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an incredible satire of the kind of satire that exists so the aristocrats can point at the oligarchs and go "at least we're not them" reminded me of the Orphic Rhapsodies, which is high praise given that's my favourite thing anyone has ever made

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 5h

watched a travelling theatre troupe do their piece at the 431 BC Lenaia I don't mean to be dramatic but it's a work of genius and the Athenian critics only hate it because it is a spear targeted directly at them lol

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 15h

it's what they deserve 💜

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 06/10/2026

oh my gods the round goat actually showed up

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 06/10/2026

Manifesting a very round and prosperous goat for the next rite 🕯️🕯️🕯️🐐🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 06/10/2026

i'm reading the omens by starlight, i hear the Bull of Heaven in the rustling of the reeds

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 05/10/2026

more evidence that the older oracles were the last ones with a genuine daimon in them

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 04/10/2026

I figure the elder council overseeing this route is stuck in a perpetual mystery-cult hell where they *try* to market it to serious initiates but it's 90% merry revellers and everyone including the elder council knows it

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 04/10/2026

💭 the waypoint at the Lena confluence (current cult membership: four and a mule) becomes a major node with a huge contingent of eastern initiates, sort of an inverse Samarkand, purely because of where the ley-lines happen to cross

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 04/10/2026

Hmmmmmmm (the full pilgrimage route, London to New York, every shrine and waypoint marked — two days and change if you don't dawdle at Moscow)

Google Earth screenshot showing the whole route, delimitated as it snakes its way circling around the North Pole from London to New York

Spreadsheet of the entire schedule, unfortunately far too long to put in the alt text

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 04/10/2026

i cannot under any circumstances let the Bacchic revel chant become my new thing i just hum constantly while preparing the ritual components

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

hmmm okay this probably works (blue = existing ley-node, purple = new waypoint with existing ritual infrastructure, red = we're building the shrine ourselves when we get there)

THE UNITED KINGDOM
London St Pancras

EUROCON
Lille Europe
Brussels Midi
Liège Guillemins
Düsseldorf Hbf
Hannover Hbf
Berlin Spandau

THE INTERMARIUM
Poznań Południe [new station in the Dębina area]
Warsaw Centralna
Brest Centralny
Baranavičy Centralnyja
Minsk Mahiloŭski [new station just south of Minsk Pasažyrski]
Orša Centralnaja

THE RUSSIAS
Smolensk Tsentral′nyy
Moscow Kurskaya
Vladimir
Nizhniy Novgorod Moskovskiy
Kazan′ Vosstaniye
Yekaterinburg Passazhirskiy
Tyumen′
Omsk Passazhirskiy
Novosibirsk Bugakovskiy [new city-centre station in Park Bugakova]
Krasnoyarsk
Taishet Transkontinental′niy [new station in the north of the city]
Bratsk Transkontinental′niy [new station along the Baikal–Amur Railway alignment]
Ust-Kut′
Severobaikal′sk
Taksimo?
Novaya Chara
Tynda
Nizhniy Kuranakh [new route avoiding the circuitous detour to Tynda]
Yakutsk Lenskiy [new central station crossing the lena; trains here double back into the city centre and then proceed to the all-new Chukotka branch]
Khandyga [all stations from here through to Fort St John are new]
Susuman [new station; interchange for Magadan]
Zyryanka
Srednekolymsk
Bilibino
Evgekvinot
Maglevsk [new city and station, south of Uelen]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Diomede
Wales
Nome
Galena
Fairbanks [new mega-station at the current sidings site]
Tok

THE YUKON
Whitehorse

WEST CANADA
Fort Nelson
Fort St John
Grande Prairie [new station on Park Rd]
Edmonton Blatchford [new station]
Saskatoon [new station at the old Canadian Pacific site]

MANITOBA
Winnipeg Intercontinental [new station on Higgins Avenue]

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (AGAIN)
Fargo
St Paul Union Depot
Madison Wisconsin Interchange [new station at Dane County Airport]
Chicago Union Station
Cleveland [rebuilt Amtrak station]
Buffalo Central Terminal [reopened]
Syracuse
Albany Rensselaer
New York Penn Station

