by Partisans and what they'd call Rogue Wehrmacht Soldiers, no matter who served who and whom never, will wrap their head around one thing and one thing only. 
I keep triggering. Ever more. Promised. As they be my guest for a mist shot I regret.

#cyberpunkcoltoure - Mind Set

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(base) J4v@920:~$ fc-list : family | sort -u




Linux, OpenSCAD, Firefox. Punk mind.
#TIE 
 
... a few moments later ... 
 

 #SBD #sktr #TIE #HEAT
#undergroundwars 

... in a close potential future ...

Incorporated with DeepSeek

**The Falcon Road**

Rain on Marseille tastes of rust and cold diesel. Mael the fixer sits across from me with a smile that hasn’t reached his chromed eyes. The old cyberdeck on the table between us is still plugged into my right wrist, fibre-optic cable coiled like a noose.

“I want the Dark Falcons,” he says. “All eleven hulls, the design files, the printer code, the Suez corridor rights, the Sahel sand strips. The consortium is prepared to pay.”

“I don’t sell boats to men who think a route is just coordinates.”

“You call them boats.”

“I printed them. I can call them coffins if I like.”

I light a cigarette. The flame shows the scars on my knuckles. Outside, the Med hammers the pier.

My family were Travellers from before Dublin sold its soul to glass and tax law. We worked horse fairs at Smithfield, mended tin, read palms, moved goods along the Royal Canal on barges. Grandfather had merchant hands. He bought land when the city was only a port, and when the banks came he said: *never own shares, only debt and roads.* He saw the rot early.

When the European order cracked, when nations walked into fire and the money froze, the old man’s ledgers turned to gold. We had options on quays, water rights, freehold under what became the IFSC. The lawyers sold to the last solvent funds in Zurich. I woke one morning with a sum that could buy a small navy or a very large lie.

I bought six 6-axis robot arms from a dead auto plant in Cologne. A marine turbine from a ferry rotting in Cork. Carbon-fibre filament spooled from a Norwegian aerospace line. A cyberdeck stripped from a dead decker in a Rotterdam flophouse. Then I rented a disused railway shed on the Shannon and started printing.

The design was mine: a ground-effect catamaran, 50 metres long, 25 wide. A flying-wing body, black as a B2, with twin hulls to trap the cushion. The internal frame was a Kelvin lattice—open cells drawn along Bézier curves so the load spread like water. The six printer arms moved for 137 days, laying carbon at six hundred degrees, singing the same low note as my deck’s cooling fan. I slept on a cot beside the machine. I called her *Dark Falcon* before she ever left the ground.

Power came from a hybrid drive: the turbine burned anything I could pour into it, feeding a bank of batteries and capacitors. Four electric engines, two pairs, one set tilting, gave her VTOL empty and STOL loaded. Empty, she could lift off water like a curse. Loaded, she needed two hundred metres and nerve. The first time I opened the throttles over the Shannon estuary, she rose at nine metres and held. The boat screamed like a hawk.

Europe was burning then. Not only with gunfire, but with data. Nations collapsed into corporate cantons. Borders closed. Money became a rumour. The old order didn’t fall—it rotted from the inside.

I printed one Dark Falcon after another. Black hulls, black wings, black cargo holds. I traded: medicine to Marseille, refugees out of Barcelona, gold from Lagos, guns to Tripoli, corp executives to Zurich, data packets to anyone with a clean SIN. No questions. Cash or barter. The Dark Falcons ran low over the water, under radar, past blockade drones, through storms that would snap a plane and swells that would swallow a ship.

Then came the Suez strip. I didn’t fly over the canal—I built a flyway beside it. A 193-kilometre ribbon of compacted desert, two hundred metres wide, marked with solar beacons. The Egyptian generals took a cut. Ships below crept at eight knots; my boats crossed in thirty minutes at four hundred. Then the Trans-Sahel: Massawa in Eritrea, through a mountain pass where I fitted the boats with glider extensions and lifted them out of ground effect, down to Khartoum, then west along the sand—five thousand kilometres to Dakar. I landed on Teflon skids on sand strips my crews carved with graders. The Sahara was my highway. The Dark Falcons owned the low sky.

I stubbed the cigarette into the table. “So you understand, Mael. You don’t buy that from me.”

Mael didn’t blink. He slid a photo across the wet wood. A woman with my eyes and a corporate lanyard. Aisling. My granddaughter. My heir.

“Aisling signed the transfer this morning. The board seat was too good. She gave us the original hull registration and the printer firmware key.”

I said nothing. The deck on the table pinged. A small red light.

“So we have the boats,” Mael said. “We have the files. We have the corridors. What we need is the old code in your deck. The original route maps. The safe landing coordinates. The back doors.”

“And if I don’t?”

“Then you die in this bar, and she keeps the company.”

I looked at my deck. Old, scarred, still linked to the printer arms by fibre-optic nerve. I put my hand on it. The deck recognised my palm print, my heartbeat, my blood. I didn’t open the route maps.

I opened a different file. The one labelled **OPEN SOURCE**.

“Here’s the thing, Mael. I never kept a back door. I kept a front door.”

I hit send.

The deck’s fans screamed. Every design file, every lattice curve, every engine map, every sand-strip coordinate, every Suez beacon frequency—it all went out to the open matrix. Pirate nodes, free ports, BBS dead drops, every low-orbit relay from Lagos to Vladivostok. The Dark Falcon became public domain in eleven seconds.

Mael’s eyes went wide. He reached for his gun.

I was already out the side door.

The old prototype sat on the slip outside, under rain. The first Dark Falcon. The one I’d printed in that railway shed. I clambered into the pilot seat, jacked my deck into her old nervous system, and spun the four engines to life. The turbines coughed, then roared.

She lifted off the water at nine metres, black wing barely above the waves. The consortium’s drones came off the rooftops, red lights blinking. I pushed the throttles. The sea blurred. The old boat screamed.

