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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Look at this extraordinarily happy cat

An orange cat lounging kind of half-sitting up like a little person, seated on my husband's leg and leaning back against his stomach as my husband sits on a gray sofa. The cat has a semi-recently shaved stomach with a healing surgical incision running down it. He looks utterly blissed out. The photo is taken from husband's POV.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still mostly taking a social media break but we went to see the Midnight tonight and somehow I ended up with the guitar pick Tyler tossed to the audience at the end of the show and for a lot of reasons that’s kind of got me a little stunned

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about Bo Burnham’s Inside again

This feeling, this steady formless feeling that hangs over everything, this untamable aimless urgency, this sense that all of this is going to burst at any moment, it just has to, it can't sustain like this, not with this much speed, not with this much force-the fear of what will happen when it ends, when it hits the brick wall. And the other fear, the deeper fear, the unspeakable fear of never hitting the wall, of this feeling never ending, never slowing down, but rising forever, like a shepherd's tone-an endless and pointless climb toward a terrible and dense Nothing.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Egg Roll got to take off The Hated Cone and he is so happy

An orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing in an attitude of extravagant comfort.

An orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing, only now he's got one leg all stretched out and he's twisted his body at a new angle.

Yet again, an orange cat with a shaved tummy and a surgical incision and no cone sprawled on his back on a little house thing, this time with a completely new orientation and both front legs all stretched out.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think about this bit from @foldablehuman.bsky.social’s Line Goes Up video a lot

Cryptocurrency does nothing to address 99% of the problems with the banking industry, because those problems are patterns of human behavior. They're incentives, they're social structures, they're modalities. The problem is what people are doing to others, not that the building they're doing it in has the word "BANK" on the outside.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New quartzite bracelets in my Etsy store! Everything (except tarot readings) is still 20% off and all proceeds go toward buying Egg Roll another brain cell so he doesn’t eat strings again www.etsy.com/shop/TarotDr...

Elastic bracelet made with tumbled multicolored quartzite and silver accent beads in the shape of a tree.

Elastic bracelet made with tumbled white quartzite and silver accent beads in the shape of a tree.

An orange cat wearing a blue cone rolled onto his back on a window perch; he has a shaved tummy and a healing surgical incision.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ll also be getting some more stuff up on the Etsy store this evening, but in the meantime everything (except tarot readings) is still 20% off, take a gander tarotdruid.etsy.com

Wind chime made from fossil mollusk shells and multicolored tumbled quartzite pebbles.

A piece of semi-translucent white tumbled quartzite wrapped with silver wire into a pendant.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Speaking of which, I don’t want to presume to tell anyone else what to do with their own dang cat, but I would advise against these wormy toys, you’d probably be fine but the downside if things go bad is very big and very expensive Which is too bad because our cats adore them

A selection of fuzzy wormy cat toys with googly eyes, in various colors.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back at vet ER, got him settled with one of his favorite blankets He still very loopy

An orange cat with an IV port in his foreleg and a tube in one nostril wearing a blue cone and lying on a red blanket.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He dream of calling and riding the great grandfather of the wormy that got him in here

Close up of an orange cat’s head surrounded by a blue cone. He is sleeping. There is a little tube in one nostril.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Nooooo don’t let the internet see my indignity”

Orange cat sprawled on his side on a dark blue blanket. He is wearing a blue cone, his belly is shaved and covered in a gauze bandage, and he has an IV port on his foreleg full of tubes. He is not at his most handsome (although still very handsome).

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We have been afflicted by the Cone of Shame

An orange cat lying on a dark blue blanket, saline IV tube visible, wearing a blue cone.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Also just a note that I’ve still got some very pretty stuff that I made with my own two hands currently 20% off in my Etsy store, and I’ll be adding a few more items over the next couple days (bracelets, a couple new wind chimes) tarotdruid.etsy.com

A wind chime made with various sizes of fossil mollusk shell and tumbled quartzite pebbles.

