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Cosmic Chambo
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perhaps it was because of this major goof which TBH would kinda ruin the novel for me
Screenshot from an Aliens vs Predator wiki https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Predator:_South_China_Sea that reads: Goofs When surveying the weapons the Predator has left for the survivors after torching the depot, Gustat considers how they all accept standard NATO ammunition. However, among the weapons are MG131 machine guns, which are chambered for 13×64mmB ammunition, which is not a NATO standard cartridge.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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how is it possible that Jeff VanderMeer's out of print Predator novel was never published in the UK and then excluded from the 672-page COMPLETE PREDATOR OMNIBUS published in 2018
Screenshot from an Aliens vs Predator wiki https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Predator:_South_China_Sea that reads: Trivia Predator: South China Sea is one of several Aliens/Predator/Alien vs. Predator novels that were never officially published in the United Kingdom. Predator: South China Sea is among the few Predator novels that Titan Books never republished in their Complete Omnibus series.
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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More fun to read a Grimes fan puking over her dark and incredibly stupid transformation rather than arriving at the conclusion that the album she made shortly before initiating her "tragic entanglement" with Musk is still "wall-to-wall bangers." Wow.

Tragic? She knows Musk, this is what she wanted.
Screenshot from the conclusiong of a Stereogum article celebrating Grimes Art Angels album that reads: "Digging deep into this album these past few days has almost been enough to obscure my memory of the past decade, which Grimes spent gradually leaking creative vitality and burning through the goodwill she'd earned with her ascent to alt-pop stardom. Long before her tragic entanglement with Elon Musk and the various controversies that led to her being "exiled from the Left," she was always a warts-and-all proposition, a complicated idol with convoluted ideas."
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Boomkat pulled Fernow's nazi-aligned black metal band Ash Pool back in 2021 – an acknowledgement of his links to nazi artists – but they still have almost 50 Vatican Shadow albums listed.

It's a bad time to be connected to fascist sympathizers like Fernow 's collaborators Akitsa and Mikko Aspa.
screen shot of the 47 Vatican Shadow releases currently listed at boomkat.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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analytics + social media metrics are bad for my neurochemistry but I never get tired of doing weird mixcloud numbers where my understandably unpopular mix of goth livity and wooden techno is #10 on the worldwide dub chart and #30 in the world music category

mixcloud.com/InterDimensionalMusic
screenshot from Mixcloud dot com showing that ID Music is currently 10th on the dub chart and 30th in world music
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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ha ha I forgot that I also have interdimensionalmusic.com so cool to have all of these auto-renewing fees that I only remember when I get a notification of their auto-renewal
A flyer for Inter-Dimensional Music that is a photograph of a man in a red wool shirt standing in a beam of sunlight cutting through a forest that reads "Inter-Dimensional Music: First Sundays 9-11pm CT marfapublicradio.org." There are words on the beam of sunlight that read "heavy music for mellow people."
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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I already pay for several domains such as my old Into The Green Wordpress blog. If I stop paying for the domain, the blog archive remains, just without a custom URL.

intothegreen.org
The header for my Into the Green blog: The words INTO THE GREEN draped in botanical matter. Illustration by Arik Roper.
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Still thinking about this self-described creep in bulky $400 Facebook-branded glasses recording high res video as he stops dead in his tracks and stares directly at another person's purse or something and says out loud “Hey Meta. HEY META. Is this bag Gucci?”
Screenshot of text from the aforementioned Wired article that reads: Getting it to search something is usually very quick, but doing so requires you to stop dead in your tracks, stare directly at another person’s purse or something, and say out loud, “Hey Meta. HEY META. Is this bag Gucci?”
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It is an inspired pairing.

