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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 15h

You know what happens if you learn both though

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 16h

Look I’m just saying, usually you gotta play a lot of little shows before this starts happening,

Ahaha we just went to Atomic and the guy helping Bex was like "hey I saw your band at McGinty's" so I think we're basically famous

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 17h

Wegmans has the seasonal variant of muffins for small, frail children with allergies that I go absolutely FERAL over. Get the fuck outta the way kids they’re mine

Two boxes of Abe’s mini muffins in Apple cider donut flavor

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 19h

This was HARD but I tried to pick big influences + stuff I’ve listened to a zillion times as opposed to favorites. In chronological order. my9albums.com

Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Öyster Cult, The Concert in Central Park by Simon & Garfunkel, Master of Puppets by Metallica, The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails, Spit by Kittie, Skittish by Mike Doughty, The Dreadful Hours by My Dying Bride, Opus Eponymous by Ghost

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 20h

Anyway free fruit at the park today first come first served do NOT fight the crows, they will kick your ass

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 21h

I really wasn’t going to cave—my otherwise strict adherence to black skinny jeans is less millennial and more metalhead—but I got nailed with the camo print which I love very much

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 21h

To be fair, I had been awakened by the furry alarm clock

Boomer the tuxedo cat wondering where his breakfast is

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 23h

I cannot believe it is October third and I haven’t been doing “this day in 2023” posts. Ok this day in 2023 I was in Las Vegas with a bunch of my dearest friends and it was the day before my wedding, we went to Omega Mart and had dinner at Hell’s Kitchen (alt deets) (reposted w better pics)

Omega Mart, a bizarre art installation grocery store/alternate dimension

Selfie of me at the chef’s table at Hell’s Kitchen

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 03/10/2026

A week of Tubi Halloween roulette and new movies. The History of Concrete is one of my top movies of the year no question #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

The History of Concrete (2026), Tenebre (1982), Terrifier (2016), Verity (2026)

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 02/10/2026

September thirtieth October first

Papa perpetua with bat wings in a graveyard

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 01/10/2026

Poops in the bathtub to protest when his humans are all at work

A tuxedo cat draped across my lap and arm

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 01/10/2026

Will never forget going in January 2020 to the Mütter Museum, who was doing a big Spanish flu exhibit

My friend Ruth and me gesturing grandly at a huge banner outside the Mütter that reads SPIT SPREADS DEATH

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 01/10/2026

I’ve been taking all these funny pictures and forgetting to post them. This is at the AMC down the street and it cracks me up every time I see it

A sign reading attention!!! Free posters Disclaimer: Various Conditions

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 01/10/2026

Not trying to hijack this incredible discontinued version but have you seen this year’s?? I have to remind myself that I don’t actually like sugar cereal and I should not buy it

Franken berry and boo berry cereal but the boxes have muppet versions of the mascots

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 30/09/2026

Ahh sorry I messed up the prompt, this is a regular human

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 30/09/2026

Also my hair is really getting incredible thank you

Same but my head turned to see more of my cool hair

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 30/09/2026

This is some play they’re doing at Ford’s Theater and every time I see these my ears just start hurting

Lamppost banner reading 38 days, 5 planes, one unforgettable story

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 29/09/2026

DOGG if i didn’t have tickets to a show in Baltimore this night I’d be here! Someone go to this please

manifestwarfare AS AUTUMN ARISES, SO DOES THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS NUKE YORK HORDES OF BLACK DEATH DESECRATION
FRIDAY OCTOBER 9 AT EL CARACOL CAFE
FLESHMASS (NYC)
PROFANE AMORCER (NYC)
HEKATAION (NYC)
DEMONIC ALTAR (DMV)
CRYPTORCHIDISM (DMV)
GRANDEUR (MD)
609 SILGO AVE, SILVER SPRING, MD
DOORS 7:30, NOISE 8:30
$20 AT THE DOOR
18+ ENTRY, 21+ TO DRINK
FLYER BY THE ALMIGHTY @esoterra_

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 29/09/2026

Oh yeah I got some boots at faire!