A bracelet made of white tumbled quartzite, glass accent beads, and a silver clasp.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Egg Roll we too are most dissatisfied with the situation

An orange cat in a maroon carrier with the door open, on an examining table covered with a towel. He looks fairly annoyed about things in general.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He hide under examining room couch-thing Still waiting to get out of triage purgatory

Orange cat curled up on a black mat under said couch-thing, head on his paw.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SO GUESS WHO’S AT THE EMERGENCY VET WITH A STUPID ORANGE BOY WHO CONSUMED HIS ENTIRE WORMY TOY THIS MORNING Completely unrelated to this in any respect whatsoever, I’m running another sale—20% off all physical items in my store for the rest of the month tarotdruid.etsy.com

A wind chime made with fossil mollusk shells and tumbled multicolored quartzite.

Bracelet made from tumbled multicolored quartzite.

Wirewrapped pendant made with silver wire and a white-gray semitransluscent piece of tumbled quartzite.

Bracelet made with white and gray tumbled quartzite and glass accent beads.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ferdinand just wants to chill and vibe and smell the flowers!

One of Lawson’s original very detailed illustrations of Ferdinand strolling through a field, sniffing flowers, surrounded by butterflies.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Couple new elastic tumbled quartzite bracelet listings posted in the store! Clicky clicky www.etsy.com/shop/TarotDr...

Multicolored (yellow, white, pink, orange) tumbled quartzite bracelet on a gray patio table.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I missed the news two days ago that Wendell Berry has also left us. He was one of my absolute all-time favorite poets, so let me once again post my all-time favorite of his poems, possibly the poem of my heart I have a tattoo of its final line in Latin on my arm www.context.org/iclib/ic30/b...

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.
Listen to carrion - put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

“Meditare resurrectionem” in simple font on the inside of my right forearm.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It says something that Tim Curry was so great in so goddamn much stuff that I keep seeing people name roles I had kinda forgotten and them I’m like oh YEAH he was awesome in that TOO defector.com/lets-remembe...

Curry concludes the proceedings with a great villain speech about how he can't ever be truly destroyed, because darkness is what gives definition to light, and as such is "a part of you all." His performance in the scene is great: Darkness knows he's telling the truth, and seems almost to welcome what he knows will be a false defeat. It's a perfect setup for what happens next, when he is vanquished-and proven right, by everyone in the audience immediately experiencing a moment of thinking, Shit, I want him back.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New stretchy tumbled quartzite bracelet listings in my shop! Should note that these are very satisfyingly clicky and weighty, they’re a lot of fun to fiddle with and it was certainly fun to make em www.etsy.com/shop/TarotDr...

Yellow tumbled quartzite pebble bracelet.

Multicolored (yellow, salmon pink, red, orange) tumbled quartzite bracelet.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This piece is excellent, one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen After 2008 I became sort of obsessed with learning about exactly how everything fell apart. I didn’t know I’d get to see an exact replay two fucking decades later

The take-or-pay compute contract - the instrument at the center of the Al build-out has a structural feature that almost no one prices: its payments do not begin at signing. They begin at delivery. A lab signs a multi-year capacity commitment today, but the payments do not start until the data center is energized, the capacity is accepted, and the contractual ramp schedule commences - an interval set not by finance, but by construction: siting, powering, and filling a gigawatt-scale campus takes 24-to-36 months from signature - mirroring the two-to-three-year teaser of a subprime ARM.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’m recording a podcast in October on House of Leaves so I’m making notes as I reread (Please do not answer any of these questions or offer your own interpretation, I’m serious, please refrain, this is not an invitation to discussion, I am merely sharing my flailing)

- Puzzle box reading? Paranoia-Exit 8.
Spiraling. You notice what looks like a misspelling or a continuity error—is it really an error or something
meaningful? Who is the author of the error? Backrooms/Kane Parsons. Is this how you get Jarhead sequels? People read the Bible this way and look where that gets us. QAnon baking the breadcrumbs but none of it ever meant anything concrete or real. What IS REAL? Real is a desert. This book breaks my brain. I sit here making notes and going in a spiral and eventually I just want to lie on the patio and feel the warm flagstones on my cheek
- Anyway, what's the deal with Johnny's
"of" vs "have". Is that characterization?
Is it a code? There isn't enough grass to touch in the world

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Egg Roll just did a session of clicker training with the study door OPEN and he could SEE JUNO DOWN THE HALL and it was NO BIG DEAL, HE DIDN’T FREAK OUT AT ALL, everyone tell him that he is a VERY GOOD BOY

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In her later years Sadie had chronic gum problems that eventually resulted in all her teeth being extracted—after which she was much more comfortable—and the vet was kind enough to save her upper incisors for me Sadie I miss u 💔

A tortoiseshell cat lying on my chest with her head pressed up under my chin; she looks and is utterly blissful.

