New story, merging some of my older stories into a longer piece: https://aceade.net/connacht-disaster-zone/scandinavia-submarine-trolls/
The Kingdom of Scandinavia decides to troll the British Navy by smuggling guns towards Ireland.
#spyFiction #shortStories #historicalFantasy #alternativeHistory
#AsemicBook – The Early 1900s ~ Platitudes of Dance steps & Pretzels
#AsemicBookPages #AsemicBookPage #Book #Books #AlternativeHistory #BookCover #AlternativeHistoryofDance #Asemic #asemicArt #AsemicWriting #AsemicText #DeconstructedText #Jazz #RagtimePiano #RagtimeMusic #Ragtime #Collage #CollageArt #Digital #Art #Scanography
"Oh that's the hospital ... Yeah Tuesdays they burn cripples, the terminally ill. Drag on the state."
Highway cop, The Man in the High Castle, s01e01
Neoliberals just close hospitals, or starve them of funding, and cut disability benefits, so they die of their illness, or abandonment, or despair in their own homes. Saves the taxpayer the costs of jackboots and furnaces. More civilised, and so much more efficient! : P
#TV #SciFi #AlternativeHistory #TheManInTheHighCastle #fascism
From the archive! 🕰️ Revisit this fascinating take on an alternate 1919 where rocketry is key to defending against Martian aggression. Dive into the world of the Cosmists and their revolutionary science. #Lore24 #alternativehistory #scifi #Cosmists #rockets #throwback #archive https://busywyvern.com/2024/01/13/lore24-entry-3/
Kubrick's Shining is the official music video for Take That's "Back for Good".
@sean
Right up there with the 1930s classic "White Zucchini" starring Broccoli Lugosi. 🧐
#AlternativeHistoryofCinema
#AlternativeHistoryOfMovies
#AlternativeHistory
@SFFMagazineCovers
From an #AlternativeReality - A Creepy Magazine to give you nightmares.
#AlternativeHistory #MagazineCover #CoverArt
What if Wednesday: soft secession
#WhatIfWednesday #SoftSecession #AmericanPolitics #AmericanFederalism #TrumpRegime #AmericanFascism #RedStates #BlueStates #AbstractMaps
#AlternativeHistory #AsemicMaps #AsemicArt #AsemicText #AsemicWriting #Canada #CanadianPolitics #DeconstructedText
https://impliedspaces.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/what-if-wednesday-soft-secession/
Free Fiction Monday: The Last Surviving Gondola Widow
In an alternate post-Civil War Chicago, the citizens still remember the day the Gondolas sent by the South died and the city burned—again. Lou, a Pinkerton detective, uses magic to hunt down the Gondola pilots, now called Gondola widows. She…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/25/free-fiction-monday-the-last-surviving-gondola-widow/
#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #MondayFictionPost #alternativehistory #CivilWar
@indieauthors
I'm reading "The Challenge of the Computer Utility" by D.F. Parkhill, 1966, which was referenced in "Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer" by Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith, 1980.
It's a book which attempts to "...facilitate [the] growing discussion [of computer utilities] by providing a broad examination that will reveal something of the history, technology, and economics of the computer utility and explore some of its possible implications for our society." In modern terms, it's an attempt to describe what became networked and cloud computing.
There's a wonderful digression imagining an alternative history for computing if Babbage had succeeded in building the Analytical Engine. Here is that section in full:
It is fascinating to speculate how the course of human affairs might have been changed if Babbage or his son had actually succeeded in completing a working analytical engine. Admittedly, given the primitive state of precision mechanical technology before the twentieth century, it is doubtful that even a working machine would have inspired many attempts at direct duplication. On the other hand, the electrical relay in the form of the Morse telegraph was in general use before Babbage’s death, and there is no reason why large electromechanical analytical engines based on relays could not have been built by the end of the nineteenth century. Primitive as such computers would have been by our standards, they still would have represented an astronomical addition to the scientific resources of their time. Furthermore, in the familiar bootstrap action that has played such an important role in our own scientific progress since World War II, successful analytical engines would have spawned further improvements in themselves.
