I’ve told my friend about the conversations about typewriters, pens and appears that go on in Micro.Blog and he asked me to share this photo. I think some of you will appreciate his hardware. ⌨️
I was going to rage quit Twitter when they stopped access to 3rd party apps like my beloved Tweetbot. But what sealed the deal was having to use their official app. I’ve never liked it, and being forced to endure Twitter’s algorithm was awful. It only one week to stop me from using Twitter after 16 years of daily use. Remarkable.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Morning Glory by Bill Evans and III & IV by Young Guv.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Considering muting posts on my Mastodon feed that contain the words “bird site.” I’m on Mastodon to get away from Twitter.
Grudge’s only EP parodied the NYC hardcore bands of the 80s and was better than ALL those bands. So great!
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Humble Quest by Maren Morris and Void Of Unending Depths by Inanna.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
https://inannametal.bandcamp.com/album/void-of-unending-depths
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Undercurrent by Bill Evans & Jim Hall and New Confusion by Shit and Shine.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Interesting that no one is referring to Peña as a terrorist. 💬 Losing GOP candidate arrested in string of shootings at New Mexico Democrats’ homes https://apple.news/ACof7U5p3Tjm1U0OtIUlHMA
I am processing my notes that have accumulated in Drafts during the last month or so—74 notes to go.
Came across my Handspring Visor while cleaning my house. Loved this little device.
Finished reading: Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1 by Kazuo Koike 📚 Fantastic! I can’t wait to read the next volume.
Lone Wolf & Cub’s “Winter Flower” story choked me up. Powerful stuff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub
As more people migrate from Twitter to Mastodon, I’m noticing the tone of my feed becoming shriller and shriller.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Skyline by Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and MUNA‘s self-titled album.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Finished reading: Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin 📚 I funded the book, read the book, and I recommend this book.
Mothership: Episode 1
Our story follows the mission of the crew of The Nellie, including Captain Foster, Doctor Zarkov, Doctor Dudley, and Arcturus, the android as they travel to planet Yatima and face the unknown consequences of retrieving the alien archive. The stakes are high, and the team must work together to survive and complete their mission.
Quick note: ChatGTP generates Arcturus’s actions and dialogue.
Doctor Maximillian Zarkov wakes up from a nightmare of all-consuming darkness to a call from security. The CEO of Kind Corp, Rajesh Kumar, has requested his presence. Meanwhile, Captain Cain Foster also has a nightmare about his team exploring a Hab and being attacked by a woman and two siblings who are filthy and covered in sores and lesions. In the dream, the crew is killed when a spacecraft crashes into their vessel, The Nellie.
Arcturus is activated and asked to demonstrate his free will by accepting the mission. Arcturus repeatedly asks for the parameters of the mission, but none is provided. An unseen and unheard person argues with Arcturus’s creator, and in frustration, Arcturus is deactivated.
Doctor Zarkov meets with Rajesh Kumar and promises untold riches and fame if he accepts the mission to travel to planet Yatima and retrieve an alien archive. Doctor Dudley, who has a daughter with a rare disease, is offered a cure if he joins the mission. There is no room for failure.
Rajesh Kumar introduces the team to his fellow executives and explains the stakes of the mission.
The team meets at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for their mission briefing and learns that seven years ago, a survey team discovered an alien archive and sent word back to Kind Corp, and were never heard from again. The team is tasked with retrieving the archive and determining what happened to the survey team. Dudley voices his apprehension about the consequences of meddling with alien technology and gets into a heated argument with Foster. Arcturus attempts to defuse the situation and tells a joke, which fails to get a laugh.
Captain Foster gives a tour of The Nellie, a weaponized science space vessel. The ship’s AI comes online and names itself Catalina. The team goes into cryosleep, but not before Zarkov sees additional occupied cryo chambers loaded into the ship. They say you don’t dream in cryosleep, but Zarkov dreams of the darkness again, and this time a smokey tendril snatches his leg and pulls him into itself. A scream is caught in Zarkov’s throat. It will be seven years of cryosleep before he can release that scream.
Writing beats for remaining scenes for today’s 1st Mothership game. Leaning heavily into FATE’s narrative-based gameplay. What started as a bug hunt morphed into a game of cosmos horror, industrial espionage, questions of identity, and characters with a rich inner life.
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Palomino by Miranda Lambert and Topical Dancer by Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
Every morning I listen to two albums. Today I listened to Spiro World by Time Wharp and Neon Blue by Joshua Hedley.🎵
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1eU9bsb02aggki4oCJpezi?si=GJPH3IZJR1mTXGOFmISIjg
