and the stars

A tiny digital essay about the Carmina Gadelica. If you're curious about the music, I recorded it in one go; the video is up on YouTube.

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The Rules:

• The file at this link will be deleted 1 month from now (7/3/26).
• All downloads are zipfiles containing a Windows executable.
• All source code and assets are included, licensed under the Anti-Capitalist Software License.
• As long as you abide by the license, you can do whatever you want with the download.

Further Reading

SCP-9055: Arachnemonic: An SCP building on top of qntm's classic there is no antimemetics division series of tales.

"I wonder how it ends"

A wonderful live jam by Ceephax Acid Crew.

Margaret Killjoy: The Punk Rock Good Life or: living an aesthetic life

This month I found myself falling down a bit of a Jem Cohen rabbithole. A couple of films about musicians who are no longer with us:

• Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
• Vic Chesnutt -- Anecdotal Evidence

This month I also learned about impossible colours(!)

"to me, one of the real powers of DIY cultural production is that when you’re involved with it, it teaches you again and again that alternatives are possible in a world that really doesn’t want you to believe that that’s true."

Listen to the bees: "Tell the truth. Don't suppress dissent. Listen to the experts. Always dance."

I liked this ambient track.

This A$AP Rocky video is wild.

Design as Repair:

"What we need is infrastructure. Not just pipes and cables, but institutional slack. The space for people to do the right thing. The permission to stop the line, make adjustments, ask questions, or delay the next step. That is not inefficiency. That is how things do not break."

Another rabbithole: This mysterious unicode glyph led me to read about Ellis the Linking Sigil, which led me to read about DKMU and their Egregores.

v buckenham on Jay Dragon's WIP Seven Part Pact.

A devastating poem on nimbyism, domestic abuse, and burnout: Notes from Work and from City Council

Towards the end of last year I planted an honestly absurd amount of daffodils in my garden (a gift from my Dad, who had dug them out of his garden to make space for other plants). They're not here yet, but I can see they're on their way. And this afternoon I spotted the first few crocuses starting to make an appearance. It feels like the entirety of 2026 has been endless grey rainy days, but the colour's starting to return.