the lower clouds this morning were as much fun as the sky itself, like fog sneaking off to the bay instead of burning off like it’s supposed to

dorothea lange bot is posting my neighborhood!

https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/113465438690782374

Clarkesworld Issue 217 ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prior/issue_217/) was pretty solid all around. I think I left 216 in a hotel room (d’oh!), so I’m going back to finish the last two stories of 215 and then I’ll check out 216 on the web.

I particularly liked "Midnight Patron” by Mike Robinson ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/robinson_10_24/)

if you are in line to vote for trevor chandler stay in line

the network stack on os x sequoia sucks, wish I hadn’t upgraded

a little late for Halloween 2024 but this Sun Ra tune, "The Forrest of No Return” just came my way and I’ll be bringing it back next year for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt6WLWnMTAU

edit: https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/pink-elephants-on-parade

anyway, so bogomil, probably had the usual baggage, but I bet this specific bit didn’t work out too well for them

![wikipedia screenshot, text:Doctrine [edit ]оучать же свою си не повиновати са властелемь своимь; хоулаще богатым, царьненавидать, рягажть са старбишинамь, оукарніть болары, мрьзькы богоу мьнатьработа жщаю цьсарю, и вьсакомоу рабоу не велать работати господиноу свомоу.ucetu je soja si ne povinovati se vlastelem svoim; xuleste bogatyie, cari nenavidet, regajot sẹ stareisinamum, ukarjajot boljary, mriziky bogu minetu rabotajosteje cesarju, i visjakomu rabu ne veleti rabotati gospodinu svojemu.They teach their followers not to obey their masters; they scorn the rich, they hate the Tsars, they ridicule their superiors, they reproach the boyars, they believe that God looks in horror on those who labour for the Tsar, and advise every serf not to work for his master. 32]- Cosmas the Priest, Treatise Against the Bogomils](./113448223430456892.png)

Link uses the term manichaeism in this interview and I don’t know it but didn’t look it up because I wanted to keep reading. then this morning I’m reading https://inthesetimes.com/article/former-left-right-fascism-capitalism-horseshoe-theory and it’s got manichaeism used too.

Dang. so I go pop open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism and from there eventually land on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism, which, haha, explains the last Link novel’s name for one of the characters, “Bogomil.”, which I let slide when I read that.

I’m a very, very credulous reader. "Oh, ok, whatever.”

flipping the OBS scene from “face cam” to “footage”, the increasingly tangential pop-documentary archival clip style that has replaced burns-style photo-pans-and-zoom of actual subject matter with abstract and completely unrelated stock that, at best, is period correct or ironically untrue to the nonsense I’m spouting as I go into a big monologue to staff about getting our reports done on time

looking up the chicago school of economics building to make a house of leaves jokes in chat and unsurprised to find it looks like a god damned church