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@polyphanes

Software engineer, Hermetic mage and mystic, Lukumí olorisha, geomancer extraordinaire, blogger, yidish-lerner, Roegadyn black mage, baby-eating dingo, antifascist, gay, Jewish

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· 27d

He has the exact correct idea.

Set, a tabby cat, sprawls out with his eyes shut on a set of blankets in a dim room with his belly exposed.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· 28d

so I remembered I have beads and string at home and tried making my own set of komboloi, except the only beads I had in an appropriate size + shape + number are these bone beads carved into little skulls, so that's just what I'm using now apparently. also snowflake obsidian and some evil eye beads.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 10

cf.

Your shoes in highschool: Vans

Your shoes in your 30s: Vans + Dr. Scholl's

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 6

new favorite pizza topping: SWAD Hot & Sweet Sauce

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 2

*fusses with his hair ever more frustratedly, pushing it away from one side to the other* ugh, it is *too hot* to have hair *leans back in exasperation, eyes fall on his set of clippers* …yeah, it's depilation time, it's been too long since I've felt the ecstasy of the breeze upon the scalp

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 1

I also got this one a few weeks back, too.

A circular "BIRDS AREN'T REAL, THEY'RE GOVERNMENT DEONES" conspiracy theory bumper sticker

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 1

I have ordered a new bumper sticker as Mars in Gemini remediation

A bumper sticker with the words "MALICIOUSLY GAY AND I AM SO GODDAMNED TIRED ALL THE TIME" in spooky font on a flame background

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jul 1

Sure, it's horribly hot, so I may as well enjoy driving to work from taichi class with the windows down and with my shirt off. If I have to suffer, I may as well luxuriate and look good about it. (Some habits never change; I was doing the same thing nigh twenty years ago growing up at the beach.)

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 27

Besides being able to produce HTML *and* PDFs via LaTeX (which is what I use anyway for my ebooks), which is a godssend since I dreaded having to do such a conversion myself, because it compiles documentation, I can build up whole pages from simpler included files, making it much easier to maintain.

a screenshot of a terminal running tmux with two panes, both running vim, the left pane showing the source for the Iasis file using reStructuredText markup and the right pane showing a small snippet of a single prayer included in the Iasis file

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 27

I was thinking of making a wiki or an old-school Geocities-esque website, but I *am* a software engineer, and a lot of programming websites for APIs or user tutorials use documentation engines to produce them. And, like…that the one I'm using is called Sphinx is just an unintentional bonus.

a screenshot of Chrome browser with a preliminary version of the Stoiba showing the first part of the Iasis ritual page, as produced by the Sphinx documentation engine using the Furo theme in dark mode

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 26

Look at him LOOK. AT HIMB

My tabby cat Set lying belly up with his paws curled in so cute and tall curled up over his belly in an unrelentingly adorable pose on a white and black tiger print blanket beside a pair of human legs and it's not fair to me that he's this goddamn adorable

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 25

No no, I mean literally, like

An array of proteinated tortilla chip snack bags in a store shelf aisle labeled "lifestyle nutrition"

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 24

good morning, have a hearty breakfast of pb & jeggs

an array of hard-boiled eggs cut in half with the yolks removed and the yolk-holes filled with red jelly and creamy peanut butter, put on a decorated waxed paper plate. pb & jeggs.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 24

One of those Reddit threads where someone is showing themselves to be a fascist and also to lack reading comprehension skills—but I repeat myself. As always, thank you @gi66let1ts.bsky.social for this gift of a meme.

The Simpsons "Apu takes a bullet" meme, with "Crypto-fascist dipshits" taking a bullet for Julius Evola from the quote "Evola was a fascist in deed, if not in name (though also in name)".

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 20

Conference presentation look today, talking about classical Hermeticism to a lodge of Masons. Almost worthy of a being my new headshot photo.

