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@strange.website

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a website, betrayed by god. queer vegan straightedge. free palestine. him. https://stillness.digital && https://strange.website && https://henry.codes && https://strangersbyspring.com

A Dark Souls III screenshot that reads, in that classic FromSoft "noun verbed" sort of way, "spirit broken"
A pastoral landscape with the text "s**c*de postponed" superimposed in the classic FromSoftware style.
A screenshot of the author's AWS billing center, showing the month-to-date cost of a service as $1.8 billion
The author, a thin white fella with light hair, taking a mirror selfie in a tank top and trousers in a strange elevator, awash in magenta gloom.
Text reads: Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… It is a strange feeling — no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content — that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination. I speak now of my profoundest sense of being, not of an incidental feeling. Whence come you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips — lo, they are yours and not mine. I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces.
Text from a too-long-to-post tweet reads: "there is a specific genre of tweet, this "Is This Anything" nothingjoke format, that i regard with a simultaneous knowing approval and a bitter disdain. who amongst us has not once or thrice thought of a silly little phrase. but to cast it so uselessly into the void, without doing it the merest favor of building a punchline around it...how inglorious. how contemptible"
idris elba looking extremely discerning and devious, superimposed with the text "learn to sit back and observe. not everything needs a reaction"
A vintage aluminum time trial bicycle frame, with cool aerodynamic tube shapes. The frame is painted black, and the downtube has the word "godspeed" in a cool retrofuturist kind of "digital" font. The O in godspeed is an actual metal cross. It's edgy as fuck for the late 1980s dude imagine rolling out on the cybergoth roadie.
A far-away shot of a rocky desert cliff jutting out into the center of the frame. Atop the cliff is a single tree, and a couple who appear to be spinning and kissing at the very edge. The cliff side is hundreds and hundreds of feet straight down. Far in the background, a desert valley of castle-shaped rocks and scrubby trees.
The Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth, a slender figure draped with too much skin, lacking a nose and with smooth skin where his eyes ought be.
The author and his friend Cassie working on a website together. They achieve greatness and fist bump, and the author exclaims that this was "light work for a couple of beasts like us"
The author, a white man with a black outfit and white sneakers on, standing in front of a sign in the Met Museum that reads "Gothic Design"
A website, delphitools, which explains itself to be "a collection of small, low stakes, and low effort tools. No logins, no registration, no data collection. I can't believe I have to say that. Long live the handmade web.". Tools visible include a meta tag generator, qr generator, regex tester, algebra calculator, etc.
The author, a white man wearing a beige black metal shirt and holding his phone in front of his face. He has platinum hair, quite disheveled and askew. A spectacle.
A depiction of a waist chop device, which — and you may hardly believe it — appears to be chopping a man fully in half at his waist
A red cervélo track bike with black carbon trispoke wheels, leaning up against a tennis court net under bright lights and a black late night sky.
A namecheap interface showing a domain purchase is $4,900,000.00 OR $6.79 with a discount code.
A New York Times headline which reads "is the cure to male loneliness group chats on bluesky?"
A stock photo of a cowboy wearing a little hat and looking very distressed at what he hears
The face of the author, signalling a peace sign with one hand, reflected a comical warp by the chrome side panel of a 1972 BMW "toaster tank" R50/5 motorcycle.
Text superimposed on images of skeletons being unearthed reads "When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning of its forming in that distant lake but all the way beyond its ending. I feel the warmth and texture and simultaneously I see the flesh unwrap from the layers of fat and disappear. I see the fat disappear from the muscle. I see the muscle disappearing from around the organs and detaching itself from the bones. I see the organs gradually fade into transparency leaving a gleaming skeleton gleaming like ivory that slowly resolves until it becomes dust. I am consumed in the sense of your weight, the way your flesh occupies momentary space the fullness of it beneath my palms. I am amazed at how perfectly your body fits to the curves of my hands. If I could attach our blood vessels so we could become each other I would. If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would. If I could open up your body and slip inside your skin and look out your eyes and forever have my lips fused with yours I would. It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss. It makes me weep to feel the movement of your flesh beneath my palms as you twist and turn over to one side to create a series of gestures to reach up around my neck to draw me nearer. All these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain."
Text from a classic anti-piracy ad has been edited to read "you wouldn't clone a wife"
A wolf (likely one of the ones inside you) looking too closely at the camera
A tiny chef gesturing to hold on for just a moment
Text from a too-long bluesky post reads "through this friendship i see my own immortality. moments disintegrate into lifetimes; timelines and horizons surrender their weight freely through the shutters of an upstairs window. in every story we share, in every deep wake-the-neighbors laugh you give me, in every “listen man i really need you to be here for me tonight”. our love makes us outlive centuries. is what you know i meant when i said ha ha ggs bro gn"
Text from a dril Tweet reads ""This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit"
The author, a blonde white man wearing all black, draws a wooden takedown longbow at a forested archery range.
