Reposted by Kosmische ChambeauxJay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026n/r "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s 'Siege'" by Spencer Sunshine (Routledge, 2024), which I (regrettably) only became aware of yesterday afternoon. Learning a lot about Adam Parfrey (Feral House) and Boyd Rice, all of it bad. 2288
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I love bopping around doing chores to speaker-wrecking dancehall earworms with infectiously buoyant choruses about the soul-crushing challenge of feeding ourselves everyday no matter how ruff the world gets on infinite repeat ♾️ pot still haffi bubble yeah pot still haffi bubble ♾️youtube.comPot Still Haffi BubbleYouTube video by Queen Ifrica - Topic 000
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026STOKED for the next episode of ID Music coming up on Marfa Public Radio this Sunday at 11p CT because I may have found a route from late '90s Japanese dream pop to ambient Sun Ra tributes by way of screwed & slopped Live Talking Heads, slowed & throwed wooden techno, and long-form Zulu guitarsibusilexaba.bandcamp.comNGIWU SHWABADA, by Sibusile Xaba12 track album 040
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Images of cats alongside Joko Beck x Sunryu Suzuki Zen hybrid strains, plus DL/stream live mixes of DEAFKIDS, Nadja, Ae, Ricardo Villalobos, Ras Michael, Sadoul Ixchel, Gnod, '03 Cure, IKSRE, Alpha & Omega, Ibrahim Hesnawi, Shamek Farrah, and many others? cosmicchambo.substack.com/p/inter-dime... 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS + INTER-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC: Zen Mind Sessions Three live-to-FLAC-from-the-yoga-mat mixes of blackened goth ambience, crasher crust kosmische, and other variations of psychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds. Plus language from Shunryu Suzuki.cosmicchambo.substack.comInter-Dimensional Music: Zen Mind SessionsPsychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds 140
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026that being said, what is the name for the phenomena where you use a free version of the app and it seems good enough to pay for but before you can pay for it the app bombards you with so many coercively intrusive ads that you decide to delete the app instead 020
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026logging on is a bad idea because granular details of US power's planet-wide experiments testing the "no absolutes in human suffering" hypothesis is not helpful as I gave up a long time ago to focus on problems closer at hand and I do not need to announce this on bsky every day or ever, really 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It's bad to make someone who believes in God explain why they don't wanna talk about God on the worst day of their life, and course corrections for nonbelievers sound like "so sorry death and dying must be super hard when you reject Jesus' gift of eternal life and aren't going to heaven like me." 000
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026story sorta checks out but I am disappointed that the survivor's name has not yet been claimed by any perennial Indianapolis metal bands. 100
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My dad introduced me to one of the nurses at the retirement community where he lives and she said something like "it's nice working with old folks I love their stories" and the only example she gave is a client reminiscing about surviving Jonestown by hiding under a bed while everybody was dying. 120
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Being middle-aged in this particularly dire era I find cold comfort in thinking "I may not need to buy socks again." 021
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Inter-Dimensional Music doesn't seek sponsorships and Void Contemplation Tactics doesn't do ads or paywalls but I gotta hand it to Darn Tough socks for a BIFL warranty where I sent them six pairs of worn out 10-year-old merino wool hiking socks and they sent me a voucher for $130. 130
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Bandcamp is the only social network I can deal with because I know up front the price that I pay for using it. bandcamp.com/interdimensi...bandcamp.comCosmic Chambo's collection | BandcampIndiana • Metal • 2752 collection items • 183 followers 030
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I guess it's useful to practice writing on here for a very small audience but my holy shit I cannot return to seeing 1000 examples of the worst people on earth saying the dumbest cruelest things even if it's coming second hand from funny or righteously angry people. 150
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Too old and too Midwest to know where to go dancing so yeah gimme 20 minutes of intricate polyrhythmic percussion that never stops changing with people talking indiscernibly in the background and lemme stretch out dissociatively on the floor and let the bass blow the speaker covers off. 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It was different from EMS work in many ways but one thing chaplaincy seems to have in common is you figure out if you're down pretty quickly: does this leave me empty or full. Especially at the beginning, forgetting that unchecked prosperity and adversity both lead to burnout. 100
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It was always A LOT of feelings, life affirmation via death affirmation. Emptiness filling up and emptying out over and over. Compassion flooding like adrenaline, an inevitable charge regardless of the scenario or outcome. 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That's the effect I wanted after a day of talking with people about people who were dying or who were actually dying or almost dying or thinking about dying even if they weren't actively dying: To be embodied and alive but detached from thinking about being a living body. 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The dissociative tag sticks cuz I can't remember what happens over "Back To Nature (Ricardo Villalobos Back To Earth Mix)"s 15 minutes after it ends and halfway through I think surely this is a different track also there's a couple people talking unintelligibly in the background through a lot of it.nightmaresonwax.bandcamp.comBack To Nature (Ricardo Villalobos Back To Earth Mix), by Nightmares On Wax & Kuauhtli Vasquez & Wixarika Tribefrom the album Back To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes 100
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I love (almost) all Villalobos remixes from "Blood On My Hands" to the 45-minute DJ Python ambient reggaeton marathon but the Villalobos/Loderbauer Nightmares on Wax revisions are good in a way where I can't remember what they sounded like until I listen to them againnightmaresonwax.bandcamp.comAftermath (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remixes), by Nightmares On Wax2 track album 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026one of the ways I coped with the intensity of Zen Chaplain Trauma One Summer Camp was listening almost exclusively to Ricardo Villalobos remixes – which are a whole other thing from his original tracks – and I'm still totally mesmerized by how good his long-form Nightmares on Wax sessions arenightmaresonwax.bandcamp.comBack To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes, by Nightmares On Wax2 track album 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026previously in VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS: What Is This Life II: The Great Cessation Clinical pastoral education and our universal experience of the cessation of respiration, including old language from Seung Sahn and fresh language from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's THE SHAMANIC BONES OF ZENcosmicchambo.substack.comWhat Is This Life IIClinical pastoral education and our universal experience of the cessation of respiration 020
