Cheez-It @noctilucent@awoo.space

The following is something I wrote the first verse of on Twitter a few years ago and it has stuck in my mind. With Neil C having just dropped a Mouth album yesterday, John and Hank Green wrapping up a certain folly today, and our civilization and/or emperor collapsing as we speak, I now revisit it here in full.
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Somebody once told me he happened to behold the
most colossal wreck in his antique land
It was looking kinda sunk just two legs without a trunk
And a sneer on its face in the bare sand

Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
A century of rule can end up as nothing
Did it make sense when the sculptor read
The hand that mocked and the heart that fed
So much for you, so much for me, so much mighty work lost to history
We'll never know what it's all for
We'll never amount to much more

Hey now, Ozymandias, you're the king of all kings
Hey now, Pharaoh Rameses, grow your empire, build things
Nothing else remains there
Look upon my worrrks and despai-air

Someday some hunter will stumble through and wonder
at some giant fragment left of this place
He'll say "Yes, I can only guess, who once dwelt in this wilderness"
about our own unrecorded raaace

(Well the years etc.)

Hey now, Ozymandias, you're the king of all kings
Hey now, Pharaoh Rameses, Younger Memnon, Time sings
Nothing else remains there
Look upon my worrrks and despai-air.

Nacreous Clouds over Sweden

Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200110.html #APoD

Naoya Matsuoka (1937-2014) is the outrun jazz fusion you've been looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxEf4OKheNc

according to an incredibly comprehensive Outrun/Sega AM2 blog Matsuoka's oeuvre literally inspired Outrun's music:
https://reassembler.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-best-outrunners-who-made-outrun.html
(seriously, click around this blog, a decade+ of fantastic research awaits)

got there via the blogger commenting on this also-interesting Eurogamer article about artifacts discovered while moving Sega's longtime HQ:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-10-10-tales-from-inside-studio-128-sega-am2s-top-secret-studio

Don’t beat yourself up about your first thought

Your first thought is a product of conditioning

It’s the second thought that matters

“I don’t wanna be a woman OR man.. I just want other humans, when they look in my eye, to think ‘something odd and genuine lives in there.’”

— Neko Case

Milky Way over Troll's Tongue

Image Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov (RMS Photography)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180911.html #APoD

by performing repeated backwards long jumps against the custom emoji picker, you can clip through the federated timeline and into an unused instance

Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast

Image Credit & Copyright: Rudy Montoya

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180828.html #APoD

If your cyberpunk game doesn't include cosmetic, gender affirming upgrades, cyber tails, cyber taur bodies and more

Then it isn't a good cyberpunk game.