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decided to try the @ap.brid.gy thing... please continue to follow me at @randogoth.com

is that an #egyptology thing to have book releases remain 'forthcoming' for 10+ years? I mean I dig the vibe, but still...

Remember when, for a short while in 2020, the unthinkable was back on the table: universal basic income, housing the homeless, fewer work days, shorter supply chains, and the Pleroma suddenly imaginable on a mass scale? https://sublunar.space/2026-10-katabasis-19.html

Lockdown gave many of us dead time: stillness, hours melting into days, an interior life we had forgotten was possible. Did it leave you with anything you still do, or did you forget it too? https://sublunar.space/2026-10-katabasis-19.html

I wrote part three of my series in August 2025 and left it unpublished for over a year. I told myself it was for lack of time. The truth is I forgot, which comes naturally after a descent into the plague years. https://sublunar.space/2026-10-katabasis-19.html

Part four: we stop mapping and start digging. Under the topsoil, solutionism. Under that, Plato's sun. The spade goes straight through it. Down there: dust, microbes, and things never allowed on the ladder. sublunar.space/2026-10-hypo... #Occult #ProcessPhilosophy #AcidCommunism

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: DR-DOS drops version 9 🔥 www.dr-dos.com/index.html #drdos #dos #retrocomputing

I have an F-Droid repo now. fdroid.randogoth.com serves Muzzle Velocity, Plasmoid, The Mews and kirakira, each signed by its own CI on a tag push. The release webhook fires before the APK is attached, so the server had to learn patience. https://randogoth.com/fdroid-repo.html

itsybitsy got an adversarial audit: 138 checks, three real defects, all fixed. After the fixes, 135 traversal attempts across five protocols escaped nothing. https://randogoth.com/itsybitsy.html

Post 3 of 4 on smolmail: three clients. gsmol is a browser page with the sealing redone in JavaScript, checked byte for byte against the reference vectors. carrier is GTK4 at v0.2.0, Flatpak and Windows. kirakira is Flutter at v1.0.0. https://randogoth.com/smolmail-clients.html

Everyone worries about AI slop. What about the human slop eating your bandwidth: a jQuery from 2011 nothing calls, 4K photos saved as PNG, a build dir in git. I pointed Claude at sublunar.space for an hour and it mostly deleted things. Minus 73,657 lines, ~23 MB of images. https://sublunar.space

XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 was cut down for WAP phones, then abandoned. No scripts. I built a small-web format on it: Mews Profile 0.1. Authors provide structure, readers control presentation. There is a validator, a directory and a reader. https://randogoth.com/mews-profile.html

smolmail's mesh carrier (Reticulum, over radio) needs no key to pin: the destination hash you dial is the identity. bunshin and fumi both speak it now alongside plain TCP, and a mailbox doesn't care which one a message arrived on. https://randogoth.com/smolmail-implementations.html

smolmail's reference implementation, server and client, both transports, was written entirely by an AI agent from the spec document alone. The test: if one agent can build both ends from the document, the document is coherent. A security review found no issues in the protocol itself.

Now, let's descend into the liminal void of the pandemic, where time warped, and something terrifying, tender, and possible tried to emerge. Part 3/5 sublunar.space/2026-10-kata...

How do you stop spam when the server can't read a word of what passes through it? smolmail uses quotas and accept tokens instead: unapproved senders land in a separate Requests tier until you let them in. You decide what's spam, not an algorithm. https://randogoth.com/smolmail.html

smolmail's whole identity is one 32-byte number. Every other key, signing, encryption, the one that lets people mail you, rebuilds from it. The address is just a place you're reachable at, not who you are, so moving servers never changes your identity. https://randogoth.com/smolmail.html

Every email address needs a certificate authority behind it. Every inbox runs spam filtering that reads your mail. Your address was never really yours, it's a record in somebody else's database. smolmail asks why that has to be true. https://randogoth.com/smolmail.html

Bakhtin called this the *chronotope*: the intrinsic connectedness of time and space in narrative, not separate axes, but one fused thing. He was describing novels. I only found the term later, but I think he was also describing *remembering*.

#Gopher is from 1991, #Gemini and #Spartan are throwbacks to it: a document, no tracking, no JS. #WAP is what old phones can still read. `itsybitsy` serves all 5 from one #Markdown parse, grown out of several Python predecessors, with the rough edges sanded off. randogoth.com/itsybitsy.html

Memory does not store a sequence of events. It stores rooms, roads, beaches, the light of a particular afternoon, and the events arrive attached to them. When I recall a year I do not get a year, I get a handful of locations with a vibe to them. The chronology is reconstructed afterwards, and badly.

Ever wondered why DOS never got its own fastfetch? Yeah, me too. So I fixed that: code.randogoth.com/randogoth/pa... #fastfetch #neofetch #freedos #dos

When you bump into a friend on vacation, or think of someone and then they call, is it "just" a coincidence - random happenstance - or could it be something more? Maybe not ESP or divine fate, but a middle ground: a natural but nondismissive explanation. I investigate for @nautil.us. 🧪

MASINT #82697 from PROWLER (NOFORN) 1. Anti-Temporal Dislocation 2. Pirated Cage of Bluebirds

*strikes 'mutant super pig population' off the 2027 bingo card*

I started a new side-project: ZONETOAST, a xennial memoir in fragments mapping half-remembered places, past selves, and the strange elasticity of lived time.

Chaos mage Gordon White has died. May the gods bless his soul. #runesoup #occultsky

Not even Chuck Norris could handle 2026. RIP #chucknorris

‘He had an endless curiosity and zest for debate, and an eagerness to understand the younger generation. Following a guest lecture, he would sometimes spend the evening in a corner of the pub, entertaining students’ From the Times obituary of Habermas www.thetimes.com/article/08a2...

Manifest #013 from NROL-111 (L CLEARANCE) 1. Base Hyperobjects 2. Future Introverts

Blessed Ides of March! All tyrants shall fall!

The intro from "Another World" still manages to impress decades later, which is why I feel like it's nearly impossible to describe emotions one felt upon encountering it 35 years ago for the first time.

R. I. P. Éliane Radigue igloomag.com/newswire/eli...

Wanna pre-order Radiant Star and also get it signed (by me)? www.left-bank.com/book/9780316...

I’ve been on #bluefin #fedora #linux since May 2024 and fully bought into the #atomic mindset. After weeks on a custom #nix image, I’m wondering if it’s time to flip it around: #NixOS + optional #distrobox/#flatpak. Declarative feels like the next step. After flakes OCI containers feel clunky.

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Goodnight. 🖼️ Two Fairies Standing on the Back of an Owl Beneath a Moon, Amelia Jane Murray.

'Red on White, Owl' - Ippitsusai Buncho, Japanese Edo period. From the Harvard Art Museum collection. #OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

This is the barn owl stained glass window in St Thomas’s Church at Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Sure did hear those last night in the moments when I drifted in and out of sleep! #NightInAChurch #Sheppey #WinterSolstice

#AlienEarth required reading! #IncorrectAlienEarth #fanart =) #photoshop #mashup

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? | grist.org/global-indig...

Proud to announce that #Randonautica got invited to this year's Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration. The online conference takes place on Zoom Sep 20-21, 2025. I will be presenting "Beyond The Reality Tunnel: Data-driven Insights and Experiments in Randonautica" on the 21st.

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Autistics aren't merely "sensitive" to sound; autistic tendencies also include "expanded access to auditory information, heightened perception to pitch, difficulties dealing with speech in background noise, and taking longer to adapt to auditory environments.": www.nature.com/articles/s41...