Michael McKinney
@mashan.bsky.social
(He/him) Sometime author and esotericist. History buff. Player of Dwarf Fortress. Feeder of cats. Knower of obscure and mostly useless things.
aka "Satyr" (yes, that Satyr)
aka "Satyr" (yes, that Satyr)
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Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time:
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team.
(Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team.
(Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.
October 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time:
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team.
(Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team.
(Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
I am assuming Crowley is talking about raja yoga, which the yoga sutras define as quieting the mind as a means to recognition. Whether there are other definitions of meditation or yoga isn't relevant since the sutras agree with me and Crowley is clearly, demonstrably wrong.
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You wrote: "Eight Lectures is actually evidence Crowley didn't understand meditation very well."
... But that assumes "meditation"—of which there are thousands of forms, types, expressions, and conceptions across history and innumerable traditions—is somehow monolithic, when it's clearly not.
You wrote: "Eight Lectures is actually evidence Crowley didn't understand meditation very well."
... But that assumes "meditation"—of which there are thousands of forms, types, expressions, and conceptions across history and innumerable traditions—is somehow monolithic, when it's clearly not.
September 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I am assuming Crowley is talking about raja yoga, which the yoga sutras define as quieting the mind as a means to recognition. Whether there are other definitions of meditation or yoga isn't relevant since the sutras agree with me and Crowley is clearly, demonstrably wrong.
That's not exaggeration. The A∴A∴ is literally the product of a couple of Englishmen stripping from eastern enlightenment traditions what they valued and discarding, even disparaging, what they did not. The combination of arrogance, ignorance, and exploitation is classic colonialism.
I've realized a bit late that my real problem with Crowley and Crowleyanity is that I feel such a fool when I see there's nothing to it. Gaining subject-matter expertise exposes Ol' Bullet Head for the colonialist dilettante he was.
September 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
That's not exaggeration. The A∴A∴ is literally the product of a couple of Englishmen stripping from eastern enlightenment traditions what they valued and discarding, even disparaging, what they did not. The combination of arrogance, ignorance, and exploitation is classic colonialism.
I've realized a bit late that my real problem with Crowley and Crowleyanity is that I feel such a fool when I see there's nothing to it. Gaining subject-matter expertise exposes Ol' Bullet Head for the colonialist dilettante he was.
September 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I've realized a bit late that my real problem with Crowley and Crowleyanity is that I feel such a fool when I see there's nothing to it. Gaining subject-matter expertise exposes Ol' Bullet Head for the colonialist dilettante he was.
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“We have spent the last 18 years describing the financial crisis as .. a black swan ..
.. It was none of those things.” It was “the scheduled mathematical consequence of loans that assumed perpetual appreciation. .. The AI boom has rebuilt this exact structure.”
www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
.. It was none of those things.” It was “the scheduled mathematical consequence of loans that assumed perpetual appreciation. .. The AI boom has rebuilt this exact structure.”
www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
September 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“We have spent the last 18 years describing the financial crisis as .. a black swan ..
.. It was none of those things.” It was “the scheduled mathematical consequence of loans that assumed perpetual appreciation. .. The AI boom has rebuilt this exact structure.”
www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
.. It was none of those things.” It was “the scheduled mathematical consequence of loans that assumed perpetual appreciation. .. The AI boom has rebuilt this exact structure.”
www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
I originally thought Fuller equated the HGA with ādibuddha, but that's incorrect. It was Fuller writing in, "The Temple of Solomon the King", but he is actually quoting a letter from Crowley.
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... statements to that effect, such as when he explicitly stated that the HGA is 'Adi-Buddha'; or when he wrote, in his Liber II, that the goal of Thelema "is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static...". Also, given that Mahasatipatthana (outlined in the Buddhist sutta of the same name)...
... statements to that effect, such as when he explicitly stated that the HGA is 'Adi-Buddha'; or when he wrote, in his Liber II, that the goal of Thelema "is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static...". Also, given that Mahasatipatthana (outlined in the Buddhist sutta of the same name)...
August 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
I originally thought Fuller equated the HGA with ādibuddha, but that's incorrect. It was Fuller writing in, "The Temple of Solomon the King", but he is actually quoting a letter from Crowley.
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I dug out the Crowley quote about "dynamic" nirvāna, and context didn't help. I think the kindest construction is that he just wasn't clear about what nirvāna meant.
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... statements to that effect, such as when he explicitly stated that the HGA is 'Adi-Buddha'; or when he wrote, in his Liber II, that the goal of Thelema "is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static...". Also, given that Mahasatipatthana (outlined in the Buddhist sutta of the same name)...
... statements to that effect, such as when he explicitly stated that the HGA is 'Adi-Buddha'; or when he wrote, in his Liber II, that the goal of Thelema "is Nirvana, only dynamic instead of static...". Also, given that Mahasatipatthana (outlined in the Buddhist sutta of the same name)...
August 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I dug out the Crowley quote about "dynamic" nirvāna, and context didn't help. I think the kindest construction is that he just wasn't clear about what nirvāna meant.
The full quote follows.
The full quote follows.
The origin and expansion of Proto-Indo-European.
