owen cyclops

comics and art: religion, parenting, modern life. i do a lot, it’s all here: linktr.ee/owencyclops

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2026-05-24 23:14:09 CEST

how it feels when my four year old asks me if there are “more smashing pumpkins songs”
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2026-04-06 02:14:11 CEST

happy easter here’s another one for the basket
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2026-04-04 18:14:10 CEST

went to the zoo. saw a koala. it occurs to me i have only seen them in media, never in real life. very misrepresented. they are gremlins. shoving leaves into its mouth. shoving. crunching. shove. crunch. with its dead eyes. i am largely shielded from the darker side of nature

2026-04-04 00:14:10 CEST

some of the fastest rising male baby names in the US (i.e. the ones that moved up the most in rankings) are: truce, chosen, and halo. are you prepared for the american name ethnogenesis. because it’s happening
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2026-04-03 15:14:27 CEST

big aesthetic maneuvers happening here
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2026-04-03 15:14:23 CEST

pinned re:views below, comic of: yesterday
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2026-04-03 15:14:20 CEST

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2026-04-03 04:14:19 CEST

okay i used auto-translate. how do i show this to japanese twitter i need to know if they think its funny
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2026-04-03 04:14:16 CEST

went to get gas. was over 60 dollars. machine asks if i want a receipt. no. in fact i would like the opposite of a receipt. i would pay extra to ensure that i do not remember this happening

2026-04-03 04:14:14 CEST

going to church is generally enjoyable: see people you like, often a cool building, music - in fact some have to wrestle with how much it’s social vs. worship. but, becoming christian also often has a “break glass in case of emergency” effect. anything can happen. strange combo.
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2026-04-02 18:14:11 CEST

bees cant fight wasps. but they can confuse wasps by coordinating together and creating a confusing pattern. if the wasp simply refused to be confused - to accept his confusion as an obstacle - he could just tear through these bees no problem. wow. crazy that only bees do this
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2026-04-02 16:14:16 CEST

sending out some of these packages today (they’re on my page here. includes dog origin book) (previous comic below)
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2026-04-02 16:14:12 CEST

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2026-04-02 02:14:16 CEST

this guy dmed me to thank me didnt ask me to post anything but heres a link to his spot
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2026-04-01 22:14:14 CEST

every april’s fools i think of the year mitch hedberg died of a drug overdose, which is really tragic, but they announced it on april fool’s day and it was before smartphones so everyone was just kind of wondering if it was a joke until a few days later. real comedian to the end

2026-04-01 17:14:12 CEST

lol (i drew this image unedited)
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2026-04-01 16:14:18 CEST

many nu-spring pinned post art reviews previous comic below
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2026-04-01 16:14:14 CEST

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2026-04-01 06:14:16 CEST

noteworthy: ‘fear of the hare’ (1912)
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2026-04-01 06:14:13 CEST

franz marc (1880-1916) animal paintings foxes / foxes / dog / imaginary
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2026-04-01 00:14:15 CEST

son built a tiny catapult. i said, “cool. we’ll build it again, but bigger”. wife says, “why does it need to be bigger?”. there’s just zero chance these species can understand each other

2026-04-01 00:14:14 CEST

today, any easily articulable "type of person" becomes forbidden territory. we're stuck in a loop of finding novelty, then immediately crystalizing it. if we're lucky, a new island opens, but then we just do it again. new "vibes" are only useful as indicators for what not to be.

2026-04-01 00:14:12 CEST

you could just get a book or two, or get into a genre of music, and become "that type of person", and you weren't under a huge spotlight assessing your authenticity or credentials. this gave you a starting point, and you'd, if you wanted, develop into something less generic.

2026-03-31 23:14:09 CEST

the desire to not be easily categorized is a huge aspect of the general flattening of personalities we see now. people used to unironically get a "starter pack" for a personality, then build from there. now, doing that is "cringe" - so they start from nowhere. way more difficult

2026-03-31 18:14:17 CEST

nu pre-easter print reviews (thanks) (previous comic below)
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2026-03-31 18:14:13 CEST

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2026-03-31 04:14:09 CEST

medieval friend: you said your son just hangs out in a room all day painting freakish oddities. you didn’t give him a weird name or something did you? mrs. bosch: …

