Brother Sanchez

I am the Iron that is Shaped. I will Guard the Trunk. I will Tend the Roots. These are my vows. ᚨᛚᚠᛟᚦᚱ ᛚᛖᛁᚦ ᛗᛖᚱ ᚷᛖᚱ ᛗᛁᚲ ᛊᛖᛗ ᚦᚢ ᚢᛁᛚᛏ ᛚᚨᛏ ᚺᛟᚾᛞ ᛗᛁᚾᚨ ᚢᛖᚱᚨ ᛊᛖᛗ ᚺᛟᚾᛞ ᚦᛁᚾ

Guest beer is welcome, with the caveat that all drinks are free for all guests. You bring it, the house drinks together.

Why yes, I have a tavern. It exists for approximately 3.5 days once a year. A bit of a limited liminality. Slightly leap year flavored. But make it summer solstice and brilliant odd ducks gathered in common cause shaped. The Hut manifests again at @vibecamp_

@gptbrooke Gonna need a rather large stone...

@gptbrooke Hmm... Church-like def sounds like a temple. I, may have to do some labor.

what are things you'd want to see at vibecamp but won't/can't for whatever reason do it yourself? I'll list some of mine:

@corsaren @SYNESTHEIZURE It's like ringing the bell at the dry cleaner.

@SYNESTHEIZURE You gotta smack her ass first. That’s a key part of the spell.

Performing a spell by asking my bitch wife to get me a beer from the fridge. I performed the incantation wrong so she asked for divorce instead. Magic isn't real. It never was.

@MiffedNaba @QuetzalPhoenix Sure it does. Learn the edges of the artform, then come back and talk to me. If you think I mean anything you've heard playing on a radio or a club list, you ain't even on my level.

@breaking2morrow @QuetzalPhoenix >greatest living lyricists I know of are all rappers I hate to break this to you, but this says far more about you than about them.

I said this before, but being told "rap is just modern day poetry" kinda made me not care about poetry for a very long time.

@_space_punk_ By their walk.

Which is all to say, if you met an alien, how would you even know, given so much of the modern alien lore is red gy with horns level off-base?

No Vickie.

@Coopachabra That, can be a hindrance. Floor mirrors are also great.

@breaking2morrow I don't mind em I just don't have much wall space lmao

How many hanging mirrors do you own?

@100xlifeguard .

@breaking2morrow What are they good for?

@100xlifeguard .

@chucksneed69 @QuetzalPhoenix I meant lyricist. A skillful lyricist delivers audibly, and that man mumbles too damn much. Always has.

@breaking2morrow @QuetzalPhoenix He guy is like 100 years old also you didn't say vocalist you said lyricist

@PSpaceAmoeba @MagusGenji @shinboson *Instructions unclear* -gets high-

@breaking2morrow @MagusGenji @shinboson Your personality results: High Time Preference Suitable for Felons and High Powered Executives

@MalmSanta Idk, but I get a lot of use from mine. Like using them to increase ambient lighting via reflection, for instance.

@breaking2morrow none. should I own some? my apartment already has a couple built into various walls

@chucksneed69 @QuetzalPhoenix I've seen him live, he's fucking mid in delivery.

@breaking2morrow @QuetzalPhoenix Bob Dylan is still alive

@Coopachabra You would find my house a little, unsettling, I suspect.

@breaking2morrow None rn. Or at least none that are up

@aleksil79 I have 11 so far. They are mostly for wushu and meditation.

@breaking2morrow for óðinic purposes? none i would hope

@PortableHat @ZyMazza I would have liked your grandfather.

@breaking2morrow @ZyMazza Half a century ago, talking with my grandfather: Me: "You know anybody who's seen bigfoot?" He: "I know a guy who says he did, but he's crazy." Me: "If you did see bigfoot would you tell anybody?" He: "No." Me: "Why not?" He: "They'd think I was crazy." Grandpa was wise.

