1/ I have been asked to tweetstorm the history of ribbonfarm. Let this never-told-before story be told. https://twitter.com/nigelhalliday1/status/886065881448632320 …
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2/ In 2006, the Galactic Cryptospatial Navigators Guild was at war with the Great Central Singularity, I had escaped to Earth to avoid it
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3/ I had with me the plans for a great trading junction in the Sagittarius Arm, to be known as the Galctic Discount Refactorat.
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5/ The plans were worthless. Fortunately, I had a backup survival plan. There was great demand for Earth vitamins in parts of the Orion arm.
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6/ So I spent a few months selling vitamins via an open low-fee hypershipping consignment channel run by a friend.
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7/ Unfortunately, that didn't get me enough to book passage off Earth at galactic wartime rates, but it was enough to go native here
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8/ I got myself some earthican surgery, a fake bio, and began adapting and porting some of the Refactorat plans for the Earth economy
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9/ That got the blog rolling. The porting took some work. The Gervais Principle, for example, is based on sewage system of the Refactorat.
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10/ So that's how ribbonfarm got started. The name btw, is due to early misunderstanding. I thought ribbonworms were local sentient species
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