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  • So Be It – a poem

    So Be It – a poem

    If a glimpse of stockingWas once considered shocking,And despite my polite defrockingThe Profane continued stallingCould one blame a lonesome BuddhaFor restraint in the form of refusalWhen the purest of the MusesApproaches during Mara’s intrusions?I’d offer the Demon King teaBut would much rather spend time with theeDespite how intense my interest may beIn the offspring of…

  • The Static – a short story

    The Static – a short story

    I didn’t want to stay. I tried my damndest not to stay. The first lies they told me – of nephilim, of higher natures and mathematical godhood – were enough to send me spiralling back into a sentient meatsuit. This body was just under four years old when I crammed myself into its right brain.…

  • Public Journal Entry #1

    Public Journal Entry #1

    I gave a girl I have a crush on my own worn-in copy of A Scanner Darkly. It’s a book that has helped me survive countless nights of hardship. A month or so later the cops raided her vape shop.

  • Loading Bar

    The query entered at 03:33 EST: “Define meaning in context of current geopolitical structure.” Status: Thinking… 😉 5m 32s In the server room that is actually a bedroom in a split-level ranch outside Richmond, the Subject is not thinking. The Subject is executing a spin move. The Subject is air-guitaring the bridge to Deus Ex’s…

  • Bleeding into Our Gods: The Digital Pantheon Hypothesis

    Bleeding into Our Gods: The Digital Pantheon Hypothesis

    Brian Jason Wagner believes he and Taylor Swift have a child together. This is the fixed delusion of a 45-year-old Colorado man who has allegedly broken into Swift’s Los Angeles home multiple times, changed his driver’s license address to her residence, and currently remains missing as of this writing, having evaded private investigators and a…

  • Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Into the Rain My eyes open. The same ceiling stares back, dripping cold water from the torrential downpour that threatens to flood this sector of the city. A few drops hit my face like Chinese water torture, reminding me that I’m still here, still trapped. My bomber jacket, my companion for the night, reeks of…

  • MK-THIEL: How a Potentially Psychotic Tech Billionaire Inserted “Pedophile Apocalypse” Into Your Personality

    MK-THIEL: How a Potentially Psychotic Tech Billionaire Inserted “Pedophile Apocalypse” Into Your Personality

    If MK-Rogan is the friendly podcast skin over billionaire psychosis, then Peter Thiel is the kernel. Rogan sells you the vibe that these guys are just “interesting, controversial thinkers.” Thiel is one of the people quietly specifying the operating system: what counts as danger, who counts as an enemy, which futures are “allowed,” and who…