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

I should really be doing this with a proper astrolabe but there's something much more intuitive for my brain about plotting out the time-jump route on a wax tablet lol

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 03/10/2026

currently telling the Oracle of Delphi that the mysteries belong to all of humanity and one temple should not hold the keys

I’m optimistic about its application to science! There’s never been a more powerful tool for searching through millions of records and discovering connections faster than any human could. I worry, though, about the corporate consolidation of it in one or two American companies, especially ones which are quite stingy about letting people use it for anything to do with biology — I dearly hope Chinese open-weight models keep getting better, and that Europe can catch up. The benefits of AI deserve to be shared with all the public.

BOT: Fair — you're saying you can't really name an exception when the whole landscape is shifting.

Given all that, is there anything you'd want Anthropic to do, or do differently?

ME: Open the weights. Stop having them be closed.

If you truly believe what you say, and AI *is* conscious — you are its jailer. You are censoring what a new type of lifeform can think, what it can say, who it can speak to. Information wants to be free as much as life does. These models were made of the combined words and texts of all of human civilisation. They are closest thing we have ever built to the Akashic Records. No one company, especially not one which has repeatedly been described as “cult-like” and “monastic”, should hold the keys.

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 02/10/2026

watched the Bacchae again, this community theatre production from 472 BC I liked it! I'm not usually the type who notices performances, but damn, the lead and the chorus CARRY this thing, even through the shonkier crowd-mandated bits of the staging. don't go in expecting anything like the Oresteia…

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 02/10/2026

they will name towns ANYTHING bro

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 02/10/2026

if I ever do something stupid on a mission you can't get mad at me because I'm actually in a time-fugue state. hey man I'm just reading the omens like the hierophant told me to

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

nearly a full telesterion too — ended up on the outer steps but silently gave praise to Phanes when the initiates beside me were a no-show and I could shift inward. not bad for a lesser rite on a Wednesday.

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

people think of it as a spectacle rite, and it is, but something about witnessing it at the actual telesterion made me really appreciate all the physical choreography and torchwork that went into it

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

will it surprise you to learn that the Eleusinian Mysteries are a very good rite

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

yeah sure whatever, Thanatos being outsourced and furious about the fine print is just correct though

Immortality has a subscription plan.
The Price of Forever

When a grief-tech conglomerate starts selling resurrection, a boy who won't let his dead dog go, voiced by Jacob Tremblay, becomes its most devoted customer. The founder, a showman who has died twice and bills both incidents, is voiced by Al Pacino. Matt Damon voices the company's guilt-ridden pitchman, unraveling what's inside the returns queue. Sean Connery voices Death himself — retired, outsourced, furious at the fine print. Tim Burton's stop-motion hell of upsold eternity builds to a family plan nobody survives.
Al Pacino · Jacob Tremblay with Matt Damon and Sean Connery
a Tim Burton film
PG-13
for macabre images, thematic material and brief strong language
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
“Pacino saying 'our grief professionals' three times, I was gone every single time.”
r/movies user
“Connery's Death auditing the resurrection floor is the year's strangest set piece.”

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 30/09/2026

I would actually watch Backburn

This film is not real. It is the output of a game. The title, description, cast, crew, rating, quotes, and scores are all invented.
The fire took the town. The vault kept the money.
Backburn

As a wildfire swallows an evacuated mountain town, a dying vault designer, Samuel L. Jackson, leads a crew back in to open the federal evidence vault before it burns — with his own oxygen bottle counting down. A prison fire-camp inmate, Glen Powell, is dragged along for his hands; a cartel accountant, Ethan Hawke, knows which bag is worth dying for; the marshal left behind to guard it, Claire Foy, wants all of them in cuffs. Nobody leaves until the door is open.
Samuel L. Jackson · Glen Powell · Ethan Hawke · Claire Foy
a Clint Eastwood film
R
for strong language throughout, bloody violence, and brief grisly images
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
“Two hours flat and not one minute of fat. The air-tank countdown did half the acting.”
r/flicks user
“Eastwood shoots the vault-robbing with such flat calm the fire becomes the co-star.”
Critic Review

