reading The Fiery Angel by Valery Bryusov and it's such a weird and gorgeous book. 16th century germany, occult stuff, love triangles with angels and human beings. always flirting with surreality in a way that is very compelling.

"fix your hearts or die" has gotta be the most annoying new slogan people have attached themselves too

One of those moments where I'm doing research for a project and I really wish I was a real historian so I could get access to archival documents and stuff. Would love to read the minutes of the first SR Congress but they are in some archive in Amsterdam lol

I knew Ludwig II of Bavaria was a hikkikomori who built Neuschwanstein so he could read manga in peace, but I did not know he built a whole orientalist Moorish Revival-style kiosk with a peacock throne at Linderhof Palace.

I am watching Fall of Eagles (BBC show from the 70s) and it is very good. Why don't we have sets this lush, lighting this good, or acting this fun and energetic anymore.

Just randomly remembered this description of kindergarten from the anti-communist DDR Museum in Berlin

J.E. Morain has written a ruthless polemic on Rockhill, Losurdo, and the PSL. Please do read it!!

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I feel like I'm in a good groove these days, I am genuinely excited about (and more importantly, have a clear roadmap for) the projects I'm working on right now, I just wish I got into this groove ten years ago instead of now lol

I hope when we have communism we can bring back an online version of the "tv channel" and have like, curated music channels with their own aesthetics, cool bumpers, etc. Let a thousand MTV-in-the-90s-style music video channels bloom

How come I'm just learning that a leading anarchist in the Russian revolutionary period (albeit very controversial), known for promoting symbolist "anarcho-mysticism", founded a Russian chapter of the Knights Templar which survived into the 20s lol

I started watching this channel on YouTube about a cheese store where the guy talks about the lore of different kinds of cheeses as he sells them to customers, and most of the comments are people fawning over the guy, talking about how much they love him, etc. (and they're right).

I feel like I'm turning into a software curmudgeon because why does it feel like it takes close to 100 milliseconds to open a right click context menu in Windows 11? Why does it have a multiple frame fade in animation? This should take no longer than single digit milliseconds.

Tampering with procedure is unacceptable. Sabotaging the experiment is apostasy #roguetrader

accidentally put an infinite loop in a godot plugin. don't do this lol

cooper's hawk caught something and was eating it just outside the backyard (i think it was a pigeon)

this guy seems to show up here every winter. looks like he's been busy today

announcing wehwalt.net

Going over some early 20th c. history stuff again and it's kinda remarkable how similar the Chigirin Affair was to some of the Bundschuh conspiracies in early 16th c. Germany.

Every couple of years I get struck by a sudden yearning to know exactly what the 1561 celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg was (or if it was just a sensation made up by some fabulist printer)

Something about drummers playing breakcore, jungle etc. on real drumsets just tickles my brain, I don't know what it is. bsky.app/profile/star...

zomorrodid merchant lady in progress

FFXII menu UI appreciation post

I finally read China Miéville's article on the hard problem of consciousness in full and it's, so strange.

The Hitlero-Yeltsinist American Imperial Vulgarization Programme continues apace!

I've gotten more used to Godot and its APIs, and a lot of foundational elements are in place and do work, but there's still a lot of development and polish that needs to be done, particularly in input and UI. one of the weirdest things about it is you can't give Control node pivot points.

Importing some @cdbunker.bsky.social models into Godot

Was mildly surprised to learn that many German cities had mixed public bathhouses into the 16th century.

enjoying da new darktide class. feel like a bloodborne guy with my bone saw and needle gun

I'm only about half finished it, but The Darkness That Comes Before is really blowing me away. I'm becoming a huge Bakkerhead.

i somehow missed Atsushi Sakurai's death. RIP to a great one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2X...

was reading through Goetz von Berlichingen's autobiography again for research and i thought this bit was so funny.

Gaspar Noe dando um blu-ray de Vortex para o Papa Leão XIV

My novel project has gone through a lot of changes during the writing process, but I've finally settled on a fairly small novella-length thing instead of the sprawling idea I started with. I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it within 2025 but I will try.

I've written something like 120k words for my book in total, but I realized a lot of that will have to be cut or moved to another book. I had to do some plot restructuring stuff cause it's supposed to be the first book in a series.

why is life so lonely man. why is it so hard to find friends and community