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Mattias in Narrospace
@mattiasinspace.bsky.social
Author of How to Do Things with Stories: http://tinyurl.com/htdtws
Heart-forward analysis enjoyer. Seeking fellowship, communion, phase shifts.

Internet home: https://mattiasinspace.com/
For Mattias in Space i wrote about rebuilding my psyche after burnout: mattiasinspace.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
Rebuilding after burnout
So much depends on not being cruel to yourself.
mattiasinspace.substack.com
February 27, 2024 at 3:22 AM
How much productivity has been lost to two-factor authentication? Blue collar workers plagued by pings from their distraction cube because at random times of day they must prove they are indeed Person With Phone
January 19, 2024 at 6:13 PM
It seems three devs, whose langs were Rust, PHP, and Haskell, contested the love of a woman.
One day the woman emerged with a fourth suitor, a certified Java technician, whom she had eloped with in secret. Still, she asked if any would oppose their financially stable union.
January 19, 2024 at 6:05 AM
I describe my framework for understanding magic from a materialist point of view.
https://mattiasinspace.substack.com/p/the-liminal-unknown
The liminal unknown
Awareness, and attention; spirituality, and magic.
mattiasinspace.substack.com
August 5, 2023 at 1:51 AM
what maniac would eat an air fried onion for a snack?
July 24, 2023 at 7:05 PM
i wrote about curiosity, potency, and the contrast between Peace Pilgrim and the Las Vegas shooter—the forces that work on ordinary people to produce saints and dickheads.

https://mattiasinspace.substack.com/p/pilgrim-shooter-bear
July 14, 2023 at 5:49 PM
Find you a plot device you can love as much as anime loves the “realize/reveal/reveal-you-already-realized” triple twist
June 2, 2023 at 4:13 PM
Imagining an entity that’s like the Fed but instead of interest rates it adjusts the threshold of statistical significance

The Ped thinks scientists are producing hypotheses with insufficient rigor—bad news, your studies have to cross p < 0.05 this year
May 31, 2023 at 6:40 PM
When a woman and I approach on the street and I look at the woman, the woman looks off into the distance. When a woman and I are approaching on the street and I do not look at the woman, the woman looks straight ahead, and just as we are passing she glances at me. This, too, is meaningless.
May 29, 2023 at 4:55 AM
How old were you when you learned that fridges and freezers are more efficient when they are close to full?
May 26, 2023 at 8:39 PM
“Charles Darwin on the island of dickheads”

Phrase describing the urge to form taxonomies and ecological explanations for the subtle variations of unpleasantness in people one meets online
May 24, 2023 at 6:45 PM
Accelerated personal growth means feeling embarrassed by ever more recent events in your past.
May 21, 2023 at 5:07 PM
I have some regrets about my childhood. Probably the biggest is that my mom didn't take out birth insurance on me
May 19, 2023 at 7:15 PM
if you move to cali from out of state you have to wear a sticker at all times that says “this individual is sourced from a region known by the State of California to produce losers”
May 19, 2023 at 6:54 PM
It’s a hard life sometimes, being some guy on the internet
May 17, 2023 at 7:32 PM
Hot weather tip: bring all of your furniture into the room with the air conditioner. The less air is in the room, the more efficient it will be.
May 17, 2023 at 3:37 AM
People who have trouble swallowing pills need to hear this but:
The trick is to raise the pills on the back of your tongue as you drink water so the water can carry them down.
If that’s not enough make this face
😬
Like a catfish. Shortens the distance from the tongue to the esophagus.
May 16, 2023 at 6:36 PM
Man is born a crying lil baby, and everywhere he is... well, in most places he is... well,,
May 13, 2023 at 8:38 AM
There is a special kind of pain in interacting with someone who meets the profile of: “Lonely enough to talk to you about themselves, but not lonely enough to be curious about you”
May 12, 2023 at 10:14 PM
Marcus Aurelius? More like Mark This Erroneous, these meditations bear the mark of a midwit!
May 12, 2023 at 10:12 PM
I wonder if this website deboosts outlinks like that other website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQIVD-BWI-k
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2023 at 1:31 AM
If you want a way to write a BlueSky thread all in one go and then parcel it out into individual posts, here’s a way to do that (download the HTML file and open in your browser): https://gist.github.com/MattiasMartens/4bc8c9ca515a566fa1afd05355bfb239
May 8, 2023 at 1:58 AM