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No honest game is entirely lacking in the capacity to instruct. -Cusanus. I host Esoteric Beat and created PKD Tarot.
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Turns out the 9 yard bin wasn't nearly enough for clearing out mom's sheds. Got one shed done!

Had a dream in which I was finding marbles on the ground.

DEGENS: Everyone is trying to play the crypto casino as means to an end but the means always becomes the end & is a life of losing hours watching a lonely screen & moving supposed value from 1 token to the next in the hope that 1 day you’ll get into 1 early enough to escape this maze of torment

Dan Harms is always a must-read reviewer of these exciting (but uh somewhat overhyped) publications. medium.com/@danharms_29...

RIP Tom Robbins. "Who knows how to make love stay?" www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Came across the littlest snowman on our walk today (my littlest dog for scale).

Neighborhood coming through with the snowmen.

So long to these band t-shirts (also the REM from the 95 tour) was surprised somebody wanted em in such poor condition.

Bless John in the Morning on @kexp.bsky.social for reconnecting me with this band. youtu.be/CETTzv3fTG0?...

#SeattleSnow

Thank you Chappell Roan for speaking up for all musicians - music workers, join @umaw.bsky.social in demanding passage of the Living Wage for Musicians Act to make streaming pay musicians directly and fairly. We deserve it!!

I know productions of King Lear are gonna go crazy

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

What I need is a good defense

Reminder: if you're in the U.S. & have a library card, you can create a FREE acct on Kanopy & watch a zillion awesome movies, incl many on Shudder/other $ platforms. The Nest, Sleepaway Camp, The Church, Talk To Me, Oldboy, Blair Witch, Possession, Lost Hwy, Infinity Pool, Lake Michigan Monster...

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

ICYMI @secret-terror.bsky.social

I helped write the Biden-Harris AI executive order – the one that President Trump has repealed. The EO was a first step, but it was the most comprehensive policy governing AI in the US. Like others, I've been sounding the alarm about the dangers of this exact moment. A short 🧵 on what this means:

Polaris 2024 papers are out! This whole crop looks fascinating, but right now I’m really enjoying “Notes From the Boundaries of Interactive Storytelling”. Not done yet but it’s already resonating with my own work and offering further inspiration. (& yes, we also use “storylets” as a term internally)

More Sonona State University coverage from @pressdemo.bsky.social www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-state-rohnert-park-california-university-cuts/?ref=home-A1top

Very sorry to hear of the passing of @fraterfdisk.bsky.social may his memory be a blessing.

More new music from The Jesus Lizard! sun-13.com/2025/01/22/t...

bean tyme

GF prompted me to remind my elderly mom (who struggles with technology) not to plug a space heater into an extension cord. Turns out she had one plugged into a surge protector in her bedroom. I then remembered seeing a burn mark on one last visit. Go ye and do likewise, elder tech support comrades.

Super stoked on this interview which should be of interest to fans of PKD and UFO studies, bibliographical and computational research methods.

Zines on the web! Archive org has a load of scans of influential UK Fortean/UFO/paranormal zine Magonia! archive.org/search?query...

I am hoping to sell a ticket to Michael Shannon playing REM on Feb 23 at the Neptune. Double booked with mom's birthday visit.

Very rare 2025 W

New best vampire design

Saw an interesting post here in my feed, but I didn't have time to read it right away and thought "well I'm never going to find THAT again, am I?" And then I remembered, and it brought a little tear to my eye: chronological posts. It's the little things. 🥲

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

"An extreme left-wing Cambridge sociology don who went to Australia to research the biker gang phenomenon only to be transformed into the very object of his research." Goals tbh.

Made Day Two of the Arena Open despite losing a game to a finger twitch. #PioneerMasters

Here's my interview with @secret-terror.bsky.social on the difficulties of situation Philip K. Dick's interest in Gnosticism, the Zebrapedia project crowdsourcing a transcription of PKD's Exegesis, and his new book The Saucerian on the UFO zine publisher who coined the term MiB youtu.be/x5pRwIgXbRg

@shirachess.bsky.social has announced the completion of her new book and it's fantastic! It's "The Unseen Internet: Conjuring the Occult in Digital Discourse" (MIT Press, 2026) and it's extremely fantastic. Here's the TOC

Got to see an underground Mithras temple today. Things are good.

There's a very unfashionable book about the nightmarish side-effects of a massive imperial-colonial project systematically destroying an entire society. But Mister Kurtz...he's dead.

It’s pretty much all mismanagement. Adopting new tech prematurely? Mismanagement. Changing creative direction in production? Mismanagement. Iterating on content 3+ times? Mismanagement. Adding major features in production? Mismanagement. Poor planning, failure to follow plans - all mismanagement.

I love posting because I can put some thought or feeling out there and have people say they feel the same way. There’s a class of information where you’re okay with talking about it but don’t want to talk about with the people around you

Why do people get so excited when The Onion lobs these softballs? This almost diminishes how scary these Facebook changes to hate speech controls are.