www.poetryfoundation.org/books/review...
The cover of Blood on the Fog by Tongo Eisen-Martin. It features an illustration of a bearded Black man, eyes closed, playing a tambourine. He has a rifle strapped across his chest, and there are what may be bullet holes and bloodstains on the walls in front of and behind him. A screenshot from The Poetry Foundation's review of Blood on the Fog that reads: For Eisen-Martin, appeals to violence and revolution are rooted in a desire for transformation that takes on spiritual weight: “A slave deck blossoms sweet baby Easter blood.” Here, the poet skillfully deploys religious symbols in a compact line comprised of only eight words—with stabbing trochees finishing the clause off—to conjure an impressive array of relations: between Easter and the Middle Passage as transformative ordeals, between the death-cult aspects of Christianity and slavery as crucifix. full text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/books/reviews/156442/blood-on-the-fog
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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My brain reacts to the world by playing Danzig's "Tired of Being Alive" at least once a week and I take great comfort from the story behind the music, a profound sense of relief in knowing that I am not alone in my suffering.
A screenshot from the lyrics website Genius that offers the following explanation of the "Tired of Being Alive"lyrics: Danzig guitarist John Christ said: Lyrically, I think the words are about the way Glenn was feeling at the time” in explanation to the songs lyrics. In an interview songwriter Glenn Danzig called the song “self-explanatory.”
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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I also appreciate these examples of AI helping us to interact with the real world. How many afternoon walks have been spoiled because I couldn't decide whether or not to touch a dead fish, or determine if the purse I am staring at is Gucci.
screenshot of text from the Wired article that reads: s I wore them on one of my walks through San Francisco, on the shore of Ocean Beach, I came upon a dolphin-like fish that had washed up on the sand. Though I got my camera glasses close enough to the thing that I could smell it, Meta’s AI assistant could not tell me what kind of animal it was. It correctly identified that it was very dead and that I should not touch it. It was then able to direct me to a number to call for city animal control services. Beyond instances like that, I tend to avoid the AI voice interaction because I haven't gotten to the point where it feels natural. Getting it to search something is usually very quick, but doing so requires you to stop dead in your tracks, stare directly at another person’s purse or something, and say out loud, “Hey Meta. HEY META. Is this bag Gucci?”
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Still on Substack since I made the very wise decision to attempt extrication from the whole of Adobe CS simultaneously with migrating to Ghost, but we'll make it out eventually.
A photograph of an "Adobe ad" in The Onion that shows a burst of rainbow-hued dust or something and the text: "Experience the magic of buying new software, every month, forever."
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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As White suggests, Substack's doing social networking because like Google and FB, they don't want writers or readers to leave. They won't turn back from that.

As another problematic fav used to sinng, "The secret to a long life's knowing when it's time to go."

www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/...
A screenshot from Molly White's blog that reads: This post about Substack's possibly precarious financial position was a good read, but one thing really stuck out to me: To fix that and get their financials on a steadier path, Substack needs to make it harder for you to leave. They need to lock you in. I hate how this has become the dominant perception of how tech platforms should do business. Rather than making a product people love to use, adjusting their pricing to something more sustainable, or knocking off the bullshit that makes people want to leave or hesitant to join, Substack should... force people to stay? In all fairness to Powell here, I think he's describing what Substack thinks they need to do (rather than what he thinks Substack should do), but it's frustrating that this is the default remedy. “Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave”. Aaron Ross Powell in Aaron Ross Powell. Substack is in trouble, and their recent feature releases are evidence of that. original post at https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403041433
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Back to Merchant's dilemma: "stay here, and push back" or join the consumer boycott. As with Spotify, my decision will have minimal impact. But I have minimal faith that users can force Substack to be more ethical.

It didn't work with Bandcamp, even.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-win...
A screenshot from Brian Merchant's Blood in The Machine newsletter: I struggle with this. Do I follow many other writers and effect a consumer boycott of sorts and move to smaller platforms where reach may be limited but the owners are more ethical? Or do we writers who care about this stuff stay here, and try to push back so that the largest and most influential newsletter platform might be forced to do better while we have some leverage here? I’ve talked to Ghost about migrating, and I’m also thinking a lot about the latter. We need more durable solutions than hopping from one platform to another and hoping management of the next tech platform will meet certain ethical standards. Independent journalists and creators everywhere need power. To that end, there are some interesting ideas percolating; more on them soon. I also have a profile on Ko-Fi for all those who want an alternative way to support this work. And I still have hopes for a project I was involved in to build an alt recommendation engine to replicate Substack’s network effects, though it’s stalled out since the world caught on fire. Full text at https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to-win-followers-and-influence
October 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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mfw I got stoned and accidentally munchied the psilo chocolate bar but then remembered there's kraft singles in the back of the cheese drawer