2026-03-30 23:14:23 CEST

RT @[email protected]:
Leveling up our Catholic homeschooling with @nprofile…l9c7.
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2026-03-30 16:14:11 CEST

having a two year old girl: expectation vs reality
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2026-03-30 14:14:16 CEST

oddly, (visual version of covering a song), artist ai wewei apparently made a version of this in the 2010s
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2026-03-30 14:14:12 CEST

russian artist vladimir tatlin designed this unbuilt tower. taller than the eiffel tower, one plan included a projector that could project film up onto the clouds. despite the next century of film and TV dominance, who has proposed watching movies on clouds? early 1900s mindset.
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2026-03-30 04:14:10 CEST

some people are still alive in this world
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2026-03-29 23:14:16 CEST

interestingly, i heard the plastic records you associate with “the recorder” now were not invented until after the war. so, despite its appearance, this is really like an ocarina, which is way easier to play, but it doesn’t look as odd as the sweet potato ocarinas (like in zelda)
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2026-03-29 23:14:14 CEST

apparently some guy was really blowing off some steam with this during the war, perhaps overseas, because there are some teethmarks in the mouthpiece. but somehow it left his stewardship, and now it is mine. such is life in these united states
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2026-03-29 22:14:13 CEST

made a cool find in the americana and atypical instruments files. this is called the swanson tonette. its a flute made of bakelite. these were extremely popular in grammar schools in the 30s-40s. this is one is camo green because the government distributed them to WW2 soldiers:
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2026-03-28 15:14:09 CET

this comic changed the course of the internet’s relationship to gnosticism. probably the biggest development in gnostic studies since the discovery of the nag hammadi library itself
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2026-03-27 23:14:11 CET

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2026-03-27 16:14:14 CET

cool spring reviews rolling in (previous comic under-neath)
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2026-03-27 16:14:11 CET

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2026-03-27 06:14:10 CET

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2026-03-27 04:14:09 CET

in the early 1900s the western world was being torn to shreds by world war one and our cutting edge sociologists and psychologists were all extremely hard at work trying to figure out why there is a universal taboo against marrying your sister

2026-03-26 22:14:11 CET

so i was looking for a gift for a kid and found something noteworthy
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2026-03-26 18:14:11 CET

there’s a concept in the book ‘the refiner’s fire’, by john brooke, called something like the hermetic-folk triad: essentially that any aspect of “magic” that bleeds into common culture contains a threefold meeting point of: 1. real believers, who believe the process to be genuine 2. a productive aspect of the practice - i.e. its practical application 3. and scammers, people there simply to defraud a perfect example of this is alchemy. you have guys who really believe transmutation of lead into gold is possible, the practical applications of their discoveries (medicine, metallurgy, and so on), and scammers - people using the cover of the previous two folders to scam people. one implication of this is: the place where these three things meet is extremely murky - it’s often impossible to assess people’s real motives, and, on the other end of the causal chain, it’s often impossible to tell what the reality about the practice is (what, if any, legitimate aspects it had, and how commonly known these were). once you recognize this, you start to see it everywhere that something magical and secretive intersects with the fabric of a society. one of my favorite examples is moonshine: you have people who were genuinely “in it” - they found some artistry in it and saw it as a legitimate aspect of their culture. then, you have the practical element - people simply needed or wanted the alcohol, and the alcohol was often easier to transport and sell than that which it was made from. and then, due to its secretive hidden nature, you have the scammers - people there just to make money, often in unethical ways. aside from its own history, moonshine and its production is clearly somewhat alchemical. from my perspective, these murky meeting places of true believers, practicality, and charlatanism (really the proper term for what i am describing) formerly served as a kind of ladder backwards through time. america is separated, physically, from its european origin - and thus physically from much its spiritual or esoteric history. this triad used to, especially in our first two centuries, help bridge that gap. it’s very easy to imagine a local american boy in the 1800s encountering astrology from a traveling charlatan - but then becoming so interested in it that he ends up researching its history, the stars themselves: this leads back to greek myths and ancient civilizations, and so on. often, getting enmeshed with charlatans or people outright looking to scam you can be dangerous. but (my actual point with all this) - this triad and its ladder used to be embedded, safely, into our language. the terms that we used could and did carry a person naturally right into this difficult to explicate but very culturally real space, where complex spiritual and higher ideas were embedded and preserved. one example of this is the term “goldbricking”. virtually unknown today, this term was previously common enough that it could be used by comedians or in comic strips as late as the 1950s with no explanation. to “goldbrick” was to work at a job and give the appearance of working as hard as possible, without actually doing so. the term came from a scam where someone would pass off a brick of another metal as solid gold, usually through a veneer of gold on the outside. the amount encoded into this term is really incredible. you have gold as the ultimate standard: your labor is like gold. you have the transformation of a lesser metal into gold, via a scam - as opposed to a genuine transformation of something into gold (your physical energy) via a virtuous process (honesty, work). this is basically an alchemical term, but was commonly used on labor sites by people who presumably had no knowledge or interest in alchemy or the history of chemistry itself. the internet says this term was replaced by: “cyberslacking” or “cyberloafing”. horrendous terms, carrying nothing. so, no one uses them and the term is gone and one more link to a magical past is severed.
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2026-03-26 15:14:15 CET

