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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 11/09/2026

It's after Labor Day so it seems seasonably appropriate now to shift to Halloween headshot.

Black-and-white horror manga portrait of a man transformed into Cthulhu. Rectangular glasses frame black eyes with glowing slit pupils beneath recognizable human brows. His elongated head has ridged, porous skin, and a mass of curling, sucker-lined tentacles replaces his mouth and beard. Batlike wings and more tentacles fill the dark background.

Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 07/09/2026

SlopSearX v0.4.0 has been released. This is an agent-first meta search engine, API-compatible replacement for SearXNG. But it's entirely original software, not a fork. github.com/magnus919/Sl...

Vintage illustrated promotional poster for “SlopsearX v0.4.0,” featuring colorful block lettering, a giraffe search team on roller skates, and panels describing search deadlines, rankings, dated research, cache provenance, and faster results. A form at the bottom invites users to record a difficult search question.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 05/09/2026

I'm starting to catch other AI newsletters pinching off mine, like right down to the signature aesthetic.

Magnus, dressed as a 19th-century gentleman inventor, works on a brass steampunk machine at a wooden workbench in a richly furnished office. An observer takes notes while peeking through the window, and a framed Groktopus octopus emblem hangs on the wood-paneled wall.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 31/08/2026

Input to Hermes Agent… the “/magnus-agent” invokes a skill that I made that sort of puts the AI on rails about how to perform a task…

AI prompt:

/magnus-image gonzo infographic of me sitting on an old Ironhead Harley Davidson hardtail chopper and we are explaining with gonzo style why I love motorcycles:

- palpable sense of freedom
- feeling at one with the machine
- moving through the air and sensing everything about it
- invitation to wander
- every ride is an adventure

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 26/08/2026

Yes, it's fake, and not even a great one.

Zoomed-in section of the photograph showing Spider-Man's fist hitting the Nazi's mouth at the top, but below showing the morale patches that he's wearing on his camo vest that have telltale signs of AI scrambled text.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 25/08/2026

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Poster for children’s tv show The Wiggles

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/08/2026

The show is called #Lanterns, not “Green Lanterns”. If you’re a new or casual fan, here’s a sense of what they are laying the foundations for.

Infographic titled “The Lantern Field Guide: A quick mental map for new fans.” Against a starry black background, a glowing rainbow arc presents seven classic Lantern Corps: red/rage, orange/avarice, yellow/fear, green/willpower, blue/hope, indigo/compassion, and violet/love. A second section covers black/death, white/life, and ultraviolet/hidden negative emotions. A third lists gold/joy and gray/sorrow as later or special cases. The bottom callout reads: “Color tells you what fuels the ring—not whether the wearer is a hero.”

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/08/2026

Oh, I've seen that guy in another movie where he falls in love with his prostitute.

Movie poster for Pretty Women, except it has Donald Trump and Melania on the cover. Melania is dressed like a prostitute, and Donald is in a suit.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/08/2026

Where, oh where, is the pro AI community on Blue Sky? How do I find them? Where are the people that are actually doing cool things with harnesses and skills and who don't think this is the end of the world? I tried finding them on X, and what I found was so toxic it leaves me ill.

AI-generated illustration of Nous Research mascot, AKA Nous Girl, in a solar punk cafe, sitting beneath the shade of a solar panel, hacking away on her laptop. People ride by on bicycles. There's greenery all around.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 21/08/2026

Big updates to my /site-reliability-engineering skill. If you're an SRE or sometimes get roped into SRE-adjacent work, this should work with any mainstream AI agent and really help you out. github.com/magnus919/ag...

Promotional infographic titled “Site Reliability Engineering, Now Built for the Real Work.” The subtitle says, “A freshly updated AI agent skill, deeply updated with practical guidance.” A portrait of Magnus, wearing glasses and a slate-blue shirt, points toward a panel titled “What the update adds,” which lists five features: user-focused SLOs and error budgets; capacity, overload, dependency, configuration, canary, and data-durability reviews; clear ownership and SRE adoption with or without a dedicated team; sustainable on-call, incident learning, documentation, psychological safety, and cognitive-load practices; and practical templates for design reviews, overload recovery, and reliability ownership. A second panel titled “Why install it?” says it moves users from vague reliability advice to an inspectable way to design, operate, and improve production systems. The footer links to github.com/magnus919/agent-skills.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 12/08/2026

Is she going to be replaced by this fembot?

