Cosmic Chambo
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"non-self improvement and heavy mellow music"
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
The sound of the heart's luminous emotional capacities, shattered by great, perhaps unbearable suffering
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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Why don't I have more followers I wonder while posting multiple verbose threads about gift-giving etiquette, challenges of sitting meditation practice, gripes about blurbs on SF novels from 20 years ago, and "inside metal" commentary on the album ASH ECLIPSES FLESH by the band Terror Corpse.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Why don't I have more followers I wonder while posting multiple verbose threads about gift-giving etiquette, challenges of sitting meditation practice, gripes about blurbs on SF novels from 20 years ago, and "inside metal" commentary on the album ASH ECLIPSES FLESH by the band Terror Corpse.
Giving people consumable gifts frees the gift receiver from the responsibility to display, store, watch, read, listen to, or wear the gift prominently. If they like the gift, they consume it and it's gone. If they don't like it, they trash it or someone else consumes it. No problema.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Giving people consumable gifts frees the gift receiver from the responsibility to display, store, watch, read, listen to, or wear the gift prominently. If they like the gift, they consume it and it's gone. If they don't like it, they trash it or someone else consumes it. No problema.
Whenever I find super low-tuned death metal that has Shoggoth Kinetics album art and Dobber Beverly doing "big room natural drum sounds" I am suddenly interested in death metal again.
Ash Eclipses Flesh, by Terror Corpse
10 track album
darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Whenever I find super low-tuned death metal that has Shoggoth Kinetics album art and Dobber Beverly doing "big room natural drum sounds" I am suddenly interested in death metal again.
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
An example of doing zazen wrong is when I want to read some Blue Cliff to start, but it's a PDF on a Mac and I can't transfer it to a Galaxy tablet so I'm fighting with Bluetooth and becoming so depressed over the suffering manufactured by proprietary tech that I never make it back to my cushion.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
An example of doing zazen wrong is when I want to read some Blue Cliff to start, but it's a PDF on a Mac and I can't transfer it to a Galaxy tablet so I'm fighting with Bluetooth and becoming so depressed over the suffering manufactured by proprietary tech that I never make it back to my cushion.
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The Fantasy RPG kids I knew in the 1980s Boston suburbs: blah blah Rush blah filk songs blah blah Silmarillion Dragonlance
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Fantasy RPG kids I knew in the 1980s Boston suburbs: blah blah Rush blah filk songs blah blah Silmarillion Dragonlance
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
White Dwarf: JUDGE DREDD! SPEED METAL! FUCK YOU, MAGGIE! SKULLS AND OVERSIZED ARMOR!
This Stephen King blurb for Robert Charles Wilson's xlnt sci fi novel SPIN sucks so bad.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This Stephen King blurb for Robert Charles Wilson's xlnt sci fi novel SPIN sucks so bad.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
"LIKE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA ON TV [wat?] this is SF that doesn’t know it’s SF."
You can't be a logorrheic horror writer with Harry Potter cameos in your fantasy novels and then go Harold Bloom-mode over SF.
There's a nonzero chance that I could secure several million in VC funding for an AI startup with a pitch that uses arbitrary linguistic jargon to describe Mad Libs.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There's a nonzero chance that I could secure several million in VC funding for an AI startup with a pitch that uses arbitrary linguistic jargon to describe Mad Libs.
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You don't hate the press enough
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You don't hate the press enough
Escaping to an off-grid desert compound was always a long shot but losing that fantasy cuz of the lifetime dependence on in$$$ulin that goes with an adult T1D diagnosis hits harder after watching two lonely brainworm tech bros hyping AI that burns forests to roast a "friend" with slurs at a "party."
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Escaping to an off-grid desert compound was always a long shot but losing that fantasy cuz of the lifetime dependence on in$$$ulin that goes with an adult T1D diagnosis hits harder after watching two lonely brainworm tech bros hyping AI that burns forests to roast a "friend" with slurs at a "party."
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Tangential to the Jimmy Cliff news but after you watch The Harder They Come you gotta see Franco Rosso’s Babylon, which took the top of my head off (my Yank ear did have to turn on subtitles), & Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion.
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Tangential to the Jimmy Cliff news but after you watch The Harder They Come you gotta see Franco Rosso’s Babylon, which took the top of my head off (my Yank ear did have to turn on subtitles), & Menelik Shabazz’s Burning an Illusion.