speaking of poems (previous comic below) owen cyclops (@owenbroadcast) — https://nitter.poast.org/owenbroadcast/status/2036803792973251039#m
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2026-03-26 15:14:12 CET

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2026-03-26 00:14:10 CET

i knew a girl that grew up in manhattan that could only fall asleep watching seinfeld. fascinating. like a woman from the amazon who had to fall asleep listening to the ambient sounds of her own jungle: bird calls, frogs, and so on.

2026-03-25 20:14:11 CET

outsider art files: ionel talpazan was born in romania. one night when he was eight he ran from home to escape his abusive grandparents and saw a UFO. he started making images of UFOs years later inspired by this experience. he eventually lived, homeless, on the streets of NYC:
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2026-03-25 18:14:09 CET

previous save files Liminal Warmth ❤️‍🔥 (@liminal_warmth) "More stars than Super Mario 64" is a hilarious way to characterize your book reviews. — https://nitter.poast.org/liminal_warmth/status/2036809470278516758#m
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2026-03-25 15:14:16 CET

after just a few months our newest book officially has thirty five-star reviews. that is 150 stars: more than both super mario 64 and “the daytime” (combined) previous comic below
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2026-03-25 15:14:13 CET

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2026-03-25 14:14:12 CET

in some possible cyber-localist future, your X payouts could hyper correlate to proximity: if a neighbor likes a post, that’s a dollar, then heavily weighted for your block, town, small region, state, then national sub-region. accounts like: ‘central northwestern arizona things’

2026-03-25 14:14:11 CET

theres a shintaro kago comic where each nation isolates itself, then each state, then each city, then each block, then each building, then a hospital: where each floor becomes “nationalist”, each wing, finally each hall, here meaning: each disease. the internet could be like this

2026-03-25 05:14:17 CET

part of the early childhood pedagogy my wife and i subscribe to (semi anthroposophical / waldorf) is having diatonic or pentatonic instruments around. as a bonus aside from being easier to play they often have a slightly magical or otherworldly look to them
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2026-03-25 05:14:12 CET

friend was asking me about lacan so i just showed him this
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2026-03-24 21:14:09 CET

a kid becomes school age. what do they ride on? a new bus. anubis. where does anubis take people? the land of the dead. no thanks. but the principal, who i have given this information to multiple times, wants me to “leave immediately”. sure. ill walk

2026-03-24 15:14:17 CET

note: i added this button to my profile here. (i like how the colors look when they load up together.) previous comic below: owen cyclops (@owenbroadcast) — https://nitter.poast.org/owenbroadcast/status/2036063384014045532#m
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2026-03-24 15:14:13 CET

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2026-03-24 01:14:19 CET

success rate started extremely low, but escalated as 4 year old learned he has to casually (not inducing anxiety and thus forgetting) get the info from 2 year old as fast as possible. 2 year old can ask as many times as she wants. i do not speak to 4 year old. considering a maze.

2026-03-24 01:14:17 CET

theres also an element of empathetic deduction. 2 year old may be told a coin is on the “red sign”, but mistakenly infer this means a stop sign across the street. 4 year old has to get the info (“stop sign”), reason that the coin cant be across the street, and then work backwards

2026-03-24 01:14:15 CET

the rub is that the (about to turn) 2 year old can only remember phrases for a few minutes before they’re dislodged by something more interesting - a helicopter, or, fascinatingly, the 4 year old himself. so he has to get the info without inducing forgetting in the 2 year old.