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 11/08/2026

The DJI Wireless mic is the hot setup for people who use Wispr Flow in their work every day. This is proving to be really useful for having voice-to-text sessions with my AI agent.

Closeup of DJI Wireless Mic on Magnus' shirt

Product rendering of DJI wireless mic kit with two transmitters, a receiver, and a charging case.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 27/07/2026

AI Agent Skills v0.5.0 is out: - evidence-aware life coaching - cyberpunk - llama.cpp - Grafana - deeper Raleigh civic-data workflows Now backed by reproducible, paired, rubric-based evaluations. github.com/magnus919/ag...

llustrated cutaway infographic announcing Agent Skills v0.5.0. Magnus pulls a physical release lever, sending an amber conduit through connected panels for evidence-aware coaching,
causal cyberpunk, llama.cpp and Grafana operations, Raleigh civic data, and repeated evaluation benches with green status lights.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 12/07/2026

Teacher to 10 year old me: "What do you want to be when you grow up? Me: (quote & repost your own)

Magnus as the keytarist for DEVO, rocking it out on-stage in a yellow jumpsuit, black gloves, and a glorious red energy dome up on his head.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 08/07/2026

A couple of years back, I almost died. Not from riding a motorcycle, but from a blood clot that moved to my lungs. I had a pulmonary embolism. But during my recovery, I'd won a raffle. An old "ironhead" Harley-Davidson Sportster. And it runs! (but needs so much work) I really wanna fix this up.

Two men starting and revving an old Harley-Davidson that had just been taken off the back of a delivery truck.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 30/06/2026

If I were making horror films in The Backrooms extended mythology, I’d be tapping into connective tissue back to The King in Yellow / Carcosa.

Alt: A grainy found-footage still from 1996. The King in Yellow, a 12-foot-tall figure in decaying yellow brocade robes and a featureless pallid mask, stands in the midground of an endless Backrooms office maze. Grey cubicle partitions partially obscure his lower body, his trailing robe drags across the carpet behind him. Harsh fluorescent lights recede into infinite repetition above yellow-wallpapered pillars.

Caption: PM 11:37:32 — MAY. 04 1996. The King in Yellow, observed between cubicle partitions in Level 0. Roughly 40 feet and closing.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/06/2026

🐙 GROKTOCRAWL v0.9.0 RELEASED crawl engine, deep search, find-similar, monitors, observability, security, and a circuit breaker. Self-hosted Firecrawl alternative. One docker compose up. MIT license. github.com/groktopus/groktocrawl

A cyberdelic kaiju octopus with a translucent blue holographic brain pulsing at the crown of its skull rises from Tokyo Harbor, its body a wireframe of electric blue and neon magenta circuitry. Six tentacles each hoist a glowing information panel — Crawl Engine, Deep Search, Find Similar, Search Monitors, Observability, Security — each filled with readable technical copy in smaller type. Behind it, the Tokyo skyline layers traditional pagoda silhouettes against orange-lit Tokyo Tower and vertical neon kanji signs reading "Explore the Future" and "Cyber Search," all sunk in deep violet-black fog. Two small tour boats in the foreground water give the creature's scale away. The whole scene is framed in an ornate Art Nouveau circuit-board border of electric blue filigree, laid over a warm aged paper grain that cracks the holographic future with the wear of an old concert poster.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 20/06/2026

There’s more like 5 camps. The “faster keyboard” is just the entry level.

Breakdown of 5 levels of AI assisted coding autonomy from the MindStudio Framework.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/05/2026

and whatever you’re trying to do with it, just ask it how and it’ll tell you.

