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Surfing the Web: Cheating Hubs, Cheating Authorities
Or: How come this isn’t fun anymore
🐀 23 May 2026 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Lessons I've learned from soup
Cooking at home is a skill of cooking well–making something delicious, impressive, and deriving joy from the process of cooking–without needing to spend, plan, or care that much. It’s a delight to master a complicated recipe with specialty ingredients. But it is equally a delight to make a meal with the things you have in front of you with little effort. It’s easy to find…
🐀 05 Apr 2026 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 11 Jan 2026 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 10 Jan 2026 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 04 Dec 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Albums of 2025
god, it’s true isn’t It? i’m jealous of people’s yearly Music Wrapped or Album Rewind or Song W-2. other people seem to have fun sharing them, while I just stand in the corner, muttering something about sp—fy Payola. what was that, my cohorts Ask. oh nothing, I say, pulling up my bndcmp to review in private, Self-soothe. what about you, they ask, what music did you…
What Gender Is Neotoma's?
Help I am lost in the Tiantai sauce
🐀 05 Nov 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Digital Mulch
To steal Christtt’s coined term , Digital mulch is a style of music and graphic design that uses corrupted and low-quality digital records as material for an over-stimulating collages. Digital mulch is what you get when you take the files left rotting in a broken hard drive and scramble them into a compost lively enough to radiate heat. Samples are often so dissonant the only thing in common…
🐀 12 Oct 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Now - 2025-09-20
Coffee at this coffee house is $5 with refills. If you bring your bicycle it’s half off. Bring your own mug and they punch an extra hole on your loyalty card. If I find one more deal it’ll be free. Another deal and they’ll start paying me to drink coffee here. The holy grail is the fifth deal, where I can quit my job and live on discounts alone. In the meantime, I’ll write…
Oh, Seabird!
No hatred lasts forever
🐀 24 Aug 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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I am Excited for Spritely Goblins
Rambling about experimental web protocols
🐀 02 Aug 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Free Games
Games. Since the dawn of time humankind has loved the games. But it wasn’t until 1996 and the Nintendo 64 was discovered when games got good. In response to new game technology, however, game makers invented money. Companies like Nintendo monopolized the world’s limited supply of Nintendo 64s and forced the world to adopt their evil invention. Now gaming is less about combos and high…
🐀 26 Jun 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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MacIntyre and De Cruz
A few thoughts on what I appreciate and owe to Alasdair MacIntyre and Helen De Cruz
🐀 12 Apr 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Ambiguity and Mathematical Impossibility
In Being and Ambiguity , Ziporyn centers the ontology of Omnicentrism around coherence . To paraphrase, anything entertainable, believable, presentable, or representable is a coherence. Mind-independent matter are coherences, in the sense that your sensations cohere to present something distinct from other things in your field of view. Thoughts, emotions, and attitudes are also coherences. An…
🐀 06 Apr 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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This Spring Is Going to Rule
If you are a novice wizard, you probably sound like this: “Please please please teach me the orb of imprisonment, sir. My brother annoyed me today and I see no problem with trapping him in the greatest jail spell discovered”. You are ridiculous. You can leave. What bothers me about novice wizards is I see too much of myself in them: magic to them is just an instrument of control, like…
🐀 28 Feb 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Love and Teaching
Interpreting the Symposium as a story about loving one’s teachers
🐀 09 Feb 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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What politics are Neotoma's?
Given, you know, the whole thing going on, I don’t want an online presence without some political stance. Does this do much? Probably not, but it gives me a bit of solace to write, and a little comfort to have on display. The value of commodities is extracted from the labor of workers. All workers must exchange their labor to survive. That is our class character. Oppression of a single…
🐀 25 Jan 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 05 Jan 2025 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Rethinking Calendars
Or, Overthinking how invitations work
Jigsaw Game Announcement
This blog has a game now
🐀 04 Nov 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Poem - Where My Hands Hurt
When my hand hurts does our hand hurt? When you release the caged bird, Are we then gentler for the task? If I wash dishes and you read, Are we the reader and the washer? Praise be the bind of the weft to the warp. You must. Or else this world are lines In parallel, whose kernel grows And grows and no casting can stop The great ET SIC IN INFINITUM
Hush House Catalog
The Hush House is the library in the occult game Book of Hours . The game involves collecting cryptic signs and symbols that, when read in just the right way, take on the powers they represent. This is my list of things that capture the spirit of that game. Indirect, portentous, epiphanic, dangerous. Riddley Walker is in part a story about inheriting fractured, competing traditions of knowledge…
The Horror!
The season is upon us fellow ghouls! Through October I’ll be updating the blog with EXTRA SPOOKY links and EXTRA SPOOKY blogposts! A haunting most foul! Most 21st century. Today starts with a movie watch list! What frights might tomorrow hold? Music? Music videos , mayhap? I shudder to think… Movies 2024 Watch List If you can believe it, it’s a scary time once again! A penpal…
🐀 04 Sep 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 17 Aug 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 27 Jul 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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On Descendants
Seeing non-human animals as the inheritors of our legacy
Poem - Viscera
As rats in tunnels knot their tails And gasses build in beachéd whales As hair breaks down in gurgling drains And thickened blood blockades the brain As mother centipede curls meat Of soft larvae within her feet And grease from piglets film the pot The stress inside my belly clots
Making a Blog from Scratch
Steps you can take to start your blog (for free!)
Wiki Drama
Sometimes if you’re lucky a Wikipedia page will have weird drama hidden in its revision or talk page. Co-editing can get heated and petty pretty quickly and most people forget all their edits are a publicly version controlled. If I like a page enough to add it as a bookmark, it’s usually worth poking around to find a flame war or some weirdo who added crank at the end of an article. I…
🐀 17 Jul 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Notes on Software Estimation without Guessing by George Dinwiddie
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my estimates
🐀 29 Jun 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 18 May 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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🐀 01 May 2024 - Ten New Bookmarks
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Introductory Resources for Daoism
Roundabout ways to learn how to be carefree