2026-03-24 01:14:13 CET

just running experiments on my kids now: i hide an object. 4 year old finds it. the catch: i only tell 2 year old where it is. 4 year old has to get the location from 2 year old. he can only communicate with me via the 2 year old. i now understand the guys who put rats in mazes

2026-03-23 14:14:16 CET

if you missed it, on friday i restocked a few of these packages in my shop (pic here, pinned post) previous comic below
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2026-03-23 14:14:11 CET

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2026-03-23 03:14:11 CET

if you have kids, you end up thinking a lot about childhood and how you want to structure theirs. as a brief thought experiment, i remembered i had a game called ‘harvest moon’ for the game boy. there was a setting where you could check how much time you spent playing. i checked mine (back then, at that time). it was around 60 hours. i remember this because i showed it to my dad, who remarked that that was about the amount of time he worked a week. this game (i was about 8) was interesting, i remember it, but it certainly wasn’t seminal or particularly epic to me. if we cut a cross section of time, let’s say 5 years (late age 7 to early age 12?), i could easily come up with 30 games that im sure i played as much or more. in fact, i just did so. so, if it was only ten games, that would be 600 hours. but it’s thirty, so triple that, that is 1800 hours. keep in mind this is a low estimate. another game boy game we had, i think we noticed it reset after around 60 hours of total play time. i went over that line at least once. again, this wasn’t even a particularly epic or cool game. now, i haven’t even touched general computer use (included a few computer games above). add on to that. now, i haven’t even covered TV. how many shows can you think of from this time in your life where you saw every episode - or it feels like you did? i can think of a lot. and that’s just shows that i liked. most people are familiar with being a kid and just watching whatever is on TV. so, add that on as well. then, this subset of hours doesn’t include hanging with friends, where we were, very often, playing video games, add that on. now (last thing), keep in mind that from a parent’s perspective, you’re at school six hours a day for most of the year. so all this is taking place around that. so, if you ever clock four hours a day, you were statistically probably just at school for six hours. we’re not adding school in but, from their perspective, that’s ten full hours where you’re just not “there”. so, just objectively - without any ethical judgement at all, our parents (speaking generally) just had us in front of screens for literally thousands of hours. many thousands. if i expanded the range here (down into age 7 and up into 14) and really squeezed it, its possible we could get close to 10,000 hours. based on my general observations, it also feels like i am on the lower end of the spectrum here. for example, i never “got into” movies. that would presumably add time onto this, i could empirically observe that i was less extreme than many of my friends, and so on. so much of youtube, the internet in general, is nostalgia for these screen worlds (six hour video on a minor character from an N64 game). conversely, so much parenting discussion today is characterized by a kind of screen-phobia (which i have and think is logical). it’s somewhat fascinating to sit down for yourself and try to quantify and visualize that, for me at least, you can imagine a 7 year old and imagine that before age 14 you’re somehow going to fit in somewhere between 2 to 7,000+ hours of screentime.
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2026-03-22 20:14:10 CET

eating, as a little kid, before you’ve drawn up any categories or connections, is one of the peak human experiences. dad’s eating chicken. im eating chocolate. its all just food. more chocolate please. now my stomach hurts: a totally random occurrence. i would like more chocolate

2026-03-22 16:14:10 CET

here, re: view below, previous: comic
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2026-03-22 15:14:16 CET

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2026-03-22 15:14:12 CET

the main substantive discussion about AI is about how much it might erode or cripple human abilities and one of the main AI clients was given a name that literally means to be made crippled or lame:
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2026-03-21 13:14:16 CET

weekend. restocked this package yesterday (pinned post here) previous comic below:
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2026-03-21 13:14:13 CET

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2026-03-21 01:14:11 CET

welcome to jake’s 4th birthday. thank you for coming. the theme of the party is cakehunter. he is a detective figuring out which people are real and which people are made of cake. unbeknownst to him ive hidden a small cake in his shirt that i will tear out at the end of the party

2026-03-20 23:14:12 CET

dr. seuss, 1947 - the simpsons, 1999
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2026-03-20 17:14:12 CET

studio update - i just restocked this package: our first four books, signed. you find them here: 📦 https://owen-cyclops.myshopify.com/ other projects can be found quoted below:
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2026-03-20 15:14:18 CET

finally got more of these packages ready to go. haven’t had these since… a few months at least. edited pic on the fly (does not include the newest book) previous comic below:
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2026-03-20 14:14:11 CET

