Chris Farnell
@thebrainofchris.bsky.social
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
https://chrisfarnell.com
Pinned
Each new world they visit has new ideas, new people, and new stories.
They won't last long.
Fermi's Progress
Paperback
www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Season Pass
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
Fermi's Wake
Paperback
www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...
Season Pass
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
They won't last long.
Fermi's Progress
Paperback
www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Season Pass
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
Fermi's Wake
Paperback
www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Wake-...
Season Pass
scarletferret.com/books/fermis...
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the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
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Universal video game rule: if an NPC is sitting behind a desk I should not need to walk around the desk to talk to them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Universal video game rule: if an NPC is sitting behind a desk I should not need to walk around the desk to talk to them.
The funniest way to make this film is as a straight, shot-for-shot remake of The Bicycle Thief (1948)
deadline.com/2026/02/jaso...
deadline.com/2026/02/jaso...
Big-Budget Jason Statham-David Leitch Action-Comedy ‘Jason Statham Stole My Bike’ Arrives To Heat Up Berlin Market; Black Bear On Sales & Domestic With Leitch & Kelly McCormick Producing
The action-comedy is budgeted north of $80M
deadline.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:36 AM
The funniest way to make this film is as a straight, shot-for-shot remake of The Bicycle Thief (1948)
deadline.com/2026/02/jaso...
deadline.com/2026/02/jaso...
It's almost Friday night and all the most attractive people you know are reading the adventures of a wild planet-destroying spaceship and dying to talk to you about it...
scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Fermi's Progress by Chris Farnell - Scarlet Ferret Books
The Fermi is the Earth's first and last faster-than-light-spaceship. The last, because it turns out its engine vaporises entire star systems in its wake. And nobody knows how to turn it off.
scarletferret.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
It's almost Friday night and all the most attractive people you know are reading the adventures of a wild planet-destroying spaceship and dying to talk to you about it...
scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
scarletferret.com/fermis-progr...
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
I do this but with a white coat in hospitals. Always helps me mellow out.
Sometimes, when things get a little overwhelming, I put on some hi-vis work wear and go for a walk. I blend in and become almost invisible, it's so relaxing.
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I do this but with a white coat in hospitals. Always helps me mellow out.
It's Friday, I'm writing to a deadline, this weekend starts school half-term, not to mention Valentine's day that I will spend with the woman I love. I've got no time for discourse. That said. (Smashes beer bottle on counter)
DS9 is widely considered the best Trek *by people who prefer Babylon 5.*
DS9 is widely considered the best Trek *by people who prefer Babylon 5.*
1. DS9 is widely considered the best Trek by a good margin.
2. Comparing it to B5 is less unfair than comparing any 2 other shows because of how similar they are
3. As good as DS9 is... Babylon 5 is better in almost every way.
4. You don't have to wait 3 seasons for B5 to get good.
2. Comparing it to B5 is less unfair than comparing any 2 other shows because of how similar they are
3. As good as DS9 is... Babylon 5 is better in almost every way.
4. You don't have to wait 3 seasons for B5 to get good.
ME AND WHO ME AND WHO ME AND WHOOOOO cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...
February 13, 2026 at 3:58 PM
It's Friday, I'm writing to a deadline, this weekend starts school half-term, not to mention Valentine's day that I will spend with the woman I love. I've got no time for discourse. That said. (Smashes beer bottle on counter)
DS9 is widely considered the best Trek *by people who prefer Babylon 5.*
DS9 is widely considered the best Trek *by people who prefer Babylon 5.*
Some write hoping their words live on after their death. Not me. I've uttered an unsacred incantation to ensure every word I've ever written combusts out of existence at the moment of my death.
If you log on and see people saying nice things about me, and you own more than three of my books, *run*.
If you log on and see people saying nice things about me, and you own more than three of my books, *run*.
February 13, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Some write hoping their words live on after their death. Not me. I've uttered an unsacred incantation to ensure every word I've ever written combusts out of existence at the moment of my death.
If you log on and see people saying nice things about me, and you own more than three of my books, *run*.
If you log on and see people saying nice things about me, and you own more than three of my books, *run*.
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My Zinequest project is live!
In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.
It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc
In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.
It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc
Small Folk in Big Coats
A simple and chaotic RPG about a group of smallfolk with wildly differing goals.
www.kickstarter.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
My Zinequest project is live!
In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.
It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc
In Small Folk in Big Coats you each play as a little guy in a stack masquerading a single big guy. You're unlikely to get caught, but you’re even less likely to work together.
It’s very silly and easy to get playing. Go Check it out!
tinyurl.com/sfibc
You probably shouldn't actually gloat at your MP. And yet.