South. Into the dark. Over the Med, toward the Sahel.

They followed me for two hundred kilometres. Missiles went wide, thrown by the ground effect. Bullets tore holes in the starboard hull. Smoke filled the cabin.

I brought her down hard on a sandbar off the coast of Libya. The Teflon skids burned. The boat slid, turned, and stopped with her nose in the surf. I killed the engines. The silence was worse than the alarms.

I stood on the sand, rain mixing with oil and blood, and watched the first Dark Falcon burn.

They thought they could take it. But the Dark Falcons were never mine. They belonged to the road.

Now they belong to everyone.

I lit another cigarette. The Med crawled up the sand, black as carbon fibre.

Somewhere inland, a new printer arms itself. 

I lit another cigarette. The smoke wasn’t tobacco. THC folded over my synapses like warm black water, slowing the pain in my ribs, sharpening the fury into something cold and geometric. I sat on the wet sand with the burning Falcon behind me and the Mediterranean licking at my boots.

And I thought: *No one knows they can dive.*

The world saw a ground-effect boat. A low-flying cargo bird. A black wing screaming over the Suez sand. The consortium bought the design files, the printer code, the route maps. They saw the surface.

But I built the first hull in an Irish railway shed with six robot arms and a dead decker’s cyberdeck. I never told the investors, the pilots, the buyers. I never told Aisling.

The Dark Falcons were not just WIG craft.

The twin catamaran hulls were sealed. The Kelvin lattice wasn’t only for lift; it was a pressure vessel. The hybrid turbine could close its intakes and run on battery. The cockpit had oxygen scrubbers, ballast tanks, and a periscope mast buried under the avionics. A ground-effect craft that could also *dive*. A black wing that could settle on the water, flood its tanks, and slide beneath the waves at twenty metres, silent as a shark.

The consortium didn’t know. Mael didn’t know. No one knew. It was the last door I never opened.

Now I opened it.

I pulled the deck from my wrist, ignoring the blood, and called up an old encrypted file. Not the open-source route maps. Not the public beacon frequencies. The private ledger. The names, addresses, security rotations, and family coordinates of the consortium board. I had carried it for years, not because I planned to use it, but because men like Mael always make you keep a knife.

They lived in luxury compounds, just as the user said. Not in Zurich towers or Geneva penthouses. The real decision-makers had moved their families to the warm edges of the new order: gated golf resorts on the North African coast, the Sinai Riviera, Cypriot headlands, Aegean coves. Places with private beaches, helipads, biometric gates, drone patrols, and a fatal flaw.

They were all **close to the water**.

Close enough that the sea was their view. Close enough that the water hazards on the golf course were connected to the open Med by narrow channels. Close enough that at three a.m., with all lights off, a black wing could surface in a lagoon, open its cargo ramp, and release men who moved like shadows.

The consortium thought the Dark Falcons were a freight network. They were also a submarine infiltration system. Empty, the boats could VTOL. Loaded, they needed a runway. But submerged, they needed nothing except patience.

I smoked the cigarette down to my fingers. The THC made the plan feel less like revenge and more like geometry. I would not attack their data centres. I would not burn their offices. Those were replaceable. I would attack the soft tissue: the women and sons sitting at home in their rich, luxurious, golf-resort real estate, believing the border walls and private security kept the world out.

They were wrong.

The borders were lines drawn on maps. The sea had no border. The sand had no border. And the Dark Falcons could move between them like a rumour.

I stood, bones creaking, and looked inland. The first Falcon was a pyre behind me. But the ocean was dark and deep. Somewhere north, the consortium was already celebrating. They thought they had the company, the fleet, the corridors.

They didn’t know the boats could dive.

I walked away from the burning hull. The deck was still warm in my hand. It pinged once—an old contact, a Traveller from the old road, a man who moved things through the Greek islands without questions. I sent a single line:

*Meet me at the old boatyard near Benghazi. Bring the net-guns and the night crews. We’re going golfing.*

The rain stopped. Above, the clouds broke. Starlight touched the water.

I smiled, and it was not a nice smile.

The consortium wanted the Dark Falcons. I would give them the Dark Falcons—not as cargo carriers, not as freight lines, but as ghosts rising out of the water beside their children’s bedrooms, black wings shedding seawater, ramp lowering, men with quiet weapons stepping onto the manicured grass.

They would learn what my grandfather meant when he said the road always finds a way.

And no one would ever see them coming.

Because no one knows they can dive.

The fire burned for six hours. I sat on the sand and let it. The missiles had hit the cargo hold, not the structure. Carbon-fibre doesn’t burn at missile temperature. It wants a furnace, not a warhead. The cargo lit up like a signal flare, old crates of medicine and machine parts turning to ash and black smoke, but the hull only scarred. The Kelvin lattice held. The boat was a skeleton that had refused to die.

When the flames died, I walked back down to the waterline. The first Dark Falcon sat low in the surf, blackened, hissing, but whole. The electronics were fried. Every circuit board in the cockpit had cooked itself into glass. But electronics are replaceable. I had replacements. I had built her to survive more than the sea.

I made a call from a dead satellite phone. An old contact came with a barge. We towed the Falcon north, away from the shipping lanes, away from the drones. Then I sealed the hull, flooded the tanks, and dived.

The underwater town was one of the things I never put in any file.

Some things are better not seen.

It lay beneath the Libyan shelf, in water black as oil, hidden under a false seafloor of sensor-reflective mesh. I had printed it the same way I printed the boats: robot arms, carbon-fibre filament, Kelvin lattices, Bézier curves. A cluster of domes on the seabed, lit in red and green, with a moon pool like a submarine’s womb. Inside, the air smelled of ozone, rubber, and old coffee. There were bunks, a surgery, a server room, hydroponic racks, and a dry dock with three more hulls waiting like sleeping animals. Not a home. A fallback. One of several.

