dear void † (alt for alt's sake)

heading back to New York to dedicate my summer (& life) to Communitarian and Individual Artistic, Intellectual and Spiritual Pursuits, please yell at me if you see me Scrolling or otherwise doing anything not aligned with this goal!

if you ever wanted to know what it was like to run a christianity themed autism podcast, it is basically this

If an interaction with a man I care about leaves me more confused than when I started on his moral stances or ability to interact in good faith, that is unpleasant because it is destabilizing. It reduces my understanding of who he is and therefore how safe I am with him. There's a whole realm of play and polarity that builds tension without reducing trust. The difference is extremely important.

my friend and I are eating cherries and drinking wine on a Paris balcony; sometimes one can embrace the cringe of one's own cliche

@mauve_sky omg

mauve guy

@slakemm literally this is the dream of the Lost Word/enochian/etc/etc except occultists make it weird

ideally we would have exactly one word for every conceivable experience, even including details of the speaker, place, time. such as "hungry-nyc-july-2pm-????" with the ?s denoting a massive vector embedding representation, except that it's poetic and beautiful and intelligible

everyone should have a subset of one's friend group all term the "Spanish babies" (in 2 years they now self-describe as the "Spanish toddlers", even the 20-somethings are Growing)

I can't tell if I'm just in an odd mood, the vibes have shifted, or if I genuinely like Paris again for the first time since I lived there ~20 years ago

figuring out What We Owe to Each Other while also maintaining one's sanity (and dreams) feels like an overwhelmingly impossible task. talk of "boundaries" or "toxicity" feels so antithetical to love and humanity but also what does one owe to one's neighbor, or lover, or --

by edna st. vincent millay

one must always be able to Flee to the Continent.

@mauve_sky Magic

today: explored an abandoned subterranean theatre set, read, watched dance trapeze on a pier while lightning crackled in the city, laughed at avant garde burlesque, saw people i hadnt seen in a decade, ate pizza.

going to Paris July 5-12 who is there and wants to hang out with me?

@vibecamp_ play reading (Shakespeare! greek tragedy!)

let's start a VIBECAMP 6 EVENT WISHLIST thread! 🏕️🤞✨ if you have an idea for a vc6 event but don't want to run it yourself, drop a reply below!

@GENIC0N @pieratt @apralky personally I am a boring non-esoteric christian and like it that way

@GENIC0N @pieratt @apralky the book is actually on hermeticism/kabbalah/perennialism more broadly (magical transhumanism, sure!)

Sources tell me the pendulum has swung back and Peter Thiel is cool again

@reallygordon love a south Brooklyn dive bar, make it the new epicenter

@aliceisplaying @selentelechia > Surely there is no good reason for this social norm > Stops participating in social norm > Meets other people who violate this social norm > Immediately realize why this is a social norm > Think about how many people I've violated this norm with > whathaveidone.jpeg

mutuals data-collection: what does empathy *feel like* to you? slash what is your internal experience of giving/receiving it?

found the person! but if you ALSO want to come shape note singing with us DM me!

someone at office hours last night wanted to go to shape note singing tonight with me and @nathan_culley but I can't remember who it was, DM me if it was you!