Another victim of AI discourse is "headless". It used to mean something cool, something more open. The ability to run any front-end on your data for flexibility and agility. Now it means "let me run some slopified dashboards on my numbers"

Sublimation, 2024 by Lukifer Aurelius www.instagram.com/lukiferaurel...

My AOTY

@jeffnoon.bsky.social is fast becoming one of my all time favorite writers so it was a treat to see that his latest book is sort of a love letter to the act of writing and creating itself. I felt Nyquist in this book and Scribble and Vurt itself and the lot of them and the passion that created them.

NEW EPISODE! The door to the Wizard's Tower opens and reveals... An interview with author @ljabouttown.bsky.social ! Witness the process by which she wrote the award-winning Still Alive! soundcloud.com/death-senten... open.spotify.com/episode/2fhP... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

Really good, energetic math-rock from Bristol with some really cool influences!

It's my birthday. Plans: weird fantasy, food, lazing about.

One of the things I didn't expect was for Mystic, CT to have a really, really good liquor store that's run by people with very eclectic taste. Third bottle I've gotten from them and they were all excellent. Tart, rich, light. Excellent.

FB memories delivering the heat once again

Dudes Rock: The Band gygaxguild.bandcamp.com/track/mirror...

I knew my homie @inkstainedwreck.ca would like this one. Phenomenal book that honestly could be read alongside Ben's own The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits in all sorts of interesting ways!

"Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

You ever think about how the rise of AI just happens to coincidence with SOME progress being made on climate change? Like the second we started to maybe kinda sorta see a way out of the petroleum death machine, they invented a different kind of death machine that spirals in a different way? yeah

Got caught in one of those lovely, evening spring showers. You know, with the warm breeze, heavy drops, golden light and overwhelming petrichor. God damn it's good to be alive.

One of my pet peeves is users of a software talking to the company that built it and using massive hyperbole. "Issues plaguing our software", "chaos", "massive implications" etc. OK calm down there Jonathan, we are talking about some reports and dashboards, not exactly life and death over here.

One of my favorite random factoids is that one of the best bouncy/proggy metal albums, a style that held metal in complete dominance last decade, was made by a band called Mandroid Echostar who then proceeded to release completely mid follow ups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsU...

Been meaning to read these books for a while now!

Not my favorite lad @garethwatkins.bsky.social talking about one of the best and most upsetting books to ever do it!!!!

What a joy and a pleasure it is to be able to play one of the greatest tracks ever made on a crisp summer day www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKe4...

The Etched City by K.J. Bishop Five Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin Light by M. John Harrison

I can't be vocal with my stances on here for reasons but I just want you all to know that I am behind you and support you. You know who I mean. Reach out privately if I can do this in material ways. I'm sorry I can't speak up more but I can do other things. Solidarity. A better world is possible.

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic You: Tell me more 😏 Me: ............... and if ......... [thy]me...... .......................... hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd] .........................s

I've been on work calls at places you wouldn't believe. Outside the therapist office at 07:00 AM. In an Austin bookstore's parking lot. I've seen mute buttons glisten off a fuel station's gate. All those calls. Like tears in the rain.

Severian The Green Man Apu Punchau The Conciliator Master Palaemon Vodalus

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

slight spoilers for book of the new sun. i love how they are just vibing and look out on the water and there is just like, fucking cthulhu hanging out in the distance. & people are like yup thats cthulhu. hope he doesnt ever come to shore. bro was smoking that revelations

that's dave

Gudewife's shapeshifting post metal/math rock is the furious foundation for Hala Alyan's poem about Palestinian pain and liberation. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/05/14/track-premiere-grief-and-tahrir-lthryr-with-gudewife/

I'm so happy I got over my fear of flying. Still sucks but not torture. Also hey I'm in Austin.

Did my best to describe a hard to describe album. If you like your black metal whirling this is for you.

No way we had Elon Musk on the cast! He got home safely with no special events to report! Haha

When the main riff hits eveale.bandcamp.com/track/carnif...

Logging in on Monday to clean up all the mess the various AI agents the CEO forced on us have created over the weekend

I'm still mad/sad about Homeworld 3 by the way

Posting "which iteration of Civilization should I play?" and walking away like from a live hand grenade I am honestly asking by the way. 5? 4? 6? Not 7 I'm pretty sure.

"By paranoid reading, I mean examining the text for meanings that are hidden, maybe unintended, maybe just contrary to the prevalent reading." Zach nailing how I think and approach weird fiction once again. If the weird author is lying to the reader then the reader should mistrust the weird author.

me when my boss tries to call me out on something I said but I am proven 100% correct by the people he tagged in to second guess me

Oh hey, happy V-Day. There are some lessons we should learn from WW2 and how it ended :) Not going to say which though :) Haha

H.P Lovecraft: holy fucking shit dude

Co-signed

I think I'm ready to say that Elder is my favorite band of all time

How is this what ServiceNow's CEO looks like. Bro you are CEO of an IT SaaS. Your company does ticketing systems. What is wrong with you.

The cause of labor is the cause of the world.

Quest giver in a cozy RPG who asks you to recover five books from the abandoned library across town (you can pet the dog).

One of the more underrated releases from last year. Fierce, noisy little alt-rock EP with lots of angst, excellent writing, and an overall dour, pissed off and melancholy vibe. theorchestrafornow.bandcamp.com/album/plan-76

Co-signed. Also the OST slaps.

What more do you need than a good apple and being a bear?

I think I like the idea of Polyphia (the musical idea) more than the reality. One song? Hell yeah this grooves. Three songs? Uuuuhhhhhh OK I get it.