Steen Comer (oom bop oom bop bop)
@mediapathic.bsky.social
Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist.
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
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everybody shut the fuck up new Laibach video just dropped
Laibach - Allgorhythm (feat. Wiyaala) [Official Video]
YouTube video by Laibach
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
everybody shut the fuck up new Laibach video just dropped
Gotta admit I get a weird kick out of that thing where attempts at accurate historiography hit that youtube algorithm black box and you get titles like "You Won't BELIEVE how the HUSSARS used FLAILS!!"
February 10, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Gotta admit I get a weird kick out of that thing where attempts at accurate historiography hit that youtube algorithm black box and you get titles like "You Won't BELIEVE how the HUSSARS used FLAILS!!"
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🟠nobody brings this up but it's crazy these 2 radically different yet both excellent takes on the devil came out the SAME year 1985
February 10, 2026 at 7:03 AM
🟠nobody brings this up but it's crazy these 2 radically different yet both excellent takes on the devil came out the SAME year 1985
Speaking of KMFDM. TIL they do a cover of Yeats' THE SECOND COMING and it absolutely slaps kmfdm.bandcamp.com/track/the-se...
THE SECOND COMING, by KMFDM
from the album ENEMY
kmfdm.bandcamp.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:32 AM
Speaking of KMFDM. TIL they do a cover of Yeats' THE SECOND COMING and it absolutely slaps kmfdm.bandcamp.com/track/the-se...
So many exciting new verbs in this brave new world of ours
Anyway I don’t believe there will be a moon base in under ten years but I DO believe that there’s a chance that inside ten years Jeff Bezos, Nikki Minaj, and Kyle Rittenhouse will get Titan Submerisbled on the maiden voyage because Musk fired all the “woke” engineers
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 AM
So many exciting new verbs in this brave new world of ours
in case you needed a blunt and angry theme song for today www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxY5...
Paradise
YouTube video by KMFDM - Topic
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM
in case you needed a blunt and angry theme song for today www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxY5...
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce
February 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce
This whole Bad Bunny thing is, personally for me, a really fun extreme version of "I do not happen to enjoy what you do and I want you to keep doing it as hard as you possibly can."
February 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
This whole Bad Bunny thing is, personally for me, a really fun extreme version of "I do not happen to enjoy what you do and I want you to keep doing it as hard as you possibly can."
I would Watch a Sports so hard.
Everyone saying that we’re going to get a vacuous pop performance for Super Bowl half time next year
But no, nfl too smart for that.
It’s gonna be so hardcore, over the top political that it will absolutely confuse the shit out of everyone
calling it now
LAIBACH FOR SUPER BOWL HALFTIME 2027
But no, nfl too smart for that.
It’s gonna be so hardcore, over the top political that it will absolutely confuse the shit out of everyone
calling it now
LAIBACH FOR SUPER BOWL HALFTIME 2027
February 9, 2026 at 3:56 AM
I would Watch a Sports so hard.
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
It’s nice to see Sports Men from opposing teams hugging.
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
It’s nice to see Sports Men from opposing teams hugging.
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"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide
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i went back to a tougher, pre-covid syllabus for my intro NT class this term. students have been rising to the occasion magnificently. like, for real, i was expecting a bunch of drops after day 1. i got emails and office visits instead.
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
i went back to a tougher, pre-covid syllabus for my intro NT class this term. students have been rising to the occasion magnificently. like, for real, i was expecting a bunch of drops after day 1. i got emails and office visits instead.
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
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The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
February 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
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my wife did my estrogen injection for me as I laid on the hood of a 90s Volvo parked at the abandoned nuclear power plant
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
my wife did my estrogen injection for me as I laid on the hood of a 90s Volvo parked at the abandoned nuclear power plant
NOOOOOOOOO
(there's still a backup at welcometozombo.com. OP says this on the reply but I wanted to save everyone else the same psychic damage I received)
(there's still a backup at welcometozombo.com. OP says this on the reply but I wanted to save everyone else the same psychic damage I received)
February 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
NOOOOOOOOO
(there's still a backup at welcometozombo.com. OP says this on the reply but I wanted to save everyone else the same psychic damage I received)
(there's still a backup at welcometozombo.com. OP says this on the reply but I wanted to save everyone else the same psychic damage I received)
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“There’s no such thing as unskilled labor” is problematic because it excludes bassists in punk bands
December 27, 2023 at 4:17 PM
“There’s no such thing as unskilled labor” is problematic because it excludes bassists in punk bands
Who up deriving a theory of ontology from network principles
February 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Who up deriving a theory of ontology from network principles
Say what you will about globalism, but I’m currently listening to an Arabic pop interpretation of Lili Marlene.
February 8, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Say what you will about globalism, but I’m currently listening to an Arabic pop interpretation of Lili Marlene.
I just saw a dad and two daughters walking, all three wearing the same anonymous logo-less baggy grey sweatpants and hoodies
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I just saw a dad and two daughters walking, all three wearing the same anonymous logo-less baggy grey sweatpants and hoodies
The story is funny, of course, but what I’m really impressed with is how the Ars writer pulled out every dick joke he could think of and crammed them in there.
February 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The story is funny, of course, but what I’m really impressed with is how the Ars writer pulled out every dick joke he could think of and crammed them in there.
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Bandcamp Friday, y'all
Not enough zebras are staring at you with a disarmingly blank mix of curiosity and accusation.
You could fix that with just one purchase of Seeming's antifascist darkwave testament, The World.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
You could fix that with just one purchase of Seeming's antifascist darkwave testament, The World.
seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...
The World, by Seeming
11 track album
seeming.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Bandcamp Friday, y'all
Shout out to those autistic friends who tell you hard truths because they have no idea it's supposed to be difficult.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Shout out to those autistic friends who tell you hard truths because they have no idea it's supposed to be difficult.