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026previously in VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS: What Is This Life I: Only Don't Know Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zenju Earthly Manuel's Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, Seung Sahn's aphorisms, and fresh Inter-Dimensional Musiccosmicchambo.substack.comWhat Is This Life? Only Don't Know.Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The essay was originally published in SAD HAPPENS: A CELEBRATION of TEARS, alongside writing from Hanif Abdurraqib, Eileen Myles, Hua Hsu, Sasha Grey, et al. Edited by Brandon Stosuy and featuring cool illustrations by Rose Lazar. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sad-Ha...simonandschuster.comSad HappensA beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness—and the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it b... 100
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026fresh & free VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS: What Is This Life III: Blood & Tears More Zen chaplain tales from the emergency department and ICUs of a trauma one hospital, including an unwitting prequel essay I wrote in 2023 about cigarettes, corn dogs, and crying on the ambulance in Far West Texas.cosmicchambo.substack.comWhat Is This Life III: Blood & TearsCrying on the ambulance as a prequel to clinical pastoral education 121
Reposted by Kosmische ChambeauxKosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026always the Rapture, never the Jubilee "...money is not ineffable, that paying one's debts is not the essence of morality, that all these things are human arrangements and that if democracy is to mean anything, it is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way." David Graeber Debt 041
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026P.P.S. a thirty minute Villalobos version of Tony Allen makes things feel better for thirty minutes but not in the car because the brass sounds like two seconds before you are the center of an insane motor vehicle pile up dekmantel.bandcamp.com/track/tony-a...dekmantel.bandcamp.comTony Allen - Asiko (In A Silent Mix) (Ricardo Villalobos Remix), by Dekmantel Recordsfrom the album V/A - Dekmantel 10 Years - The Collection 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026P.S. I have not been around normal people for a long time and h f s LLMs are e v e r y w h e r e 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026the flip side of having a job helping people in the midst of their own personal medical apocalypses as a way to feel minorly effective in a burning world is that if you look back over your shoulder at the burning world you begin transforming into a pillar of salt: logging off again now 030
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026... and then you come around a corner and seeing the word CASHIER in a hospital is extremely unsettling 120
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026That Is a very good way to explain nothing bundt cakes that somehow makes it much much more mundane and depressing. 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026one of the unexpectedly pleasant and soothing things about working in a hospital is there aren't any ads and other than the cafeteria and starbuck nobody is trying to sell anything aside from the hospital itself but they aren't selling so much as charging 120
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026the only thing of value in the IRL Staples was all the helium tanks because it was actually an IRL Staples Party City hybrid store 010
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026the outer orbits of Indianapolis are 100% strip malls and all the stores are places like Nothing Bundt Cakes that nobody can imagine visiting or working at or how do you come up with rent and enough money to buy a sign with/for Nothing Bundt Cakes 220
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Went to an IRL Staples yesterday and all IRL stores feel like they're five minutes away from closing and the only people there are using the store to return things to amazon and then you look around and the only thing USA built for the last 20 years is stores. 120
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Or maybe just sit there in the Clockwork Orange chair so they don't get in the way. 020
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026After spending a month as a Zen chaplain at a trauma one hospital, I think it would be a cool idea if people were required to volunteer in the emergency department for a month before getting a driver's license, and after each speeding ticket. 140
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Zen chaplaincy training update: I could not find a bandage for my paper cut in the Spiritual Care office at the trauma one hospital, and I am not looking forward to the roasting I may receive if I go to the one place where I know they have easily accessible bandages which is the Emergency Department 030
Reposted by Kosmische ChambeauxAq’ab’al @thesixthcourier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026I could watch Knicks-Spurs 82 times a year 121
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026FRESH Vøid Contemplation Tactics Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing. More language from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel's THE SHAMANIC BONES OF ZEN. Plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music to stream and DL. lurk | share | gratiscosmicchambo.substack.comWhat Is This Life? Only Don't Know.Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music 020
Reposted by Kosmische ChambeauxSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026No it the fuck was not.penguinrandomhouse.comReign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full... 11153041099
Reposted by Kosmische ChambeauxKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down. 165108162617
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I think it's not that paranoid to imagine that the counterintuitive elimination of haptic phone keyboards as typing on phones became a dominant mode of communication making text messaging a gratingly tedious project without the authoritative intrusion of auto correct was intentional. 020
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026at some point auto-correct started to do a lot more intrusive edits, rather than corrections: I typed the letters e a and r to spell the word "ear" in the sentence "pressed his ear to the wall" what is the process by which "ear" is overridden in favor of "car" 110
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The Conversation (1974) dir: Francis Ford Coppola 062
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026It's good to do the right thing, it's right to fight the good fight, and it's bad to roll over and worse to support harm. That's the concept that "wat do u want dems to do they don't have the votes" people don't understand. "How you play is what you win," writes Ursula K. Le Guin. 022
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026This hits close to home. Listening now and it's a beautiful refrain. 120
Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026this is the kind of work you end up with when "small talk stresses me out" is one of the criteria for evaluating career paths 030