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I have a meeting coming up on using AI as a tool within the editorial department - and I'm trying to think of a professional way of communicating my perspective on AI. Would it be work-appropriate language to describe it as "a pestilence"?

Happy May Day.

Beltline is an ancient festival celebrated on May 1 that marks the beginning of summer, fertility, and the peak of spring. Happy Beltline! beltline.org/visit

I think it's very funny how Atlanta has an English theme pub that unintentionally looks exactly like a flat-roofed red brick murder pub on an estate.

Trying to convince people on Threads that the reason why the Romans left England is because they dug too deep into the mines and discovered something terrible buried deep below the land and then fled having awoken the ancient blight...

Dan speaking on Wilhelm Reich youtu.be/DiJJsn_GThw?...

Iron Fist was always the weakest of the Netflx shows. Danny Rand, Rand Paul, Ayn Rand. The Rand family are some of the worst characters in Marvel.

didn't know Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth lives in Stokey now - here discussing the Jolly Butchers and Nandos.

The RFK Jr story about him cutting off a roadkill raccoon penis doesn't exist independently of the folklore around the raccoon penis as a charm for virility and against impotence though, right?

I walked past one of the city guards in Atlanta earlier and they said: "Heard they're reforming the Illuminates of Thanateros - chaos magicians or something - in the old abandoned church near Stoke Newington. Might consider joining up myself."

The Vesper is a spin on the martini created by Ian Fleming in 1953 in the novel Casino Royale when James Bond creates the drink inspired by Vesper Lynd. 3oz gin, 1oz vodka, 1/2oz Lillet Blanc. Shaken not stirred. Twist of lemon. On the turntable is Best Dressed Chicken in Town by Dr Aliminatado.

Next time I'm in an occult argument I'll have to remember to ask "what is your perspective on the work of the Builders of the Addytum (BOTA)?"

Great article on mail order magic of the early 20th century. I think David Tomlinson's character in Bedknobs and Broomsticks is based on this sort of thing. There a Builders of the Addytum (BOTA) / deez nuts joke to be made but I'm too tired to think of it. publicdomainreview.org/essay/magic-...

I always imagine the "manosphere" as being like a chaosphere but with Andrew Tate's bald head in the middle of it or something.

Lovely playlist of tunes on the Peckings label www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It's very easy to imagine "Move Any Mountain" as the 2.0 version of New Labour's "Things Can Only Get Better" where the implied "mountain" is the willingness of the British public to vote for fascism.

I discovered this week that Mr C from The Shamen is now running as the Green Party candidate for Islington - and I have become quite invested in this nascent political career. The timeline where Mr C from The Shamen becomes future prime minister makes as much sense as anything at the moment.

Cape-mogging, thrall mogging, castle-mogging, transformation-into-a-cloud-of-bats-maxxing.

Clavicula Has Risen From the Grave. Blood of Clavicula's Castle. Taste the Blood of Clavicula. Countess Clavicula. Clavicula A.D. 1972. The Satanic Rites of Clavicula. Scream, Clavicula, Scream! Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Clavicular.

If I can just complete this ray gun that will retroactively erase the entire concept of video content on the internet from existence altogether then I think we'll all be fine.

I don't normally experience "fear of missing out" but I definitely feel something on that spectrum in relation to how Thatcher died just two weeks after I emigrated from the country. I would have liked to have been there for that.

Probably a safe bet that one of the Artemis crew has by now contracted some weird space infection that they are hiding from the other astronauts.

We must not become less of ourselves in the face of annihilation. We must hold to who we are, hold tight to our joys. i came into this world dead, grey and silent. I shall go out of strange, full of love and wondrous curiosity. I shall go a fully-grown changeling with a kiss of intent on my lips.

My current turn towards writing fiction is very inspired by the narratives of magic and the English occult imagination that have been shaped over the past couple of decades by the writing of Neil Gaiman and J.K. Rowling - and what a horrible fucking shitshow that is.

Any sufficiently advanced tech bro bullshit is indistinguishable from occult bro bullshit

Alan Moore knows the score 🎵 “Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch.”

I made a youtube playlist of doo wop 45s a few months back - and a lot of the best tracks had been posted by one record collector account. Went to listen to it again, and that account is now deleted & all those tracks no longer there. I also saw a LOT of awful AI doo wop slop clogging the space. 1/

'Shockingly contemporary, yet vibrating with an ancient political significance that interrogates the future of the Democratic Republic of the Congo—the sound of a society’s refuse being hammered into something transcendent' Kinshasa in Action by KinAct is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/eR1Vrqu

Not to be missed if you're in London

This is such a beautiful record. If you haven't heard this LP - and you only know Jimmy Scott from his Twin Peaks appearance - this is the best record you haven't heard that you will hear today. youtu.be/LyrwUrZomb8?...

New reaction meme for when someone is posting engagement bait on occultism but refuses to provide any sources to support their statements.

Kristy Noem being reassigned to the "Shield of the Americas" makes it sound like she's being entered into some experimental super-soldier program.

If I were an American traditional witchcraft author my pen-name would be Markwayne Mullein.

Corpse Reviver #2 from the Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). Equal parts Gin, Lillet Blanc, orange liqueur and fresh lemon juice, shaken and strained into an absinthe-washed glass. On the turntable is Orchestra Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - The Vodoun Effect - Funk & Sato from Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-1975

Abney Park Cemetery Spirits

It's a spin on the whiskey sour made with 3 oz Bulleit 95 Rye, 1.5oz lemon juice, 1/2 oz maple syrup, 1/4 oz Maraschino liqueur, 1 dash of Angostura bitters and 1 Maraschino cherry. I could give it some craft cocktail name, such as the "Rye Aye Man" or something, but I'm just going to drink it.

It's amazing to me that there is a Green Party in this country, but it's still evil.

Thinking about my friend whose birthday it is today who died - and how they might not have died if it wasn't for 14 years of Tories making it harder for them to exist across multiple vectors of their existence - and all the bastards that repeatedly voted for that. I'll never not be angry about it.

Coining the term "The Gammonosphere" for the complex of seething, festering English dead that compels their descendants to steal out in the night to paint roundabouts and shout at hotels.

two of my quotes from this paper

I'm interviewed in this academic paper going on about Hellblazer and media representations of working class occultists.

Alternate reality Mandalorian, but Mando is Peter Mandelson and he doesn't have a change of heart and rescue baby yoda but just continues trafficking other baby yodas to the Empire for multiple seasons while enriching himself.

The Hung Gar Kung Fu system that we learn some of alongside Karate has got an attack to the balls in it that translates as "Stealing the Wild Peach".

There was this creepy little shop when I lived in South London - and I can't even remember what they sold or why I started doing this - I suppose I had my reasons - but I got several packets of these 99p dog stickers and stuck one on the door of the shop. 1/

Making friends on Threads again