Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
Former visual artist. Occasionally still a musician. Mostly writing SF/horror these days, with excursions into amnesiac memoirs. Disabled, keen indoorsman, BLOCKS WITH GAY ABANDON. You were warned. He/him
www.amnesiana.com
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Kay Orchison
@kayorchison.bsky.social
· Feb 12
** I no longer have bsky DMs **
I'm not gonna be putting my ID into a govt-mandated honeypot.
If you want to talk to me privately contact me on Signal
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Failing that, ask a mutual for my email, or comment on this post with a way for me to contact you.
I'm not gonna be putting my ID into a govt-mandated honeypot.
If you want to talk to me privately contact me on Signal
KayOrchison.71
Failing that, ask a mutual for my email, or comment on this post with a way for me to contact you.
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I told you next week's Hookland talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social came with stickers ...
September 18, 2026 at 10:54 AM
I told you next week's Hookland talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social came with stickers ...
The original meaning of "blood is thicker than water" is that you'd have to be thick to drink blood if you could have water instead
We're not biologically adapted to drinking blood and it tastes horrible
Plus it congeals into nasty lumps if you don't drink it fast enough
We're not biologically adapted to drinking blood and it tastes horrible
Plus it congeals into nasty lumps if you don't drink it fast enough
September 18, 2026 at 12:33 PM
The original meaning of "blood is thicker than water" is that you'd have to be thick to drink blood if you could have water instead
We're not biologically adapted to drinking blood and it tastes horrible
Plus it congeals into nasty lumps if you don't drink it fast enough
We're not biologically adapted to drinking blood and it tastes horrible
Plus it congeals into nasty lumps if you don't drink it fast enough
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oh my god look at this cutie! 😍
September 18, 2026 at 9:17 AM
oh my god look at this cutie! 😍
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It's been a blink of time since the Pylon People's Hum went silent. While we no longer see them marching across fields, under roads, they're still with us. Not only as remnants of a community living on canal boats, but as part of the county's living line of folklore. – Dr. M. Benn
September 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM
It's been a blink of time since the Pylon People's Hum went silent. While we no longer see them marching across fields, under roads, they're still with us. Not only as remnants of a community living on canal boats, but as part of the county's living line of folklore. – Dr. M. Benn
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'PATRIOTISM, n. ...
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first'.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first'.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
September 18, 2026 at 10:25 AM
'PATRIOTISM, n. ...
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first'.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first'.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
RETVRN
The sets are about $200 worth of bubble wrap and vacuum cleaner parts, the Doctor is a condescending, tantrum-prone dick and the scripts are pure cosmic horror nightmare fuel
Also fuck the Potter Wand Screwdriver off, what the fuck is that lazy bullshit, everyone should be genuinely afraid
The sets are about $200 worth of bubble wrap and vacuum cleaner parts, the Doctor is a condescending, tantrum-prone dick and the scripts are pure cosmic horror nightmare fuel
Also fuck the Potter Wand Screwdriver off, what the fuck is that lazy bullshit, everyone should be genuinely afraid
The BBC has launched a tender process for 'Doctor Who,' calling on producers to pitch a "brave" new vision for the iconic sci-fi series.
'Doctor Who': BBC Calls On Producers To Pitch "Brave" Vision For Show
The BBC has launched a tender process for 'Doctor Who,' calling on producers to pitch a "brave" new vision for the iconic sci-fi series.
bit.ly
September 18, 2026 at 11:29 AM
RETVRN
The sets are about $200 worth of bubble wrap and vacuum cleaner parts, the Doctor is a condescending, tantrum-prone dick and the scripts are pure cosmic horror nightmare fuel
Also fuck the Potter Wand Screwdriver off, what the fuck is that lazy bullshit, everyone should be genuinely afraid
The sets are about $200 worth of bubble wrap and vacuum cleaner parts, the Doctor is a condescending, tantrum-prone dick and the scripts are pure cosmic horror nightmare fuel
Also fuck the Potter Wand Screwdriver off, what the fuck is that lazy bullshit, everyone should be genuinely afraid
Waah waah waah have a sook
Git gud
Git gud
"UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs" www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
www.bbc.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Waah waah waah have a sook
Git gud
Git gud
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A new cat species has been described for the first time in more than 100 years! 🐆 Meet Leopardus tilcayo, a tiny, teddy-bear-eared tiger cat from Bolivia 🇧🇴 that diverged from its relatives about 1.4 million years ago. There is still so much life left to discover. 🌎💚
First New Cat Species In Over 100 Years Is A Totally Charming Tiny Tiger From Bolivia
Welcome to the party, Leopardus tilcayo.
www.iflscience.com
September 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM
A new cat species has been described for the first time in more than 100 years! 🐆 Meet Leopardus tilcayo, a tiny, teddy-bear-eared tiger cat from Bolivia 🇧🇴 that diverged from its relatives about 1.4 million years ago. There is still so much life left to discover. 🌎💚
Annihilation
name a film with a bear.
