jackdaw Φ
@quietsociety.bsky.social
Chicago improv. I like procedural art and narrative, paranormal + cosmic horror. ♠️💜
Smelled a candle marketed as "Capricorn" and thought "who would pay for this?" So... good job.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Smelled a candle marketed as "Capricorn" and thought "who would pay for this?" So... good job.
Pseudoscience drops falsifiability entirely just to mumble "hrrm, energy, hrrm, vibrations." Why not go wild? If physicists were allowed to just make something up, they'd come up with amazing self-consistent nonsense that would at least be interesting. I know this is true because many do it anyway.
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Pseudoscience drops falsifiability entirely just to mumble "hrrm, energy, hrrm, vibrations." Why not go wild? If physicists were allowed to just make something up, they'd come up with amazing self-consistent nonsense that would at least be interesting. I know this is true because many do it anyway.
"Knowledge undermines horror" I say as I watch the sea recede to the horizon
April 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Knowledge undermines horror" I say as I watch the sea recede to the horizon
Happy International Asexuality Day to everyone celebrating by organizing notes for your worldbuilding project
April 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Happy International Asexuality Day to everyone celebrating by organizing notes for your worldbuilding project
put the crinkle ball on the string toy and got the catboys going x-games
March 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
put the crinkle ball on the string toy and got the catboys going x-games
Can't believe these people had the nerve to bring a baby on the flight WITHOUT preparing 200 bags of snacks and earplugs for everyone.
February 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Can't believe these people had the nerve to bring a baby on the flight WITHOUT preparing 200 bags of snacks and earplugs for everyone.
YouTube forgive me, for I have clicked on one short of bill burr on conan
January 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
YouTube forgive me, for I have clicked on one short of bill burr on conan
Water fountains are such a devil's bargain for #POTS. "You want water, but are you willing to pay the terrible price of bending over to get it?"
January 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Water fountains are such a devil's bargain for #POTS. "You want water, but are you willing to pay the terrible price of bending over to get it?"
My creative process:
1. Think "this song kinda reminds me of my idea"
2. Imagine a fan-made music video with hypothetical clips from my project
3. Convert clips to requirements
1. Think "this song kinda reminds me of my idea"
2. Imagine a fan-made music video with hypothetical clips from my project
3. Convert clips to requirements
January 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My creative process:
1. Think "this song kinda reminds me of my idea"
2. Imagine a fan-made music video with hypothetical clips from my project
3. Convert clips to requirements
1. Think "this song kinda reminds me of my idea"
2. Imagine a fan-made music video with hypothetical clips from my project
3. Convert clips to requirements
Isn’t it enough to see that the cosmos is terrifying without having to believe that there are eldritch horrors at the bottom of it too?
January 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Isn’t it enough to see that the cosmos is terrifying without having to believe that there are eldritch horrors at the bottom of it too?
wondering how I can recapture that feeling of early 2000s internet communities, where the barrier to entry was being tech-savvy enough to even use them. and facing the horrifying awareness that they're still there, I just can't clear that barrier anymore.
January 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
wondering how I can recapture that feeling of early 2000s internet communities, where the barrier to entry was being tech-savvy enough to even use them. and facing the horrifying awareness that they're still there, I just can't clear that barrier anymore.
Author: The message is that some things simply can't be explained.
Me: Which things?
Author: The fictional things I made up and refused to explain, mostly.
Me: Which things?
Author: The fictional things I made up and refused to explain, mostly.
December 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Author: The message is that some things simply can't be explained.
Me: Which things?
Author: The fictional things I made up and refused to explain, mostly.
Me: Which things?
Author: The fictional things I made up and refused to explain, mostly.
museum of surgical science had a dozen plaques on Semmelweis but no hot water tap in the bathroom
December 27, 2024 at 10:11 PM
museum of surgical science had a dozen plaques on Semmelweis but no hot water tap in the bathroom
I'm not gonna call it my dream. But if my death can't be in a cave clutching a map, second-best would be one immortalized in a USCSB industrial safety video
December 25, 2024 at 1:03 AM
I'm not gonna call it my dream. But if my death can't be in a cave clutching a map, second-best would be one immortalized in a USCSB industrial safety video
Look, if you dig up my toe and cook it into a stew, I get to haunt you. I just think that's fair
December 22, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Look, if you dig up my toe and cook it into a stew, I get to haunt you. I just think that's fair
"fear of the unknown is the strongest kind of fear" actually a statistical error. terrors georg, who knows nothing and fears everything, should not have been counted
December 22, 2024 at 1:51 AM
"fear of the unknown is the strongest kind of fear" actually a statistical error. terrors georg, who knows nothing and fears everything, should not have been counted
spinning the wheel of fixations and hoping it lands on "drinking water." ...Antarctica again??
December 5, 2024 at 1:44 AM
spinning the wheel of fixations and hoping it lands on "drinking water." ...Antarctica again??
I love what I've heard called "process horror" or "work simulator horror," not sure if there's a better term. "I don't have time to deal with a ghost right now, I've gotta get these orders out the door" is just a delightful problem to have.
November 26, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I love what I've heard called "process horror" or "work simulator horror," not sure if there's a better term. "I don't have time to deal with a ghost right now, I've gotta get these orders out the door" is just a delightful problem to have.
Thinking back to when I argued that I should make a game about Cannery Row instead of writing a book report, because I'd retain it better. So many years later, and yep: I still remember Steinbeck's vivid themes of catching starfish with a grappling hook as they fall from the sky
November 26, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Thinking back to when I argued that I should make a game about Cannery Row instead of writing a book report, because I'd retain it better. So many years later, and yep: I still remember Steinbeck's vivid themes of catching starfish with a grappling hook as they fall from the sky