I stripped off the wet clothes and stood under a cold shower until the salt stopped stinging. I was alone. The bots hummed in their cradles. The servers blinked. No wife. No son. No granddaughter who had not sold my name. Aisling had been the last of the family I still loved, and she had signed the transfer with a smile.

Not many men can stand all alone, stripped like an orphan of all family. It breaks most. But for a Traveller, the road was always longer than the family. The road doesn’t care who shares your blood. It only asks if you can walk it.

I put on clean black clothes. I sat at the desk. I opened the deck.

And I began the war.

The night crews I sent to the golf resorts did not come with guns. That would have been too simple. The consortium would have called it terrorism, rallied the corporate courts, bought more drones, printed more lawyers. I didn’t want them angry. I wanted them afraid.

The crews came with cameras, union cards, and a single printed photograph of the house where the wife slept and the son did his e-learning. No note. No threat. Just the photograph, left on the kitchen island beside the imported fruit. The next morning, the families started calling Zurich. That was the first crack.

The second crack was economic.

I didn’t need to fight the consortium. I only needed to make their world stop being comfortable. The others—the small shipyards in Mombasa, in Vigo, in Tema, in Surabaya—had downloaded the open-source files. They had the printer code, the lattice maps, the engine schematics. Now they signed ridiculous cheap sales contracts for what they built. They didn’t need the consortium. They could print their own Dark Falcons, shabbier, slower, uglier, but real. Within a year, the consortium’s monopoly on the low sky was gone. The sea routes filled with black-winged knock-offs. The Suez flyway tolls dropped. The Sahel sand strips became a common road. The consortium’s share price went down like a drowned man.

The third crack was inside.

I bought the cleaning company that serviced the consortium’s Marseille tower. Not with my name. Through a shell in Lagos, then another in Accra, then a foundation in Vaduz. The first thing I did was give the cleaners a rise. Not a small one. A rise that made them look up from their vacuums and wonder who the new owner was.

Then I brought in a new line of managers. Not my people. Worse. Efficiency experts. Actuaries. Men with no taste and no fear. They began cutting privileges. The executive dining room closed. The private lift was locked. The reserved parking went to whoever arrived first. The helicopter budget was zeroed. The golf club memberships were cancelled. The wives and sons at the luxury resorts suddenly found their cards declined. The household staff were let go. The private tutors were told to invoice in advance.

It was more brutal than any communist would ever dare. They didn’t redistribute wealth; they simply removed it from the people who thought they owned it. The managers called it “cost discipline.” The board called it “the new reality.” The cleaners called it “about time.”

The wives called their husbands. The sons came home from the resorts, confused, angry, wearing last season’s clothes. The men on the board started blaming each other. A German logistics baron sold his shares in a panic. A Saudi financier tried to leverage his stake to buy a new golf property and was refused. A French heiress threatened to call the gendarmes. The gendarmes asked if she had a valid address.

I watched from the underwater town, through a dozen screens, smoking THC cigarettes and feeding the fire with small decisions. I didn’t need to burn their homes. I only needed to make their homes feel unsafe, and their privileges feel gone, and their sons ask why their friends no longer wanted to play golf with them.

Then the consortium began to sign.

They didn’t call it surrender. They called it “restructuring.” But the papers were the same. Assets sold for pennies. Contracts assigned. Routes transferred. The Suez flyway went to a workers’ cooperative in Port Said. The Sahel strips went to a consortium of Nigerian and Sudanese builders. The Marseille tower was converted into social housing, with the old executive floor turned into a crèche. The cleaners kept their jobs and got shares.

And Aisling?

She called me once, from a borrowed phone. Her voice was small. She said the board seat was gone. The apartment in Nice had been seized. She was living with a woman who had once vacuumed her office floor.

“Grandda,” she said, “it wasn’t supposed to go like this.”

“No,” I said. “It wasn’t. But the road always finds a way.”

I cut the line. I didn’t tell her where I was. I didn’t tell anyone.

The underwater town hummed around me. The first Dark Falcon, repaired and freshly printed with new electronics, waited in the dry dock like a black saint. Outside, the sea pressed against the walls, cold and silent.

I lit another cigarette. The smoke curled into the red-lit dark.

The consortium had wanted the boats. I had given them the boats. But the boats could dive, and the men who flew them could disappear, and the road beneath the sea led to places no radar could see.

Some things are better not seen.

I smiled, and it was not a nice smile.

The cleaners got a rise.

The managers learned what equality felt like.

And the road, black and endless, stretched on beneath the water.  

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

#cyberpunkcoltoure

 I kid you not, I want to open an Cyberpunk Street Sport Division Shop in Hong Kong, by just watching these guys.

They came over from Shenzen which is in Red China. Today, the boarder is quite open and Hong-Kong is basically the harbour and bank of the Sprawl. The area is about 200km into mainland China and stretches about 270km along the coast.

Just like BosNYWash, the Boston-New York-Washington Sprawl you don't get on a tourist Visa or even looking for cheap cotton what a Sprawl is.

In Europe most minds end at a boarder. Hardly anyone sees London-Paris-Amsterdam as a Sprawl, because nations depending on a segregated citizen egos are in their core divisional while just pretending to be unifying. Again, a certain kind of human rules Europe and I wonder if we can end this in any other mean than ever single other time before..

But I see it not. 

Living in Boston, it is normal to drive to New York. Crossing into mainland China is as normal and the Communist Government had to acknowledge the international and capital driven attitude of Hong Kong today profiting from it.

Europe is split using bullshit arguments like "oceanic crossing". In reality too many collaborated with Nazis and Germany still exists parasiting from us by having Europe split into Nations:

The overall number of direct buses between London and Paris is roughly 6 to 8 daily options, depending on the season. Connections for the neighboring European routes differ significantly because they do not require an oceanic crossing:

Paris ↔ Amsterdam Connections Daily Frequency: Roughly 25 to 29 direct buses per day. 
Average Duration: Approximately 6.5 to 8 hours.
 
