this is the only mondrian that makes sense to me. maybe if i saw the others in person they'd speak to me, but this one i understand even through the screen.

there's an incredible amount of tension in it

@norvid-studies.bsky.social salvaged_studies

wife: "every horror video game is either guy crawling around the sewers looking for keys, or woman simulator"

a poem

oxidist.github.io/2025/10/15/Y...

college friend came to visit for a few days and we were chain-smoking at this really nice cafe that's a 20 minute drive away but i can't find it within myself to do all of that alone

technologies that don’t augment the mind are easily 'metabolised' by humanity at large. fire, the wheel, steam engine, spears—people master these easily. but no technologies that augment thought have been metabolised. (1/5)

Which one of the two bodhisattvas, avalokiteshvara or manjushri, would you like to meet?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/153JTp/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">avalokiteshvara (boundless compassion)
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/153JTp/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">manjushri (transcendent wisdom)

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@norvid-studies.bsky.social remember that german guy who got laid in brazil and stopped poasting. zeit_sinn?

God, the Lapidarist—a short vignette I wrote on Kant, the afterlife, and memory:

God, the Lapidarist—a short vignette I wrote on Kant, the afterlife, and memory:

Ray Peat on an alcoholic writer who regained his fluency in speech after an intravenous injection of vitamin B2

overlooked banger imo

it's interesting how certain artists seem to need to suffer to make Great Art, but others can make Great Art from a place of joy. consider for example trent reznor and steve reich. for the former type, joy and contentment brings about mediocrity

do the e/acc javascript programmers who call themselves capitalists recognise that no matter how well they're paid, they are part of the worker class, not capital-owning class

Papers by Yoshinao Satoh, a short film:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=56EG...

watching the late afternoon sunlight fall across the walls, plants, and floor of my garden, it strikes me that i can't express the sheer gravity of being alive, or even understand it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPe...

Senses are so different in the ocean. There's a hard limit to how far you can see, but every direction is just as important. You can touch the shadows of things that have moved past as they move past you and dissipate. You can hear across the world. Perhaps the only similar sense is smell.

wrote a little discursive essay on group self-selection, narrative construction, emptiness in buddhism, and deleuze.
oxidist.github.io/2025/07/19/S...

wrote a little discursive essay on group self-selection, narrative construction, emptiness in buddhism, and deleuze.
oxidist.github.io/2025/07/19/S...

i've finished about 2/3 of 'platform' by houellebecq and it's funny, prescient even, re: islam in europe, sex tourism being a microcosm of the first world's relationship to the third world etc.
the problem with being so prescient is that it now reads like bronze age pervert-ist pablum