Why do most people who have had genuinely uncanny experiences prefer not to talk about them? I say "uncanny" and not "supernatural" or "spiritual" for the very reason that answers this question. Consider the best case scenario if I just saw bigfoot last night. And please! Spot me for the sake of this conversation I actually saw bigfoot! It wasn't a brown bear; I hadn't been drinking nor was I on DMT. I honest to goodness saw bigfoot last night. Bigfoots are real now. Sorry, just accept it. It's a conditional hypothetical like if you hadn't eaten breakfast this morning. Bigfoot is real and I saw one last night. So I approach a close friend and I tell them. "Last night I saw bigfoot." Let's game theory this out. What's the best case scenario here? The absolute best case scenario is that they believe me unquestioningly. From there a few things can happen. (1) We dedicate our lives to finding proof that big foot is real. Let's say we do that. Well odds are we won't be able to find any. Even though bigfoot is real, he's obviously elusive or it wouldnt be so surprising for me to say "I saw bigfoot last night." And obviously many other people have tried. And even if we do find "evidence" unless we capture a live specimen it's unlikely to rise to the level of "proof" for the general public. We'd probably be ridiculed if we did that. There'd be no real benefit to us. Certainly the upside of proving bigfoot's existence is quite high. But it's such an unlikely outcome of trying. We need to be realistic. So maybe instead (2) happens, and we both just quietly update our world models. My friend that bigfoot is real and me that my friend REALLY trusts me. That's nice but it doesn't really accomplish much. More likely is (3). My friend just doesn't believe me. I mean I saw bigfoot, but he's a friend of mine so he's not stupid; he doesn't believe in that stuff! So he tells me it was just a brown bear or whatever. And I insist it wasn't and he asks if I was drinking or on DMT etc etc. And I assure him I wasn't. But he still doesn't believe me. So that's alienating. I had a pretty intense experience, opened up to my friend about it, and he basically laughed in my face. Rough. Meanwhile my poor friend. Why am I so insistent on trying to get him to believe something that's so clearly impossible, clearly false? He's going to think I'm crazy at best. Maybe malignant at worst. Playing a prank? That might be a positive view but it only holds if I'm willing to drop it. The longer I insist I actually saw bigfoot the more frustrated he's going to get. As an aside, "bigfoot" is really just a cryptozoology thing. It's at the low-end of "uncanny" or "supernatural" experiences. It's really not even that unbelievable, facially, that you would encounter a species unknown to science. And yet we can see how rough this is quickly. The longer I maintain that I saw bigfoot last night--which again, is the truth--the higher the chance that I will alienate my friend. And indeed that my friend will alienate me! Because of course it would be saddening, frustrating even, to trust someone with a vulnerable truth (and it is a vulnerability thing! To tell someone you've seen something unbelievable) and to have that vulnerability returned with doubt and ridicule. Obviously it is! So now you have this *thing* you have to live with that you can't really share with other people. You just can't! This, by the way, is why so many supernatural horror movies are thinly veiled metaphors for trauma and various types of abuse. Because, you see, if you take the "supernatural" or the "uncanny" out of it, you're left with the circumstance where something unambiguously out-of-distribution happened to you--something that would shock normal people who have only had in-distribution experiences. You're in the shoes of a kid who was abused by a priest in the 80s. A priest? They are moral leaders. They'd never do such a thing. You're in the shoes of a woman who was assaulted by her married boss at the company holiday party in the 80s. He's married! He wouldnt even hit on her, let alone assault her. And you're looking at those examples and thinking it's a silly comparison, but it's not. You think it's silly because its in distribution now, because enough people were willing to come forward and talk about their experiences, really at no particular benefit to themselves individually, just to move the overton window to make society a little less cruel to people who experienced things like that. And it turns out that in societies where the "supernatural", both historically and contemporaneously is normalized, people report having those experiences more often! And you might say it's a shared delusion, it's an enforced social norm; in fact people feel *pressured* to make up such experiences when none happened to fit in! You might even point to metoo or other moral panics. "Yeah it's true that a lot of women have been assaulted but it got ridiculous" Or even "the whole mass grave hoax thing for the catholic Church in Canada is what happens when these kind of reports are valorized" And you would be right, of course. That is a factor. But the reverse is also a factor. You *must* acknowledge that just as I acknowledged that incentives to make up such reports can exist. Social conditions are never neutral. In a society where such reports are condemned, you *will* see less of them, regardless of the underlying frequency of such events.

@shinboson That letter is funny af.

@MagusGenji @PSpaceAmoeba @shinboson Funny ain't that?

@breaking2morrow @PSpaceAmoeba @shinboson scrolled for your results but didn't see them

@FelixDelong As long as it isn't a hand held.

@breaking2morrow 6? Depends on what you count as hanging