Zak Jarvis
@zakjarvis.bsky.social
Artist, writer, extremely niche historian. He/him.
Links to my published fiction can be found on http://voidmonster.com
My collected writings on straight razors can be found at http://theshiveringbeggar.com
Tabula rasa accounts are auto-blocked.
Links to my published fiction can be found on http://voidmonster.com
My collected writings on straight razors can be found at http://theshiveringbeggar.com
Tabula rasa accounts are auto-blocked.
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Zak Jarvis
@zakjarvis.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Anybody want a highly realistic, life size human skull made from a 3d scan of a 14th century archaeological site in Visby, Sweden? I make and sell these. DM for details.
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It's Bandcamp Friday! My band Djinn And Miskatonic has music you can buy.
Our most recent EP, Paleo:
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Our most recent EP, Paleo:
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Paleo EP, by Djinn and Miskatonic
3 track album
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's Bandcamp Friday! My band Djinn And Miskatonic has music you can buy.
Our most recent EP, Paleo:
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
Our most recent EP, Paleo:
djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep
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“Hey Mugwump, how do you make a hormone?”
“How.”
“Don’t pay her!”
“Ugh.”
“I farted at a friend’s wedding. I had to sit in my own pew.”
“Please stop.”
“I asked a farmer: ‘Why does that cow only have 2 legs?’ The farmer said it was ‘lean beef.’”
“Just kill me now Dave!”
“How.”
“Don’t pay her!”
“Ugh.”
“I farted at a friend’s wedding. I had to sit in my own pew.”
“Please stop.”
“I asked a farmer: ‘Why does that cow only have 2 legs?’ The farmer said it was ‘lean beef.’”
“Just kill me now Dave!”
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“Hey Mugwump, how do you make a hormone?”
“How.”
“Don’t pay her!”
“Ugh.”
“I farted at a friend’s wedding. I had to sit in my own pew.”
“Please stop.”
“I asked a farmer: ‘Why does that cow only have 2 legs?’ The farmer said it was ‘lean beef.’”
“Just kill me now Dave!”
“How.”
“Don’t pay her!”
“Ugh.”
“I farted at a friend’s wedding. I had to sit in my own pew.”
“Please stop.”
“I asked a farmer: ‘Why does that cow only have 2 legs?’ The farmer said it was ‘lean beef.’”
“Just kill me now Dave!”
Did my old-usual bike route on the new e-bike. 23ish miles, nice and fast, still have half the battery left to get up the hill going home.
I did manage to scrape my knee pretty good after misjudging a corner while passing another cyclist.
I did manage to scrape my knee pretty good after misjudging a corner while passing another cyclist.
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Did my old-usual bike route on the new e-bike. 23ish miles, nice and fast, still have half the battery left to get up the hill going home.
I did manage to scrape my knee pretty good after misjudging a corner while passing another cyclist.
I did manage to scrape my knee pretty good after misjudging a corner while passing another cyclist.
I don't think there has been enough discussion of the use of Tangerine Dream's "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" in the first season of The Terror.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I don't think there has been enough discussion of the use of Tangerine Dream's "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" in the first season of The Terror.
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Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
December 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their datasets - this bill would force them. If you're pro AI regulation (esp if you're in Bay Area), please show up and offer your support for this bill! If you can't make it, help spread the word!
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
RSVP link: bit.ly/44lRMsX Details below 👇
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it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
it finally happened -- a good student of mine vanished from class about six weeks ago. this student reappeared today and explained that they had been in ICE detention in another state during that time. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end. ICE needs to end.
Fun fact! Star Wars was freshly in theaters when the last person was executed by guillotine in France.
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fun fact! Star Wars was freshly in theaters when the last person was executed by guillotine in France.
My new instrumental drone metal album title:
"Brutalist Monument To the Gooner's Disappointment Cum Means Something Else in Latin"
"Brutalist Monument To the Gooner's Disappointment Cum Means Something Else in Latin"
December 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My new instrumental drone metal album title:
"Brutalist Monument To the Gooner's Disappointment Cum Means Something Else in Latin"
"Brutalist Monument To the Gooner's Disappointment Cum Means Something Else in Latin"
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Show your solidarity with artists and stand against censorship by buying this game on Itch before it gets delisted there too. This is one of those times where voting with your wallet *can* make a difference. A platform making a chunk of change off sales will 100% think twice before delisting.