Nous Research girl drinking from a cup that says “Ask Hermes”

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/05/2026

Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw How it's going.

Nous Research girl is savagely feasting on a lobster. It's a terrible mess. Underneath the meme text reads "Absolute Cinema"

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 23/05/2026

And used my notes to play with .epub ebook creation tools.

Ebook cover showing a biomechanical spider. Title “The Spider Blueprint” by Magnus Hedemark

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 20/05/2026

The answer to almost every Hermes Agent question is "ask Hermes".

meme of anime girl wearing Nous Research headphone sipping from a coffee mug that reads "Ask Hermes"

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 20/05/2026

If your AI agent isn't a good enough advisor, let them hire a tough room to debate and advise you. If you're running Hermes Agent, I have a new open source skill that will really help. I give you... hermes-council github.com/magnus919/he...

Painting of five frazzled geniuses debating around a messy table.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 17/05/2026

Or Robin Williams. git.brandyapple.com/magnus/aweso...

Surreal painting of Robin Williams portraying both his light and his dark sides. He's opening his shirt to reveal clockwork gears. And a warm amber glow emanates from his heart.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 17/05/2026

I'm branching out and creating a few more SOUL.md examples. Like Vanessa Ives from Penny Dreadful. git.brandyapple.com/magnus/aweso...

Gothic watercolor of Eva Green as Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful. She's looking over her shoulder to you. Her reflection in the mirror is different than how she actually looks. Darker. Demonic.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 12/05/2026

Seriously how has Hollywood not made a serious go of adapting a movie or TV series around The King in Yellow (and I mean a serious treatment, not a low budget TV nod to it).

AI slop painting of the King in Yellow standing in front of Lake Hali in Carcosa. The gap in his mantle reveals that there is a cosmos where his body should be.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 25/04/2026

I remember setting up Meshtastic and being frustrated that I couldn't consistently get messages passed to someone just a few miles from where I live. Now on MeshCore, I can reliably send messages hundreds of miles away. This has been such an amazing adventure.

Screenshot of the MeshCore mobile app's Discover screen, filtered to show Recent Node Adverts for repeaters only. A map of the southeastern United States displays clustered map markers in yellow and green, each labeled with a number indicating the count of repeaters in that area. The densest concentration is in the Carolinas/Virginia region near Raleigh, with clusters including values of 38, 29, 6, 3, 95, 72, 30, 63, and others. A teal marker labeled "RTF REPEATER" with a broadcast icon is visible near Tennessee. Smaller clusters appear near Atlanta (4, 6) and coastal South Carolina/Georgia (6, 2, 9, 2). The search bar reads "Search 360 Repeaters..." indicating 360 total repeaters are discoverable. Map tiles are from OpenStreetMap.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 16/02/2026

Ah, you’ve discovered The Eastern. About 110M above the earth at North Hills.

Partial closeup of corner of high rise. An antenna is sticking up from the roof.

Tighter close up showing the antenna, which is circled for illustrative purpose.

View from the roof of a MeshCore solar repeater on the roof of a high rise.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 01/02/2026

Let me be the first to meme the great Raleigh snowpocalypse of 2026.

AI generated image that simulates the famous Raleigh snowpocalypse scene but without snow.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 24/01/2026

I gave up worrying about what my neighbors must think I’m up to long ago. But it involves a 7m+ pole and a Meshcore radio stuck to the end of it at night.

Night selfie outdoors of Magnus wearing a winter coat, big furry hat. He’s holding a telescoping aluminum pole.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 01/01/2026

Bringing up my MeshCore repeater game in Raleigh.

Box containing Seeed Studio SenseCAP P1 Pro solar node for LoRa. Made for Meshtastic but works also with MeshCore.

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Spooky Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com · 30/12/2025

My poison dart frogs have been doing so well, I just placed an empty vivarium next to their’s… just to start to picture what a second one might look like. This one is Dendrobates tinctorius “Patricia”.

A small poison dart frog with a bright yellow back marked by bold black stripes sits on a curved branch. Its legs are vivid blue, surrounded by green and red foliage.

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