Alley Wurds
@alleywurds.bsky.social
Author of GPT-3 Techgnosis and the Butoh Technomancy series. Chaos magick, ecstatic dance, video art, experimental music, conlangs, ttrpgs, AI arts as "conceptual art." Don't be a fascist.
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Alley Wurds
@alleywurds.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Hey! I write grimoires which include:
-Hypnotic second person rituals
-Ecstatic dance
-High magick
-AI/ML
-Longform video rituals
-An open source grammar for the creation of magickal languages
-It's also a music and dance language
-Hypersigil rituals
-Hypersigil formats
-TTRPGs
-8d chess
-Hypnotic second person rituals
-Ecstatic dance
-High magick
-AI/ML
-Longform video rituals
-An open source grammar for the creation of magickal languages
-It's also a music and dance language
-Hypersigil rituals
-Hypersigil formats
-TTRPGs
-8d chess
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Now that this is back home I should probably share the announcement post again. There's a big preview in there.
wethehallowed.org/the-impossib...
wethehallowed.org/the-impossib...
The Impossible Game By Eric J. Millar - An Oracular Game
From Eric J. Millar, the creator of the infernal device known as The Disruption Generator, comes another book of oracular experimentation: THE IMPOSSIBLE GAME - An Oracular, Cleromantic Game
wethehallowed.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Now that this is back home I should probably share the announcement post again. There's a big preview in there.
wethehallowed.org/the-impossib...
wethehallowed.org/the-impossib...
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Since I'm always invoking it to defend the creative use of AI, decided to brush up on my knowledge of conceptual art / writing. I am reading Craig Dworkin's introduction to the anthology Against Expression and it has lots of great bits like this
August 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Since I'm always invoking it to defend the creative use of AI, decided to brush up on my knowledge of conceptual art / writing. I am reading Craig Dworkin's introduction to the anthology Against Expression and it has lots of great bits like this
This hour long animation is phenomenal. A lot of it follows the amduat: youtu.be/QuaXXhuZdVk?...
RA; the Path of the Sun God
YouTube video by Ra; the Path of the Sun God
youtu.be
August 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This hour long animation is phenomenal. A lot of it follows the amduat: youtu.be/QuaXXhuZdVk?...
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My next Chaotopia Newsletter will go out in the next few days. Book launch with loads of other stuff happening, interview, book reviews, and assorted weirdness both bright and dark. Just like real life.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
My next Chaotopia Newsletter will go out in the next few days. Book launch with loads of other stuff happening, interview, book reviews, and assorted weirdness both bright and dark. Just like real life.
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It's Bandcamp Friday again and I'm going to highlight some stuff I've really enjoyed from the platform. Fuck Spotify and it's CEO's funding of military AI systems. Buy some music directly from some artists.
THREAD
THREAD
August 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's Bandcamp Friday again and I'm going to highlight some stuff I've really enjoyed from the platform. Fuck Spotify and it's CEO's funding of military AI systems. Buy some music directly from some artists.
THREAD
THREAD
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One day I would like for human society to progress to a point that it wouldn't be profoundly embarrassing to explain how it works to an advanced alien species.
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
One day I would like for human society to progress to a point that it wouldn't be profoundly embarrassing to explain how it works to an advanced alien species.
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What’s Happening to Reading? | The New Yorker
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
July 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What’s Happening to Reading? | The New Yorker
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Honored that Posthuman Cinema—my collaboration with
Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder—is included in the NON/PHENOMENALITIES show in Berkeley.
posthumancinema.com
Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder—is included in the NON/PHENOMENALITIES show in Berkeley.
posthumancinema.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Honored that Posthuman Cinema—my collaboration with
Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder—is included in the NON/PHENOMENALITIES show in Berkeley.
posthumancinema.com
Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder—is included in the NON/PHENOMENALITIES show in Berkeley.
posthumancinema.com
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Since I'll be making more posts about #technomancy, I decided to create a feed to make it easier for people interested in following. Also!! Use the feed to share your own experiences with tech magic! I want to hear what people are up to!