Humble's now banned it too, post-launch:
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
www.ign.com/articles/hor...
Horses, the Upsetting Horror Game Previously Banned on Steam, Gets Last Minute Ban From Epic Games Store Too - IGN
Last week, we reported that disturbing horror game Horses had been banned from Steam. Now, at the last possible minute before the game was set to release widely across other PC store fronts, Epic Game...
www.ign.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Show your solidarity with artists and stand against censorship by buying this game on Itch before it gets delisted there too. This is one of those times where voting with your wallet *can* make a difference. A platform making a chunk of change off sales will 100% think twice before delisting.
Seeing that Horses got booted from yet another supposedly open game market, I've bought it and thrown a few extra bucks at the developers from one of the two sites still selling it.
This Comstock bullshit has got to stop.
santaragione.itch.io/horses
This Comstock bullshit has got to stop.
santaragione.itch.io/horses
HORSES by Santa Ragione, AndreaLB
An enigmatic first person horror adventure. Tend to the horses and adhere to the farmer's rules!
santaragione.itch.io
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Seeing that Horses got booted from yet another supposedly open game market, I've bought it and thrown a few extra bucks at the developers from one of the two sites still selling it.
This Comstock bullshit has got to stop.
santaragione.itch.io/horses
This Comstock bullshit has got to stop.
santaragione.itch.io/horses
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'“Everything we say, they can see" ...Fear moves into a family, one phone call at a time, until even expressions of love begin to feel dangerous.'
Gaza is the testing ground. If we allow them to do what they're doing now in Gaza, it will be done to us next.
Gaza is the testing ground. If we allow them to do what they're doing now in Gaza, it will be done to us next.
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
'“Everything we say, they can see" ...Fear moves into a family, one phone call at a time, until even expressions of love begin to feel dangerous.'
Gaza is the testing ground. If we allow them to do what they're doing now in Gaza, it will be done to us next.
Gaza is the testing ground. If we allow them to do what they're doing now in Gaza, it will be done to us next.
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This shop is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, Bluesky can be SO good. 🧡
I've made some smaller beanie versions of the Devonian jawless fish - Zenaspis!
At 25cm long, these are lifesize! www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/zenaspis
I ship worldwide from the UK, US tariffs collected and pre-paid for easy delivery!
At 25cm long, these are lifesize! www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/zenaspis
I ship worldwide from the UK, US tariffs collected and pre-paid for easy delivery!
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This shop is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, Bluesky can be SO good. 🧡
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I just learned that BillyZane420 (@hillary.pizza), genuinely one of the funniest and nicest bsky posters and a good dude has been banned completely, for reasons as opaque as most @safety.bsky.app bans. Transphobes flourish while pro-trans and Palestinian accounts are being disposed of. WHAT THE FUCK
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I just learned that BillyZane420 (@hillary.pizza), genuinely one of the funniest and nicest bsky posters and a good dude has been banned completely, for reasons as opaque as most @safety.bsky.app bans. Transphobes flourish while pro-trans and Palestinian accounts are being disposed of. WHAT THE FUCK
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"homophobia is homophobia, even when it's about someone you don't like" i continue to shout into the void while the tolerant and accepting liberals continue to joke about donald trump being gay because apparently that's the worst thing a person can be, to them
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"homophobia is homophobia, even when it's about someone you don't like" i continue to shout into the void while the tolerant and accepting liberals continue to joke about donald trump being gay because apparently that's the worst thing a person can be, to them
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James Hong and it's not even close.
December 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
James Hong and it's not even close.
