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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 2d

This reminds me of what someone (Bob Lefsetz?) once wrote about record labels: that every time they had a choice between making more money and exerting more control, they chose to exert more control.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 4d

I can't buy any of Megan's music (because I already bought it all), but you can. I'm particularly partial to Things from Things, 11 Grains, and Little Randoms.

Megan Carnes @magmacranes.bsky.social · 5d

My day is off to a bad start, and also it’s Bandcamp Friday! You know what that means: buy my music so I’ll be less sad and have more money for little treats

Megan Carnes

megancarnes.bandcamp.com

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helleano)))r @listeninggarden.bsky.social · 5d

it is once again bandcamp friday, and though i still have many things in the works, they will take time to develop and bloom into what they are meant to be. in the meantime, your support always means so much to me and helps me invest into both time and tools. thank you for your ears 💗

helleano)))r @listeninggarden.bsky.social · Sep 5

for your #bandcampfriday consideration - music to mend with, music to yearn to. music to accompany you in those moments where the quiet is the canvas of your heart. experimental glitch drone emo jambient drifting pianoscapes & more within 💗

ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/music

our dear friend, the medic

believing in the remedial peculiarities of music, our dear friend, the medic proffers audio anesthetics, melodic medicines, and all other manner of aural tinctures, gauzes and balms found in her kit t...

ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 4d

The highest product of evolution

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 7d

As others have noted, today is the one-year anniversary of the death of #Cohost. To mark the occasion, a reminder that (almost) all of my Cohost posts are now available at frankhecker.com/tags/cohost/ complete with copies of the comments people made on them. RIP Eggbug, we hardly knew ye!

A photograph of the plushie of Eggbug, the mascot of the Cohost social media site, a maroon ovoid creature with silver wings, six black legs, two black circular eyes, and a somewhat ambiguous smile. Eggbug is sitting on top of three books of or about poetry.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 7d

I was listening to Dumptruck’s “For the Country” yesterday. It’s a member of the small set of albums that are perfectly realized examples of their genre. I don’t know if they could have produced another album just as great, but unfortunately music business fuckery denied them that opportunity.

Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 13d

University of Chicago Press gives away free ebooks from time to time, but they can only be read by ADE, so I stopped bothering to check out what they were offering. Not worth the hassle.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 13d

Thanks for rescuing these from Cohost (RIP)! I missed them the first time around.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 23d

Last reskeet: A followup to yesterday's posts about @thaliarchus.bsky.social's poem Spearhand Faring. People wrote a lot of alliterative English poems back then, and are still writing alliterative verse today (and not just about giant robots and mobile suits); @rhunedhel.bsky.social has the details.

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Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social · 25d

For online info about the Alliterative Morte Arthur and other Middle English alliterative poems, check out alliteration.net/historical-texts/translations-middle-english/

Links to Selected Online Text and Translations of Alliterative Poems from Middle English and Scots

A compendium of links to original texts and translations of alliterative poems in Middle English and Scots, including Layamon's Brut, The Vision of Piers Plowman, the Alliterative Morte Arthur, etc.

alliteration.net

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 25d

While I'm skeeting re modern SF-ish works inspired by older texts, I urge you all to check out the Gordian Cycle by @sunshinemoon.zone, which riffs on the Ulster Cycle of Irish legends. The final story in particular is a four-course feast of gonzo goodness. sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 25d

Ah, thank you for the correction! And for others, note that the Standard Ebooks folks have created a nicely formatted free (and DRM-free) EPUB version of Malory's Morte D'Arthur, downloadable at standardebooks.org/ebooks/thoma...

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 25d

If you want a nice print edition of the Alliterative Morte Arthure (and you know you do), you can get one at www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.a... It also includes the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, so you get two dead King Arthurs for the price of one. 2/2

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 25d

Follow-up from my last reskeet: Spearhand Faring by @Thaliarchus takes inspiration from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem that's surprisingly readable in the original—more so than Chaucer, for example. You can find it online at metseditions.org/read/KWj7bbR... 1/2

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · 25d

Folks, don't sleep on this. It's great fun, especially if you're a fan of giant robots and alliterative verse. What, you missed part 1? I'm sorry for you. But you can buy the whole thing at <https://thaliarchus.itch.io/spearhand-faring> (assuming itch isn't acting up).

