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a noise-driven chaotic system micro-fictions: qualiaflow.bsky.social

a strange long-haired woman smiling broadly while twirling her piña colada honey stick. she sits at a table beside a notebook and green obsidian
voronoi diagram for patches of baba ghanoush (orange), labneh (cream), and olive tapenade (olive green), optimized for a 12-cell 3 x 4 grid
local weirdo writes things down the old-fashioned way, illegibly, with a pen and notebook. a green obsidian, emplaced in the middle, is her editor
3 x 4 grid partitioned into 48-seed Voronoi cells of fig honey jam, Trappist quince jelly, and olive tapenade
A martianesque sunset view from a dark, grassy hill overlooking the sandwastes. Some of the sand has been lovingly sculpted into stupa formations or conical mounds, for an unknown purpose. The houses in the valley below look tiny, almost fake. Uncanny? It's the Uncanny Valley? and begin to twinkle like Christmas luminaria. There are mountains in the distance.
A magical-looking pyramidal gem tetrahedron beside a patio grill. The object is stacked in discrete layers with garnet, citrine, carnelian, quartz, peridot, blue topaz, and amethyst from base to apex and includes a copper wire flower-of-life motif on the front face
@ctrlcreep tweet dated Nov 8, 2018, which reads: "The caterpillar is dead. Nothing of its mind exists in the butterfly; we want metamorphosis to preserve, but it rewrites"
an apocalyptically vivid plume of contrail iridescence amidst wispy cirrus clouds
Louis Wain's unreasonably happy, laughing cat captioned "I AM HAPPY BECAUSE EVERY ONE LOVES ME" -- how whimsied! how cheery! how wackadoo!
The image is of the "scintillating grid illusion", an optical illusion in which dark dots appear to flicker and disappear at the intersections of grid lines.
despite the significant elevation of a certain dimension, namely "grandiosity", the personality test concluded that i'm not a "difficult person". the traits callousness, risk-taking, dominance, manipulativeness, suspicious, and aggression were measured as low
a correlation matrix for basil, black pepper, cayenne, cilantro, cinnamon, cloves, cumin, curry, dill, garlic powder, ginger, nutmeg, oregano, paprika, parsley, rosemary, sage, sesame, thyme, and vanilla. the weirdest combos seem to be vanilla + black pepper and cinnamon + black pepper. vanilla + cinnamon and nutmeg + cinnamon are the most common