In electronics, for example, it is possible that the vacuum tube might have found its first large-scale application as a switching device in computers rather than as an amplifier or detector in communications systems. This in turn would have opened up computational and control horizons before World War I that in reality did not appear until the 1950’s. If this had happened, would automation and its first offspring, technological unemployment, then have added their fuel to the fires of economic collapse in the 1930’s? How much faster would aviation have developed? Possibly the jet engine, the guided missile, and the supersonic aircraft would have been commonplace long before the beginning of World War II. What about the atomic bomb? At this point the mind boggles, for the thought of Fascism, in all its hideousness, armed with nuclear weapons, is enough to shatter the complacency of even the most optimistic believer in human progress.
On the other hand, there was nothing inevitable about the political and economic events that have hitherto convulsed the twentieth century. In fact, given the more rapid rate of scientific and economic progress that would have followed an earlier introduction of the computer, it is extremely unlikely that the pace of political change would have remained unaffected.
The book: https://archive.org/details/challengeofcompu0000park
#computerhistory #counterfactual #alternativehistory #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
Bart-Ender Simpson's Game Tales by Orson Scott Card
#HashtagGames #SpeculativeFiction
#BartenderTales #AlternativeHistory #AlternativeHistoryofLiterature
#Imagine #WhatIf in some #AlternativeHistory we wanted keep the #CottageLife and yet did was some of the advantages of industrialisation?
Like build the railway but use big tunnel boring machines to hide tracks and trains from sight and hearing #UndergroundPunk
Preserve the environment. Don't build bigger cities, built more towns. Don't build out and up, build liveable #UndergroundTowns
We would like to get the #Standardisation, #Precision, #Uniformity of #Industrialisation but not the mass-production
How would the industrialisation continue? How would the #DigitalAge happen in a world without a global supply chain? How would #SolarPower happen without a global supply chain?
#CottageTech #CottagePunk #ClockPunk #AltSteamPunk #AltCyberPunk #SolarPunk
Reminded of Archie comics while buying groceries today. Trying to imagine what that series would look like trying to address today's issues.. Who is being deported? Who lost their degree for speaking up? Who voted for idiocracy?
(edit: spelling fix)
#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #Moses #BiblicalArt #BurningBush #CreativeArt #ContemporaryReligion #ModernTwist #ReligiousImagery #ArtisticExpression #Surrealism #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #Moses #BurningBush #BiblicalArt #CannabisArt #SurrealArt #ReligiousImagery #AlternativeHistory #BiblicalFigures
asemic map: 120
Soviet-era space probe crashes to Earth: Location – Best Estimated Configuration
#AsemicMap #SovietEraSpaceProbe #Asemic #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #Maps #DeconstructedText #Map #Absurdist #DigitalArt #Art #Dadaism #AlternativeGeography #Dadaist
#AlternativeHistory #AlternativeReality
What would computers be like if, in the early days, focus hadn't been on clocked logic but fast self-contained serial arithmetics on self-synchronising signals? :blobcatthinking:
Could the avoidance of nanomanagement permit the creation of tinier, faster, and more massively parallelisable computational cores by the time three megahertz, the traditional boundary of High Frequency, started to look like low frequency?
The #Batman movie from an #AlternativeTimeline
Peter Lorre - The Joker
Sydney Greenstreet - The Penguin
Mary Astor - Catwoman
Humphrey Bogart - Harvey Dent
Dick Powell - The light-hearted Bruce Wayne & The Tough Noir Dark Knight Detective
#AlternativeHistory #AlternativeReality #AlternativeHistoryofCinema #SpeculativeFiction #AlternativeHistoryOfMovies #Batman
The House That Dripped Pudding
and
House of The Seven Tapioca Windows
Both were directed by that superb Greek-Finish auteur, Francois Amynedd MacSirc~Bathsky. His later work included:
Taxi Cab Driver On A Hot Tin Roof
and
The Last Haiku in Paris, Ontario.
#RuinAMovie
#HashTagGames #DigitalArt #Surreal #Surrealism #AlternativeHistory #AlternativeHistoryofCinema #Art #Cinema #Fantasy #Ghost_Movies
https://darkpinesphoto.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/surreal-thursday-the-house-that-dripped-pudding/