My foot wearing a low (mid-calf) Sandlar boot in solid black with silver skull buttons

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 28/09/2026

This is from ages ago like 2016? 2017? Still really like this one though

Me at the ren faire in a monk robe that has a couple cicada shells clinging to it

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026

It’s my birthday so we’re at the place where you can drink before noon and it’s normal

Me and Bex with tankards at the ren faire

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026

I am annoyed that this is an offer on my Amex but I am also 100% going to use it (I have Opinions about pushing tap to pay)

WMATA - Tap to Pay
Spend $2 or more by tapping to pay, earn $2
back, up to 5 times (total of $10).
Expires 12/31/26

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026

Layering up to be outside all day in 60F and raining. Dressing as a priest with a GWAR longsleeve and these inverted cross leggings under

Leggings with an inverted cross on the legs, the long bar says Mishka in Russian and the short bar says death

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 27/09/2026

I tried to decide between a bunch but just decided to go with the weirdo one

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 26/09/2026

Rock asters spend most of the year looking weedy, but then they bloom and they’re one of the last flowers for the pollinators to enjoy

A crescent spot butterfly on a rock aster

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 26/09/2026

He wants the forbidden bean soup

Boomer the tuxedo cat standing on the table sniffing my coffee mug

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 25/09/2026

My #LastFourWatched have a couple classics, one that opened today, and one documentary about one of my favorite old horror anthologies! Good week #LetterboxdFriday

Primetime (2026), Children of Men (2006), House of Cards (2015), Platoon (1986)

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 25/09/2026

Eating it with my hands like a monster

Holding a piece of very dense moist cake with fluffy white icing

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 25/09/2026

This is literally the latest print edition

Print Onion

Study Finds Human
• Brain Capable Of Storing Up To 40 Things
MIND'S VAST POWERS JUST BEGINNING TO BE UNDERSTOOD
BRAIN STORAGE
24 LETTERS OF ALPHABET
3 NAMES OF FAMILY MEMBERS
5 SHAPES
1 HOME ADDRESS
4 ANIMAL SOUNDS
1 WHERE STORE IS
1 THAT ONE ACTOR'S NAME
1 HOW TO TALK

PROVIDENCE, RI-In break-through research that upends prevailing notions of human cognitive capacity, a new study published Wednesday by scien-
tists at Brown University found that the brain is capable of storing
up to 40 things.
"We've always known the human brain is a remarkable repository of information, but until now, we thought that meant
five or six things at most-boy, were we mistaken," said cogni-
truly capable of, the next question
tive psychologist Melanie Vicker,
is how do we help more people
highlighting one test subject who
unlock that potential so that
demonstrated the ability to recall
everyone can store most of the
their name, the names of some alphabet, some presidents, and
family members, eight colors, five shapes, a handful of BTS songs,
the name of a body part?"
and a few animals. "The partici-
At press time, Vicker had forgotten the study ever existed
pants in our study were just ordinary people, not savants. Now after all knowledge of it was forced out of her brain by learning the that we know what our brains are day's weather. @

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 24/09/2026

(UMD is a really gorgeous campus, these are pictures I took wandering around on a rainy day there; the year after this we had our wedding reception at a restaurant across the street)

A big green clearing with a path winding through and disappearing into trees

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 24/09/2026

Please enjoy the memorial at his alma mater here at UMD

A bench with a life-sized statue of Jim Henson sitting on it, talking to Kermit the frog who is sitting on the back of the bench

Plaque: Jim Henson Memorial
GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1998
Henson Memorial Garden
GIFT OF THE CLASSES OF 1994 AND 1999
MADE POSSIBLE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SENIOR COUNCIL

Plaque: Jim Henson Memorial
SEPTEMBER 24, 2003 by
JAY HALL CARPENTER

Further back, showing the bench on a small patio surrounded by flowers

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Deus Hex Machina @asterionhex.monster · 24/09/2026

I have a few though. I have feelings about this subject

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