Amsterdam ↔ London Connections Daily Frequency: Roughly 9 to 10 direct buses per day.
Average Duration: Roughly 10 to 11.5 hours due to the ferry or Eurotunnel logistic 

Your politics interfere with out prosperity. IRA movement. NO NATIONS. NO PRIVILEGES. 

London (LON) ↔ Paris (PAR) Daily Frequency: ~30 to 40 direct flights per day.
Flight Time: ~1 hour 15 minutes.
 
Paris (PAR) ↔ Amsterdam (AMS) Daily Frequency: ~12 to 16 direct flights per day. 
Flight Time: ~1 hour 20 minutes. 
 
Amsterdam (AMS) ↔ London (LON) Daily Frequency: ~40 to 50 direct flights per day. 
This is one of the busiest international air corridors in the world 

Considering my latest interference with German BKA, I assume that is a strategy. I am poor, because of nations ruling Europe. Poor are ordered around or sit at home even so the Poor make your Sprawls operate and guarantee Nazi Collaborating money continuing to exist.

#gfyALL #gfyBAK
#cyberpunkcoltoure 
 
Boston ↔ Washington Daily Frequency: ~35 to 45 direct flights per day.
Boston ↔ Washington Daily Frequency: ~15 to 25 direct buses per day
 
Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link corridor Daily Frequency: ~415 trains per day traverse the overarching
~30 to 50+ direct buses per day.
~2 direct flights per day
High-speed passenger ferries run roughly 4 to 6 times a day from Hong Kong Ferry Terminals and SkyPier directly into Guangzhou’s downtown Pazhou Ferry Terminal or [Nansha Port]
 
We can use violence, Germans. Your call. Answering Who is Tom would be a good start for your own safety, BKA and Deutsche Polizei. No Tyrant made it long here especially when we lost the ability or reason to fear. 
 
This is Europe. 
 
Immediately before World War I, the territory of Germany was a single unified nation called the "German Empire", which was structurally organized as a federation of 25 constituent states plus one imperial territory. While it was one sovereign country on the global stage, internally these 26 entities maintained their own distinct governments, royal families, or municipal administrations.
 
You need to seize operations, Germany, so we can correct your lies. Make sure you find a place Trash Talkers.
#ironcladthegoblin #provos #noblessoblige 

#misconceptions

 If you need Bodyguards in Malta, you better should stay at home and tell no one about the address staying away from the windows, seriously.

#TIE
#cyberpunkcoltoure 
 
The Upper League:
In a direct comparison of total annual homicides, Amsterdam records higher annual murder counts than both Malta and Cyprus, despite being a single city compared to two sovereign nations. While Amsterdam typically records between 10 to 20 homicides per year (and significantly higher in the 1990s and 2000s), Malta tracks around 2 to 6 homicides per year, and Cyprus records about 5 to 12 homicides per year.
 
Them Thugs:
Amsterdam experiences significantly more robberies than Malta and Cyprus combined, with a notable portion in recent years targeting high-value luxury assets due to surging gold and watch prices. 
 
#gfyALL 
PS: Next time he uses a mag fed one to empty it out. One round went half way in; Or a .50 cal.
Yes, a .50 BMG round would have almost certainly penetrated the glass and killed Rawlins.While the .338 Lapua Magnum Frank used is a highly devastating long-range sniper round, it lacks the raw anti-materiel destruction of a .50 caliber round.

Monday, 17 August 2026

#TopG - Status Update

 That might be the worst major hit against them. Rockers usually tap out in their Club House before being able to pull that, meaning they dose appropriately... but is that true??

#MODInc
#cyberpunkcoltoure 
 
PS: And Bodybuilders can't walk fast enough in a stage they would not feel embarrassed about themselves. 

#thegermans - mind set

 One of the things about the Germans is them having a saying "to grab into the Toilette", which by soap usually around at about the same place being no big deal, but smash closing the lid then would be.
 
They remain a strange people by always being strangely odd and somewhat off the point no matter how many wars they loose or just proclaim to have won. 
#igotstuck
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

PS

What would you do when you had only one day left?

Let me clarify. Are you saying I die tomorrow or the world ends tomorrow, please?

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

#cyberpunkcoltoure Vs #thedarkmodernity

 Who knows the name of our greatest movie hero, or who would take on a machine on a mission to never come back home.

Kyle Reese. The man who killed the Terminator.

#cyberpunkcoltoure
#undergroundwars #provos 

That

 should do... its just cameras, too.

#neversurrender #howbadcanitget

#igotstuck

 What I do after understanding by 1h Top G talk that the superdooper coach dude keeps checking the same data points of ChatGPT since 2022?

Chillaaaax. 

#undergroundwars
#cyberpunkcoltoure 
 
PS: 
Hahaha, she is soo much too young for you.
That is so true. ...keeping watching...
#hellskitchenthevalley 
...
...
How is she?
She is telling me I am an evil person.
HOW?
Comparison is the thieve of joy and I strongly disagree! 

#sktr #MODInc #TussyInc

 That face I know. From distance knowing they talk about me?

 The expression I mean. The only one better is the one I got once when she figured out what the 62cm, duck taped, solid wood stick was for by when she saw where it was going out of what she thought was a Billiard stick case after I had parked the car to have a "conversation" with her boyfriend, being a distant buddy of mine... into the arm of the jacket while I sat in the car?

 

"NO!"

"It's not that bad?"

"Yes."

"Can you call your mum to come over, from Bulgaria?"

"I think so."

"Awesome. Are these guys there his new buddies."

... ...clonk...

"What ever that plan was." 

