//feralmachin.es/mottos.txtTue, Mar 24, 2026http://feralmachin.es/posts/2025-12-08--if_im_not_there_to_receive_these_ideas_god_might_give_them_to_prince.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2025-12-08--if_im_not_there_to_receive_these_ideas_god_might_give_them_to_prince.mdThe groove is mysterious and important.Mon, Dec 8, 2025http://feralmachin.es/posts/2023-01-15--one_lip_to_earth_and_one_lip_to_heaven.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2023-01-15--one_lip_to_earth_and_one_lip_to_heaven.mdEither a very short story or a fragment of a slightly longer one -- I'm undecided -- accompanied by notes on the composition exercise it came from. Obstacles in play: 'trepidation', 'Jerusalem', Six of Swords (Waite/Smith).Sun, Jan 15, 2023http://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-04-23--do-you-garden.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-04-23--do-you-garden.mdA short story about fire and peaches.Sat, Apr 23, 2022http://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-10--latex support.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-10--latex support.mdI've added support for $\LaTeX$-style math expressions to the blogging engine that this website runs on.Mon, Jan 10, 2022http://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-05--lightmode_support.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-05--lightmode_support.mdP'log now supports light mode and dark mode, and will select the stylesheet on the basis of system preferences.Wed, Jan 5, 2022http://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-01--new_years_resolution_2022.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2022-01-01--new_years_resolution_2022.mdRinging in the new year with a resolution to post on a regular basis, and, in particular, to start posting short fiction.Sat, Jan 1, 2022http://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-08-10--updates_to_plog.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-08-10--updates_to_plog.mdOut with the toc.data file, in with YAML metadata headers!Tue, Aug 10, 2021http://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-06-10--anemone.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-06-10--anemone.mdA revision, or something closer to a rewrite, of a poem I'd published in 2014 in The Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature (EEEL), now sadly defunct, under the title "If You're a Woman and You Feel Like This When You're Alone at Night, It's not Just You". The title came from a clickbait poetry exercise suggested somewhere on surrealist poetry tumblr. A fun scene. Seemed funny at the time.Thu, Jun 10, 2021http://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-03-06--on_darryl.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2021-03-06--on_darryl.mdA biased but honest review of Jackie Ess's debut novel.Sat, Mar 6, 2021http://feralmachin.es/posts/2020-06-13--peli_and_jackie_transcendental.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2020-06-13--peli_and_jackie_transcendental.mdPeli and Jackie stayed up all night, talking about transcendental philosophy. This is the transcript.Sat, Jun 13, 2020http://feralmachin.es/posts/2020-05-03--reflections_on_xf.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2020-05-03--reflections_on_xf.mdSome notes following up on a seminar in McKenzie's "Trans Theory as Gender Theory" class, and reflections on the Xenofeminist Manifesto, about 5 years later.Sun, May 3, 2020http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-12-12--bytebeat.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-12-12--bytebeat.mdThere's three of them, and they're new.Thu, Dec 12, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-07-25--defrag-0.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-07-25--defrag-0.mdA compilation of half-finished, half-started posts, which have been collecting dust and choking my sense of accomplishment in my /src/feral_machines/content/posts/scratch directory. This quickly turned into a sprawling, incoherent omnibus post.Thu, Jul 25, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-07-22--lerman-whore_for_capitalism.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-07-22--lerman-whore_for_capitalism.mdYou know what? Fuck all the journals, all the lit mags, all the respectable outlets. They keep telling me (re: this piece about the industry) things like 'We're tightening up our social media platforms, so we're focusing on pieces that we feel will be highly consumable via the platforms. This might be too dark for us at the moment.' Or 'Would you consider re-working so the tone is jauntier?' Say I make it jaunty and friendly and social-media-ready and a couple respectable people at a couple respectable venues acknowledge my existence for two seconds and I maybe sell a few extra books? That can't be worth it. I just can't see how it's worth it. The more I think about it, the more it should be on a blog, open to everyone and without all the extra bullshit. (A guest post by Lindsay Lerman.)Mon, Jul 22, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-04-15--pale_river.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-04-15--pale_river.mdA poem.Mon, Apr 15, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-04-10--LC_in_Bratislava.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-04-10--LC_in_Bratislava.mdTranscript of a talk we gave in Bratislava, in the Spring of 2017.Wed, Apr 10, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-18--paring_knife.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-18--paring_knife.mdA poem I write a few years back -- I think it was in 2014.Mon, Mar 18, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-09--urschleim.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-09--urschleim.mdA reply to Dom at The Last Instance and Adam at Conflated Automatons, on the subject of "ontological slime" in computation, with much yeggogological meandering.Sat, Mar 9, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-03--convenient_abstractions.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-03-03--convenient_abstractions.mdBrief remark on a common sophism.Sun, Mar 3, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-27--evo_vx.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-27--evo_vx.mdA brief history of those few times where computer virus design and evolutionary computation have crossed paths.Wed, Feb 27, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-27--parasitic_disengagement.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-27--parasitic_disengagement.mdOn coevolution and parasitism in genetic programming and discourse.Wed, Feb 27, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-23--spirit_is_a_drider.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-23--spirit_is_a_drider.mdOn the subject of Elves.Sat, Feb 23, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-03--hello.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2019-02-03--hello.mdAn introduction to the blog.Sun, Feb 3, 2019http://feralmachin.es/posts/2017-01-01--c_interview.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2017-01-01--c_interview.mdEsme Hogeveen interviewed me for Issue 132 of C magazine, back in 2016, on the Xenofeminist Manifesto and related topics.Sun, Jan 1, 2017http://feralmachin.es/posts/2024-01-30.15-01-66.mdhttp://feralmachin.es/posts/2024-01-30.15-01-66.mdno abstractThu, Jan 1, 1970