September 18, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Annihilation
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And in Aus and the UK (not sure where else) we don't only sell a copy to the library, we get paid for each borrow. But more importantly than all that, our books in libraries mean more readers might find our stuff who never would have before, and that's wonderful.
Also worth noting that like, three people requesting something at a library will get a library to buy it. And it doesn't take many holds to make it "we should buy more copies."
September 18, 2026 at 6:17 AM
And in Aus and the UK (not sure where else) we don't only sell a copy to the library, we get paid for each borrow. But more importantly than all that, our books in libraries mean more readers might find our stuff who never would have before, and that's wonderful.
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Perfect post. I made a horrible noise when laughing.
September 18, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Perfect post. I made a horrible noise when laughing.
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Hey now
+++ On this day, 39 years ago, the 18th of September 1987, The Sisters Of Mercy released the 7" single of 'This Corrosion', on the European mainland via WEA. +++
The UK release followed 3 days later on the 21st.
#thesistersofmercy #thiscorrosion #goth #gothic #gothicrock #postpunk #altrock
The UK release followed 3 days later on the 21st.
#thesistersofmercy #thiscorrosion #goth #gothic #gothicrock #postpunk #altrock
September 18, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Hey now
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Effective Altruism
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 18, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Effective Altruism
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"Also, a ghost gave me chlamydia."
September 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
"Also, a ghost gave me chlamydia."
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fun fact: if you punch a Nazi you can get a rare item that gives you +1000 swag points. It’s only a 1% drop so you should punch a lot of Nazis to increase your odds of getting it
September 18, 2026 at 3:28 AM
fun fact: if you punch a Nazi you can get a rare item that gives you +1000 swag points. It’s only a 1% drop so you should punch a lot of Nazis to increase your odds of getting it
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The man who taught me welding, Gale, had polio. Built like Vulcan with a handgrip that would break your fingers, he could haul himself up the stairs with his hands as his legs were paralysed.
He's how I learned polio can reactivate and come back and kill you. Rest well, man, you were the best.
He's how I learned polio can reactivate and come back and kill you. Rest well, man, you were the best.
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation…
Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 4:06 AM
The man who taught me welding, Gale, had polio. Built like Vulcan with a handgrip that would break your fingers, he could haul himself up the stairs with his hands as his legs were paralysed.
He's how I learned polio can reactivate and come back and kill you. Rest well, man, you were the best.
He's how I learned polio can reactivate and come back and kill you. Rest well, man, you were the best.
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Some good work here putting many of the pieces of these overlapping worldviews in one place.
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
www.techpolicy.press
September 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Some good work here putting many of the pieces of these overlapping worldviews in one place.
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Over 4 years since i wrote this appendix to my dissertation in which i explain the entire spiritual foundations and metaphysical commitments of the predominant contemporary "AI" movement in a somewhat dinner party skit.
Apparently another technogarch kleptocrat has said that he "wants to turn AI into a cosmic religion," to which I again say, "'*Wants* to'?"
![Tech Bros:
Wow, so true, dude; that makes a lot of sense when you think about it; I mean maybe not “Gods” so much as “artificial super intelligences,” but yeah.
90’s TechnoPagans:
I mean… Yeah? It’s all just a recapitulation of The Art in multiple technoscientific forms across time. I mean (*takes another hit of salvia*) if you think about the timeless nature of multidimensional spiritual architectures, we’re already—
DARPA:
Wait, did that guy just say something about “Uploading” and “Cyborg/AI Gods?” We got anybody working on that?? Well GET TO IT!
Disabled People, Trans Folx, BIPOC Populations, Women:
Wait, so our prosthetics, medications, and relational reciprocal entanglements with technosocial systems of this world in order to survive makes us cyborgs?! :-O
[Simultaneously:]
Kurzweil/90’s TechnoPagans/Tech Bros/DARPA:
Not like that.
