Elizabeth Sandifer
@eruditorumpress.com
Writer of Last War in Albion, Neoreaction a Basilisk, and TARDIS Eruditorum. Anarcho-occultist. The girl your mother lacked the imagination to warn you about.
My tattoo artist somehow ended up on John Waters’ Christmas card distribution list, and he’s the one card she sends out every year as apparently Waters will cut you off in a heartbeat if you do not send him one.
john waters' 1995 christmas card with steve buscemi as him
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My tattoo artist somehow ended up on John Waters’ Christmas card distribution list, and he’s the one card she sends out every year as apparently Waters will cut you off in a heartbeat if you do not send him one.
The 31st of the month approaches. Perhaps you want to catch up? www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...
Chapter One: The Way Of It (Alan Moore at Image)
Book Four of Last War in Albion will serialize on the 31st of the month.
Previously in The Last War in Albion: With Big Numbers running aground along with the money he'd invested in self-publishing ...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The 31st of the month approaches. Perhaps you want to catch up? www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/chapter...
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My partner found and bought me a 1988 police-car-shaped vinyl picture disc of “Doctorin’ the TARDIS” and that is real love right there 💙💙
December 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My partner found and bought me a 1988 police-car-shaped vinyl picture disc of “Doctorin’ the TARDIS” and that is real love right there 💙💙
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Reading @eruditorumpress.com’s Neoreaction: A Basilisk was genuinely life-changing, and ever since I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the idea that embracing things that terrify and disgust reactionaries — the transformation of self, the leaving-behind-of-honor — is shockingly powerful.
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Reading @eruditorumpress.com’s Neoreaction: A Basilisk was genuinely life-changing, and ever since I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the idea that embracing things that terrify and disgust reactionaries — the transformation of self, the leaving-behind-of-honor — is shockingly powerful.
Got to explain to my mother again about how movies deliver information in a structured and deliberate way in order to produce dramatic effect.
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Got to explain to my mother again about how movies deliver information in a structured and deliberate way in order to produce dramatic effect.
So with Firefox going AI, what’s my best option for a Mac browser that will actually let me run my adblockers (so not Chrome) and will not just randomly freak out on various websites (so not Safari)?
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So with Firefox going AI, what’s my best option for a Mac browser that will actually let me run my adblockers (so not Chrome) and will not just randomly freak out on various websites (so not Safari)?
To state the obvious about this, talking about artists as having a “duty” to perform “for all” is the same underlying ideology that thinks artists are considerably improved when they’re replaced by AI.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
To state the obvious about this, talking about artists as having a “duty” to perform “for all” is the same underlying ideology that thinks artists are considerably improved when they’re replaced by AI.
What the fuck is a “public artist”?
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What the fuck is a “public artist”?
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jfc have you ever met a baby?
December 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
jfc have you ever met a baby?
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Everything from detailed analysis threads and tactical arguments to casual live-blogs to the agenda-edits to slanderposts.
That's when it'll really have something.
That's when it'll really have something.
December 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Everything from detailed analysis threads and tactical arguments to casual live-blogs to the agenda-edits to slanderposts.
That's when it'll really have something.
That's when it'll really have something.
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For this place to have sauce, it needs sports people en-mass.
I'm talking Compmakers, shitposters, live-bloggers.
The biggest continental competition in Africa is taking place atm, and the posting here is still so lacking/pitiful compared to elsewhere.
I'm talking Compmakers, shitposters, live-bloggers.
The biggest continental competition in Africa is taking place atm, and the posting here is still so lacking/pitiful compared to elsewhere.
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
For this place to have sauce, it needs sports people en-mass.
I'm talking Compmakers, shitposters, live-bloggers.
The biggest continental competition in Africa is taking place atm, and the posting here is still so lacking/pitiful compared to elsewhere.
I'm talking Compmakers, shitposters, live-bloggers.
The biggest continental competition in Africa is taking place atm, and the posting here is still so lacking/pitiful compared to elsewhere.
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The Grinch in the studio trying to record a comeback to Thurl Ravenscroft like Drake coming back at Kendrick
December 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Grinch in the studio trying to record a comeback to Thurl Ravenscroft like Drake coming back at Kendrick
Merry Christmas. My Patrons got you something. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/twat-bl...
