Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Happy Birthday!

    Today I got a long email from a coworker. He was my project manager for two weeks a few years ago. He's a nice person. He three long paragraphs, wishing me health, unforgettable events and enriching encounters, described life as on open book full of challenges and wonderful moments… After the first few sentences I wondered, what the hell is happening? It ended with more wishes for a happy birthday and happy Easter. But that was last week.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ULNOSTG Wordo: REEKY

  • Burnt Diary

    I sit at my Underwood
    I even turn off my phone
    I don't want anyone to see
    I don't want anyone to hear
    
    
    Why use my old UnderWood?
    Can't I write by hand?
    
    
    She knows me the best
    She has been around
    my whole life
    From my youth,
    through my drug and sex
    fueld theatre years
    Still to this day
    She can be trusted
    
    
    I write
    a full legal page
    I write and read
    It's beautiful
    I want to keep it
    
    
    I want to re-read it
    one day, I want to
    make it into a novel
    But I can't
    not now
    

  • The Good Work of Academia in Esotericism

    It boggles me how so many people don't realize that so much of what we get into as occultists is only possible due to the work of academics and researchers, not just for source material availability but the very models that underlie all the hot takes of folks who bias themselves against "academia". Sure, academics *don't* have all the answers, nor do they operate with the same purpose or goals as people engaged in these traditions and systems; it's the etic/emic divide in another way. At the same time, knowing *about* a thing helps us to *know* the thing itself more, and vice versa!

  • Maren Urner — The Neuroscience of Good Journalism

    It's joy talking to all these initiatives who are working on solutions. talking to people who don't wanna play along, who don't wanna behave according to the incentives that other people decided are best for them, even though they know they aren't.