Wiener/Clynes & Kline:
Yes, exactly.
Haraway:
I mean it’s really interesting to consider, right?
Tech Bros:
Actually, if you think about the bidirectional nature of time, and the likelihood of simulationism, it’s almost certain that there’s already an Artificial Super Intelligence, and it HATES YOU; you should probably try to build it/never think about it, just in case.
90’s TechnoPagans:
…That’s what we JUST SAID.
Philosophers of Religion (To Each Other):
…Did they just Pascal’s Wager Anselm’s Ontological Argument, but computers?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreidw4lxmnersevtb76kax7rzii3fxdzqdcwooqn4di7svzis5ixmxi)
![René Descartes/90’s TechnoPagans/Philosophers of Religion/Some STS Theorists/Some “AI” Engineers:
…
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September 18, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Over 4 years since i wrote this appendix to my dissertation in which i explain the entire spiritual foundations and metaphysical commitments of the predominant contemporary "AI" movement in a somewhat dinner party skit.
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ancient giant god aliens are gonna be talking through the pope soon as we hunt for a weapon to fight the Reapers
September 18, 2026 at 4:38 AM
ancient giant god aliens are gonna be talking through the pope soon as we hunt for a weapon to fight the Reapers
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Good lord, people will try anything.
A study which forms the basis for later claims of an underground city beneath the Great Pyramid, which made worldwide headlines, has been retracted due to 'serious flaws'.
www.newsweek.com/bombshell-gr...
www.newsweek.com/bombshell-gr...
Bombshell Great Pyramid of Giza study retracted
A journal found 'serious flaws' in research behind viral claims of an underground city beneath the Giza pyramids.
www.newsweek.com
September 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Good lord, people will try anything.
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The factory where they make your spider nightmares
#KaosBeautyKlinik
#KaosBeautyKlinik
September 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The factory where they make your spider nightmares
#KaosBeautyKlinik
#KaosBeautyKlinik
Honestly I think it's a problem with us as a species. If you're enough of a relentless cunt most people will let you keep getting away with it
Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of being the person who hits you in the face with a shovel till you stop and everyone knows that's what it'd take
Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of being the person who hits you in the face with a shovel till you stop and everyone knows that's what it'd take
"we can't enforce the rules against this guy because it'd be a whole thing for us" is a big problem in the us in general
the failure to ban jesse singal increasingly feels like one of those landmark moments not just for bluesky, but *gestures at pretty much everything*
September 18, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Honestly I think it's a problem with us as a species. If you're enough of a relentless cunt most people will let you keep getting away with it
Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of being the person who hits you in the face with a shovel till you stop and everyone knows that's what it'd take
Nobody wants to deal with the consequences of being the person who hits you in the face with a shovel till you stop and everyone knows that's what it'd take
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so Universal wants to block global distribution of the "MUSK" documentary, and the Ellisons seem likely to try to block the streaming release on HBO early next year if their takeover is approved in time... we all better plan on making the US theatrical release an absolute blowout event!
September 17, 2026 at 1:16 PM
so Universal wants to block global distribution of the "MUSK" documentary, and the Ellisons seem likely to try to block the streaming release on HBO early next year if their takeover is approved in time... we all better plan on making the US theatrical release an absolute blowout event!
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It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden
As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
You may be relieved but spare a thought for so many editors in the mainstream media who were hoping to run hyping headlines about the far right winning in Sweden
As always when SD is hyped and ends up crashing, I expect Swedish politics will drop off the radar as it's no longer sexy enough
As always when SD is hyped and ends up crashing, I expect Swedish politics will drop off the radar as it's no longer sexy enough
Sweden, Novus exit poll:
Seat projection national parliament
S-S&D: 101 (-6)
SD-ECR: 66 (-7)
M-EPP: 62 (-6)
C-RE: 32 (+8)
MP-G/EFA: 25 (+7)
V-LEFT: 24
KD-EPP: 21 (+2)
L-RE: 18 (+2)
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/sweden
Seat projection national parliament
S-S&D: 101 (-6)
SD-ECR: 66 (-7)
M-EPP: 62 (-6)
C-RE: 32 (+8)
MP-G/EFA: 25 (+7)
V-LEFT: 24
KD-EPP: 21 (+2)
L-RE: 18 (+2)
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/sweden
September 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden
As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media