#witchsky #witchmadness #witchtips #witchystuff
#witchsky #witchmadness #witchtips #witchystuff
July 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Since I'll be making more posts about #technomancy, I decided to create a feed to make it easier for people interested in following. Also!! Use the feed to share your own experiences with tech magic! I want to hear what people are up to!
#witchsky #witchmadness #witchtips #witchystuff
#witchsky #witchmadness #witchtips #witchystuff
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How about instead of writing them off wholesale we look for ways to leverage this affect towards more preferable outcomes
everything I read about AI tells me that regardless of how it develops I need to avoid using it in order to preserve my ability to think independently
Humans Are Starting to Talk More Like ChatGPT, Study Claims https://gizmodo.com/humans-are-starting-to-talk-more-like-chatgpt-study-claims-2000628916
July 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How about instead of writing them off wholesale we look for ways to leverage this affect towards more preferable outcomes
My latest grimoire is now available for free: alleywurds.itch.io/fractal-serv...
A ritual-drenched, style-mutated guidebook on magick in fractal time, drawing from Derridean, Deleuzean, and Vajrayāna logic.
#chaosky #occultsky #magick #grimoire #witchsky
A ritual-drenched, style-mutated guidebook on magick in fractal time, drawing from Derridean, Deleuzean, and Vajrayāna logic.
#chaosky #occultsky #magick #grimoire #witchsky
Fractal Servitor Rituals: An Advanced Beginner's Guide by Alley Wurds
A hyperstitious hypersigil hyperfiction on the creation and use of fractal servitors.
alleywurds.itch.io
July 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My latest grimoire is now available for free: alleywurds.itch.io/fractal-serv...
A ritual-drenched, style-mutated guidebook on magick in fractal time, drawing from Derridean, Deleuzean, and Vajrayāna logic.
#chaosky #occultsky #magick #grimoire #witchsky
A ritual-drenched, style-mutated guidebook on magick in fractal time, drawing from Derridean, Deleuzean, and Vajrayāna logic.
#chaosky #occultsky #magick #grimoire #witchsky
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New episode is live!
Yara and Pythia discuss the history and religious practices of the Sámi people of the Sápmi region of Europe along with today's cultural developments. Learn about farming your own clay for handcrafted pottery and detail about plants in the Angelica genus.
#chaosky
Yara and Pythia discuss the history and religious practices of the Sámi people of the Sápmi region of Europe along with today's cultural developments. Learn about farming your own clay for handcrafted pottery and detail about plants in the Angelica genus.
#chaosky
Episode 11 - Yoikin' Your Chain
YouTube video by Administrism
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July 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New episode is live!
Yara and Pythia discuss the history and religious practices of the Sámi people of the Sápmi region of Europe along with today's cultural developments. Learn about farming your own clay for handcrafted pottery and detail about plants in the Angelica genus.
#chaosky
Yara and Pythia discuss the history and religious practices of the Sámi people of the Sápmi region of Europe along with today's cultural developments. Learn about farming your own clay for handcrafted pottery and detail about plants in the Angelica genus.
#chaosky
Brett Carson and I chat about their experimental operas with occult themes. We also talk a lot about surrealism, gnosticism, and unusual musical meter.
youtu.be/V1GcULA_dFc
#gnostic #opera #experimentalmusic #avantgarde
youtu.be/V1GcULA_dFc
#gnostic #opera #experimentalmusic #avantgarde
Brett Carson, Experimental Gnostic Opera, Last Unrifled Yaw 30
YouTube video by Alley Wurds
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Brett Carson and I chat about their experimental operas with occult themes. We also talk a lot about surrealism, gnosticism, and unusual musical meter.
youtu.be/V1GcULA_dFc
#gnostic #opera #experimentalmusic #avantgarde
youtu.be/V1GcULA_dFc
#gnostic #opera #experimentalmusic #avantgarde
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big news for enjoyers of my demon conlang.... the long-promised second writing system just dropped! this is the same phrase written three different ways :)
🐲 read about scratch: evegwood.com/languages/lo...
