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I kinda expected my relationship to the seasons to change when we moved to New England but I did not expect to fall so deeply in love with Spring here that I miss it at any moment when it's not Spring

Hola hola 🥹

One thing you need to know about me is that there's a 75% chance that at any given moment Iron Maiden's The Trooper is playing in my head

Gaze upon 90's m john harrison and be soothed

Whispering this under my breath as I eat a Midnight Pickle

You have an obligation to keep fighting for a better world. Not to Marx or to Danton or to Dr. King. Your obligation is to the sans-culotte who died on the Field of Mars. To the peasant in Swabia. To the worker in the swamps of Cuba. To a black woman in Alabama.

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Finished Web of Angels. What a fucking book. Up there in awkward but raw and super intense passion with Creatures of Light and Darkness, The Demolished Man and Rocannon's World. A blazing, confusing, moving debut. Singular.

@pyramidmaster.bsky.social we have to do something about this

I think the payphone is one of the first things in the game that really broke me (the first being The Smallest Church in Saint-Saëns of course)

Starting to work on something. A guide to the weird space opera. Here's an initial list: The Rediscovery of Man The Centauri Device Light Web of Angels Tau Zero Hyperion The Stars My Destination Radiance What am I missing?

Let's be honest, we're all already pretty radical so I am proposing "Let This Radicalize Your Mom" instead

Nobilis

You are massively messing up if you're not listening to this shit. Absolutely killer mix of prog stoner and death metal. And those track names! Do it. trudger.bandcamp.com/track/occupi...

It's relatively easy to understand that the Way is infinite. It's harder to then realize, and accept, that this means that we are all moving along it at essentially the same pace.

Reposting this at a more normal hour. I'm very easy to work with, I just need someone to centralize and push this project for me over the finish line (seriously, it's like 90% done) because I can't get to it.

Person at work asks my advice: "how can I get out of an oppositional dynamic with management?". I ask for an example. They show me a dash they built that starts with "I disproved their numbers". OK, did you consider not making that the purpose of the dash? "No, they need to know they are wrong"

Does anyone want to help me make Heavy Blog posters happen? I have the art and all, I just need someone to help me email a bunch of people, figure out production stuff, get files, contact a printer, etc and help me get it out there. I'll pay you for your time of course.

I am really, deeply tired of everything having a million versions. It's not just films - I'm seeing TTRPGs that came out less than a decade ago seeing their THIRD """definitive""" edition. Boardgames re-releasing Kickstarter tiers as new editions. Albums getting remastered two years after release.

Weapons was good! As always, I wish there would be less explanations and less "logic" but the cinematography is outstanding and so is the sound design and the funny parts were genuinely funny. All the actors did well, especially the kid who plays Alex.

They cast a debuff on a grape

Life's tough but at any point in time, you could be listening to Wishbone Ash - Argus and I think that's a beautiful thing

Nolita, night of my knife, fire of my noins

Periodic reminder that my DMs are always open. If I can help you, reach out. What can I do? I can code, and I can send you a bit of money, and we can just talk and figure out how to make something you wrote better and a million more things. So if you need anything, literally just message me.

We'll know more in the coming days. the totality of human knowledge is ever increasing

I am listening to heavy metal

This all reminds me of how they did 40K to Helldivers by pretending to not get the satire (and yeah, sometimes genuinely not getting it).

Around the four minutes mark is the most I've wanted to tear the flesh out of someone's face with my teeth in a long time. Black metal which makes you rabid. negativewingspan.bandcamp.com/track/force-...

Last night I got my rank in karate. Except my teacher decided to skip me a rank so now I am 2nd kyu (brown belt). I never dared aspire to black belt so this is the rank I've always wanted. Now it means I can focus on perfecting a kata and teaching, and over a few years, plan for black.

in the group chat after the fall of Gondolin

me: man, I've been singing loudly for days now and my throat is sour, I should cool it, I'm not a pro and I could really injure myself *this song comes on* me: MMMMYYYY AAAAAAANNNNNGGGGGEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLL www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jut3...

*david mitchell voice* imo we're good on lead....guys? guys we're...I think we're good on the lead over here! You can...you can stop pouring the lea...oh for fuck's sake guys, I said we're good on lead! WE'RE GOOD!

I think y'all should read Jack Womack's Senseless Acts of Random Violence btw

Roumd

boy those years of lead sure are uuuuuhhhhh full of lead huh?

For Whom the Bell Tolls and The End of Eternity are the same genre

Crushed my karate test last night (by teaching a full class on distance, timing, and aggression), solved a code problem by learning something new this morning, gym later tonight WWWWWWW

My metal hot take is that if you are able to but don't pay trans/queer artists, then you are not really supporting them. Support is material.

Felt like doing a little fan cover

me in the downtown area of any city on earth: but despite all of our differences, are we not all siblings and friends? me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote

me: turns 16 my brain: IcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmoreIIcouldbedoingmoreIcouldbedoingmore

I tend to undermine because I'm self-deprecating like that but the ability I've built to talk with developers, salespeople, support, marketing, product, etc is actually really impressive. The ability to translate these groups to each other is even more impressive and is the bedrock of my career.

Great review which really pissed me off at times (complimentary)

My friends are smart :)

Say what you want about bluesky but man I'm not used to services actually adding features I want. Them adding saved posts is really cool.

I don't think I've ever heard a perfect album but there are days when this is my favorite album of all time. Moving, expansive, ambitious, heartfelt progressive metal. Worth every minute of its long-ass runtime. Listen to the first two tracks to get it. arcaneaustralia.bandcamp.com/album/known-...

Man this sucks. Amazing talent gone too soon. www.brooklynvegan.com/original-bar...

The problem with reading John M. Ford is that for weeks after and during my reading, I can be heard muttering "holy fuck how is he so good" at random points of the day. Why is Web of Angels so good???

Sometimes you just wake up in the morning and press play on grindcore