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
You probably shouldn't actually gloat at your MP. And yet.
I loved that Star Trek episode they based on this movie.
February 13, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I loved that Star Trek episode they based on this movie.
Tag yourself I'm the last one.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Tag yourself I'm the last one.
My favourite bluesky account is the blue tick UBI campaigner guy who follows me for a bit every time I so much as mention UBI.
February 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM
My favourite bluesky account is the blue tick UBI campaigner guy who follows me for a bit every time I so much as mention UBI.
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He talks like Austin Powers because he's making Austin Powers references all the time. Yeah, baby! Shagadelic!
In 2027 they could do an Austin Powers reboot where Austin is brought out of cryostasis after 30 years, which is to say, after having been frozen in 1997, when the first Austin Powers movie came out
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
He talks like Austin Powers because he's making Austin Powers references all the time. Yeah, baby! Shagadelic!
Chris Farnell Do Not Plan Your Work Schedule Based On How Much You Can Get Done On a Good Day in Optimal Conditions Challenge.
February 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Chris Farnell Do Not Plan Your Work Schedule Based On How Much You Can Get Done On a Good Day in Optimal Conditions Challenge.
It's bad enough having your vanity number plate give away that you're a spy.
But it's a really rookie move to have it broadcast that you're actually acting as a double agent.
But it's a really rookie move to have it broadcast that you're actually acting as a double agent.
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
It's bad enough having your vanity number plate give away that you're a spy.
But it's a really rookie move to have it broadcast that you're actually acting as a double agent.
But it's a really rookie move to have it broadcast that you're actually acting as a double agent.
One of my guiding principles in life is:
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?"
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
One of my guiding principles in life is:
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
Anyone advocating for an open, rational debate about a subject is doing so instead of saying what their position in that debate would be, because if they did they would be correctly tarred and feathered and have an L-plate stapled to their forehead.
"How to find things to hope for when things are hopeless" is a theme I keep returning to in writing, for pretty obvious reasons.
But that is not what Threads is for. The hope in Threads is "You better fucking hope this doesn't happen". That is the explicit message. Want anything else? Watch Fallout.
But that is not what Threads is for. The hope in Threads is "You better fucking hope this doesn't happen". That is the explicit message. Want anything else? Watch Fallout.
Threads director Mick Jackson has expressed worry over the upcoming remake’s focus on finding “hope even in the most challenging of times.”
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
“That one phrase worried me,” he tells Empire. “Hope is not part of nuclear war.”
Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
February 12, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"How to find things to hope for when things are hopeless" is a theme I keep returning to in writing, for pretty obvious reasons.
But that is not what Threads is for. The hope in Threads is "You better fucking hope this doesn't happen". That is the explicit message. Want anything else? Watch Fallout.
But that is not what Threads is for. The hope in Threads is "You better fucking hope this doesn't happen". That is the explicit message. Want anything else? Watch Fallout.
Hi. It's me. The one person who is cross because I keep accidentally buying Oat Milk when I mean to buy milk from a cow, sheep, or goat.
This day is a great victory for me. No longer will Oatly be able to wage their war of misinformation and deception against me personally.
This day is a great victory for me. No longer will Oatly be able to wage their war of misinformation and deception against me personally.
🚨 NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled that oat milk can no longer be called milk
February 12, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Hi. It's me. The one person who is cross because I keep accidentally buying Oat Milk when I mean to buy milk from a cow, sheep, or goat.
This day is a great victory for me. No longer will Oatly be able to wage their war of misinformation and deception against me personally.
This day is a great victory for me. No longer will Oatly be able to wage their war of misinformation and deception against me personally.
Look what I just got for 7.99 at the local Oxfam!!!
February 12, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Look what I just got for 7.99 at the local Oxfam!!!
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I suppose a lot of them are growing food here, if that's what you mean?
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I suppose a lot of them are growing food here, if that's what you mean?
Pop quiz question, no googling:
Who wrote and directed "The Cube", about a man who wakes up in a mysterious cube shaped room, not knowing why or how he got there, and tries to find a way to escape?
Who wrote and directed "The Cube", about a man who wakes up in a mysterious cube shaped room, not knowing why or how he got there, and tries to find a way to escape?
February 11, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Pop quiz question, no googling:
Who wrote and directed "The Cube", about a man who wakes up in a mysterious cube shaped room, not knowing why or how he got there, and tries to find a way to escape?
Who wrote and directed "The Cube", about a man who wakes up in a mysterious cube shaped room, not knowing why or how he got there, and tries to find a way to escape?