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oh ho. Guess what's done in 1.0? ManaWriter, that's what. Now just to test some more and start creating the webpage on @itch.io
It will be available on Mac, Linx, Windows. A virtual writerdeck that looks like an snes game
#pixelart #freewrite #focuswriting #snes
It will be available on Mac, Linx, Windows. A virtual writerdeck that looks like an snes game
#pixelart #freewrite #focuswriting #snes
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
oh ho. Guess what's done in 1.0? ManaWriter, that's what. Now just to test some more and start creating the webpage on @itch.io
It will be available on Mac, Linx, Windows. A virtual writerdeck that looks like an snes game
#pixelart #freewrite #focuswriting #snes
It will be available on Mac, Linx, Windows. A virtual writerdeck that looks like an snes game
#pixelart #freewrite #focuswriting #snes
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Oh right, pre order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
And Side by Side They Wander
An intergalactic art heist by a ragtag group of underqualified misfits. What could go wrong?For three hundred years, humanity’s greatest works of art have ...
us.macmillan.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Oh right, pre order here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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My favorite short story I wrote this year. Please read! Kind of an emotional thing for me.
"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."
today, beloveds!!
Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social
read it here 🥀
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
today, beloveds!!
Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social
read it here 🥀
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Punks Don't Die - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
psychopomp.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My favorite short story I wrote this year. Please read! Kind of an emotional thing for me.
I will accept "Strong floor, no ceiling" as the description of the gibbet built for the political elite who've brought us to this moment.
Doesn't need a trap door, they can just be pushed off.
Doesn't need a trap door, they can just be pushed off.
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I will accept "Strong floor, no ceiling" as the description of the gibbet built for the political elite who've brought us to this moment.
Doesn't need a trap door, they can just be pushed off.
Doesn't need a trap door, they can just be pushed off.
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In other news, we think AI summaries pose an easy vector for powerful entities to manipulate and supplant unfavorable search results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJ...
Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
In other news, we think AI summaries pose an easy vector for powerful entities to manipulate and supplant unfavorable search results: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJ...
Almost started writing the epilogue/denouement of the novel before I remembered:
TAKE A FUCKING BREAK AFTER YESTERDAY'S ALL-DAY WRITING SESSION.
I can spare *one day*.
(Still did the little bit of prep I needed to get started though)
TAKE A FUCKING BREAK AFTER YESTERDAY'S ALL-DAY WRITING SESSION.
I can spare *one day*.
(Still did the little bit of prep I needed to get started though)
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Almost started writing the epilogue/denouement of the novel before I remembered:
TAKE A FUCKING BREAK AFTER YESTERDAY'S ALL-DAY WRITING SESSION.
I can spare *one day*.
(Still did the little bit of prep I needed to get started though)
TAKE A FUCKING BREAK AFTER YESTERDAY'S ALL-DAY WRITING SESSION.
I can spare *one day*.
(Still did the little bit of prep I needed to get started though)
Some hapex legomena (a word that appears only once in a work or corpus) from my novel:
glissandos
ankle
declensions
limn
auscultatory
sidewalks
debride
priyekhali
calumnious
Haudenosaunee
laniation
nincompoop
anus
Žampach
trinitrate
aşabbir
pornography
glissandos
ankle
declensions
limn
auscultatory
sidewalks
debride
priyekhali
calumnious
Haudenosaunee
laniation
nincompoop
anus
Žampach
trinitrate
aşabbir
pornography
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Some hapex legomena (a word that appears only once in a work or corpus) from my novel:
glissandos
ankle
declensions
limn
auscultatory
sidewalks
debride
priyekhali
calumnious
Haudenosaunee
laniation
nincompoop
anus
Žampach
trinitrate
aşabbir
pornography
glissandos
ankle
declensions
limn
auscultatory
sidewalks
debride
priyekhali
calumnious
Haudenosaunee
laniation
nincompoop
anus
Žampach
trinitrate
aşabbir
pornography
Just finished writing the climax of the novel, which was the difficult part.
There's a generous epilogue/denouement to write and then the first draft is done. It's going to be about 145k words, and right about now I feel every single one of them.
I fuckin' did it.
There's a generous epilogue/denouement to write and then the first draft is done. It's going to be about 145k words, and right about now I feel every single one of them.
I fuckin' did it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Just finished writing the climax of the novel, which was the difficult part.
There's a generous epilogue/denouement to write and then the first draft is done. It's going to be about 145k words, and right about now I feel every single one of them.
I fuckin' did it.
There's a generous epilogue/denouement to write and then the first draft is done. It's going to be about 145k words, and right about now I feel every single one of them.
I fuckin' did it.