Nice. Which one? He really does a lot of justice to his topics so I’m glad you like it :)

Flashback to smelly sneezes if anyone remembers.

I only listened to the cultural revolution episode of Rest Is History and it was pretty fun, I liked the guest a lot, the hosts didn’t say much tho. Will check out again next time I zone in on some history. Currently just digging through Chinese 19th and 20th century.

The world war 2 japan one was so good, I can’t get the same itch scratched from most others tho… But it was really, really good.

I don’t listen to many podcasts these days but right now I am listening start to finish to The Chinese Revolution Podcast (it is about the Chinese revolution if that wasn’t clear). The production is not great and there is sometimes bg music which I hate because it makes me tired, but the content is really good with complementary maps on substack etc.

My favorites over time have been:

• Martyr Made. Very in depth history. We are talking 10 episodes of 5 hours each in some cases. My favorite one was about the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the history of the region.

• Behind The Bastards. I do not like this pod anymore, it turned into a series of bad jokes imo. The first 150 or so episodes are grwat though. Some of the most interesting and bizarre bastards from history are covered and it is a lot of fun as well as informative.

• Darknet Diaries. Interesting stories from tech, but no need for in depth technical knowledge to listen.

• Hardcore History. Like Martyr Made but with focus on different things.

Honorary mention to Drunk Tank. RIP. Was my favorite podcast before it became super well produced and boring and everyone had a thousand scandals and shit… The early episodes were a lot of fun at the time, idk if they hold up tho.

Edit: I forgot this one which I actually listen to regularly because I watch the show on YouTube, but it is technically a podcast and the only podcast I still regularly listen to:

• A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein. Honestly amazing, they talk about problemativ people, movements or politics from a pop culture perspective. Anything from stay at home influencers to taylor swift stans to elon musk really. It’s really good tho. I don’t agree with every thing tvey say but the general analysis and overvies is always amazing.

Another one is:

• Tor’s Cabinet Of Curiousities. Odd stories, about anything. As long as it is an odd story it gets an episode. Extremely prolific dude, makes like two videos a week. You can listen like a podcast no problem basically 0 editing anyways.

Since we share 2 out of 4 favorites I have to check out the design one! A book I really enjoyed at the time was The Design Of Everyday Things. It really opened my eyes to the level of attention to detail put on almost everything around us.

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Oh god I just had a flashback… I remember a festival I was at in my teens, after a week of doing acid, molly and RCs I was more or less not present, smoking a spliff watching Sexy Sushi play as the sun came up. Two girls come up to me, take my spliff, take a hit, blow it into the others mouth with a kiss and then mine. I am on way too much acid (and way too inexperienced) to do anything but keep smiling and smoking… I don’t think I could have done much else even if I wanted too, but it really didn’t even register as any sort of flirting at the time. I can’t remember them leaving but I guess they did? Anyways, I feel you anon…

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No just with a ‘c’. He is a historian, and expert in occultism. He is not writing like a practicioner but like a theologist or a sort of religious studies. I was very interested in this at the time and even tried for a while to study religion at some uni courses but personal life got in the way. Anyways, it is an excellent book in that it will just present to you practice and belief from a non-indulgent perspective.

hobbydrama!

I believe you! But the imagery of a group of tripping people staring at lights in the sky is pretty funny as well :p

Reminds me of doing shrooms with a guy I met at Freqs Of Nature festival, he tells me “I need to sit down a bit” so we do, and after an hour of silence goes “woah. I was just contacted by aliens”.

Man I will never forget his face, stone serious. We went back and danced after that.

I wanted to share some unexplainable experiences while on psychedelics but since you are on psychs no one believes you :(

The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish

I don’t remember the specifics of the mental process, this was like 8 years ago. But it was some sort of manifestation technique, probably in the first half of the book

Oh lol yeah. I did “magic” once and it freaked me out so bad I never tried it again.

So I was a bit of an edgy person and fascinated by religion. I bought a book about black magic on ebay or some shit, it came with a drop of blood from the previous owner I realized when I got it in the mail, which was kind of creepy bit you know, authentic?

So yeah, I am reading and it is fascinating stuff. I love the overall concepts and the metaphysical implications, but you know, I don’t actually believe in that stuff, so I decide to try it out…

The next day I go to work in a factory, we built trucks/lorries or what it is called in english. I try the techniques I read in the book, about highly specific manifestation and willing into existence. I visualize a sort of trade, and specify the factory will stop for an extended period of time, but not enough to cause any irrepairable economic harm or loss of employment, and certainly no physical or great emotional harm, only economical at a level far removed from the average floor worker. About an hour goes by, and everything stops. Apparently, the engines have not arrived from Germany, due to some delivery chain issue. We cannot continue the line as we are out of engines and they can only be inserted at one specific point, so everything stops until we get more. We all laugh and start just chilling around the factory, there is nothing to do anyways and we already cleaned everything imaginable the first 30 minutes or so (you would not believe how fast cleaning gets done when over a thousand people are ordered to clean because “well we can’t just have you standing around”). Now I want to make clear no big stop like this ever happened in my entire time there, especially not because of something that wasn’t a big fuckup by someone on site. I got kind of freaked out and never really touched that book again lol.

I have some other ones, but no one else was around for those so they are easier to just blame on me not being very mentally stable at the time.

Maybe it is a toy, or like a fidget spinner. Idn I stim a lot that looks like it would be awesome for stimming, first thought.

So as someone who recently went from MacOS to Linux (at least partially) Mint is terrible for macOS users. It is like going back to windows. I get it is the easiest for Windows users but maybe add a row for Macos to Fedora or something (but maybe it is too complicated, I just know most mac users would scoff at Mint’s interface).

I’ve been listening to so much Ozric Tentacles last month, after realizing Eat Static are ex-members. Highly recommend, especially the early stuff where these two were still part of the group!

whaat new Kid Spatula? I didn’t think he still released under that name.

The OUTER… LIMITS…

i’m sorry I love this show so I had to do the intro voice.

Man I love it so much. I have basically stopped watching tv and movies the past two years, I watch maybe (like not even) once ever two months. I just don’t enjoy it very often and I have trouble sitting still just watching if it isn’t super interesting. This absolutely is tho. Makes me laugh a lot and think and go “aaa far out man”.