Swinsian is one of the most useful tools for dodging the rent extraction schemes of music streaming platforms. One-time license fee for the app plus a couple rounds of updates including esoteric features that will surely delight fellow holders of unwieldy native digital music libraries.
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Swinsian is one of the most useful tools for dodging the rent extraction schemes of music streaming platforms. One-time license fee for the app plus a couple rounds of updates including esoteric features that will surely delight fellow holders of unwieldy native digital music libraries.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Lauren Bacall's low-key negging of Humphrey Bogart's character "Harry Morgan" throughout TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) is so great. AFAIK it's never commented on within the film, but "Marie" only ever refers to him as "Steve" and it gets funnier and funnier as their IRL chemistry increases.
To Have and Have Not - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Howard Hawks • 1944 • United States
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
“Anybody got a match?” With her very first line in her very first film, Lauren Bacall set the s...
www.criterionchannel.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Lauren Bacall's low-key negging of Humphrey Bogart's character "Harry Morgan" throughout TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944) is so great. AFAIK it's never commented on within the film, but "Marie" only ever refers to him as "Steve" and it gets funnier and funnier as their IRL chemistry increases.
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
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In a field full of frustrating people with talent, I think the most irritating part of country music is that if David Allan Coe didn’t insist on being so goddamn David Allan Coe, he would actually be an esteemed songwriter and performer and not a divisive cult figure that insists on being a dick.
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
In a field full of frustrating people with talent, I think the most irritating part of country music is that if David Allan Coe didn’t insist on being so goddamn David Allan Coe, he would actually be an esteemed songwriter and performer and not a divisive cult figure that insists on being a dick.
At some point I went from "I don't like writing but I like having written" to "I don't like writing and I don't like the things that I've written" which leaves me with "I write because I'm a writer" but at this point I stare at the blank page more than I write so perhaps freedom is within sight.
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
At some point I went from "I don't like writing but I like having written" to "I don't like writing and I don't like the things that I've written" which leaves me with "I write because I'm a writer" but at this point I stare at the blank page more than I write so perhaps freedom is within sight.
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Trump is filling his government with Nazis, consolidating authoritarian power, and eroding democracy at every chance.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
And yet these 86 House Democrats voted for a right-wing messaging amendment to say that the real authoritarians are the socialists.
Pathetic.
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Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Receptionists. Waiters. Dentists. Professional athletes.
Elon Musk will make more than all of them with his new $1 trillion pay package.
www.instagram.com/reel/DROJL2Q...
Elon Musk will make more than all of them with his new $1 trillion pay package.
www.instagram.com/reel/DROJL2Q...
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "Elon Musk will make more than every professional athlete combined."
The video examines the extreme wealth gap in America, with Elon Musk earning more than every single professional in the country, from athletes to librarians, highlighting the issue of wealth concentra...
www.instagram.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Receptionists. Waiters. Dentists. Professional athletes.
Elon Musk will make more than all of them with his new $1 trillion pay package.
www.instagram.com/reel/DROJL2Q...
Elon Musk will make more than all of them with his new $1 trillion pay package.
www.instagram.com/reel/DROJL2Q...
The first truly abysmal day of Northeast Indiana's overwhelmingly gloomy fall and winter season. We have 280ish cloudy days/year, so it's like the Pacific Northwest if it was a flat, denuded landscape of industrial agriculture and the social, cultural, and architectural ruins of US manufacturing.
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The first truly abysmal day of Northeast Indiana's overwhelmingly gloomy fall and winter season. We have 280ish cloudy days/year, so it's like the Pacific Northwest if it was a flat, denuded landscape of industrial agriculture and the social, cultural, and architectural ruins of US manufacturing.
Reading middle-aged job-hunting woes and one reason it may be difficult for people over 40-50 to get hired without leveling-up is when the people in charge are used to exploiting their colleagues and they know it's easier to take advantage of someone in their 20s or 30s who's never been in charge.
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reading middle-aged job-hunting woes and one reason it may be difficult for people over 40-50 to get hired without leveling-up is when the people in charge are used to exploiting their colleagues and they know it's easier to take advantage of someone in their 20s or 30s who's never been in charge.
Watching basketball while listening to Funkadelic helps me feel better.
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Watching basketball while listening to Funkadelic helps me feel better.
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The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.