# slipstream (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover slipstream. Page: Feed: --- ## [Memo: Fri Aug 21 2026](https://pickleglitch.com/content/201) _2026-08-21 · (untitled)_ If Banksy was based out of the United States, he would probably be in prison by now. That's how we roll in the Land of the Free. ## [Sea Monster](https://pickleglitch.com/content/200) _2026-08-21 · (untitled)_ Graphite and ink on sketch paper. ## [Dandelion Fluff](https://pickleglitch.com/content/199) _2026-08-21 · (untitled)_ Going through some photos from last year and found this one. I love dandelions. ## [What be a billionaire?](http://localhost:4000/content/195) _2026-08-12 · (untitled)_ An alliterative prose poem ## [What be a billionaire?](https://pickleglitch.com/content/195) _2026-08-12 · (untitled)_ An alliterative prose poem ## [Blessings By The Sea](https://portension.substack.com/p/blessings-by-the-sea) _2026-07-27 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ A lonesome man learns to live with the curse of three women from the witching sea. ## [Memo: Sun Jul 26 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/198) _2026-07-26 · (untitled)_ Have you committed any thought crimes today? If so, be sure to report yourself to the appropriate authorities. ## [Memo: Thu Jul 23 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/197) _2026-07-23 · (untitled)_ Has anyone heard of this new movie called The Odyssey? I’m thinking of seeing it but I can’t find any information about it anywhere. Oh well, it’s probably not playing near me anyway. ## [Memo: Sat Jul 18 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/194) _2026-07-18 · (untitled)_ I talk about national politics, by I also take action at the local level. I mean, super local. Okay, it’s my living room. ## [Unfit to breathe](http://localhost:4000/content/193) _2026-07-18 · (untitled)_ Network will turn 50 years old later this year. I'll be posting my review then, but for now this feels very timely. ## [Snapshot Showdown on Google Play (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1dv0on0cLZcR) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ Available on Google Play for Android devices. ## [Unfit to breathe](https://pickleglitch.com/content/193) _2026-07-18 · (untitled)_ Network will turn 50 years old later this year. I'll be posting my review then, but for now this feels very timely. ## [Memo: Fri Jul 17 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/186) _2026-07-17 · (untitled)_ The sky has a real Highlander 2 vibe right now. ## [Memo: Wed Jul 15 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/184) _2026-07-15 · (untitled)_ Food is sentient, but that's okay because it wants us to eat it. It also has psychic powers, which it uses to make us WANT to eat it, even though we would normally not want to. Junk food has the most powerful psychic powers of all. Ozempic works by disrupting junk food's corrupting psychic power. ## [American Snowflake](http://localhost:4000/content/183) _2026-07-11 · (untitled)_ ## [Memo: Fri Jul 10 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/182) _2026-07-10 · (untitled)_ It is your duty, as an employee, to do the lease amount of work possible for the maximum amount of gain. Is that not one of the guiding principles of capitalism? Do the bare minimum it takes to advance to the position you want, then do the bare minimum it takes to keep that position. Do not give them a penny’s worth of labor more than you have to to get what you want. ## [Memo: Wed Jul 08 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/148) _2026-07-08 · (untitled)_ The US soccer team didn’t actually lose, those were antifa shape shifters, pretending to be the US soccer team. ## [Memo: Sun Jul 05 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/147) _2026-07-05 · (untitled)_ I'm proud to say that if someone put a gun to my head and demanded I name a single Taylor Swift song, I would end up with a bullet in my skull. ## [Memo: Thu Jul 02 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/146) _2026-07-02 · (untitled)_ I remember the first time I really began to understand the true nature of capitalism. I was sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room and, like every doctor’s office I’ve ever been in, they had TVs playing HGTV on a wall-mounted TV. It was one of those house hunter shows, the kind where the husband is a professional mosquito trainer and the wife teaches philately to underprivileged shelter… ## [Now That's What I Call Freedom!](http://localhost:4000/content/142) _2026-07-01 · (untitled)_ What does Freedom even mean? ## [The Manhood Singularity](https://portension.substack.com/p/the-manhood-singularity) _2026-06-28 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ The journey to manhood's event horizon requires making hard choices: some good, some bad. Beyond the singularity lies the outcomes of those choices. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sGET7d1eK6oV) _2026-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Memo: Sat Jun 27 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/143) _2026-06-27 · (untitled)_ Sometimes I have too many thoughts at once and I can’t keep track of them. I think this is why I’m compelled to write. ## [Memo: Mon Jun 15 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/141) _2026-06-15 · (untitled)_ When I'm really depressed, writing is also the only surefire way I've found to escape the downward spiral. That is also the time when I find it most difficult to start writing. I hate my brain sometimes. ## [Memo: Thu Jun 11 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/140) _2026-06-11 · (untitled)_ Any economic system that makes a moron like Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire is fundamentally broken and should be taken out behind the shed and put out of its misery. ## [Memo: Mon Jun 01 2026](http://localhost:4000/content/139) _2026-06-01 · (untitled)_ You know, I'm getting really sick of the linear progression of time. ## [Old Tom](https://portension.substack.com/p/old-tom) _2025-08-26 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ It's been months, and no one can explain the atmospheric phenomenon reshaping our sky, and our lives. (Re-published from The Weather Reports) ## [From The Mountain, I See Slipstream](https://portension.substack.com/p/from-the-mountain-i-see-slipstream) _2025-07-19 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ How Catherine Lacey became my new secret Slipstream crush, and why she will probably deny all my accusations ## [The Nuclear Option](https://portension.substack.com/p/the-nuclear-option) _2025-07-02 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ Or how I learned to love my inbox again ## [Slipstream: When The Writing Gets Weird](https://portension.substack.com/p/slipstream-when-the-writing-gets) _2025-06-12 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ I'm calling myself a slipstream writer these days. But what does that mean? What is this genre? Would I even know it if it jumped up and threw buttered popcorn in my face? ## [Characters as Heightened Concepts](https://portension.substack.com/p/characters-as-heightened-concepts) _2025-05-20 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ An idea explained by George Saunders, and demonstrated by Senaa Ahmad ## [The Retirement of a Victorian Witch](https://portension.substack.com/p/the-retirement-of-a-victorian-witch) _2025-05-12 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ An aging cleaning woman at a public swimming pool clings to her magical way of life amid a high-tech renovation ## [AI QA that opens fix PRs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OQkNOKJVIriM) _2025-05-12 · **Sponsored**_ Run a browser QA from plain-English instructions; get GitHub issues and optional fix PRs. ## [Crash Test](https://portension.substack.com/p/crash-test) _2025-03-13 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ A retired mechanic forms an unlikely bond with Elara, a traumatized rescue car. As they prepare her for a critical self-driving re-certification, Elara plots revenge on her abusive former owner. ## [The Reminder](https://portension.substack.com/p/the-reminder) _2024-12-06 · Jay Oatway · Portension_ A young man goes in search of what it is to be a man, but what he finds is hard to swallow