ryan wolf @ryan@hates.company

Lately I've been reading a lot of children's picture books, over and over? I thought "Goodnight Moon" was pretty spooky, but I had trouble finding anyone writing about that online. @redoak jokingly suggested that I become the conspiracy theorist blogger I want to see in the world, so... I did it. Here's a totally serious take on why "Goodnight Moon" is an esoteric text, from me, a serious scholar of esotericism (aka podcast listener): https://pseudony.ms/blags/goodnight-nobody.html

you vs the horse statue they tell you not to worry about

people i know having swords is worrying, but strangers on the internet having swords is hilarious. comedy is swords plus distance.

when your tests are hermetic it's all "attaboy," but when your api docs are Hermetic suddenly it's all "you are scaring the QA testers" and "you are getting DMCA takedown notices from Alistair Crowley"

food

3th of July

anyone in the Space Force beef it yet? i know there aren't any Space Wars or anything, but someone's gotta croak at their desk eventually, right?

under one reading of the unitary executive, a president assaulting a secret service agent qualifies as self-abuse aka masterbation

it was truly the Secretariat of bad posts, unchallenged in its day and for decades after

which is worse:
* that there's a netflix category called "anime for gamers"
* that i've seen most of them already