guy who's really into sentient trees and describes himself as an "entomologist"

After decades of shit posture and trying everything under the sun to fix it — many PTs, Alexander Technique, gadgets — it’s truly wild to catch a glimpse of my profile in a mirror or window reflection and see that three months of standing meditation has just full stop given me normal-ass posture

My friend wrote a blog post about caregiving that I think is so timely and important that I could write my own whole blog post about why I think it's so timely and important, but I'll try to keep my thoughts short (in hopes that you'll simply go read his post instead of a long thread of mine here!)

Mel Brooks is 100 years old. The U.S. is 250 years old. Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the time the U.S. has existed.

I’m in a PEM flare and bedbound today, but it’s lovely seeing photos of lovely people at SF trans march 💜🏳️‍⚧️

the opposite of "fromsoft" is "to hard". which interesting because that's what their games are

An interesting experiment is to put your fingers on your wrist to feel your pulse and then meditate with your heartbeat as the object of concentration. It’s lovely to briefly feel interroception around the subtle fluctuations of your pulse, which should increase as your focus increases your HRV.

I had a strong somatic emotional release today after a PT worked on some new muscle tension that was mostly likely triggered by an autoimmune process. It’s truly wild how we mistakenly conceptualize of our minds, our musculoskeletal system, and the rest of our body as three different things.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

There are other paid learning materials I prefer for zhan zhuang / wuji stance, but I’ve also been enjoying this lovely video youtu.be/Akg3cLzJ3ik?...

I say this with some regularity and it's not a controversial take among fans, but Shiren 2 (probably the N64's only full-throated roguelike?) remains one of the best Shiren games to date. Solid, if lengthy tutorial sequence, cute story, and real cool post-game dungeons. Now playable in English, too!

Steam Machine 512GB is $1,049.00 buff.ly/L2QgLVy 2TB with Controller $1,428 buff.ly/TW3rHgW

Huh. I’ve been using a xylitol nasal spray hoping it might benefit my nasal microbiome (oral xylitol’s modulatory effect on the oral microbiome has been a legitimate miracle cure for me for some dental issues) Turns out there’s an n=10 study supporting the idea! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I’m developing strong opinions that “just notice your thoughts as they arise” meditation is like the CBT of meditation in that it certainly works for some people but it needs to be yelled from the rooftops that if you’re neurodivergent you’re likely to get better results from literally anything else

I myself do not read xianxia danmei, but I think regularly about my friend telling me “yeah, the necromancer is always the bottom, because necromancy is yin”

SJÄMSÅRA

Backrooms but it's about being stuck roaming around LLM latent space

RIP Bobby Prince. this 1993 clip of him explaining the Commander Keen menu music is amazing. worth a watch even if you don't give a rip about Keen. source link below.

I’m grateful when I’m having an anxiety day I can text my therapist and she’ll be like “you have lab results showing high levels of autoimmune inflammation causing stress. You have a hormone imbalance that would make anyone an anxious mess. I’m a psychologist, but this literally isn’t psychological”

What I think is interesting about this data is it doesn’t answer whether AI disclosure makes games less marketable, or if studios who choose to use genAI also happen to end up making games that are less marketable for reasons that aren’t AI but probably share similar decision-making processes

TIL there’s tax-advantaged bank account (ABLE / 529A) specifically for disabled folks. It’s primarily get around SSI savings limits, but even if you’re not on SSI, if you qualify you can contribute $20k/year w/ tax-free growth if withdrawn for qualified expenses (which includes food and rent!)

TIL there’s tax-advantaged bank account (ABLE / 529A) specifically for disabled folks. It’s primarily get around SSI savings limits, but even if you’re not on SSI, if you qualify you can contribute $20k/year w/ tax-free growth if withdrawn for qualified expenses (which includes food and rent!)

It’s amazing how many times recently when talking to western medical providers or bodyworkers I’ve desperately wished for an English word to convey the yao/koshi/腰 that isn’t just, like, “waist” or “hips”, same for the kua/胯. Why do we suck at describing the pelvic region?

Went to a doctor’s appointment today in a neighborhood I used to live in but haven’t been to in multiple years, and boy is this triggering grief that a 1-2 mile car ride might as well be a six-month transocean boat trip as far as my illness is concerned.

the struggle of having ever moderated any online community is you now cannot go through any community without being like, oh, they should ban this person. this person hasn't done anything wrong yet but the vibes are off and you should ban the shit out of them.

for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all

The UE6 news is so good solely because I get to watch so many game devs learn about Gamer Haskell for the first time

Yeah, so I continue to strongly not recommend experiencing medication-related withdrawal symptoms, especially when the med you're tapering off isn't even particularly "fun"

With daily practice, I'm developing subtle interoception around my pelvic floor muscle tension that's only perceivable while post training, which I can tell will eventually lead to a slow unwinding of that tension. I'm just in awe at how our bodies/brains evolved to do this stuff.

I wrote a history of rv until now, what we've released, and what our plans are andre.arko.net/2026/06/13/rv-…

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

“Bodily Awareness in Advanced Meditation: A Three-Level Model of Interoceptive, Schematic, and Pacificatory Changes” meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/files/Golden... Excited to dig into this preprint!

Anthropic is a confounding company because they are ruled not by Mario or Wario but by a secret third thing: Dario

Okay for all the shit people give Destiny 2 for having deleted paid story campaigns, in retrospect it is objectively funny and good that the official narrative explanation was “the bad guys showed up and took all the planets”

My favorite LLM Slop Webapp-ism is having like 2 buttons in your top titlebar/toolbar and one of them is a light/dark mode toggle. It’s not so important as to be the most prominent UI element in your app.

“simulation is ritual in observance of a universe that is locally coherent but macrocosmically unfinished”

hey what man

Please Use AI

constructing a guy who’s really mad about “Woke-arina of Time”

It will get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.

Okay this MacBook Neo I’m borrowing is very cute but unsurprisingly this poor literal cell phone chip is struggling

okay it’s very funny to me reading everyone talk about “SGF” where on my lifespace that overwhelmingly refers to the file format from the 80s/90s used to store Go game records and variation trees www.red-bean.com/sgf/

“Thoughts are the accretion of the brain in the same way that stomach acid is the accretion of the stomach”

I do not say this lightly, but 868-BACK is a masterpiece. aftermath.site/868-back-rev...

Boy, I know I'm on a semi-regular pattern of vagueposting about a specific health situation, but both as things keep happening and lab results keep filtering in things continue to get simultaneously better, worse, and weirder

The odd nostalgia of listening to a podcast episode with people who are IRL friends you haven’t seen in ages, so it both does and does not feel parasocial

good reaction image for future use

Lost a long-time mutual over posting the Wired article. I’m sad. The problem with our medical system and ME/CFS isn’t that people are being denied care (although that is true and it sucks), it’s that the best medical care we have is garbage and isn’t enough.

There are many reasons @roguelike.club hasn’t even really had serious discussions about “should we return in-person?” but this is an important one. Travel is expensive; event venues are frequently inaccessible; per the WHO, we are still in a pandemic. (As you may know, I myself am housebound)