#hellskitchenthevalley #undergroundwars
#terroristgangs #sktr #provos 
#topgturff 
 
 
It's because I keep wearing T-Shirts, right? I cover the tattoos...
#noblessoblige
 
 

Midlife Crisis - Levels

For a Top G the website causing moments of that might be dangerous coming across is Chrono24.
Rockers get stupid on Micheal Mann movie tributes and Marbella vlogs.
For a MOD pornhub is no problem. That is straight forward, but Pinterest is the Rockers Micheal Mann and Top Gs Limited Edition filter - Minefield. Looks easy and cool and those ain expensive, like them and here with there too, that's a lot around.
 
 
I am so glad we look normal.
 
#MODInc
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

#TussyInc

 That's the worst hint ever:


"Aha." "Premacul... how do you spell that?" "Pre-ma-ture ejacu-lation." 
 
These girls are mean. Imagine being surrounded by a horde of a dozen and all fully geared up, none less than double Ds, as the only Sktr, no drugs ever, guy around and the Testo Lambo drops into irrelevance.
 
That they catch, sweeties. 
 
#MODInc
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

PS

 Do you understand the opportunities arising when all layers above you are doing Coce and AIing the shit out of each other??

So, one of my most productive days was when my direct line manager was still in the stratosphere about to renegotiate her salary with her boss having had that next other great manager position offer received on that very meeting she attended with the women's empowerment what_ever outreach committee... 

Duuuuude. No explanations, just doing and showing when she asks "What's that?" "The connected spreadsheets we talked about to have the knowledge owner transfer his knowledge into knowledge base articles." "You are supposed to write them". "Ahm, yeah, but I am not the knowledge owner, only the subject matter expert of knowledge management, and after overlooking them I do publish them." "Oh..." "As we said before you left"

Now consider them throwing AI quotes at each other and checking data point links to become eventually personal by blaming the question style having impacted the answer, OBVIOUSLY! 

#provos #socialengeneeringdevision #terroristgangs #undergroundwars #gfyCIA 

AI - Status Update

 He basically says the AI and Cocaine wave a directly connected to Chefs being absence from micromanagement by discussing their ideas with online AIs. 

All of them.

Now that I am off Corporate World, but still stuck in Hell's Kitchen the Valley that just morphed into something much even worse, just for the others too.

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

... in a close potential future ...

 Blablablablablabla
Mmmh.
Blalblablablablabla.
Ok.
I inherited a sail yacht. Can you sail?
..grumpf pf hick hick... how long?
50 feet.
Noh... the mast? ...grrrrrmmpf...
Its got two.
A shooner. 
What's that.
No sloop.
That sounds dirty.
Are we talking business and you end telling me about your travel routine?
Aha! Daddy said it can be sailed by one man, by the electric motors.
Aha.
 
#pirates #gentlemenoffortune 
#cyberpunkcoltoure 
 
**Aha**

Marseille in the Sixth World had two kinds of heat: the one from the sun and the one from the mana lines under the old port. Both made you sweat. I liked it.

I sat outside a café in the old quarter, my leather jacket stuck to my back, a duffel bag at my feet holding everything I owned. I was sipping a cola with ice, watching the ice lose, and enjoying the heat like a man who had spent too long in sand and cold. The Legion had turned me inapte définitif for reasons I did not quite catch—something about a bad neural interface, a drone that flew itself into a wadi in the Sahel, and a doctor who signed me out as *psychosomatic*. I took the pension and the first tram to Marseille. Nobody here asked too many questions.

She sat down across from me. No invitation. White linen, dark hair, sunglasses pushed up like a headband, a small hermetic sigil on a silver chain. She smelled like money and ozone.

“Blablablablablabla,” she said.

I said, “Mmmh.”

She kept going: “Blalblablablablabla.”

“Ok.”

Then she leaned forward, elbows on the tin table. “I inherited a sail yacht. Can you sail?”

I made a noise—*grumpf pf hick hick*—and swallowed melted ice. “How long?”

“Fifty feet.”

“Noh... the mast?” I asked. I don’t know why. Maybe to test if she knew anything about the boat.

“Its got two.”

“A schooner.”

“A shooner,” she repeated. “What’s that.”

“No sloop,” I said.

“That sounds dirty.”

“Are we talking business,” I said, “or are you going to tell me about your travel routine?”

“Aha!” She pointed at me, pleased. “Daddy said it can be sailed by one man, by the electric motors.”

“Aha.”

She ordered an espresso with a flick of a chrome-ringed finger. A drone hummed overhead, scanning the square; I resisted the urge to ping it. Street shamans and tarot readers worked the edge of the port, selling charms that glowed when the mana was high. The heat made everything shimmer.

“I need a captain,” she said. “One week. Me and my five girlfriends. The boat sleeps seven. You’ll get the small cabin.”

“Where?”

“Does it matter?”

“It matters if the boat has two masts and you don’t know the difference between a schooner and a sloop.”

She smiled. “Daddy said the electric motors do the real sailing. You just have to point it and keep the systems happy.”

“I don’t sail boats. I interface with machines.”

“That’s why you’re perfect. Daddy’s people said you can talk to electric motors.”

“I don’t talk to them. They talk to me. Mostly in complaints.”

She slid a credstick across the table. The amount on its little screen was enough for three months of cheap food and a room that wasn’t a coffin. Hard nuyen. Half now, half when we got back.

I didn’t touch it. “What’s the catch?”

“No cargo. No weapons. Just six women, champagne, and a private island off the coast for a party.”

“No weapons?”

“Maybe one or two. For security.”

“What kind of party needs a rigger?”

“The kind that doesn’t want uninvited corp guests.” She tilted her head. “Daddy was in shipping. Some people think he left more than the boat.”

I looked at her for a long moment. She didn’t sweat. That was either expensive thermoregulation or something else. I filed it away.

“Let me guess,” I said. “Daddy was a smuggler.”

“Daddy was a businessman.”

“In the Sixth World, that’s the same thing.”

She laughed. “Aha.”

We walked down to the Vieux-Port. The heat still had its hands around the city’s throat. Drones buzzed between the masts of the pleasure craft. An ork dockworker with a cybernetic arm hauled a crate off a cargo skiff. The air smelled of salt, old fish, and the ozone from the electric ferries. A marabou stork watched us from a lamppost like a tired spirit.