A photo of polyphanes wearing a red plaid shirt and a white headset in front of a Japanese-style paper-and-dark-bamboo folding screen, lit by spotlights.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 16

god and gods, multiple rounds of cooking and I'm finally done with preparing for a potluck tomorrow with spinach stuffing balls.

a massive pan heaped up with baked spinach stuffing balls, next to a few cans of Mountain Dew Zero and some serving utensils for scale

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 9

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 9

May the Two Benefics in their praise and blessing of Heaven shine brightly upon us all, lighting up our lives with joy and love, with sweetness and savoriness, with laughing and dancing, with abundance and friendship, and grant us all ease and peace on our ways in the world.

A tall white candle is lit illuminating a dark room, with a lit votive candle in colored on either side, the right in blue and the left in green, and a string of dark prayer beads with a red tassel draped around all three.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 2

In my bumper sticker era

A bumper sticker design in red and black that says "STOP LYING / You're not really a student driver"

A bumper sticker design that says "Sorry for speeding / I'm listening to the SONIC ADVENTURE 2 original soundtrack at maximum volume"

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· Jun 1

Over the weekend and to much internal fanfare, my organization pushed out Copilot to all Microsoft Office 365 apps on all our computers. I joined the AI use community channel in Teams, and asked if there was a way to turn it off.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 30

Mfw I watch the official music video for the first time:

a still image from the music video for Eiffel 65's "Move Your Body", with Maurizio Lobina having a comically underdone shocked expression against a simple CGI background with extremely late 90s/early 00s hair highlights and styling, a thin mustache and goatee, and earrings

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 30

(said door knockers:)

a black door knocker featuring a simple radiant gorgon head with a snake biting its own tail as the knocker

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 30

mezushtan (I am absolutely getting this to go with my new gorgoneion + ouroboros door knockers)

a black mezuzah case featuring an etched design of a Hebrew letter shin atop a staff with a snake curled around it

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 29

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 23

communist bugs bunny going "we are having a midlife crisis"

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 22

thursday hallway pirate-ass selfie

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 20

2) The orgone accelerator (or "shooter") I'm using this time is a 6-ply one made from a set of nested steel funnels, each covered on the outside with cotton tape and electrical tape, positioned above the quartz sphere and under the apex candleholder with its quartz cone.

A close-up of the orgone accelerator, a set of nested funnels covered in black electrical tape suspended on a lab stand underneath a glass tealight holder.

A closeup of the underneath of the orgone accelerator, showing three nested funnels around a taped-over smaller set of nested funnels, itself covered with a fine mesh grill with a central metal pin projecting from its center.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 20

1) The crystal grid is augmented by glass tealight candleholders, each packed with bionized sand and a Herkimer diamond. One is placed at each corner of the square formed by the quartz bars, and the fifth (which has a quartz cone pointed downward on its base) is set centrally above the whole setup.

A set of five glass tealight holders, the base of which is filled with sand and covered with black electrical tape, and the fifth in the center is upside down showing a quartz cone fixed to its base.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 20

The design is fundamentally the same as my earlier MaGOS setup, right down to the convenience of using a chemistry lab stand, but there are two big differences this time around that set it apart:

An earlier version of the Manifesting and Generating Orgone System, with four quartz bars around a quartz sphere and a black electrical hobby box orgone accelerator suspended above the quartz orb on a lab stand.

Another view of the current Manifesting and Generating Orgone System, in full light with the candles not lit: a square crystal grid of four quartz bars around a central quartz sphere, an orgone accelerator funnel positioned above a platform on a lab stand immediately above the quartz sphere, and a candle arrangement of five tealights with one positioned at the corners between the quartz bars and one positioned above the orgone accelerator.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎@polyphanes· May 20

I had extra space big enough for one more table in my newly-remade temple room, so I decided to revitalize my old Manifesting and Generating Orgone System (MaGOS) project, with improvements and additions from the last time around over a decade back. It's active, and I'm excited to give it a whirl.