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 25d

Here's the VOD for the second half of Spearhand Faring!
twitch.tv/videos/25655...

I'll only leave this up for a day or two.

Spearhand Faring Part 2 (of 2) - thaliarchus on Twitch

thaliarchus went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

twitch.tv

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Sep 4

This is a really excellent long-form review of a book about critics of capitalism, worth reading by anyone who makes a habit of opining on the topic online. (It's paywalled, but if you're interested I'll gift a 30-day subscription to the first person who asks.)

Brad DeLong @delong.social · Sep 4

From William Bolts to Jeff Bezos: John Cassidy Writes the Story of Capitalism as Seen in the Mirror of Its Discontents & in the Imagination of Its Alternatives
I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual Democracy Journal review…
braddelong.substack.com/p/from-willi...

From William Bolts to Jeff Bezos: John Cassidy Writes the Story of Capitalism as Seen in the Mirror of Its Discontents & in the Imagination of Its Alternatives

I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual "Democracy Journal" review is a very different beast entirely. I was supposed to write a 2000-word review of John Cassidy's...

braddelong.substack.com

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Sep 4

For those not familiar with Math Academy, it's an online math education service based on stuff from learning research: a knowledge graph to organize topics (like a Civ tech tree), spaced repetition, etc. It's pricey but IMO effective; see my comprehensive review: frankhecker.com/2025/02/08/m... 2/2

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Sep 4

Last night I completed my third Math Academy course, Mathematics for Learning, and celebrated by blogging about it. The course took me 105 days; I aimed for 40XP/day (MA's measure of effort) and averaged 48. I missed my goal only 11 days and skipped MA only 1 day. frankhecker.com/2025/09/03/m... 1/

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Sep 4

Whale Store xoxo wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but Milk and Love are still worth watching, and the setting is a welcome change from the upper-middle to upper-class milieus common in Thai GL series.

Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · Sep 4

Today on Okazu – Whale Store xoxo

bsky.app/profile/fran... says of this oddly named Thai Live-action drama that it is sapphic comfort food, not as delicious as it might have been, but good enough to satisfy Yuri fans hungry for down-home unpretentious fare.

okazu.yuricon.com/2025/09/04/w...

Official poster for Whale Store xoxo, with Milk and Love in the foreground as Wan and Maewnam respectively, and View and Mewnich in the right background as Tonnam and Chompoo respectively.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Sep 4

You should go ahead and do it. You don’t have to post it if you don’t like the result. But, who knows, you might end up liking it—and you’d still be under no obligation to post it if you don’t feel like it. It would be just for yourself.

Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Aug 29

I was alive in the ‘80s and endorse this message. (In particular, I recall the 80s as being peak BMW styling.)

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Aug 26

Have you ever heard this? Recommended for more old-timey computer goodness crossed with modern electronic music: johannjohannsson.com/discography/...

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Aug 19

I received volume 3 of the English edition of @galetteweb.bsky.social #yuri today. I’m building a complete collection!

A bookshelf displaying volumes 1 through 3 of the Galette English edition edition, along with the Japanese edition of volume 1. In front of the volumes are a postcard showing two girls gazing soulfully at each other, along with small acrylic figures of couples from the stories.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Aug 17

One other difference: If it were a real Philip K Dick novel, the bed would spontaneously begin psychoanalyzing him.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

Woke up because my Al controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust
temperature and I can't because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can't adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with
physical controls.
Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.

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Frank Hecker @frankhecker.com · Aug 17

Earlier this month I learned how to teleport quantum states with
PhysicsGraph, which aims to do for physics what Math Academy is doing for mathematics. It's still in its infancy, but based on its first course (Intro to Quantum Computing) I think it can do just that. frankhecker.com/2025/08/17/l...

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