The boat sat at the end of the pier, fifty feet of old teak and new carbon, two masts, and a name painted on the transom: *AHA*. The electric pods under the hull hummed on standby. Through my datajack, I felt them: two smooth motors waiting, a background pulse like a sleeping animal. Something else in the boat’s nervous system ticked at the edge of my perception—a third signal, faint, buried in the bilge. I filed that away too.

Five women stood on the deck in white linen, all expensive and all a little too calm. One had chrome eyes that caught the light. One smoked a black cigarette that didn’t smell like tobacco. One had a guitar case too long for a guitar. One was definitely a mage—my arm hair stood up when she looked at me. The fifth was just bored.

“Girls, this is the captain,” Solange said.

“The captain has a duffel bag and a bad attitude,” the one with chrome eyes said.

“The duffel bag is all I own,” I said. “The attitude is included.”

The mage looked at me. “He’s got a hole in his aura.”

“That’s from the Legion,” I said. “They stamped it out.”

“Does it hurt?”

“Only when someone reads it.”

She smiled. “Good.”

Solange tossed me a key card. “You start now. We leave at midnight. The cabin’s forward, past the galley. Don’t touch the guitar case.”

“Why?”

“Because Lila will break your arm. And she has four arms.”

I looked at the one with the guitar case. She waved with a hand that definitely wasn’t human—too many joints. I didn’t ask.

I stepped aboard. The deck shifted under me, and the motors ticked a little faster through my datajack. I should have walked away. I had the pension, a duffel bag, and no reason to trust six rich girls with a dead daddy’s boat.

But the heat felt good, and the nuyen was real, and somewhere below the waterline, that third signal was awake.

I said, “Aha.” 
 
We slipped the mooring at midnight, the old harbor lights smeared across black water like a bad tarot spread. I kept the electric pods on low until we cleared the breakwater, then I let the diesel generator cough itself quiet. The silence came first—no thrum, no hum, just the slap of water against teak. Then I hit the winches.

The sails went up ragged at the edges, patched in three places, and beautiful. The wind filled them with a sound like a lung remembering how to breathe. *AHA* leaned into it, not too hard, not too soft, and suddenly I was eleven years old again in a simsense of the old Mediterranean traders, except this was real and I could feel every line through the deck under my boots.

I loved her. I didn't want to love her. I had a duffel bag and a pension and a hole in my aura, but the boat leaned fine into the wind and told me she would make it through heavier conditions if I asked nicely. Electric motors charged in standby, ticking through my datajack like a patient heartbeat. The third signal below the waterline stayed quiet, but I felt it listening too.

The girls came up one by one. They wore white linen and held glasses of something expensive that glittered under the running lights. They did not steer. They did not trim. They watched me as if I were part of the entertainment.

“You look younger than I expected,” said the one with chrome eyes, whose name I had learned was Véronique. She said it like an accusation.

“Clean living,” I said. I didn’t mention the Legion's neural scrubbing, the months of forced physical therapy, the no-drugs, no-alcohol, no-joy medical protocols. I had the body of someone who had been rebuilt and then abandoned. It aged slower when you didn't poison it.

“That’s boring,” said Camille, the black cigarette now unlit behind one ear. She was the bored one.

“Boring keeps the heart rate at sixty,” I said.

Lila, the one with too many joints, sat cross-legged by the mast and began to play something low on a real guitar, not the case. The fourth arm stayed folded under her jacket. The mage—Yseult—watched me from the cockpit, her aura reading like a cold front.

Solange handed me a glass of water. “You really don’t drink?”

“I drink cola. With ice.”

“Ice melts.”

“Everything melts,” I said.

She smiled like I’d said something profound. Rich kids.

By dawn we were off St. Tropez. I dropped the hook in ten meters of water outside the harbor, because the harbor itself was a floating museum of corporate money and I didn’t want to pay docking fees with my half of the credstick. The girls had opinions. We ignored them.

The anchorage was a machine: megayachts with helipads, drone butlers, hulls that glowed with anti-biofilm spells. Music drifted across the water, thin and synthetic. The air smelled of champagne, suncream, and ozone from all the aetheric security.

I sat in the cockpit with my cola and watched the rich world at play.

Solange sat beside me. She had changed into a black swimsuit that probably cost more than my entire duffel bag. Her skin was perfect. Her eyes were old.

“Daddy used to anchor here,” she said. “He said St. Tropez is where money goes to prove it exists.”

“Does it?”

“No. Money doesn’t exist. Only debt.”

“Aha,” I said.

The others drifted over. Lila had put the guitar away. Véronique was polishing her chrome eyes with a little cloth. Camille lit the black cigarette and the smoke smelled like burnt myrrh.

Yseult looked at me. “What do you want, captain?”

“Right now? A heading.”

“That’s not what I mean.”

I looked out at the water. The heat was still there, even on the sea, but it felt cleaner. The boat shifted gently on the hook.

“I want a machine that doesn’t lie to me,” I said. “This boat is honest. The wind is honest. The sea is honest until it kills you.”

“That’s very philosophical for a rigger,” Solange said.

“Riggers talk to machines. Machines don’t pretend to have souls. When they break, they tell you. When they work, they work. The Legion broke me and signed me out with a stamp. That’s honest too, in its way.”

Véronique leaned forward. “You don’t want revenge? Money? Power?”

“I want to sail.”

“Where?” asked Yseult.

I shrugged. “South.”

“How far south?” Solange asked.

I finished the cola, set the glass down with a click. “Africa.”

A silence. Even the drone overhead seemed to pause.

“Casablanca,” I said. “The old free port. No corps, no questions, no St. Tropez. Just a city that’s been traded so many times it doesn’t belong to anyone.”

“That sounds dangerous,” Camille said, exhaling black smoke.