Twat Blast 5: Fish Fingers and Custard
The Patreon is still lower than it should be to post this, but it's Christmas and I ain't no Grinch. Still, if you enjoy what we do here at Eruditorum Press, please consider backing us on Patreon. Ind...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Merry Christmas. My Patrons got you something. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/twat-bl...
Isn’t Christmas Carol set like two hundred years ago? I’m pretty sure Tiny Tim has in fact died by now.
December 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Isn’t Christmas Carol set like two hundred years ago? I’m pretty sure Tiny Tim has in fact died by now.
It's always a treat when I'm surprised by a new post on my own site, and this new short story by @timescarcass.bsky.social is as lovely a Christmas present as I expect to get this year. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/medusa-...
Medusa - a new original ghost story for Christmas
In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars
Jorge Luis Borges, On Exactitude in Science
Everything is ghost.
Iain S...
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December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It's always a treat when I'm surprised by a new post on my own site, and this new short story by @timescarcass.bsky.social is as lovely a Christmas present as I expect to get this year. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/medusa-...
You know, technically Moffat is the only modern showrunner not to get Doctor Who cancelled.
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
You know, technically Moffat is the only modern showrunner not to get Doctor Who cancelled.
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Oh hey, look… at long last they invented the adolescent piss camera from the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create the Adolescent Piss Camera.
“In one horrifying case, Omnilert’s system misidentified a student’s bag of Doritos, labeling it a handgun. It wasn’t until an armed police squad detained the 16-year old student at gunpoint that they realized the system’s error.”
Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms
Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.
futurism.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Oh hey, look… at long last they invented the adolescent piss camera from the classic sci fi novel Don’t Create the Adolescent Piss Camera.
I’d never seen this before, so figured I should spread the Christmas cheer.
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’d never seen this before, so figured I should spread the Christmas cheer.
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Finally got around to reading this, and I am inclined to agree.
I feel similarly about the tech futurists who think they can fully recreate human consciousness as an immortal computer-self. Consciousness is much more complicated than some 1's and 0's.
I feel similarly about the tech futurists who think they can fully recreate human consciousness as an immortal computer-self. Consciousness is much more complicated than some 1's and 0's.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Finally got around to reading this, and I am inclined to agree.
I feel similarly about the tech futurists who think they can fully recreate human consciousness as an immortal computer-self. Consciousness is much more complicated than some 1's and 0's.
I feel similarly about the tech futurists who think they can fully recreate human consciousness as an immortal computer-self. Consciousness is much more complicated than some 1's and 0's.
Glad to see the antinatalist movement getting more politically organized
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Glad to see the antinatalist movement getting more politically organized
Have decided to believe any and all conspiracy theories that do not ultimately reduce to “the Jews did it.” Which turns out to mean I believe a bunch of objectively true shit about the CIA and that Avril Lavigne has been replaced by a body double.
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Have decided to believe any and all conspiracy theories that do not ultimately reduce to “the Jews did it.” Which turns out to mean I believe a bunch of objectively true shit about the CIA and that Avril Lavigne has been replaced by a body double.
“Do they promise to take his name off all this shit” is coming perilously close to unseating trans issues as my top litmus test for Democratic candidates.
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
“Do they promise to take his name off all this shit” is coming perilously close to unseating trans issues as my top litmus test for Democratic candidates.
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This is what the White House & CBS blocked from US broadcast. It's important (and it's what our track "La Zona Fantasma" is about).
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/ceco...
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/ceco...
cecot-60mins : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
60 minutes segment on cecot
archive.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This is what the White House & CBS blocked from US broadcast. It's important (and it's what our track "La Zona Fantasma" is about).
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/ceco...
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/ceco...
This is slightly more complicated than that, given that several of the keystone examples are of women getting tagged with It. Yes, homophobia is part of the cultural mix here, but there’s more. Suspect a key target is the notion of earnestness.
Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is slightly more complicated than that, given that several of the keystone examples are of women getting tagged with It. Yes, homophobia is part of the cultural mix here, but there’s more. Suspect a key target is the notion of earnestness.