A mischievous-looking and surprisingly-shaped gentleman rubs his hands together deviously. Text reads "i ain't exactly entering into a faustian bargain with the liar computer, but i ain't exactly NOT entering into a faustian bargain with the liar computer"
A discord channel list containing "Audubon society" and "Autobahn society"
A 90s black BMW 850ci coupe (with the flip-top headlights!) sits in the background, and a 1975 black BMW airhead motorcycle sits in the foreground.
A chisel-jawed web developer, painted by Norman Rockwell, standing up in a public forum to say something brave about animation libraries.
A website that appears as a Windows 95 window. Text in pixelated Times New Roman reads: a website whose domain registration has been ceaselessly auto-renewing since 1998, but whose last FTP upload was in the summer of that year. the website is impaled against the passage of time, bytes streaming from digital stigmata. it is forced to watch in muted terror as its siblings and friends wither and vanish entirely, blinking out of existence one by one as their registrations go inevitably out of date."
text from a classic meme format reads "you wouldn't MAIL a GUN"
A bunch of dudes in interesting traditional outfits doing frankly obscene hog calls using some extendable didgeridoo device
A discord message from a bot called "Plex town herald", which says "hear ye hear ye, a new movie has been added to the plexiglass server", and then it includes metadata for the movie Another Round
A CSS snippet which shows a combination of :not(), :has(), a direct descendant combinator, and :not() again, to add a red border to an element if none of its children have the class .active.
A screenshot of an email from Colorado Lottery, advertising that, by playing the millionaire for life game, the receiver could win one million a year for life. However, the email goes on — quite threateningly, I might add — to estimate the value of the prize is only $18 million.
Josh Ruben making the characteristic toothy grin of Wallace from Aardman Studios iconic series, Wallace & Gromit.
text from a bluesky composition window reads: "i went slowly to heaven. the hands of dawn reached out to help me climb the ladder of clouds, until i was cheek to cheek with god. she shared smiles & deep exhalations with me as we regarded that solemn landscape, those ancient temples of black volcanic rock, and i shared with her my tips for using ai to improve xfn collaboration and ship speed"
A brilliant sunrise. The hazy, golden horizon is filled with dozens and dozens of hot air balloons, flying low and casting great volumetric shadows over the ground below. In the foreground, near the corner of the photo, the mighty tiered pre-Columbian stone pyramids of Teotihuacan rise up.
The Return of the King title card
Dracula, wearing sunglasses and speaking with unfathomable enunciation on his mobile device
an old classic online post edited to read "look at my opposition party dawg, i'm goin to nuclear holocaust"
The author holding the Susan Sontag book On Women in his hand
David Lynch as an FBI agent, seated and yelling. Subtitles in all capital letters read "fix your hearts or die!" Which of course is a slight variation from the original but it bangs
A screenshot of the quoted map, which in neon green shows a land mass around where Poland is superimposed with the text "brat" in a sans serif font.
Pregerson, an obscene and surprisingly complicated highway interchange in Los Angeles, as viewed from a birds eye, featuring frankly innumerable exit and interchange ramps, frontage roads, and miscellaneous crossings.
A GitHub comment which reads: "Nice work boss. Let me guess. Had one of your little guys handle this"
dustin hoffman and Tom Cruise counting in rain man
A billboard in a wintry roadside landscape, which reads: "Call today. 1-800- skill issue"
The homepage for the recent npmx.dev project, a dark themed and monospace Vercel-sort-of-vibe search engine for the NPM registry, but the homepage has been reworked to say "build awesome, nee eleventy", and the tagline says "a simpler static site generator".
Bugs Bunny lookin' a bit more bogs bonë. Man has seen better days, to be certain
An donation receipt for a donation made to the trans Continental pipeline, linked in this post.
A GitHub UI for a pull request, on which the author has left a "requested changes" review, with only the text "jesus wept"
A headline from the Cloudflare blog, which reads: "Cloudflare One is the first SASE offering modern post-quantum encryption across the full platform. We’ve upgraded Cloudflare One to support post-quantum encryption by implementing the latest IETF drafts for hybrid ML-KEM into our Cloudflare IPsec product. This extends post-quantum encryption across all major Cloudflare One on-ramps and off-ramps...."
The cover for Portrayal of Guilt's album Devil Music, which is a disturbing ink pen pointillism sketch showing faceless masses of flesh, disembodied eyes, a blood eagle, and an ominous long hallway.
A large white ceramic sculpture of two vases atop a glass coffee table. One vase is shaped like a heart, and spikes jut out from it all over. It is chained by a ceramic chain to the other base, which is a more traditional shape. Both vases are painted with ornate blue floral designs, and the photograph is awash in hazy golden hour light.
A self-portrait of the author in the Mac Photo Booth app. He is a white man with white hair, and wears sunglasses, a steel chain, and a big black hoodie under a big black corduroy jacket.
A demonstration of the author switching function layers on his split layout keyboard, toggling the layer indicator OLED between each of four different graphics.