Grail Seeker
@grailseeker.bsky.social
Recumbent tri(c)k(st)er. Interests: myth, legend, folklore, symbolism, spirit of place, hauntology, psychogeography, environmental art, ecospirituality, apophenia, weirdness, forteana, metaphysics, mythopoeia, neurodivergence.
Why I find writing hard.
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The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap … . Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
—Chuang Tzu.
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The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap … . Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.
—Chuang Tzu.
Read the full quote here:
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December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why I find writing hard.
Found this in my photos and laughed. Tag yourself. I'm the imp with the goatee.
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Found this in my photos and laughed. Tag yourself. I'm the imp with the goatee.
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#hookland folk please contact me on Signal or by bsky DMs if you still have them. My Signal details are in my pinned post.
If you love Hookland, we need you in the working group.
Things need doing. If you are in touch with others who aren't here, give them my details.
Help is necessary, now.
If you love Hookland, we need you in the working group.
Things need doing. If you are in touch with others who aren't here, give them my details.
Help is necessary, now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#hookland folk please contact me on Signal or by bsky DMs if you still have them. My Signal details are in my pinned post.
If you love Hookland, we need you in the working group.
Things need doing. If you are in touch with others who aren't here, give them my details.
Help is necessary, now.
If you love Hookland, we need you in the working group.
Things need doing. If you are in touch with others who aren't here, give them my details.
Help is necessary, now.
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Daniel is a Cherokee citizen by the way!
Science fiction author @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social discusses one of the reasons why he made one of the characters in his new alien contact novel 'Hole in the Sky' a Native American.
A sneak peek from our interview with Daniel, dropping in the next few days on YouTube - was a great chat!
A sneak peek from our interview with Daniel, dropping in the next few days on YouTube - was a great chat!
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Daniel is a Cherokee citizen by the way!
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"Yet the myths will not fit us ready-made.
It is the meaning of the poet's trade
To re-create the fables and revive
In men the energies by which they live,
- #ADHope, 'An Epistle from Holofernes'
It is the meaning of the poet's trade
To re-create the fables and revive
In men the energies by which they live,
- #ADHope, 'An Epistle from Holofernes'
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Yet the myths will not fit us ready-made.
It is the meaning of the poet's trade
To re-create the fables and revive
In men the energies by which they live,
- #ADHope, 'An Epistle from Holofernes'
It is the meaning of the poet's trade
To re-create the fables and revive
In men the energies by which they live,
- #ADHope, 'An Epistle from Holofernes'
Are LLMs even theoretically capable of admitting they don't know something. If so, what would that look like in practice?
"I don't know" is one of the most powerful intellectual positions imaginable.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
Where you plant your "I don't know" flag signals your research question, methodology, and even what *counts* as evidence.
Current commercial manifestations of GenAI make it so you cannot even see the spot on the ground.
My biggest GenAI-related intellectual fear is about the future of “I don’t know”
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Are LLMs even theoretically capable of admitting they don't know something. If so, what would that look like in practice?
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Life is an act of narrative will. Often it is an act of own will against the narratives of our family, the editing that they try to impose to align it with their own mythology. How often do we long for a blank page where we can write ourselves and be the reader seeing ourself in the words.
November 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Life is an act of narrative will. Often it is an act of own will against the narratives of our family, the editing that they try to impose to align it with their own mythology. How often do we long for a blank page where we can write ourselves and be the reader seeing ourself in the words.
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Things are getting scary financial wise. Haven't had a commission in months & old former clients who promised me they were going to call me 'real soon' are ghosting me
I've never had a client reaching out from Bsky, but I'll try once again: please visit absurdbydesign.com to check my illustrations
I've never had a client reaching out from Bsky, but I'll try once again: please visit absurdbydesign.com to check my illustrations
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Things are getting scary financial wise. Haven't had a commission in months & old former clients who promised me they were going to call me 'real soon' are ghosting me
I've never had a client reaching out from Bsky, but I'll try once again: please visit absurdbydesign.com to check my illustrations
I've never had a client reaching out from Bsky, but I'll try once again: please visit absurdbydesign.com to check my illustrations
Was this before the zebra crossing?
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
📷 google images
📷 google images
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Was this before the zebra crossing?
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Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
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"Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it." ~ Colin Wilson
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Imagination should be used not to escape reality, but to create it." ~ Colin Wilson
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"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."
-Douglas Adams
-Douglas Adams
The brain is the stupidest object in the universe.
Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.
Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.
Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain.
Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.
October 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans."
-Douglas Adams
-Douglas Adams
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Brian Fang discusses why mathematics developed without empirical motivation turned out to precisely describe the physical patterns of nature: Nature is itself the expression of mind-like structures also directly present in the human intellect.
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-mathemat...
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-mathemat...
Why mathematics works: The mind-reality connection
Brian Fang discusses the many instances in which mathematics developed without empirical motivation turned out to precisely describe the physical patterns of nature. Why would primates evolved to hunt...
www.essentiafoundation.org
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Brian Fang discusses why mathematics developed without empirical motivation turned out to precisely describe the physical patterns of nature: Nature is itself the expression of mind-like structures also directly present in the human intellect.
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-mathemat...
www.essentiafoundation.org/why-mathemat...
Just seen what some tasteless twat has done to my childhood home, sold a few years ago when my parents died. TV in every room, zebra-striped sofa, large pattern wallpaper and generic animal 'art' everywhere, front garden gravelled, back garden neglected apart from the old oak, which has been felled.
October 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Just seen what some tasteless twat has done to my childhood home, sold a few years ago when my parents died. TV in every room, zebra-striped sofa, large pattern wallpaper and generic animal 'art' everywhere, front garden gravelled, back garden neglected apart from the old oak, which has been felled.
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See also: "One bad apple spoils the barrel."
True, but this is one of those phrases (like Jack of all trades, master of none) whose meaning has been completely twisted by missing off the end of the phrase
Restoring "...in matters of taste" suddenly changes the meaning to "Sell Karen the frock which doesn't suit her if she really wants it"
Restoring "...in matters of taste" suddenly changes the meaning to "Sell Karen the frock which doesn't suit her if she really wants it"
the person who came up with "the customer is always right" probably meant well but ended up doing irreparable harm to society
October 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
See also: "One bad apple spoils the barrel."
Contacting the dead.
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Contacting the dead.
Found a dumped geological collection, (and a sand dollar), complete with catalogue numbers. On a local heath. All I need now is the catalogue.
October 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Found a dumped geological collection, (and a sand dollar), complete with catalogue numbers. On a local heath. All I need now is the catalogue.
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1/ It looks like something from a galaxy far, far away, but this is the Harvest Moon rising over Titterstone Clee. The sky was a vivid blend of pink and purple, contrasting with the cool tones of the radar dome below. I had reached the summit with plenty of time to spare and... #Shropshire
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
1/ It looks like something from a galaxy far, far away, but this is the Harvest Moon rising over Titterstone Clee. The sky was a vivid blend of pink and purple, contrasting with the cool tones of the radar dome below. I had reached the summit with plenty of time to spare and... #Shropshire
Scared of my own shadow.
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Scared of my own shadow.