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2026-03-20 04:14:08 CET

you have more than one kid. sometimes people ask, discreetly, quietly, if you have a favorite. no. absolutely not. but i am broke and one kid, unprompted, asked to go to the library for their birthday, which is free

2026-03-20 03:14:09 CET

once, there was a loose dog. it tried to eat my cat. a friend got rid of the dog. now my cat had run 30 feet up a tree. i climbed up there to help him. but what could i do? he wanted to be up there. the dog was gone. i just had to wait. you can’t help everyone who appears stuck

2026-03-20 00:14:09 CET

the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century be like: “the maternal phallus”

2026-03-19 14:14:25 CET

amazon ranx got me up against whole crews previous comic below

2026-03-16 22:14:34 CET

if i take my son (4) to the thrift store sometimes i give him $5. he found a record of “irish songs”. thought it was traditional ballads but one of the songs is about stealing an armored car and giving it to the IRA and now he sits in a big tartan recliner and listens to it alone

2026-03-10 15:14:31 CET

new subscribers post up on all feeds (previous comic below)
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2026-03-10 15:14:27 CET

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2026-03-10 04:14:25 CET

in the most sophisticated and artistic way possible im wondering if most people online have seen two slugs having sex
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2026-03-10 03:14:09 CET

must have been insane being the first guy to draw this. imagine the rush. top 10 human art experiences
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2026-03-09 21:15:03 CET

i found a radio station i like. i think: it's like listening to a radio station in GTA. but it's not. listening to a radio station in GTA is like listening to a real radio station. for me, the link is backwards. there's no fixing that. you just have to accept this inverted life.

2026-03-09 15:14:46 CET

note: reclaimed my telegram channel, if you use that. (previous comic below)
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2026-03-09 13:14:40 CET

a taboo part of researching "cults" that's hard to responsibly explicate is that unfortunately you often have a situation where the "cult" is the first group of people to empower someone and correctly inform them that everyone else in their life sucks and is clearly bad for them

2026-03-09 02:14:41 CET

this painting is really a “true image”. insane to have painted this in 1888. almost vermeer, almost abstract art. fittingly it’s almost like every photo or reproduction of it captures something different
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2026-03-09 02:14:38 CET

i am often thinking of the strange images of women from behind done by vilhelm hammershoi. surprisingly modern in multiple ways for a man born in the 1860s
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2026-03-08 23:14:50 CET

RT @[email protected]:
I have recommended this item to my Dominican Laity compatriots, and will bring my copy (framed) to our next meeting so they can get the full impact in person
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2026-03-08 22:16:04 CET

current game: books, art, laboratory latest large project: quoted below
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2026-03-08 22:15:58 CET

RT @[email protected]:
This is one of those human endeavors that I aspire to but do not have the patience for and so am very happy that people like this exist.

2026-03-08 22:15:56 CET

packages have been going out for a while now, adding this sweet photo here:
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2026-03-08 18:14:40 CET

we have six year olds stowing away english language poetry anthologies like hungry squirrels and you’re blackpilling.

2026-03-08 16:14:40 CET

spring art reviews continue (previous comic below)
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2026-03-08 16:14:37 CET

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2026-03-06 21:14:42 CET

even "good advice" is a type of poison pill because it makes you dependent on the other person. the next time you get in a jam you will wonder what they would do. but you're not them. do not even take "good advice". if someone gives you "good advice" do the opposite. stay free.

2026-03-05 20:14:46 CET

RT @[email protected]:
Very beautiful
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2026-03-05 20:14:43 CET

RT @[email protected]:
I really have to recommend Owen Cyclops's "A Kingdom of Verse" both for the quality of the illustrations and the poetry selections. The drawings are deep and full of little details, it's more of an illuminated manuscript than a picture book. https://nitter.poast.org/owenbroadcast/status/1995209512111005873
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2026-03-05 20:14:38 CET

as a second point, in accordance with certain ideas regarding leadership, the person selected would essentially always deny it and try to pass it off to someone else (the situation was just for fun). no one selected was ever overly cocky about it or assumptive about accepting it