ataraxia nervosa

Sick guy: I THINK I MIGHT NEED TO GO TO THE DOCTOR.. LEMME CONSULT THE FLOWCHART... Flowchart: "SHOULD I GO TO THE DOCTOR (OR DENTIST) *A single arrow points to another card* "IT IS TOO LATE FOR YOU USE YOUR FINAL DAYS TO TERRORIZE AND ELIMINATE HEALTH EXECUTIVES TO ENACT REAL CHANGE" *sick guy, dressed like Rambo*: cough cough

sitting in a waiting room this morning while my partner had a 6 hour long cancer removal surgery when I saw the news that the insurance CEO was shot. Im paying out of pocket because the best alternative for us is partial coverage @ 1000 a month with a 15000 deductible. Anyway heres a unrelated comic

Started reading “The Silent Companions” by Laura Purcell and oh my god!.. So good! I’m not big on Victorian fiction, but this is just a marvellous book — with a great sense of place and time. And it’s pretty creepy too. Just what the doctor ordered 👻

Finally switched to gigabit connection — only to realise at the very last moment, that neither of my routers could handle it anyway 🤡

And Crusader: No Remorse! Oh my god! And Dark Sun! Basically, I wish it were the 90s again 🤡

I freakin miss janky primeval games like the original Alone in the Dark, Primal Rage, Little Big Adventure, and Terra Incognita: Strike Force Centauri 😭

I mean, the man wrote “My Chivalric Fiasco” and “The Brief & Frightening Reign of Phil”! He’s gotta be one of the good ones, right “?

After reading about Cormac McCarthy, I just pray that George Saunders will not turn out to be some sort of a creep. That would be a fatal blow for me. #booksky

YouTube video by Ahab - Topic Old Thunder

I ended up listening to nothing but funeral doom for a couple of months, cause I loved it so much. And Ahab will always have a special place in my heart, since it was what taught me to appreciate the genre. youtu.be/9aMVOoaTUSE?...

That’s because I got too into this stuff. Couldn’t just keep it as background music, had to really listen every time it was on 🤡 youtu.be/jvM-BrNo0Mg?...

YouTube video by Ahab - Topic The Hunt

A little Ahab appreciation thread. I first started listening to this band (and to funeral doom in general) , because it really helped me concentrate on work. Fast forward a couple of weeks, and I had to look for something new to play while working. youtu.be/IZu713hTb9w?...

me in my Eco chamber

I would say anywhere but “The Island of the Day Before”. Didn’t like that one for some reason. Now “Foucault’s Pendulum” or “Baudolino” — that is where it’s at!

Love me some Baudolino

I’m trying dammit! 😭

Oscar.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

As a person who grew up and lived his whole life in high-rises, I respectfully disagree.

Disclaimer: don’t self-medicate, always consult a professional when choosing your meds, and take care of yourself.

a dog wearing goggles and a lab coat looks at a beaker of liquid ALT: a dog wearing goggles and a lab coat looks at a beaker of liquid

May I just say that as a guy who’s been living with depression for many years, I am so freakin’ glad that aripiprazole exists. Antidepressants don’t really do the trick for me on their own, but when you, say, pair some Prozac with this bad boy, something magical happens.

Screenshot of a YouTube video called “I sword fight my ex girlfriend in a Denny’s parking lot”

Man I love playing Hades

A bald humanoid wearing a loincloth, with spindly fingers and sharp teeth and large eyes with catlike pupils, his mouth dripping with blood, squats at the mouth of a cave saying to himself "I just worry that maybe I'm not 'relatable content'. Who's going to look at old Cave Ghoul, hanging out in his cave eating horses and rolling in filth and think 'oh he's just like me'? Is my pain not a universal feeling? Must I be a perfect mirror before anyone will acknowledge me?" A bloody arm hangs out of the cave and on the ground below cave ghoul is a severed horse head.

Relatable Content

Fun fact: when writer Michael Avallone told the producers of the 1968 film "Krakatoa, East of Java" that Krakatoa was WEST of Java they told him: "shut up and write the book..."

Buying a book and actually reading it are two very different hobbies.

Eh, I stopped giving a damn after I realised how little all these awards really mean. Especially TGA.

I’m ashamed to say, I’ve never heard about any of these games, but they all sound absolutely fantastic. Sold!

So, after enjoying #bluesky for a bit, I have to say: the total absence of all those godawful crypto ads that are so ubiquitous on X these days, is such a game changer for me.

Oh yes! Hell yeah! I really should read more Vinge, since this is the only book by him in my library, but it just blew me away. I mean, it had everything! Collective consciousness! Rogue god-like AIs! That whole thing with Zones of Thought!! Oh, just thinking about it all makes me wanna reread it!

The cover of the book Weirdumentary, featuring Bigfoot and a UFO.

In the 1970s, an incredibly popular new film genre emerged, one that would later be reborn on television. And yet there has never been a book on the subject…until now. Weirdumentary examines over 45 movies, positioned as documentaries, that began with Chariots of the Gods (1970) and ended with The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981). Relying on spurious experts, questionable evidence, and low-budget dramatizations, these pseudo-scientific documentaries examined subjects ranging from the Bermuda Triangle to Bigfoot, from the paranormal to speculative histories. And they made millions of dollars from Americans who repeatedly bought tickets to them at movie theaters. Weirdumentary features a fun and accessible history of these crazy films, individual entries on all of them, and a plethora of fantastic images. Weirdumentary is a must for fans of the cinema, of pop culture, of the 1970s, and of UFOlogy, the paranormal, cryptids, and all things weird!

Coming in March, a new book from film historian Gary D. Rhodes covering the rise of fringe science pseudo-documentaries in the 1970s, beginning with "Chariots of the Gods," whose smash success launched the paranormal pseudo-documentary genre.

I spent several years after that looking for “Lord of the Rings” cause it was mentioned in the afterword, and I wanted to know what came next. And when I finally got my hands on it, it changed my life. But that, I think, is a whole separate story.