congratulations: you are lost

January 5, 2025

dnd rule changes involving race and identity divide players

I’ve always looked at D&D rules the way Captain Barbossa looks at the Pirate’s Code: “They’re more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.” When you’re playing with strangers, the rules are important—they give everyone a fair starting point and keep things running smoothly. But when you’re with friends, it’s...

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January 4, 2025

everyday cyborgs

this slideshow is inspired by my recent purchase and wearing of the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. The idea of becoming a cyborg with devices like Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses lies in the symbiotic relationship between humans and technology that these devices foster. Unlike traditional tools that require conscious interaction—like a...

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January 4, 2025

key features of a cyborg

A cyborg (short for “cybernetic organism”) is a being that combines biological and technological components, typically blending human or animal life with mechanical or electronic systems. The concept encompasses a wide range of possibilities, from simple enhancements to fully integrated, symbiotic relationships between organic and machine parts. Cyborgs exist at...

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January 4, 2025

hotel bar sessions

my new favourite podcast. one bartender. three philosophers. serving straight shots of insight directly to your earbuds.

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January 3, 2025

blogging about blogging about blogging

this is my alchemical language lab/experimental blogging playground after all… I approached this from a different angle yesterday, but I think this is closer to what I’m aiming for in 2025. I may also make some adjustments to the design and function so the blog supports my vision of blogging...

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January 2, 2025

fragmented paths

Somewhere between the scaffolding of story and the poetry of thought lies a landscape I’m yearning to explore. It’s a place where the personal and the theoretical intertwine, where the raw texture of life rubs against the abstraction of ideas. The blending of creative nonfiction and theoretical poetics—this hybrid, fragmented,...

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December 30, 2024

the crimbo limbo ramble

In this episode, I’m out on a walk—my first good ramble in weeks—navigating the muddy fields and reflecting on life as we sit in this in-between time of Crimbo Limbo, that strange stretch between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s a time I usually dedicate to reflecting, recalibrating, and looking...

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December 29, 2024

when does our self story begin?

it feel like our self story is shaped even before we are born. we don’t get to choose our parents so we inherit their circumstances and beliefs; they name us with a name that has a story embedded in it. and then they program our initial software from which we...

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December 28, 2024

in cold hell

There’s something about Charles Olson’s In Cold Hell, in Thicket that feels uncomfortably familiar, like stepping into a dense forest where every direction looks the same but somehow promises something different. For me, this poem isn’t just a piece of writing—it’s a mirror held up to the way I experience...

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December 27, 2024

returning to a place of post-apocalypse calm

i am now returning—a phrase, a wound, a hinge on a doorhalf-hanging, rusted on promisesnever meant to keep. what is “now”but the afterbirth of once,slick with the memory of chaosand the shimmer of thingsalmost touched? returning implies departure,a before where the dust hung silent,where streets were namesand names were maps,not...

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December 24, 2024

when there is no ‘you’

The idea hit me like a whisper from the cosmos: When there is no sense of ‘you,’ there is no way that ‘you’ can be separate from the rest of the universe. It wasn’t a conclusion, not even a realisation, really. It was more like a question wearing the mask...

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December 23, 2024

these are wild secular times

These are wild secular times. It’s like we’re living in the disenchanted ruins of a world that forgot it used to believe in magic. Once, myths shaped the edges of our maps and infused the spaces between stars with gods and monsters. Now, we’ve GPS’d the mystery out of existence....

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December 21, 2024

a musical journey with Blue Öyster Cult (BÖC)

Blue Öyster Cult (BÖC) is one of those bands that straddles the line between rock, mysticism, and outright cosmic weirdness, creating a legacy that feels both timeless and delightfully out of this world. If you’ve ever heard “Don’t Fear the Reaper” wafting from a car stereo on a foggy night...

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December 21, 2024

reality hacker

To be a reality hacker is to become an artisan of perception, an agent of transformation who sees the world not as it is but as it could be. Reality hacking, as a concept, is not about breaking systems for malicious intent but about reprogramming the lens through which we...

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December 19, 2024

Change Magick: A Modern Framework for Personal Mastery

Editor’s Note As we are about to step into 2025, I’m unveiling a framework that stands at the intersection of personal transformation and practical power cultivation. Change Magick represents my synthesis of decades of exploration into human potential, combining insights from chaos magic, depth psychology, neuroscience, and postmodern philosophy. This...

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December 17, 2024

The Trickster’s Leap

Welcome, wanderer. You’ve stumbled upon something… different. A game, a journey, a dance with chaos itself. The Game:A riddle awaits. Solve it, and you’ll unlock the first step—a portal into The Trickster’s Leap. Each card in this game holds a task, an experiment, or a dare to step beyond the...

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