[apologies to Louis Wain]
an image of a white cat vibrating red psychedelic lines with a mischievous grin, by the artist Louis Wain
October 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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A pastoral Buddhist interlude and into a third act where there is no light other than the flames of exploding vehicles, flashbacks of youthful camaraderie that only deepen the mortal suffering that arises from the pursuit of financial gain, fratricide with a brother's skull the only witness. Gatdam.
Buddhist monks paddling in a skiff toward the scene of a massacre sun setting into mountains, reflected on water yellow flowers Buddhist monk in a candlelit cave, preparing a flower-adorned body for burial
October 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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TFW somebody already rented Hard Boiled and you gotta choose something else fast cuz the video store is closing
A 3.5 star review of Bullet in the Head from Letterboxed that reads "I came here for duel-wielding gun-fu. This movie was damn miserable."
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Inter-Dimensional Music is mixed live-to-FLAC from the yoga mat, and airs each Sunday at 11p CT on Marfa Public Radio in Far West Texas. Void Contemplation Tactics newsletter includes expanded mixes, setlists, and commentary, available to stream or DL in multiple formats.
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An long-exposure photo of a blinking radio tower in Far West Texas, with information about streaming Inter-Dimensional Music on the FM airwaves at KRTS Marfa, KRTP Alpine, KDKY Marathon, KOJP Presidio, KXWT Odessa Midland, and KKFS Fort Stockton. Streaming worldwide at marfapublicradio.org, and archived at cosmicchambo.substack.com.
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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• Anthrax is very cool but not an easy listen in 2025 and if you are listening to extremely dated metal why Anthrax when you could go with Suicidal Tendencies, the only thrash band that could easily be mistaken for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cypress Hill, and/or Black Flag depending on the camera angle
The cover of Suicidal Tendencies "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow" album where the band looks like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cypress Hill, and Black Flag while they stand in front of a tomb The cover of Suicidal Tendencies "You Can't Bring Me Down" single where the band looks like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cypress Hill, and Black Flag while they stand in front of a wall
September 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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You can grow weary of having stuff and also do the "don't discard all of your physical media" thing by making exceptions for 20 year old unopened promo CDs from indie rock bands you've never heard of and White Town CD singles that can be streamed on youtube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEol...
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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this is huge and I am so happy about it
evidence from Encyclopedia Metallum that the entirety of the Texas death metal band Haunter are also in a country band called Calico Bonnet
September 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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This two-part essay is inspired by and indebted to Hanif Abdurraqib and his incredible basketball memoir There’s Always This Year. He is the best at this.

www.abdurraqib.com/book
A screenshot of two quotes that reads: Have you ever been in the air so long that your feet begin to fall in love with the new familiar, walking along some invisible surface that is surely there, that must be, as there is no way to describe what miracle keeps you afloat? - Hanif Abdurraqib There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Suzuki was once asked how it feels to have attained satori, the Zen experience of “awakening.” He answered, “just like ordinary, every day experience, except about two inches off the ground!” – Alan Watts The Way of Zen
June 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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An excerpt from Astra Taylor's Age of Insecurity, as read by your host on these episodes of the Inter-Dimensional Music FM radio experiment in heavy mellow meditation on Marfa Public Radio.

All three broadcasts are available to stream/DL gratis at cosmicchambo.substack.com/p/id-music-a...
screenshot from the Void Contemplation Tactics newsletter that reads: Here’s the paraphrased excerpt from Age of Insecurity read by your host on the Inter-Dimensional Music episodes archived below: Capitalism thrives on bad feelings, on the knowledge that contented people buy less. Consumer society capitalizes on the very insecurities it produces, which it then prods and perpetuates, making us all insecure by design. No matter how much we have, we are ensnared in systems that are structured to trigger insecurity, propelling us to endlessly strive for an ideal that we will always fall short of. This is why no advertising or marketing department will ever tell us that we're actually okay, and that it is the world, not us, that needs changing. This manufactured insecurity is quite unlike the existential insecurity that is inherent to human life. Where the latter is an ineradicable feature of our being, the former is a mechanism that facilitates exploitation and profit and is anything but inevitable. Capitalism is a kind of insecurity producing machine. Insecurity is not an unfortunate side effect, but a core attribute of the system.
May 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Instead of paraphrasing random sentences from trauma care manuals there's a surprising number of charming AP English-style references to existentialist philosophers. For example the Heidegger name-drop in this world-weary review of Dead Conspiracy's 2016 album Dead Conspiracy:
December 12, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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COVID Desert: A coronavirus diary made with still images from the acclaimed 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni film RED DESERT

Days 4-6
Red Desert screen cap with subtitle: What are you scared of? Red Desert screen cap with subtitle: Streets, factories, Red Desert screen cap with subtitle: ... colors, people -- everything!
January 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM