Kryptos
Skeptic, secular humanist, aspiring philosopher. Exploring anthro-complexity, narrative research & sense-making. Theoria, poiesis, praxis, logos.
Joined Dec 2021
The only game that I play is World of Warcraft. I forget for how long it has been -- maybe 16-17 years. Since The Burning Crusade launched.
I love it. I love the world, the exploration, the music, and the lore.
Very much looking forward to the launch of WoW: Dragonflight!
Any other WoW players around?
I already created my Dracthyr Devastation Evoker!
Behold! 🤓 😎 #Warcraft #nerd #Dragonflight #CoSoGames #games
Came to the #Finnish #Archipelago to our "summer house" for a long weekend.
The sauna is warmed up. It's time to relax, and enjoy the sound of silence.
If you possibly can, consider donating to CoSo and/or subscribing to PRO.
I've done both. I'd like to see CoSo live long, and prosper.
As it were. #CoSoNerd
It's really too bad that many people are flocking over to the fediverse instead of here.
I've been trying to signal my followers over at the birdy place that CoSo is a much better alternative.
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If you’re into sci-fi, you would do well to follow Quinn’s Ideas on YouTube.
Supremely well crafted content!
https://youtube.com/c/QuinnsIdeas
The weather forecast for Saturday predicts 13C.
Now, for November in Finland, that high a temperature is — not to put too fine a point on it — fuckin’ nuts.
The more time I spend here, the more this feels like my new haunt.
The "other place" has accounts that I'd be happy to see here -- well-known scientists, philosophers, academic institutions, interesting organisations, and so forth.
That may change in time, or it may not. Still, CoSo has been very friendly and positive, and I'm glad that is the case, even if that means missing out on some sources I'd be interested in following.
While on the subject, I highly recommend Stephen Mumford’s book “Absence and Nothing — The Philosophy of What There is Not”.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/absence-and-nothing-9780198831532
As an amateur philosopher, I’ve long been interested in the concept of nothing.
Some time ago I wrote down some thoughts on the subject.
How anyone in their right mind, with even a shred of moral fiber and a sense of decency could even consider voting for Republicans these days, is almost impossible to comprehend.
They're just evil. Racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, steal-from-the-poor-and-give-to-the-rich, theocratic loons.
It truly boggles the mind.
”Inception”
Photography by Mika Latokartano (@Kryptos)
#CoSoPhotography #Photography
https://flic.kr/p/SnEXsc
If it wasn’t clear enough already what the Muskrat’s motivations were, buying the birdy place, he just made it perfectly obvious.
"I drink champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it -- unless I'm thirsty." -Lily Bollinger 🍾
Made butternut squash soup for lunch today, with fried bacon, parsley, and grilled country bread on the side.
Roasted onions, carrots, a few cloves of garlic, and the squash in the oven, then added chicken stock, blitzed it with a blender and added some flavourful Finnish cheese (Koskenlaskija, if you want to google it up).
Delicious!
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So, CoSoNauts — if you’re interested in smart sci-fi movies, I highly recommend “Primer” (2004) by Shane Carruth.
If you can follow and understand the plot to the end, you’re a savant.
But you don’t have to understand it all after the first watch. Just enjoy an intellectually stimulating movie that doesn’t think the audience needs everything spelled out to them.
One of my favourite movies.
Don’t read the plot before you watch the film! 😎
Well, Star Wars: Andor is bleak. I’m ok with a bit more serious tone in SW, but this show is just depressingly dark.
Still, much better than the very uneven The Book of Boba Fett, and the outright rubbish Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Geeking out! A courier just delivered my World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Epic Edition Collector’s Set.
Strawberries picked from our garden in the #Finnish #Archipelago, on October the 30th.
October is not the season for strawberries in Finland.
Kryptos
Skeptic, secular humanist, aspiring philosopher. Exploring anthro-complexity, narrative research & sense-making. Theoria, poiesis, praxis, logos.
Joined Dec 2021