Tortoiseshell cat lying on her back in the sunny grass, getting pets on her chest. She is wearing a fetching red leash-harness.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I finally have the earrings made from our dearly departed Sadie’s incisors and they are fantastic (Thanks so so much to the people who helped me get in touch with Barb; I’m very relieved that she’s still doing at least sort of okay)

A white person with short gray hair wearing simple silver earrings made from a cat’s upper incisors.

A close-up of one of the cat incisor earrings, with more detail of the setting (which is a plain silver leaf design).

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This cat has the most gloriously empty head

A little calico cat sitting on a kitchen floor and gazing adorably and blankly upward, her eyes are beautiful golden green and there is absolutely nothing going on behind them.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Spoiler kinda for what’s actually going on but whatever

"What's wrong with you?"

The demon gives him a thin, pained smile. When it speaks again, it does so in a dry croak. A dying voice. "Don't have your constitution. Being in this goddamn maze is bad for me. We don't have a lot of time left. Or I don't."

Jacob hunches forward, leans his chin on his folded hands. It's as though there's one weariness in this room, shared between the two of them.

"What happens when we run out of it?"

"For you, it doesn't end. It just keeps on going." Another flicker of a smile. "That's the hell of it, you see. You've been in the middle of it for years. You know exactly where it started. You know so much more than you've ever let yourself know. You know that you aren't the only one who's been suffering. How many people have you seen, going through the exact same Hell? How many people have you put there? Kept there? All in the name of saving them. For your... your fucking fascist God."

A hint of contempt, in those last words. A curl of its lips, not quite making it all the way to a sneer. Exhausted anger more than anything else. And still that terrible sadness.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I know this has been going around since the new regime took power, but let me recommend that you download it, save it maybe in more than one place, and most importantly at least skim it. There is very good and important stuff in here

(2) Encouraging Destructiveness
It should be pointed out to the saboteur where the circumstances are suitable, that he is acting in self-defense against the enemy, or retaliating against the enemy for other acts of destruction. A reasonable amount of humor in the presentation of suggestlons for simple sabotage will relax tensions of fear.

(a) The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking, and he should be told this in so many words. Where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless; and so on. Once he is encouraged to think backwards about himself and the objects of his everyday life, the saboteur will see many opportunities in his immediate environment which cannot possibly be seen from a distance. A state of mind should be encouraged that anything can be sabotaged.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This partially inspired by HBomberguy successfully ragebaiting me with his Letterboxd review of the Backrooms movie, which—Okay, I don’t think it’s wall to wall lazy bad takes although I do not agree with it, but in particular And like Harry. Harris. Harrison Elizabeth Bomberguy.

When people praise this movie they keep saying things like "it's about trauma," and it is, but what exactly did it say about trauma, other than it's, well, traumatic? In The Babadook, you see characters approach and process their trauma, and come out the other side having changed. In Backrooms, you get flashbacks to Mary's traumatic childhood, and then the movie just sort of continues. Like, I get it, the backrooms are like being locked in your house by your mother, but that doesn't give me anything new to think about. You're not taking the idea any further than a family guy sketch. Boy, this infinite hallway reminds me of how I never finished college!

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two new wind chime listings! And they’re still 25% off—along with all other physical listings—until the 23rd www.etsy.com/shop/TarotDr...

A wind chime made from a piece of blackened driftwood, tumbled multicolored quartzite, and fossil mollusk shells. A blooming crape myrtle is in the background.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It lay down. Or half of it did. When I was standing about two inches from the trunk Fortunately I was on the side opposite to the angle at which it tipped over

Half a red maple tree standing in a back yard, half lying on the grass with a red ladder in front of the trunk.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s really good imo. Strongly flavored, very sweet with little flashes of astringency when you bite into a whole berry. I’m betting it’d be great with strongly flavored cheese or maybe with meat Next time I make it I might go lighter on the additional sugar to give the tartness more room

Closeup of some of the finished chokeberry jam on a spoon—it’s very dark red and sticky—with the jar on a cutting board in the background.

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