# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 7126
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=http://www.lord-enki.net/twtxt.txt&offset=3826
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=http://www.lord-enki.net/twtxt.txt&offset=3926
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=http://www.lord-enki.net/twtxt.txt&offset=3726
Recipe for periodic royalty boosts if you're a hack: 1) create a song about a particular time of year -- preferably a particular date that is not a holiday; 2) create a song about a very specific combination of very common feelings
Band name of the day: terrestrial radio ducks
Band name of the day: stage meat
Band name of the day: deeper dimensions of the profane
Band name of the day: a festival of rats
So, mixing corpse ash into concrete probably isn't practical but is it any more practical than eating it?
If Vento Aureo doesn't make at least a handful of references to Don't Look Now, I'll be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you
Things I won't miss about twitter #72956298: keyword bots that reply to any international-relations-related links with advertisements for Alex Jones
QOTD: 'For Lovecraft, if all horror can be explained by natural law, then the obvious inference is that natural law is horrific.'
Band name of the day: except at occasional intervals
Imagine if Mondo 2000 got the Fangoria treatment: instead of occasional issues, four times a year you get a fuckin' BOOK and it's super fancy so people are willing to pay 5/issue & more at newsstand.
Band name of the day: everlasting faint
Bad idea of the day: A book called Acknowledgements that's just a book-length acknowledgements section thanking people for contributing to the book, House-That-Jack-Built-style
Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.
Band name of the day: the bloom of outer darkness
Band name of the day: the perfection of the hideous
Band name of the day: unmasked attacks
Bad idea of the day: a wikipedia project for creating and improving articles that are uniquely relevant to countries that qualified for internet.org
Band name of the day: kill ziggy
If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan's almost-30-year economic stagnation?
Band name of the day: penumbras of emanation
You guys think the halloween store across the street will have metal teeth?
In the grim dark future of 2019, the president forwards all his tweets through the Wireless Emergency Alert System. While some have moved to small communes surrounded by mountains, increasingly journalists have been puncturing their eardrums with sharp objects.
Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand
Band name of the day: iconic meat factory
Band name of the day: spiritual insulation from the Outer Monstrosities
Band name of the day: aggressively punctuated
Bad idea of the day: inform7 repl as command shell
Bad idea of the day: surreal and disturbing powerpoint presentations as public performance art
Band name of the day: moth drinking tears of a sleeping bird
Band name of the day: the uncorrelated targets
Band name of the day: imported blood products
Band name of the day: xtreme witchcraft