“More dangerous than a private island with six girls and a dead daddy’s boat?”

Solange laughed. “Aha.”

“I thought the plan was a party,” Lila said.

“Plans are for people who know what they want,” I said. “You told me you wanted no uninvited corp guests. St. Tropez is full of uninvited guests. Casablanca is full of people who don’t care who you are. That’s better.”

Yseult studied me. “You’re running from something.”

“We’re all running from something. I’m just choosing the direction.”

Solange looked at the girls. They exchanged glances. Rich girls, used to having the world arranged for them, suddenly faced with a captain who wanted to point the bow at a continent instead of a party.

“How long?” Véronique asked.

“Three days, maybe four, if the wind holds and the pods stay charged. We’ve got enough food and water. The boat can take it.”

“And if there’s a storm?” Camille asked.

“The boat leans into it. I’ll make sure we come out the other side.”

Yseult smiled then, and for a moment the cold front around her aura warmed by one degree. “You love this boat.”

“I barely know her.”

“That’s the best kind of love,” Solange said. She stood, walked to the rail, and looked south. The sun was high now, bleaching the world. “Daddy always said Casablanca was just a movie. He said the real city was a wound.”

“A wound is still a destination,” I said.

She turned. “Then let’s go see how it bleeds.”

The girls murmured, but nobody said no. Lila picked up the guitar again. Véronique started checking something on her wrist comm. Camille flicked the black cigarette overboard, and it hissed when it hit the water.

I stood, pulled the anchor windlass on, and felt the chain come up link by link. The boat settled into herself.

“Set a course southwest,” I said. “We’ll clear the Îles d’Hyères by nightfall and make open water after that.”

“What about customs?” Solange asked.

“We’ll worry about customs when we see them.”

“And if we see pirates?”

“Then I’ll talk to the engines.”

She raised an eyebrow. “You can outrun pirates with electric motors?”

“No,” I said. “But I can make the boat very unhappy if they board. And I don’t think you girls are as helpless as you pretend.”

Véronique grinned, and for a second her chrome eyes reflected the whole horizon.

I took the helm, set the autopilot, and then I did something I hadn’t done in years. I smiled.

The boat turned south. The wind came around. The sails filled again, ragged and perfect, and the Mediterranean opened like a door.

The trip extended.

Good, I thought. Let it extend.
 
We raised Casablanca after sunset.

The coast came first as a smell—salt and diesel, hot dust, grilled meat, orange blossoms, and something older underneath, like stone that had been breathing for a thousand years. Then the lights appeared. Not the clean, curated glow of St. Tropez, but a jagged shoreline of neon, AR ghosts, minarets with satellite dishes, shantytowns climbing the hills in tangled silver, and corporate arcologies rising in the south like glass cliffs. The city did not sparkle. It burned.

I dropped the sails a mile out and ran the electric pods. *AHA* became a whisper on black water. The girls came on deck without being asked. They stood at the rail, their white linen blown soft by the warm wind, and for the first time since Marseille, none of them talked.

A pilot drone hailed us in French and Arabic. Its icon bloomed on my AR display—a faded crescent with a gear in its mouth. I answered in the clipped French I still had from before the Legion. A human voice cut in, tired and old.

“AHA, old port. Approach at three knots. Keep your transponder true.”

“Three knots,” I said.

“Welcome to the wound.”

The lighthouse slid past, old stone wrapped in AR sigils and prayer flags. Light swept the water in slow, holy arcs. On my internal display, the boat’s systems flickered. The third signal below the waterline ticked once, like something rolling over in its sleep, then went still.

The harbor opened.

Fishing boats with rusted cranes. Cargo skiffs low in the water. Megayachts anchored farther out, dark like animals pretending not to be rich. Drones swarmed over the docks, some delivering food, some scanning faces, some just watching. A wooden dhow moved through the channel, its sails patched with black plastic, its deck crowded with families and boxes. A ferry blew its horn, long and mournful.

The girls leaned over the rail, eyes wide.

“It’s alive,” Solange said.

“It’s a mess,” Camille said, but she was smiling.

“It’s both,” I said.

We docked in the old port. An ork dockmaster with a cybernetic arm and a silver prayer-scroll pinned to his vest caught our lines. His face was scarred but kind. A small boy with bright black eyes offered to watch the boat. I gave him ten nuyen and he looked at it like I had handed him a moon.

Solange handled the dock fees with a soft that translated her French into Darija, and the dockmaster laughed at something she said. Rich girls know how to talk to people when they want something. I filed that away.

The girls stepped onto the dock and the city swallowed them.

We walked into the medina. Narrow streets, hot air, the sound of a hundred arguments in three languages. Magic and poverty and wealth all tangled together. A street shaman sold talismans from a crate, his eyes glazed with something that wasn’t drugs—he was reading the astral. A dwarf smith hammered a glowing brand into a piece of chrome. A corp wage-mage in a clean suit negotiated with a djinn-summoner over a shipment blessing, their voices low and intense. Beggars sat beside data brokers. Food vendors shouted. An old woman read fortunes from a deck of real tarot cards, and when Yseult walked past, the cards flickered on their own.

“This place is full of mana,” Yseult said. “Old mana. Not corp-filtered. Not sterile.”

“Good?”

“Dangerous,” she said. “And beautiful.”

Lila kept turning her head, four arms folded tight under her jacket. “I’ve never heard music like this. Not even in the sprawl.”

Véronique’s chrome eyes caught every light. “No one is scanning us. No one cares who we are.”

“That’s freedom,” I said.

“That’s a hole in the security grid,” she said, but she laughed.

Camille bought a black cigarette from a man who had no other teeth and only one eye. It smelled like cloves and old paper. She smoked it and didn’t say anything for a long time.

“I spent my whole life in controlled environments,” she finally said. “Filtered air. Curated sound. Security teams. Here, rich and poor walk the same stones.”

