katherine morayati
morayati.bsky.social
katherine morayati
@morayati.bsky.social
coder, music writer, game maker

katherinemorayati.com
diagrams that look like shitposts
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
prime juxtaposition on the timeline between “our culture is doomed, as evidenced by roblox calling children’s nascent gambling problems an exciting opportunity“ and “our culture is doomed, as evidenced by people liking taylor swift”
counterpoint: no it didn't

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b... (gift)
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A few years ago I had a project that involved extracting the art assets from a copy of MS Bob, and you may be either delighted or horrified to know that the entire thing is a series of Access database files with bitmaps embedded directly in the DB
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the "band members" section of olivia's myspace is just the coexist logo
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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we think 90s music was grunge, gangsta rap and Electronica but it was actually Prince spilling tea in an AOL chatroom
Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…
Unpopular opinion: the Purple Medley is one of the best things Prince ever did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nJE...
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
your own impersonal jesus
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
tired: we have created the Torment Nexus

wired: we have created Uzumaki

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
best new garden path sentence
The credulity.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
subscribe to stereogum, not just for my sake (but also, for my sake)
Big changes at Stereogum today.

A message from our founder: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Every fall we put together a list of 40 emerging acts keeping us excited about music discovery. Stereogum Best New Artist alumni include Tame Impala (2010), Frank Ocean (2011), Charli XCX (2012), and many others we still follow closely.

Check out the Class Of 2025: stereogum.com/2476155/the-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
the thing about whisper networks is that they frequently contain their subjects
👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Clues By Sam is what I play instead of Wordle now. here’s today’s result

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 12th 2025) in 04:17
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November 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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environmental storytelling
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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If you often find yourself forgetting to luxuriate in the wind, just carry the case to Kaze no Notam with you at all times as a reminder
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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dreamt my phone had thousands of photos of goth chappell roan and they all had shake hastily thrown onto them
June 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
ideal PR email too:

- no mail-merge preamble pretending to be talking to you personally
- clearly identifiable link to the track you don't have to PgDn 3 times to get to
- no press release-isms about unleashing the bold shift into raw visionary vulnerability for his most personal record yet
most relatable thing about Zohran is that Stereogum passed on writing about his music
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
who posts a *screenshot* of a copypasta
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an aloof wife
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
@klayjamesenos.bsky.social and I have a series -- his paintings, my code -- in "about, not by; for, not from," a virtual exhibition by Unrequited Leisure, featuring work where "artists probe the cultural gravity of algorithms without surrendering authorship to them."

newart.city/show/about-n...
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM