Smilodons.

[cstross@wandering.shop]

Smilodons.

The answer is to resurrect the smilodons.

(Failing that, maybe screwfly would help?)
https://mastodon.scot/@theferret/115525760825628044

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@cstross smilodons are cats. this plan must be approved and will not have any undesired side effect.

unless @Menhit finds out and is jealous, then scrap the plan, immediately.

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@cstross wait a second. now that I think about it, don't you have a king over there?

kings are natural predators of deer, aren't they?

and deer hunts are a traditional way to, say, expedite a succession, right?

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@valhalla Hmm, I like the way you think!

Winter is coming and we should *certainly* send King Charles III, currently aged 76 and on chemo for (unspecified) cancer to the Highlands with a bow and arrow and a horse. He can come back when he's taken a large stag.

... And in the meantime, we'll be releasing the de-extincted smilodons and following them with a reality TV film crew (in a light tank, for safety, filming via drone)

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@cstross sounds like a plan :D