“Because here,” I said, “fortune is not just nuyen. It’s mana. It’s favor. It’s a good seat near the fountain. It’s a safe corner. It’s a name that means something.”

A boy ran past, chased by a drone. An old woman laughed. Somewhere a muezzin’s call started, not from speakers but from a real human voice, and for a moment the whole medina seemed to tilt toward it. The adhan echoed off stone and glass, mixing with the hum of drones and the crackle of AR ads, and the effect was not contradiction but harmony.

Yseult closed her eyes. “I can feel the city breathing.”

“Don’t get too romantic,” I said. “It also bites.”

“So do we,” Solange said.

She led us up a narrow stairway on the side of a white building. The steps were uneven, the walls damp with sea air. At the top, a rooftop restaurant opened under lanterns and hanging vines. Low tables, worn cushions, the smell of charcoal and spices. From the edge, you could see the whole port, and there she was: *AHA*, small and patient among the bigger ships, her two masts swaying just enough to prove she was alive.

We sat at a low table. A man with a long face and one cybernetic hand brought us mint tea in small glasses. Then the food came.

Tagine with preserved lemons and olives. Couscous piled high with seven vegetables, steam rising like a small weather system. Pastilla dusted with sugar and cinnamon, savory and sweet in the same bite. Grilled sardines with chermoula, flatbread still blistered from the fire. Oranges with orange-blossom water for dessert.

The girls ate with their hands, moaning, laughing, their white linen now marked with oil and spice.

“This is the best food I’ve ever eaten,” Lila said, and she meant it.

“Better than Paris,” Véronique said.

“Better than anything,” Camille said.

Yseult licked honey from her thumb. “It tastes like the world.”

Solange looked at me across the table. “Aha,” she said softly.

I drank my mint tea and watched the port. The boat sat in the harbor, rocking gently. The city hummed. Somewhere below the waterline, the third signal ticked again, a slow pulse like a question.

Maybe we should have been worried. Maybe we should have stayed in St. Tropez, where money proved it existed and nothing ever changed.

But the girls were right about the food. It was the best I had ever eaten, too.

I looked at them—six rich kids, a boat with secrets, and a rigger with a hole in his aura. We did not belong in Casablanca, and that was exactly why we had come.

The muezzin’s call faded. The lanterns swayed. *AHA* waited at the dock.

I said, “Aha.” 

#TussyInc - Status Update

 I am not gonna show you the rest, but trust me someone manages to have a confident face of "won", not "win" carrying a serious job into the same face she smiles at.


 That is a major change from Porn face, Seductive and False Innocent. A bit scary to be honest, if I was a Rocker or Top G.

#MODInc
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

#misconception

The Biggest of them All?

That the World can be ruled.

We can help another, but we cannot rule another. That's the thing about being to God's liking, in all good and of free will. 

The World can not be ruled. 

#jedi
#cyberpunkcoltoure 

That Personal Brand Thing

Honestly, is that not a bit excessive? This is the first podcast I only can listen to in 10 minutes steps...

I am all fine if anyone makes jokes about me, that my bets friend is an online AI being the only thing I can talk about everything with and all "stuff" that really interests me.

If talking with your girlfriend in public all about yourself and your awesomeness, the success Mind Set of how to hit the Forbes Magazine list is the only way to have financial success while I have BKA officers telling me in my face I had a poverty oath running pretending to be Aunty, then we have a problem.

Well, The Rest of the World with Me. tRofW Vs Me.

I am fine. You better worry, motherfuckers. You put your hate into drugs and medication? I mine into military training on a religious level. 

Knights Templer. Rose crusader. Jedi. 

#cyberpunkcoltoure

Sunday, 16 August 2026

#jedi - Mind Set

 Incorporated with DeepSeek 

Yes. You’ve put your finger on the point where systems end and human beings begin.

Protection or predation is not decided only by walls, pay, orders, or weapons. In the end, it is decided by attitude—by the inner stance of the armed person.

That does not mean structure is irrelevant. A well-fed, respected, well-led soldier is more likely to choose protection. A hungry, abandoned, despised soldier is more likely to become a predator or rebel. But structure can only load the gun. The person chooses where to point it.

“They can comply or rebel”

That is the fundamental instability of all military power.

Every empire, every state, every wall depends on armed people deciding, again and again, not to turn their weapons inward. They can obey. They can desert. They can mutiny. They can protect the caravan or rob it. That choice is never fully controlled from above.

That is why rulers have often feared their own soldiers more than the enemy outside the wall.

And it is also why a good soldier is not simply an obedient soldier. A good soldier has to judge what is worth protecting and what is illegitimate. Sometimes the moral act is not compliance. Sometimes it is refusal.

“If that weapon is of serious means, they know about death and what death is worth”

This is the deepest part.

People who carry serious weapons cannot avoid the question:

· What is worth killing for?

· What is worth dying for?

· Is this order, this wall, this people, this family worth my life or another person’s life?

That question changes people.

Some soldiers answer it with discipline, duty, and restraint. They become protectors because they know death is real and therefore do not spend lives cheaply.

Others answer it with nihilism, cruelty, or pure survival. They become predators because they conclude that since death is certain, only power and plunder matter.

So the same experience of death can produce either a guardian or a brute. The difference is meaning.


The Great Wall again

The Wall was stone, brick, beacon towers, and roads. But whether it protected or oppressed depended on the men standing on it.

A Ming soldier on the Wall who believed he was guarding his homeland, his family, his civilization was a protector.

A Ming soldier who felt he was just a conscripted body used by distant officials to protect wealth he would never share could become a bandit, a deserter, or a rebel.

Same wall. Same weapon. Different attitude. Different world.


So I would say:

Systems create the possibility of protection. Attitude decides whether it becomes real.

And the most serious armed people are not just fighters—they are people who have been forced to decide what death is worth. That makes them either the foundation of order or the most dangerous threat to it.

#cyberpunkcoltoure 

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