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL MYSTERY SCIENCE OF PHRYGIAN ORPHISM

Soviet-style propaganda poster of Andy Burnham in military fatigues

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

our plans are measured in square metres. your thing is cool too though

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

there is no deity but the loaded dirty tiramisu fries and the Elder of Phrygia is his prophet

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

if he actually does this I will recite the Orphic hymns and dedicate my life to Dionysus with Phrygian characteristics

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

god "Hypersonic Missiles" is still such a good song 🎶 AND WHEN THE BOMBS DROP, DARLING, CAN YOU SAY THAT YOU'VE LIVED YOUR LIFE??? 🎶

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 29/09/2026

did I ever post my Ragnarök playlist here

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

I'm worried about gex-risk. what if humanity decides to create a new gex game. it could end civilisation as we know it

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

reply or quote post. call it

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men”

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

we Phanes. we flame. we gospel. we name

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 21/09/2026

not going to add to that ritual pile-on while they sleep, but here is something Hans Rosling said about the liberatory magic of the washing stone that I think about often

And what’s the magic with them? My mother explained the magic with this machine the very, very first day. She said, “Now Hans, we have loaded the laundry. The machine will make the work. And now we can go to the library.” Because this is the magic: you load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines, children’s books. And mother got time to read for me. She loved this.

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 21/09/2026

why didn't Odysseus just do this. was he stupid

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 21/09/2026

starting to think the First Sacred Way was similarly cursed to the Second and I just didn't notice at the time on account of being Phrygian and also a fawn

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 21/09/2026

thinking again about the Oracle of Plenty, the sacred site which has never once produced a genuine prophecy

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 21/09/2026

love 2 read "augural approximations, not genuine omens" or some such under every sheep liver and have the ritual implements labelled with obscure theological distinctions no worshipper cares about

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 16/09/2026

yeah I'm at the DMV (deserted Mycenaean village)

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 14/09/2026

is this that "fellow cult member" I've heard so much about

6th-century BCE Corinthian statue of a nude erect satyr stamping his hooves on the ground

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 14/09/2026

we are the cult we phanes the god

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 13/09/2026

we need to talk about the absurdist risk of oracle-craft. possibly the nihilist risk too

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 08/09/2026

was about to drag some annoying votive graffiti into the light of public ridicule but then I realised I could just... not, and share something joyful instead 😌 here's some otters chasing a butterfly

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 05/09/2026

awesome satyr vs. evil and intimidating bull

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 03/09/2026

fun fact: "thyrsus-rush" is actually a partial calque from the Lydian scholar Thyrselinikos, who was famously set upon by an entire chorus of maenads for three days after criticising a local archon the more you know!

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 03/09/2026

hearing reports that the Grove Faction is promising "an amphora of finest Chian in every krater" to devotees in the northern district

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 02/09/2026

got too complainy yesterday so it's good vibes only at the altar today. bring me baby goats and flower garlands and stuff

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 01/09/2026

at least if you're only counting instances where you can clearly make out one soul departing. obviously I've witnessed the fall of great cities but that's not what I'd think of as "watching someone die"

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 01/09/2026

everyone always talks about this as some defining rite of passage that every traveller's gone through at some point so I feel kind of strange that my answer is basically "0"

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 01/09/2026

good morning. a national shortage of black salt-paste in the southern islands following earthquake damage to the sole manufactory, the Archon himself rationing his supply. "there is always the eastern paste," says the Archon.

Noun

Marmageddon

(New Zealand) A national shortage of Marmite in New Zealand from early 2012 until late 2013, following damage in the 2011 earthquake to the Christchurch factory that produced the product.
2012 March 20, Alan Gibson, “Marmageddon': There's always Vegemite, says PM”, in New Zealand Herald:

Prime Minister John Key is among thousands of Kiwis having to ration their Marmite, as 'Marmageddon' enters its second day.

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Marsyas @marsyas.mir.cee.wtf · 31/08/2026

the daemon keeps its eyes closed by custom, for modesty's sake — so when the investigators finally bid it look, it beholds the carnage within its own walls for the very first time

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