What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
July 31, 2026 at 6:44 PM
The origin and expansion of Proto-Indo-European.
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Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnq5zrvcdraakbiw77x6atog/bafkreig3mb76yej32emu5nce6zcd4iedlz4zryvque55exqhfx7vdv7hcu)
June 28, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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At a Midsummer celebration at the British Library and this might be the twee-est thing ever. We’ve had maypole dancing. I’m a bit leery of the giant wicker man, though.
June 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
At a Midsummer celebration at the British Library and this might be the twee-est thing ever. We’ve had maypole dancing. I’m a bit leery of the giant wicker man, though.
The real danger of Crowley's approach is one can end up with a carefully curated antique shop of spiritual practices, none of which is fully understood, let alone followed to its conclusion.
Bachelor's more like, but point taken. Crowley's course is broad but shallow, partly of necessity and partly because he hadn't access to the living traditions we have today. I think so long as one realizes Crowley can't take one all the way, it'll be fine.
May 31, 2026 at 1:07 PM
The real danger of Crowley's approach is one can end up with a carefully curated antique shop of spiritual practices, none of which is fully understood, let alone followed to its conclusion.
Willow and I did an introduction to the Sigillum Dei Æmeth and planetary Enochian, so I spent some hours yesterday revisiting Liber Secundus. Man, after 30+years, reading this again is quite an eye-opener.
I didn't remember the dialog being quite so coherent.
I didn't remember the dialog being quite so coherent.
May 29, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Willow and I did an introduction to the Sigillum Dei Æmeth and planetary Enochian, so I spent some hours yesterday revisiting Liber Secundus. Man, after 30+years, reading this again is quite an eye-opener.
I didn't remember the dialog being quite so coherent.
I didn't remember the dialog being quite so coherent.
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Obviously what we do next is send down a crewed vehicle to investigate what happened to the robot one.
I'm sure the unknown structures of the frozen deep are just a coincidence and this will be fine.
I'm sure the unknown structures of the frozen deep are just a coincidence and this will be fine.
Unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater roughly ten miles towards the ice shelf’s center. www.earth.com/news/ran-rob...
Robot submarine finds unknown structures beneath Antarctica, then loses contact and disappears
An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.
www.earth.com
May 18, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Obviously what we do next is send down a crewed vehicle to investigate what happened to the robot one.
I'm sure the unknown structures of the frozen deep are just a coincidence and this will be fine.
I'm sure the unknown structures of the frozen deep are just a coincidence and this will be fine.
Finally got around to splitting this cobble. Siliceous mud/silt stone from a context suggesting Devonian. Highlands of western Virginia.
May 16, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Finally got around to splitting this cobble. Siliceous mud/silt stone from a context suggesting Devonian. Highlands of western Virginia.
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There was some podcast episode a few years ago with Douglas Rushkoff and Richard Metzger (of disinfo dot com) where they asked if Operation Mindfuck and the like were too successful because MAGA inherited it, and yes, that was exactly the problem when occut belief magic was pursued as a laugh.
May 13, 2026 at 8:40 PM
There was some podcast episode a few years ago with Douglas Rushkoff and Richard Metzger (of disinfo dot com) where they asked if Operation Mindfuck and the like were too successful because MAGA inherited it, and yes, that was exactly the problem when occut belief magic was pursued as a laugh.
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lmao this is some grade a excellent ratfucking and they should 100% do it.
folks, the idea is out there. Virginia Democrats are talking about it. this could happen.
gift link to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...
gift link to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u...
May 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
lmao this is some grade a excellent ratfucking and they should 100% do it.
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The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option
May 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option
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Folks we’re worshipping a golden calf very strongly. Someone who is very nasty said “thou shalt have no other gods before me”. Should we do it? Should we make unto thee graven images and bow before them? *crowd erupts in cheers*
May 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Folks we’re worshipping a golden calf very strongly. Someone who is very nasty said “thou shalt have no other gods before me”. Should we do it? Should we make unto thee graven images and bow before them? *crowd erupts in cheers*
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“And I bind and conjure thee spirit that thou be truthful in all thy utterances, &c.”
"Never hallucinate or make anything up."
yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors
that's definitely how the technology works
yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors
that's definitely how the technology works
May 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
“And I bind and conjure thee spirit that thou be truthful in all thy utterances, &c.”
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Tucker Carlson invented a brand new facial expression, confustipated, decades ago and decided he would never use any others ever again.
Oh good. Another glossy @nytimes.com profile of a conservative media figure. It had been a full five minutes since the last one.
May 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Tucker Carlson invented a brand new facial expression, confustipated, decades ago and decided he would never use any others ever again.
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I don’t know how anyone makes it anywhere in life without learning how to pretend you’ve read something when you haven’t or pretend you’ve understood something if you didn’t. These are invaluable skills most of us picked up in college
April 28, 2026 at 1:41 AM
I don’t know how anyone makes it anywhere in life without learning how to pretend you’ve read something when you haven’t or pretend you’ve understood something if you didn’t. These are invaluable skills most of us picked up in college
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Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
April 23, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.
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You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
April 22, 2026 at 2:50 AM
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
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The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
April 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.