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Three small, black, wall lamps lighting up 12 framed Japanese Akira covers.

New lights up on the Akira wall in the hallway. I'm happy, but all of the sudden you can clearly see all the dust on the frames... Welp.

Copies of Kenneth Grant's The Magical Revival and Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God + Servants of the Star & the Snake - Essays in Honour of Kenneth & Steffi Grant, edited by Henrik Bogdan.

Got three Kenneth Grant books today and I'm looking forward to digging into them. Haven't read Grant since 2001-ish. I'm not a huge fan of his theories, but he's still fascinating - and no matter what I think of him, he did take #Thelema in... unexpected directions. No room in my bookshelves though.

I know, and I used to get that - but not anymore. There are places to go, we're posting on one that has the same functionality, for example. Yes, organizing a move can be hard. There will always be holdouts. But it should still happen. It's no longer okay to be there.

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show Newly released files from DoJ show the pair making plans in 2012 and 2013 for the Tesla CEO to visit Epstein’s island

Get off X, ffs. How hard can it be? What will it take? If the white supremacy, the AI generating porn of people, or the millions spent on fascist causes aren't doing it, what will?

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Thanks. ❤️ I am not 100% happy with how it came out, but I saw this build as an experiment. Next few ones will probably be clean, until I have a solid plan.

A Gunpla model of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam, standing outside on a rocky surface, holding a beam rifle and a large, red shield.

A Gunpla model of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam, standing outside on a rocky surface, holding a beam saber in its right hand.

Finished my RX-78-2 #Gundam build. I've learned a lot. Nice to feel "done" and to move on to the next project. I need to work on the photography and posing for the next one too. But for my first build ever, I'm happy with it! #gunpla

Haha, good point! 😄

A Gunpla model of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam mech, with flat top coat making it more matte than the original plastic.

Top coat done, mistakes were probably made, but wow, it makes a difference. Of course, looking at this photo, I see the damaged decal on one of the legs... Now for weathering (and a new decal) and another coat before I call this one done. #gunpla

I'll finally get to GM a one-shot next week - plan to do Cotteburn Gaol. Excited to play, almost more excited for character creation. Gief Thou Shall Not Suffer the Wycce now please.

That reads like bad satire. Because it is? Right? Right...? Oh God.

David Bowie, probably from his late 90s era with his short hair, with an intense face, singing into a microphone.

Today we celebrate the Greater Feast of David Bowie, who died 10 years ago today. He's the one artist that has had the biggest impact on my life and helped shape me. His loss will always be felt. You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo, Mr Bowie.

a black and white photo of a woman screaming with the words i think i 'm paranoid below her Alt: Parts of the black and white music video for Garbage's song I Think I'm Paranoid, with Shirley Manson seemingly yelling the name of the song at the camera. There's also a quick shot of a man rocking out with a guitar.

"Accidental".

First time at Roskilde music festival in 1998, 17 years old. Leaned back in the grass and shoved my wrist into a broken bottle. Got extremely lucky, but still have a big scar. If I touch it, it tickles in my palm. Been accused of having tried to commit suicide.

Checked old notes, March 2017. 🙂 Shit, I haven't even started that one... And you too!

Hehe, then I deserve some credit for introducing them to the team... 😜 Must have been 2016/early 2017. Oh God...

Haha, I'm exactly the same with GCP after going on an audio book bender. Soooo many episodes - and I stopped in September last year! Time for Chaos, Get in the Trunk, Blood of the Wild, those three alone are a bit overwhelming. But with no rush, it should be a celebration. So much content to enjoy.

A copy of Rodney Orpheus' Abrahadabra - A Beginner's Guide to Thelemic Magick.

Copies of Rodney Orpheus' Abrahadabra - A Beginner's Guide to Thelemic Magick, Lon Milo DuQuette's Magick of Thelema and Aleister Crowley's Magick Without Tears and The Equinox of the Gods.

And with @rodneyorpheus.bsky.social's Abrahadabra arriving today, I've finally gathered the four "beginners" books I lost ~20 years ago in the editions I used to have them in. It feels so good to have them back in my bookshelf. Here's a lesson, kids - never let anyone borrow your books.

A Gunpla model of the classic RX-78-2 Gundam, holding a gun and a red shield with a yellow cross on it. It's standing on a green cutting mat on a desk.

Ok, first Gunpla built. Almost felt sad wrapping up the build, but with four new kits on the way, it was probably for the best. Waiting for Gundam Markers to give it some proper panel lining. Such a great experience building this thing.

Wow, that's one hell of a surprise.

That sounds about right.

(I had a bunch of the books, including Mexico and Africa + TMNT, Beyond the Supernatural, etc - but I'm kinda sad we never played Rifts, and that I have lost the books over the years)

So for the Rifts part, your head is mostly full of pages and pages and pages of weapons?

Only played this on PC and we had a really hard time, until we realized that there was something with how the timer was set so the faster your computer was, the more magic you got, completely changing the difficulty of the game. Me and my friends also still use the Skaven quote "die, die traitor".

Ah, okay, gotcha. That explains things - feels like it *should* work, considering LotRO runs pretty well. Guess I'll have to set up my PC desktop again and use Parsec to stream it or something. My "sit at desk and play games" are pretty much over.

Hope all is well, by the way. It's been too long.

Before Christmas:
"Maybe I should actually build that #Gunpla kit I've had lying around for a while."
After Christmas:
"Hope the four new kits, action bases, markers and sandpaper sponges I ordered arrive s... Wtf just happened?"
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*occultists. Oh, how I wish it was singular.

From the thelema community on Reddit: Technomancy: The art and magick of using technology as a medium to communicate between worlds. Explore this post and more from the thelema community

AI "occultist" are really trying to push AI into Esoteric - including Thelemic - circles. At least communities are hitting back every time some new useless theory, text or deep "insights" are posted. But using it to "communicate between worlds" is probably one of the worst ideas I've seen yet.

Oh, great, guess I won't count on that ever becoming a solution then.

No, I get that. And I can imagine even the slightly more complicated ones start to take up more space for the building alone. Then there's the problem of where to put them...

I mean, it technically runs, but the laptop simply can't handle it. It can handle Lord of the Rings online, but not Guild Wars. I'm hoping for it to be added to GeForce now - the Steam version is on there.