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Kosmische Chambeaux

@cosmicchambo.bsky.social
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non-self improvement & heavy mellow music 📡 Inter-Dimensional Music FM 👁️ Vøid Contemplation Tactics ☸️ unemployed/freelance Zen chaplain ⚡️lurk ⬇️ subscribe ⬇️ gratis⚡️ cosmicchambo.substack.com

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
n/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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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 ♾️
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Pot Still Haffi Bubble
YouTube video by Queen Ifrica - Topic
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
STOKED 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 guitar
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NGIWU SHWABADA, by Sibusile Xaba
12 track album
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Images 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...
two cats who love each other sleeping together intertwined. they are brothers, one lean with a white coat dappled with orange, the other thicc with an lush orange coat with a white undercarriage.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
VØID 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.
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Inter-Dimensional Music: Zen Mind Sessions
Psychedelic ritual meditation music for beginner minds
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
that 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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
logging 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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It'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."
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
story sorta checks out but I am disappointed that the survivor's name has not yet been claimed by any perennial Indianapolis metal bands.
Two more people who were intended to be poisoned managed to survive.[176] Grover Davis, aged 79, who was hard-of-hearing, missed the announcement to assemble on the loudspeaker, lay down in a ditch and pretended to be dead.[36][183] Hyacinth Thrash, aged 76, realized what was happening and crawled under her bed, only walking out after the poisonings were completed.[36][183]Screeen shot from Encyclopedia Metallum showing zero results for "Hyacinth Thrash"
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Being middle-aged in this particularly dire era I find cold comfort in thinking "I may not need to buy socks again."
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Inter-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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bandcamp 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...
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Too 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That'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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The 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.
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Back To Nature (Ricardo Villalobos Back To Earth Mix), by Nightmares On Wax & Kuauhtli Vasquez & Wixarika Tribe
from the album Back To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I 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 again
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Aftermath (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remixes), by Nightmares On Wax
2 track album
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
one 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 are
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Back To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes, by Nightmares On Wax
2 track album
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
previously 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 ZEN
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What Is This Life II
Clinical pastoral education and our universal experience of the cessation of respiration
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
previously 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 Music
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What Is This Life? Only Don't Know.
Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The 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...
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Sad Happens
A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness—and the transformative power of tears.When was the last time you cried? Was it b...
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
fresh & 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.
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What Is This Life III: Blood & Tears
Crying on the ambulance as a prequel to clinical pastoral education
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
always 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
screenshot of text from the conclusion of David Graeber's DEBT that reads:

In this book I have largely avoided making concrete proposals, but let me end with one. It seems to me that we are long overdue for some kind of Biblical-style Jubilee: one that would affect both international debt and consumer debt. It would be salutary not j ust because it would relieve so much genuine human suffering, but also because it would be our way of reminding ourselves that 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
💯💯💯
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
P.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...
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Tony Allen - Asiko (In A Silent Mix) (Ricardo Villalobos Remix), by Dekmantel Records
from the album V/A - Dekmantel 10 Years - The Collection
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
P.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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
the 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
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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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
That Is a very good way to explain nothing bundt cakes that somehow makes it much much more mundane and depressing.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
one 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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
the only thing of value in the IRL Staples was all the helium tanks because it was actually an IRL Staples Party City hybrid store
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
the 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
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Went 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Or maybe just sit there in the Clockwork Orange chair so they don't get in the way.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
After 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Zen 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
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Aq’ab’al @thesixthcourier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I could watch Knicks-Spurs 82 times a year
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
FRESH 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 | gratis
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What Is This Life? Only Don't Know.
Preparing for clinical pastoral education with Zen rituals of seeing and hearing, plus fresh Inter-Dimensional Music
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
No it the fuck was not.
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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A 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...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The CVS down the street from me


I do not appreciate being treated like I’m a scumbag addict when I go to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy just because I look like one and also am one. Wrong kind I want to tell them. Different genre. There’s nothing you have back there that could ever heal what is wrong with me. Not even temporarily. On the other hand they got those little pre-wrapped charcuterie joints I like for $9.75 in the fridge up front so it’s not like it’s all bad. ⅖ stars.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/05/2026
I 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I 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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
at 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"
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Conversation (1974) dir: Francis Ford Coppola
Big Boi, an absolute unit-class orange cat, presses his ear to the wall, as if eavesdropping on a conversation on the other side. Domestic surveillance acticity not unlike that which preoccupies the narrative of the aforementioned film.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It'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.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This hits close to home. Listening now and it's a beautiful refrain.
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Kosmische Chambeaux @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
this is the kind of work you end up with when "small talk stresses me out" is one of the criteria for evaluating career paths
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