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Grew up in Ontario, settled in Wisconsin. I make plans that fail, and also play the lute.

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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Mammon goes one better. It is hard to select any lines as the kernel of his speech; it is all kernel. If I had to, I should choose the lines

Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
Magnificence; and what can Heav'n show more? (272)

*and what can Heav'n show more?* In those words we read Mammon to the very bottom. He believes that Hell can be made into a *substitute* for Heaven. For everything that has been lost, you can find something else that will do quite as well. Heaven was magnificent; if Hell is made equally magnificent it must be just as good. There was light in Heaven; if we produce artificial light, it will be just as good. There was darkness in Heaven: why then should we dislike the darkness of Hell? - for of course there can only be one kind of darkness. This is why Mammon is called 'the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven' (I, 679). He has never understood the difference between Hell and Heaven at all.

- C.S. Lewis, A PREFACE TO PARADISE LOST
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
Sun Ra and his Arkestra playing on a stage
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
You will be visited by three spirits
Nyssa, Tegan, and Adric from Doctor Who
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The "woman yelling at cat" meme; the woman is yelling "You're gonna have to EAT TABLES!" and the cat, which is edited to look like it is chewing on a table with no plate on it, is replying 'nom nom nom nom nom'
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw@mastodon.social
The biography of every satanic death metal band is like "the members met while volunteering at a soup kitchen and bonded over their shared belief in animal rights" and the biography of every 60's hippie band is like "shortly before their collaboration with Charles Manson, the band nearly broke up after one member stabbed another for sleeping with the 14 year old girl he was human trafficking while on tour."
Jan 21, 2023, 03:54 PM-
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
I mean it could be much worse...
Toho Studios announces Godzilla Minus One/Minus Colour/Minus Godzilla/Plus Morbius/Plus Colour
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
a couple of splendid fairy rings from yesterday's wander in the University of Wisconsin Arboretum
a clearing in a pine wood, with several fallen logs on the ground, and a circle of white mushrooms some tens of feet in diameter among the fallen needlesseveral deciduous trees with low-hanging leafy branches, and among them a circle of white mushrooms, some tens of feet in diameter, on the ground in the leaf-litter
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
RT (RS?) with the first (video) game you remember playing
Screen-shot of the arcade game CENTIPEDE, showing a field of lo-res purple mushrooms with various bugs making their way to the bottom of the screen
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aleph3 @aleph3.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
itch please show me the most itch thing on itch
Screengrab with a frame from a visual novel where a dark-haired male-presenting appears to be glaring at the camera. The name "Hugh" is on his left side, and below that the closec caption "if you have no business here, leave"

Beneath the screenshot, the text:
A Heart of Butterblue 1.1
A Heart of Butterblue
Horror VN with Farming Mechanics
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