🐲 read about scratch: evegwood.com/languages/lo...
April 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
big news for enjoyers of my demon conlang.... the long-promised second writing system just dropped! this is the same phrase written three different ways :)
🐲 read about scratch: evegwood.com/languages/lo...
🐲 read about scratch: evegwood.com/languages/lo...
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Every year on Trans Day of Visibility I post something like "visibility without protection is a trap" and that's been made so clear recently. Legacy Dems who celebrated pride month and TDOV, have been so quick to turn to "well actually maybe we should sacrifice trans folks to the political altar."
March 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Every year on Trans Day of Visibility I post something like "visibility without protection is a trap" and that's been made so clear recently. Legacy Dems who celebrated pride month and TDOV, have been so quick to turn to "well actually maybe we should sacrifice trans folks to the political altar."
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Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of #Additivism!!
Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.
Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.
March 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of #Additivism!!
Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.
Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.
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Rivulet is a language that prioritizes flow. Its script was influenced by mazes, space-filling algorithms, Anni Albers' Meander series, calligraphy-friendly conlangs and natlangs
This program calculates the first set of Fibonacci numbers, stopping at 21.
It can be found at github.com/rottytoot...
This program calculates the first set of Fibonacci numbers, stopping at 21.
It can be found at github.com/rottytoot...
March 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Rivulet is a language that prioritizes flow. Its script was influenced by mazes, space-filling algorithms, Anni Albers' Meander series, calligraphy-friendly conlangs and natlangs
This program calculates the first set of Fibonacci numbers, stopping at 21.
It can be found at github.com/rottytoot...
This program calculates the first set of Fibonacci numbers, stopping at 21.
It can be found at github.com/rottytoot...
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the best interface for language has always been the emptiness
March 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
the best interface for language has always been the emptiness
Releasing a new grimoire in the coming months. Don't hesitate to dm me if you'd like a preview!
#occultsky #chaosky #technopagan #grimoire
#occultsky #chaosky #technopagan #grimoire
March 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Releasing a new grimoire in the coming months. Don't hesitate to dm me if you'd like a preview!
#occultsky #chaosky #technopagan #grimoire
#occultsky #chaosky #technopagan #grimoire
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Ever heard of this one fascinating and nuanced divination system, the "Telescope of Zoroaster", from a 1796 French text attributed to the erotica author and espionage agent André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat?
I put out a translation of it for purchase a few years back:
digitalambler.com/2022/04/20/n...
I put out a translation of it for purchase a few years back:
digitalambler.com/2022/04/20/n...
New ebook for sale: The Telescope of Zoroaster!
On the one hand, I should probably apologize to all my followers on Twitter for being subjected to a constant barrage of tweet threads about this topic for several weeks now. On the other hand, I …
digitalambler.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ever heard of this one fascinating and nuanced divination system, the "Telescope of Zoroaster", from a 1796 French text attributed to the erotica author and espionage agent André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat?
I put out a translation of it for purchase a few years back:
digitalambler.com/2022/04/20/n...
I put out a translation of it for purchase a few years back:
digitalambler.com/2022/04/20/n...
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Researchers Discover the First Royal Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh in Over a Century https://mymodernmet.... #Archeology #ancientegypt
March 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Researchers Discover the First Royal Tomb of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh in Over a Century https://mymodernmet.... #Archeology #ancientegypt
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city model from 'Metropolis' (1927) preserved at the Deutsche Kinemathek museum📽️
January 2, 2024 at 4:05 PM
city model from 'Metropolis' (1927) preserved at the Deutsche Kinemathek museum📽️