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Metal, science fiction, history. Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books. Fëanor was right.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · Nov 11

Like this status to help me forge Ferrom, the night-shrouded sword I plan to use to kill the sun.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 9h

7-4 kyu - I must find balance in me before defeating the opponent
3rd kyu and higher - if you let this guy breathe for one more second I am disowning you

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 9h

Being a kid is thinking Miyagi-Do is right....growing up is realizing that Cobra Kai is

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 13h

I love it when people mistake adding more people to conversations for progress on them. LOVE it. "Adding this guy, adding that guy" no!!! Think and answer the question for fuck's sake.

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 18h

holy shit that last one

WeatherMatrix @weathermatrix.bsky.social · 20h

More amazing ISS astronaut images, this time of Typhoon Halong yesterday. x.com/Astro_Kimiya...

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 19h

2 girls: hell yeah

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 21h

I got to premiere track from Takafumi Matsubara :O

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 21h

Matsubara collects many of his interstellar crew of grindcore mercenaries to keep making jagged, intense music. The result is Barren Path.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/08/exclusive-premiere-barren-path-reveal-that-in-the-end-the-gift-is-death/

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Barren Path Reveal That In The End, The Gift is Death

As soon as it came back, GRIDLINK disappeared again and as soon as it did, Matsubara collected many of his interstellar crew of grindcore mercenaries to keep making jagged, intense music. The result is Barren Path.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 22h

This album fucking bangs. Muscular, punk-infused math-rock that hits you in the face with a million notes and sick riffs.

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 22h

If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things - then look no further.

Read our full review for God Alone's The Beep Test!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/08/god-alone-the-beep-test/

God Alone - The Beep Test

If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things, and if you want that album to be played by proficient and prolific music nerds - then look no further.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually really easy to call people by the name they've chosen for themselves. It's just...really easy.

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

thank you for bringing this to our attention!!!

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

Angel have you listened to this amazing fusion album?

mohinidey.bandcamp.com/album/mohini...

MOHINI DEY, by MOHINI DEY

9 track album

mohinidey.bandcamp.com

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

one of my favorite poets, rip

poetic.now ✷ @poetic.now · May 13

“distant regard”, by tony hoagland

#poetrysky

Distant Regard,
by Tony Hoagland

If I knew I would be dead by this time next year
I believe I would spend the months from now till then
writing thank-you notes to strangers and acquaintances,

telling them, “You really were a great travel agent,”
Or “I never got the taste of your kisses out of my mouth.”
Or “Watching you walk across the room was part of my destination.”

It would be the equivalent, I think,
of leaving a chocolate wrapped in shiny foil
on the pillow of a guest in a hotel–

“Hotel of earth, where we resided for some years together,”
I start to say, before I realize it is a terrible cliche, and stop,
and then go on, forgiving myself in a mere split second

because now that I’m dying, I just go
forward like water, flowing around obstacles
and second thoughts, not getting snagged, just continuing

with my long list of thank-yous,
which seems to naturally expand
to include sunlight and wind,

and the aspen trees which gleam and shimmer in the yard
as if grateful for being soaked last night
by the irrigation system

invented by an individual
to whom I am quietly grateful.
Outside it is autumn, the philosophical season,

when cold air sharpens the intellect;
the hills are red and copper in their shaggy majesty.
The clouds blow overhead like governments and years.

It took me a long time to understand the phrase “distant regard,”
but I am grateful for it now,
and I am grateful for my heart,

that turned out to be good, after all;
and grateful for my mind,
to which, in retrospect, I can see

I have never been sufficiently kind.

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

The Redtail callback 😭

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 1d

The same illusion of what we are
The same illusion of afar

The promise of a unity
The promise of infinity

Desolation of the mind
Fascination of decline

A species of wonder
Projections upon the sky
Pulling it all asunder
Down into the darkest night

beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/track/limina...

Liminality, by Elder

from the album Liminality / Dream State Return

beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 2d

I've literally just been sitting here and looking at this for 15 minutes.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 2d

I was already loving Ghost of Yotei but then I got to a part where you literally just sit and meditate on a beautiful cliff. I love love love the emphasis of this game (and Tsushima) on the power of taking your time and slowing down. What a great game.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 2d

I am listening to heavy metal

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out that doing an hour of kata training (and working on almost exclusively kibadachi focused katas) right after leg day leads to some pretty messed up muscle pain after! Who knew!

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 2d

Being reductive on purpose but the more time passes, the more I am inclined to put people at work into two categories. You see a problem. Either you say "interesting, can this be solved?" or you say "holy shit what the fuck am I going to do with this problem???"

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 3d

My most 90's kid attribute is that I am always one incident away from listening to Hybrid Theory

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 3d

9 months ago lmao

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · Dec 12

Just one more open protocol bro j...just one more decentralized process bro and I swear we'll get community right I...it's not inept anarchism bro please it won't give you nazis...it's a different strain bro, open source is applicable to everything just try composable moderation bro please!!!!

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 3d

Making a folder titled "PbtA" and never playing any of the games I put in there

cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 3d

I might have to listen to it after...man *I am dragged off stage by a big hook*

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 3d

I kinda fell off after The Afterman (lol) but the song title has me intrigued...does it continue The Afterman story?

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Vicki Rose @vickirose.bsky.social · 4d

Call me anthropocentric, but all the sudden moralizing about cruelity to AI strikes me, a black person in America, as very funny. Like y'all are floundering on arguments around learned cruelity that Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler made decades ago, but for people who want to datamine you.

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cocoon of normality 🦋 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 4d

unadulterated banger, perfect for the saturday good vibes

tauk.bandcamp.com/track/hang-t...

Hang Tuff, by TAUK

from the album Somewhere Between Here And There

tauk.bandcamp.com